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George Orwell's essay, "Shooting an Elephant," never fails to stir even my most obstinately bored students, and for that reason, regardless of the course's theme, I find a way to work it into some lecture somewhere. It's the autobiographical account of Orwell's time as a colonial police officer in Burma and recounts the confrontation he had with a musting elephant that he was forced to kill, although he loathed to do it. His insights into the psychology of power are sharp and discomforting if taken in full. It's a much better read than my blurbing about it, but assuming you're short on time, let me summarize its central insight: power clips the powerful as well as the weak.
The consequence of this is a leader had better act like a leader or he will be a leader no longer. In Tip O'Neill's Man of the House, O'Neill claimed that Jimmy Carter was undone by a basic misunderstanding of this principle. The American people were not interested in seeing a president carry his own luggage, as Carter often did, or ask his daughter what she thought about nuclear proliferation, as he claimed to do in a speech from the Oval Office. The American people, like all peoples everywhere that have modeled their systems on the paternal principle, don't want to see their fathers behaving as anything less than fatherly. Indeed, it was Bush's foolishness that undid his presidency as surely as his policies.
It's also why the full force of Christianity is being lost in this country. Christ was a fool, not a father. What else would you call challenging the Pharisees and the Romans? Christ and his apostles were like an early version of the Polish cavalry–with a slightly better life-insurance policy. If you're a Christian, however, don't balk at my irreverence. The power of your faith rests upon Christ's foolishness. Nearly every religion has an all-powerfully capricious sahib who doles favors and misfortunes, but not every religion has such a mysterious fool as its fulcrum.
If you don't believe me, check out the Sermon on the Mount; these are not the words of a father, but those of a rabble-rouser, an agitator, a certifiable fool. Punch him in the gut: he loves you. Spit in his eye: he loves you. Rape his mother: he loves you. Harangue him up a hill with blows and epithets, hang him form a cross, pierce his side and watch him die: he loves you. If that is not a fool, then I fear to see the likeness.
I revere Christ's foolishness. It's a similar foolishness to Don Quixote, whom I also love. Fools cause trouble. They give love potions to the wrong love. They hunt whales. They lampoon vacations. Under the right conditions, a good fool leavens the father, and under the best conditions, a great fool humanizes him. A great fool brings the father down to earth, makes him flesh, brings his arid judgements into human proportion. On the last night of the world, the fool throws a party.
It is our tendency to assume the fool is most readily recognized in youthful exuberance, but that is a category mistake. The youth rides naivete into the unexpected briars the fool calls home. Comfortable in his thorns, the great jester relies on irony's dagger to make her point, rather than on youthful bludgeoning. "I and the father are one." A fine joke indeed. Human and divine? What a riot!
The problem is, of course, in spite of the fool's importance, fathers rarely suffer them gladly–regardless of what St. Paul said. Importance requires decorum. There are no whoopee cushions on the throne, and Angels never pun–leave that to Eve. Being a father, I had lately forgotten this foolishness. I was so concerned with being just and stern that my inner harlequin was losing his trade. A shame, since I shall spend the bulk of eternity dumb and witless.
So let me make amends by wishing good luck to all those fools in Egypt and Tunisia who are raving in the streets. Democracy does not belong to the West. It belongs to everyone who's willing to make a farce of the father. If democracy belonged to anyone, it belonged to the Athenians, who are dead and gone and couldn't take a joke any better than the Pharisees, as they demonstrated by murdering Socrates for buggering the youth with ideas. No, democracy doesn't belong to us, but let's not miss an opportunity to foster it.
Let's be a little less paternalistic and a little more ridiculous. Let's play the double-word score, even though it opens up a triple-word play. Let's ride Apollo to the moon. Elect a black man. Tilt at windmills. Crack open an atom.
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The Marleys should thank Clayton Thomas for exposing Fabian Marley Featured
Thomas' quick action and stellar detective work tracking down the biological parents of Fabian Marley and obtaining the requisite DNA to establish paternity has saved the Marley family heartache and possibly, millions of dollars in legal fees.
He must be applauded for his quick thinking, intellect and integrity because he acted in a manner that was deleterious to his own artiste's ambitions of proving himself a Marley and getting into a protracted fight with the Marleys.
Now that the issue is resolved, Mr. Thomas can either get on with the business of producing music for his artiste, Fabian, and he can hold his head high that he protected his integrity to the last inch, even at the risk of losing his substantial investment in the production, merchandising and promotion of his artiste.
The Marleys certainly need to thank him for bringing the truth forward because he could have hid it and protected Fabian but instead he gave up his investment to save the Marleys. Talk about the truth hurting, this must have had a big impact n his pocket, but at least Mr. Thomas has maintained his integrity.
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So I promised my Sister in Law a lap quilt about a year ago.
The top has been done for months but I've been waging an internal debate over how to quilt it.
There is no denying my fierce love of hand quilting.
I love doing it.
I love the way it looks.
But I have a love/hate relationship with the time it takes. I don't mind taking the time to do it but I feel a little bad making people wait for their quilt. I'm not a fast quilter. I go in spurts. I inevitably miss gifting deadlines because of it.
But my Sister in law is gracious and told me to take my time.
So, hand quilting won out once again.
After I found this AMH tutorial I knew that was it. It seemed like a happy medium of sorts, quilting with embroidery floss and bigger stitches felt like it wouldn't take nearly as much time as the more traditional needle and thread.
I really, really love the look of it.
I'm just simply stitching around each square with a sort of random color pattern.
Browns and greens and yellows just like this Dewberry Deer Valley fabric.
And here's how those squares are looking on the back.
Super cool.
I can't wait to see how it looks once it's finished and I can wash it.
This may be my new go-to quilting method.
I really, really love making quilts. Oh to have unlimited time and resources. . .
I also promised a housewarming throw to my sister and her husband. I finally got started piecing that one last week.
My first stack of blocks turned out really well I think.
I'm using the OhFransson tutorial for the crazy nine patch.
Elizabeth Hartman rocks my world. If you are a fan of modern quilting her blog is a must read and her book was one of my favorite Christmas gifts this year. Love.It.
The fabric I used for these is the High Society line by Khristin Howell and it is perfecto for the Waggoner orange and grey living room.
I did have to sneak in a print from my stash (the orange base with the white, yellow and grey leaves) because I only had eight from High Society and I needed nine unique fabrics for these blocks. I couldn't believe how well it fit and the colors matched though.
I'm really not sure how I'm going to assemble this one. I don't love the lattice design that Hartman uses for her Crazy Nine Patch quilt but all these crazy squares side by side are a bit too busy even for me. So we'll wait and see. For now, I am loving making these random wonky blocks. So fun. And such a great result. I'm excited to see where it leads!


