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When Michigan started adding 2015 commits, I thought that was really early for these kids to make a verbal commitment. Well, yesterday Michigan received a 2016 commitment from Erik Swenson a 4 star (Scouts) Tackle prospect from Downers Grove, Il. Big E is 6'7 and around 290 pounds and clearly will be one of the top players in the 2016 class. He had offers from ND, OSU, Virginia Tech, Illinois and Northwestern already.
He is clearly still a raw player as he develops his blocking skills as he should be at this point in his development. With camps and some good coaching, he is going to be a very nice prospect for future Michigan teams.
- Here is the recruiting visitor list for Saturday. I hope they really love the campus!
- Christian Bryant and Ryan Shazier from OSU has already started talking trash for Saturday. All the Wolverines can do is stay quiet and try to prove their point on the field on Saturday.
- Brady Hoke press conferences are a waste of time.
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Well it's that time of year again. My Facebook timeline is flooded with either pink ribbons and sparkly pink memes touting breast cancer awareness and "Save second base!" or articles and memes that almost border on angry that people are making light of a horrible disease and how we should fund research not awareness. I would say I fall somewhere in the middle of these two categories.
I would say that I am keenly aware of breast cancer. I don't need more awareness in my life. I watched my grandmother fight a long hard battle with it that she eventually lost. I met my biological mother for the first time who later passed away after battling the disease. She died the day before my grandmother died..which if that's not irony I really don't know what is. I had my struggles too, with the testing and the waiting and the wondering. Then, if you read previous entries you'll know, my mastectomy was hardly a walk in the park. To this day I still get sharp pains or dull sensations in what now serve as my breasts. I'm not entirely happy with them but what woman is ever entirely happy with her body? But I'll take that over a cancer diagnosis any day.
But I digress.
The point is, WE GET IT. We all know breast cancer exists. Calling this "breast cancer awareness month" is almost pointless at times.
And the pink....lord jesus the pink. And don't get me wrong, I love pink. "Pink is my signature color" (If you don't know what that's from then you don't know me at all). It just is so disgusting that companies will throw a pink ribbon on their product, make some vague promise that you're helping breast cancer research and it FLIES off the shelf. The people buying it have the best intentions but the company gives little, if any, proceeds to actual breast cancer research. Do your homework! If you want to contribute, great! But make sure you know where your money goes. I only buy products that name a very specific reputable charity. Then you'll be really making a difference.
On the flipside, I celebrate October because of the people who've fought, and those who are no longer with us. THEY'RE the real heroes and they deserve to be celebrated. And we deserve a cure, so no one else has to earn the term "survivor" or "previvor" If I think I had it rough? I can't even imagine what these women go through.
Every October I remember how pleased Granny was with the month. She loved the pink ribbon and all of the awareness and celebration. She was so pleased the year that most of her grandchildren did Race for the Cure in her honor.
So wear your pink. Buy your pink products. Hug a survivor or someone who lost a loved one to breast cancer. Just remember to donate your money to actually finding a cure so that one day October won't be breast cancer anything any longer. And remember early detection is key....so feel up those girls and go get them smushed in a mammogram machine if it's time.
And amidst all of the pink and the pretty, just remember that breast cancer is not a pretty disease by any stretch of the imagination. And for the love of all things holy...don't start with those stupid Facebook games. Because I will find you. And I will kill you. (Again, if you don't know what it's from...)
Based on genetic risks, I decided to have a prophylactic bilateral mastectomy to manage my breast cancer risk. Enjoy reading all of the ups and downs (with a little bit of humor along the way) as I make the biggest decision of my life, which officially earns me the title of PREVIVOR
Friday, October 9, 2015
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Milk Music - 'Cruise Your Illusion'
The Olympia punks broaden their horizons with classic rock and country plucking, but keep their hardcore mentality intact
As policy U-turns go, Milk Music's debut doesn't quite match Liberal Democrat levels of sellout. The keen-eyed will notice that 'Cruise Your Illusion' is being released by Fat Possum, a Mississippi indie label best known for foisting The Black Keys on the world. This runs counter to the Olympia band's previous insistence that they're capable of fending for themselves without the help of record industry vultures. "What's the point of having a record label in fucking 2011?" frontman Alex Coxen once asked. Not much, but in fucking 2013 his band are dealing with more hype and minor distractions than they probably ever anticipated. They're hardly the first DIY punk rockers to palm off the more spreadsheet-y aspects of life onto someone else, nor will they be the last. Plus, in keeping with their previous vibes, Milk Music are self-releasing 'Cruise…' on vinyl.
The autonomy and singularity of this album is contained in its grooves, not its ethics, and its 43 minutes of idyllic grungy clatter-punk build on the considerable groundwork created by Milk Music's introductory 2010 EP 'Beyond Living'. The 12 songs on 'Cruise Your Illusion' boom self-confidence, and stand at the midway point between their fuzz-drenched punk origins and the classic rock Milk Music now claim to draw on (the Stones and Neil Young, for example). As with 'Beyond Living', production is handled by one Captain Trips Ballsington, an Olympia hardcore staple. The album opener – titled, with slightly misleading aggression, 'Caged Dogs Run Wild' – is a plaintive country-rock instrumental less than two minutes long. Elsewhere on the album there are fade-ins ('Illegal And Free') and fade-outs ('The Final Scene'), and Coxen calls someone "baby" – or more accurately "ba-beh" – on more than a couple of occasions.
Most received wisdom about 'Beyond Living' had it as a loving homage to a few time-honoured influences: Dinosaur Jr, Hüsker Dü, Nirvana or The Wipers, depending on the writer's level of alt.rock geekery. Naturally, Milk Music deny everything. The opening 10 seconds of 'Cruising With God' might not be a wilful tribute to Hüsker Dü's 'Don't Want To Know If You Are Lonely', but it's a safe bet that other people will spot the resemblance as well. In time, though, the song forges its own identity, with Coxen peeling off triumphant solos throughout.
