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Volunteers are needed to speak up for foster youth
May is National Foster Care Month
May is National Foster Care Month, a time set to recognize foster parents, family members, mentors, volunteers and child welfare professionals for all the support they provide youth and children in foster care. It can also be a good time to consider how you personally can make a difference in the life of a child in foster care.
According to the Iowa Department of Human Services, in 2018 178 children from Webster County, 45 children from Hamilton County, 38 children from Wright County, 19 children from Pocahontas County, and 47 children from Calhoun County were in foster care. The Court Appointed Special Advocate – CASA – program of North Iowa is a means to directly affect the experience those children have within the system by giving them a voice and ensuring they are heard.
CASAs are trained volunteers who are appointed by a judge to advocate for the best interests of children that have often been removed from their homes following abuse or neglect. CASAs visit the children at least once a month, traveling to the child's placement, whether it's their family home, a foster home, or a group home. They also talk with others involved in the child's life, including foster parents, social workers, teachers, family service providers, and health professionals.
Connecting with all the different parties involved enables the CASA to collect multiple perspectives of the child's behavior and adjustment which gives them a more well-rounded understanding of the situation they then share with the court. In fact, studies have shown that children in foster care who have a CASA assigned to them receive more services than those without a CASA and are more likely to find a permanent home.
Typically, a CASA volunteer is assigned one case at a time, which they stick with and see through to its conclusion. This enables them to focus on the case, get to know the child, and really become a resource. When families are involved with the juvenile court system, they work with multiple lawyers, social workers, foster parents and service providers; a carousel of rotating officials. Court-appointed attorneys and social workers can only do so much, as their caseloads are often unreasonably high.
However, no matter how many lawyers, foster parents or social workers are involved, the CASA is that one person who is a constant for the child, family, and judge to rely on. For example, one of our cases had five foster homes, three different schools, two DHS workers, and two family services workers, but only one CASA throughout. For a child who never new consistent love and support, that is a very big deal.
Volunteers serving as CASAs can expect to give on average anywhere from 5 to 10 hours a month to fulfill their responsibilities. This fluctuates, though. When first assigned a case, the CASA will spend more time making contact with everyone involved and getting themselves up to speed on the situation, but once they have been working the case for a bit, they can settle into a manageable routine. Also, once assigned, they are also asked to stay with the case until its close, which can sometimes take a year or more.
To become a CASA, a potential volunteer will undergo 30 hours of preservice training and a background check. They also do 12 hours a year of continuing education.
For more information about volunteering with CASA, contact me, Crystal Engstrom, program coordinator, at 866-923-1088 or email me at firstname.lastname@example.com. You can also visit the state website, www.iamforthechildiowa.com.
Crystal Engstrom is a program coordinator with CASA, with offices in Fort Dodge and Mason City.


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"Life is too short not to pretend you're magnificent."
~ Atticus
Monday, October 23, 2017
Wednesday, October 11, 2017
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Gluten Free Keto Chocolate Mousse
Found at Low Carb Diet Support (https://low-carb-support.com/keto-mascarpone-mousse/).
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8.5 oz mascarpone cheese
2 tbsp sugar free cocoa powder
1 tbsp Swerve
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 tbsp heavy whipping cream
Mix all ingredients together with a mixer.
Spoon out in serving glasses or bowls.
Serving size: 1 serving (1/4 of whole recipe)
Per serving: 286 calories, 2g net carbs, 27g fat, 4g protein
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Monday, October 9, 2017
Monday Motivation 10/09/2017
"Don't dismiss the synchronicity of what is happening right now finding its way to your life at just this moment. There are no coincidences in the universe, only convergences of Will, Intent, and Experience."
~ Neale Donald Walsch
~ Neale Donald Walsch
Monday, October 2, 2017
Monday Motivation 10/02/2017
"To succeed... You need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you."
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~ Tony Dorsett
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What are we in this economic mess? Male hormones, of course. See Washington Post, Study: Testosterone Correlated to Successful Financial Trading.
According to the article, "[t]he bubble preceding the current crash may have been due to euphoria related to high levels of testosterone, or high sensitivity to it." It seems that "[t]estosterone is the hormone of irrational exuberance."
Any woman could have told you that.
