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Books and mic stands.
December 27, 2010 § Leave a comment
"There isn't a hell where we'll be sent, there's only now, there isn't then, so breathe it in." – No key No plan – Okkervil river.
I have my marching orders. Dubrovnik for a few days then back to America, Chicago to be precise, but that's all in the New Year, I'm looking forward to it. I am coming to that point of rest when you turn the corner and start to itch for what you are staying away from. I have friends in Dubrovnik, my first gig in this magazine job was there, the editor had faith in my ability but nevertheless sent a local to meet me at the airport. I was just a kid when I got off the plane and met him that day. His name was, and still is, Luca Ivanovic when I met him he was dressed like one of those young European skater kids. Dubrovnik is a very special city. It's a mature man's Paris, it's humble with class and fine food. The town in the Old City walls a car free paradise and has been a major tourist destination for people of all nations since the end of a war that left it shattered. The Old town was always my favourite. It was there I realised my jobs potential, we laughed and ate steak in a four star restaurant, we drank cheap Croatian beer till 2 in the morning then we moved onto the only Irish bar in town. We left there at 5 and went swimming in the clean blue sea that surrounds the place. I had no hangover when I wrote my 300 internet submitted words. I was wide eyed and was yet to take the job for granted. I can see now the error of my ways.
Perspective is a very important thing and we often loose sight of it. It's human nature to get wrapped up in our own little worlds and I know that I've been more than guilty of that on almost every occasion, hell I'm doing it right now. Whether it be being engrossed in a football match or in a relationship or in your own problems that barely count and we loose sight of the bigger picture. We seem to be doing it more and more. We need to relax more, I need to relax more. Hey, there's no hell when you die so don't look so worried.
I need to remember the attitude of my 14 year old self. When I was on holiday in France. There was a cable car that steeply lead to a mountain top which promised a view. Me and my father were sat at the bottom watching the cable cars go up and down and he was deciding whether or not he wanted to go on them. "I'm scared" he said, I'm still not sure if he was joking, I said "What's the worst that could happen?" He replied "The cables could snap and we could die." So, and I remember what I said very clearly, little 14 year old me turned to him and just said "If the cables snapped then we would fall to our deaths, but think about it, I mean really think about what that means, no more mortgage, no more dickheads, no more arguments, no more loss, no more deadlines and no more work, you say that the worst thing that can happen is that we both die, I say the worst thing that can happen is we get to the top and we are sill alive.
So do it, chance your arm, don't look so worried, what's the worst that could happen?
One of my kind.
December 24, 2010 § Leave a comment
"It was Christmas eve babe, in the drunk-tank, an old man said to me, you won't see another one." The Pogues – Fairytale of New York.
If I see or hear another piece of writing, or news report, or radio report or even conservation that starts "well, it's that time of year again" I'm going to fucking scream. This time of year happens every year, you think that they would have thought of something to better to say by now, but who am I to bitch and moan. It worries me that the greatest invention of the last 20 years, the internet, this beautiful thriving opportunity for knowledge and communication has become, for some people at least, just a platform for very sad people to bitch and moan about the smallest of problems, apparently some people have real problems. But shit, I suppose that whole sentence underlines my point.
Christmas time grows up with you doesn't it? When your a child it's rare and sacred, it's that magical thing that took away school and replaced it with shiny new things. It kept you up with excitement and the folklore and films and the madness. When your young it's the promised land. It's magic. It's what every child looks forward to. But then you grow up and it stops being about the madness and the magic, its stops being about presents and starts being about seeing your family because you spent another year fucking around. Time to calm down from another mad year.
It's strange being back without Maxi. Christmas time would be when we would all get together and get shitfaced. It's been a strange year. I'm glad to be honest that I've had this mad log of it. Even if some of the posts were done while blind drunk. I often wonder how I will look back at this period of my life then I just get distracted and think about something else. I want to thank everyone who has posted comments, sent emails or even read the insanity. It's nice to know someone's reading. Thank you. I will have lots of new stories in the new year, I fear that the older I get the more insane things I will have to do to feel young again. But that will result in stories. So here's to us. Merry Christmas one and all.
The father and son from Exceter.
December 18, 2010 § 3 Comments
"A man with a sword will not outlive the memory of Shakespeare."
Words are powerful for different reasons. We've all heard that the pen is more powerful then the sword but I never really understood that until a train journey in the south of England. I was sat at the window seat in a pretty empty carriage heading north when a father and son got on at one of the stops. The Dad was a tall, slim man of around 40, the son was around 5-6. The boy ran onto the train in that typical excitement and noise that should define a boy of his age. The father calmed him down in that stern and respectful way that only a father can. They sat down at the table across the isle to me facing each other. Around 10 minutes into the journey the father took the boys hand in a very intense way and spoke softly and clearly in a way a father should never have to speak to his son. He said "Son, I want you to promise me something, when I go to heaven will you look after your Mum and Sarah for me?" I was instantly taken off guard, it was only then that I took a proper look at the man, I noticed how worryingly pale and thin he was. Pale, thin and bald. With a sinking feeling in my stomach the situation hit home. The boy continued playing with his small toy car on the table, he paused and looked up at his father, who was clearly in the last stages of unsuccessful chemotherapy. He looked into his eyes in the most stunning silence I have ever witnessed and just said "Daddy, you can't die, your Superman." and with that, he got back to his toy car. Now I don't know how being hit with a sword feels, but I've been hit with bottles and fists and neither hit me half as hard as that sentence. I couldn't bring myself to look up. These words needed no visual aid. I could hear the fathers breathing turn heavy and quick like just before you really cry. The tears were already streaming down my face as I just stared out the window desperately trying to drown it out and feeling rising guilt for that.
It wasn't Shakespeare or Dickens or Wordsworth but it didn't have to be, because it was pureness and honesty was overwhelming and carried with it that beautiful blissful nativity of youth that his father was Superman, and that meant he was always fighting the good fight and that he would never leave and never die. It was from that moment I understood how powerful words can be. I couldn't look at the father and son when I left the train at the next stop. It wasn't even my stop. I sat on that train platform and cried like a four year old.
Help – A footnote.
December 17, 2010 § 1 Comment
"Bulleproof – I wish I was." – Radiohead
It's scary isn't it? Life. Sometimes you loose that insane confidence, everyone does. But it's the truly crazy who get it back. They don't take that shit. They have no time to sit around or getting stuck in ruts. It's like some magic drug that lasted for years and now comes the comedown. I'm in a rut and I want it back. So how do I get it back? You fucking tell me, I've never had to get it back before.
I'm trying to remember my reasons for running myself into the ground with such dedication.
December 3, 2010 § Leave a comment
"I don't know why I want to voice this out loud, it's therapeutic somehow." – Moving to New York– The Wombats.
Hold on kids this ones going to be a little crazy...
A couple of months after I turned 18 I moved into student accommodation. I moved in with the hardcore. It just so happened that for whatever reason the craziest and most extreme people in those halls had been thrown into the same place and would now push themselves to prove whatever point it was we were trying to make. Even if they didn't live directly with us the crazy ones always found us, always. It was a lot to deal with for a wide-eyed boy how was brought up in the sticks. I had always been the craziest of my friends, but I was going to learn that really wasn't saying much.
