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As I move through the story of my personal experiences with CASARA, it is important that you know something about some of the other players. This is a story told to me by the person who was acting as the mediator in a dispute between the unit director and I. I should have taken it as a cautionary tale, unfortunately I didn't.
This person has relatives who have oriental ancestry and celebrate culturally important days with traditional foods, in this case duck prepared by a local small business. My erstwhile mediator decided that since the family was large and there would be many people sitting down to dinner there should be two ducks. He was told that was impossible. The supplier, possibly because demand far outstripped their ability to supply, had a one duck per customer rule. "Not a problem, just wait, you'll see" he said.
There are a number of ways one could solve this problem: Find two suppliers, Learn how to prepare the duck at home, Try to convince the proprietor that the size of the festive gathering justified two ducks. None of those were tried though. Our hero simply told the proprietor that he would be attending two dinners, and was responsible for procuring a duck for each. This still took some convincing, but eventually two ducks were ordered, and in the fullness of time picked up and enjoyed.
So, what is the big deal? A little white lie won't hurt anybody? Well, just the family that might otherwise have gotten duck number two, but had to do without that year. Or maybe the proprietor spent more time and effort to prepare an extra duck. Time that could have been spent enjoying the festivities with family. The big deal, to my mind, is the ease with which the truth becomes mailable in order to achieve a personal goal. This story, what eventually transpired during the mediation (which I will get to) caused me to re-evaluate some of my previous experiences with this person and completely change my opinion of him.
What was really surprising is that when I talked to my wife about this, she said she had known that about him for years and it was one of the reasons she left CASARA in frustration when she did. Go figure. When in doubt always check with the wife.
It is easier to fool people than it is to convince them they have been fooled.
-- Mark Twain
Fortune favors those who do the math.
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The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it
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For those days when it seems like you're the only one who understands how things really work.
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HOW-TO: Install a 3730 Positioner (240-350cm2, Fail Close)
Step by Step Instructions:
1. We must first install the follower clamp to the actuator stem. When doing so, install with the opening toward the right hand side; secure into place with the screw postioned in the grooved area of the stem.
2. Fasten the mounting plate to the integrated positioner mount. The narrow side points to the right, towards the pneumatic connections.
3. In this example we're using a size 350cm2 actuator, therefore we'll leave the follower pin on the back of the positioner at its default location of pin position 35.
4. Mount the positioner to the mounting bracket, make sure the follower pin is resting on top of the follower clamp. Secure with the two screws provided.
5. Install the rear cover with the vent port on the bottom.
6. To eliminate the need for external tubing, a pnuematic connecting block can be used. With all o-rings in place, carefully mount to the actuator with the bolt provided.
7. If you wish to mount gauges to monitor supply and output pressure, this can be done now. Remove the two square plugs and thread in the gauges, secure into place with lock-nuts.
8. The positoner is now installed and ready for calibration.

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Loic Remy appears to have completed his move to Chelsea today after a picture emerged of him holding up a Blues shirt.
The French striker was expected to leave QPR this summer, with a £8.5million release clause seemingly unlikely to put off some of the Premier League's top clubs.
He almost completed a move to Liverpool earlier this summer, but saw that fall through after he failed a medical over in the states.
But it looks like Chelsea have managed to tempt him away fro Loftus Road, despite fellow new boy Diego Costa scoring for fun in the opening stages of the season…
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There are 3-part nomenclature cards for land formations, geometric solids, cloud formations, phases of the moon, the solar system, parts of a flag, parts of a leaf, parts of a tree, world continents and hemispheres, and world oceans.
In case the link above doesn't get you to just the right spot, click on "Free Materials" on the left-hand side, and 11 items should come up. Once you've selected an item, you'll see the words "click here to download the file" in teeny-tiny print underneath the item's description. Look closely - I missed it the first time through.
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On behalf of all of us here at ETC, I would like to take this opportunity to thank you. We are constantly adding new materials in our "Free Downloads" area. Please feel free to email us with suggestions of materials you might need. ETC is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the Montessori pedagogy and philosophy. Many of these materials were made possible through donations of individuals and schools. Our gratitude goes out to each and every one of them.
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Apr. 8 - Roman Catholics throng the Vatican on Easter Sunday to mark the Christian holiday amid economic woe. Travis Brecher reports.
Thousands of Roman Catholics throng to the Vatican to mark Easter Sunday and to hear the Pope's message to the world. Pope Benedict was set to preside over the Easter Sunday mass in St. Peter's Square before delivering a speech. But in Italy, which has been hit hard by a deep economic crisis, many locals have little reason to celebrate this Easter - and are hoping the weekend will bring both spiritual and material fortune. (SOUNDBITE) (Italian) PILGRIM ANGELA RIZZI FROM MILAN, ITALY, SAYING: "How do I see it? With hope. Easter is all about hope and resurrection and so we are asking for a spiritual resurrection and unfortunately, we now also have to ask for a material resurrection." One American visitor was saddened to see that so few young families turned out for the holiday. (SOUNDBITE) (English) PILGRIM PAULA BRASFIELD FROM WASHINGTON DC, UNITED STATES, SAYING: "God will help us, maybe get through it, I'm upset I don't see more pregnant young girls in Italy, it seems there is no young families that I've seen here. In America we see many young families, they are having children and here I don't see very many and I talked to a girl and she said we are afraid to have babies, we are afraid to have families because it's so expensive for us." Pope Benedict has called for perseverance in the face of a faltering Italian economy. But the 85-year-old pontiff, too, appeared tired over the Easter weekend, after returning last week from a grueling trip to Mexico and Cuba. Travis Brecher, Reuters


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If you didn't know it by now, there is a huge difference between vitamins D2 and D3. Some people are not even aware there are two types of Vitamin D; they only find it when they get a medical prescription but the doctor failed to mention the type. Then, they find themselves at the pharmacy wondering whether it is D2 or D3 that they need.
Vitamin D-D3 and D2
There is no doubt about it, Vitamin D is essential to our health, performance and well-being. Without it, we become sluggish, depressed, inefficient, frail, and sick. Even, our bones can lose their strength. Can you then use any of the two types when you have a deficiency? Research says no.
D3 vs D2
D3 is known as cholecalciferol and is easily available as an over-the-counter supplement. It acts for a longer while than D2 and is more potent. D3 is usually prescribed to a very wide range of individuals, for various reasons. It's a supplement used by athletes, as well as by people going through depression or by those who don't get enough sunlight. Also, if your food lacks in Vitamin D, you can safely take this form. It is the more bioavailable one and supplementing doesn't carry risks. This is why it's so widely available because it can be used by anyone and poses no threat.
D2 or ergocalciferol has a reduced potency. In spite of that, you can only buy it with a prescription! This is because of its use – it's not meant to be consumed as a regular vitamin supplement. D2 does not have the same role as Vitamin D3. It is recommended for treating hypoparathyroidism, osteomalacia, and rickets, for example. If your blood tests showed a Vitamin D deficit, however, it's very likely that you're going to need this type. Make sure your doctor mentions it to you; if that did not happen, then ask. D2 isn't the best in every case out there. There is not enough evidence to prove its role in preventing bone fractures. Some go as far as saying that D2 isn't suitable for supplementation. Moreover, not knowing the right dosage can easily lead to toxicity. There are serious risks associated with the D2 form. The best way is to have a professional carefully monitor the doses and adjust these according to the patient's body, health and to how they respond.
