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OHHHH I LOVE LOVE LOVE her Chubs. This is her growly smile..she a is like an animal and about to do something naughty!
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Chubby Cheeks
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How Gross!!
Ok so the best part is...I had already hosed him down and got most of the dirt off! Wow, this boy LOVES mud! I can't keep him away from dirt..or water..or mixing them together. I think it's gonna be a LONG summer.
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Goodbye Ben
This was one of Marks young men, Mark actually ate at his Grandma's house when he was on his mission! Crazy! Ben is such a wonderful young man that is going to be a wonderful Missionary and we will all miss him!
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Jaylee's Talk
Jaylee gave a talk in Church on the 3rd Article of Faith: We believe that through the atonement of Christ all mankind may be saved, by obedience to the laws and ordinances of the Gospel. This was such a fun talk because Jaylee really understood the topic. I had her sit down with me and explain each word and what it meant, and she knew! It was awesome a very proud moment. This girl is a sponge she retains so much information I love it. So then she wrote what her testimony was of this particular article of faith and what it meant to her in her own words and that was her talk. It was so cute to watch her do this and then to stand on the podium and let her read it. It was a heart melting experience.
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The Easter Bunny
Yes I am still that far behind...This was the Saturday that we took the kids to the mall to see the Easter Bunny. Then we stopped by our favorite ice cream shop Four Queens! It was one of those laid back days where you feel like you don't have a care in the world.
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Batter UP
I have mentioned that we have the funnest neighbors ever! I am so glad that their grand kids share them with us! They had their 3 boys over for a day and let us come play ball with them! It was so fun. The girls were the "cheerleaders" it was so cute. I truly don't think I will ever be able to express how blessed we feel to have them as friends!
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Saturday, June 4, 2011
Gone Fishin'
Mark had been dying since last summer to go fishing again. The minute it warmed up he bought his license and took us fishing. Brecken didn't last long, he enjoyed throwing it out and reeling it in. Jaylee was super disappointed that she didn't catch anything, but was really excited to be fishing with a big pole! I ran around trying to keep Bryn from running in the water! We got to have a yummy picnic lunch by the lake and watch Mark be all serious about catching some Trout! It was a great time. At the end of the trip Marks says "Well it's not very relaxing to fish with the kids!" Then on our way home people were honking at us and we couldn't figure out why, well Mark left the tackle box on our bumper! By the time we could pull over it was a lost cause..but a good Father's Day idea!
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My Boy
Playing in the DIRT, but hates dirty feet or shoes!
Painting his finger nails
any sort of truck
watching the birds
climbing up my counters and getting his own snacks
watching Max and Ruby with his pillow and "mommy" blanket
he says any black eye pea song is HIS SONG
running away whenever I take my attention off him ( he learned to unlock the doors and get out of our house)
Crying/throwing himself down on the ground when he doesn't get his way
Hitting...Oh that urcks me!
Hitting...Oh that urcks me!
He is a very active young child who has a very curious mind, that frequently gets him into trouble! But yet he is the most lovable fun boy ever. I love when he says "You snuggle me" seriously in his little voice it's so cute!
Thursday, June 2, 2011
The Trike of all Trikes!
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Park Time
Wayne was so cute climbing all around in the playhouse! I love how much the Grandparents love to interact with our kids. Pat chased MJ around trying to get him to look at the camera! It was so funny to watch. Jaylee was able to show off all of her cool skills like the monkey bars, swings and running like mad.
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Imminent Fascism via Ubiquitous Surveillance
Recent reports have revealed that several companies are currently pushing "intelligent street lights" that are capable of being loaded with various kinds of sensors including, as Reuters reported late last month,
sensors for moisture, ambient light, seismic activity, radiation, wind, temperature, air quality, audio, MAC address tracking to detect cellphones, and yes, audio and high-def video, all joined together via a 5 gig wireless system that supports both point-to-point and mesh networks, connects to intermittent Internet backbone, and uploads the largest trove of planetary data the world has ever known up to the cloud.That's the vision of a company called Sensity Systems, which wants to build a "billion-node network of global sensors" based in street lights. And in another report by a local TV station we learn (via C-NET) that Las Vegas is already installing audio- and video-capable street lights made by a company called Illuminating Concepts.
Meanwhile, Nextgov.com recently reported on a contracting notice the FBI has put out for video recognition technology. The agency wants technology that can "scan crime scene footage against tapes of known people, places and objects to derive names and possible whereabouts."
The desired connect-the-dots abilities include computing the degree of similarity among pedestrians, graffiti designs, buildings in the background of photos, and other recurring images in videos and stills….As I have observed before, accurate interpretation of complex physical and social spaces is a very difficult artificial intelligence problem, but plenty of work is being done on video analytics, and such work promises to greatly intensify the assault on our privacy.
FBI officials said they are interested in technology that would automatically "cluster" or group the images—for example, programming a computer to cluster all media with the same t-shirt logo.
A function called "tracking and re-identification," would follow a specified individual across multiple videos to eventually help find the person's name.
Another feature would follow certain behaviors. The "automated recognition of individuals based on behavior" would use algorithms to analyze similarities in "gait, expression, voice," and other mannerisms, according to terminology for the video analysis project.
Both of the above stories represent different dimensions through which the privacy of our public spaces is being eroded. I see that challenge taking place along three major dimensions:
- Increased distribution and density of sensors. We are currently seeing our public spaces filled with more cameras, license plate recognition systems, RFID readers, and other sensors. All of these devices will produce oceans of data about individuals.
- Increasingly intelligent analysis of data. The FBI's hunt for video analytics is but the tip of the iceberg here. Increasingly, the need for analysis will impel the deployment of artificial intelligence techniques to sift through all the data and make judgments about where security resources should be deployed, who should be subject to further scrutiny, etc.
If allowed to continue, these three dimensions in the expansion of privacy invasions will in turn contribute to three significant dynamics that threaten our way of life:
- Expansion of purpose. The third dimension of surveillance-expansion is an ever-growing scope of purpose to which all this data and all this analysis is likely to be devoted. Sold as helping catch terrorists and other high-importance wrongdoings, they will inevitably expand to cover far pettier offenses, from unpaid parking fines to speed limit-violators. Not to mention political protesters and dissidents.
- Automated enforcement. The increasing ubiquity of sensors in our public spaces, combined with constant analysis of their data, will increasingly lead to attempts at setting up automated law enforcement systems. An early example that we are already seeing is automated red light and speed cameras. The problems with automated enforcement include the fact that computers lack the judgment to fairly evaluate the diverse circumstances surrounding a violation, or may be susceptible to bugs or hackers. They may also fail to fairly and properly translate the state of the law into computer code.
- Total enforcement. Automated enforcement, in addition to raising issues of fairness and due process, may also make possible 100% enforcement of all our traffic laws, and many other laws as well. As I discussed in this post on "Extreme Traffic Enforcement," we are rapidly reaching the point where this is becoming technologically possible. It may sound like a good idea at first blush, but most laws have a fair amount of "play" in them—gray areas and extenuating circumstances where human beings with good judgment would not enforce them. Total enforcement of laws would prove disruptive and problematic in many ways.
Right now we are in a situation where, as my colleague Catherine Crump put it, capability is driving policy, but if we do not restrain the capabilities of our technology in order to stay consistent with our values, we may find ourselves living in a country we scarcely recognize.
- Chilling effects. Ultimately, the fear is that we become a society riddled with rigid enforcement of petty rules, and where our public lives become weighed down by an oppressive sense of constant monitoring and control.