We were all thrown together in that worrying period between the end of being a teenager and the start of being an adult. We were giving or student loans, you know, to spend on books and pens and food and shelter. In my whole first year at uni I spent £5.60 on books and pens, three 100 page notepads and a pack of cheap plastic pens, all bought on the same day sometime at the beginning of the year. We were all shapes and sizes but very similar in objective and attitude. Some liked the drugs and some just liked to drink. The thing you have to realise about the first year of our university was that the work was easy. Very easy. The other thing you have to realise is that the people in this insane group are exceptionally bright. It's just sometimes insanity can lead to distraction, and by sometimes I of course mean all the time. The insane care very little about grades. We could do the work standing on our heads and a lot of the time we did.
It was the girls in the group who scared me. That's very unlike me. They were the hardest of the hardcore because they were bored by groups of other girls, this meant that they had developed a knack for hanging around boys and learning to out drink them. It was always the same the whole year. We would push each other as hard as we could. Were we worried we'd snap each other? Fuck no. The thought never even came close to our minds. Ever morning it was the same.
Person A " Dude, I haven't slept in days"
Person B "Don't be a pussy, drink this your coming out tonight."
Person A "Dude, I'm throwing up more blood."
Person B "Who cares? Come on, we're going to a bar."
Person A "Dude, last night the police chased me for two miles, I don't know where I've been."
Person B "But your having fun right?"
And the truth was that I was having fun. I had never lived like this before. Was it the novelty? Maybe. Was it the fact that I was living like I had always wanted? Probably. I would love to say that we didn't think we were the cool kids, I would love too say that. But we thought we were. We thought we were the coolest kids, no, fuck that, we thought we were who the cool kids wanted to be. What we weren't understanding was the after effects. We were young. We were really young and "Don't worry about it" was almost our catchphrase, that and "Don't be a pussy"(for anyone who is confused by that being a "pussy" is being a coward were I'm from). We only had to stay sober for that one phone call a week when our parents would ring to see how we were. I would say I was fine. I would say that I was doing all the work. I would say that I was eating well and sleeping lots. I have always been a stone cold liar. What was I supposed to say "Hi Mum, yeah, I doing fine, I don't really sleep anymore, I can't cook properly so when I do eat, which isn't that rarely, it's microwave meals all the way, I malnourished and worryingly thin." But to me the lying was justified by my smile.
It was the mental effects that got us. Your so busy being warned about the physical side that you never really think about it. The physical pain you can feel, then it goes so you must be all better, you don't realise till your a little older that that's not how it works. It's lonely. Through my first year I never had a girlfriend, sure, there were girls, some would say to many, but I could never hold anything down. The whole thing was a blur of ups and downs. But I was lonely, I've said it before, but it's those moments when your all alone when it gets you, it hit me the worst when my head hit my pillow. I haven't really been able to properly connect with girls since I was young. I could fake interest, I could but it on for a night or a week or separate intervals over a month. Maybe I was a shy kid. Maybe I had trust issues with my mother. But the up shot of all of this was that I was really lonely, I had friends who I loved. But the lack of any meaningful sex was a big point for me, after awhile it starts to trouble you and you start to doubt yourself. I was having sex with strangers sure, and it wasn't bad sex but after awhile I just stopped that because it wasn't what I was chasing anymore and it wasn't what I wanted, I was loosing self-respect. But how much self-respect can you have if you fuck yourself up every week?
If your still reading this you may have noticed that this ones has been a point followed by a contradiction counter point, this is what it was like in my brain and that troubled me. I don't really trust people. Maybe this why I do this stupid fucking blog. To get all this shit out. I'm kinda messy. Much messy then I would let on in real life, and I know, I know, we all are like that but still you I suppose you always worry your worse. I was ashamed a lot. I had never behaved in this way before. I was sure that I would never meet someone to help me out of this rut. I don't know how I'm going to get out of this.
It feels good to write about it. Then it stops feeling good and I start to worry about how people will think. Plus the fact that I have just wined like a drunk 14 year old girl for about 500 words. Shit. I'm incredibly self-centred and self-indulgent but I never really had anyone else to properly worry about. Everyone at home is calm. I'm not. I worry a lot and don't talk to anyone about. Get over it, stop being a pussy.
I feel better. Thank you.
Email me if anything sunk in.
No Longer an Astronaut.
Simon Blake.


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An Insider's Guide to Making School Systems WorkBy: Jorea M. Marple (author)Paperback
Up to 2 WeeksUsually despatched within 2 weeks
DescriptionWhat's the best way to make a school system succeed? The author breaks the elusive notion of success down into three core components: minimum organizational requirements, a management system, and an improvement process. Adhering to these processes can reduce the politicized interference that so often plagues school boards, administrators, educators and the community. This book is designed to reduce the political rhetoric that so often impedes clear decision-making.
About AuthorJorea M. Marple is the principal of the Garnet Career Center in Charleston, West Virginia. She has been honored as Superintendent of the Year by the West Virginia Music Association.
Contents1 Minimum Organizational Requirements 2 Management System 3 System Operation 4 System Improvement Process 5 Recommendations for Making School Systems Work
Product Details
- publication date: 25/06/2002
- Format: Paperback
- Number Of Pages: 176
- weight: 259
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"Carolyn Brown Green"
I would perch on the deep green, marble counter, while
she placed the sparkling birds or delicate, round pearls,
first in one ear, then the other,
while she told me that the thing about pearls
is the more you wear them, the shinier they get.
I pressed my fingers until they formed indentations,
catching the clasp at the nape of her neck.
She asked me to, because her knuckles already buldged
like Cypress "knees" above the swamp;
besides, her nails were freshly done geranium-pink.
Her maried initials were threaded through the pillow shams
of a canopy bed: elaborate soft white linen and lace, as pristinely sharp-cornered
as the collars on his shirts for nearly fifty years.
Next to the dresser, she, as a young woman, looked
back at herself, from a bone-china oval frame
chased in painted bluebells and forget-me-nots.
Her eyes were taut at the corners, her teeth
shining to match a double row of pearls
at the hollow of her throat, over the "v" of
branching collar-bones above a pale dress.
I thought her the most beautiful woman I had ever seen.
The photo must have dated from her Coker College years
of high-wasted, belted skirts, and no curlers allowed at dinner.
She had been happy and had a "steady" then,
but grandaddy wouldn't leave her alone until she was his.
In a frame beside it, his big, pale eyes caught the light
beneath a heavy brow and a Citadel crew-cut.
Though they were no longer married by then, she still
bought him clothes at Christmas, and answered when he called
to ask what she was cooking.
She would pull on the jacket to her cornflower-blue suit
when she was ready, and stick her feet,
into two different shoes, lifting the crease
of her pant leg, for a sidelong view,
always choosing some pair of less-comfortable, more-beautiful
leather heels, no matter where we were going.
She talked about Tokyo and Paris as though it was still the 1950's
and her wordliness could never be outdated.
She always said "Italian" as though it were "Eye-talian,"
affecting an accent though she was from "right there in Trio."
Wherever we went, people told her she was beautiful,
and I was beautiful, and so lucky to look like her.
I asked her how come she was a tomboy when she was younger,
and she said it was cause she wanted to be like her brother, Wendell.
And I asked her, after the divorce, why she didn't change her name,
and she said it was because Green was a nicer color.
(though this poem is based on the relationship I have with my grandmother, much of it has been fabricated or altered in some way to serve the poem, largely because of the creative direction of my creative writing class peers.)


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Manchester United host Burnley in an important Premier League game for both teams.