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This is very similar to my previous video about Isadora and Ableton Live (part 1). But rather than using MIDI notes (triggers) I have used MIDI automation data.
Needless to say you can have multiple clips sending out multiple data feeds. Possibilities are endless really.
The above method is really good for syncing effects with Abelton and Isadora in a VJ or AV performance.
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Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you!
Lovely, God described in feminine terms!
It's lovely, except that the Lord is speaking. No one imagines a female lord.
Margaret Wertheim: My mother's Catholicism has been one of the greatest and deepest influences on everything I do.
Tippett: But you also are atheist, is that correct?
Wertheim: [I do not] believe in the existence of God in the Catholic sense. [But] I want to say very publicly I'm not an atheist. . . .
I'm very, very saddened by the fact that militant atheism has become [sic] so to the fore of our society. I think it's destructive and unhelpful. And I don't think it does science any service.
The Bible contains militant patriarchy.
Knowing history enlightens the present. Mater Magna, the Great Mother in pre-history embodied feminine powers. If Christianity is to stop being a patriarchal oppressor, we need to pray to Her as well as to Him.
The Lord v. the Goddess October 31, 2014
Whenever I hear of people reading the Bible, I wonder if they read Old Testament texts portraying the Lord in competition with the Goddess and punishing those who worship Her. It's hard not to despise this Lord as a petty, vindictive, unlikeable guy.
In the Bible She is named El Shaddai, Asherah, Ashtoreth, Astarte, and Anath. Various names for what we call "God" can lead to greater understanding that images of "God" are merely images and not the reality itself.
Genocide stalks the Bible—my subject next time.
November 21, 2014 Genocide in the Bible
Jews, Christians, and Muslims do not talk about genocide in the Bible, although educated religious are well aware of it. I think we should stop keeping it a secret known only to a few. My religious friends who already know this don't like to be reminded, but I think it's important to put the issue forward to check Christian arrogance and apathy.
The Lord said to Moses: ". . . I have given him into your hand, with all his people and his land. So they killed him, his sons, and all his people, until there was no survivor left; and they took possession of his land.Numbers 21: 34-35 (RSV translation)
. . . we utterly destroyed [the kingdom of Og], as we had done to King Sihon of Heshbon, in each city utterly destroying men, women, and children.Deuteronomy 3:6
When you cross over the Jordan into the land of Canaan, you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land before you; destroy all their figured stones, destroy all their cast images, and demolish all their high places.Numbers 33: 50-52
. . . if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those whom you let remain shall be as barbs in your eyes and thorns in your sides; they shall trouble you in the land where you are settling.And I will do to you as I thought to do to them. (Numbers 33: 55)
The total of those who fell that day, both men and women, was twelve thousand—all the people of Ai.Joshua 8:24
I quit searching for passages showing the god commanding genocide but ran into many exposing his perverted sexual morality. See especially Numbers 31.
Check out these verses, which introduce a sexist horror commanded by "the Lord":
Now, therefore, kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman who has known a man by sleeping with him. But all the young girls who have not known a man by sleeping with him, keep alive for yourselves.Numbers 31: 7-8,17-18
If . . . evidence of the young woman's virginity was not found, . . . the men of her town shall stone her to death, because she committed a disgraceful act . . .
Come to think of it, to a lesser extent, this happens to college students today. They are sexually molested, but their assailants go free and the legal system blames and shames the victims.
Come to think further, Catholic bishops did the same thing. This occurred to me after I had finished posting. I write this now in an edit.
Two comments propel me to add this note:
- Ms. Clancy, I think you would agree that your statement "Most humanist
and loving of all are Jesus of Nazareth's teachings, which focus on the
Divine Reign within each human person" might more accurately be worded
as "Most humanist and loving of the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth are
those that focus on the Divine Reign within each person." Those, of
course, are only part of the teachings attributed to Jesus of the New
Testament. He is also presented as believing that the way to heaven is
narrow, that few will make it, and that the majority of humans will
suffer eternally in Hell.
An Old Testament god who orders the death or enslavement of hundreds of thousands of people is an awful character, but doesn't threaten hell; far worse is a god (or god/man) presented as approving--even arranging--the eternal torture of most of humanity. That's the N.T.'s Jesus, unless you have a convincing argument that such beliefs were falsely attributed to him in Gospel writings (which I would read with interest).
November 15, 2014 Tony Flannery
Thank you to Larry Schug for sending this poem written in New Mexico, thinking it could go with my post, "The Lord vs the Goddess." I agree.
Referring to texts edited by Paula S. Rothenberg, Malcolm writes,
US culture and civilization is summed up in the term "Whiteness" or 'historical, systematic, structural race-based superiority.' The roots of racism, sexism, as well as homophobia are in the cult of masculinity.
- Hi Jeanette,
Let me first say with absolute sincerity that I am not posting here for the purpose of trolling. Whenever I visit your blog, I find myself totally perplexed. It seems to me that your engaging in a kind of idolatry- an idolatry of, well, unconsciousness. What your unconscious of is that your subjectivist/relativist ideology precedes your faith and apparently everything else .
Moreover, most of the causes that you so fervently pursue are, themselves, ideals that have their source in that very religion/civilization that you so strenuously object to. What spiritual universe, other than the West, do we even find the recognition of things like racism and sexism in the first place?
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Ultra-thin microchip: 20 µm thickness
With Chipfilm⢠technology patented by IMS CHIPS and further developed in cooperation with the Robert Bosch GmbH the manufacture of ultra-thin mechanically flexible chips has now become reality.
The Chipfilm⢠technology
In the Chipfilm⢠technology the chip thickness is defined by forming a buried cavity beneath the wafer surface within the chip areas.
For this purpose p-doped areas are patterned on the wafers during this preprocess that match the size of the chips to be processed. The following anodic etching process using a HF/isopropanol etching solution creates coarse and fine porous silicon layers in a two-phase etching process while n-doped areas are not affected by the etching solution. During the following (subsequent) annealing cavities matching the chip size are created from the coarse porous silicon.
The fine porous etched silicon contains the structural information of the silicon crystal enabling the growth of silicon in the requested epitaxial chip thickness and doping. The thus preprocessed Chipfilm⢠substrate wafers can subsequently pass through the CMOS process without alterations opposed to a process on standard wafers, since the buried cavities practically leave the characteristics unchanged.
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Ultra-thin chips are extremely flexible, chip thickness in the above image is 18 µm
In a post-process step the individual dies are separated using a dry trench etching process except for a few anchor structures. After successful functional testing the good-tested dies are lifted off with a Pick & Place tool breaking the anchor structures and releasing the chip.
