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Mentor training days 2 & 3: The mentor relationship
February 25, 2009
You can never be fully prepared for working with offenders in the community. (I'm talking in terms of the 'cohort', about the group that we can generalise about, that we make assumptions about and often base interventions on.) But I have to say that this training has gone a long way to make sure that I have the tools at hand to cope with whatever might arise.
Establishing and reinforcing the boundaries of the mentor relationship sometimes goes against every natural instinct you might have about interacting with people who need help, but they are essential in ensuring that the mentee achieves the success they strive for. The mentor enables the mentee to take responsibility and make changes to their own lives. Mentors do not help, they support. This is a professional relationship, it is not a friendship. There are goals and objectives. There are time limits. There will be an end.
Mentor Training Day One: Volunteering with offenders
February 17, 2009
I am going to be a mentor to a prisoner. To say that I'm a little apprehensive would be something of an understatement but I am one day into a three day training course that has already started to dispel at least some of my anxiety.
The training course is run by CLINKS, a national infrastructure organisation supporting the work of voluntary and community organisations that work with offenders and their families. Their Director just happens to sit on the Prison Learning Network Advisory Board so I am fortunate to know their great work and so have every faith they will be able to shape me into the model mentor.
This first day provided an overview of the criminal justice system and the huge pressures that the prison (with over 130,000 people going through the prison system every year) and probation (supervising over 200,000 people on an average day) services are under. It's easy to see why volunteers are becoming an increasingly important resource across the CJS.
Even after this first introductory day, I feel that I am beginning to understand what a mentor is and does; it's not about 'helping' or 'enabling' a person, both of which can be very disempowering, but it's about supporting a person to enable themselves. It's about supporting a person to build their own capacity in dealing with the challenges and obstacles that life can throw at them.
Of course, nothing about that is simple especially when the individual you are supporting has most likely been part of a chaotic lifestyle throughout their lives, been caught up in a cycle of offending, and has multiple needs. As a mentor, you might well be the first person who has ever listened to them and offered them objective support enabling them to move away from offending.
Day two tomorrow looks set to be challenging – 'Handling difficult situations'… Ok, anxiety levels rising again!
Mentor schemes reduce re-offending
February 15, 2009
As an intervention mentoring works to reduce the likelihood of re-offending while increasing positive life outcomes such as education, training and employment for those individuals who might otherwise become locked in a cycle of offending.
Over the past year I have visited around 14 prisons across the country and in each have heard about or seen some type of mentor scheme taking place ranging from ones focussed on literacy like Toe-by-Toe to others focussed on housing needs like St Giles Trust.
These schemes, often delivered by agencies outside of the Prison Service, provide an essential and sometimes unique service to thousands of individuals across the CJS. They are essential to reducing re-offending – even the Home Office says so but there's a problem in finding the evidence to prove it.
Thanks to the Ideas Project, I've been working with a Senior Officer at HMP High Down to set up a mentor scheme to help prisoners who have received sentences of less than 12 months (The Lighthouse Mentor Scheme). Even though our primary aim is to help the individuals involved we are not naive to the challenge of measuring and demonstrating the effectiveness of the scheme in a way that both recognises the individualism of the intervention and fits within a more standard framework of measurement to be able to prove our case.
There seems to be an appetite for mentoring as an intervention to become far more embedded across the prison service but the case must be proven beyond the anecdote. The challenge is for all schemes to build a standard framework as well as agree an accessible common language. The RSA Prison Learning Network is particularly keen to explore this further and will be developing a kind of 'call for action' in its final report due later this year.
Credit crunch makes it harder to re-integrate prisoners in society
February 11, 2009
One under reported impact of the recession is that it makes it much harder to reintegrate ex-prisoners into society.
Strong evidence shows that having a stable job is key to avoiding re-offending. So with economists forecasting a 12 year high in the total number of unemployed people by next year – 3 million – it doesn't look hopeful for ex-prisoners. The skies are looking black for the country's recent graduates so imagine how bleak it must seem to those recently released from prison.
Even with the recent focus of resettlement work on getting prisoners into employment, times are going to be hard especially when [too] often the development has been in those industries that are being affected most by the recession such as construction.
Exclude me?!
January 28, 2009
I take it as a given that the world and his dog is online, using email, has a mobile phone and knows how to use it. Well OK, my mum continues to struggle with predictive text and asked me recently 'darling, what's this about birds telling people what they're doing' – 'do you mean Twitter, mum' – but she's there, she has a presence in this technologically driven world.
The proliferation of these technologies has created such a profound socio-technical change in the way we live our lives (I don't remember a time without Google or Facebook) – 60% of current and 90% of new jobs require ICT skills and our social and family networks are increasingly maintained online.
The impact of these changes seems to be ubiquitous – a recent research report highlighted the increasing divide that the changes in the way young people communicate are creating between children and their parents – and they see each other everyday. Imagine then, if you have been imprisoned, without access to any of these communication devices or facilities, unaware of the rapid changes that are occurring in the way we work, learn or socialise.
It's clear that embedding technology – not necessarily just computers and the internet – is vital in prisons. In Norway, prisoners have computers in their cells with internet access. This might be shocking for some, but as the Norwegian prison officer explained to Erwin James, "… they must be able to access the internet, to help in their education and also so that they know they are still connected to the world."
Undeniably, there are some great examples of progress taking place in some UK prisons but we seem to be a fair distance away from the Norway ideal. Movement is however in the right direction and the PLN will be exploring this further in its forthcoming reports.
Who are you conning?
January 22, 2009
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The Sun's headline called it 'Con Air'. Costing £2 million, a new national prison radio station has been approved by the Ministry of Justice. NTL has won a 3 year exclusive deal to broadcast across all prison authorities in the U.K. The show will go out for 12 hours a day and will include educational programmes and messages.
I read that Shadow justice minister Edward Garnier would prefer prisoners to be working rather than lying on their beds listening to messages all day. The ironic thing is, we prisoners would like to be out working or doing something 'purposeful'! But the reality is that keeping us locked up for longer saves money – a reported £17m – so if it's likely to happen then shouldn't the time be used for something other than listening to music stations.