To be played on Wednesday 11th February 2015 at 19:45. Venue: Old Trafford, Manchester
Odds: Man Utd 3/10, Draw 5/1, Burnley 12/1
Manchester United will head into the Premier League clash against Burnley as the heavy favourites for a win and confident after securing a late point against West Ham last weekend.
United were criticised for long ball tactics during that game by Hammers boss Sam Allardyce and it will be interesting to see if there is any change of approach prompted by manager Louis van Gaal.
Michael Carrick is ahead of schedule in terms of his recovery from a calf strain and is United's only absentee for the match.
United could make one or two changes to their midfield and attack to give the side a more balanced line-up with Marouane Fellaini and Juan Mata candidates to come back into the team.
Burnley have just been rocked by the news that Dean Marney won't play for the club again this season, which leaves them short in terms of central midfield options for the game.
Sean Dyche's side are also missing Kevin Long, Stephen Ward and wide man Matty Taylor.
Burnley head into the game with nothing to lose but they are under pressure considering they are just one point above the relegation places as things stand.
"I think we played very badly in the first half and we showed a lot of spirit in the second half, especially after the goal – I have to say what a spirit my team showed after falling 1-0 behind."
Louis van Gaal
"Other than about 15, maybe 20 minutes of the second half when the game got a bit rough and tumble, I thought we were excellent overall. If you took the goals out of it and watched that game, I think people would say there was only one team who was going to win."
Sean Dyche
Man Utd injury news
Michael Carrick ★★★ out Calf
Burnley injury news
Dean Marney ★★★ out Knee
Kevin Long ★★★ out Knee
Stephen Ward ★★★ out Ankle/Foot
Matthew Taylor ★★★ out Calf/Shin


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|1,300 sq ft
|Property type
|Minimum Stay
|30 nights
This beautifully furnished house rents by the month and long term rentals are welcome.
Saint Helena, the jewel of the Napa Valley.
Charming house in Saint Helena. Gourmet eat-in kitchen with a wall of French doors opening on to a large deck. Dining room, and cozy living room with fireplace. Enjoy morning coffee or a glass of wine at the end of the day on the spacious comfortable deck with dining table and lounge chairs. Outdoor dining pergola with fireplace. French doors in master bedroom also open out to the deck. Queen bed in one bedroom, Twin beds in second bedroom. Convertible queen-size couch (custom made) in living room.
Plenty of off-street parking. Make Beringer Vineyards your last stop of the day and you can walk home.
Keywords: Home
I would just like to thank Susan for working with us and I would recommend her house to anybody wanting to stay in a very comfortable house for any length of time
We really enjoyed our stay here Jan - Apr 2015. This was our second stop on our new full-time work/travel lifestyle following Charleston, SC. The location was ideal – less than a 10 min walk to downtown St Helena. The house was spotless when we arrived and we were happy to keep Susan's housekeeper on throughout our stay.
Susan was a very responsive owner and easily accommodated extra requests we had for expanded cable and reactivating the landline for work. We loved the gardens in front and in back of the house and helped ourselves to lemons regularly. The kitchen is well-stocked and has more dishware than Williams & Sonoma! Loved the spacious and quiet back deck, reading some of the books in the living room library, and the luxury towels in the bathroom. The master bedroom bed was very comfortable, though not having a dresser made clothing storage a bit of a challenge during our long-term stay.
Traffic was a bit loud at times given the house is on the main Rt29 drag outside of town, but it wasn't a significant disruption. Our only suggestions for improvement include: replacing living room sofa (cushions go flat), replace the router/modem setup (as it needed frequent resets), provide extra pillows for guests, and perhaps include a few games in the closet for nights at home!
Susan's house was a great home for us during our Napa valley stay where we visited (and reviewed) more than 120 wineries! We would definitely stay again!
Very nice cute little house. Perfect for 4 people, nicely decorated, fully equipped kitchen, nice deck with table and chairs to eat outside, big backyard with a fire pit to roast marshmallows, super comfortable beds, nice big bathroom, and good location in St Helena close to everything. I would definitely stay here again.
We stayed here in June 2013 and absolutely loved this house. It radiates charm, comfort, grace and style. Perfectly appointed, and the beds are quite comfy. I especially loved sitting out on the patio late at night to enjoy the cool breezes wafting through the trees. I highly recommend staying at this house - not only is it a terrific home away from home, but Susan the owner is a delight.
We stayed here in June 2011 for our 6 day trip to wine country.
The house -- perfectly appointed with everything you could possibly want with a beautiful huge back patio (the picture does not do it justice). The patio has a table, two lounger chairs, a love seat and two more cushioned chairs and stretches across the back of the house with gorgeous views. The back yard was lovely as well. We regularly came back to the house and relaxed on the deck and cooked in a couple of nights. The bedrooms are good sized and there was plenty of closet space (and I pack heavy!) There is only one bathroom but it is a very large bathroom with a lovely tile shower and plenty of room to get ready. There is a full sized dining room as well which you don't see in the pictures. The living room is cozy and there is a TV with cable in there, although we hardly spent anytime inside at all. The wifi was great and we had a strong signal even outside.
The location - it was perfect. Just on the edge of St. Helena you can walk downtown if you'd like or to a couple of wineries. The Culinary Insitute is just up the road. All of the wineries we wanted to visit were easily reachable and we were very pleased with the location. There is ample off street parking in the back of the house as well. We found it very quite and peaceful.
If you are considering a trip to wine country, I'd highly recommend this house. We knew nothing about the location but found that it turned out to be far more central than we had imagined. It was only a short drive north to a ton of wineries and Calistoga, Rutherford was a very easy drive (7 minutes) and the food in St. Helena was excellent and reasonable as well. There was also a lovely grocery store on the south side of town that had amazing pre-prepared foods.
We are already planning our trip back and would stay here again in a heartbeat.
Highly recommend this home. We stayed during Thanksgiving week and thoroughly enjoyed this home. It really feels like being in your own home and the kitchen is extremely well equipped. The deck is big enough to enjoy some wine and apps. The backyard is also beautiful and hope to come back to enjoy it during some warmer months. It would also be a great girls getaway place. Owner very easy to work with.
Cinema, Calistoga Mud Baths and Spas, World Famous Wineries.
Walk to Beringer, Krug wineries and the CIA
|Rate Period
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All year
Apr 3 2018 - Mar 31 2019
30 night minimum stay
My Standard Rate
30 night minimum stay
|Cleaning fee
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I never thought I would turn into "that" person. "That" person, being the people I remember from childhood who would talk about the aches, pains, and arthritis. It seemed as if "that" person would spend countless conversations explaining their ailments and how they indeed hurt worse than another poor soul whose name gets dragged into the conversation. To my horror last week I was talking with someone and without even being aware of it I brought up my joint pain!! I wasn't at the doctor or at the massage therapist's office, there was not a real valid reason I was discussing this! After I ran to the bathroom and splashed my face with water screaming for myself to wake up from this horrid dream, ;) I quickly changed the topic. I mean come on Travis, as you age you can't turn into "that" person! J
Of course I use this tongue in cheek self-deprecating story with some humor. But my experience led me to think about something deeper, which is when something consumes our lives and is a constant force its hard not to allow what ever consumes us to occupy all of our thoughts, conversation, and awareness. I mean when something is powerful, at times maybe debilitating, it's almost impossible to allow one's thoughts to get past it. Perhaps that is why so many people become "that" person, they have a need to take conversations to their pain because honestly it's hard to see an existence or remember an existence outside of the present trouble?