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State of Indigenous languages in Australia - 2001, Australia State of the Environment Second Technical Paper Series (Natural and Cultural Heritage), Department of the Environment and Heritage, Canberra
AuthorMcConvell, P; Thieberger, N
University of Melbourne Author/sMcConvell, Patrick; Thieberger, Nicholas
AffiliationArts: Department of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
Document TypeOther
CitationsMcConvell, Patrick and Thieberger, Nicholas (2001) State of Indigenous languages in Australia - 2001, Australia State of the Environment Second Technical Paper Series (Natural and Cultural Heritage), Department of the Environment and Heritage, Canberra.
Access StatusOpen Access
This paper provides data for, or information about, nine environmental indicators related to the condition of Indigenous languages in Australia, being a contribution towards the 2001 national State of the Environment Report. The indicators address the following key issues about the state of Indigenous languages in Australia: * condition of Indigenous languages, * state of documentation of languages, * the wider use of Indigenous languages, * funding, research and education.The study found that in 1996: * there has been a decrease in the percentage of Indigenous people speaking Indigenous languages from 100% in 1800 to 13% in 1996, * there are about 55,000 speakers of Indigenous languages in Australia, * the number of Indigenous languages, and the percentage of people speaking these languages have continued to fall in the period 1986-1996, accelerating over the ten years, and * of the 20 languages categorised in 1990 as 'strong', 3 should now be regarded as 'endangered'.The paper comments on the usefulness of the indicators and makes recommendations to improve either the indicators or the source data collections.
KeywordsAboriginal languages; Torres Strait Islander languages; ABS Census; language endangerment; inddicators for language status
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|Unix Administration
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 uses for registration utility rhn_register, The same as RHEL5. This application works with the yum-based RHN Hosted and RHN Satellite client called Package Updater (or pup) that replaced up2date.
1. Before starting:
For example:
enableProxy[comment]=Use a HTTP Proxy enableProxy=1 httpProxy[comment]=HTTP proxy in host:port format, e.g. squid.redhat.com:3128 httpProxy=www-proxy.your-corp.com:8081
After that you can run rhn_register (Oracle Linux users should run up2date -- register instead, Oracle Linux Registration). You can execute the command rhn_register from the command line as root.
2. Use GUI version not text version of rhn_register. For example:
export DISPLAY=10.194.154.73:0 rhn_register &
Use your main Red Hat network ID, not email address. Provide password.
If you have already registered before and /etc/sysconfig/rhn/systemid exists on the system, rhn_register first asks if you are sure that you would like to register again. Doing so may create a duplicate system profile in RHN Satellite. Consider using rhnreg_ks and activation keys to re-register a system without creating a duplicate entry.
If you have never registered, you can start rhn_register by selecting Applications (the main menu on the panel) ⇒ System Tools ⇒ Package Updater. (You will be asked to enter the root password.) The Package Updater, when run on a system that has not yet been registered, triggers rhn_register if there is no /etc/sysconfig/rhn/systemid file on the system.
If you are moving from RHEL 5 to RHEL 6 by reinstallation you can reuse files sych as up2date (with proxy configuration, if you use proxy). Just delete /etc/sysconfig/rhn/systemid file
Type rhn_register at a shell prompt. If you are on shell terminal window and want to run the non-graphical version, you must type rhn_register --nox to prevent opening the graphical client.
|Past week
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When a RHEL system is not getting updated:
0) If you get "Not Checking In" notices, that means RHN knows
about it so it must have had steps 1-4 done correctly at one
1) Make sure you've added the recommended changes (or add if not there)
to /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date:
Change sslCACert=/usr/share/rhn/RHNS-CA-CERT
to sslCACert=/usr/share/rhn/RHNS-CORP-CA-CERT
Change serverURL=http://xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com/XMLRPC
to serverURL=http://rhn.nacs.uci.edu/XMLRPC
Change serverURL=https://xmlrpc.rhn.redhat.com/XMLRPC
to serverURL=https://rhn.nacs.uci.edu/XMLRPC
2) Make sure you're system is registered
If a registration page keeps coming up, the registration
process failed. You should have seen an error message while
running update_up2date.
or, when you try to do an up2date, you get some text output
that looks like this:
34. httpProxy
35. headerCacheSize 40
36. noReboot No
Enter number of item to edit <return to exit, q to quit without saving>:
* Try registering again manually using:
/usr/sbin/rhnreg_ks --activationkey=
Watch for errors that indicate things like there are no more
available licenses.