The aforementioned 'Illegal And Free' ("Don't fuck with me man/I'm illegal and free") puts classic-rock axemanship through the same grainy filter Stephen Malkmus has utilised ever since Pavement's 'Brighten The Corners'. Except – whaddayouknow? – Coxen is a self-proclaimed Pavement-hater. But like Malkmus as a guitarist, Coxen offers multiple variations on 'accessible, but in a weird way' – shades of Television's Tom Verlaine pervade the unfussy minimalism of 'Crosstown Wanderer', and on the wonderful 'Dogchild', the twisted country plucking, nonchalant whistles and a peyote-muncher's sense of structure all recall Arizonian wizards the Meat Puppets. What Milk Music share with Pavement, Television and countless other free thinkers is less a sound, and more a mentality.
Punk rock may have inspired them to form a band, but their non-punk influences are in the foreground here. There are MBV-ish waves of feedback on 'No, Nothing, My Shelter', an ear-ringing beef-up of Springsteenian 'heartland rock' for the stirring 'Runaway', and even flickerings of krautrock on 'I've Got A Wild Feeling', where unsung drummer Joe Rutter and bassist Dave Harris create a clatter and thrum that doesn't let up.
It's tempting – and reasonable – at this point to compare 'Cruise Your Illusion' to 'New Moon', the new album by The Men, both bands being punk rockers looking to broaden their horizons. The highs on The Men's album are higher than Milk Music's, but 'Cruise Your Illusion' is the more cohesive statement. And 2013 has more than enough room for both of them.
Noel Gardner
Record label: Perennial
Release date: 01 Apr, 2013


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Instagram + Twitter
Super is an amazing new app created by +Biz Stone, one of the co-founders of +Twitter. The thing I love about this app is its playfulness. It has a fun augmented reality profile pic creation aspect which allows you to virtually put on different types of glasses. When you want to make a post you start by choosing some of the most popular colloquial terms from OMG, current status, love, dude to hey-oh. The interesting part about this is that it also changes every day and does not allow for modification. You must choose among the choices presented to you. Today if you want to post you have to pick between "I love,," "We should," "The best," and "The worst." The other thing that makes this app so unique is its content library. What ever you write about it will automatically generate a catalog of picture suggestions or you can search within the app. For example, when I wrote about billiards, after typing my limited characters (not sure by how many) it presented me with a whole bunch of beautiful billiard pictures to select from. This app, like +Instagram, is very design friendly and photography-centric. Super allows users to create amazing content and surf either friends posts or locally, like +Yik Yak. With more and more noise out there, sometimes what is local is all that might matter at that moment in time.
Facebook + Craigslist + Local Newspaper/Town hall
+Nextdoor is literally one of my favorite go to networks. If I want to find out what is going on locally in my neighborhood, I check it out From local events, to local police activity and crime, to local business recommendations, to neighborhood gossip; it is like the city town hall meeting all wrapped up into an app. If someone is looking for a plumber or if they want to sell or give away their couch, they post it here. Need a babysitter, tech help, or heard a loud noise, post it on Nextdoor. Nextdoor is designed like a community discussion board, where you can either post to your extremely localized neighborhood which basically is a mile or two in radius, or you can post to all the little neighborhoods in your city. Additionally, every neighborhood is a closed fence - you cannot see or access anything outside of your city. You can either like a post or comment, and it is a purely time based organic feed with the most recent always at the top, refreshing based on comments. There are no advertisements and you can completely control your privacy settings, deciding to either show it to your neighborhood, or the entire city. You can choose whether to show your full address, the street you live on, or nothing at all. With either postcard or cellphone confirmations for accounts, this network is as absent of fake accounts and abuse as any network will ever get. Everyone is always very polite and respectful, aside from the occassional heated conversation about conserving water or little neighborly spats. With the world getting smaller everyday, what a better place to start getting to know your neighbors than by using Nextdoor.
+Pinterest has become one of my recent favorite networks. The thing I like most about Pinterest is the ability to organize ideas and content, and know that it will always be there when you go back. In doing internet research I used to post things on Facebook and Twitter, so that I could not only share it but go back for future reference. However, what I discovered was that not only was that completely time consuming, but literally sometimes it wouldn't be there. This infuriated me for sometimes I couldn't remember the company name, product or press organization that had published it. Additionally, lately I've been using it a lot to formulate my ideas for future articles. Essentially, each one of my boards is an outline for an article, or could be. Pinterest is also one of best networks for selling products and merchandise. People that go there are at least 2x more likely to purchase a product than on Facebook or Twitter. And lastly, I love the beautiful content that they curate for me. Based on the boards I follow and the pins that I like, their algorithm picks tremendous personally curated content that has kept me at times on the network obsessively all day.
I haven't used Yo much but based on +Robert Scoble's evangelizing, I had to try it out. Yo! is a trendy simple little app which allows you to merely send a Yo! to someone, with or without your location details. Rather than call someone, first send them a Yo! to see if they are available. If you are just thinking of someone and want to let them know, send them a Yo!
Yik Yak
I used to be turned off by +Snapchat and refused to get on it or use it simply because I thought people would be sending me naughty pics and/or asking and expecting them of me. If a guy asked if I was on it, I would quickly say no. However, now, though I don't use it that much (partially because not many of my friends do), I quite like it. It allows you to share pictures and video, without having to worry too much about whether you like the pic or video, or whether you will like it tomorrow. Essentially, it is a more sincere and real form of communication. Rather than sending someone a text or email, you simply snap them. One of the other features that I really like is the event stories that they have started to share. A few months ago I was able to watch the collage of all the most popular snaps from Germany's Oktoberfest. Like all the social networks, Snapchat is helping break down the barriers between countries and languages, helping us understand each other better. I additionally greatly appreciate Evan Spiegel's innovative approach. Recently they added Snappay, allowing people to quickly send money, and surely will continue to be mobile.