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A dominant first half gave way to a see-saw second. Villa's Jack Grealish, tormentor-in-chief, creating and spurning opportunities in equal measure, before escaping a red card. Fulham held firm, despite themselves being reduced to ten men with 20 minutes remaining.
When the full time whistle blew, there was relief mixed with sheer joy at one end of Wembley. The Whites had claimed their deserved return to the top flight after a four year-absence.
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This summer, I spent three of the four months we have off at Quest living in Squamish—actually, I was still living on campus. I was lucky enough to receive a spot in the Quest Summer Fellowship Program—sponsored opportunities for students to complete their own research at Quest.
Each year, the Summer Fellowship committee selects five students out of the applicants to be a Summer Fellow; the students are selected based on the research proposals they submit to the committee as well as recommendation letters submitted by at least two faculty members at Quest. Each student also has to have a faculty member supporting them throughout the project (typically their mentor). Being selected means that a student gets free housing on campus during the fellowship, a designated work space to complete their project, a stipend, and an opportunity to work an on-campus job. Students also have the opportunity to be supported by Woodfibre LNG, Ltd. as long as their project directly relates to LNG and its impact on the Squamish area.
This summer, I completed my fellowship alongside five other fellows (one of whom was supported by LNG) with projects ranging from a journalistic exploration of the history of Howe Sound to an exploration of an unexplained phenomenon in computational algebra.
My fellowship was supported by two different faculty hosts—Meaghan MacNutt and I-Chant Chiang—because my project encompassed both exercise physiology (Meaghan's field) and psychology (I-Chant's field). For my fellowship, I explored the question "Exploring mind-body connections: can "power poses" impact athletic performance?". Now, this isn't my Quest question (that's "How can we push our limits?"); this was my research question, encompassing a much narrower field that allows me to still address my bigger question. I decided to use the Summer Fellowship to complete the research for my Keystone project, but that isn't a requirement for the Summer Fellowships.
For my project, I was examining power poses—you may have heard of them in a TED talk by Amy Cuddy from 2012—and their impact on athletic performance. Power poses first became popular from two studies that found that expansive (e.g. superwoman) poses could raise testosterone,
decrease cortisol, make people feel more powerful, and improve performance in mock job interviews compared to contracted poses. However, since those studies there has been some controversy due to replication studies that did not find these same results. Part of our goal was to try to replicate the original hormone findings (using very similar techniques to the original studies) and the other part was to see how these poses could impact athletic performance. To achieve the latter, we had participants complete six different physical tests—reaction time, balance, dart throwing accuracy, vertical jump height, hand strength, and leg endurance—after completing the poses.
While I did a lot of the prep work to the design the study last Spring, I still spent the first month of my fellowship finalizing the study details and making sure everything I needed for testing was ready. The next two months were spent actually conducting the research. While I am still working on analyzing the data, being able to enter my fourth year having completed the research for my Keystone is a huge relief.
The Summer Fellowship program is an amazing opportunity for Quest students to design, complete, and analyze their own research that most undergrads don't get. This was an amazing experience for me and has made me much more confident in my ability to do research during graduate programs. In addition, it gave me the chance to live in Squamish during the summer. The previous two summers I had gone home to New Mexico, so living in Squamish for the summer was pretty amazing for me. In my spare time I was able to go on hikes, explore tons of lakes in the area, and get to know Squamish better. Spending the summer alternating between research that I absolutely love and adventuring off campus was the best possible way to spend my last summer at Quest!


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A Simulation Model for the Demographic Transition in Germany : Data Requirements, Model Structure and Calibration
All countries in the European Union stand at the fore of a phenomenal demographic transition. Especially Germany will realize an enormous aging of its population. The reasons for this development are twofold: On the one hand, the number of elderly will more than double over the coming decades. On the other hand, since fertility rates are projected to stay at a low level, the number of workers available to pay the elderly their government-guaranteed pension and health care benefits will decline. Due to very generous social security systems this aging process is expected to put enormous pressure on future government expenses. To address the consequences of population aging in Germany, this paper develops a dynamic, intergenerational demographic life-cycle model. The model features immigration, age-specific fertility, life span extension and life span uncertainty. Cohorts within the model differ in their human capital profiles and leave bequests arising from incomplete annuitization. We also incorporate the German pension, health care and long-term care system. After introducing the theoretical model, we simulate the transition path including reforms of the pension system imposed by the so called "Riester" reform and keeping current immigration constant. The results are presented for the case of a closed and a small open economy.
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6 Mitzvahs, 7 WeeksConstant Benefits
The Beiur Halacha in the beginning of Orach Chaim tells us that the six constant mitzvos are quoted from the Chinuch. Six of the 613 Mitzvos are relevant all the time. So before going into any details, the question is how do you do six things at the same time, all the time and also live? You have to live a normal life, while still fulfilling other mitzvos, that perhaps take up your whole brain. How are you supposed to learn Torah while thinking of the six constant mitzvos at the same time? How is it possible to do these six mitzvos while simultaneously doing everything else?
All six mitzvos are mitzvos that we would call chovos halevovos - the duties of the heart. We use the term heart, but we're obviously referring to the human brain.
In the first of the six mitzvos the mitzvah of emunah, the Rambam writes that there's a mitzvah to know, leidah-- know that there's a First Cause, a First Source. It's referring to Hashem, the Creator of the Universe.
To know--what exactly does the word to know mean? A mitzvah to know, a mitzvah to accept. The Rambam doesn't seem to take that option. The Chinuch certainly doesn't make it sound like the mitzvah is to accept. What does to know mean? This is a simple vocabulary word. Leidah means to be aware--it's an awareness. And this really is the introduction to the six constant mitzvos. We're talking about six attitudes that a Yid is supposed to walk around with.
You know, whenever we make any decision whatsoever we don't sit and really think through every aspect of it. For example, it's cold outside. Do you put on a coat or do you not put on a coat? What goes into that calculation? Well, do I like the way my coat looks? It's heavy, I'm not so freezing…It's cold. I don't like being cold. I may catch a cold. And what's wrong if I catch a cold? It's uncomfortable to have a cold. So now I have this discomfort versus that discomfort. The discomfort of feeling cold, the discomfort of possibly catching a cold, and the discomfort of wearing this heavy thing on my shoulders. And I'm thinking through which discomfort disturbs me more. Tell me, do you ever remember yourself making these calculations? Who thinks like that? If you do, I can recommend someone for you to speak to. That's not the way we think. The answer is that it's all going on inside us. Through experience we have developed attitudes that help us to make decisions. In a split second all the calculations happen on their own.
There are always attitudes that we have that are involved in our making decisions. The six constant mitzvos are the six attitudes that must be included in your vocabulary of attitudes when you're making any decision in life. They must always be there. Every decision you're making, every time you decide how to spend your time, what you will do what you won't do, what you will say what you won't say, all the time these attitudes are to be present. And then you'll make the right decision. But this is what the Torah obligates us in--that these attitudes become part of our thought processes. We are obligated to do whatever's necessary to permanently implant them in our thought process. The mitzvah is to make sure that we get them in there.
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See the full 38-photo slideshow of Digitalism at Grand Central -- plus Crossfade's interview with Digitalism about new DJ-Kicks album.
Grand Central, Miami
Saturday, June 16
Better Than: Being at Pawn Shop or Studio A.
If you went to parties like Revolver, Poplife, and Spiderpussy during the mid-2000s, you are probably familiar with Digitalism. Along with Justice, MSTRKRFT, and a slew of other electro-house and dance-rock acts, they seemed to take what everyone considered to be electronic dance music and turn it on its head. It was edgier, harder, and, most importantly, fun.
Justice, of course, went on to become icons of the genre, still headlining major music festivals today -- including an appearance at this year's Ultra Music Festival. And while Digitalism is still pushing plenty of dancefloor-ready tunes, they never became EDM deities like Justice. And what a shame that is.
If Digitalism is anything, it's consistent. They came out of the gates strong with debut Idealism, and followed it up with another stellar effort, I Love You Dude. Now they're about to drop a DJ-Kicks compilation and they've still got plenty of know-how to keep partygoers dancing. Same can't be said for Justice's amazing debut, Cross, and lackluster follow-up Audio, Video, Disco.
While Saturday's appearance at Grand Central was unfortunately a DJ set (make sure you add "see Digitalism live" to your bucket list), Jence and Isi gave the crowd a set that perfectly summed up the last 12 years of dance music. It was hard. It was danceable. It had house music. It had electro. It was fucking great.
We were surprised by the crowd's reaction to the duo's earliest hits "Idealistic" and "Zdarlight" (see "Things Music Snobs Say") mainly because the crowd was young, and most must've been in middle school when these tracks bubbled up from the underground.
But Digitalism kept it fresh by playing new stuff off the DJ-Kicks compilation (and, so far, unavailable elsewhere) including "A New Drug" and "Simply Dead." The former is a scuzzy electro effort that reminded us a bit of Daft Punk's "Robot Rock."
Speaking of Daft Punk, Digitalism knows no electro-house set is complete without a track from the robotic duo. Cue in "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger," the sleeper track from 2001's Discovery that thanks to Kanye West has become a party cliché at this point. But we were enjoying the flashbacks to our early 20s too much to care.
Another oddball was Zombie Nation's "Kernkraft 400." Some of us wondered if Digitalism played it as a sort of wink and nudge to our own "Miami Zombie." We wanted to ask the duo if that was the case once their set was over, but never got the chance.
Once Jence and Isi dropped their biggest hit, the indie-rocktastic "Pogo," we were sure the night was over, but we were told the venue asked them if they wanted to call it quits and they said, "Hell no!" So the music kept on.
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Personal Bias: I want to say a snobby thing like "I was listening to Digitalism before they were cool" but I'll refrain.
The Crowd: Definitely too young to have been of age to have attended Miami's slew of indie-dance parties that popped up at the turn of the century and where electro-house took hold.
Overheard in the Crowd: "We should do a Zombie Nation remix with Lil Jon screaming 'Eat your fucking face off!' as the hook."
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Being programmed by the state has finally hit kids where they live–in the stomach. And there is an important lesson to be learned if the kids and their stomachs are listening. That lesson is this: Federal mandates apply force, limit choices, and result in waste, and that is exactly what has happened thanks to Michelle Obama and her meddling bureaucrats at the USDA etc.
The Government was given broad power to enforce menu standards, limiting calories, and forcing food onto menus that kids simply will not eat. The result is waste on both sides of the serving line; costs to purchase the mandated foods that cafeteria managers know kids will not eat, the forced increase in the cost of lunches to meet some arbitrary Federal guideline, and then the waste as food that is being forced on students that is thrown away.
This is the alpha and omega of the centrally planned government that Democrats dream of. And how are the kids responding….
Some are throwing away their vegetables while others are adapting to the rules by becoming industrious. In New Bedford, Massachusetts, students have created a black market – for chocolate syrup. The kiddie capitalists are smuggling in bottles of it and selling it by the squeeze, according to SouthCoastToday.com.
Not only is the mandated food not popular and often wasted, there also is not enough of it, and students are protesting. Students in one district have released a YouTubevideo parodying their quest for enough to eat during the day. A Facebook page asks kids to send in pictures of their meager lunches.
According to Livestrong.com, teenagers need between 2,000 and 3,000 calories per day to be healthy, and athletes can need as many as 5,000 calories. But the new regulations limit the intake to just 750-850 calories on the tray. Which, if the food is unpalatable, means the students may not be getting even that much.
One size doesn't fit all, particularly in the lunchroom. The goal of the school lunch program is supposed to be feeding children, not filling the trash cans with uneaten food. The USDA's new school lunch guidelines are a perfect example of what is wrong with government: misguided inputs, tremendous waste, and unaccomplished goals. Thanks to the Nutrition Nannies at the USDA, America's children are going hungry at school.
Eight-hundred calories is not going to get you from lunch through football practice. They can't even have an unlimited salad bar any more because they [the kids] might put too much cheese on it or not have the mandated eight cherry tomatoes.
So we have more expensive food, more nit-picking regulations that waste the time and patience of personnel, higher menu prices for students and parents, rules that limit or prohibit fundraising activities, and hungry kids, hungry athletes, choices no one wants, and excessive waste as a result.
It's the built in failure of the centrally planned- nanny-state bureaucracy fit into a fruit cup. The experts in Washington DC do not know better, can't know, nor ever could, but since we're the ones paying for it all why should they care?
To paraphrase Clint Eastwood, 'Just leave us alone.'