3) If you get 'already registered' errors, use --force with rhnreg_ks
or rm /etc/sysconfig/rhn/systemid
4) Apply the following patches (i386 only - these are beta
release only - no patches for other platforms yet):
* save your /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date
* rpm -e --nodeps up2date up2date-gnome (this should save the above
file, but just in case)
* rpm -ivh http://rhn.nacs.uci.edu/pub/up2date-4.3.14-1.i386.rpm
* rpm -ivh http://rhn.nacs.uci.edu/pub/up2date-gnome-4.3.14-1.i386.rpm
5) Make sure rhnsd is running properly:
* chkconfig --level 345 rhnsd on
* service rhnsd start
6) If an update will modify a configuration file, up2date will
download the update but not apply it.
Config option is: noReplaceConfig
An example is httpd--the httpd.conf file would get moved aside
and replaced by one devoid of the system specific mods you
7) Have your NACS RHN contact (Minh, Con, or me) make sure that
the host entry on rhn.redhat.com, under properties, is
checked to allow automatic updates.
8) If you get problems like this:
"The following packages on this system are out-of-date and
may be upgraded."
Filter by Latest Package:
1 - 3 of 3 (0 selected)
Select Latest Package Installed Package Related Errata
jaf-1.0.2-3jpp_2rh:0 jaf-20030319-1
javamail-1.3.1-1jpp_3rh:1 javamail-20031006-1
junit-3.8.1-3jpp_2rh:0 junit-3.8.1-1
halfdome-root) up2date --update --nox
Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rhel-i386-as-3...
Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rhel-i386-as-3-extras...
Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rhel-i386-as-3-devsuite...
Fetching Obsoletes list for channel: rhel-3-as-i386-rhaps-beta...
Fetching rpm headers...
Name Version Rel
All packages are currently up to date
Try this solution:
halfdome-root) rpm --rebuilddb
halfdome-root) up2date -p
If that doesn't work, try:
Delete the system registered on rhn.redhat.com
Delete /etc/sysconfig/rhn/systemid
Run the command: rhnreg_ks --activationkeys=KEY
where KEY is the activation key from NACS
9) Error message:
Unresolvable chain of dependencies:
samba 3.0.4-6.3E requires libpam.so.0
System had two versions of samba installed: i386 and x86_64
Fix (be careful about conf files--back them up):
rpm -e --nodeps --allmatches CONFLICTING-PACKAGE
up2date CONFLICTING-PACKAGE
(Submitted by Tri)
To convert from md5 to unix crypt password hashes:
Edit /etc/pam.d/system-auth and remove md5 from line:
password sufficient /lib/security/$ISA/pam_unix.so nullok use_authtok md5
Then convert all passwords from md5 to crypt--might be easiest to
just issue new ones since you md5 is a one-way algorithm.
Building a kernel
(Submitted by Dan)
Configuring software RAID
(Submitted by Dan)
If a package was updated accidently or the package update
is broken, it is possible to roll back the update. You can
only rollback all rollbacks listed, though, so it should
probably be done soon after a broken package is found. A
up2date --update
will re-install the most recent version again.
up2date --list-rollbacks # Show the rpm rollbacks available
up2date --undo # undo the last package set update
(can install a single package using rpm --nodigest --nosignature -i /var/spool/repackage/<package.rpm>)
An alternative to using up2date rollback is to manually remove the
new package and install the previous one:
rpm -e quota-3.10-4
rpm -i --nodigest --nosignature /var/spool/repackage/quota-3.09-1.x86_64.rpm
rpmdb: Program version 4.2 doesn't match environment version
error: db4 error(22) from dbenv->open: Invalid argument
error: cannot open Packages index using db3 - Invalid argument (22)
error: cannot open Packages database in /var/lib/rpm
The fix is to run the following commands:
\rm /var/lib/rpm/__*
rpm --rebuilddb
SSL.Error: [('SSL routines', 'SSL3_GET_SERVER_CERTIFICATE', 'certificate verify failed')]
Try one of the following:
Fix 1:
Make sure there are enough licenses available
(check with Con, Minh, or Duncan)
Fix 2:
Make sure you have the current cert by removing old one and
installing new one:
rpm -e rhns-ca-cert-1.0-1
rpm -i http://rhn.nacs.uci.edu/pub/curcert.rpm
Error: up2date is downloading packages then starts repeating a package
name, followed by a message like:
Server error, partial package content
Fix: cd /var/spool/up2date and rm <pkg-name>* then retry
(removes the rpm and .hdr file)
Error: while up2dating you get an error regarding an rpm package that
looks like this:
kdelibs-3.3.1-3.3.i386.rpm: ########################## Done.