Characterization of ultra-thin chips
In order to be applicable in flexible substrates the circuits have to function in bent chips as well. An examination of the electrical transistor features and complex circuits on bent chips renders an understanding of the degree of influence and allows for the set up of circuit design rules. The image below shows a 20 µm chip mounted on a foil substrate during measurement of the transistor features under bent conditions.
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"Never Again," Obama Style
Obama's description of the killing process, in which the victims were processed on a mass assembly line of death, was accurate and important, but he didn't recognize that Hitler created a new kind of state. Nazism seized power in Germany, but the Nazi state was very different from the "state of laws" that preceded it.
He then gave his version of "never again," and it's a very odd version indeed. First, he draws hope from the survivors of the Holocaust. Those who came to America had a higher birthrate than the Jews who were already living here, and those members of "a chosen people" who created Israel. These, he says, chose life and asserted it despite the horrors they had endured. And then he goes on:
We find cause for hope as well in Protestant and Catholic children attending school together in Northern Ireland; in Hutus and Tutsis living side-by-side, forgiving neighbors who have done the unforgivable; in a movement to save Darfur that has thousands of high school and college chapters in 25 countries and brought 70,000 people to the Washington Mall, people of every age and faith and background and race united in common cause with suffering brothers and sisters halfway around the world.
Those numbers can be our future, our fellow citizens of the world showing us how to make the journey from oppression to survival, from witness to resistance and ultimately to reconciliation. That is what we mean when we say "never again."
So "never again" means that we learn from others how to forgive and forget, and ultimately live happily with one another. But that is not what "never again" means, at least for the generation of the Holocaust and for most of those who followed. For them, "never again" means that we will destroy the next would-be Fuhrer. In his entire speech, Obama never once mentions that the United States led a coalition of free peoples against Germany, Italy and Japan, nor does he ever discuss the obligation of sacrifice to prevent a recurrence. Indeed, his examples suggest that he doesn't grasp the full dimensions of the struggle against evil. Northern Ireland is a totally inappropriate example (nothing remotely approaching a Holocaust took place there), the relations between Hutus and Tutsis in Rwanda and Burundi are hardly characterized by forgiveness, even though the president of Burundi is striving mightily to achieve a peaceful modus vivendi, and as for Darfur, well, despite the tens of thousands who demonstrated on the Mall, nobody has done much of anything to stop the Khartoum regime from slaughtering the peoples of the south.
In the history of modern times, the United States has done more than anyone else, perhaps more than the rest of the world combined, to defeat evil, and we are still doing it. Yet Obama says that we must "learn from others" how to move on, forgive and forget, and live happily ever after. But these are just words, they are not policies, or even actions. And the meanings he gives to his words show that he has no real intention of doing anything to thwart evil, any more than he had any concrete actions to propose to punish North Korea.
Significantly, Barack Obama is a lot tougher on his domestic American opponents than on tyrants who threaten our values and America itself. He tells the Republicans that they'd better stop listening to Rush Limbaugh, but he doesn't criticize Palestinians who raise their children to hate the Jews. He bows to the Saudi monarch, but humiliates the prime minister of Great Britain. He expresses astonishment that anyone can worry about a national security threat from Hugo Chavez' Venezuela, even as Chavez solidifies an alliance with Iran that brings plane loads of terror masters, weapons and explosives into our hemisphere from Tehran via Damascus, fuels terrorists and narcotics traffic, and offers military facilities to Russian warships and aircraft. He is seemingly unconcerned by radical Islam and a resurgent Communism in Latin America, even as his Department of Homeland Security fires a warning shot at veterans–the best of America–returning from the Middle East. He seeks warm relations with Iran and Syria–who are up to their necks in American blood--while warning Israel of dire consequences if she should attempt to preempt a threatened Iranian nuclear attack.
Thus far, at least, the one clear message from President Obama is that he is not prepared to fight...our international enemies. He sounds more like a psychotherapist than a national leader in these words from his Holocaust Day speech:
...we have the opportunity to make a habit of empathy, to recognize ourselves in each other, to commit ourselves to resisting injustice and intolerance and indifference, in whatever forms they may take, whether confronting those who tell lies about history, or doing everything we can to prevent and end atrocities like those that took place in Rwanda, those taking place in Darfur...
These words are calculated to internalize conflicts that are raging in the real world, and they are precisely the sort of words that will encourage our enemies to redouble their efforts to bring us down. For if the president of the United States will not act, who can stop them?
UPDATE: Many thanks to Powerline for the link and very kind words.


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BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When the human traffickers scoured Colombia's beauty salons to recruit women, the lure of earning up to $5,000 a week as models and sales assistants in China was so tempting that 150 women took up the offer.
But once in Hong Kong or Guangzhou, the Colombian women, aged 18 to 25, had their passports seized and were sold into forced prostitution.
Enslaved by their captors, the women were told they needed to pay off debts of $25,000 each, according to testimonies from 15 women collected by Colombian authorities.
"The women could only recover their freedom when they paid off an alleged debt of $25,000. That amount would increase because they were continuously fined," Colombia's attorney general's office said in a statement last week.
"Those (women) who got the money together and managed to escape were deported to Colombia."
Back home, the women spoke of the "degrading and inhuman" treatment they had suffered, many bearing serious physical injuries, prosecutors said.
Their testimonies led Colombian authorities to arrest eight Colombians last week on charges of human trafficking. Another woman was arrested at Madrid's Barajas airport on her way to China.
Police also said a travel agency in Bogota was suspected of providing the trafficking ring with visas and flight tickets to China for the women.
While most victims of trafficking in Latin America are trafficked within the region, the case cements China as the primary destination for Colombian women trafficked abroad, with many more women possibly at risk.
"What drew our attention is the size of the operation. We think this is a sign that the phenomenon could be much bigger than what we already know," said Carlos Perez, a project coordinator at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in Colombia, which works on human trafficking.
"In a case of such magnitude it shows precisely that it's necessary to work a lot on prevention inside Colombia," Perez told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
Colombia's attorney general's office said it had stepped up efforts to prevent women falling into the hands of traffickers with the launch this month of a campaign to increase public awareness of the crime.
The campaign aims to ensure "women don't believe in the offers of easy money to be made abroad."
Women and girls trafficked into sexual exploitation is the most common form of trafficking in Colombia, with 160 cases reported to the authorities since 2014.
Among the people arrested four were women, part of a growing trend of using women as recruiters, who can more easily earn the trust of their potential victims, the UNODC says.
Worldwide, nearly two in every five people convicted for human trafficking cases in 2014 were women, UNODC figures show.
"The participation of women in recruitment is increasing more and more," Perez said, adding many of the women involved were often themselves victims of trafficking.
"Women who recruit in their native country know the dreams, hopes of other women, and also their problems, and as such they can make a much more attractive offer."
Perez said the trafficked victims should be offered the psychological and legal support they are entitled to by law.
But state prosecutors would face challenges ensuring convictions in a case involving so many victims.
"The attorney general's office needs to prepare well to get a case of this magnitude before the judges and end in a conviction," Perez said.
Seven suspected traffickers are in jail awaiting trial, and if convicted, they could face up to 23 years in prison.