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SummaryGames like this make me say I'm a "gamer" with a proud tone in my voice
The GoodThis game is simply beautiful. It has been a long time since a game made such an impact upon me, and I've played so many I thought I've seen it all. Still, it is times like these that make a difference in my life and start appreciating the whole gaming industry even more. First to say, I am not keen on simulations of any kind, and it is rare occasion I even try to play such a game. But lately, I got really interested in this game's sequel, and Namco captured my interest with more than a few great titles, so I just couldn't say no to this one.
The story is most amazing in the game, it's so touching and so... well, you can respect the spiritual relationship between the soldiers on the opposing sides, or in this case, pilots. War is always a terrible thing, no doubt, but it is also capable of bringing hidden talents of some people right to the surface. The whole relationship between narrator of the story (a young boy) who lost his family due to dogfight where allied plane crashed on his house (now what's a chance for that to happen), and between Yellow 13, the pilot ace who shot down that plane. At first I wasn't even sure where to put this story in the game, but it was following the missions from the perspective of behind enemy lines, while you were a pilot on the losing side. The whole mission selection was very nostalgic to me as it reminded me quite a lot of Command & Conquer where you were also progressing on the global world map until the final battle where you side won over enemy.
Aircraft and weapon selection is nicely implemented, and you have quite a selection if I do say so myself. Each mission will provide you with funds which you can then invest into buying better aircrafts. It is nice how the crafts were all familiar yet the world setting was a fantasy one, it worked pretty well. Controls are easy and more realistic than one might expect, as I was constantly complaining how I can't make some quick turn of 180 degrees, lol, yeah right, I must've been playing too much of Drakengard lately. When I mentioned above that I am not in particular a fan of simulations, I was definitely pointing at 1st-person ones, and even though that way it's more realistic and all, I bow to Namco for adding multiple views, front, cockpit, and rear view. I suppose it would be cool if they didn't limit 2 player game to front view only, but it was fun seeing a screen being split vertically for a change.
The BadI was touched too much by this game's story and the way it was being told to make any points against it, cut me too deep to recoil.