+AnonyMess is an app that I actually haven't even used before (it's only available on iOS currently), but since I met with the two founders, +Marcus Perezi-Tormos and +David Mendlewicz I thought I'd include a reference. AnnonyMessenger is a new app created by two Belgium's which is kinda like Snapchat except you can only send messages to the people in your phone book and the person sending the message always stays anonymous. If you want to get someone's real opinion or doubt if they gave it to you the first time, +AnonyMess them, and see what gets pulled out of the hat. Within this app, just like +Snapchat you can send someone a pic and not have to worry about it's after life. You can delete it at any time and if you delete it, it gets deleted on both ends. It also incorporates an easy blurring functionality so that you can blur out faces or things of those your are trying to delude.


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Nan (Mum) new to instagram is now an apple fangirl.
Mr theoldboathouse noticed we have a school price list from 2004 in our kitchen. Chauncy and Frankie have now both left chac.
Great piece of Trench Art
Lotte's school break up today ~ Twirly pinwheels for her friends and homemade Jellyskins
Have been having a good sought out of my shelves at the WAC
Still got a few more to go....
Time for tennis
Don't forget the best way to keep up with the old boathouse these days is by following @katherinetheoldboathouse on instagram on your phone or tablet. Or going to Instagram.com/katherinetheoldboathouse on your PC or Mac


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I've been thinking about the place of self-publishing in the creative nonfiction (CNF) world since last summer when I participated in a round-table discussion on publishing in which my perspective as a self-published blogger was not well received. Granted, I was flustered and may not have represented my point well, but it seems that while fiction writers are embracing self-publishing a little at a time, the CNF community largely rejects it and sees any writer who pursues it as naive, vain, and delusional.
There's a belief among CNF writers that association with a traditional publisher lends us credibility. Obviously, credibility is essential to anyone who writes nonfiction. Additionally, we believe that being accepted by the publishing establishment proves our worth as writers. I don't know why we still believe this because I've seen plenty of truly awful books published the old fashioned way, but we cling to this idea like a middle schooler trying to believe in Santa Claus.
The flip side of our over-valuing of traditional publishing is that we believe self-publishing devalues our work. We believe if it were any good, an editor would have picked it up or that if the writer were not so lazy, she would have shopped it around. These are self-defeating assumptions rooted in intellectual classism, which tells us someone Up There, some overdressed academic in a sky scraper is a more qualified judge of our work than we are.
This may be vain of me, but I disagree. It's true that writers get attached to our favorite sentences (no matter how awful they are) and everyone can use editorial help, but if we decide what's good writing based on what's popular, then it's no surprise mainstream literature is going the way of pop music. Hint: Incredibly innovative and beautiful music is still being made every day, but you're not going to hear it on your top 40 station.
Some writers will say, "aim high and work your way down," a piece of advice I heard repeated many times at Goucher last summer. I get it. Everyone wants to publish big. Everyone wants a book deal. I want to be paid an advance and have a publisher finance my trip around the world so I can write about it, but those opportunities are increasingly rare. So you can pursue that, and that's great because sometimes that path works out for people. But it very often doesn't work out, and even traditionally published authors suffer from low sales numbers and awkward party conversations in which you have to explain your book to people who have never heard of it and are only pretending to be interested. So if that path looks miserable to you, pick something else.
Self-pub is equally difficult and lacking in guarantees, but it's no less valid. Yes, there is a risk of entering a flooded market, but there's also the possibility that your audience will find you where a publishing house wouldn't have reached them. Maybe they wouldn't have given your weird book a chance. Maybe "that's not selling this year." Maybe they just don't think anyone cares about your story. But if you care enough about your story to write it, you should write it. And if it's important to you to publish it, you should publish it.
If you want to be a famous writer and sell millions of books, I can't tell you how to do that. I'm not even sure I'd want to do that if I knew how. What I do want is the ability to write what matters most to me and reach people in a meaningful way. Self-publishing gives me the opportunity to do that and the control the do it in a way that's sustainable for me. And by sustainable, I mean it doesn't make me hate my life. That's goal number one.
At the end of the day, it's up to writers to decide the future of publishing. The more we cater to "what sells," the more mainstream literature homogenizes just like pop music. Independent musicians, film makers, and fiction writers have taken it upon themselves to do their work and publish it regardless of the nod from on high, but for some reason, the CNF community can't do that. The only reason I can see is fear:
- fear that you lack the credibility and validation supplied by a publishing house.
- fear of being seen as a lesser writer by your peers.
- fear of having to explain self-publishing to people.
- fear that you'll never sell enough books to make any money.
- fear that you will publish something terrible and no one will have the heart to tell you.
- … or that they will.
- fear that you will negate future opportunities by marring yourself with the sin of self-publishing.
In other words, the CNF community still believes that self-publishing is not for serious writers, so I think it's time we clear this up:
If you write and you're serious about it, you're a serious writer. If you write and you laugh about it, you're a humorous writer. If you write and you're a judgmental jerk about it, guess what that makes you. 🙂


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Knight Capital's market-making desk has suffered a significant blow following the company's disclosure that it would lose $440 million and was facing liquidity concerns.
Business Insider analyzed Knight's share of trading as reported through Bloomberg over the past week.
What we found: Knight's share of executed trades has plummeted across the board.
The firm, which often ranks as one of the top brokerages executing — neck and neck with UBS, Merrill Lynch, and Citadel— ranks as the 15th largest market maker through early-afternoon trade.
In the subsequent charts, we show Knight's trading share of several key stocks and ETFs.


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Reader Feedback: Readers Remember When They Bought Their First Home Computer
A Reader Recalls First Encounter With a Burroughs B3500
In reference to Joe Feeley's "Computers: We, the Digital Immigrants," (March 2014) my first encounter was with a Burroughs B3500. I was an operator/end user and field engineer for Burroughs. Card readers/punches, paper-tape readers, 132-character line printers, magnetic tape drives and 42-in. sealed hard drives were all state-of-the-art back then. It was literally a room full.
Magnetic tape drive encoding techniques were rapidly evolving to try to cram more and more data into seven and then nine tracks. Some of those techniques are still used today on our disk drives.
CPU core memory (remember that?) was all of 48K words of 48 bits. Memory upgrades would take you up to a whopping 96K! That was when programming demanded efficiency and a most scrupulous use of carefully selected instructions.