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Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia: Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, in partnership with the Chattanooga National Cemetery, invites the public to participate in a program focusing on Civil War related stories about soldiers involved in the 1863 Campaign for Chattanooga. This is a free program and will take place in The Chattanooga National Cemetery, on Saturday, November 15 at 1:30 pm. The program will begin at the Andrews Raiders Monument in Section H. The cemetery is located at 1200 Baily Avenue, Chattanooga, TN 37404.
On November 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln stood upon a platform outside Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, where he officially dedicated the Soldiers' National Cemetery.As he uttered the words "…they gave their last full measure of devotion...," Union forces in Chattanooga, Tennessee, were readying themselves to lay down their lives upon their country's altar. In five days, the Battles for Chattanooga would begin in earnest. Visitors are encouraged to participate in this special program commemorating the devotion of those who fell fighting for control of "The Gateway to the Deep South."
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While the world is in an economic crisis, the problems in Africa far outweigh the problems in the rest of the world. A simple PEST analysis on African countries reveals low economic growth rates, political instability, social atrocities and lack of policy and programme implementation capability. What is it that Africa lacks that other continents seem to have? Why is the African continent in so many ways still living up to its reputation as 'the dark continent' instead of being the growth centre of the world?
There are several excuses offered. Colonialism, multinational corporation greed, corruption, capitalism and, never forget, apartheid are the main reasons. In reality, what is truly keeping the African continent at third-world status? While all problems cannot be fixed through project management, a project management approach in government could contribute toward solving many problems in Africa.
What is ultimately required is a turnaround strategy implemented using appropriate project management methodologies. In order to make a success of any turnaround plan, suitable project management knowledge and skill has to be secured and applied. To solve the problems as they present themselves in Africa, a breakthrough implementation programme is required. Only once it has been implemented successfully, can further improvements be introduced gradually. It is only a breakthrough programme that will lead to a continuous improvement process to improve economic outlook and increase living standards in the continent on a continuous basis.
The new initiative of the South African government appears to be such a programme. Politicians must ensure the management of the implementation is by the application of complex programme management tools and techniques. There is no other manner in which success can be achieved. The SA government had many previous growth plans that delivered little results. Let us hope history will not repeat itself.
This management process can be applied in any area of government, such as building a disaster management framework, improvement of infrastructure, or development of policies and procedures. One of the advantages of the project management approach is that timelines are set and the project will not die at committee level.
What skills are required and what cultural imperative will provide drivers for success? Firstly, competence in portfolio and programme management are a pre-condition for success. Secondly, the cultural drivers of achievement, taking responsibility, 'action-man' approach, engagement, consulting, teamwork and negotiating skills are a good starting point.
Senior officials responsible for programme implementation should have a project management Level A qualification in compliance with the International Project Management Association (IPMA) certification standards and, lately, the new ISO 21500 specification. Once a government or a business management team operates within a project management framework, projects will stay within budget and timelines and there will be integration between the different departmental silos. Multidisciplinary teams will work together toward a common goal.
In an ideal project management-orientated situation, each cabinet minister will have some project management skills and will have professional project managers in the team. Such a situation will lead to promises to constituents being kept and service delivery being improved. Where failure occurs, it is normally the project management that fails and not the people or the political system.
Africa needs a free market orientation to exchange goods and services effectively, and younger management with higher education; people who are task-orientated and confident. If such education includes project management skills, Africa will develop its potential. But it needs to be the local people who are being upskilled, not multinationals that place skilled people on the continent to implement a project and disappear after the handover of the project, leaving the local community without any empowerment or means to maintain the project or asset.
There is so much that can be done for Africa, a continent with a large workforce, mineral resources and much foreign investment interest. It is a matter of developing the necessary skills and applying the resources in the most efficient and effective manner, while empowering the people.
Project management will not solve political instability, but it can go a long way toward improving infrastructure, increasing the availability of technology and improving living conditions, resulting in an improvement in the social circumstances of Africa's people. Perhaps an African-based project management academy for government officials will be the first step toward clarifying some of the critical success factors. This will make a contribution toward solving some of the many problems Africa faces, be it at a micro-level.


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Considering solar?!? A friend and former client, Peter Wong, has kindly offered to be a guest writer for us on just this subject. He has done extensive research into the world of solar, specifically here in the District of Columbia, since he plans to install a solar system on his own home. Thanks for sharing this great information, Peter!
Want to go solar? The time is right in Washington, D.C.
Author's Note: While much of the content of this article can pertain to residential solar systems in any jurisdiction, this article focuses on some specific advantages of residential solar systems as a D.C. homeowner and resident.
Residential solar has been available for years, but it seems that it only recently blossomed in Washington, D.C. I increasingly see solar panel arrays on the roofs of houses, and anecdotally hear about new installations on a multitude of row houses (where the solar panels are typically not visible from street level). This growth in adoption of solar power across the District is due not only to the persistent sense of social and environmental responsibility but also to increased maturity of solar technologies and favorable Federal and local incentives for going solar.
As with any large investment, it is useful to understand all of the major costs and benefits of residential solar. There are several key considerations here:
· Buy, Lease, or Finance? – The cost of buying a residential solar system has decreased significantly as the materials and components have become more affordable and economies of scale have decreased the cost of installation. As a rough starting point, buying a system will require the upfront investment of $3-4 per watt (W). Of course, the exact cost will depend on a number of factors, including the type and slope of the roof, the size of the system, and the specific components (e.g., higher-efficiency panels can be significantly more expensive, but are useful for maximizing the power generation on smaller roofs). The other primary option is to lease a system. Instead of buying the system upfront, you enter a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA); there is no upfront cost for the system, but you pay for the power you use that is generated by the system.
· Annual Energy Savings – If you purchase a solar system, all electricity you use from the solar array is free. If you produce extra electricity, that power is distributed across the power grid, and you get a credit that carries over to following Pepco statements (tracked via net metering). If you use more than your system produces, you only pay Pepco for the amount of excess electricity you use. If you lease a system and are in a PPA, the rate you pay per kWh is typically less than from Pepco (whose residential rates are in the 9-11 cent/kWh range).
· Residential Renewable Energy Tax Credit – Congress recently extended the 30% tax credit for residential solar systems. Previously set to expire at the end of 2016, solar systems placed in service by the end of 2019 are now eligible for a 30% tax credit. After 2019, the value of the credit decreases. This 30% tax credit can effectively reduce the initial cost per W to $2-3, though you'll generally have to wait until tax season to recoup that initial outlay. For more information: Energy.gov: Residential Renewable Energy Tax Credit
· Solar Renewable Energy Certificates (SRECs) – While not a unique concept to the District, the DC SREC market is very unique and significantly enhances the advantages of choosing to go solar. As an owner of a residential solar system, you receive one SREC for every 1,000 kWh (or 1 MWh) generated. Power providers purchase SRECs on the market to help meet solar power requirements (and to avoid paying compliance penalties). Given this dynamic, SRECs are typically valued slightly below the compliance penalty rates. Currently, the penalty is at $500 per MWh through 2016, and SRECs are similarly valued around $480. Recent legislation that has been signed by the Mayor extends the $500 penalty rate through 2023 (previously set to decrease after 2016), after which it decreases at a gradual rate. These SRECs provide a significant advantage for those who choose to purchase a residential solar system. At a high-level, these SRECs can be sold on an individual basis on various exchanges at the prevailing rate; sold for a fixed term (e.g., 3 or 5 years) for a guaranteed rate to brokers; or sold upfront for perpetuity to help defray the initial cost of the system (prior to the new legislation, SREC rights could be sold upfront for roughly $1,100 per SREC).