Truth is it would be unnatural for individuals not to talk about what consumes them. It would be unhealthy for someone to keep something so powerful bottled up inside. Of course by now you know I am leading down a path that encompasses many more issues than joint pain. I am also talking about the pains of anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, addictions, and the list goes on and on. I think one of the kindest things we could do for someone is to allow him or her to express their pain. I believe in this so much that have given the majority of my life to a career that invites people to come to a non judgmental presence and allows them to discuss concerns that many people around them have long told them to "just get over." Let me let you in on a secret, you don't "just get over" an illness. Could you imagine telling someone who is suffering heart disease to "just get over it"?
You may or may not know that October is depression awareness month. Unfortunately this is still one of the least talked about illnesses. I mean we seem to accept that people who have rheumatoid arthritis or a disease like cancer need treatment. I don't think many of us would accept that anyone who has these illnesses should remain in darkness ashamed and that they should just hope to get better on their own! So why is depression or mental illness any different? It is an illness, plain and simple. According to sources over 80% of individuals who suffer from symptoms of clinical depression do not receive treatment? Along side pharmaceutical intervention social support and therapy can be effective in treatment. As someone who has suffered from depression and also has family who suffers from this illness I can say that there is help and hope.
Sue Monk Kidd makes the statement in her book, "The Invention of Wings," "There is no suffering on earth that doesn't crave a benevolent witness." Is there someone in your life who needs you to be a benevolent witness? If you think you or someone you know may be suffering from depression there are some great resources out there. One great place to start for information and resources is http://mentalhealthscreening.org


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It's happened.
Well, the first thing that happened is some snot nosed kid pointed out the obvious to Olivia that she's not white, to which she retorted, "Duh, I'm Chinese." Good for her. He followed up by telling her she had to eat the bug on the slide because she was Chinese. She came home and told me and it was during one of my bad health weeks so I didn't address it immediately with the school. When I asked her who said it, she told me it was some new kid, he was older than her and she didn't know his name. I told her – in age appropriate conversation – that she didn't have to take crap off this kid and to tell him people from XYZ county eat bugs do. Wanna share? Then I told her not to eat bugs. Eating bugs was gross and the only time she should eat bugs was if she was ever lost in the woods and had nothing else to eat, but she should never find herself lost in the woods because she's supposed to be holding my hand. Then the conversation took a HUGE right turn when she started talking about packing snacks, having maps and compasses and going to the magenta forest. I knew I had reached maximum capacity for that conversation, but she's not stupid. She got the point.
This past weekend the mother of all conversations came up. We've been having some problems with Olivia being sassy and her manners are waning a bit. She's also been overly clingy with Will, wanting to sleep with the light on, not wanting to go into a room if the lights are off and not wanting to be left alone. I think I found our reason. Over the weekend, she chimed in with, "you're not my real mommy so it doesn't matter." I swear had I been tackled by an entire NFL team I could not have had the wind knocked out of me any harder. Now, when I hear something of this nature, I always try not to overreact to it initially because, if I do, Olivia shuts down and I won't be able to find out where it came from because she thinks she's getting in trouble. I wasn't as successful as I had hoped and got all sorts of different answers from her. I told her just because she was from China didn't mean I wasn't her mommy and families were formed all different ways.* After all, who made her legs feel better when they hurt the night before? Of course the answer was me, so that helped to seal it a little bit more. I followed up with every single reassuring thing I could come up with. At some point over the past couple of weeks, this same almost 3rd grader decided it was his place to tell Olivia that I wasn't her real mommy.
I'm gonna tell you flat out…my feelings were hurt. Very hurt. No one expects their four year old to tell you they don't have to listen to you because you aren't their mommy. Especially a four year old who knows no other family dynamic other than the one in which she currently lives. While it explains a lot of her behaviors, it certainly doesn't excuse it. We strive so hard to lay a good foundation of a family for her. Heck no we're not perfect. Not even freaking close. Who is?! We have rules. We're not afraid to punish when it's needed, we praise when necessary and I'm certainly not above ye olde bribery. One of the "rules" we have around here is when there's trouble that has been gotten into and the punishment's been doled out, we talk about it. It is important to me that Olivia understand the consequences of her actions and the choices that she makes. It has always worked like a charm. People used to look at me like I was crazy, but it was something I started early on, have stuck to it and it works.
I talked to the teachers at Olivia's school and am proud to say they took it as seriously as I did. They were able to find out which little boy said it and he admitted it. The administrator had him apologize to Olivia, his parents were called in and they will punish him appropriately. The hardest part is trying to erase that little seed of doubt that's been planted in Olivia's mind. We haven't made a big deal out of it and we won't. What has been discussed about it has been discussed and that's that. Life moves on and so will we.
I knew it was coming, but I guess this just proves that my baby really is growing up. The harsh reality of what is to come started on the playground just two short weeks ago. 4K starts in a couple of weeks and I'm afraid my ears will start bleeding if I hear one more reminder to buy her backpack.
*We've tried the whole "China mommy" conversation and Olivia has had ZERO interest in it. We've read the age-apropriate books, she knows the province she's from in China, blah, blah, blah. So, we throw tid bits out there and if she's interested she asks questions otherwise she just blows it off. In her own time. Even though it's not my first, second or third choice, I guess if it takes some kid making fun of her on the playground to do it, I guess that's what it takes. Can't make her want to digest it.


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Sunday, January 16, 2005
You must have heard about all the babies that got conceived during WWII when the husbands were on leave. Evidently enough interest and excitement can cause our bodies to break with the standard cycle. Even if you have regular cycles your ovaries are constantly recruiting new eggs into the maturity cycle so with proper motivation (husband back in town) there is a chance that things might be able to happen regardless of where you are in your cycle (except maybe during your period, it seems less likely).
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This study aims to understand the problems of Seoul Capital Area (SCA) policy and suggests directions for SCA policy beyond the level of location restrictions.
Since the mid-1960s, the Korean government's attempts to address centralization in SCA has have led to a number of nationwide issues. Policy measures to curb centralization of people and industries through regulations on physical location have shown their limitations since the late 80s, making it necessity to reconsider SCA policy. Arguably, the improvement of urban conditions is a more realistic policy direction than pursuing decentralization.
It is true that SCA policy needs to adapt to the rapid changes in domestic and international conditions. Policy should focus on reinforcing the original functions of SCAs that meet the needs for internationalization and opening as part of the policy for the entire land, and at the same time should be changed to strengthen policies for each segment directly related to citizens' livelihood, such as transportation and the environment. The decentralization of SCA should not be set as the only policy goal, due to the concern over potential confusion caused by the abolishment of existing policy.
The Balanced Development Planning Team (BDPT) suggested policy far removed from the current decentralization policy for SCA. The BDPT report's suggestions include: improving local conditions for corporate activity, raising the capacity for population settlement in rural areas, transitioning functions of the government from capital to rural areas, and introducing a new national operation system to mediate conflicts between urban and rural areas and between local areas that are expected to arise as the local government system is to be introduced.
National land development policies of the future should reject the belief that decentralization of SCA will result in local development, and should instead to encourage local areas to perform proper functions they are expected to serve through expansion of direct investment. Additionally, the SCA policy should introduce a sub-plan to help the metropolitan areas to serve its role efficiently.