Prison radio has existed for years thanks to organisations like the Prison Radio Association, helping prisoners to deal with a whole range of issues. This new national station will be broadcasting "specifically targeted audio content addressing a range of issues including induction, resettlement, health and exercise, drug awareness, family relationships, employment and finance – all factors identified as key to reducing re-offending". The prison radio will provide a unique and innovative way to engage prisoners in education, especially those reluctant or disenfranchised from other more traditional forms of education. And it provides a chance for the prisoners' voice to be heard, a voice that is often asked for but rarely sought after.
Some of the funding is coming out of money saved from prisoners being behind their doors for longer. And if it can go towards helping prisoners learn new skills that will help them in the uphill struggle of gaining future employment and in reducing re-offending, then why not??!


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Story centers on an ordinary guy (Rudd) who lives in a world where people's lives and destinies are being written by scribes in Heaven. The man wakes up one day to find that his heavenly writer has decided to no longer draft his life, and he must go about his day unscripted.
Project is based on a Demetri Martin pitch, which DreamWorks bought pre-emptively in 2006. Paramount took control of the project after the companies split in 2008.
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Editor's note: Cpl. J Nava is a staff writer for the Parris Island Boot aboard Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island.
BEAUFORT - Naval Hospital Beaufort celebrated its 62nd anniversary Friday after being commissioned on April 29, 1949. Marked by a cake-cutting ceremony, the birthday celebrated the rich history of the hospital and its surrounding area.
From its humble beginnings as Naval Hospital Parris Island, made up of two portable wooden and canvas buildings, the hospital has strived to provide the best service for its patients.
"Navy medicine prides itself on having the best-qualified and best-trained personnel," said Chief Petty Officer Amanda Hughes, hospital corpsman and also Naval Hospital Beaufort command historian. "The sailors who work here have maintained that reputation since the hospital's commissioning."
After Parris Island was handed over to the Marine Corps in 1916 to be used as a recruit depot, there became a need for a larger medical facility to handle the increase in personnel that came with recruit training. A hurricane-related flood in 1940 and World War II also contributed to the need for a new hospital.
Ground was broken at the hospital's current location on the Beaufort River, two miles north of Parris Island, July 31, 1946, and the first patients were admitted on May 5, 1949.
Naval Hospital Beaufort is now manned by approximately 1,050 service members and civilians and includes two satellite installations in the form of health clinics on Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island and Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort.
Today, including both health clinics, Naval Hospital Beaufort manages an average of 28,500 patient appointments a month. The hospital claims responsibility for more than 35,000 beneficiaries, including active duty Navy and Marine Corps personnel, retired military personnel and all military dependants in the Beaufort area.
"I believe this is the best hospital in Navy medicine," said Navy Capt. Edward Simmer, executive officer of Naval Hospital Beaufort. "The staff works hard here and I'm extremely proud of everyone."
At 62 years the hospital is the oldest building in the Navy still used for patient care, but the building's old age is never apparent due to the hard work of two certain sections.
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Welsh genealogy and the surname JONES can not usually be separated. The following is a summary table of the first who are recorded as taking the surname JONES. They are show by Welsh county and the dates that they were first recorded in the English legal records of the day. The table is a figure taken from my blog called "The Jones Surname" [ thejonessurname.blogspot.com ]. This blog discusses everything you wanted to know about the JONES surname but were afraid to ask.
The date of each post, which presents a little more about each JONES for the Welsh county listed, is shown above. The documentation of each JONES is given in the post. I thought this might be an interesting topic for those who have been following this blog [Welsh Genealogy] since my 50 years of genealogy have brought me to the Vale of the Dee.


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We hope you enjoy the following interview, and we especially hope you share this far and wide throughout the social media world.1. EA Examiner: Ever since the re-release of the extended version of your Opheliac album, all Plague Rats have been awaiting the possibility of having a audiobook version of your novel Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls. And around that time (2009, to be precise), you often alluded to the eventuality of that happening. In the last year,what prompted you to begin serious work on a project that has always been at the back of your mind, ever since the book's initial release?EA: When I wrote The Asylum For Wayward Victorian Girls, I hadn?t thought that recording its reading would be necessary, or even necessarily a good idea. I am personally not a lover of audiobooks in general, and I am indeed one of those people who don?t count listening to a book being read by someone else as actually having read that book. It simply is not reading. However! After performing hundreds of book readings across the globe and seeing not only the reactions people have to being read to, but the fun I had in acting out the story, I began to see how marvelous the project could be. Now, I can?t imagine not making an audiobook version of the story, and not in replacement of people reading it themselves, but as a different art form and experience altogether. Finally embarking upon the project was something I began two years ago in secret, simply because I was off tour and felt I had a bit of time to begin something new. I had not imagined the process of recording and editing would take over my life, but worthwhile projects are supposed to take over your life. That?s what life is for.2. EA Examiner:Throughout your notes made on the audiobook preview page (available for all those Plague Rats, who preordered a copy of the audiobook), you have many fascinating little notes made of things you recalled, while recording certain scenes of the audiobook. Has recording the audiobook made you see the book from an entirely different angle? How does it feel to be slowly making another journey-a deeply emotional one at times- back into something that almost perfectly encapsulates such a momentous, though painful experience in your life?EA: That?s a brilliant question, and the one that I?ve in fact been asking myself almost daily since the project began. If I?m honest, there have been some extremely rough moments in the recording process, especially since I am doing much of it for a second time (rerecording most of the book due to finding a microphone with enhanced sound quality and wanting to give the very best). Reliving certain scenes and having to speak about them, and convey them as happening in the moment, has most definitely broken my heart and brain a few times, and ruined quite many days/weeks. This is one of the most difficult projects I?ve ever worked on, for that reason. 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The Cubs last won the National League pennant in 1945 and a World Series championship 104 seasons ago in 1908. I have learned to put it all in a theological context and comfort myself with Christian verities such as steadfastness, suffering that builds character, and the hope that always shines like light in the darkness.
There's a rich literature of losing teams suddenly becoming winners when a superstar emerges unexpectedly and lifts his team to new heights. I was introduced to this literature when my mother handed me a copy of The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant, a 1954 novel by Douglass Wallop that became the smash Broadway musical Damn Yankees. Joe Boyd, a long-suffering fan of the Washington Senators, makes a Faustian deal with the devil, becomes a superb player and lifts the lowly Senators to a championship.