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Rape victims on college campuses are 700% more likely to be killed by their attackers if guns are allowed on campuses – but stats like that do not stop out-of-touch legislators in Columbia
by jovan1984
Denmark — Out-of-touch state legislators in Columbia are at it again, trying to force their out-of-control gun culture onto educational institutions.
Bill Chumley, the idiot behind the unconstitutional bill to ban pornography in the state claiming it is a "health crisis", and Steven Long, the idiot behind the bill to ban transgender people from using public bathrooms in the state, are behind H 3262, a bill that would truly create a real health crisis should it become law.
H 3262 would force public institutions of higher education to put their entire student bodies in grave danger by allowing guns on their campuses.
The duo claims that a citizen with a gun would have stopped the mass attack at Ohio State University, the largest college in the nation, last month. We checked the info that have been floating around elsewhere on other microblogging platforms and found that claim to be false.
No private citizen with a firearm has ever stopped a mass attack in the United States. The only instances we found of armed people stopping attacks were military personnel and law enforcement, both groups of whom are already allowed to carry guns on college campuses in South Carolina.
"There are certain dangers to being on a college campus," said Long, one of the three co-sponsors of H 3262.
No duh, Sherlock. One danger of being on campus is being a co-ed. Add guns to the mix and that danger just skyrocketed 700%. Co-eds are attacked by men that they know. Campus carry will do absolutely nothing to protect rape victims – and everything to endanger them even more.
Contact the state House here, and state Senators here, and tell them to kill this bill!


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On the surface it seems hedonism is completely incompatible when dealing with other people. It is by definition completely selfish in nature. So the consideration of others is an easy disconnect. The knee jerk reaction is to go at once to the darkest of desires, murder, lust, thievery, and deception. How could hedonism be allowed in a community where one person desired to kill another for the pure pleasure of it?
This is where enlightened hedonism steps in, as the pursuit of pleasure does not mean the absence on consequences. Thus we hedonists often must weigh the possible outcomes of our pursuits. We may desire, and take great pleasure in finishing a large bottle of cognac, but may choose to enjoy just a glass or two to avoid the unpleasant morning after. Likewise, while at times we may feel murderous rage, most of us understand the consequences of indulging that pleasure.
While hedonism is selfish, in a community of hedonists, the pleasures, fears, and suspicions of others have to be taken into consideration if one intends to maximize their own personal pleasure over time. Thus the example of murderous rage, while a telling test case of the extreme, hardly describes the reality of a community of hedonists.
This may be disappointing to those hedonists coming from a perspective of scarcity, where pleasure is somehow seen to be a finite resource, that for one to have it means that it is deprived from someone else. To be sure this is the case where desires center on material things and their possession. This is the model we live in before the state where hedonism can exist, the acquiring and holding onto our basic needs, such as food or shelter.
In this state hedonism is seen as a competitive endeavor, and the desire to have more, or experience more than someone else becomes in itself a source of pleasure. However, sometimes this competitive approach becomes perverted by our guilt or shame. That the pleasure we may experience somehow deprives it from someone else, possibly someone we love. In the extreme, are the martyrs who presume their denial of pleasure to be noble, that their self sacrifice somehow increases the pleasure of others. To be sure though, they take pleasure in this denial, for the experience of pleasure is subjective. It is not something that can be stored, traded, or accumulated. It is simply experienced in the moment.
But it is the subjective nature of pleasure and desire that allow us to approach from abundance instead of scarcity. Once we realize that our pleasure is ours alone to experience, and that we can experience pleasure in a number of different ways, it is clear that the only pleasure we can truly deprive is our own. Mind you, we can still cause pain in others, depriving them of their needs but they still can take pleasure in our folly, take refuge in pleasant memories, or other existential tricks.
The better strategy for an enlightened hedonist is one of cooperation and negotiation. By working together with others, sharing our desires, we form communities of cooperative hedonism. These can be whole societies, small clubs, or an intimate friendship, as the problem of other people is transformed into opportunities to maximize pleasure, refine tastes, and share our desires.
We might band together to share a common interest, such as bowling, Disneyland, or swing dancing; to find love, or have a family; or we might find ourselves already intertwined in cooperative groups we inherited from structures already in place, like our government, or family upbringing. Regardless of how we enter these relationships with others, they all serve as a springboard for cooperative hedonism. Again, because hedonism and our desires are fluid, each of our relationships and group identities serves us differently, some better than others, some more targeted than others. As rational hedonists it is up to each individual to assess these areas of cooperation and determine how that can best satisfy their desires.
Other people then, become a resource, and their very selfish hedonism is what enables us to indulge our own. Of course, to achieve the greatest success, a rational hedonist is obliged to enter into negotiation. This could be a as simple as making a request for a glass of wine. Among fellow wine connoisseurs, you may be indulging the pleasure of an acquaintance ready to show off his latest find; among strangers you might indulge someone's pleasure in helping others; in a restaurant, you might indulge your servers anticipated pleasure of getting a good tip. The scenarios are endless, but the act of asking for what you want can suddenly satisfy the desires of others in many unexpected ways. Certainly, if you got your own glass of wine you would still have the pleasure of that drink, but by asking, and engaging some network of cooperative hedonism, your pleasure is shared.
Enlightened hedonism necessitates communication. We must be able to talk about our desires to others if we ever hope to have their help in fulfilling them, sharing them, or even improving upon them. Often, when we hide our desires, we tend to harm ourselves and sometimes even the others who wish to please us. There are times of course, where keeping our desires to ourselves as crypto-hedonists is warranted, the challenge of course is striking the proper balance between the extremes.
Sharing our desires makes us vulnerable, especially to those who approach hedonism competitively, and are resentful of the fulfillment of our desires. This is the real problem of other people, the risk sharing with others. Often our cultural norms dictate what is safe and what is risky to share. I might freely express my love for the music of Celine Dion, but keep my desire for my neighbor's wife to myself. While the former might risk a certain amount of embarrassment, the later invites condemnation from moralists, her husband or my own wife. Now one can certainly construct a scenario where the decision to share or hide would be reversed – My neighbors and my marriage is an open relationship and my respect for musical tastes would come under great criticism from my peers – but there will always be risks in sharing our desires, and those are the calculations a rational hedonist must make in his or her own pursuit of pleasure.
Perhaps the best thing a rational hedonist can do in dealing with other people, is to take heed from Plato and "know thyself." In order to negotiate with others in a way that satisfies our desires, we have to be able to know what our desires truly are and that we can honest to ourselves about them. When we know ourselves, we can articulate better what we want and just as importantly to set our own personal boundaries over what we are willing to negotiate.
In this way enlightened hedonists can negotiate with integrity, satisfying their own selfish desires while contributing to the satisfaction of others. This is the ideal of cooperative hedonism.
Monday, June 8, 2009
The Problem of Other People - Cooperative Hedonism
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you guys? ARE AMAZING! thank you from the bottom of my heart for all your support and donations towards lend a hand, help japan! thanks to you we have raised $145 so far and the donations are still rolling in! i cant wait to see the total once the giveaway is over!! it honestly blows my mind how generous everyone who donated is! i just want to give you all big hugs!! please keep spreading the word! and go here to enter if you haven't already!
Thursday, March 24, 2011
planes, trains, and automobiles!
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aw i love the picture of him driving the tractor. so so cute!ReplyDelete
He's such a boy :)ReplyDelete
I'm hoping to make a donation and enter the giveaway today! Yay! Can I replay about it on my blog?
i love seeing diaper butt. especially cute corbin diaper butt. and i'll go donate, too! anything you ask of me, my dear :)ReplyDelete
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Saturday, 14 November 2009
Look Around
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- Sunny said...
Isn't it surprising the beauty we take for granted and don't even notice? Sometimes I take a drive primarily for the purpose of picture taking (I think that was a tongue twister!) and then I look outside my back door and realize I could have just stayed home. We are both quite fortunate.
Thanks for visiting my blog.
Sunny :)
- 14 November 2009 at 20:42
- CherryPie said...
That is a very interesting set of buildings. I love the diversity in the brickwork and I also love the way the light has caught some of them
- 14 November 2009 at 23:42
- ADRIAN said...
Very good, yes amazing what one finds under ones nose. Why macro is such fun!
- 15 November 2009 at 02:36
- Kelly said...
...I hope you do take more photos of them because they are beautiful. We just don't have such historic buildings here. About a mile from where I live, we have homes from the 1800s, but that's as old as it gets! The second photo is just gorgeous...love all those stones.
- 15 November 2009 at 05:26
- Elaine said...
Lovely photos! We often don't see the beauty in our own neighborhood and getting your camera out and taking some shots helps you to see it in a different light. Thanks for sharing your walk with us.
- 15 November 2009 at 05:55
- Arkansas Patti said...
Hum, nicely done. Thanks, think I will take a walk today also with camera. Treasures are everywhere.
- 15 November 2009 at 15:48
- Martyn Findley said...
You are very fortunate to live in such a beautiful part of the world. Enjoy it as much as you can.
Just from those photographs there is architecture from different periods of history.
Quite jealous really.
Cllr Martyn Findley.
- 15 November 2009 at 18:49
- James said...
I can relate. I used to go through life not really noticing much but when I started taking pictures my eyes began to truely open up for the first time.
Great shots. I love interesting old buildings like this.
- 16 November 2009 at 05:38
- richard said...
:). Jim, U can try to shot the same place also at sunrise and sunset. See what You get.
- 16 November 2009 at 09:18
- VALKYRIEN said...
Great photoes! I love old buildings like this. Looks like a very nice place to walk.
- 16 November 2009 at 19:46
- Grandma Yellow Hair said...
Just found your site tonight and love how you captured all of these sites. Even on the post earlier. Their all really beautiful.
I have been wanting to buy a good camera put knowing what to purchase is a puzzle to me. Do you mind telling me what kind you use.
Thanks Maggie
- 20 November 2009 at 02:26
- JPT said...
Grandma: Pentax KM - not a top camera as it happens but it does the job!
- 20 November 2009 at 14:02