입지규제중심의 수도권정책 평가와 개선방안(Evaluation of capital area policy based on location regulations and improvement direction)
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Monday, March 2, 2009
Fishy Friends
I was so excited when Leonie told me she had brought fishy friends. So I couldn't wait to go around and have a play last Thursday. I have to mention that I did case this off SCS but as usual I can't find where. So thank you to the clever person who thought this up.
I used pumkin pie, and taken with teal ink and CS. I used my blender pen to colour in the fishy. I stamped the image three times, so I could give it a 3D look. Not sure if you can see it. The 3rd layer is just the little orange fin. I'm running out of the summer mini DSP, but found just enough to give me a nice ocean look and finished off with some misc bubbles. The happy birthday sign is from Pretty Princess.
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- Leonie said...
Oh, this turned out so very cute, I will have to finish mine off that is if the girls havnt completely destroyed it!
- March 2, 2009 at 9:47 PM
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OH WOW I love this one! I had never really been interested in this set but your cards are starting to make me think twice! I love it!
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text: A half-century ago, in 1957, "crazy dumbsaint of the mind" Jack Kerouac published the book that was to crack open postwar American literature and society and become a blazing iconic beacon of the Beat Generation and a light that never goes out for playful, seeking dreamers everywhere, then and since. Three generations have dug the passionate jazzbo language of On the Road, stuffed a copy in a backpack and hit the highway in search of enlightenment. No other contemporary literary work can claim such an immediate and enduring impact. After five decades, it still sells up to 130,000 copies a year. As part of its own 50th anniversary celebration, SFIFF and Litquake pay homage to Kerouac's golden book with a portmanteau program of readings, testimonials and images honoring Sal Paradise, Dean Moriarty, Carlo Marx, Ed Dunkel, the lost city of San Francisco and, of course, Kerouac himself, the "writer-director of Earthly movies Sponsored and Angeled in Heaven." Peter Coyote, Michael McClure and Diane DiPrima will take part in this cultural celebration, with more Beat Generation aficionados expected to join them.—Graham Leggat


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As the spring sports season slowly unfolds, it is getting very close to being the postseason in swimming. The league season will end, at least in North County, the first week of May with league finals. Then the CIF Finals are May 13 at Granite Hills.
And that will be it for swimming season.
Del Norte will be attempting to complete a three-peat with a third consecutive team championship in boys swimming. The Nighthawks won the San Diego Section Division II championships in 2015 and again in 2016.
Coach Pete Murphy believes his boys have yet another title run in them. Leading that charge, as it was the previous two seasons, will be Austin Nguyen. Now a senior, Nguyen has won seven individual titles while helping his team to the top spot.
"The team dunking of the coach after winning the team title is the best feeling ever,'' Nguyen said. "I got such a sense of fulfillment, like all that hard work you put into a sport just paid off. I can't describe it to someone who has never experienced it themselves.''
Nguyen won the 100-meter breaststroke (56.94) in 2015 and the 200 individual medley in 1:54.71 and 1:54.04 the last two years in addition to a handful of relay race victories.
The 5-foot-8 ¾ senior could graduate this spring with a handful of new awards. He looks to win the 100 breaststroke and 200 IM once again and he will swim a leg of two of the three relay races - 200 freestyle, 400 freestyle, 200 medley relay.
"Austin was breaking records when he was swimming as a 10-and-under kid,'' Murphy said. "He will go down as one of the best swimmers in county history. He's great at all four strokes. A lot of kids, even some of his teammates, don't see how hard he works between matches. He can score a team points in a 50 or in a 500.''
Though only a precious few weeks remain of his Nighthawks career, Nguyen had managed to put off thinking about graduation until now. It has become painfully obvious to him his time is running out. He has one last chance to make a splash that has to carry him through the rest of his life.
"This is my last chance to be on a Del Norte team so I have to take advantage and make as many memories as I can,'' he said. "Have as much fun as possible so it will stick with me forever.
"My homeroom teacher freshman year told our class that we have about two million minutes until graduation. That stuck with me because time is counting down and I can't figure out where all those minutes went.''
In the pool, it's not about minutes but fractions of a second. Nguyen's lofty goals include breaking 1:50 in the 200 IM and getting under 55 seconds in the 100 breaststroke.
"I've kind of been stuck on 56.23 seconds for the last two years,'' said Nguyen, who wants to major in physics in college with an eye toward working for NASA one day. "I can't seem to get under 1:52.1 in the IM. After all the training I've done, I hope all that work culminates into one perfect day of racing.
"I'm so into swimming. In my family, there are 13 cousins and we've been swimmers. We all smell like chlorine in class after early morning workouts.''
But, he added, he has a few more medals to win and one more team dunking to celebrate that three-peat before his final minutes in high school run out.
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Showcasing Your Love Of Horses On Your ChecksI used to do fairly a bit of artwork in high school. Drawing particularly appealed to me since I could spend hrs performing it and yet it only felt like a couple of moments of time passed. One semester of school when I was pressured and required a few additional credit score hours to kill, I enrolled in a drawing class. The teacher was a expert artist. I learned quite a bit about the technical aspects of drawing, but those classes are not what caught with me the most.
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the staff was very nice .I always get (and I hate curry) and it is sooooooo good ,Very impressed with this food
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the staff was very nice .I always get (and I hate curry) and it is sooooooo good ,Very impressed with this food
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Never disappoints. I've had several dishes here. The lunch specials are great combos, but the usual stuff is fun for sharing.
The food tasted great, interior is nice, but varies greatly depending on where you're seated, and service is lovely. I've noticed it can be quite busy and parking is a real pain, but I still find it worthwhile.
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So I wandered into another local Thai restaurant for lunch and although I just recently reviewed another, this place ranks right up there with that one. The decor is nice, and it is actually roomy inside so you don't feel cramped. The service was extremely...More
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I think the owners of this local chain have stretched its expansion too far. This used to be a dependable Thai food restaurant with good food for a reasonable price. My most recent experience was a real disappointment. The pick-up was missing the promised brown...More
Thank you for your feedback Kassey. I'll definitely be following up with my staff. Please contact me directly. I'd like to send you a GC to try us again.
My friends and I had dinner at Thai Ginger last month and really enjoyed their food. The Massuman Curry and Panang Curry were excellent and the Phad Thai is to die for. The staff were friendly and they even ask you how many stars would...More
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If you are looking for good Thai in Factoria, Thai Ginger is a great option. Interior of the restaurant is nice and intimate and staff is friendly. It is close to the AMC Movie Theater so it is a great option before or after movies....More
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Parking is awful. Thankfully the green curry with chicken was better. I think take-out is the best bet and the food will be reliably good.
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I have eaten here for several years, mostly for dinner. The quality of the food and the service varies. I have never had an unacceptable meal here, but because the restaurant is often crowded I feel that the preparation quality may vary with how full...More
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I have been dining at Thai Ginger since they opened. They used to be awesome but in recent years the food has lost some of its charm. Table service can be challenging but take-out is speedy.
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It is hot in Japan right now.
The usual response I get to this is, "yeah, it's hot here in Michigan too!"
No. No, it's not.
Some parts of America are this hot. Ever been to Florida during the summer? That's about what it's like right now. It's nasty humid every day. The buildings have no insulation, so you can't escape the humidity. The air is so thick you're practically swimming in it.
I'm still working right now. In Japan, their summer break doesn't start until mid July. I don't have a car, so I have to walk or bike to all of my schools. By the time I make it to work, I'm drenched in sweat. To make things worse, none of my schools have air conditioning. At most, sometimes the staff room has air conditioning. Sadly, they almost never turn it on.