· Home Value – Adding a residential solar system can also increase the value of your home. Some studies have shown that homes with owned solar systems can garner a premium on the market. The effect of leased systems on property values is ambiguous at this point.
It is difficult to lay out all the considerations relevant to whether or not going solar is the right choice. However, the five listed above are perhaps the most important and tangible considerations. In general, while owning a solar system is a large, upfront investment, there are numerous mechanisms that make this a very attractive financial investment in Washington, D.C. There are also numerous grant and incentive programs not identified here – generally catering to low-income families – to assist in the transition to solar.
If you're sold on solar and want more specific information to help with the decision-making process, here are some important next steps:
· Track your power usage, preferably over a 12-month period.
· Get a rough estimate of how much solar power your roof could potentially provide using the DC Solar Tool. There are still many variables that this tool cannot necessarily account for, including the pitch of your roof, the size and number of panels, the panel efficiency, shading not visible via satellite imagery, etc.
· Decide how much of your annual power usage you would like to generate with your solar system
· Perform initial calculations to understand your potential upfront cost and annual income, credits, and energy savings (and then adjust your prospective system accordingly).
Understanding this information ahead of time will also make conversations with potential contractors/installers more productive and meaningful. Here's a sample calculation for buying a solar system with a variety of assumptions.
Estimated Annual Energy Usage (kWh):
Target % of Annual Energy Usage from Solar:
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Estimated Solar System Size (kW):
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Annual Value of SRECs (8 SRECs/year at $480 per SREC)
As you can see, the SRECs play a significant role in making solar a financially-viable solution. The possibility of extending the high value of SRECs for another seven years through the recently signed law only makes residential solar more attractive.
Once you are comfortable with the financial aspects of solar, the last step in the planning process is to pick a contractor. As with picking any contractor, be sure to interview a handful and decide who you are most comfortable working with. Beyond the standard metrics of price and reputation/quality of work, there are two additional considerations that should not be overlooked. While system components generally carry similar warranties, contractor warranties on the workmanship can vary. Similarly, the value of that warranty is limited by the longevity of the contractor. A 25-year warranty isn't worth much if the company has folded in the interim. Given that the solar market includes many startups and fledgling businesses, this is also a very important consideration.
There are a lot of moving parts in evaluating residential solar, and this article tries to address the bulk of them. There are numerous resources out there that can go into specific areas in much greater detail. If you are considering solar for the future, given the current market environment in the District, you may want to look into it in greater detail now. The technology is mature, and it would be hard to believe that the solar-related incentives could get any better.
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Listing Info Great Quadrangle, West Range: Range on West on Queens Lane, is partly C16; bridge over lane 1676 (restored).
Listing Info Cloister (to W of Chapel): 1395-1400 in Wheatley stone (restored).
Listing Info Garden Quadrangle, North Range: The Chequer on NW, added to Bursary 1449, given upper floor c1480; block E of the Chequer 1682-3 by William Byrd (refaced 1928-31); recessed block at E end 1707 by William Townesend.
Listing Info Garden Quadrangle, Iron Screen: Closing E end of Garden Quadrangle, and leading to garden; gates by Thomas Robinson of London, 1711.
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Listing Info Great Quadrangle, North Range Hall, Kitchen and Chapel. East, starts on an undercroft (reconstructed 1722, William Townesend); roof, 1865, to design of Sir Gilbert Scott, based on original. Kitchen to E of Hall, c1386; chapel on W, late C14 (restored); sacristy and music room on N probably C15 (restored).
Listing Info Bell Tower: on site of a bastion of the city wall on N of cloister, 1396-1405 in Headington hardstone with Taynton and Barrington freestone.
Listing Info Garden Quadrangle, South Range: W part, 1682-3 by William Byrd; E block 1700.
Listing Info Great Quadrangle, East Range: Muniment Tower at N end, C14 with some C14 stained glass; old library on 1st floor remodelled 1778 by Wyatt.
Listing Info Warden's Barn: c1402, retaining original roof timbers, some C16 windows and doorways; stone connecting bridge over New College Lane.
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I couldn't resist this beautiful picture of New Hampshire to celebrate the first day of Autumn. Now on to the freebies:
By Miss Rach has a German Shepherd Pup
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Fiscal Scheme Deal Raises Taxes on 77% of Americans
WASHINGTON – It's a fool's errand trusting President Obama, Democrats or Republicans, which is why I haven't for a very long time. It's 2013, the year of austerity, which didn't work in Europe and won't work here either, but our politicians are too ignorant to learn the lessons.
We have been subjected to a White House negotiating process that violates every standard of rationality and transparency. The public never once saw an integrated budget proposal that showed the quantitative and qualitative implications of various policy options. The public has not been told that yesterday's agreement threatens the financing of crucial programs for education, job training, infrastructure, environment, energy, science and technology, health care, nutrition, and the poor for years to come. – Jeffrey Sachs
While Speaker Boehner couldn't get the majority of his caucus to vote for the Senate's Fiscal Cliff bill, breaking the Hastert rule, the House managed to pass it 257 to 167.
The deal passed by the Senate and the House will impose fewer limits on deductions than the White House plan. It will also tax income from dividends at a flat rate of 20 percent, rather than the same marginal rate as earned income. And there is another important point, often misunderstood: Affluent households will pay the new 39.6 percent rate only on income above $450,000. They and everyone else will still will pay lower rates on income below that threshold. [New York Times]
Matt Stoller lays out some interesting corporate give-aways that no one has mentioned or paid any attention to whatsoever. They include corporate subsidies to Goldman Sachs, Disney, NASCAR, which seems to include a "9B Off-shore financing loophole for banks." From Stoller:
5) Subsidies for Goldman Sachs Headquarters – Sec. 328 extends "tax exempt financing for York Liberty Zone," which was a program to provide post-9/11 recovery funds. Rather than going to small businesses affected, however, this was, according to Bloomberg, "little more than a subsidy for fancy Manhattan apartments and office towers for Goldman Sachs and Bank of America Corp." Michael Bloomberg himself actually thought the program was excessive, so that's saying something. According to David Cay Johnston's The Fine Print, Goldman got $1.6 billion in tax free financing for its new massive headquarters through Liberty Bonds.
- $430 million for Hollywood through "special expensing rules" to encourage TV and film production in the United States. Producers can expense up to $15 million of costs for their projects.
- $331 million for railroads by allowing short-line and regional operators to claim a tax credit up to 50 percent of the cost to maintain tracks that they own or lease.
- $222 million for Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands through returned excise taxes collected by the federal government on rum produced in the islands and imported to the mainland.
- $70 million for NASCAR by extending a "7-year cost recovery period for certain motorsports racing track facilities."