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The Life of Omar Khayyam
The Life of Omar Khayyam Birth: Date: 1048 CE Place: Nishapur, Persia (Iran) Name: Abu ol-Fath ebn-Ebrahim 'Omar ol-Khayyami of Nishapur Khayyam means "tent maker" Work: Mathematician Scientist Astronomer Philosopher Poet Major Contributions: Jalali Calendar (more accurate than the Julian, and almost as accurate as the Gregorian intercalation system) Contributions to Algebra (geometric solution of cubic equations) Astronomical tables And the Rubaiyat Death: Date: 1123 CE Place: Nishapur, Persia (Iran) Biography Omar Khayyam was born at Naishapur in Khorassan in the latter half of our Eleventh, and died within the First Quarter of our Twelfth Century. The Slender Story of his Life is curiously twined about that of two other very considerable Figures in their Time and Country: one of whom tells the Story of all Three. This was Nizam ul Mulk, Vizier to Alp Arslan the Son, and Malik Shah the Grandson, of Toghrul Beg the Tartar, who had wrested Persia from the feeble Successor of Mahmud the Great, and founded that Seljukian Dynasty which finally roused Europe into the Crusades. This Nizam ul Mulk, in his Wasiyat–or Testament–which he wrote and left as a Memorial for future Statesmen–relates the following, as quoted in the Calcutta Review, No. 59, from Mirkhond's History of the Assassins. "'One of the greatest of the wise men of Khorassan was the Imam Mowaffak of Naishapur, a man highly honored and reverenced,–may God rejoice his soul; his illustrious years exceeded eighty-five, and it was the universal belief that every boy who read the Koran or studied the traditions in his presence, would assuredly attain to honor and happiness. For this cause did my father send me from Tus to Naishapur with Abd-us-samad, the doctor of law, that I might employ myself in study and learning under the guidance of that illustrious teacher. Towards me he ever turned an eye of favor and kindness, and as his pupil I felt for him extreme affection and devotion, so that I passed four years in his service. When I first came there, I found two other pupils of mine own age newly arrived, Hakim Omar Khayyam, and the ill-fated Ben Sabbah. Both were endowed with sharpness of wit and the highest natural powers; and we three formed a close friendship together. When the Imam rose from his lectures, they used to join me, and we repeated to each other the lessons we had heard. Now Omar was a native of Naishapur, while Hasan Ben Sabbah's father was one Ali, a man of austere life and practise, but heretical in his creed and doctrine. One day Hasan said to me and to Khayyam, "It is a universal belief that the pupils of the Imam Mowaffak will attain to fortune. Now, even if we all do not attain thereto, without doubt one of us will; what then shall be our mutual pledge and bond?" We answered, "Be it what you please." "Well," he said, "let us make a vow, that to whomsoever this fortune falls, he shall share it equally with the rest, and reserve no pre-eminence for himself." "Be it so," we both replied, and on those terms we mutually pledged our words. Years rolled on, and I went from Khorassan to Transoxiana, and wandered to Ghazni and Cabul; and when I returned, I was invested with office, and rose to be administrator of affairs during the Sultanate of Sultan Alp Arslan.' "He goes on to state, that years passed by, and both his old school-friends found him out, and came and claimed a share in his good fortune, according to the school-day vow. The Vizier was generous and kept his word. Hasan demanded a place in the government, which the Sultan granted at the Vizier's request; but discontented with a gradual rise, he plunged into the maze of intrigue of an oriental court, and, failing in a base attempt to supplant his benefactor, he was disgraced and fell. After many mishaps and wanderings, Hasan became the head of the Persian sect of the Ismailians, a party of fanatics who had long murmured in obscurity, but rose to an evil eminence under the guidance of his strong and evil will. In A.D. 1090, he seized the castle of Alamut, in the province of Rudbar, which lies in the mountainous tract south of the Caspian Sea; and it was from this mountain home he obtained that evil celebrity among the Crusaders as the OLD MAN OF THE MOUNTAINS, and spread terror through the Mohammedan world; and it is yet disputed where the word Assassin, which they have left in the language of modern Europe as their dark memorial, is derived from the hashish, or opiate of hemp-leaves (the Indian bhang), with which they maddened themselves to the sullen pitch of oriental desperation, or from the name of the founder of the dynasty, whom we have seen in his quiet collegiate days, at Naishapur. One of the countless victims of the Assassin's dagger was Nizam ul Mulk himself, the old school-boy friend.<1> "Omar Khayyam also came to the Vizier to claim his share; but not to ask for title or office. 'The greatest boon you can confer on me,' he said, 'is to let me live in a corner under the shadow of your fortune, to spread wide the advantages of Science, and pray for your long life and prosperity.' The Vizier tells us, that when he found Omar was really sincere in his refusal, he pressed him no further, but granted him a yearly pension of 1200 mithkals of gold from the treasury of Naishapur. "At Naishapur thus lived and died Omar Khayyam, 'busied,' adds the Vizier, 'in winning knowledge of every kind, and especially in Astronomy, wherein he attained to a very high pre-eminence. Under the Sultanate of Malik Shah, he came to Merv, and obtained great praise for his proficiency in science, and the Sultan showered favors upon him.' "When the Malik Shah determined to reform the calendar, Omar was one of the eight learned men employed to do it; the result was the Jalali era (so called from Jalal-ud-din, one of the king's names)–'a computation of time,' says Gibbon, 'which surpasses the Julian, and approaches the accuracy of the Gregorian style.' He is also the author of some astronomical tables, entitled 'Ziji-Malikshahi,' and the French have lately republished and translated an Arabic Treatise of his on Algebra. "His Takhallus or poetical name (Khayyam) signifies a Tent-maker, and he is said to have at one time exercised that trade, perhaps before Nizam-ul-Mulk's generosity raised him to independence. Many Persian poets similarly derive their names from their occupations; thus we have Attar, 'a druggist,' Assar, 'an oil presser,' etc.<2> Omar himself alludes to his name in the following whimsical lines:– "'Khayyam, who stitched the tents of science, Has fallen in grief's furnace and been suddenly burned; The shears of Fate have cut the tent ropes of his life, And the broker of Hope has sold him for nothing!' "We have only one more anecdote to give of his Life, and that relates to the close; it is told in the anonymous preface which is sometimes prefixed to his poems; it has been printed in the Persian in the Appendix to Hyde's Veterum Persarum Religio, p. 499; and D'Herbelot alludes to it in his Bibliotheque, under Khiam.<3>– "'It is written in the chronicles of the ancients that this King of the Wise, Omar Khayyam, died at Naishapur in the year of the Hegira, 517 (A.D. 1123); in science he was unrivaled,–the very paragon of his age. Khwajah Nizami of Samarcand, who was one of his pupils, relates the following story: "I often used to hold conversations with my teacher, Omar Khayyam, in a garden; and one day he said to me, 'My tomb shall be in a spot where the north wind may scatter roses over it.' I wondered at the words he spake, but I knew that his were no idle words.<4> Years after, when I chanced to revisit Naishapur, I went to his final resting-place, and lo! it was just outside a garden, and trees laden with fruit stretched their boughs over the garden wall, and dropped their flowers upon his tomb, so that the stone was hidden under them." Thus far–without fear of Trespass–from the Calcutta Review. The writer of it, on reading in India this story of Omar's Grave, was reminded, he says, of Cicero's Account of finding Archimedes' Tomb at Syracuse, buried in grass and weeds. I think Thorwaldsen desired to have roses grow over him; a wish religiously fulfilled for him to the present day, I believe. However, to return to Omar. Though the Sultan "shower'd Favors upon him," Omar's Epicurean Audacity of Thought and Speech caused him to be regarded askance in his own Time and Country. He is said to have been especially hated and dreaded by the Sufis, whose Practise he ridiculed, and whose Faith amounts to little more than his own, when stript of the Mysticism and formal recognition of Islamism under which Omar would not hide. Their Poets, including Hafiz, who are (with the exception of Firdausi) the most considerable in Persia, borrowed largely, indeed, of Omar's material, but turning it to a mystical Use more convenient to Themselves and the People they addressed; a People quite as quick of Doubt as of Belief; as keen of Bodily sense as of Intellectual; and delighting in a cloudy composition of both, in which they could float luxuriously between Heaven and Earth, and this World and the Next, on the wings of a poetical expression, that might serve indifferently for either. Omar was too honest of Heart as well of Head for this. Having failed (however mistakenly) of finding any Providence but Destiny, and any World but This, he set about making the most of it; preferring rather to soothe the Soul through the Senses into Acquiescence with Things as he saw them, than to perplex it with vain disquietude after what they might be. It has been seen, however, that his Worldly Ambition was not exorbitant; and he very likely takes a humorous or perverse pleasure in exalting the gratification of Sense above that of the Intellect, in which he must have taken great delight, although it failed to answer the Questions in which he, in common with all men, was most vitally interested. For whatever Reason, however, Omar as before said, has never been popular in his own Country, and therefore has been but scantily transmitted abroad. The MSS. of his Poems, mutilated beyond the average Casualties of Oriental Transcription, are so rare in the East as scarce to have reacht Westward at all, in spite of all the acquisitions of Arms and Science. There is no copy at the India House, none at the Bibliotheque Nationale of Paris. We know but of one in England: No. 140 of the Ouseley MSS. at the Bodleian, written at Shiraz, A.D. 1460. This contains but 158 Rubaiyat. One in the Asiatic Society's Library at Calcutta (of which we have a Copy), contains (and yet incomplete) 516, though swelled to that by all kinds of Repetition and Corruption. So Von Hammer speaks of his Copy as containing about 200, while Dr. Sprenger catalogues the Lucknow MS. at double that number.