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Feb. 14 (UPI) -- Jorien ter Mors broke the Olympic record as she upset title favorite and world record holder Nao Kodaira of Japan to win the women's 1,000 meters speed skating at the Pyeongchang Winter Games Wednesday.
Finishing in one minute and 13.56 seconds, Mors shattered the old Olympic record of 1:13.83, which was set by Chris Witty of the United States at the Salt Lake City Games in 2002.
Ter Mors has struggled with back and knee injuries this season on the way of winning her third Olympic gold speed skating medal in her third appearance in the sport at the Winter Games. Moreover, she has won all three of her gold medals in Olympic record times including the 1,500m and team pursuit at the Sochi Games in 2014.
"I'm really happy. I worked really hard. I had a lot of struggles at the beginning of the season. Did some changes towards the Olympics and it paid off so happy to be here (as) Olympic champion. It means a lot," said Ter Mors.
"The best one (medal) I have here when I work really hard and then at the right moment being in shape, doing this. It's great."
Ter Mors' victory also extended Dutch speed skaters' title winning streak to five at Pyeongchang as they have reaped nine medals out of 15 on offer in five events so far.
Kodaira had to settle for the silver medal with 0.26 seconds behind and the bronze medal went to Japanese Miho Takagi in 1:13.98.
Sochi Olympic champion Zhang Hong of China finished 11th at 1:15.67.
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Mr. Speaker: I rise in opposition to HR 4133, the United States-Israel Enhanced Security Cooperation Act, which unfortunately is another piece of one-sided and counter-productive foreign policy legislation. This bill's real intent seems to be more saber-rattling against Iran and Syria, and it undermines US diplomatic efforts by making clear that the US is not an honest broker seeking peace for the Middle East. The bill calls for the United States to significantly increase our provision of sophisticated weaponry to Israel, and states that it is to be US policy to "help Israel preserve its qualitative military edge" in the region. While I absolutely believe that Israel – and any other nation — should be free to determine for itself what is necessary for its national security, I do not believe that those decisions should be underwritten by US taxpayers and backed up by the US military....
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I took a new (well, new to ME, anyway) yoga class this morning, Core Yoga. It was completely awesome, I enjoyed it a lot. Almost as soon as I left the gym, however, I got a stabbing pain in my left deltoid muscle. For a while it hurt to breathe, but it seems to be easing off. Hopefully is just something I slept wrong on and not a serious injury.
At the end of most Yoga classes that I take, the instructors do something called Savasana, a little meditation. In English, Savasana is Corpse Pose. You're supposed to relax completely. Sometimes the instructors do a guided meditation for this part of the class, sometimes not, you're just supposed to concentrate on your breathing.
Today the instructor gave us our direction while we were still in the final pose of the sequence, which happened to be boat pose. "Imagine something, something relaxing," she trilled. (She was pretty sing-song-y throughout the whole class, it entertained me a lot.) "A child's smile, or a butterfly, floating along, just that and nothing else. Then, when I tell you to, clear your mind and think of nothing, nothing at all."
Living in the moment is very, very difficult for me. When I'm trying to sleep (and this is the biggest reason that I take a sleeping pill) my mind is busy making lists of things that need done tomorrow, or the next day, or just in general. Trying to meditate is a bit like trying to pick one instrument's sound out of a vast symphony for me. So I tried to focus on the memory of a butterfly that I followed around Lily Dale for about a half hour on my last day there, trying (unsuccessfully) to get a picture of the darn thing with its wings wide open. It was a delightful few minutes, I almost felt the wonder of being a child again, chasing after it.
I'm laying on the floor in the exercise studio of my gym, trying to remember the wind off of the lake, the butterfly bobbing along with the breeze, the flowers it landed on, and into my mind pops Jensen. So I pushed him out (blasphemy, no?) and went back to the butterfly. Then my closet with its heaping piles of stuff on the floor that I'm supposed to get into reasonable shape while I'm off pops up. Pushed that out as well. Then the laundry that isn't done, Jensen, the floors that aren't scrubbed, Jensen, the car that needs washed, Dean, the dishwasher that needs unloaded, Jensen, the weeds that need pulled, Dean, the flowers that I haven't planted, Jensen, a conversation I had with a fangirl friend about Jensen, (are we seeing a pattern here at all? No? Must be just me, then.) the mess that needs cleaned up in my bathroom, Dean, the bed that isn't made, GAH!!! Butterfly, dammit, butterfly!!!
Each time I managed to bring myself back to the meditation, only to have it disrupted with something non-related. So much disruption that I never heard her tell us to clear our minds, the next thing I knew she was having us sit up into Lotus position, exchanged "Namastes" with each student, and the class was over. It occurred to me after I left that perhaps next time I ought to choose something else to concentrate on, that whole butterfly thing wasn't really working out for me.
Being in the NOW, right this moment, has always been very tough for me. I'm always thinking ahead to what's next. But as I walked to my car, I realized that this time I've had away from work is making it easier for me to just BE, that I've got a sense of almost serenity that I've never had before. Is it the medication? Probably. Maybe. I don't know.
I finished reading "Is It Me Or Is It My Meds" and I hadn't really thought a lot about it until I cracked that book, and read about others who think the meds make them less creative people. The meds are stifling my creativity. I think. I'm having trouble writing the book. Blog posts, these rambling bits of what runs around in my head are no problem, but the book, that's a problem. Knitting, too, I'm not very interested in doing.
I feel so much better, mentally lots more stable, and I don't ever want to go back to where I was in February/March of this year. But at what price? Taking away my ability to write may just not be worth it. The last time I felt able (and excited) about writing was after that mediation class I took at Lily Dale. Perhaps I need to incorporate that into my daily routine to get "it," whatever "it" is, back.
The only reason I'm not giving up on the writing completely and saying "forget it. move on. find something else." is because I love my little story and having had at least one other person read it, I know it is worth it, there's something there, that could just turn out to be the most amazing thing I do in my life. And if Rowling could write the first Harry Potter book whilst she was unemployed AND a single mom, well, damn. I can manage it too.
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Aaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh! it's raining paper crafts today. The Webdude has just left a note about a "hidden model" on his Angels of Neon Genesis Evangelion page - it's the Jet Alone paper craft model.
"Jet Alone is a nuclear-powered, unmanned robot created by an independent corporation for the Japanese government with the intention of supplanting the Evangelion units. Unlike the Evas, Jet Alone has an on-board nuclear reactor, so it can function without external power indefinitely. However, its control systems were tampered with by agents of NERV and the unit's first public demonstration nearly ended in a nuclear disaster. The project remained unsuccessful after the incident." - wikipedia
Note: To download this model, look for the moving eyes!
Jet Alone - [Download Page] [If you can't find it click here]


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A Southwest Airlines plane, which was taxiing on the runway, was forced to return back to the gate of Los Angeles International airport on 18 October after a fight broke between two passengers, in which a man is said to have choked a woman for reclining her seat. The aircraft was carrying 137 passengers on board at the time of the incident.
When the pilot of the aircraft contacted the control tower to inform it about the physical altercation between two passengers, he was ordered to bring the plane back to the gate of Los Angeles International airport. According to airport police officer Rob Pedregon, the San Francisco-bound Flight 2010 left the gate at about 10.25pm on 18 October.
According to eyewitnesses, who were interviewed by NBC, a female passenger attempted to recline her seat back just before take-off, which led to an altercation with a man, who was seated directly behind her, who allegedly began choking the woman. Witnesses told CNN that after the plane returned to the gate, police and the FBI boarded the aircraft and removed the suspected attacker.
The FBI later confirmed that they had taken in alleged choker for questioning, but said no arrests have been made. The rest of the 136 passengers of the San Francisco-bound flight were transferred to another plane, which arrived in San Francisco five hours later than scheduled.
"Our initial information is that flight attendants swiftly coordinated with pilots on the flight deck to get the aircraft on the ground safely and quickly after a physical altercation by one passenger against another," Southwest spokeswoman Melissa Ford was quoted as saying by The Mirror.
Southwest later released a statement confirming that Flight 2010 had returned to Los Angeles airport because of a "rapidly escalating situation".


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How many things do you own that are handmade? Not just assembled by hand, but created from scratch? I can say categorically that everything I own that is handmade gives me a more rich experience than the mass-produced version would. Handmade things reverberate with the hopes and dreams of the craftsperson. The hope that the user will find as much joy in the object as the creator did in it's making.
The things I make are to be used, not merely looked at, but experienced, and appreciated for what they are: the culmination of years of study and practice in the pursuit of quality, thoughtful design, and beauty that will endure beyond my time.
I realize that there isn't enough time on this earth for me to build all the things whirling in my head, but that won't stop me from trying.
Let us build the heirloom that you have always dreamed of together.