Two new books are variations on the theme. In The Art of Fielding, by Chad Harbach, Henry Skrimshander is an almost supernaturally gifted shortstop who plays for a small Wisconsin college that's famous for a long-ago relationship with Herman Melville. Harbach has created interesting and peculiar names for his characters and weaves the Melville relationship into the story. The Westish College baseball team is known as the Harpooners and the main character's name, Skrimshander, is a play on scrimshaw, the art of carving intricate designs on whale ivory or whalebone. And how can a reader not love a college president with the name Guert Affenlight and a daughter named Pella?
Henry lifts the hapless Harpooners to lofty heights and attracts the attention of scouts from his beloved St. Louis Cardinals. Then crisis strikes. In a conversation with a psychiatrist, the talk turns to sacrifice bunting, one of the finer points of the game. The psychiatrist asks about the concept of sacrifice and tells Henry: "I found it interesting that you chose to say Laying down a bunt the way a person might say Laying down my life. You're familiar with this passage from the Gospel of John? Greater love hath no man . . ."
In John Grisham's Calico Joe, a superstar transforms the 1973 Cubs into an almost-champion team before encountering tragedy. The author tells the story in the voice of a young boy who idolizes Calico Joe and has a troubled relationship with his own father—who happens to be a major league player, as well as the one responsible for Calico Joe's misfortune. It's a good story, with themes of forgiveness and redemption.
This year the real Cubs began dismally in April but are showing signs of improvement. New management has inserted young players in the lineup, and interesting things are beginning to happen. Theo Epstein, the Cubs' new head of baseball operations, was hired away from the Boston Red Sox, which under Epstein won two world championships after decades of futility. Epstein has kindled hope in Chicago. As one of my baseball-loving sons asked recently, "Dad, a young Jewish man coming to Chicago from the East, rumored to be a miracle worker—could he be the savior?"
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I chuckled with the "correction" regarding your your hometown. I read in the May 30 issue that "Pittsburgh" was home - I thought, "Wow, that's strange!" Oh well ... glad to see Altoona in the pages of the Christian Century. John, you might remember, I was a pastor there in the early 70s, before we crossed paths through St. Paul's in Livonia. As for baseball, I'm a fairweather fan (though the Dodgers have me hooked, now that I live in LA) so I appreciate your grasp of the game and the "theology" of the field. Blessings!


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Worshipping Mary - The sin of superstition
A whirlwind of memories came flooding through my mind when I saw the above illustration taken from My Catholic Faith. I was conditioned, at a very early age, to believe that I had to go through Mary to get to Jesus. I can remember kneeling and praying before her image, singing songs that praised Mary as "Queen of Heaven", and watching movies like "The Song of Bernadette" and "The Lady of Fatima".
This worship of Mary continued into my adulthood. I can remember when my first born son had a very high fever, I was so afraid he would die that I went begging Mary on hand and knee. I confessed she was the Mother of Jesus and, understanding what being a mother was all about, I cried, saying, "Please Mary, ask God to let my baby live". When my son lived, I truly worshipped Mary.
Yet for all these things, if a Christian confronts a Catholic on his/her worshipping of Mary, the reply is always the same: "We don't worship her! We just give her honor that is due her as the Mother of God." But is this true? I practiced Catholicism for 30 years and I can, from experience, tell you that we prayed to her, through her, by her and for her as taught by the Roman hierarchy.
Yet the Bible tells me:
So why worship Mary? How did Jesus' offer to "Come to me..." (Jn.7:37) turn into "Go to Mary"? In the same book, "My Catholic Faith", on page 204 we read: "WHEN DOES A PERSON SIN BY SUPERSTITION? - A person sins by superstition when he attributes to a creature a power that belongs to God alone."
Catholicism has admitted by her own writings that it is a sin to attribute to a creature a power that belongs to God alone. Now we know that God possess the following attributes:
We know that the angels are not Omni-present as God is. Notice that after Daniel prayed, the angel sent by God was detained: "But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and twenty days: but, lo, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me; and I remained there with the kings of Persia. Now I am come to make thee understand what shall befall thy people in the latter days" (Dan.10:13-14). (Emphasis mine)
When the Lord asked Satan: "Where comest thou?", Satan answered, "From going to and fro in the earth and walking up and down in it."
This Scripture verifies that even Satan is not Omni-present. Psalms 139 speaks of the Omni-presence of the Lord. "Whither shall I go from thy spirit? or whither shall I flee from thy presence? If I ascend up into heaven, thou are there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there." (v.7-8)
Elijah, knowing that only God is Omni-present, mocked those who called on Baal saying,
"...Cry aloud: for he is a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked."
Their reaction? The prophets of Baal cried even louder and cut themselves "till blood gushed out", but still "there was neither voice, nor any to answer, nor any that regarded." (I Kings 18:20-40)
God and God alone is Omni-present. God, and God alone, is the only one who can dwell in every man's heart because He alone is everywhere. Therefore, when we call upon the Lord, we know He hears us. He is even at our hearts knocking at the door. (Rev.3:20) God alone can read the hearts of men and know their intent (Rev.2:23, Jer.17:10)
But what about Mary? Isn't she omni-present? After all, you have millions of prayers a second being offered to her. People in Mexico, Russia, Europe, America, and all over the world, are praying the Rosary, asking Mary to be there at the hour of their death, asking her to guide them, help them, teach them, secure for them eternal redemption (something a Catholic believes that even Jesus did not do) and imploring her to come dwell in their hearts as though she were able to fulfill all these requests! A Catholic may deny that Mary is a god, but by asking all these things of her, she would have to be God to do them. She has powers and capabilities that even the pagan gods of Greece, Rome and Egypt did not possess, yet men called them gods.
Keeping this is mind, I would like to share with you some of my Catholic memories, and let our Christian readers decide if the Church of Rome has committed the "sin of superstition" (as they interpreted it - by attributing to a creature a power that belongs to God alone).
The following song, "Daily, Daily Sing to Mary", I learned in 2nd grade. It was one of my favorites, and as a child, I sang it with all my heart.
"Daily, daily sing to Mary Sing, my soul, her praises due;
All her feasts, her actions worship, With the heart's devotion true.
She is mighty to deliver; Call her, trust her lovingly;
When the tempest rages round thee, She will calm the troubled sea.