Pretty well everyone had to be familiar with binary code, and some of the higher-level languages such as COBOL and FORTRAN. Internal logic was a mix of discrete silicon transistors and first generation TTL integrated circuits. Operator interface was a Model 35 teletype! CRTs were just starting to show up for that application in the early '70s.
However, the operating system was very advanced for its time. Some of the features still are retained today, such as multiprogramming (rapid sequential execution of instructions from different programs, so as to create the illusion that all programs are being executed simultaneously).
We could "simultaneously execute" 10 different programs at once. The operator challenge was to try to keep 10 jobs running for the most time on a shift. What competitive spirit! I will not bore you with the details of the various peripherals, but it can be said that each was a marvel of engineering for its day. Evolution was very rapid in order to keep ahead of the competition. So, some things just don't change.
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Marvelous Modern – Getting into it – Blue Staples: Part 2
By: Dale Pon
This is Part 2 of Modern Blue staples, for Part 1 go Here.
Blue is the colour of control and one way of doing this is by having more cards than the opponent (i.e. card advantage). Thus, aside from counterspells, Blue is also known for its card drawing capabilities. There are different kinds of card draw in Modern; you get a variety of cantrips which let you draw a card and do something useful, e.g. Gitaxian Probe, Twisted Image, Thought Scour, and even Spreading Seas; then you get the kind of draw spells which modify the order of your library to a degree (unfortunately the best spells of this sort, i.e. Ponder and Preordain, are banned in Modern because they're too good), e.g. Serum Visions, Sleight of Hand, and Telling Time; you also get the spells which just dig deeper into your library for a card, such as Forbidden Alchemy and Peer Through Depths; and lastly the kind that generates card advantage such as Think Twice and Visions of Beyond (if your graveyard is rather full).
Another thing Blue is known for is its ability to stall the game in an effort to control the game. This can be achieved by bouncing the opponent's creatures (using a card like Vapor Snag), or by tapping them (using a card like Gigadrowse). Creatures such as Kira, Great Glass-Spinner and Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir also serve to stall the opponent, the former by forcing the opponent to use two removal spells/abilities to get rid of one creature, the latter by only letting the opponent cast spells whenever they can cast sorceries.
This slows down the opponent and buys time for you to draw the right answer. Naturally, if you're like me you don't always draw the right answer, thus it becomes necessary to search your library for an answer, which Blue allows in the form of 'tutor' cards such as Mystical Teachings and Gifts Ungiven. Mystical Teachings allows you to search for a specific instant card, while Gifts Ungiven forces you to search for 4 cards with different names which doesn't initially sound very useful, but choosing your cards carefully can still result in you getting the desired result.
There are several other Blue staples in Modern that don't quite fall in any of the aforementioned "categories"; such as my friend Delver of Secrets, Snapcaster Mage, Vendilion Clique, Sower of Temptation, and Threads of Disloyalty.
I don't think Delver of Secrets needs much explanation, although you could always ask anyone who has faced the one mana 3/2 flier on Turn 2. Snapcaster Mage is an example of a card which creates "virtual card advantage" since you aren't actually getting more cards than the opponent, you're merely reusing an instant or sorcery in your graveyard, i.e. you're getting two cards worth of effect for one card. Vendilion Clique is a very useful flier which also serves as hand disruption, while Sower of Temptation and Threads of Disloyalty allow you to take control of an opponent's troublesome creature.
There are also several Blue cards, e.g. Merrow Reejerey, Pestermite, and Master of Etherium that are only staples for specific decks, i.e. Merfolk, Splinter-Twin and Affinity respectively. I won't really explain them here since they each have synergy in their respective decks.
That about wraps up an overview of Blue staples in Modern, although chances are I've missed a few, so feel free to add any in the comments.
Until next time!
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hey guys, ive searched-but couldnt find an answer, or maybe im just phrasing it wrong on the search field-but anywho-maybe you guys can help me out...
i have a 9700 on att with the latest bbm and for some contacts, I have to keep re-inviting them over and over again:oops:weird thing is that they still show on my contacts list-but everytime I bbm them, I have to keep re-inviting them:?.
it only happens to a few people on my contacts list(they're on diff carriers)
i've wiped my bb and re-installed .862 OS(vendor.xml-deleted) on it twice already and also re-installed bbm twice in both instances(bbm .66 and 1.38 and still does the same thing), so i dont know what else to do....
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Friday, August 7, 2015
*Stacking the Shelves & The Weekly Wrap-up* Week Ending 08/08/2015
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Ohh The Secret Fire seems good :O Think i'll check it out too.ReplyDelete
Have fun reading, Shelley! :)
Naga SanctuaryReplies
Thank you, Ella, and Thanks for stopping by!Delete
Ooh nice! Been seeing that first one on Netgalley a lot it seems! These are basically new to me reads! Hope you enjoy them all!ReplyDelete
My STS will be up tomorrow, be sure to stop by then if you can!
Have a GREAT day!
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Hi, Jessica! I'll stop by your blog tomorrow. Hopefully I'll find something I can add to my MONSTROSITY!Delete
Nice haul of books. I got denied for the Jim Butcher book, oh well. I hope you love all your new books.ReplyDelete
Grace @ Books of LoveReplies
Hi Grace. Sorry you were denied :( I've been dealing with that from a whole bunch of publishers on Edelweiss for some stupid reason.Delete
Great haul! I've not heard of any of these but I do hope that you enjoy them.ReplyDelete
Krystianna @ Downright DystopianReplies
Thanks, Krystianna!Delete
Gah, I got denied for the Jim Butcher novel! *sobs*ReplyDeleteReplies
Sorry to hear that B :( I bet you that if it was up on Edelweiss, I would have been denied. Guess I'll be posting my review on Talk!Delete
A new Jim Butcher series, awesome! Only ever read the first 3 books of Dresden series, heh/ReplyDeleteReplies
I didn't even get that far :( Always wanted to, but I have way too many other series to catch up on.Delete
The Secret Fire really intrigues me.. It has such an interesting concept, but I am still slight skeptical. I hope you enjoy it, and look forward to hearing your thoughts on it!ReplyDelete
Here is my StS
Justin @ Justin's Book Blog
Wow! Great Haul. Hope you enjoy them.ReplyDelete
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Social support from individuals of the same age or status holds promise as an effective, low-cost method to fight depression.