My poor students can't concentrate at all. They'll fan themselves with their books until they give up and pass out at their desks. No one should be expected to learn anything under these conditions. Let these kids go on break already!
When I'm not at work, I go into hibernation mode. Jonny and I mostly stay at home under the air conditioning. I've also grown a love for ice cold showers.
Next summer, Jonny and I are either taking a trip home or way up north in Hokkaido!
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Back in 1996, when it turned out that the late Muhammad Ali was to light the fuse to activate the cauldron at the Atlanta Olympics, a few folks had a problem with Ali as the choice. Certainly Joe Frazier did, as did some other people, because of what they perceived to be derogatory comments from Ali about this country, and I'm sure a few old-style right-wingers from Orange County, California objected to allowing Ali to light the flame. But most people were happy with the selection of Ali. As it turned out, actually, there was a small controversy about the choice of who passed the torch to him, a sports figure from, ironically, Orange County, California. Just as ironically, her experience with Ali helped her get through it.
American swimmer Janet Evans, who was about to compete in her third and final Olympiad, was selected to do the honors to pass the torch to the Greatest despite the fact that swimmers never attend the opening ceremony of the Olympics due to swimming competition starting the next day. She later remembered how the significance of the honor had a huge impact on her.
"I think we all have our Muhammad Ali moments, moments that he inspired us, moments that he changed our lives, moments that he inspired us to be better than what we already are," she said in 2015. "[A]fter standing there with that man and watching him, I realized that as an Olympian, as an Olympic champion, a mantle we carry is to inspire and motivate others. And no one has ever done that greater than Muhammad Ali." She added that that Ali inspired her and others "to do and be the very best that they can be as well."
Little did she know that night that some of Ali's biggest lessons would come in handy for her in a flash. See, at the time, Evans was at the same peak in American swimming that Michael Phelps is at today. She was the most celebrated American athlete in aquatic sports and had a reputation for having an ebullient, sunny disposition. Not to put too fine a point on it, but everyone loved her.
Then the roof caved in. In the 400-meter women's freestyle race at the 1996 Games, Evans was eliminated from the final by a fraction of a second, and the Irish swimmer Michelle Smith, the competitor who eliminated her, went on to win it. You remember Smith; she was the swimmer who had been accused of steroid use, because she had dropped so much time from her personal best in the 400-meter freestyle race. Well, it was Evans who brought the accusations to the fore, telling the media that the question of Smith's alleged steroids use was being asked around the pool. Although Evans herself wasn't accusing her of steroid use and had no intention of doing so, it was reported otherwise. Almost immediately, the press called Evans a bad sport, a sore loser, and, as sportswriter Don Burke, then of the New Jersey Star-Ledger, called her, "a whiny, self-righteous brat." The backlash was swift; sports fans called the choice of Evans to pass the torch to Ali at the Olympic opening ceremony an insult to Ali and an embarrassment for the country, going on about how it was offensive that such a sore loser could pass the torch to a wonderful, generous, selfless man like Ali, who brought Parkinson's disease upon himself for absorbing too many head blows in the ring and never complained once about it, and that the Olympic organizers should have known her true character behind the all-American girl-next-door image she projected. And all for a derogatory comment about another athlete that she didn't actually make. (In fact, the whole United States Swimming Federation was making the steroid charge against Smith, but Evans had nothing to do with it.)
Thus, Evans had to learn what Muhammad Ali had already known; the same people that build you up will inevitably tear you down, and you have to be strong enough to take their abuse if you know that they have you all wrong. And the U.S. sports media, especially the real-life Oscar Madisons among the East Coast sportswriters who were all too happy to go after a West Coast icon like Evans - who looked and acted like she had stepped out of a Beach Boys song - were merciless. They even had me believing the worst about her. But Evans kept her cool and didn't let it get to her, just as Ali had done in the sixties when the press turned against him - and for the same reason, something said and then taken the wrong way. Evans also learned something else Ali always preached; you not only keep fighting, you suffer now so you can be on top later.
As it turned out, Evans couldn't have had a worse week than the first week of the 1996 Olympics. She went on to lose the 800-meter women's freestyle swim race (though she made the final), she'd injured her toe while training for the race, and she witnessed the Centennial Olympic Park bombing while at her own retirement party from the window of a building overlooking the park, which was the straw that broke the camel's back; she got visibly and verbally upset and threatened to go home to California rather than stay in Atlanta for the duration of the Olympics like she'd planned. She did stay. Ali did, too.
In that punishing experience, Evans learned another lesson from Ali: Don't let anyone else define who you are. She couldn't always be the bubbly California girl everyone wanted her to be, and the setbacks she endured in Atlanta allowed her to transcend her image and become her own woman. The media's misrepresentations of her comments about Michelle Smith (who aced her drug tests in Atlanta, though she failed a drug test two years later) were found out soon enough; Evans emerged unscathed, and she has had a successful post-Olympic career as a motivational speaker and as a sports commentator for Yahoo. And in that, she learned the most important lesson that Ali could have bestowed on her or anyone else; she learned to love herself.
And I love her too. :-)
And you can bet I wrote an extraordinarily angry letter to Don Burke for his bum-rap hatchet job against her.


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2017 Childrens Poetry Competition
2017 Schools Poetry Competition
The overall winner was Abby from Year 5, St Mary's CE Primary School, Askham Richard.
"The Best of Yorkshire"
Yorkshire, what an amazing place
It always puts a smile on my face
There are lots of things to see and do
Especially when the sky is blue.
The beaches and the sandy shores
Not forgetting the Yorkshire Moors
Museums, shops, castles and more
There is always somewhere to explore.
Yorkshire puds and Yorkshire tea
They both taste great to me
Betty's Tearoom, cakes galore
You will always come back for more.
York Minster, castles standing tall
Fountains Abbey and York walls
Things to climb and much to see
Yorkshire is the best for me.
2016 Schools Poetry Competition
The overall winner of the local schools poetry competition (Year 5's) was Jessica Wakelin, from Tockwith C of E primary school.
"The View from the International Space Station"
Nothing is around me
As I look up in the midnight sky
Lots of lights I can see
But nothing is around me.
As shooting stars fly past
I do not feel like I am going fast
Clouds like candyfloss I can see
But nothing is around me.
The O-zone layer protects the Earth being kind
Sometimes for me it is easy to find
The shimmering sea I can see
But nothing is around me."
The judge's comments:
"This poem describes the feeling of being high above the Earth and being able to see lights, clouds and seas. The repetition of the last line of each verse emphasises the emptiness of space. I enjoyed the use of a simile to describe the clouds being like candy floss and that the Ozone layer is protecting the Earth. A very good poem, well done" Judge: Mrs J Tinkler
OVERALL WINNER OF THE 2015 LOCAL PRIMARY SCHOOLS (Year 5) POETRY COMPETITION:
Daddy, daddy it's great fun
Over here the war has ended
When will you come home?
It's different without you,
It's not the same,
Where are you? What are you doing ?
Daddy, daddy please come home
All the family are missing you.
The whole world is having a party
There's food and everything
But the thing I want the most is
For you to come home.
Daddy, daddy when will you come home
The war ended ages ago
Everybody's happy and celebrating
Daddy, daddy when will you come home?
Nothing is the same without you.