Gifts of heaven she has given, Noble Lady, to our race;
She the Queen who decks her subject, With the light of God's own grace." (Baltimore Catechism No.1, 63)
If Roman Catholics do not worship Mary, then why does line three say to worship her? Take in consideration that in Rev.19:10, it says, "And I fell at his feet to worship him [the angel of God], And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellow-servant, and of thy brethren that have the testimony of Jesus: worship God:"
Would the Catholic Church have me believe that Mary would accept what the angel of God rejected? Mary was a Hebrew woman who was acquainted with the book of Psalms 89:9 which says, "Thou [God] rulest the raging of the sea: when the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them". But, she is now presented as telling the Catholic people that SHE can calm the troubled sea!
When Jesus calmed the raging sea, the disciples said, "What manner of man is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?" Mary is not God to command the sea, Jesus is. Line 8 of this song, above, says, "Gifts of heaven she has given" which for a Catholic means that Mary is the Mediatrix of all graces! This is truly the spirit of idolatry, for by "ONE SPIRIT" we have access to the Father, not two! (Eph.2:18, 4:4, I Cor.12:13)
As you may recall from the debate, the Catholic Church teaches that all graces flow through Mary; therefore, she is present in all the sacraments. That means, if a Christian attends mass or prays with a Catholic, he must join with the spirit of idolatry, who claims to be able to give the grace that God alone can give. Now we have Mary taking the place of the Holy Spirit! What blasphemy!
What more proof do we need that the Roman church has given to Mary the attributes that belong to God alone? Even Archbishop Paul Hallinan, in 1964 said that devotions and prayers to Mary were so exaggerated that they were a "blasphemy to the Son, an embarrassment to the memory of the mother and a pathetic deviation".
There is a Catholic organization called "Legion of Mary" which has an "Apostolic Blessing" from Pope John XXIII, and from Pope Pius XI, "We give a very special blessing to this beautiful and holy work - the Legion of Mary." On page 225 of their book, "Legion of Mary", we read:
"Put thy feet into her fetters, and thy neck into her chains. Bow down thy shoulder and bear her; and be not grieved with her bonds. Come to her with all thy mind; and keep her ways with all thy power...Then shall her fetters be a strong defence for thee, and a firm foundation, and her chain a robe of glory. For in her is the beauty of life: and her bonds are a healthful binding. - Ecclesiasticus vi, 25-31, applied to Our Lady by the Church. Applicable by Legionaries to the Legion system and especially to the meetings."
But, Jesus says, "Come unto Me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden [to overburden with ceremony] and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you, and learn of Me; for I am meek and lowly in heart and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For My yoke is easy, and My burden is light." (Matt.11:28-30)
A Catholic reading this quote from Legion of Mary would find nothing offensive, but a Christians mind would be flooded with Scriptures rebuking such powers as belonging to anyone but God. A Christian would believe that he should go to God, for God Himself has said:
"For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the LORD our God is in all things that we call upon him for?" (Deut.4:7)
But a Catholic doesn't have the confidence to approach God, so he depends on Mary to mediate for him. I remember when the nuns would tell us that Mary could get for us what God refused to give us. In one book, Catherine Laboure and the Modern Apparitions of Our Lady, page 237, Mary's apparition at LaSalette is reported to have said, "'Ah, if you knew what it costs me to withhold his avenging arm.' It is costly; she must sometimes plead, but in the end she always prevails."
Again, does the Catholic Church expect us to believe that Mary is more just than God? If God refused me something in His divine wisdom and perfect will, could Mary override His decision and attain for me a more just or superior course of action? That's exactly what St. Alphonso Liguori says in Glories of Mary, page 149-150. Mary is "more prompt to answer than God or Christ". This blasphemous statement means that the Catholic considers God and Jesus Christ to be less than perfect! They can make mistakes, and need Mary present to set them straight!
Job 4:17-20 says: "Shall mortal man be more just than God? shall a man be more pure than his maker? Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly: How much less in them that dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, which are crushed before the moth?...Call now, if there be any that will answer thee; and to which of the saints wilt thou turn?"
I have barely touched the surface of the attributes of God that Romanism has unabashedly given to Mary. They go so far as to call her the following names that should belong to God or His Kingdom alone:
Many of our Christian readers are undoubtedly shocked at the unwarranted usurpation of our Lords titles. We suggest that the next time youre by a Catholic bookstore, stop in and thumb through a few books on Mary. Were sure youll be able to find even better examples of titles and attributes blasphemously misappropriated to an unscriptural Mary by the Catholic hierarchy.
The Scriptures use marriage to liken our relationship to Jesus (Eph.5:23-32), telling us we are espoused to "one husband" (2 Cor.11:2) I understand this, having had one husband for almost 25 years. Our relationship is based on intimacy shared in confidence. I would not go to my husbands mother to ask her to speak to him for me. I am close enough to go to him myself.
I read in Legio Mariae, on page 158, "What, Mary not know in advance?" Quite a deceiving statement in light of Luke 2:48, where Mary sought Jesus for three days "sorrowing". If she had foreknowledge, then why did she sorrow? Didnt she know that, since it was the Passover, Jesus was only going to be missing for three days to foreshadow His own death? Why didnt she know she would find him in the temple going "...about the Fathers business?" (Lk.2:41-50)
For my Catholic readers, I would like to leave you with one final thought concerning God: "Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth that I desire beside thee."
by Rebecca A. Sexton
If you have any questions specifically about Catholicism, you can email Rebecca Sexton, Former Catholics For Christ.
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FMAV Announces New General Manager and Director of Business Development in Ottawa
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Houston Ballet will unveil a new "Sylvia," the Wonder Woman of dance, next season
Houston Ballet could use a Wonder Woman about now. Or two or three.
Artistic director Stanton Welch is calling a few toe-shoe-clad superheros to the rescue for next season, hoping to help the company recover from a year-long odyssey without its home stage at the Hurricane Harvey-damaged Wortham Theater Center, which is under reconstruction until at least September.
Welch has scheduled four full-length ballets that celebrate strong women, plus two appealing mixed reps, during nearly back-to-back programs next spring.
For decades the ballet season has opened on the first Thursday of September; and while Welch hopes the Wortham will be back in business by then, he did not want to risk having to shift shows again if it is not.