Researchers from the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System and University of Michigan Health System analyzed 10 randomized trials of peer support interventions for depression dating from 1987 to 2009.
In the review, programs in which patients and volunteers share information were found to reduce symptoms of depression better than traditional care alone and were about as effective as cognitive-behavioral therapy.
The analysis was the first of its kind to look at peer support specifically for depression, said lead author Paul Pfeiffer, M.D., M.S.
"Peer support is much less likely to be incorporated into the treatment of depression than for other conditions such as alcohol or substance abuse," Pfeiffer said.
"Our study combined data from small randomized trials and found peer support seems to be as effective for treating depression as some of the more established treatments."
The findings were recently published online ahead of print publication in General Hospital Psychiatry.
Peer support has been found to decrease isolation, reduce stress, increase the sharing of health information and provide role models, the study pointed out.
Since peer support programs often use volunteers and nonprofessionals — and can be done over the phone or Internet as well as in person — they have the potential to be widely available at relatively low cost, Pfeiffer said.
The need for additional coping options is important when one considers that one third of patients taking anti-depressants for major depressive disorder still experience significant symptoms after trying four medicines, and more than half of people who achieve remission of their symptoms relapse within a year, he added.
"As a field, we should be looking at how to integrate peer support components into primary care and specialty treatment of depression," Pfeiffer said, noting that additional, larger studies could also provide more insight.
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Sets from the movie Ondine shot in Beara starring Colin Farrell and Alicja Bachleda. The film was shot during the months of August and September 2008 in and around Castletownbere.
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First public showing of Ondine was in the Cinemobile up at the Beara Community School in Castletownbere on 3rd and 4th March
Roancarrig lighthouse where much of the Ondine film takes place. Click here to see more views
The Irish film 'Ondine' which was produced on the Beara Peninsula in the summer of '08 is due for release to the cinemas in Ireland, England and the US in March of this year. The leading role in the film is played by Colin Farrell and directed by Neil Jordan who also has a holiday home in the Beara peninsula. The story line is based on a simple fisherman, trawling off the Beara coast line, who catches a beautiful and mysterious woman in his nets (Alicja Bachleda), who appears to be dead, but miraculously comes back to life before his eyes. The film is a mix of myth and fantasy within the life of a fishing community. Many of the extras played in the film are Castletownbere locals. The film was shot in Pulleen harbour three miles west of Castletownbere town, with more scenes in Castletownbere town, Berehaven harbour and Bere Island. Colin Farrell is nominated for 'Best Actor in a Lead Role in Film' in the RTE 7th Annual Irish Film and Television Awards for his role in 'Ondine'. People of the Beara Peninsula are very excited to see the completed film on the big screen, and the producers of the film have informed Beara Tourism that the landscape and scenery seen in the film is breathtaking.
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No murder charge for 15-year-old girl in brother's slaying
GAINSVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A 15-year-old north Florida girl who authorities say fatally shot her 16-year-old brother after years of abuse at home pleaded no contest on Thursday to felony burglary and will receive probation and counseling.
The girl's probation will last until her 19th birthday, and is contingent upon her participation in counseling, and testifying truthfully in the case of her parents, who face felony child abuse charges, Third Circuit State Attorney Jeff Siegmeister said.
"This child has the best chance at a normal adult life by receiving the therapy and education she needs and residing in the setting of her current foster home," he said.
The girl and her 11-year-old sister were initially arrested on suspicion of murder after the Jan. 5 shooting in Lake City. No charges were filed against the younger sister.
The Associated Press is not naming members of the family because of the girls' ages and because of abuse allegations.
On Jan. 5, the girls and their 3-year-old sister were left by their parents in the care of their brother. The parents were away on a work-related truck drive.
Police say the brother locked the elder sister in her room, but when he fell asleep, she persuaded the 11-year-old to let her out.
She went outside and cut out the air conditioner of her parents' locked bedroom window to retrieve a pistol, which she used to shoot her brother in the neck.
Documents show that the elder girl suffered years of abuse, including being locked in her bedroom for days regularly with only a blanket and a bucket to use the bathroom.
In addition, documents showed that she had been sexually abused by her uncle, who was convicted in 2010. Authorities also said the children's mother had discovered the siblings having sex in 2011, but after an investigation by child welfare officials, no one was charged.
Siegmeister said all of the family's history and circumstances were taken into consideration in the decision not to pursue more serious criminal charges.
"This case is a tragedy to all those involved: the deceased, the two arrested children, as well as their 3-year-old sister who has been separated from them both. Further incarceration ... serves no deterrent, rehabilitative nor other societal interest."
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The committee established by Congress to advise the government on how to prevent another 9/11-scale attack recommended in its 2004 report that Congress get out of the way of the Department of Homeland Security and let its leaders do their job.
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The Department of Homeland Security says that in 2013, its staff held more than 1,650 congressional briefings and had 161 witnesses appear at 105 hearings. By Homeland Security's count, the hours it has spent to meet the demands of Congress cost the agency the equivalent of 66 work years.
It's not just a waste of taxpayer dollars, says House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul, but a misuse of the valuable resources that could be otherwise spent stopping the next terrorist attack.
"Congress has not done its job and it takes away from the primary focus and mission of protecting the American people," the Texas Republican said at a committee hearing Wednesday while holding up a map of the various committees DHS reports to. "This is dysfunctional. If you look up dysfunctional in the dictionary you will probably see this map."
McCaul says he wants to lead the effort to finally put in place the 9/11 Commission's recommendation to establish one point of oversight and review for the agency.
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9/11 Commission Chairman Thomas Kean said there was no one he talked to who didn't say congressional oversight was a major problem impeding antiterrorism efforts.