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Zimmermanneditorial.de about GELD.GR
Julia Jansen wrote a review for the blog ZimmermannEditorial.de {in German}.
Korsakow-Show – article in Ta Nea
An article describing the first Korsakow-Show in Athens in 2012 was published in Greek newspaper 'Ta Nea'. The Goethe Institute republished the article and made it available online in Greek and in German.
Article on webdoku.de
In German language:
Article on goethe.de
Article by Lisa Mayerhöfer for goethe.de
Interview with Florian about his Korsakow Show 'Was ist. geld.gr' (Athens, Greece 10/22/12)
Since 2011 Florian has been working with his partner Elissavet Aggou on a Korsakow project exploring the economic crisis in Greece, titled simply Money and the Greeks. The project includes several innovations, including a community-oriented process for viewing and voting on potential SNUs. There are also several outcomes, including interactive installations, an online Korsakow film, and a Korsakow Show involving a panel of experts and a studio audience. This project is being published in Greek and German, with French and English translations being planned.


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(from my colleagues Dr. Win Thin and Ilan Solot)
Israel central bank meets Monday and is expected keep rates steady at 1.0%. CPI inflation eased to 1.4% y/y in January, the lowest since September. The economy remains sluggish, with growth expected to slow to 3.3% this year from 3.8% in 2013. With inflation near the bottom of the 1-3% target range, the central bank has cover to cut rates again if needed. We think the deciding factor will most likely be the exchange rate. For USD/ILS, support seen near 3.50 and then 3.45, while resistance seen near 3.55 and then 3.60.
Colombia central bank meets Friday and is expected keep rates steady at 3.25%. The economy is showing some signs of life, which is likely to keep the bank on hold for now. The weak peso should help boost the economy as well, while price pressures remain under control. CPI rose 2.1% y/y in January, right at the bottom of the 2-4% target range. This will give the bank leeway to cut later this year if growth starts to slow too much. For USD/COP, support seen near 2025 and then 2000, while resistance seen near 2050 and then 2075.
This piece is cross-posted from Marc to Market with permission.


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University Park, Pa. — The Penn State men's soccer program will offer three camp opportunities this summer, allowing participants to receive instruction from some of the top collegiate coaches in the nation while experiencing inspirational demonstrations, demanding exercises, and fun-filled competitions.
Penn State's summer clinic schedule will begin with a boys' team camp, to be held from July 10-13. Squads consisting of 15 to 20 players will square off in competitive games to showcase their ability and potential to perform at the collegiate level.
From July 14-17, the College Identification Camp and Goalkeeping Academy will take place. Daily technical and tactical training sessions will be supplemented with evening 11 vs. 11 matches in a competitive environment. Goalkeepers will receive specialized coaching and have match-related practice sessions.
In early August (1-4), Penn State's summer clinic schedule will wrap up with day camp. Running daily from 9 a.m. to noon, the day camp focuses on fundamental technical instruction in a relaxed environment.
Directing the camps will be Penn State head coach Bob Warming and assistant coaches Jason Mims and Isang Jacob. In his first season in Happy Valley, Warming led the 2010 Nittany Lions to 14 wins, the most since by a PSU team since 2002, a Big Ten Tournament title game appearance, and to the program's first NCAA postseason victory in five years. Penn State boasted one of the nation's most prolific offenses in 2010, totaling 144 points (45 goals, 54 assists) in 23 games, and featured the NCAA leader in goals and points (Corey Hertzog) and assists (Matheus Braga). Among the winningest active coaches in the NCAA, Warming, a two-time national coach of the year honoree, is just three victories shy of reaching the 400-win milestone for his career. An elite developer of talent, he has had at least one player selected in every MLS draft; a total of 24 since the league's inception in 1996. That streak was extended in January when All-American Corey Hertzog was selected in the first round by New York Red Bulls.
For more information about the Penn State Soccer Camp and Goalkeeping Academy or to register, contact Penn State Sports Camps at 814-865-0561, email email@example.com, or visit the men's soccer camp website.
In addition, Coach Warming and the Penn State Men's Soccer Academy will join forces with JATO/one. and the TCU women's soccer program to hold, for the first time ever, a developmental clinic from June 12-16 in Fort Worth, Texas on the TCU campus. Advanced (ages 10-14), elite (ages 15-18), and goalkeeping academies (ages 10-14 and 15-18) will be offered. Visit the registration page to sign up or the Penn State Men's Soccer Academy website for more information.


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Cumbria LSCB commissioned a Serious Case Review (SCR) regarding Children P who are a pair of siblings who became the subject of interim Care Orders in July 2013 and placed in foster care due to longstanding concerns of sexual abuse and neglect.
A Serious Case Review takes place "where abuse of a child is known or suspected; and either - (I) the child has died; or (ii) the child has been seriously harmed and there is cause for concern as to the way in which the authority, their Board partners or other relevant persons have worked together to safeguard the child".
In April 2015, Cumbria LSCB began a Serious Case Review (SCR) in relation to the services that were provided to Children P and their family. Children P were two siblings born in 2007 and 2009 and resided with their maternal grandmother and her partner until July 2013. The family was well known to a considerable number of agencies because of issues related to a serious history of inter-generational sexual abuse, alcohol and drug misuse, domestic violence and mental ill health. The mother and her siblings had been subject to child protection plans during 2005 under the category of sexual abuse and neglect.
If you work with children and families in Cumbria, there may be additional specific actions and lessons for your agency and your role. Please ask your manager, or contact your representative on the Cumbria Local Safeguarding Children Board, to find out more.
When a child protection plan category changes it is incumbent upon the conference chair to ensure that the new plan takes account of the history and any outstanding actions including assessments that have not been addressed within the previous plan. This case highlights the importance of clear, full and accurate recording of the history of the child or young person, including their understanding and knowledge of their family. Transfer summaries and chronologies are essential tools for workers and their supervisors to rely on.
Practitioners and managers must equip themselves with up to date knowledge of child sexual abuse including age appropriate sexual behaviour in children.
A history of sexual abuse must be taken into account in risk assessments to determine the carer's ability to keep children safe.
Parental alcohol and substance misuse assessments should be multi-agency and practitioners must ensure that resultant plans are child focussed, timely, address the risks to children in order to effectively safeguard them.
This case highlights the importance that assessments relating to drug and alcohol misuse in respect of the parents and other care givers must include a thorough analysis of how their substance misuse poses a risk to the children. In addition, other known risk factors of parental emotional and physical ill health and domestic violence should be examined in relation to substance misuse.
Practitioners should consistently use chronologies and LSCB Neglect Tools to understand and assess the emerging pattern of risks over time.
Risk assessment, analysis and decision making in cases of neglect must be child focussed.
Where private law orders are supported by a local authority, managers and practitioners must continue to assess whether the order remains in the child's best interest and should this position alter, timely action must be taken to inform the court of the revised position.
Multi-agency meetings are an essential part of the child protection planning process and therefore multi-agency professionals must ensure that the child protection plan is child focussed and implemented as a detailed working tool.
Practitioners should assess the risk of domestic abuse in teenage (under 18) intimate relationships to take account of factors such as: intergenerational domestic abuse, older partners, teenage parent's exposure to sexual, physical, emotional abuse and neglect. Where the victim of domestic abuse is a teenager under 18, professionals should always consider a referral to Early Help or MARAC, and MARAC decision-making must reflect the increased risk for this age group.
Any frontline agency representative that undertakes a risk assessment with a domestic abuse victim, and thereby determines that their case meets the high risk threshold, can refer a victim's case to a local MARAC. The threshold for MARAC is high risk with 14 or more ticks on the SafeLives-DASH Risk Indicator Checklist or where professional judgment warrants a MARAC referral.
Professionals working with parents who are under 18 years of age should use family history, chronology and genealogy to identify patterns of risk to ascertain whether the parent should have their own plan addressing their needs as an individual child beyond an assessment of their parenting capacity – threshold decisions must be documented for both the parent and their child(ren).
This case highlights the need for practitioners to understand and consider the impact of trauma and abuse on young parents.
Sharing learning from serious case reviews in order to improve safeguarding practices is vital. We use the recommendations from case reviews to improve safeguarding of children and young people.
If you would like to discuss this briefing or any of its contents then please speak to your line manager, your representative on the LSCB or contact the LSCB Office, Cumbria House, 117 Botchergate, Carlisle, CA1 1RD. Email firstname.lastname@example.com
LSCB response to Children P Report
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Join us on October 31st for our Librarian Zombie Walk to City Hall!!!
"So it's time for mid year budget adjustments. What's that you say? I thought we were done until next year! Nope. The mid year budget adjustment will result in a further cut of 5.4%. These new cuts will result in even less service hours and more layoffs.