########################## Done.
The package kdelibs-3.3.1-3.3 does not have a valid GPG signature.
It has been tampered with or corrupted. Aborting...
The package kdelibs-3.3.1-3.3 failed its gpg signature verification. This
means the package is corrupt.
1) rm /var/spool/up2date/*
2) rerun /usr/sbin/up2date -u (or -uf)
During an up2date, you get the following message:
Testing package set / solving RPM inter-dependencies...
Segmentation fault
Try this fix:
\rm /var/spool/up2date/*
\rm /var/lib/rpm/__*
rpm --rebuilddb
then re-run up2date
When trying to update, get this error:
error: Can't create transaction lock
Try this:
rmdir /var/lock/rpm/transaction
There was a fatal RPM install error. The message was:
There was a rpm unpack error installing the package: httpd-2.0.46-46.2.ent
Problem could be with links versus directories. To get more info,
rpm the package manually using:
rpm -Uvh /var/spool/up2date/<package-name>.rpm
Error messages should help resolve the problem.
Problem with corrupt packages cached on client or proxy server
On client:
\rm /var/spool/up2date/*
\rm /var/lib/rpm/__*
rpm --rebuilddb
Then re-run up2date. If it fails, try below and then repeat
client steps
On RHN Proxy server:
A complete rebuild of squid cache will be necessary.
service rhn-proxy stop
rm -fr /var/spool/squid
mkdir /var/spool/squid
chown squid /var/spool/squid
squid -z
service rhn-proxy start
Problem is packages won't install.
Error messages:
rpm -Uvh httpd-2.0.52-12.2.ent.i386.rpm --nodeps
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
error: %pre(httpd-2.0.52-12.2.ent.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 255
error: install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping httpd-2.0.52-12.2.ent
Solution, edit /etc/selinux/config and set
permissive is not good enough, despite what the docs say
Problem: can't update packages because system is confused about library
Testing package set / solving RPM inter-dependencies...
There was a package dependency problem. The message was:
Unresolvable chain of dependencies:
openldap 2.0.27-20 requires libsasl.so.7
[root@bgcluster01 root]# rpm -qa | grep openldap
Cause is usually i386 and x86_64 channels were both used to install
package but not all libs so the i386 libs appear missing when up2date
is trying to update the two versions.
rpm -e openldap-* --nodeps
/usr/sbin/up2date --install openldap
Then run up2date -uf again.
up2date says updates needed but won't install because already installed.
Error messages:
RPM package conflict error. The message was:
Test install failed because of package conflicts:
package seamonkey-1.0.2-0.1.0.EL3 is already installed
RHEL gets confused when there are 32- and 64-bit versions needed.
1) see what is currently installed:
rpm -q --queryformat="%{n}-%{v}-%{r}.%{arch}\n" seamonkey
2) Install the other version:
/usr/sbin/up2date -u seamonkey --arch=i386
/usr/sbin/up2date --list
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/sbin/up2date", line 11, in ?
import rpm
ImportError: libelf.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file
or directory
Download to /tmp: http://rhn.nacs.uci.edu/rhn/elfutils-libelf-686.tgz
unzip and untar and copy /tmp/usr/lib/* /usr/lib
/usr/sbin/up2date --list
RPM error. The message was:
Could not determine what version of Red Hat Linux you are running.