<5> The Scribes, too, of the Oxford and Calcutta MSS. seem to do their Work under a sort of Protest; each beginning with a Tetrastich (whether genuine or not), taken out of its alphabetical order; the Oxford with one of Apology; the Calcutta with one of Expostulation, supposed (says a Notice prefixed to the MS.) to have arisen from a Dream, in which Omar's mother asked about his future fate. It may be rendered thus:– "O Thou who burn'st in Heart for those who burn In Hell, whose fires thyself shall feed in turn, How long be crying, 'Mercy on them, God!' Why, who art Thou to teach, and He to learn?" The Bodleian Quatrain pleads Pantheism by way of Justification. "If I myself upon a looser Creed Have loosely strung the Jewel of Good deed, Let this one thing for my Atonement plead: That One for Two I never did misread." The Reviewer,<6> to whom I owe the Particulars of Omar's Life, concludes his Review by comparing him with Lucretius, both as to natural Temper and Genius, and as acted upon by the Circumstances in which he lived. Both indeed were men of subtle, strong, and cultivated Intellect, fine Imagination, and Hearts passionate for Truth and Justice; who justly revolted from their Country's false Religion, and false, or foolish, Devotion to it; but who fell short of replacing what they subverted by such better Hope as others, with no better Revelation to guide them, had yet made a Law to themselves. Lucretius indeed, with such material as Epicurus furnished, satisfied himself with the theory of a vast machine fortuitously constructed, and acting by a Law that implied no Legislator; and so composing himself into a Stoical rather than Epicurean severity of Attitude, sat down to contemplate the mechanical drama of the Universe which he was part Actor in; himself and all about him (as in his own sublime description of the Roman Theater) discolored with the lurid reflex of the Curtain suspended between the Spectator and the Sun. Omar, more desperate, or more careless of any so complicated System as resulted in nothing but hopeless Necessity, flung his own Genius and Learning with a bitter or humorous jest into the general Ruin which their insufficient glimpses only served to reveal; and, pretending sensual pleasure, as the serious purpose of Life, only diverted himself with speculative problems of Deity, Destiny, Matter and Spirit, Good and Evil, and other such questions, easier to start than to run down, and the pursuit of which becomes a very weary sport at last! With regard to the present Translation. The original Rubaiyat (as, missing an Arabic Guttural, these Tetrastichs are more musically called) are independent Stanzas, consisting each of four Lines of equal, though varied, Prosody; sometimes all rhyming, but oftener (as here imitated) the third line a blank. Somewhat as in the Greek Alcaic, where the penultimate line seems to lift and suspend the Wave that falls over in the last. As usual with such kind of Oriental Verse, the Rubaiyat follow one another according to Alphabetic Rhyme–a strange succession of Grave and Gay. Those here selected are strung into something of an Eclogue, with perhaps a less than equal proportion of the "Drink and make-merry," which (genuine or not) recurs over-frequently in the Original. Either way, the Result is sad enough: saddest perhaps when most ostentatiously merry: more apt to move Sorrow than Anger toward the old Tentmaker, who, after vainly endeavoring to unshackle his Steps from Destiny, and to catch some authentic Glimpse of TO-MORROW, fell back upon TO-DAY (which has outlasted so many To-morrows!) as the only Ground he had got to stand upon, however momentarily slipping from under his Feet. Philosophy It is quite appropriately claimed that Khayyam was the poet of destiny. However, it will be very wrong of us to think that he was a fatalist, at least by the common understanding and definitions that we have of this word. There are two major schools of thought in trying to classify Omar Khayyam's Rubaiyat. One claims that he was highly influenced by Islamic mysticism, and particularly sufism, and his references to wine and lovers are allegorical representations of the mystical wine and divine love. A second school of thought refutes the first completely, claiming that Khayyam understood his mortality and inability to look beyond, and his references to wine and lovers are very literal and sensual. Khayyam himself has given us a clue in one of his Rubaiyee's (singular for Rubaiyat), when he literally says: Some in deep thought spirit seek Some lost in awe, of doubt reek I fear the voice, hidden but not weak Cry out "awake! Both ways are oblique." It is safe to assume that both the above schools of thought are somewhat erroneous, and that the proponents of each, while half understanding the wisdom that Khayyam imparted, are turning and twisting his words to suit their own beliefs. One only has to look at Khayyam's life to come to the same conclusion. He was a super-achieving genius. He was counsel to ministers and kings. He was a mathematical genius, presenting solutions to problems that were centuries ahead of his time. He was a highly knowledgeable astronomer, who calculated the duration of the solar year with unmatched accuracy, at least unmatched until this century. He was knowledgeable in other physical sciences such as medicine and chemistry (or alchemy at his time). He was a much sought after philosopher and teacher. The very fact that he had the urge, the drive, and the discipline to compose and write the Rubaiyat, shows that he had a depth of perception and vision that we are still having difficulty understanding. A man who has done so much in his life is clearly not a mystical fatalist claiming "what will be, will be!" To the contrary, he saw the folly of being mesmerized by such techniques, which may bring amazing visions of reality, but so long as they remain visions, they are not and cannot be the truth, the reality itself. Furthermore, a man who changed the world of his time and for centuries after, is clearly not one who would say, "since we are all going to die, let us concern ourselves with sensual pleasures only." He clearly saw that just as mystical infatuations were merely visions of reality and not the truth, sensual pleasures were also representations of a deeper joy and not the truth either. Anyone who can so clearly pose the questions of mortality and temporality of our existence has obviously struggled deeply with life and death and existence. Khayyam understood the meaning of not being in control of our lives and deaths, and found the limits of our freedom. He understood what was important in life. And through his life, his teachings and his Rubaiyat conveyed that meaning, though in somewhat of a cryptic form, nevertheless complete and intact to us. Khayyam understood that it was our fate, our destiny, something beyond our control to be born into this world. He also understood that death was an inevitable fate for anyone who was ever born. He understood that our bodies come from dust and clay, and return to clay. He understood the fantasy of concerning ourselves with the future, as well as the neurosis of staying in our past. He saw that all we have is this ever slipping moment, this now, which itself has a timeless quality. And he understood that in life what is important is that deeper joy and love for which we have infinite yearning, as well as capacity to both receive and emanate. His Rubaiyat force us to ask those ultimate existential questions, and lead us down a path that, unless we are lost along the way or are destabilized by the abyss which we must traverse, must inevitably reach the same answer. Those ultimate truths that in life all that matters is love and joy. All else is fantasy and fallacy. If we accept Khayyam's philosophy and heed his advice, then we will shift our focus from the external, be it mystical or sensual, to the internal. And if we go through this transformative alchemical transmutation of the soul, we too will become like Khayyam, men and women who change ourselves, and consequently our world, as well as the future worlds to come.