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Not Rachel Mathews of Mill Race fame? I have very fond memories of the garden centre in my early days (if of course it the right place otherwise a huge hole is being dug).
I am doing a similar thing to you now with GardenEye, having done landscape construction for many years and now design. My blog – very new and not half as good as yours, is aimed at customers understanding the landscaping process – and covers similar but different things than yours – such as a wish list, budget, budget again, sentimentality and what landscaper to use – to start with. You might find it interesting. https://gardeneye-eye.blogspot.com/
I really look forward to following you and hearing more about your take on the process. In short a great site


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A number of committees carry out the work of the Academy.
Leadership/Policy Committee
This committee splits its focus between leadership development (including succession planning, mentorship, and leadership education) and drafting position/policy statements to guide and inform the work of ACEN and its members. Members of ACEN may submit ideas for position statements to be evaluated against the policy-screening tool by the committee. Those accepted by the committee are assigned to a committee-working group to draft the policy/position statement, which is then reviewed by the whole committee. To date, the committee has prepared three position statements. The committee has also been instrumental in the initial work of the National Nursing Quality Report initiative.
For a list of committee members: ACEN Professional Development Committee members 2017
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This committee is charged with overseeing and reviewing the ACEN budgets. The committee reviews financial statements and offers advice on keeping ACEN financially stable as well as develop and review financial policies and procedures.
For a list of committee members: ACEN Finance Committee members 2017
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The mandate of the ACEN Professional Development Committee is to assess the professional development needs of the membership, to organize educational sessions on current topics of interest and to make recommendations to the Executive on potential educational opportunities that may benefit the membership. The Committee takes a proactive role in professional development by identifying ACEN members needs for professional development, organizing appropriate topics for the ACEN Cross Canada Check-ups and recommending other professional development opportunities that may be of interest to the membership.
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I've always had a fascination with cemeteries, especially old ones. As I walk through looking at the headstones I often wonder what they did in life, if family members still visit them, if they would be happy with the inscription on their tombstone. I know I'm not alone in this, as my family enjoys it as well. AND…if you're thinking that my family is just weird, Edgar Lee Masters published a book (one of my favorites…not so oddly enough) basically written the by answering the same questions I ask myself. While visiting with my family in NC, we stopped by the Riverside Cemetery. Talk about gorgeous!
They have some beautiful mausoleums. Some have stained glass windows, others have items sitting on the stone tops (inside) as a tribute to the person. This was one that I thought was pretty because of the life growing around it.
Then, signs of Spring were popping up. There were these beautiful purple flowers sprouting up everywhere!
My Sister-in-Law and I agreed that things would be more interesting if people would put cause of death on the tombstones. We saw one that had the cause of death a railway crash.
We did see some interesting statements on the tombstones though. My favorite of which was:
There were soldiers from all different wars buried here. For example, there were a few from the Revolutionary War:
Some from the Spanish-American War:
There were also some famous North Carolinians that you may recognize. First was O. Henry (AKA Sydney Porter…think Gift of the Magi):
I'm not sure why people were putting pennies on his headstone, but I assume it probably has something to do with him being accused of embezzlement when he was a bookkeeper in Austin, TX (yes really…). However, it may have some other meaning as well.
The other famous writer was Thomas Wolfe. He has a couple of quotes from his works on his headstone. People put little rocks on top of his headstone as a tribute:
One of his more notable writings is Look Homeward, Angel which is an autobiographical account (although it is a fictional work, many of the characters are built on his family and his experiences in NC) of his life in Asheville, North Carolina and the death of his brother (who was only 26).
Since Thomas Wolfe was an Asheville native, his home is now a memorial site and for a dollar, you can tour his home. We drove by it but didn't get a chance to do the tour.
The information center at Riverside Cemetery has a walk through tour print out that you can use as you look through the cemetery to learn about some of the other famous individuals there. Some of them are just famous North Carolinians and some are national figures. If you're in the area, it's worth stopping by and taking a look.