If you get this error, try running
rpm --rebuilddb
You will need to either download the redhat-release package for your
system from the Red Hat Network (RHN) or if the RPM package is
available install it from the /var/spool/up2date directory with the
# rpm -Uvh /var/spool/up2date/redhat-release*.rpm
If you have rollbacks, you can try:
rpm --nodeps --nomd5 --nodigest --nosignature -Uvh /var/spool/repackage/redhat-release-4AS-4.1.i386.rpm
PROBLEM: 404 Error when trying to update packages on RHEL 5
Error Downloading Packages: <package>:failed to retrieve getPackage/<package> rom rhel-x86_64-server-5
error was [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Not Found
# rm -rf /var/cache/yum/*
PROBLEM: up2date cert conflicts with rhn cert
or: rhn-ca-cert conflicts with up2date cert
cd /usr/share/rhn
cp RHNS-CA-CERT RHNS-CA-CERT.up2date
rpm -Uvh --force http://rhn.nacs.uci.edu/pub/curcert.rpm
mv RHNS-CA-CERT RHNS-UCI-CA-CERT
mv RHNS-CA-CERT.up2date RHNS-CA-CERT
vi /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date
change RHNS-CA-CERT to RHNS-UCI-CA-CERT
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Nice!Gordon Extras: Borg, hot n fresh out the kitchen
I threw together some of the extras and funny stuff from the year of filming. And as evidenced by the last clip, I threw in some stuff that was obviously just me being a dork. Not much has changed in the dork department. The first clip of the rock in my hand was from a trip to Ohio/Pennsylvania. I jumped off the roof of a house, onto a little grass knoll, then rode it out into the street. On one of the attempts I crumpled at the bottom of the knoll, falling face first towards the street, and put my hands down to stop my fall. I had thick leather gloves on but noticed something about my palm felt strange. I took my glove off to find a small boulder wedged into my palm. The rock went right through the glove, barely leaving a trace, and was able to complete it's task of creating stigmata.
Nice!Gordon Extras: The Chinterview with Walter Bombeck
While filming Nice!Gordon we headed out to Hatcher Pass a few times. On this occasion we set up a gap over the small creek that runs parallel to the road by the upper parking lot. The only problem is that the terrain is fairly flat leading up to the gap. This means a ridiculous amount of run-in to get the speed needed to clear the gap. The area didn't have a ton of snow on it so tundra bumps littered the path. After forty days and forty nights of trying to pack down the run in and attempting to figure out the optimal speed pumping technique we gave it a shot. This is the story of one of those shots; the shot heard round the pass.
Basically Walt is the man and never afraid to charge.
Nice!Gordon Extras: Walt, Sunny, Jed, Andre
Pretty sick crew in this section. In no particular order, this section features the prince of anchorage, Andre Spinelli. The spoon man has had a lot of names over the years but B.A.D. (Big Air Dre) is probably the most fitting. Dre has a ton of pop and no fear when it comes to hucking. I feel like its pretty much just his stoke coming through as he rides.
Jed Hoffman has always been able to find some of the most unique and crazy rails featured in the videos. He transplanted from Fairbanks to Reno. Now a days you can find him crushing live poker games and tournaments in Reno and all around the country.
Walter is the third Bombeck brother that I have had the pleasure to spend a lot of time snowboarding with. I grew up around Abe and Kris Bombeck as we went to high school together and did our best to cause as much mayhem as possible at Arctic Valley. As Nice!Gordon came around so did the next generation of Bombeck rippers in Walter Bombeck. As you can see I would pick Walt up from school then head out to hit a jump or rail. I think Walt was only about 17 when we made the video yet he tackled some huge rails around town and went nuts on the AV hip. The Bombeck's have always had an abundance of heart, talent, and siblings. I can look back now and see what a privilege it was to share so much time with this awesome family.
Sunny was a part of our scene for far too short of a time. Sunny passed away a few years after the movie and it hit our crew pretty bad. Sunny came to the shredfest events to ride for kids, tirelessly worked on jumps and rails for the videos, was present at anything that resembled a Boarderline snow/skate function, and made people smile because he was there. Sunny lived and breathed snowboarding and boarderline and created friendships that reflected that. We will always miss and love you buddy.
Nice!Gordon Extras: Travis Reid, Matt Wild, and David Blome
This is an edit, put together by Matt, for the Nice!Gordon DVD extras. It's pretty true to Matt's style back then. You can see that these guys always had a camera with them and always had fun. Matt and Travis were kind of a dynamic duo back in the day. Along with giving me footage and going out filming with me a bunch they also put together movies under Matt's company known as Buttery Fresh Productions. Travis and Matt were never hesitant when it came to getting up early, picking up a shovel, or just about anything it took to get a creative shot. These two guys have always been among the hardest working snowboarders in Anchorage and you can tell that it all stems from just loving to snowboard.
Now David on the other hand…. haha. Just kidding. Dave has been around the skate scene for a long time and as you can see from the footage, he has skills.