By Carrie, Long Marston
The judge (Mrs J Tinkler) commented as follows:
"This is a very moving poem. Carrie has written about the happiness people felt at the end of the war and the parties held to celebrate but she also writes about the sadness she feels because her father hasn't come home yet. I loved her repetition of the question to her father 'when will you come home?' "


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How do you decide when it's the right time to say goodbye to a client's target-date funds - when they reach the specified year or all the way through the retirement years?
The issue is at the heart of the "to versus through" debate. Some target-date funds have an asset allocation model, or glidepath, that is dynamic until it reaches the target date (the year 2020, for example). At that point, the glidepath becomes static at its most conservative allocation. This is a "to" fund, meaning it glides dynamically over time until it reaches the stated target date and then becomes a fixed allocation fund.
But other target-date funds have a glidepath that's dynamic before and after the specified year. That means the fund's asset allocation changes even years after the target date has been reached. These funds are "through" funds, meaning their asset allocation model extends through the target date.
The job of a target-date fund during the pre-target years is to grow an investor's contributions prudently. Within five years of the target date, growth is still the objective, but in a risk-controlled manner.
Once a target date is reached, a fund's job becomes much more difficult because most investors are no longer depositing money in the fund-they are withdrawing it systematically. This is a consequential change in the demands placed on the asset allocation model and on the fund's managers.
Advancing the argument, should your clients make their retirement ride in a through target-date fund? Or are other types of funds better suited as distribution vehicles?
Let's explore how well the Fidelity Freedom 2000 fund performed as a retirement fund after reaching its target date. Fidelity Freedom 2000 is a through fund, and the only 2000 target-date fund that also has a performance history extending back to 2000. For comparative purposes, let's include the three largest conservative allocation funds: Franklin Income, Vanguard Wellesley Income and Permanent Portfolio. These four funds were tested in distribution mode for the 11-year period of January 2000 to December 2010.
Assume a starting balance of $250,000 for each fund on Jan. 1, 2000. Withdrawals were made at the end of the first year. The first withdrawal was 5% of the starting balance, or $12,500. The annual inflation rate for withdrawals was set at 3%. Thus, the second annual withdrawals were $12,875 from each of the four funds.
As the "Torture Test" chart above shows, the performance of Fidelity Freedom 2000 as a distribution vehicle during the post-target years paled in comparison to the three conservative allocation funds. Fidelity Freedom 2000 took a beating over 11 years in three categories: ending account balance, internal rate of return and worst-case annual drawdown.
After 11 end-of-year withdrawals, the ending account balance for Fidelity Freedom 2000 fell below the starting balance of $250,000, the only fund to do so. (See "Paths of Fortune" chart, below.) Franklin Income and Vanguard Wellesley Income had ending account balances about twice the size of Fidelity Freedom 2000, and the Permanent Portfolio fund was nearly three times larger.
As the performance winner, Permanent Portfolio posted an internal rate of return of 10.2%, followed by Franklin Income at 8.1% and Vanguard Wellesley Income at 7.1%. Fidelity Freedom 2000's rate was just 2.8%.
The one bright spot for Fidelity Freedom 2000 was its smaller, worst-case annual drawdown, compared with Franklin Income. This is hardly consoling, however, because Franklin Income fell from grace in 2008 with a loss of 30.5%. Combined with the annual withdrawal that year, it led to a total account loss of 34.4%.
Much like a relay race, investors would have been better off liquidating their assets in Fidelity Freedom 2000 once the specified year was reached and choosing one of the three conservative allocation funds. In essence, target-date funds with a through glidepath are attempting to run a relay race with just one runner. With all the specialization and segmentation in the mutual fund marketplace over the past two decades, it's overly optimistic to assume a single target-date fund can be the sole investment solution for an investor over his or her entire lifetime.
Despite the drawbacks later in life, target-date funds can be useful default choices for savers younger than 60. Workers in their thirties should not be investing their 401(k) contributions into money market mutual funds or stable value funds. Those conservative investment products are more appropriate for older investors who need to focus on capital preservation. Young investors should have investment portfolios largely comprised of assets with higher return potential, such as equities and diversifiers (real estate, commodities, international bonds, etc.) when the target date is 30 years away.
However, as investors approach retirement age, the potential variability in their financial situations warrants more personalized asset allocation decisions. For example, take two different 60-year-olds. The first has amassed $2.5 million in her retirement account, has no debt, has qualified for a pension and wants to preserve a fairly large sum for heirs. The second has a retirement account balance of $300,000, has significant debt, no pension and no plans to bequeath any money to heirs.
The only factor these two people have in common is their age. Yet if you were designing a retirement distribution portfolio for each of these two, the asset allocation would not be identical.
Unfortunately, target-date funds don't take any of these life variables into account. The XYZ 2020 Fund or QRS 2000 Fund have a set asset allocation model regardless of whether you're the first investor in this example or the second.
Advisors should meet with clients approaching retirement and review their portfolios, which may guide decisions about whether to stay in target-date funds in the years to come. Staying put in a fund as its asset allocation continues to glide through the target date is clearly the path of least resistance. But it's quite possible the fund has run its course after arriving at the specified year. If the fund's asset allocation model no longer matches a client's specific needs during retirement, advisors should find a fund-or build a portfolio of funds-that does.
Craig L. Israelsen, Ph.D., is an associate professor at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, and the author of 7Twelve: A Diversified Investment Portfolio With a Plan.
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No Endorsement for Boxer by SFC
So it took the San Francisco Chronicle three U.S. Senate terms to figure this out? One six-year term should have been enough!
Is it too late to be better late than never? In other words, will the elections on November 2nd not only put enough conservative folks in D.C., but also be soon enough to reverse the damages to the country which Barbara Boxer has helped initiate? (Sorry, no pictures. I almost gagged to death looking for one.)
The San Francisco Chronicle may not be known for being as liberal as many of its residents in its hometown, but Senator Barbara Boxer, California Democrat, could not garner the endorsement of the paper her re-election this year.
via San Francisco Chronicle gives no endorsement to Boxer – Washington Times.
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In hearings on private securities litigation reform, corporate, investor, consumer and academic representatives testified before the House Energy and Commerce Telecommunications and Finance Subcommittee. The subcommittee, chaired by Congressman Edward Markey (D-Mass.), heard testimony on litigation abuse under section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and on the Securities Private Enforcement Reform Act (HR 417). The bill, subject of a House hearing for the first time, is sponsored by Congressman Billy Tauzin (D-La.).
HR 417 calls for a proportionate liability standard to replace the joint and several liability standard under Securities and Exchange Commission rule 10b-5. Tauzin called rule 10b-5, which was written to ensure that investors are compensated for losses due to securities fraud, a tool used by speculators to recoup losses from risky investments. The Louisiana representative said speculators' attorneys file frivolous class-action suits against companies whose only crime is a drop or gain in the price of their stock.
Speaking for the six largest accounting firms, J. Michael Cook, the chairman and chief executive officer of Deloitte & Touche, Wilton, Connecticut, argued that joint and several liability promotes "market incentives" for plaintiffs' lawyers to pursue cases "without regard to the merits of the underlying claims." Cook said proportionate liability can reverse the liability burden by changing incentives so as to force plaintiffs' attorneys to focus on cases with merit.