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Meet the Press | August 25, 2013
>> people gathered here in washington saturday to re-create the march on washington where dr. king gave his famous i have a dream speech. and it was exactly 50 years ago today, august 25th , 1963 , that dr. king and the executive secretary of the naacp, roy wilkins , appeared right here on "meet the press." many of you either already had the chance or will have the opportunity to see that special program as we have made it the original broadcast available to our nbc stations across the country. our roundtable joins us in just a moment. but first joining me now, the only living speaker from the march on washington , congressman john lewis . he spoke yesterday in front of the lincoln memorial .
>> you cannot stand by. you cannot sit down. you've got to stand up, speak up, speak out, and get in the way, make some noise!
>> congressman lewis, welcome back to "meet the press."
>> thank you very much, david, for having me.
>> what a moment. we actually have the two images. there you were 50 years ago as a 23-year-old speaking so powerfully and 50 years later an elder statesman, sir, if you don't mind ne saying.
>> i don't mind.
>> a pioneer of the civil rights struggle. that had to be quite a moment.
>> it was a moving moment to stand there in the same spot 50 years later where dr. king and others stood. i think in the past 50 years we have witnessed what i'd like to call the nonviolent revolution in america, a revolution of values, a revolution of ideas, and our country is a better country.
>> you know, the president will speak on wednesday in the same spot. he'll mark 50 years since the i have a dream speech. we've talked over the years, and you told me about a year and a half ago in your view a lot of people can't get comfortable with the idea of an african- american president even though what a testament to the progress and the dream that dr. king had. and you even said during your speech yesterday there are forces, there are people who want to take us back. what specifically are you talking about?
>> well, i hear people over and over again saying we want to take our country back. take it back where? where are we going? we need to go forward. we've made so much progress. i often think -- when i was growing up, i thought it was science that said white men, colored men, white women , colored women, colored waiting, those signs are gone. when i first came to washington in 1961 , the same year that president barack obama was born, to go on the freedom ride , black people and white people couldn't be seated on a bus or a train together to travel through the south. so can our children grow up and their children grow up, they will not see those signs. the only place that they would see those signs would be in a book, in a museum, or on a video.


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Overscheduled kids are not getting ahead
Soccer. Baseball. Basketball. Volleyball. Travel teams. Gymnastics. Dance. Tae kwon do. Piano. Violin. Band. Quiz Bowl. French Club. Latin Club. Science Olympiad. Required community service. AP classes. SAT prep. Homework, homework, more homework. Tutoring. Therapist.
When did family life become one giant to-do list?
For decades now, experts have been warning that our children are overbooked. The American Academy of Pediatrics has issued reports on the dangers of overscheduling: Young children deprived of playtime are missing an essential element of their cognitive, physical, social and emotional development. Preteens who specialize in one sport risk burnout and an increased risk of injury. High school students pressured to beef up their resumes can suffer from depression and anxiety.
It takes a toll on parents as well, not to mention the cost to shuttle kids among all those activities.
Despite what the marketers and neighbors might say, the truth is that our kids will still get into college even if they've never watched a Baby Einstein video, played on a travel soccer team or been president of the Medieval Literature Club.
"The parents who are over-the-top, you're never going to change," says Alvin Rosenfeld, a child psychiatrist and author of The Over-Scheduled Child: Avoiding the Hyper-Parenting Trap. "It's about the incessant pressure on the rest of us. It's very hard to have the inner fortitude to resist that pressure.
"This generation really does feel a commitment to the ultimate emotional outcome of their kids," he says. "Fifty years ago, parents were content to provide food, shelter and education. Today, much more is expected of you."
Then there's the new global economy to worry about. Our kids are competing against the whole world for jobs and slots at Harvard.
"We're very nervous. We want our kids to do OK in this new world. We want to prepare them -- as we should," says Rosenfeld. "But we tend to go over the top. We can't do anything in moderation; we're either 'supersize me' or on a diet."
The irony is that our traditional American strengths -- independence, thinking outside the box, creative problem-solving, the qualities that can best position us on the global stage -- develop best when kids have time to play, to dream, to dawdle.
As dean of admissions at Texas Christian University, Ray Brown sees evidence of overscheduled kids every day.
"It's happening here like it's happening at a lot of selective schools in this country," he says. "If you read the popular press, you read that all this overscheduling will lead to admission at the school of your choice."
That, however, is a myth, Brown says.
"If you are part of the great middle underneath that bell-shaped curve -- not the 1 or 2 percenters, the world-class musician, the world-class dancer, the world-class athlete -- but everybody else, it really doesn't matter if you're scheduled to the gills. That's not going to overcome a mediocre transcript."
In particular, Brown says he sees too much prepping for standardized exams. "If a kid would spend as much time on Algebra II as prepping for the SAT, that kid would be an A student in Algebra instead of a B student."
For the vast majority of students, Brown says, the transcript is the most important thing. If the college admissions decision is on a scale of 100, the transcript counts for 50 or 60. Test scores count for an additional 20.
"Just because you were second-team all-district in soccer, terrific for you, but that's not going to get you into a selective college," Brown says.
"If you read the popular press, you'd believe it is so difficult to get into college. But the vast majority of schools are admitting well over 70 percent of their applicant pool."
But -- and it's a pretty big but -- it is getting increasingly difficult to get into the top 300 schools in America. TCU is one of those. In 2000, the university had 4,800 applicants for nearly 1,500 freshman class slots. This year, it was 12,200 applicants for a class of 1,625.
And it's becoming darn near impossible to get into the country's top 100 schools, the really selective universities like Harvard and Rice.
"With their applicant pool, the students all look alike," Brown says. "They all have 4.0 GPAs, all have fabulous test scores, all have taken six AP courses their junior and senior years. That's when the resume starts taking on greater importance."
In 1989, Andree Aelion Brooks wrote Children of Fast-Track Parents, one of the first books to examine this new achievement-oriented society. Twenty years later, she says, it has only become more extreme.
This is not all bad. "The ones that are gifted, talented and academically sharp tend to have a glorious time," she says. "They can be lifted to the extent of their abilities. The ones that can't keep up have a harder time. They have to keep up. Their parents demand they keep up. And of course, you'll have casualties.