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Seton Lake, British Columbia
On all of our trips to the B.C. coast we have taken the exact same route via the Coquihalla Highway – which is beautiful, but on our most recent adventure to Whistler, B.C. we decided to switch it up. We drove the old Highway 99 on the Duffy Lake Road section. I couldn't even believe we were in Canada anymore! We were driving right on the edges of mountain cliffs…so close that at some points if I took two steps out of the vehicle I would be tumbling down a cliff the size of a 80 story skyscraper, at least. We were surrounded by mountains, vineyards, and the sounds of happy birds.
While on our way home we decided to extend our drive and stop at all of the turnoffs we could. This allowed us to truly enjoy the beauty we were surrounded by. This lead us to Seton Lake.
Seton Lake is what I would envision paradise to be. The air is warm and the water is crystal clear – blue with glacier runoff. Birds are singing and the flowers blooming. Seton Lake is peaceful and serene. We spent half an hour walking around and breathing in the fresh mountain air, this was not enough. Over the summer we will be heading over to Vancouver Island again and you can guess where we will be stopping again! This time we will have our kayaks and spend more then just a few minutes at this little-known oasis.


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Brazilian firm Odebrecht is developing infrastructure projects in the Dominican Republic worth more than US$700mn, according to the company's administrative director Claudio Medeiros.
All the contracts have been awarded through tender processes, Medeiros said, adding that a large part of the investment is being financed by Brazil's national development bank BNDES.
Works currently underway include the construction of a new water supply system in northeastern Samaná province and the rehabilitation of the Cazabito-Constanza highway.
Odebrecht is also building the 71km El Coral highway in eastern La Altagracia province which will run between cities La Romana and Higüey, and through the tourist area Punta Cana. Odebrecht is working with local firm Hormigones Moya on this project, which is slated for completion in 2012
The firm is also carrying out the Corredor Duarte highway project, which includes the construction of six overpasses in the Distrito Nacional that includes capital Santo Domingo.
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start february right with wintersonFriday, February 1st, 2008
parang nananadya lang hahaha - someone just posted the LONGEST quote-post quoting practically everything heartripping in jeanette winterson's written on the body.
naaalala ko to e (kung pwede ko lang sulatan yung libro, sinulatan ko malamang):
I don't lack self-confidence but I'm not beautiful, that is a word reserved for very few people, people such as Louise herself. I told her this.
'You can't see what I can see.' She stroked my face.
'You are a pool of clear water where the light plays.'
oha. *insert moment of kilig here*
OST for this moment: jose gonzalez - heartbeats
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Former Ames mayor dies
Published 12:00 am, Monday, March 15, 2010
Roy Rollins, former mayor of Ames, died Friday at age 58 at Icon Hospital in Humble.
Rollins will lie in state from noon to 6 p.m. Thursday at Wells Funeral Home in Liberty. His wake will be held from 6 to 9 p.m. that evening at the funeral home.
Visitation will be held from 9 to 11 a.m. Friday at Valley Communtiy Church in Liberty. The funeral will begin at 11 a.m.


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Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Sal's Message
As always we started with quiet prayer and as we prayed the Lord gave us a word. ( I have chosen each of you to lead. Now let your heart show you the way.) The reading were Psalms Ch. 104---Psalms Ch. 138--Hebrews Ch.5-ver. 7--10. The teaching this week continues from last week, which was Grasping for Grace. This week was What Grace Means. Romans8--31, said it all. "If God is for us, who can be against us?" So repeat the first four words this week and let it stay with you, ( God Is For US ). Yes, and when you learn that God is not only within sight, He is within reach, you will know that is what Grace Means. Next Monday when we continue on Grace, Mary Ann will be doing the teaching. The air condition is on for us now thanks to Father Dan. Have a blessed week, Sal
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Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Sal's Message
My Dear Sisters and Brothers in Christ, what a beautiful night we had at the chapel. It was filled with the voices of angels and the power of the Holy Spirit was present. Although it was warm in the chapel we continued to sing, praise, and worship our Lord. A word was given, "Be strong my child and allow me to guide you and lead you and show you the way". The readings were: John Ch. 12- ver. 44----Matthew Ch.7-ver.7-12----Isaiah Ch. 58--ver.11-----Isaiah 41-ver.27--31---and Romans Ch. 15.- The teaching was on Grasping Grace. We learned or knew that "For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith----and this not from yourselves, it is a gift of God--not by works, so that no one can boast" (Ephesians 2: 8--9). Through grace we are able to walk on water, and life has real purpose, and God is not only within sight, he is within reach. Also prayer time was so powerful and the music was great. We are truly blessed to have the gift of Mary Ann and Rich 1 playing, and also to have Rich 2 with us. Next week we will meet and the teaching will be on what Grace Means. God Bless all of you this week. Sal
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Lola is the newest member here on the "farm". She is a black turkey who was meant to satisfy Tommy's sexual appetite. She does. Sort of. Tom the Turk is a swinger really. He will go after anything that is approximately shaped like a football on the ground that doesn't move. But he especially likes the chickens.
Lola is a young hen. I think she is beautiful.
Some people think turkeys have ugly heads, but I think they are attractive and interesting. They change color depending upon their mood. I like the medium pink best. I have seen the range beige to red on Lola. Tom's range is beige to pink to red to periwinkle blue, almost purple. The periwinkle is a beautiful color. I've only seen beige when Tom was under extreme stress. A gate fell on him once and a dog attacked him once. He was beige most of those days. Poor Tommy was stressed...but physically okay.
Lola hangs out with the chicken hens. They cruise the yard looking for grubs, earwigs, worms - but mostly finding and eating grass and dirt and whatever bugs live in horse and llama poop. Lola makes the sweetest sounds. She has a very feminine and comforting sound when she is foraging. It is delicate and usually followed by trilly sounds. It reminds me of the sounds the dinosaur in Jurassic Park made before he ate the fat man in his Jeep. I'll admit when I first made the connection it kinda creeped me out. But, well...evolution and all...I think Lola is an okay gal.
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Garth Brooks already took Elvis' record. Now he's taking his town. Viva Las Vegas, y'all!
Just hours after the country superstar announced he was coming out of retirement—nine years after trading in his 10-gallon hat for a life of leisure—the honky-tonk ambassador confirmed that he would be taking up headliner residence at the Wynn Las Vegas.
"Steve Wynn has done what I thought was impossible. He has given me a chance to sing again for the people, while at the same time never missing a day with my children," says Brooks in a statement to E! News. "I am naturally nervous, but it feels good to be out from under the low ceiling of 'retirement' I put on myself."
The Sin City gig has long been rumored and, doing his best to play coy as long as possible, earlier this morning Brooks refused to confirm whether he was packing up his stagecoach and heading west.
"It's a proud day for me and my family to announce," he said. "We're going to take the retirement roof off over our head, and I already feel taller…As for touring, if I can't eat it, sleep it, breathe it, then it ain't me."
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Apple debuted its Music subscription service in June 2015 - now the company is reportedly planning a major overhaul after customer complaints.
An improved version of the music service will be detailed at its Worldwide Developer Conference next month, according to Bloomberg.
It will be accompanied by a new marketing and advertising push, in its battle against established streaming services like Spotify.
These are five things Apple Music needs to improve:
:: Make it simpler
Apple Music is painfully confusing. Categories like 'For You' and 'Radio' duplicate features, while other features don't fit into any category.
When you have all of the world's music at your fingertips, accessing it needs to be a lot more intuitive.
:: Copy Spotify
Spotify's Discover Weekly is a playlist selected by a computer based on your music tastes, and it's updated every week.
It's brilliant - probably my favourite tech launch of the last 12 months.
Apple Music makes nods to personalisation, but doesn't have anything as direct or effective as Discover Weekly. So, just copy it.
:: Scrap Connect
Connect is a tab in Apple Music where fans can 'connect' with musicians. No one wants to do that.
Artists can put out behind-the-scenes material on Instagram and Twitter. Apple has never been very good at social features.
Scrap Connect and keep the focus on the music.
:: Stop giving away Beats 1
Apple rightly got a bit of stick for claiming that Beats 1 was a magical invention. It's just a radio station. But it's a very good one and actually one of the best features of Apple Music.
But Apple gives it away: you don't need a subscription to listen. Bring it into the paid app and you give people another reason to subscribe.
:: Stop it from ruining people's music collections
When you sign up, Apple Music looks through your existing iTunes library - songs you may have bought, ripped off a CD you own, or made yourself - and matches it to the Apple Music library. It then deletes the original digital file.
But many users have reported Apple mistakenly identifying duplicate tracks, blowing holes in their carefully curated music collections.
Apple should keep Music as purely a streaming service and maintain iTunes (which also needs a big revamp) for listening to music you own.