THE WORTHAM SHUFFLE: A tough season for the opera and ballet
"The Nutcracker" is currently slated to open at the Wortham, as is customary, the day after Thanksgiving. The real fireworks don't begin until late February, 2019, when Welch unveils his new "Sylvia."
Best known for its lovely music, written in 1876 by Leo Delibes, the ballet conveys the story of a mythical huntress' love for a mortal shepherd. Welch thinks of its lead character as ballet's version of the DC Comics superhero. Like Wonder Woman, Sylvia is related to the classical gods. (Although in the fierce department, she may have more in common with Xena, the warrior princess: the ballerina who portrays her must master sword fighting.)
Although "Sylvia" originated in 19th century Paris, the ballet wasn't popular until the 1950s, when Sir Frederick Ashton recreated it for the Royal Ballet. John Neumeier and Mark Morris have also choreographed versions.
"It's sort of like 'Raymonda' or 'La Bayadère' in that it has a history, but it's not something many people have seen," Welch said. "And it's a nice story to study. It's great to delve into something with a wealth of research options."
While other choreographers drew their "Sylvia" characters from Roman mythology, Welch turned instead to the Greeks: His Sylvia is the nymph of the goddess Artemis. His three-act production will have a big cast, with three intertwined love stories that provide a number of meaty roles for characters that include Orion, Eros and Psyche.
Jerome Kaplan's sets and costumes, which Welch describes as "very modern," will adapt to different environments without changes to the choreography. That's because "Sylvia" is co-produced by the Australian Ballet, which performs in multiple theaters. But such a design might have come in handy during the recent holidays, when Welch had to re-stage parts of "The Nutcracker" for shows at Smart Financial Centre and Hobby Center. Projection designer Wendall K. Harrington and lighting designer Lisa J. Pinkham are also collaborating on "Sylvia."
Next season's other full length ballets represent women of all ages. The company will revive Ben Stevenson's long-dormant and fun-hearted "Coppelia,"about a mischievious girl who creates havoc in a dollmaker's shop. Welch's "Marie," depicting the rise and fall of Marie Antoinette; and Ronald Hynd's delightful "Merry Widow," also provide great roles for the company's ballerinas.
More predatory strong women fill Jerome Robbins' "The Cage," which Houston Ballet will perform for the first time. That challenging work shares a bill with the much lighter-hearted audience favorites "Fancy Free" and "The Concert (or the Perils of Everybody)," to honor the centennial of the great American choreographer's birth.
A strong woman choreographer returns for the season's other mixed bill: Aszure Barton will adapt a work she created for Mikhail Baryishnikov in 2006 for 13 of Houston Ballet's men. "Come In" shares a bill with a new work by Justin Peck (the season's only outside commission) and the company premiere of Jirí Kylián's 1983 "Dream Time."
Both mixed rep programs have abbreviated schedules, running for just four days.
Welch said his 60 dancers won't be idle in the fall. They will get in ample stage time with tours to the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival in August and Dubai in October.
Welch also might add a few other Houston projects to the schedule — although not at the Wortham — just to keep the company more "present" in its hometown until it is once again settled.
"It's amazing how quickly people forget you," he said.
"The Nutcracker," perennially Houston Ballet's budget-maker, will be more important than ever. Ticket sales were weak for the production's recent hometown tour, especially for the post-holiday shows at Hobby Center. And moving all of this season's shows around created extra expenses.
Welch is certain the ballet will end its current fiscal year in the red. He will attend a Houston First presentation Monday to learn the latest status of the Wortham. He hopes the theater's re-opening will not be delayed again.
And if it is?
"I'm okay with turning lemons into lemonade," he said, "but that part I cannot even think about."
Molly Glentzer writes about arts and culture for the Chronicle. Follow her on Facebook and Twitter. Send tips to firstname.lastname@example.com.


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- Night Flight partners up with Severin Films for more cult, horror, mondo & exploitation films
- Attention "cord cutters" and streaming fanatics: Night Flight Plus has been just been updated!
- Teens high on "the weed rooted in hell" go wild in the midnight movie classic "Reefer Madness"
- "J-Men Forever": Rock 'n' Roll battles Muzak in Proctor & Bergman's Night Flight cult classic
- Night Flight's Stuart S. Shapiro's inspiring book "Identifi Yourself: A Journey in Fuck You Creative Courage" is a humorous and poetic journey
- Night Flight partners with Blue Underground to present the best cult, horror & exploitation films
- "Arise! The SubGenius Movie": The return of Night Flight's "Love That "Bob"" episodes!
- Win a Free Bluetooth Speaker from Night Flight and Creative!
- Scott Lewis & Gary Winter tell us about their zany indie punk NYC/DC public access TV show
- Night Flight welcomes sex therapist Dr. Ruth and her '80s TV show library to Night Flight Plus!
Black Sabbath: "Frenzied songs about death, destruction, demonic possession & black magick"
In Night Flight's "Take Off to Heavy Metal History: Black Sabbath" — which originally aired on October 13, 1984, and you can now find streaming over on Night Flight Plus — we focused on the British band who, as announcer Pat Prescott tells us in her introduction, "almost single-handedly kept heavy metal music alive in the '70s."
Ms. Prescott also describes Black Sabbath's music as "The devil's music: high decibel, tortured, frenzied songs about death, destruction, demonic possession and black magick."
This particular "Take Off" profile goes all the way back to the 1970s and the classic Black Sabbath lineup to show viewers some of their first filmed performances — not yet called "music videos" — of classic songs like "Black Sabbath" and "War Pigs."
It also traces the development of Ozzy Osbourne and Ronnie James Dio from their days as the band's lead singers to their current solo careers, as Ms. Prescott said back in 1984, as "rock's top metal madmen."
Our "Take Off" also features three of Dio's videos: "Rainbow in the Dark," "Last in Line" and "Mystery." You can also read more about one of Dio's more interesting recording projects here.
We also included a rarely-seen live video performance of "Trashed," with Ian Gillan of Deep Purple fame taking over the lead vocals (he's featured on their eleventh studio album, 1983's Born Again).
Speaking of Ozzy, our legendary interview segment — about twenty-three minutes into this episode — is one of our most-requested vintage clips, and one of the best interviews we've got in our Night Flight vaults.
"Ozzy Osbourne is one of the most outrageous, controversial and outspoken rock stars in music today" Ms. Prescott says during the introduction to the interview, in which Ozzy briefly addresses the fact that he's called the "prince of darkness."