"I was talking with a lawyer friend recently, and he was grumbling that the younger lawyers he sees are much more aggressive and competitive and they don't need to be.
"When you have a childhood that, instead of going out into the fields and playing by the stream and poking into things and reading books, is a pressure-cooker from the time you enter preschool, you grow up in aggressive mode. While that will help you get ahead, it's going to do a number on personal relationships."
It's important to realize that sports and extracurricular activities aren't bad in and of themselves. Far from it. But moderation is key.
"What you need to ask is, are they supplanting the things we should be doing as a family," says child psychiatrist and author Rosenfeld. "To have the energy and good humor that parents need to nurture their children, they must have a life, too.
"The greatest skill, and the hardest to develop, is the self-confidence that you're the best parent your kids are going to have. In the end, you're the one who has to make the decisions and take the responsibility."
As Rosenfeld is fond of saying, "Parenting is a higher calling than being a cruise ship activities director."
As an admissions dean, Brown offers this piece of advice to the Class of 2012 -- well, not to the students themselves, but to their parents: "Let them be kids."
"If you can pay attention as a parent and help them discern an interest or two, then do what you can to nurture that," Brown says.
"I have the privilege of serving on panels with representatives from Ivy League schools. I have never heard an Ivy League representative say you have to be involved in half a dozen things and have to be president of four of them. I have heard them say, 'Find stuff that really interests you, and make a difference.' ''
Young children and teens who feel overpressured can develop classic signs of stress: anxiety, depression, trouble sleeping, unexplained stomach aches, avoiding school.
The American Academy of Pediatrics reports on a survey by the American College Health Association that 61 percent of college students had feelings of hopelessness during the previous academic year and 45 percent felt so depressed they had trouble functioning.
Several studies have linked feelings of anxiety and depression with a drive for perfection. In addition, the AAP reports, this drive for perfection may be driving the increase in cheating in high school and college.
The AAP has a Web site -- www.aap.org/stress -- where teens can set up a personalized stress-reduction plan. Parents can check out resources and read excerpts from two AAP books, A Parent's Guide to Building Resilience in Children and Teens and Less Stress, More Success: A New Approach to Guiding Your Teen Through College Admissions and Beyond.
TIPS FOR CUTTING BACKLimit activities. Cut back just one or two nights a week. Or consider setting rules such as one sport per child per season. Before signing up for anything new, consider the cost in time and energy to the whole family.
Make family a priority. If your family is too busy to hang out together, if you and your spouse hardly ever spend time alone together, adjustments need to be made.
Be unproductive. Shoot hoops, take walks, play games, sit and talk, read. The fact that you the parent enjoy spending time with your child with no apparent goal lets her know you find her more interesting than just about anything else in the world.
Remember that childhood's a preparation, not a performance. By definition, children are immature and should not be expected to perform to adult standards. Resist the pressure from coaches and the media that tells you how to push your child to excel early.
Leave empty spaces on your calendar. Parents worry about kids' boredom, so they schedule their lives to keep them busy. But empty hours teach children how to create their own happiness.
Trust yourself. Don't believe the experts who tell you they know how you ought to raise your child. When it comes to your family, you are the expert.
SOURCE: Alvin Rosenfeld, author of The Over-Scheduled Child, from his Website.


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Friday, 29 April 2011
Friday Give Away + Winners!
47 comments:
I would love to win cupcake tape. I have been up since 3am baking cupcakes for The Royal Wedding celebrations, so very apt. Sue xReplyDelete
Dear Lillalotta, this month has benne very impossible to me and to my sister-twin. Lot and lot of problems and sadness and angryness... but we loved each other so much, telling each other all the reasons to be happy about... do you know how many possibility ther are to born? Two only sister for thousand and thousand of different possibilities (if only aou parentes that night was going to the cinema... ouch!) :) And we have a home, an husband, a job, many hobbies, a cat, a dog... and a sister who love the other! Life is beautiful... enjoy it! :)ReplyDelete
Pepe XXX
Ooow how nice!ReplyDelete
Thank you for the lastweek-give away!
Gr Barbara
wat een feestje met je mooie give-away's :-)ReplyDelete
Fijn weekend!
loooove the cupcakes!ReplyDelete
i'm IN! xo
yummmy! count me in, please, and have a very very nice week endReplyDelete
so cute! those cupcake colors are darling :)ReplyDelete
congratulations for the winners! ohh i need to make some cupcakes today! your tape inspired meee;p ehheReplyDelete
I love cupcakes, especially yours!ReplyDelete
Happy weekend :)
Oh, i have some of those loevlies, some of my favorites. ^_^ReplyDelete
this is so sweet and generous of you Anna. I hope you will manage to finish your huge custom order and enjoy your week end. you need to recharge your batteries.
much love your way
monique xxx
So sweeeet!!!ReplyDelete
Beautiful weekend, Anna.
We don't have sunshine today but I wish it for your =DReplyDelete
- Anonymous29 April 2011 at 15:23
Sunshine, lollipops and rainbows,ReplyDelete
Everything that's wonderful is sure to come your way…
Sunshine, cupcakes and flowers,
Everywhere I tie a ribbon in the sky…
Weet je waarom ik van cupcakes hou? Ze toveren kuiltjes in de wangen van mijn dochter en zonnestraaltjes in de ogen van mijn zoon.
En de zon… Die tovert sproetjes op onze snoetjes terwijl we genieten in de tuin!
Groetjes uit Brugge!
Tina teaspoon
Here's a happy thought for you, Anna: "A good laugh is sunshine in the house.". Hope your weekend is filled with laughter~~ReplyDelete
I am dreaming of sunshine but we are still in Winter's grasp here. Thank you for such a beautiful giveaway!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous29 April 2011 at 16:32
Let the sunshine in.ReplyDelete
Life is around you and in you.