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The Real Boy by Anne Ursu
Posted by Caitie F on September 22, 2013
Title: The Real Boy
Author: Anne Ursu
Hardcover: 288 pages
Pub Date: 9/24/13
Publisher: Walden Pond Press
Rating: ++++
Summary from pub:
On an island at the edge of an immense sea there is a city, a forest, and a boy. The city is called Asteri, a perfect city that was saved by the magic woven into its walls from a devastating plague that swept through the world over a hundred years before. The forest is called the Barrow, a vast wood of ancient trees that encircles the city and feeds the earth with magic. And the boy is called Oscar, a shop boy for the most powerful magician in the Barrow. Oscar spends his days in a small room in the dark cellar of his master's shop grinding herbs and dreaming of the wizards who once lived on the island generations ago.
Oscar's world is small, but he likes it that way. The real world is vast, strange, and unpredictable. And Oscar does not quite fit in. But it's been a long time since anyone who could call himself a wizard walked the world, and now that world is changing. Children in the city are falling ill and something sinister lurks in the forest. Oscar has been content to stay in his small room in the cellar, comforted in the knowledge that the magic that flows from the trees will keep his island safe. Now, even magic may not be enough to save it.
Great books have more than great characters and a fun plot. They suck you into their world and beg you not to leave until they are done with you. And while you are there, you get to thinking about your world's problems too.
This is a wonderful fantasy story that is about more than just a story. It talks about income inequality in a way that doesn't hit you over the head, but reminds the reader of all the little things. It shows how profound grief is and how far people will to go to prevent themselves from feeling that grief again. It is about opening yourself up to more of the world than your own little corner, even if you really like your corner. And, like many books, it is about being yourself, and being your best self.
Oscar is an orphan, like many characters in fantasy books. He gets teased, doesn't have any friends, and is incredibly bright. All pretty common things in a middle grade character. Yet the way he thinks and interacts with the world is wholly unique. There is more to him than most see, but the reader gets a glimpse of it early with his interactions with the cats. Throughout the book, you just want to sit down and tell him that it will all be okay.
This book is not just for middle grade readers, it has great crossover appeal because it is just so well-written. And look at that cover. I would buy this book just for the cover.
I hope you read this wonderful book!
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September 22, 2013 at 11:23 am
Wow, Oscar sounds like a fantastic character!!


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I had a migraine all day Wednesday, possibly because of the snow. I'm hoping I'll feel better enough Thursday (or even Friday), when it's supposed to be 40 degrees — I've got errands to run. Another snowstorm blows through this weekend.
For all of my apocalyptic dreams as 2014 was winding down (P. thought, because I would stop seeing her), insights and growths have not stuttered to a stop. A bunch of things that seem like they should have happened last year, in fact, are sliding into my consciousness now. I've already written as much in January as I wrote in all of December.
I told P. it would likely take me a few months, but I would eventually get around to assessing what I got out of the 6 months I saw her, write a blog post about it, and send her a link. But now I don't think I will send her a link: 1. Constant boundary-testing, for 10 sessions, ended things on a sour note for me; 2. I got a card from her in early January that was defensive in tone (uncomfortably bringing to mind a letter I got from my father in early 2006); and 3. I think it may turn out that . . . those 10 sessions were as important for their negative and unsettling lessons as the rest of the sessions were for the things I wanted to be learning. A mixed legacy to be sure, and not at all what I was thinking of when I made my rash comment.
I wanted everything about our association to be life-affirming. Not necessarily pleasant or enjoyable or fun, but necessary, and satisfying because of that. Unfortunately, I think how things worked out (and my feelings about them, both as they were happening, and later) were quite necessary to my continued development . . . but they were painful in ways I wasn't expecting from therapy.
I'm not reading the Konmari book that 2 of my social media acquaintances are, but I already have huge piles of books I've culled, to be donated or sold. And now I'm thinking about doing the same with my wardrobe. The Konmari method is (apparently) to touch every item, and contemplate whether it "sparks joy" or not. That's not quite how I went through my books — I was ruthless about whether they were relevant to my life, today, right now. A great many of them were not.
Clothes are trickier in a lot of ways. They're more expensive than books. They can be tangled up in my identity, and my visual presentation, in ways books aren't/can't be. They often embody dreams I had for the kind of person I wanted to be, thought I should be, aspired to thinking I could be. Some in the third category were the most expensive of all. Not just the money, although several of them were commissioned from artists (so the money I paid for them, years ago, is not inconsiderable), but there was still that mindset of . . . I may not be soignée, but . . . I can impress people with my clothes. "Look how artistic I am!" {Because I bought clothes made by an artist, who isn't me.} It doesn't make any sense, does it?
It's not just that I'm not elegant, although I'm not, and I won't be. It's that I can't do craftsmanship to the standards that the clothes I bought suggest. I don't want to do craftsmanship to those standards; I'm incapable of doing it. And yet because those were the standards I was raised with, I feel that these limitations I have make me inherently unappealing, defective.
Someone might ask if I made [Handmade Item], and I would say I hadn't. But no one would ask me if I could have made it. Just thinking about fielding that question, I feel ashamed. As if everyone in the world is an accomplished artisan except for me, which is clearly not true. I don't think I even know anybody who has regularly made clothes for themselves as an adult. Why am I beating myself up with this stick?
Why am I holding on to clothes that suited the person I was 10 years ago? A person, I should remind myself, who had never heard of emotion-color synesthesia, and therefore paid no attention to how the colorways of the clothes I wore might jangle my moods. I have to be a lot more careful now that I know about it. I am a great deal more picky. Not just because no one likes getting their moods jangled, but because I have a lot fewer spoons altogether, so I can't spare them getting used up in such an easily-altered way.
The skirt I made in early 2008, a few months before we moved to Maryland, I think also has to go. I like it because I enjoyed making it. But I would never wear it where someone besides Spouse could see it. Partly because it looks like how I (still) see myself: poorly-joined patchwork, asymmetrical, un-thought-out. Kind of a mess.
I can feel myself moving towards a more positive and congruent self-image, but this skirt is not part of that.
I think there will have to be a great many things that I still have to let go of. There's a much more spry self trapped inside of the detritus of 48 years of trying to be someone I would never be.
Even the exuberantly purple and woolly jacket I got from a designer in Auckland, New Zealand, in 2005 . . . and dreamed about late last year . . . is going to have to go. I love the color. But the wool is very scratchy; I can only wear it over at least one turtleneck. And I don't like that it's just one color, not a colorway.
Parts of me sort of wish I was . . . still ignorant about what I need. So I could hold on to items that manifestly are not what I need, and not feel guilty doing so. Instead, just feel oppressed and hate myself, which of course is very familiar, so it's got that going for it.
What if I winnow away all these items, and there's nothing left to "spark joy" or anything else? Then I guess it would be even more essential that I get rid of all that stuff now, so it can find out what does suit Current Me as soon as possible.
I want to travel much much lighter. Even in my everyday life. What is truly me, as I am in this moment? Limitations and all. But also, possibilities.
One of my friends who edits an online poetry journal has been asking "maybe we've gotten too intimidating to submit to?" because apparently their submission numbers are way down. They are spoonies, so I don't expect to hear from them quickly about my own submissions, but I happened to have seen in someone else's TL that their poems had been accepted by this journal several weeks ago.
Maybe the migraine is shielding me somewhat from the usual shame spiral because I didn't immediately fall into it. But there is a part of me that feels what my friend was saying between the lines was that the quality of submissions they've received recently has diminished. And it just so happens that I've submitted to two separate issues of theirs. And have not heard back on either. (But they bought someone else's poem already.)
Once again my stuff is not bowling anyone over.
I don't bowl anyone over.
I'm just a tiny overlooked scrap of ugly patchwork, cobbled together, poorly made.
But surely I have a certain rough charm. I have joy. I know how to savor every flavor note, even those that are bitter and unexpected.
I am who I need to be.