- $59 million for algae growers through tax credits to encourage production of "cellulosic biofuel" at up to $1.01 per gallon.
- $4 million for electric motorcycle makers by expanding an existing green-energy tax credit for buyers of plug-in vehicles to include electric motorbikes.
From the New York Times, "Bigger Tax Bite for Most Households":
But lawmakers' decision not to reverse a scheduled increase in the payroll tax that finances Social Security, while widely expected, still means that about 77 percent of households will pay a larger share of income to the federal government this year, according to the center's analysis.
The tax this year will increase by two percentage points, to 6.2 percent from 4.2 percent, on all earned income up to $113,700.
Indeed, for most lower- and middle-income households, the payroll tax increase will most likely will equal or exceed the value of the income tax savings. A household earning $50,000 in 2013, roughly the national median, will avoid paying about $1,000 more in income taxes — but pay about $1,000 more in payroll taxes.
As Bloomberg reports, the average rise in taxes on people paying between $50,000 – $200,000 is being estimated as around $1,635. You can argue that the payroll tax cut needed to be nixed eventually, which is absolutely true, but during a precarious time on the economic front it's ridiculous. You also can't pretend that the middle and working class aren't getting a tax hike, even if it won't be even larger, because the Bush tax cuts for this group have been extended. So, in essence the latest fiscal scheme from Obama, Democrats and Republicans simply keeps an even larger tax cuts from hitting, but doesn't stop middle class from taxes going up at the wrong moment.
Happy New Year.
Taylor Marsh, is a veteran political analyst, a former Huffington Post contributor, Broadway babe and talk radio dabbler, and is the author of The Hillary Effect, available at Barnes and Noble and on Amazon. Her new-media magazine www.taylormarsh.com covers national politics, women, foreign policy, and culture.


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The New York Giants are having a rough season and there are a lot of things to which they could be compared. Harvey Weinstein probably shouldn't be on that list.
In the second half of NBC's "Sunday Night Football" broadcast, the winless Giants held a 14-point lead over the heavily favored Denver Broncos. That's when Michaels seemingly tried to make a joke comparing what the Giants have gone through recently to Weinstein.
"Let's face it, the Giants are coming off a worse week than Harvey Weinstein, and they're up by 14 points," Michaels said.
Michaels' broadcast partner, Chris Collinsworth, immediately tried to deflect the comment a bit by noting that only his "L.A. guy comes up with that one."
It's not clear exactly what comparison Michaels was going for here. Clearly the weeks the Giants had — lost their fifth straight game and suspended one of their top players — is in a different stratosphere than Weinstein, who has been hit with a slew of allegations of sexual assault and misconduct from more than 20 women.
The reaction by most to Michaels' comment seemed to be universal — it was cringeworthy at best, and in terrible taste at worst. Michaels did later apologize (see below).
You can hear his comment here:
Michaels apologized when the broadcast came back from a commercial break.
"Sorry I made a reference earlier, before, tried to be a little flippant about somebody, obviously, very much in the news all over the country," Michaels said. "It was not meant in that manner. So, my apologies, and we'll just leave it at that."


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The first Civics destined for export were shipped last week from the new Honda Manufacturing of Indiana plant (HMIN).The 2010 model Honda Civic Sedans will go on sale in Mexico, as well as 22 Latin American and Caribbean nations and U.S. territories of Puerto Rico, Guam and Saipan.
HMIN is Honda's seventh auto assembly plant in North America and one of 16 major Honda manufacturing facilities in North America, including two under construction in North Carolina.
The Greensburg plant was dedicated in November 2008 just as the global Great Recession was taking hold after the collapse of Lehman brothers. Cutbacks at Honda production facilities ensued.
In its last quarterly report ending this past June, Honda's global automobile sales totaled 766,000, a decrease of 20% from the same period last year. In Japan, unit sales amounted to 128,000 thousand units, the same level compared to the same period last year due mainly to favorable sales of Insight and Freed despite weak demand in the market. Vehicle sales outside of Japan decreased 24% to 638,000 from the corresponding period last year, due mainly to decreased vehicle sales in North America.
To cope with the drops in the U.S., Honda scheduled downtime, mostly Fridays off, late last year and into the summer this year. Inventories are now lower, partly as the result of Cash for Clunkers, which spurred small car sales and helped Civic and Accord models. Honda is now beginning to schedule some overtime production on Saturdays at its plants in Ohio and Alabama.
Unlike other manufactures, Honda did not eliminate any shifts or close plants during the past year. In fact, Honda has never laid off a full-time person in North America since it was the first Japanese maker to begin manufacturing operations here (of motorcycles) in September 1979. Car production followed three years later.
In general, Honda hourly associates during the Great Recession were given the choice of coming to work on non-production days and be paid for training and/or doing maintenance work; or they could use a vacation day and get paid; or they could stay home and not get paid.
Honda did institute salaried pay cuts, starting with top management, but didn't specify the percentage trimmed.
During the last year more than 50,000 Civics built at the Greensburg plant were sold in the United States. Typically, a one-shift operation produces about 120,000 units. Greensburg has a planned capacity of about 200,000 vehicles. Though off to a slow start, it is now running a full shift at the integrated plant. Greensburg associates work on all aspects of vehicle production, including metal stamping, plastic injection molding, painting, sub-assembly and final assembly. Engines for Civics made in Greensburg are produced at Honda's engine plant in Anna, Ohio.
"The United States remains the primary market for our Indiana-built Civics," said Rick Schostek, Honda Manufacturing of Indiana vice president. "Manufacturing products for export broadens the experiences of our associates, contributes positively to America's and Indiana's international trade, and shows our commitment to the continued growth and evolution of our business in Indiana."
Honda's initial U.S. auto production for export occurred in 1987 when the Marysville Auto Plant in Ohio built Accords for shipment to Taiwan. Shipments to Japan followed the following year. Since beginning manufacturing operations in the United States 30 years ago, Honda has exported more than 3 million automobiles, light trucks, motorcycles, all-terrain vehicles and power products.
In May, Honda announced that the Greensburg plant had become the sole production source of the near-zero emissions, natural gas-powered Honda Civic GX Sedan.
Honda's U.S. employment has remained relatively steady at around 27,000, where it has been for several years. Honda did offer a retirement incentive (not an early retirement, but an incentive) this year, so when final numbers are available after the end of the year, employment could drop. However, Honda is not releasing any figures at this time. Nor is it issuing a sales forecast, but scheduling overtime means it is increasing production, a positive sign for the economy.
Tags: Great Recession, Honda Civic Sedan Exports, Honda Manufacturing of Indiana, TheDetroitBureau.com., auto sales slump, ken zino


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In this quick video, Wes Hauch stopped by our Santa Barbara office and we asked him to try out the Seymour Duncan Palladium gain stage into the PowerStage 700 powering a Friedman cab. Armed with his Ibanez loaded with a 7 String Sentient neck pick up and a custom shop 7 string Dime Bucker bridge pick up, he recorded some monster riffs and leads that will inspire you to woodshed it for the next couple of weeks!