Been a glorious morning....Royal wedding, tea and cornbread, sunshine and my bathroom is now clean!:)ReplyDelete
Thanks for the chance at those adorable cupcakes!:)
These cupcakes do bring a breath of spring!! SO lovely, Anna.ReplyDelete
wow i love cupcakes..... would be perfect for decorating cake boxes!ReplyDelete
I'd love to win some of your adorable cupcake tape, please toss my name into that big bowl of sunshine!ReplyDelete
Those cupcakes look good enough to eat!ReplyDelete
Mmmm... mouthwatering! Count me in again ;-)ReplyDelete
Looks so delicious! :) Sunny, sweet....I'm going to bake some cupcakes this weekend :)ReplyDelete
Have a wonderful weekend! :)
It has been rainy and gray for days- and today there is sunshine!!! On my way out to the garden...ReplyDelete
What a nice giveaway, hope that the fortune will be on my way. Have a nice weekend. LoredanaReplyDelete
Wat een heerlijk lint! Je maakt ze allemaal zo mooi! Daar maak ik graag kan op... Prettig weekend!ReplyDelete
Love the cupcakes, please pop me in your hat :-)ReplyDelete
Cupcakes!!!! Perfect for the Royal couple!!! Lovely just lovely! xXxReplyDelete
Hello, I have a lot of idea what I can do with your beautiful tape. Count me in, please!:)ReplyDelete
Such sweet and pretty cupcake tape, Anna! i would give you some sunshine if today brought any sun here, but no. In my classroom we make our own sunshine by singing silly songs and smiling! ♥ReplyDelete
The cupcake tape shines like the sun.ReplyDelete
Anna, the cupcakes are too cute!!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous30 April 2011 at 06:32
I'd love the cupcake tape I can see some serious cute creations made from it. It was so sunny today (spent it at moms with the little one) that I was blinded as I went out side and blinded when I went back into the house lol but the air was so fresh that we spent more of the day outside then in :DReplyDelete
Hugs and Kisses
Oh yes we have sunshine! but i wish the breeze would go away so that i could put my summer clothes on! This little cupcake tape would make it all better though!!!ReplyDelete
...how could I miss your giveaway, Anna. Enjoy your weekend.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous30 April 2011 at 20:00
Ik waag ook graag een kansje op het cup cake lint!ReplyDelete
Groetjes van Corien.
Just been making cupcakes with the kids, they loved it! Like your beautiful cupcake tape!ReplyDelete
WOW, how generous, it would make the Sun Shine in my day if I were lucky enough to win, thanks for the chance :)ReplyDelete
Sue xx
Dearest anna, your tapes are always so beautiful and they always make me smile! These cupcakes are adorable. Thanks so much for a wonderful giveaway and congratz to the 2 lucky winners. Have a lovely merry happy day and love to you!ReplyDelete
Sweet Anna, reading your blog always brings sunshine to my day :-) Thank you for sharing your joy with us!ReplyDelete
I'm so glad you are doing better Anna . You are back and I love your give-away cup-cakes tape .ReplyDelete
I'm so excited this lovely month of May is bringing me my first grandchild .
My phone is everywhere I go ....
The magic is in the air .... She will come on her time and I think I will cry when I see my son as a father ! I kept my diet and lost a lot of weight .... Have been to the hairdressers to look on my best as a grandmother !
To be true I always do my best to be NOT on the pictures ....
So so many photo's of my children , always made by me so never ON the pictures ....
I will make a new start now ... I try my best ...
Lots of sunny beautiful happy days for you !
count me again too ovecourse :)ReplyDelete
Lovely blog. Just love all your tapes.ReplyDelete
Your cupcake tape is the most adorable.
Our hens have just had baby chicks and they encapsulate sunshine. Their velvety yellow feathers, their merry "chirping" song and the reminder of the little things that can bring us so much joy.ReplyDelete
I love cupcakes!!! I cannot miss this gieaway!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous5 May 2011 at 13:38
Hi Anna, So 'Sunny' to be connected back to the net! Your Cupcakes are divine... They look so yummy to eat :) KristyReplyDelete
- Anonymous6 May 2011 at 04:03
you are inspiring me to do my first blog give-away. Can I ask your advice? I have some doilies that I just received. Do you think people will like that sort of thing? Thanks!ReplyDelete
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'Shameless' writer, Paul Abbott has written the following letter of support to Karen Reissmann
Dear Karen
So sorry I can't be with you at the rally in your support, but sadly, I'm committed to appointments abroad.
I hope you already know how much admiration I have for you and your colleagues now striking in defence of your outspoken feelings about the alarming state of mental health services in Manchester, which for years we all know, were woefully underfunded in the first place – nevermind the sheer madness of cutbacks.
They could wave as many spreadsheets as they want to justify the economics of this…but what's betting the number-crunching won't include the damage to Britain's economy from the needless suffering of
undiagnosed mental illness in our citizens, which, if treated earlier, and professionally, can prevent the pointlessly heartbreaking destruction of people and their families.
Prescription charges for anti-depressants alone cost £36m a year. Add to this the national loss of work hours, and the vast expenditure on long-term disability from welfare support…and tell me there's a single atom of sense in their arithmetic to justify the economics of this. There isn't. Never could be.
At 15, I was sectioned for my own protection following a suicide attempt. Back then, I experienced the privilege of help and support from nurses amongst other mental health practitioners to see me patiently
through that crisis. Without them, I wouldn't be alive today.
The thought of ever going back to that jet-black underworld still haunts me constantly. But if I had no choice….surely in all decency I'd deserve MORE specialist nurses like Karen Reissmann to HELP me break my fall…NOT half the number doing their work on a fraction of the funding spent 30 years ago.
We pay the Health Trust salaries – we, the shareholders. In effect, we subsidise their families. Can we get a pledge that Shelia Foley and her teams at Manchester Mental Health Trust team will be held accountable for the catastrophic consequences of their negligence?
Using crass free-market economics on public-funded mental health services, is honestly far more deluded than I was the day they sectioned me. If Manchester Mental Health Trust aren't up to basic adding and
subtracting, it's time we had THEIR jobs… not Karen Reissmann's.
For more information contact Karen Reissmann, branch chair, 07972 120 451
Andy Gill, Unison regional officer 0161 211 1000
Caroline Bedale, branch secretary, 07931 152 001


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