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JOHN DOE, PLAINTIFF,v.FREEBURG COMMUNITY CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 70, CLARENCE HAEGE AND LAWRENCE MEGGS, DEFENDANT.
The opinion of the court was delivered by: J. Phil Gilbert District Judge
This matter comes before the Court on the defendants' objections (Docs. 48, 67 & 93) to Magistrate Judge Donald G. Wilkerson's orders of August 3, 2011 (Doc. 47), October 21, 2011 (Doc. 64) and April 30, 2012 (Doc. 92). A district court reviewing a magistrate judge's decision on nondispositive issues should modify or set aside that decision if it is clearly erroneous or contrary to law. See Fed. R. Civ. P. 72(a); 28 U.S.C. § 636(b)(1)(A). The Court may also sua sponte reconsider any matter determined by a magistrate judge. L.R. 73.1(a); Schur v. L.A. Weight Loss Ctrs., Inc., 577 F.3d 752, 760 (7th Cir. 2009).
The Court held a hearing on the earliest objection on December 16, 2011, at which the Court approved an arrangement between the parties to comply with Magistrate Judge Wilkerson's order. The Court has reviewed the subsequent orders and objections without a hearing. The Court has further been informed by counsel that the arrangement is being successfully implemented.
The Court concludes that Magistrate Judge Wilkerson's orders (Docs. 47, 64 & 92) are not clearly erroneous or contrary to law and should not be reconsidered by this Court in light of the Court's rulings at the December 16, 2011, hearing and the successful implementation of the agreed arrangement. Accordingly, the Court AFFIRMS Magistrate Judge Wilkerson's orders (Docs. 47, 64 & 92) as MODIFIED by the Court's December 16, 2011, rulings, OVERRULES the defendants' objections (Docs. 48, 67 & 93) and VACATES the hearing on the objections currently set for June 14, 2012.
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Today at Lotusphere IBM has announced Open Logic as the WINNER of the award for "Distinguished Business Partner of the Year" for the NE IOT (roughly Western Europe-ish to those not immersed in IBM terminology).
Month: January 2009
Blowing someone else's trumpet
So I don't want to make publicity for someone else, but this is brilliant.
Thanks to Jim at Ascendant for the link…
Lotusphere 2009 newbie
So I survived my first day at Lotusphere! A couple of things happened:
- I was told off by Dave Hay for not updating this blog in 2 months. He was right, of course.
- I had a REALLY interesting chat with the guys from Alphalogix about their portal and forms solution
- And I bumped into some fun folks from Ascendant and had really interesting conversation about WICA
All in all a really good day. The Alphalogix stuff is interesting because integrating Lotus Forms, WebSphere Portal and Process Server is hard work, and many customers don't want to go there – so something lighter is pretty handy and welcome.
The Ascendant conversation was good because anything that helps bring consistency to WebSphere deployments is really, really welcome!


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Today is a lucky day, I found this sweet ladybug outside my house this morning. Since it is March I thought I would it would be fun to take picture of "lucky" items. What are your lucky items?
Enjoy this month and have the luck of the Irish with you!


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I started with white card blanks. Using the green acrylic paint and a pencil eraser, I made polka dots all over the front of the card, and in a "frame" on the inside of the card.
Next, I cut some slits in the card front and slid the toothpicks holding the leprechauns in place. Those toothpicks were covered up by the coffee filter shamrocks. Then I tied a small bow from light green satin ribbon and adhered it onto the shamrock stem.
|Jeff and Julie
On the inside, I used double-sided tape to adhere the sentiment to the card, centering it within the polka dot frame I made. (Sorry, no photo of that).
On the cards I made for my aunt and friend, I didn't have photos of them I could work with. So I made two extra leprechauns with my face that I used on their cards.
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I made a care package for my daughters that included these cards, a couple holiday pencils, a crocheted shamrock that I turned into a lapel pin, a package of "Rainbow Seeds," and a package of "Leprechaun Poop." These were wrapped in green tissue with the chenille stem "Lucky" gift tags.
I can't believe this, but I forgot to take photos of the Rainbow Seeds and Leprechaun Poop! Ack! Maybe my daughters can send me snapshots if they still have the packaging. They turned out really cute.
This was a lot of fun projects. I heard back from the recipients, and they all got a good laugh, as I'd hoped.


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Yesterday, Sunday, May 2nd, was our 29th wedding anniversary! We spent the occassion with a great group of loved ones. We picked up Grandma and Mama and then headed out to a small country church just south of Big Bow which is east of Johnson, Kansas. We did this so that we could "sneak up" on my Aunt Yvonne Pepper who did not know that she was going to be receiving a wonderful award that day for the many years' worth of work that she continuously and lovingly does for her Jesus Christ.
Their church, Bethel Church of the Nazerine, is a small church that recently went through an amazing renovation plus a very large addition was built that connects a quite large and beautiful fellowship hall, kitchen, restrooms, sitting area, offices, etc to it. Though there are only about 12 pews in the sanctuary, the love for Jesus Christ is bursting at the seams. Normally, there are only 30 church members present on Sunday but each of them is faithful to their Lord and come to church every Sunday unless there is an illness or they must leave town for some important purpose.
Shortly after church started, my beautiful aunt was called to the front of the church. I watched her get the news. She was TOTALLY caught off guard. She grasped my uncle's hand and quietly said something to the effect of not having any idea that anything was going on like this. (To back up, their one and only child, Allyn, had contacted our family a month ago to share the news that she was to be honored and wanted to invite all of us to attend this surprise celebration. Aunt Yvonne had simply no idea that we were going to be at church until she walked into the church and saw us standing there! Allyn and his family, Karen, Kyle and Kendra, had told her that there was a possibility that we might show up on Sunday. Allyn and Karen's family lives in Oklahoma City. They had told Uncle LaVere and Aunt Yvonne that they would be coming to Johnson to celebrate an early Mother's Day since they would be unable to be there on the actual holiday. Allyn had also mentioned that we might be there so that we could visit Allyn and his family.)
The pastor and a lady from the church presented Aunt Yvonne with a framed award for all that she does. They told all of us of the many beautiful things that Aunt Yvonne does every single day. Allyn eventually moved to the front of the church to give a message that pulled tear after tear from the eyes of everyone there that day. He mentioned that he was so thankful for having this opportunity to speak of the wonderous things that his parents have not only done for the church but for the things that they have done for him as parents. There is absolutely nothing that parents can give their children that is anything any more important that teaching them of Jesus Christ! He was so happy to be able to do this while both were still so very alive.
He mentioned that he was able to learn of the Lord at a very young and impressionable age through his parents. Believe me, there was NO dry eye in the place. After he gave a very moving talk, his lovely wife, Karen, stood up and sang the most beautiful song that was perfect for Aunt Yvonne. After church, all congregated in the brand new fellowship hall to enjoy each other and a delicious potluck dinner. Honestly, it was a beautiful day that I absolutely will NEVER forget!!!
I want to tell you of something that we discovered on the bathroom vanity when we later went to Uncle LaVere and Aunt Yvonne's house. Abigayle found it first and called my attention to it. It is such a small detail in physical size, a picture frame that is probably only 3" x 5" or 4" by 6", but is profound in the very few words that are printed on the paper inside the picture frame. I am going to do the same thing at our home now and thought that you might want to also do it as it is something that all of us need to be reminded of. Here it is:
"Dear Yvonne,
There is no need for worry. I have everything under control.
Jesus Christ"
This message only contains 15 words but put together, their message is so wonderful.
There is no need for a fancy picture frame or expensive paper to type or write the message on. The beauty of the message is all that really matters. Then place the frame anywhere in your house where you and others can read it each and every day to be reminded of God's power and love. Wouldn't it be a beautiful idea to make up other picture frames with this message in them to give to loved ones??? I think so! Of course, place your name or whomever the person's name is who you will be giving this tiny but amazing gift to.
And, oh-so-generous and loving Lord, thank you for blessing me with Uncle LaVere and Aunt Yvonne in my life...