Read more about Ozzy Osbourne and "backmasking" below.
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As you'll see in this "Take Off" episode, Ozzy also veers off into the interesting topic of "backmasking."
That's the name given for the deliberate insertion a "hidden" recorded message — usually no more than a single phrase or sentence — into previously-recorded tracks, which can only be heard if the recording is played backwards.
A throwback to the original vinyl days, you could listen to these hidden messages by manually spinning a vinyl record with your finger so that the stylus goes backwards in the record groove.
We've listened closely to this Ozzy interview a few times and we believe this is what he's saying:
"You know, In the United States of America, for instance, when you've suddenly become a success, then a minority of the people suddenly start to think, 'Hey, this guy has gotta be singing backwards.' So they'll play the record backwards."
Ozzy begins making some very funny faces as he describes what he thinks it sounds like to hear his voice backwards, before describing the typical oddball Ozzy fan who have told him they've uncovered his hidden message:
"I'm into Scientology, man, do you know what your record sound like backwards?!," Ozzy says, imitating this fan by twisting his face into hilarious expressions.
"And that's what they want to do. I don't understand these people, they're all bananas."
Ozzy's voice gets louder when he adds: "Why don't people say, 'Hey, I liked the tune, man! I stomp my foot and get off on it,' you know."
Backmasking was likely first popularized by one of Ozzy's favorite bands, the Beatles, who used it to great effect on their 1966 album Revolver, on its last track, "Tomorrow Never Knows" (they also used it on a great b-side, "Rain").
The effect was also used in the 1973 William Friedkin film The Exorcist, in which a tape of noises from a Satan-possessed young girl named Regan MacNeil (Linda Blair) was discovered to contain a backmasked message (although scary as hell at the time, the scene now can be played for laughs).
Since the 1970s, recording artists have been deliberately using backmasking for numerous reasons — often artistic but sometimes as a satirical "put on" — but in the '80s, its use prompted some looney-tune fundamentalist Christian groups to call for the technique to be banned.
These fundy Christian yahoos believed rock groups were using backmasking for the purposes of indoctrinating unsuspecting young listeners into Satanism.
Of course, that didn't make a lot of sense, that these listeners would be able to hear the backwards-message subliminally as the song was being played forward, without having to take the belt off of our turntables).
Somewhat related to this was the fact that Ozzy Osbourne was also sued, in 1986, by the parents of a depressed teenager named John McCollum of Indio, California, after their son was said to have committed suicide shortly after listening to "Suicide Solution," a track from Ozzy's Blizzard of Ozz album.
The lawsuit — which focused more on Ozzy's lyrics than on "backmasking" — alleged that a particular lyrics, "Get the gun and shoot!," encouraged McCollum to off himself.
Osbourne said that the line was actually, "Get the flaps out" ("flaps" being British slang for female genitalia).
Ozzy was later cleared of all charges and the suit was dropped after the judge declared that Ozzy's song was neither intended nor likely to produce the result of suicide.
A few years later, Ozzy Osborne inserted a backmasking joke on purpose — "Your mother sells whelks in Hull!" — in his song "Bloodbath in Paradise," parodying the line from The Exorcist where Linda Blair's Satan-possessed character says "Your mother sucks cocks in hell!"


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This Girl Can
Fear of judgement is stopping many of us from taking part in exercise but, as women up and down the country are proving, it really doesn't have to.
Millions of women and girls have been inspired to get active by Sport England's This Girl Can campaign.
2.8 million 14-40 year old women who recognise the campaign say they've done some or more activity as a result, 1.6 million of whom say they've actually started exercising.
These are findings from new independent research, carried out by analysts from TNS BRMB, released today on the campaign's first birthday. The snapshot survey asked a sample of 1000 women in November 2015 about the physical activity they did, their attitudes to exercise and their awareness of the campaign.
The findings come one month after Sport England's annual survey of the amount of sport and physical activity the nation does, known as the Active People Survey. It found that 148,700 more women were active for at least 30 minutes once a week, every week in the 12 months up to September 2015, compared to the 12 months up to March 2015.
This Girl Can is a celebration of the active women who are doing their thing no matter how they do it, how they look or even how sweaty they get.
It's a national campaign developed by Sport England and a wide range of partnership organisations, to inspire more women and girls to wiggle, jiggle, move and prove that judgement is a barrier that can be overcome.
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Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Clever Crochet Accessories Giveaway!
Yes, I'm biased, Yes Interweave gave me a copy of Clever Crocheted Accessories and I'm taking a large measure of joy that my hat is on the cover.
Here's a link to preview the book.
Here's a link to buy the book.
When I heard that I had a pattern included in this amazing compilation of big names in the Crochet Business, of course I was thrilled. THEN, Brett Bara told me that she liked my hat so much, she MADE ONE for herself! (GASP!) When I saw the cover with my Saturday Hat on it, I nearly fell off the couch. Really, it was exciting.
In beautiful Interweave fashion (Think Unexpected Afghans, Blueprint Crochet, Simply Crochet., etc) the photography is clean and engaging, the patterns clear and tested. In this accessory book is everything from hats to jewelry, socks, mittens, belts to capelets... no, really, it starts with a hat (mine! squee!) and ends with a Chunky Capelet (Doris Chan!) 25 Quick weekend projects.
And in between are names you will know and love: Robyn Chachula, Marly Bird, Drew Emborsky, Vickie Howell, Linda Permann, Amy Polcyn... I really would love to carry around Regina Rioux's Amazing Motif Bag.
Learn Bruges Lace. Or, if you want a signed copy and live in the US, you can buy Learn Bruges Lace from me by clicking "Buy Now" in the upper right hand corner of this blog page.
The Clever Crocheted Accessories Book Giveaway:
Leave a comment on this post by 1:59 pm EST on Dec 3, 2012. with your name and city/town/identifying detail. The winner will be chosen at random from all entries. The winner will be announced on December 4, 2012.....the winner should email me at ellen @ GoCrochet dot com by December 7, 2012..... Sorry, I have to pay for shipping, so it's open to US residents only.
42 comments:
- Kristin said...
I've only attempted afghans and baby blankets,but this book totally tempts me to try something new.
- November 28, 2012 at 6:50 AM
- Kristin said...