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1. First things first. Since mid-July I have been trying to get a job with Disney. It started off with me sending my resume to the head of Technical Services at Disneyland. He called me back and told me to wait until the fall when the job posting would appear on the Disney Careers website. I checked the site every day. When September came it was about five times a day. Finally on September 13th the job appeared. I sent in the application. The next morning I took a web-based interview and after that I immediately had to set up an in-person interview at Disneyland. Mom and I drove to Las Vegas on the 21st, drove to Anaheim on the 22nd, had my first interview with casting on the 23rd, had my second interview with the head of Technical Services on the 24th, then hopped in the car and made the twelve hour trip home that same day. Never. Again. I was so tired on/after that drive.
I was told that I would hear one way or another whether I got the job by the end of the week. Friday came and went. Saturday came and went. So did Sunday and Monday. Yesterday I finally decided to get some answers and called the casting center and Jerry (head of Technical Services). I got voice mails. Luckily Jerry is pretty good about getting back to you quickly and he called me shortly after I left the voice mail. I didn't get the job, but he encouraged me to keep in contact with him and they have my information on file for the next round of hiring in December. I wouldn't have to fill out another application and I wouldn't have to come back for another interview. Jerry told me to keep him up to date on any changes to my resume. I am going to send him an email today to thank him for the opportunity and to see what I can do in the meantime to beef up my resume and give me a better chance the next round.
When I heard the news these were my initial reactions:
So I am through all those emotions and now I am moving forward. Yeah, it sucks, but it's actually kind of a relief too. Had I gotten the job I would have had to be in California by the end of the month for training. That's extremely fast and I didn't know if I could get me and all my stuff moved and a place to live and a car (more on that coming up) in time. I think Disneyland is still in God's plan for me, it's just his plan for me a little later. Now I can be home for one more Thanksgiving, one more Christmas, one more TSO concert, and one more lots of things. And until the next round of hiring starts you can be sure that I'm going to do everything in my power to make me the top applicant. As my dear friend Jenna reminded me recently that whether or not I got the job I am "mother f****** Holly Pierce!" She's right and I plan to show the world that I do not give up because of one bump in the road!
2. The next reason life has been crazy lately was because the transmission finally died on my car. Mako was a great car and I loved her. I was sad to see her go, with all my bumper stickers for a measly $450, but at least it was something. AND she's going to go to a 16 year old girl for her birthday all fixed up and shined up and I hope she'll lover her as much as I did! This also meant that I had to take out a loan which I swore I would never do after taking Dave Ramsey. Luckily my parents didn't have to co-sign because I have really good credit. I have been spending all of my free time scouring KSL and autotrader and finally found something to go and test drive. It's a 2006 Chevy Malibu and it's black and in amazing condition. I signed for it last night. The dealer has some things he needs to fix and get checked on it and then it's mine and I have plenty of bumper stickers to replace the ones I lost. :)
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C. S. Lewis, after speaking of the good that can come from human suffering and pain, has this to say:
Quoted from The Problem of Pain (Harper Collins 2001):
Offences must come, but woe to those by whom they come; sins do cause grace to abound, but we must not make that an excuse for continuing to sin. The crucifixion itself is the best, as well as the worst, of all historical events, but the role of Judas remains simply evil. We may apply this first to the problem of other people's suffering. A merciful man aims at his neighbour's good and so does 'God's will', consciously co-operating with 'the simple good'. A cruel man oppresses his neighbour, and so does simple evil. But in doing such evil, he is used by God, without his own knowledge or consent, to produce the complex good – so that the first man serves God as a son, and the second as a tool. For you will certainly carry out God's purpose, however you act, but it makes a difference to you whether you serve like Judas or like John. The whole system is, so to speak, calculated for the clash between good men and bad men, and the good fruits of fortitude, patience, pity, and forgiveness for which the cruel man is permitted to be cruel, presuppose that the good man ordinarily continues to seek simple good. I say 'ordinarily' because a man is sometimes entitled to hurt (or even, in my opinion, to kill) his fellow, but only where the necessity is urgent and the good to be attained obvious, and usually (though not always) when he who inflicts the pain has a definite authority to do so – a parent's authority derived from nature, a magistrate's or soldier's derived from civil society, or a surgeon's derived, most often, from the patient. To turn this into a general charter for afflicting humanity 'because affliction is good for them' (as Marlowe's lunatic Tamberlaine boasted himself the 'scourge of God') is not indeed to break the Divine scheme, but to volunteer for the post of Satan within that scheme. If you do his work, you must be prepared for his wages.


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February 8, 1988
Marion Gordon Robertson, Plaintiff,
Paul N. McCloskey, Jr., Defendant
Joyce Hens Green, United States District Judge.
The opinion of the court was delivered by: GREEN
JOYCE HENS GREEN, United States District Judge
On April 15, 1987, counsel for defendant took the deposition of Colonel Good Burleson in this action. See Exhibit A to Plaintiff's Motion in Limine. Defendant has indicated in his pretrial brief that he intends to introduce this deposition at trial
and plaintiff has moved in limine to exclude it under Federal Rule of Evidence 403. For the reasons set forth below, plaintiff's motion will be denied.
Colonel Burleson is a retired Marine Corps officer. During the Korean War, Burleson was stationed in Tokyo, Japan and worked as an administrative aide in a unit that served as liaison for the Commanding General of the Far East Command to Army, Navy and Marine units located in Japan and Korea. Colonel Burleson testified in his deposition that, sometime during 1950 or 1951, his office received a telegram ordering that one specifically-named lieutenant, and several additional lieutenants, were to be taken from a Navy vessel and assigned to Camp Otsu, Japan. Deposition at 8-9. The telegram requested this reassignment, Burleson stated, because the father of the named lieutenant was a Congressman from Virginia. Id. at 11.
Plaintiff points out that Colonel Burleson does not recall many details surrounding the telegram incident
and that certain aspects of what Burleson does recall is contradicted by the testimony of other witnesses. Because of these infirmities, plaintiff argues that Burleson's testimony does not establish that plaintiff Robertson was the lieutenant referred to in the telegram and should therefore be excluded because its probative value is outweighed by its potential prejudicial effects.
Although plaintiff has quite correctly illuminated the weaknesses in Burleson's proposed testimony, neither of those problems provides a sufficient ground for excluding it from use at trial. There is no doubt that Colonel Burleson does not remember many of the particulars of the event about which he testified and there is similarly no doubt that other witnesses have given testimony that appears to contradict Burleson's. If, however, a lack of memory or the presence of contradictory evidence were a sufficient basis for excluding testimony, few witnesses would survive a motion in limine.
Moreover, it is well-settled that "Rule 403 should be applied infrequently and cautiously by trial judges" and that unfair prejudice results from "evidence that appeals to the jury's sympathies, arouses its sense of horror, provokes its instinct to punish, or triggers other mainsprings of human action." 1 J. Weinstein & M. Berger, Weinstein's Evidence, para. 403[02] at 403-27; para. 403[03] at 403-33-36 (1986). Colonel Burleson's deposition, however, implicates none of those dangers. Plaintiff's objections go to the weight of Colonel Burleson's testimony, a matter squarely within the province of the jury. The jurors are entitled to hear that testimony and weigh it for themselves.
Finally, plaintiff contends that Colonel Burleson's deposition should be excluded because of "the total lack of linkage between plaintiff and the message that Burleson allegedly received." Motion at 6. This argument, however, is an attack upon the relevancy of Burleson's testimony and is best for a decision at the time of trial.
Accordingly, it is hereby
ORDERED that plaintiff's motion in limine be and it ...
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