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Mr. Holbrooke experienced health problems in August, when he underwent treatment for heart problems and canceled one of his frequent trips to Afghanistan and Pakistan.
On Friday morning, he was taken to George Washington University Hospital after he became flushed and suffered chest pains during a meeting with Clinton.
He underwent a 21-hour operation that ended on Saturday to repair his aorta.
As Mr. Holbrooke was sedated for surgery, family members said, his final words were to his Pakistani surgeon: "You've got to stop this war in Afghanistan.
Richard Holbrooke, WikiLeaks and Afghanistan
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Restaurant Review: Cafe Bamboo, New Orleans, Louisiana
The last time I was in New Orleans, I had trouble finding good vegetarian food with a "local flavor". Cajun cooking relies heavily on sausage and seafood. In fact, even traditional red beans and rice are cooked with ham hocks. Now, with the introduction of Cafe Bamboo, vegetarians now have an oasis in this meat-centric city.
I came to Cafe Bamboo on an early weekday night and there were a few customers already in the restaurant. It's an easy walk from the French Quarter. Just walk all the way through the French Market and go around the Louisiana State Museum and Old Mint Museum.
I readily fell in love with the place because it looks like a comfy "lived in" neighborhood bar. As a bonus there is a beautiful outside patio, so I was able to take advantage of the warm spring weather while eating my meal.
I ordered the collard green rolls that were described as "hand-rolled and stuffed with seasoned collard greens and "ham" chunks". The sweet chili pepper dipping sauce added the right amount of zip to the dish. My only complaint is that I wished there was more on the plate. It was a perfect appetizer for one person, but if I was sharing, it would leave me wanting more.
I had a hard time deciding on what kind of entree to get. The menu is full of great Louisiana cooking including red beans and rice, soul crispy fried "chicken" and voodoo sticks or grilled seitan beef and pepper kabobs. There were also several wraps, sandwiches, pasta and rice bowls.
I finally decided on the bourbon chicken dinner. The spinach was delicately cooked and the mashed sweet potatoes were flavorful. Honestly, I would have preferred having a little more of the sides and less of the BBQ chicken. Don't get me wrong, the BBQ chicken was very good but there was a little too much of it and not enough of the sides.
As the evening geared up, I was entertained and amused by the staff coming out of the kitchen and singing along with the music playing over the speakers. It's really a relaxed atmosphere and I can see how it could get quite lively as the evening goes on. The service was very good and they were very attentive.
Cafe Bamboo has only been around since January 2009. I hope this great vegetarian restaurant succeeds in this city of meat-heavy cuisine. I wished I had a few more free moments on my trip so I could steal away to this vegetarian nirvana. I think they'll get a lot of local traffic but hungry vegetarian tourists should definitely seek this place out. It's worth the trip.
Cafe Bamboo (at the Dragon's Den)
435 Esplanade Ave.
New Orleans, LA 70116
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The BBC and Sky are teaming up to promote 4K ultra high definition television with a 'UHD ready' sticker.
A new group of 4K fans, the UHD-Forum, is headed by industry body Digital TV Group along with representatives from Sky and Auntie Beeb.
Other members include broadcasters and standards bodies like the Digital Production Partnership and the Forum for Advanced Media in Europe (the spectacularly-monikered FAME), who will unite to make sure UHD is properly understood and that UHD kit from different manufacturers plays nice together.
The goal is to come up with a 'UHD ready' sticker, like the 'HD ready' logo slapped onto high-tech tellies and other gear in the run-up to the high definition revolution.
UHD is chiefly known for its incredibly detailed picture -- Sony sells TVs with 3,840x2,160 pixels, crisp enough to see adverts on the fingernails of Wimbledon stars. But it's set to be more than that, hence the change in name to UHD rather than simply 4K. The standard will be about more than just pixels, but colour, frame rate and dynamic range too.
At the moment there isn't much in the way of stuff to watch in 4K, but you can buy UHD TVs if you have a few grand burning a hole in your pocket. Samsung's 55 and 65-inch UHD TVs cost £4,000 for 4K, as do Sony's UHD TVs. When 4K becomes more common prices should come down.
Are you looking forward to 4K UHD, or is HD more than enough? Share your thoughts in the comments or on our Facebook page.
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Mandy Hager [pictured] called the words below…"utter scaremongering twaddle" and I agree completely…the argument put forward by the writer are so typical of the Roger Douglas period of our history…when money and greed took charge of our once democratic society and the word WE was lost in the rush to use the word I.
Unlike the Stuff writer I have faith in the younger generation and their now correct perception of the neoliberal bunch that took over our country and directed all the wealth into the greedy fingers of the few.
The younger generation are paying for all that mismanagement and private company takeover of New Zealand's collective wealth. The young know only too well of the takeover of various profitable enterprises once own by us all. The young are now heavily in debt because of the student loans system introduced twenty odd years ago.
Martin Van Beynen who wrote the stuff item must be living in some world unknown to the rest of us…and I'm no chicken…he is the strange chap that believes there is no inequality in NZ. He is a sort of a reincarnation of Roger Douglas and Ruth Richardson and even John Banks mixed into one unintelligent pen pusher. Here is what he wrote, in part:
"It's also understandable why young voters should find the socialism espoused by Corbyn, essentially a reactionary, attractive.
They are simply too young to have lived through a big government, highly regulated, state-ownership economy or to remember much about the disastrous socialism experiment in the Soviet Union.
Corbyn's United Kingdom would see a return to collective bargaining, nationalised rail, post and water, a free national health and education service, high taxes on the rich and massive Government investment in infrastructure. It sounds very much like New Zealand pre-1984.
Young New Zealand voters won't remember the endless strikes and ubiquitous regulation. Yes wages were high but only for workers with unions who could hold the country to ransom.
If school holidays were coming up, the seamen would stop the ferries across Cook Strait. When stock was banking up at the freezing works, the freezing workers would go out. The wharves were centres of industrial blackmail, pilfering and inefficiency.
It took weeks to get a telephone installed and New Zealand set world records for the length of time it took to construct anything. Yes we protected our industries but that led to cronyism, high prices and lousy quality. We had about one per cent unemployment but how many people actually worked?
The country ignored international realities.
By 1984, New Zealand was struggling with crippling balance of payments and budget deficits, was heavily subsiding exports and regulation, which had been used to freeze prices, had gone as far as it could go. A financial crisis was imminent.
The correction, when it came, was brutal, perhaps unnecessarily so, but choices were limited.
Perhaps the outlook for young voters in New Zealand is not nearly as bleak as those in UK, US and France but they will share some of the same views.
Our parties, desperately competing for the middle ground, will be wondering how they can harness this young voter disillusion. A bribe around education is always a good idea.
But tired, old solutions proposed by the likes of Sanders and Corbyn have been tried before and failed to produce a golden age. Young voters need a reminder".
If you feel up to the strain you can read his whole ramble…
It's not hard to accept that this year is an election year…and the Nats will need every bit of PR propaganda they can muster from their friends in the MSM. I believe that young people are on the move especially when it comes to understanding the massive double cross behaviour that was forced onto them by the now discredited neoliberal money manipulators. Why because they [the young] are now having to pay the price for the greed and selfishness of my generation. The great bulk of my generation are now seeing only too clearly the fatal and life damaging results that we though our blindness and greed have left behind for the younger generation to repair.
Van Beynen is of Dutch extraction, van Beynen was born in Christchurch.[1] He lived in west Auckland from the age of 11.[1] He was educated at St Peter's College, Auckland[2] where he played rugby union.[3] He attended the University of Auckland where he studied law, graduating in 1981.[1] He gained a M.A. in 1982.[2] Van Beynen is married with three children and lives in Diamond Harbour, Banks Peninsula.[1]
All his education was funded by the tax payers of the time…no student debt for him…
Have a happy week and never forget you are back bone of a nation that is rediscovering a collective and caring society...you are among the most important people in the world.
Peter J Wheeler