I've only attempted afghans and baby blankets,but this book totally tempts me to try something new.
- November 28, 2012 at 6:50 AM
wow, your hat is beautiful..This looks like a great book!!! Ruth G.
- November 28, 2012 at 6:57 AM
I love the idea of an accessories pattern book. Please sign me up for the giveaway.
Patty B
Munroe Falls OH
- November 28, 2012 at 7:38 AM
- Mereknits said...
Congrats to you with your beautiful hat on the cover!
- November 28, 2012 at 7:42 AM
Congratulations on making the cover with that awesome hat!!! Sign me up for the giveaway! I have a daughter who is getting back into crocheting and this would be a great gift for her.
Valerie T.
Wetumpka, AL
- November 28, 2012 at 8:37 AM
Your hat is quite lovely, and I love making accessories. :-)
Kacy -- The East Texas Boonies
- November 28, 2012 at 8:51 AM
- Nicole said...
Great hat!!
Nicole J
Sterling, VA
- November 28, 2012 at 8:55 AM
- Renee said...
Your hat is gorgeous! Sign me up please!
Englewood, OH
- November 28, 2012 at 8:58 AM
- Sherry said...
What a gorgeous hat! Congratulations! I would love to win this book!
- November 28, 2012 at 9:19 AM
- Sherry said...
Congratulations! Your hat is beautiful. I would love to win this book!
- November 28, 2012 at 9:22 AM
- MJHill said...
Seriously nice hat! Would love to try that bag pattern too!
Ithaca, NY
- November 28, 2012 at 10:48 AM
Wow congrats on the cover. Must really mean a lot when you look at the other names. I would loe to win this book
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- November 28, 2012 at 10:50 AM
- SimchasJewels said...
I've had my eye on this book. Congrats on the cover project!
Boulder, MT
- November 28, 2012 at 11:19 AM
- debbwin said...
I would love to win this book! I've been a big fan of yours for quite a while, Brett. That hat looks amazing!
Debb W. (debbwin)
Whiting, NJ
- November 28, 2012 at 11:42 AM
- debspugs said...
Very nice hat. congrats for the cover pic. Sounds like a good group of patterns.
Please sign me up for the giveaway.
Debi T, Summerfield Fl
- November 28, 2012 at 1:02 PM
- Rachee Fagg said...
That hat is cool and I also spied some socks that I want to try.
Philadelphia, PA
- November 28, 2012 at 1:32 PM
- Tammy said...
I LOVE your hat on the cover. Its very striking. I really want this book. the beautiful color and detail of the hat makes you just want to curl up and read the book cover to cover!Please enter me into the giveaway.
Thank you,
Tammy in ct.
- November 28, 2012 at 1:56 PM
- Katelyn said...
This seems like a great book. I love when a bunch of designers get together! This would be great for my last minute Holiday gifting projects! Thanks for the chance to win!-Kate M-Fleetwood, PA
- November 28, 2012 at 2:33 PM
- Walt said...
This book looks very exciting, and your hat looks beautiful.
- November 28, 2012 at 4:07 PM
- Unknown said...
That book looks very exciting, and your hat looks beautiful.
- November 28, 2012 at 4:07 PM
The hat is beautiful and looks like something I would enjoy doing. please enter me to win! Thank you!!
ThePirateHooker on Ravelry.com
- November 28, 2012 at 7:46 PM
- Anna Bananas said...
CUTE!! I love the bag too!! :-)
- November 28, 2012 at 9:58 PM
- simona said...
I just got into crochet this October, and I'm loving it! Now that I've gotten into making the first few items according to patterns I feel brave enough to shop for books etc.
Thanks for the neat giveaway, I'd be thrilled to win!
Simona @ artsyants
- November 28, 2012 at 10:29 PM
- Now Am Found! said...
oh I love the color of that hat. just what i need to make for my darling sister for christmas
thanks for the great blog
tamarac fl
- November 28, 2012 at 10:52 PM
- Melody said...
I would love this book.
- November 29, 2012 at 3:58 AM
- Jamie Grise said...
The hat is beautiful!
I love crocheting - it helps me unwind.
Jamie G
Pascoag, RI
- November 29, 2012 at 6:20 AM
- MTMomTricia said...
Patricia Suko (MTMomTricia)
Bozeman, MT
I've read several blogs that have reviewed your book as well as shown what they've done with a few of the patterns. I'm not a seasoned crocheter, but I love doing hats, and need to go outside my comfort zone. This would be a perfect way to do it!
- November 29, 2012 at 7:32 AM
- Bernie said...
Wow, Ellen. That is just beautiful. You must be excited to be published, and to have Brett be excited to make one of your hats. CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!
- November 29, 2012 at 9:36 AM
- Chain Stitch Crochet said...
Kathy Prickett
Springfield GA
Chainstitch Crochet, formerly Hookin It With Mr Lick Lick
Love your hat and would love to add this book to my collection!
- November 29, 2012 at 11:48 AM
- Michelle pynoblem said...
I love the variety of things to crochet. Your hat is very cute and stylish!
- November 29, 2012 at 1:09 PM
- Tracy Joyner said...
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- November 29, 2012 at 2:39 PM
- Cami said...
LOVE this hat! Congratulations on the cover, Ellen! :)
- November 29, 2012 at 8:31 PM
I love your hat
Phyllis k
Erie michigan
- November 30, 2012 at 6:08 AM
- Iesadora said...
I would love to try some of the patterns in this book!!
Long Beach, CA
- November 30, 2012 at 10:47 PM
Love the hat...congratulations! I have had my eye on this book from when it previewed earlier this year!
- December 1, 2012 at 11:05 AM
congratulations - beautiful pattern
Bridget - Tucson, AZ
- December 2, 2012 at 12:38 AM
- Karla Moeller said...
Hey Girl! Love the cover and I'm sure I'll love the book! Put me in for the giveaway!
Karla Moeller
Hamilton, OH
- December 2, 2012 at 11:41 AM
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San Antonio, TX
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- December 2, 2012 at 3:04 PM
- LacyAnn said...
I bought the book right away because of your hat on the front cover. Finished my first one last night and will make more. I love it!
- December 3, 2012 at 9:46 AM
- plaincake said...
Your hat is so jaunty!
Heather C
Baltimore, MD
- December 3, 2012 at 9:38 PM
- Ashley Weeks said...