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Restaurant Name: Spring Hill
Location: Seattle, Washington
In my view what makes someone a foodie is not just the love of food, but rather someone who is not afraid to be challenged by new food experiences – whether in ingredients, techniques, preparation, or presentation. If you are a foodie you will love Spring Hill Restaurant.
My wife, Cindy and I (2 of the dedicated team at http://www.betweencourses.blogspot.com/) have made 2 visits to Spring Hill in the last few weeks. I have also reviewed many personal and professional reviews and blogs, and it clear it just keeps getting better.
I am a skilled and ambitious home chef, so my reasons for enjoying a foodie restaurant experience besides the obvious are that:
1. It gives me a chance to see and sample new techniques, preparations, and ingredient combinations that I can use to build on my own arsenal for future entertaining.
2. I can enjoy tried and true things that my lovely wife does not enjoy so I don't usually cook at home even when entertaining- these include yummy things like very rare (see "almost raw") meat, seafood, and egg preparations and ingredients like sweetbreads.
Spring Hill excels in both of these areas!
Mark Fuller (former head chef and Tom Douglas's Dahlia Lounge) and his wife Marjorie have recently opened a foodie heaven in West Seattle. Virtually everything from pasta, freshly hand ground beef, catsup, bacon, etc is made in house by a very talented staff. The seafood is exquisitely fresh and premium and the emphasis in every part of the menu is on fresh, local Northwest artisanal products.
While I am sure they will overcook things for you if you insist – the real experience and taste treat here is runny egg yokes, very, very rare, or raw meat and seafood. Order anything that says it has an egg in it, bacon on it, or mentions seafood.
The famous ½ lb "baseball shaped" burger may be the best I have ever had and the basic reason why is that ordered "pink all the way through" it was an amazing caramelized exterior (on a very hot, open, apple wood fired Aztec Grill) and essentially a tartar of freshly in-house ground Strawberry Mt. Or. natural, sustainably raised beef chuck on the inside. With the teleme, white cheese, sauce, in-house made bacon on a perfect bun, every bite was exquisite. The accompanying fries were also a revelation. They were larger rectangles of slightly al dente potato (not necessarily my favorite way to do frites) with a preparation addition that I will forever add to my homemade frites (which are amazing good) to take them to the "next level". That is, tossing the fries at plating in fresh herbs along with a nice large drizzle of garlic oil.
Cindy – who doesn't like runny eggs or anything too rare, ordered the rib eye steak medium rare thought her steak was fabulous but too rare. I had a few bites and thought it was perfect. While watching it's preparation I also got another great flavor building tip as I observed Mark Fuller squeeze a large, fresh lemon over the steak as it seared on the apple wood grill. It added that flavor freshness that was perfect. I'll add that to my grilling arsenal as well.
In our two visits we have also tried several small plates, the salmon pate, the sweetbreads, seafood plates, the duck, and the tagliatelle, and watched many more prepared and plated. Basically you cannot go wrong if you are adventurous or if you see ingredients you know you like. They know what they are doing. BE ADVENTUROUS!
There are a few two-tops that have an outstanding view of the goings on in the open kitchen and the pass – so one can really learn and enjoy a lot by watching closely what's going on.
The menu make either a traditional coursing or small shared plates approach work well However, I would really recommend the latter as the menu is loaded with attractively priced sharable small plates of appetizers, raw seafood, cheeses in the $6-14 range that you feel bad about ordering the main courses (which are great) instead of trying 3-4 of the smaller items. The wines are almost all Northwest small makers and are in the $10-12 a glass range by the glass. Or most recent visit included a glass of wine, a small plate each, the steak, the burger, a scoop of ice cream each (the caramel, sea salt was fabulous and will be on my home menu soon) and was $120 including tax and 20% tip. You need to plan $40 plus per person "out the door" to really appreciate what's going on here. Its well worth the price based on the quality and cost of ingredients as well as the cooking talent you are dealing with.


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Saturday, June 02, 2007
Feeling like crap and getting no sympathy
It's self inflicted I know but I feel horrible. I had such a busy week and now I'm wasting my weekend feeling hungover. We went out last night for Maz's hen night. We started with champagne at her house had an amazing meal - gorgeous calamari. Then we went to a club where we danced until after 5am. It's the latest I've been out for ages. We were very silly but had a fun time. The boys were tucked in bed just after 12 so Gareth is not feeling as bad as me. Bloody typical!
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HOPE Wrestling have confirmed the first match for their February 19th charity event at the Brooklands Club in Leighton Buzzard.
It has been announced that Kelly Sixx shall compete against Hustle Malone in singles action in Leighton Buzzard on February 19th.
HOPE Wrestling announced the match with the following:
Kelly Sixx (w/ Bobbi Tyler) vs Hustle Malone – Professional Wrestler (w/ Jayde Wrestler)
In this first time ever meeting, "The King of Performance" Kelly Sixx makes his debut in Leighton Buzzard, bringing his incredible mix of athletic ability, ring general skills and unbelievable energy that's seen him wow crowds country-wide.
Standing across from him is a man who's seen great names come and go, and with over 400 Days Undefeated, Hustle Malone has a reason to be confident.
But after seeing Hustle's accomplice Jayde keep the Referee busy last week in Milton Keynes, Kelly Sixx is bringing back-up, calling on his Tyliner Team-Mate Bobbi Tyler to even the playing field!
Will Sixx's experience and style be his ultimate trump cards? Or will Hustle add him to HOPE's fastest growing list? Only one way to find out.
Tickets available now! All proceeds go to Dogs for Good – UK!
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Kelly Sixx (w/ Bobbi Tyler) vs Huslte Malone (w/ Jayde)
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Tuesday, May 22, 2007
Not much new
Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Next is the Garden Scarf I am working on for the Happy Hooker Crochet along. It is coming along pretty good.
Here is an afghan I am working on for my boyfriend. It is the Waterfall afghan (pattern available on lionbrand.com). I really like the color of it.
Next up: Something I have been putting off since before Christmas. Momo the Octopus.
Then there is one of Roxycraft's snowmen, that I never finished:
In the background of that picture you can actually see my fat bottom bag that needs to be line, and two small pouch like bags that also need to be lined. Hopefully I'll get around to all of that soon. This next picture is another picture from my sister's wedding. It is such a nice picture.Hopefully I'll have some finished objects to post soon.


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Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas. Pops and I made tamales (yes, again) lol. This time we sort of improved the dish's taste and texture. We skyped with my grandmother in Ecuador and showed her our tamales (it's her recipe). She said they looked fine lolol I hope she meant it.
Tamal Lojano ( Ecuadorian Tamale from dad's native land, Loja) I love toasting them and eating it with hot chocolate.