Wes Hauch - Test Drives Seymour Duncan Palladium and PowerStage 700


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Find out what it sounds like when a girl shits her panties - and what it looks like!
Yes, they use their own panties, partly based on which kind of panties they like to poop in, and also requests that they receive.
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Pippa urgently needs to poop. But she's wearing her thin white trousers. Should she mess her panties?
Yes, it's something they find very sexy to do. Often they stay in their pooped panties after the video has finished. They've also told me about times when they've messed their pants either on their own or in front of other people.
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In Pippa's live webcam chat last weekend, she got requests for an outdoor panty-pooping video. So she's done it. In her pants, to be exact! Take a look at these sample screen grabs from this new 20-minute video.
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Born on December 10th 1843 in London of Scottish parentage and christened at St Martin in the Fields, she was educated privately at a girls' school near Covent Garden. The baby of the family, apparently her earliest memory was of being turned away from the British Museum at the age of four, by which time she could already read fluently.
According to her Recollections of Fifty Years, by the age of eight she was familiar with the eighteenth century Scottish Presbyterian preacher Hugh Blair's Belle Lettres, and was addicted to Jean Ingelow's tales which she read in the Youth's Magazine. At thirteen she submitted a tale to the journal. It was rejected, but Ingelow wrote her a long helpful letter back.
Isabella Fyvie's father, George, was, initially, a prosperous West End master baker, but his business failed, his daughter Elizabeth died when Isabella was six, all four of his sons died and he followed in 1861. He left behind him a debt of Ł800. Aged seventeen, Isabella was left shouldering her father's financial responsibilities although she was under no legal obligation to do so.
Throughout the 1860s she made a living copying legal documents and addressing envelopes at the rate of 1,500 a day for 3 shillings. She also acted as amanuensis to a literary woman, "Miss Y" at 6d an hour, and eventually paid off all the family debts. She was also involved in the "Office for the Employment of Women" at Langham Place, and became acquainted with various literary patrons, including the Scottish novelist and poet, Isa Craig and the Irish writer and philanthropist Mrs S C Hall.
With the help of her friends she began to publish poems and stories under the pseudonym of "Edward Garrett". The evangelical publisher, Alexander Strahan encouraged her and commissioned her serial The Occupations of a Retired Life in 1867 for Ł300, thus ending her struggle for financial security.
She wrote a variety of different types of fiction, including at least one mystery novel, The Mystery of Allan Grale concerning the "Black Pool and its horrors...", and one "Tale of the Turf". Her stories always featured strong women, or women who having been kept downtrodden and repressed, given the chance are shown that they are as fully capable of grasping life as their male counterparts.
In the short story, A Sister's Journey, published in the Girl's Own Paper, Volume 2, 1881, Ruth's scapegrace brother, Harold has to be rescued and redeemed by his sister who is the mainstay of the family. Using all her single-mindedness and strength of will she manages to make her way alone from her quiet country home, across the Atlantic to Canada with virtually no money to save her brother, surviving hunger and shipwreck in the process. Although she does end up marrying the Captain of the ship it is obviously Ruth who is the dominant partner in the relationship.
In The Shut-Up Houses published in The Argosy, Volume XXXI, 1881, Mrs Mayo explores the theme of the exclusion from society and thereby the world, of two women as a result of the perceived wickednesses and shameful professions of their parents. Their father had made great wealth by "money-lending and bitter extortions", and they had only known their mother "in the public print as a shameful woman!" As a result the sisters have led a completely isolated life shut-up in their house, too scared, and ill-educated in the world to take part in it, despite their riches. It is only when a young lawyer arrives and brings the world's light into the life of the remaining sister that she is able to begin to look outside of her four walls. It is too late for her to start living herself, but she ensures that after her death others are given the chance. As a result of her Will, a lawyer is enabled to be salaried "to hold his time and talents at the disposal of poor people who need legal advice, and to render them legal help when their cause is righteous," and an institute set up where "young orphan girls are trained in domestic service and in attendance on the sick, the inmates of the rooms being the helplessly aged or the hopelessly crippled."
Even as a wife and mother, as in her novel The House with the Verandah, the heroine is the stronger partner in the marriage, having, as a result of her husband's chronic illness to be the breadwinner and organiser of the family, returning to selling her artwork despite having given it up on her marriage.
Apart from fictional writing and poems, she also contributed a number of non-fiction articles to various magazines. For example, in volumes 9 and 10 of the Girl's Own Paper she published a series of articles on "The Stories of Famous Songs". In 1897, she published a novel entitled A Daughter of the Klephts, about the Greek war of liberation. Possibly as a marketing ploy, or simply because she had done the research, at least two articles on Greece appeared in magazines that year, "The Patriot Songs of Greece" in Good Words, and "The Girls of Greece" in the Girl's Own Paper. "Christina Rossetti: An Appreciation", which appeared in Volume XIX of the Girl's Own Paper is available to read on this website.
In September 1870 she had married a solicitor, John Ryall Mayo, in Lambeth, the couple initially living with Isabella's mother. They had one son, George Ryall Mayo, but her husband, John, died in 1877. For most of her writing career she lived in Aberdeen, and on the 1881 census she is shown living at 2 Firhill Place with her ten year old son, one servant, an 18 year old tutor, and two medical student boarders. She was the first woman to be elected to a public board in the city of Aberdeen and she became involved in the "Women's Social and Political Union", chairing some meetings in the city when leaders Mrs Pankhurst, Helen Fraser and Teresa Billington-Greig arrived to set up a branch there. Apparently relations were not completely smooth and at one meeting there was a platform disagreement between Mrs Pankhurst and Mrs Mayo with Mrs Pankhurst overruling the latter...
The African-American female anti-lynching activist, Ida B Wells stayed with Isabella Fyvie Mayo at the beginning of her first anti-lynching tour of the UK in 1893, describing her home as an asylum for "East Indians". Dr George Ferdinands from Ceylon seems to have been living at the house at this time and is also mentioned in the memoirs of John Patterson Green, the "Father of Labor Day" and first African-American elected to office in Cleveland when he was elected Republican Justice of the Peace in 1872. He was later elected the first African-American to the Ohio Senate in 1892. Mr Green also visited Isabella Mayo on a tour round Britain. He was given a "hearty welcome" and "great good cheer" was his "portion". He describes Mrs Mayo as
quite a story-teller; which, by the way, I noticed to be one of the pleasing characteristics of the Scotch people, wherever I went...[one] of Mrs Mayo's stories, which I subsequently found in Dean Ramsey's book of Scotch stories, is, in substance as follows: A Scottish lad experienced so much embarrassment in "popping the question", that he took his sweetheart to the family lot in the ancient cemetery; and, while standing with her by the graves of his ancestors, he significantly, said: "Jennie, how wad ye like ter hae the richt ter lie there?"
Towards the end of her life Isabella Mayo was one of the pioneering translators of Tolstoy into English, translating The End of the Age (On the approaching revolution) preceded by The Crisis in Russia, King Assarhadon and other stories and To the working people (the latter two in conjuction with V Tchertkoff).