Ellen, I am confused on a Row in the pattern.
For Ribbon 3 row 1 it says:
Dc in 6th ch from hook, dc in next 3 chs; ch 2, sl st on any outer ch-5-edge look of first ribbon to join, ch 2.
In row 3 it says:
...ch 2, sl st in same ch-5-edge loop of 2nd ribbon where previously joined; ch 2.
In row 1, should I sl st into the 2nd ribbon, not the 1st?
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Everyone, meet my new friend Jerry. He's a true millionaire next door.
Jerry is a long-time Financial Uproar lurker who I recently met on a trip to Calgary. Like me, he's accomplished a lot without actually going to university. Jerry started out working as a grunt on construction sites before being offered a job as a plumber's apprentice. Four years later he had his journeyman status and was making a good wage.
He worked for the same company for a decade before the old owner decided to retire. Unable to find a buyer, he simply shut down the company. Seizing the opportunity, Jerry immediately hired three of his most useful co-workers and started his own plumbing company, knowing he already had a bunch of potential customers. That was in 1998, which was pretty much the best time to start a plumbing company in Calgary.
Nearly 20 years later, Jerry's plumbing outfit has a half dozen employees and regularly earns Jerry between $100,000 and $150,000 a year. He has a net worth of $2.5 million despite his wife not working for the last 25 years and two kids who "eat too damn much."
Jerry truly is a millionaire next door, so naturally I had questions. Lots of questions. Fortunately, Jerry was comfortable answering, as long as I didn't reveal anything too sensitive.
Here are some of Jerry's best financial tips.
Buy a house
Jerry is a huge fan of owning your own home. Even in today's overpriced real estate market.
"I understand it's cheaper to rent today, especially in my neck of the woods" he says, "but when I sign up for a mortgage I know the cost of ownership is going to stay relatively close to the same. Just be smart when buying and you can handle a rate hike."
Besides, Jerry loves his home for another reason. It gave him an asset to borrow against when he started his plumbing business. He reckons his $50,000 in startup capital is worth at least $250,000 today.
Conservatively value your net worth
Jerry has an interesting way of calculating his net worth. He excludes his house and his business, even though they're worth about $750,000 combined. Why?
His business is an easy one. He says he basically "bought himself a job" by starting his own company, although he admittedly doesn't work very hard. He's the flex employee. If there's too much work for his existing team, then he goes and helps. He says he'll be grateful if the business sells for anything when he decides to hang up his wrenches.
As for his house, Jerry figures he needs a place to live anyway. He'll book the value on his net worth once his high school-aged kids move out for good and he sells. The plan is to downsize to a condo or townhouse partly so "my kids don't decide to move back in."
Early inheritances
Speaking of Jerry's kids, he has no interest in them making their own way through school. Both have $50,000 waiting for them upon graduation from high school, but with one caveat. They must go to university (or trade school) in Calgary to get it.
The reasoning is simple. "We have world-class schools right here. It makes no sense to leave the city to 'find yourself' or other such bullshit. Find yourself on your own dime."
Jerry also plans to give each of his kids an additional $50,000 when they buy their first home.
I asked Jerry about this parental welfare, and his explanation was simple. He agreed it could lead to a troublesome case where his kids become useless, but he would much rather help them out at the beginning of their career when they could use the money. "It makes no sense to hoard all of my money to my kids when they're 50 and already well-established."
Jerry's portfolio is almost exclusively invested in dividend-paying stocks.
Jerry's first experience investing wasn't a good one. I'll let him tell you the story.
I was 19 or 20 years old with a buddy with a brother who worked for some obscure mining company. I ran into the brother one night at the bar and he told me there was so much gold in this company's mine they were practically tripping over it. So I immediately threw most of my meager life savings into the stock, which naturally started falling. After losing 80% in a few months I couldn't take it and cashed out.
Jerry started investing in mutual funds, but decided he'd rather invest himself. He stuck to blue-chip stocks that paid a dividend. He owns between 40 and 50 stocks today, mostly in Canada. Most of his net worth is in stocks. Top holdings include National Bank, Fairfax Financial, Extendicare (partly on my recommendation), and Telus.
Gerry's goal was always to create an income stream in retirement. He was especially delighted to know the tax bill on these dividends will be virtually nothing.
But Nelson… these tips aren't that exciting
Perhaps the biggest thing I took away from my conversation with Jerry is there's no magic bullet needed to become a millionaire next door. He just plugged away at life, made smart decisions, and patiently waited for his net worth to head higher.
As much fun as it is to ask guys like Jerry their secrets, ultimately we already know a lot of them. There's no secret sauce to becoming a millionaire next door. We all already know the steps. It's all about execution and staying motivated.


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All these years we have connected child-raising with motherhood. We have experienced and discussed the feelings, woes and tribulations of a mother. Being a mother, my focus has been on relation between a mother and her child. And I would say it is a big mistake that I did not discuss the role of father in parenting issues. It is not as if I do not acknowledge the role of father. I am largely my papa's daughter and I really look forward to his words and advice for anything and everything. His constant support and understanding has always kept me going.
May be, it has become a tendency to overlook the participation of father in child-raising. Father has always been there to give support and love. The only thing is his ways and his participation is different from that of a mother. I remember my mother was scared of sending me to school via bicycle. However, my father instilled confidence in me and I started going to school on bicycle instead of school bus.
As a mother, now, I may speak out my side of story, about my efforts, troubles and accomplishments. And it is true; mothers are more vocal about their life, their efforts and hardships. But in no way it can take away the efforts, the silent support and affection of father for the kids. His wise words and strong hands are always there to show the right way to kids.
Let us acknowledge and appreciate the role of father and become vocal about their contribution in bringing up the kids.


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I managed to get three pieces finished.
This was a free pattern you can find here:
Stitched on 32ct linen using DMC variegated threads.
Finished as a quilted wall hanging.
I started getting some discoloration that was peeking beyond the frame, so I went ahead and cut it down this year and made a quilted wall hanging out of it. Much more country looking this way, I used cotton calico and denim from an old pant leg.
I never did enter it in the fair.
Thanks for stopping by and thank you for leaving a piece of your self behind in the wonderfully kind comments you post. I do appreciate each and every one of them.
Take Care & Happy Stitching .... Sandy