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— GM has asked regulators for an exemption to existing safety rules so it can deploy self-driving cars without steering wheels or pedals. The automaker announced today that it filed a petition with the U.S. Department of Transportation to "safely deploy" a self-driving car — its Cruise AV — in 2019.
Related: 2019 Audi A8 Has High Self-Driving Capability — Are We Ready?
It's a bold move from GM, the automaker behind Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet and GMC. But it's been in the making for at least 18 months, given GM acquired self-driving tech firm Cruise Automation in mid-2016. The Detroit automaker intends the aptly named Cruise AV to perform ride-hailing services in limited areas. It's the fourth generation of GM's self-driving car.
The all-electric runabout looks like a retrofitted Chevrolet Bolt EV — unsurprising, given the new Bolt EV serves as GM's self-driving platform — with a symmetrical dashboard that swaps the steering wheel and instrument panel for a mirrored layout of the passenger-side dash. As is common for self-driving prototypes, the Cruise AV employs dozens of sensors, with five lidar, 16 camera and 21 radar sensors in total.
In a 33-page report on the effort, GM noted extensive development of the car in San Francisco and Phoenix, promising it had "evaluated potential failure modes for all systems" and addressed them to ensure safety and reliability. That enables the automaker to "safely take the next step — elimination of the steering wheel, pedals and other manual controls."
That gets thorny. GM says it's complied with the government's latest automated driving guidelines, but the legalities of control-free cars are complex. Every new car sold in the U.S. must comply with a host of Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards, which mandate standards for everything from electronic stability systems to passenger impact protection. Among the standards are rules for rearview mirrors, accelerator pedals and more — features missing in GM's control-free car.
"Where FMVSS cannot be met because they are human-driver-based requirements, the vehicle will meet the safety purposes of those standards," GM's report said.
The automaker added that it will work with regulators to develop new safety standards and petition for "permission to meet the safety purpose of a standard through alternative means."
Asked for comment, two DOT spokespeople did not immediately respond.
Amid regulatory hurdles and technology validation, fully autonomous cars remain limited to fleet usage in small pilot programs. Most have driver controls and technicians behind the wheel if an override is necessary. Some — like the cars from Waymo, the self-driving division of Google parent Alphabet Inc. — are moving to driverless variants. But Waymo's self-driving fleet still has controls. Google debuted an autonomous runabout without them in 2014, but it limited the car to low speeds around its test facilities. When the car took to limited public roads a year later, the company added controls and a backup driver.
GM envisions a "controlled deployment," where the Cruise AV takes on ride-hailing duties only in geofenced areas with roads that have high-definition map data. Riders will request rides through a mobile app, then set the climate and radio stations before it arrives. Touchscreens inside will give real-time ride status and remind them to buckle up and close the doors, and the Cruise AV will have emergency buttons to communicate with support personnel or end the ride.
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I now know for sure when I am moving! WOOHOO! hehe. I move this coming Friday! I'm so excited to get into my nice, new, HEALTHY, apartment 🙂
Tomorrow is Family Day in Canada… what's funny is very few Canadians even remember it let a lone celebrate. Apparently it's only a couple years old though. Any Canadians out there celebrate this? I don't think we have… This year for good old Family Day, my mom, sis, and grams are coming over and we're moving a bunch of the boxes, and bags of bedding, clothing, etc. over to the apartment. It will be nice to have stuff that can be put away and set up done, so I don't have to worry about it after the move.
I made my little list of stuff to get help getting from disability. I don't know if it will be accepted, but I sure hope so! I asked for a bar stool I found, with a back rest, so I can get my legs up, to use for doing dishes in the kitchen, a coat stand bc the only closet is off the bedroom, a couch I found at the Brick, and a reg. light vacuum that comes apart into a hand vacuum to use for furniture, and sucking up gross spiders… the bastards! lol, and a book shelf for in the living room. I have a big one already, but it doesn't hold all my stuff between my books and movies! There's not a LOT of storage space like I've been spoiled to have here, so the less I have to pack away into the one closet, the better!
The dentist went good! The girl dentist, who normally works at their other office is sooo quicker than my normal dentist! I really like her personality too! She tried filling some of my cavities without freezing… and OMG lol it was painful!!! She ended up having to freeze two for me and the rest I pushed myself through the pain. With the epinephrine and me being in pain, it shot my adrenalin through the roof! I felt fine, but I was mad shakey and really dizzy at first. My mouth was swollen and pained, but nothing too bad! I could still eat and drink fine afterward. She agreed with me, when I go back to get the rest done (yes I still have more to go eek! lol damn heart issues) she's definitely just going to freeze me up like crazy bc that's better than putting me through that again.
Today I've been just working around the apartment packing more stuff, and now am out of boxes when I could be packing more! I think what I'll do, is after tomorrow bring the boxes back with me here and just repack what I have left in some of those. It will be easier to recycle them here anyway bc we don't have bins and stuff at the new place.
Not much else has been happening bc I've been in so much pain. Ever since I was upped on the Bisoprolol, it feels like my body is trying to cave in on itself. I think maybe it has affected my Fibromyalgia and the nerve damage in my Crohn's bc my stomach isn't being affected except that I'm getting horrible stomach pain like when I first got sick without all the other gross issues lol. I call it my Freddy Kruger fingers stomach pain lol. The crazy chest pain I was having is a lot better though. Even when you know it's POTS, it's still scary to have it none the less, and it was lasting for almost 2 weeks! Freaked me out, but now it's just little bits of pain every once in a while not none stop 🙂
Tuesday, I go in to see the Neurologist. I'm excited, but not wanting to be too hopeful. I hear he usually only does studies on potsy's at MacMaster Uni. so I don't know if he will do much if anything for me, while I have a Cardiologist. I'm hoping if anything, he will do more autonomic testing on me… but not too sure. Will be interesting to see though what all he knows!
Alright, will write soon, but maybe not right away after the appointment with the move coming up. Will see what kind of time I have in between, otherwise, will write from my new place 🙂
Later Gaters!


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Embattled Labor MP Emma Husar Calls It Quits
Western Sydney Labor MP Emma Husar has called it quits, saying "it's a sad day".
She will not recontest the seat of Lindsay at the next federal election, telling Nine News: "I don't know that my reputation will ever recover".
Husar has been under investigation by the Labor Party over allegations of bullying and harassment in her office.
"Enough's enough," she told Nine News. "I'm going to do this on my terms.
"I'm not going to let people just keep pummeling me the way they have the for the last three weeks with no evidence, with no facts, and just vexatious, malicious allegations that are just designed to smear me."


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Every day I walk my kids to school, and often lots of neighbourhood children join us. Sometimes I feel like the Pied Piper!
But last Friday I was by car because I had run some errands. As I was gathering my children, a little neighbourhood boy skidded to a stop with his scooter just before he hit me and shouted happily: Hello Otsmom*!'
'Hi Armand! Today I'm by car!'
'Ooh...' he replied looking all woebegone, so I said: 'You know what? Just throw your scooter in the back of the car, and you can drive home with us.'
A few days later I went to pick up the kids up again, and I was wearing this stupid hat, because I'ld just washed my hair and was afraid of catching a cold. Along came Armand, who took one look at me and said: 'You look great with that hat, Otsmom!' then he slipped his hand in mine and whispered: 'I drove in you car Otsmom'.
It made me think of the saying: 'You will reap what you sow.'
I had sown some friendliness and helpfullness and I harvested friendliness and a little hand in mine!
*My fourth child's name is Ot, and the neighbourhood children call me 'Otsmom'
Saturday, December 6, 2008
'You will reap what you sow'
Every day I walk my kids to school, and often lots of neighbourhood children join us. Sometimes I feel like the Pied Piper!
Posted by Nicole Orriëns at 4:01 AM
Labels: Religious mothering
5 comments:
- Firefly said...
Hey, just stopping by to see how are things going :)
- December 6, 2008 at 3:07 PM
- irel said...
lol,the same thing to em at school when I eat lunch with my kids. I am known as Shaun's mom or Ethan's mom. lol
- December 7, 2008 at 7:48 AM
- mrsbear said...
What a sweet moment. I've also been someonesmom, depending of course on which class we're talking about since three of my kids are already in school. My oldest's friend always calls me by my first name which surprised me a little, I almost prefer someonesmom. Thanks for stopping by today and commenting.
- December 7, 2008 at 10:12 AM
- attygnorris said...
You're right. We have to plant good seeds of understanding, love, kindness and compassion because that's what we want to come back to us.
- December 7, 2008 at 3:59 PM
- Leah said...
what a sweet story. made me smile. thanks.
- December 9, 2008 at 1:17 PM


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We interrupt this non-stop Oscar Party blogging to bring you any other project I've been working on. In this case, it's knitting project #2: a newborn baby pouch. What can I say – it's so stinking adorable – I couldn't stop myself! Thank goodness I have friends who have newborn babies and love me enough to put up with totally ridiculous and worthless gifts! I really can conceive of no actual purpose for this item aside from these delightful pictures of Hilary's new baby. I did however suggest it could potentially be used as a mullet style knitted cap if push comes to shove….I'm still waiting on those pictures. I'll keep you posted. But in the mean time, enjoy these yummy baby shots instead!
I found the Buttoned-up Baby Wrap on Ravelry and ran right out to pick up some new yarn and the chunkiest circular needles I'd ever seen! I knitted a project in about 2 days, which for me is like a land speed record compared to the easy baby blanket which took oh, um, like 5 months. ya know.
I did have some trouble with the reductions at the end – I kept ending up a few stitches off from the pattern, but I made it work. Since it's not going to get heavy use, I think we're going to be OK.
Thanks to Hil for sharing the pictures!