Although she died of cancer on the 13th May, 1914, Isabella Fyvie Mayo is still remembered today in Aberdeen where she has been nominated for a commemorative plaque as a "suffragette...Women's Political and Social Union campaigner, writer and translator".
A Sister's Journey (Girl's Own Paper April 30, 1881)
And when one sees how the giddy prodigal, who might so easily have become the branded outcast, is grown into the steady thriving man, with kind word and a helping hand for everybody, though with a curious gravity which seems always struggling with the natural gaiety of his disposition, one feels what miracles may be wrought in this world, and how very near the Kingdom of God might be, if there was more of that force of love which beareth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
The House with the Verandah (Girl's Own Paper April 1, 1899)
A lady came out of a little house set in the corner of a quiet street on the northern edge of Bloomsbury.
The Mystery of Allan Grale (Argosy, Vol XXXIX, 1885)
Night was fast settling down over a wild mountain pass.
The Shut-up Houses (Argosy, Vol XXXI, 1881)
Only she always felt it had been great presumption in her to do it!
Her youth was filled with gentle tasks,
With homely joys and holy cares;
'Twas hers to read the grandsire's psalm,
And teach the little ones their prayers;
And some, now scattered far and wide,
First said "Our Father" by her side.
She could not give the dainty gifts
The rich folks' careless money buys;
So she gave the comfort of her smile,
The silent laughter of her eyes,
Which only seemed more sweet to grow
The more they wept for others' woe.
She could not plead the orphan's cause,
Nor fill the widow's hand with pelf,
But she gave all she had to give -
Her thoughts, her heart, her very self;
She shared her wage, she broke her bread,
She watched the sick and lonely bed.
She had some secrets which she kept
In silence, as if never heard:
Folks trusted her as they might trust
A distant star or wandering bird.
(I think her own heart might enfold
A secret which she never told!
I think she gave the angels one
Sweet story for themselves to read -
Surely they knew the secret source
Of many a brave and loving deed -
And what a Heaven earth would grow
If all our sorrows blossomed so!)
She gave her very life at last,
Ready she was to go or stay:
Her Lord had slain all death for her,
And those who watched her heard her say,
"I long to know, beyond earth's view,
What work He keeps for me to do."
We sat together in the dusk, my Dorothy and I,
Not a breeze was in the trees, nor star out in the sky;
We had been talking at our work, but then a silence fell,
Save that her tale a nightingale poured out with yearning swell.
My Dorothy and I are friends: we met five years ago;
How she was bred and how bestead, the whole wide world may know.
But I learned something that still night - that night we spake no word;
I know too well to ever tell the tale I never heard.
God speaks to us without a voice - our souls are one with Him:
Words are like rain upon a pane that makes the daylight dim.
And by the gladness of the glow He spreads on earth and sky
We know He bears all sins and fears, and knows how they must die.
Dorothy's face is keen and strong: her voice is glad and sweet -
Her walk is light as angels bright along the common street.
Dorothy's face that night was calm as theirs who look on Death,
Nor try to hide nor turn aside, nor even hold their breath.
Dorothy's mouth is firmly set, I know the reason why:
Some awful stroke her heart-strings broke, and yet she gave no cry.
I cannot guess to what grim pile her life was ever bound,
But by the sight I saw that night her soul was faithful found
Strange thoughts half waken sometimes: and I wonder may it be
That angels' books are made of looks whose meaning angels see.
'Tis an old belief that in a hush the angels ever come -
And love, a flame, may show the name of tales they carry home.
When using her own name as author Mrs Mayo, unlike many of her contemporaries never used the "Mrs" nor her husband's Christian name, but always styled herself, "Isabella Fyvie Mayo".
I would love to read the short story The Mystery of Dr Hardy's Marriage by Isabella Fyvie Mayo
I would love to read an essay by Isabella Mayo on the subject of Christina Rossetti
Click here to see a list of her works


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If this were only a joke. A man walks into a movie theater – armed with an AR-15 rifle, a shotgun and handguns and his home was booby-trapped with a trip wire, explosives and unknown liquids that took a day to disarm and I'm called partisan and disingenuous when I say it is pure evil and we should look into how he was able to come by this cache with the thought of preventing the unthinkable in the future.
The horror of the shootings in Aurora is obvious yet so many talking heads and op-ed writers want us to stay focused only on the individual stories of heroism, cowardice and how the families and friends will be changed. Mention that the event puts into focus difficult issues for America and you get shot down for "politicizing" the calamity. Why is it wrong to discuss the consequences of a tragedy?
I am told now is not time for that conversation. We need to respect the victims' families and let them mourn in peace. An online friend mentioned a story he read about the potential bankruptcy faced by one of the victims who is uninsured and can't pay the medical bills. He commented that one injustice was being compounded by another. He was pounced upon for "pushing his liberal agenda." I can't help thinking that part of this insanity is not only the shooting, but the price many of these victims will be paying in an emotional and financial aftermath. Shouldn't we mitigate their pain by making it clear that we, all Americans, will help them with the costs of the medical care? Luckily some have started a fund for this, but not everyone is a Blanche DuBois who can depend on the kindness of strangers.
Why shouldn't we look at the rules that allowed the legal purchase of these weapons? Rules are important. The Ten Commandments wouldn't be necessary if folks didn't kill, covet or take the Lord's name in vain. No one needs rules or laws until someone is hurt. Every business I've been involved with only wrote new policies in the wake of some unforeseen stupidity or situation and it is our outrage that gives us the energy to focus. So when a shooting occurs in a movie theater, school or strip mall and the conversation turns to preventing or minimizing the losses the energy is high and the answer is obvious. We need new rules (or enforcement of existing ones) to prevent certain weapons from getting into the hands of certain people. No one disputes this, not even the NRA. The devil is in the details; the debate is what weapons and which people. This, however, is the fearful slippery slope for the NRA, so we are told to respect the families and let them mourn. Meanwhile our resolve dissipates.
Too bad. If we were to have that conversation and acted with resolve we might reduce or prevent the next Aurora, Columbine or Virginia Tech massacre. The downside might be the headache for the NRA, but no worries – that preexisting condition must be covered under the Affordable Care Act in 2014. There I go again – "politicizing."


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Spotlight photos from my extensive photo archive
This week it is my
Great-Great Grandmother- Elizabeth (Funk) Weerts
& her 4 daughters
|Lucy, Grace, Anna, Elizabeth, Helena
Elizabeth (Funk) Weerts was born September 17, 1862, in Petkum, Ostfriesland, Germany. She was adopted at a young age by the Funk family. She was married to Herman "Harm" Weerts and they eventually left Germany for the United States, joining relatives in Iowa. Later moving to Southern Minnesota and finally settling in North Dakota. Elizabeth died at the age of 93, after suffering a stroke on June 20, 1956.
Among the 10 children in the Weerts family were the 4 daughters above-- (left to right)Louise "Lucy" (Weerts) Schultz (1892-1989)
Grace (Weerts) Schultz (1890-1957)
Anna (Weerts) Cramer (1907-1973)
Helena "Lena" (Weerts) Ludemann Muller (1888-1988)