Nice!Gordon Extras: Skit Outtakes
Here are all the bloopers, blunders, mess ups, and just bad acting that came with making the skits for Nice!Gordon. It's such a strange, different world than what skaters and snowboarders are used to. Everyone is so comfortable in front of a camera when they are trying to skate or snowboard but once you ask them to say a pre-written line, everyone falls apart. Big thanks to Kendall Whelpton for flying up to AK to help film, light, and advise on all the skits. Also DK Johnston was a big contributor before his days of being a main player in the AK film scene and I really appreciated that.
We also traveled down to Newport Beach to film some of the scenes. Making the movie parts of the production were some of the best times I've ever had making snow/skate vids. When you watch the older movies you can tell that I always enjoyed making the skits and putting a lot of work into them. With Nice!Gordon I got to take that to a much higher level and it felt awesome. It felt like it gave the movie so much more than just video clips on boards. It felt as though it brought the group together more and gave the movie a uniqueness worthy of the the effort put forth by everyone involved. As I try to figure out how to put it into words I can feel any degree of eloquence slipping away. What I'm trying to say is that I fucking love the AK scene and felt like I finally made a movie that everyone up here could show people with pride; that they felt could represent what they loved about the boarderline movies and being a part of that scene for so long. Im really proud of all the movies but making this movie, the way I did, with the effort that we all put into it, felt like a new level had been reached. I know I'm still fumbling with my words here. Part of the reason I was making a video on my own was because I wanted to continue making movies that represented Alaskan skaters and snowboarders and what it was like to be a part of the scene that was created over the previous ten years. With Nice!Gordon I felt that was accomplished more than any other production or accomplishment I was a part of.
Seems like I just cant help but get all emo when it comes to this stuff. That's me though and it has always been that way. I hope that comes through in these videos and I hope you get a lot of laughs from my awful acting.
Nice!Gordon Extras: "How to sticker a board" and "Summer Camp"
Today I thought it would be nice to throw out a 2fer and put up 2 Nice!Gordon DVD bonus sections.
One is a tutorial on how to sticker a board. The Boarderline skate team took the RV to Seward for the 4th of July and decided to help Preston and Deez sticker their boards.
The other video is an edit from the 2004 Boarderline Summer Camp. For around 7 years Boarderline put on a snowboard camp at Alyeska. The camp always took place a couple days after school let out for summer. Over the years the camp was visited by a pretty decent amount of pros as well as showcasing future stars. It was mostly a day camp but there were over night campers too and they stayed in RV's, Military tents, and a year or two at Gus's family cabin. The camp had hand dug half pipes, hand dug kickers placed around the natural features, and provided summer free-riding that couldn't be found at any other camp. The more I think about it the more I feel like I should just save this stuff for a full post about camp. That being said I will get back to telling you about this edit. I tried to feature as many people as possible. I wanted the viewer to see how much fun camp was for everybody no matter a rider's ability level. It was a time when we were still all there to root each other on and be fans of each other.
And DAMN that park was sick. I'm still blown away when I see the overview. How is it that 10 years ago, in the summer, Alyeska had a park that amazing? Compared to what the mountain gives us now I can see why kids leave the state to snowboard. Just look at the size of the crowds, look at how many people showed up to snowboard in the summer? Alaska is typically a place where people are done with the snow once May hits and yet the camp pulled that kind of crowd. It was because of how amazing the set up was. I wish the current management could see the forrest for the trees before they get too far behind the curve. By the time they realized that listening to park staff like Glenn and Tony about building real features it's going to be too late. The kids are going to buy split boards or sleds and stop paying for sub par facilities. Ahhh there I go again on another tangent. Ok I'll quit and just let you enjoy the videos.
Nice!Gordon Extras: Gus Engle
Here is some bonus footage of Gus from the filming of Nice!Gordon. Is that a 46 inch stance?


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UPPER PAXTON TOWNSHIP, DAUPHIN COUNTY, Pa.- UPDATE: A missing run away upper Dauphin County juvenile has been located.
Pennsylvania State Police – Lykens say 13-year-old Ceisha R. Martin, of Millersburg, was located at about 7:30 p.m. in a wooded area adjacent to Route 147 on the Upper Paxton Township/Halifax Township line. Local EMS and fire department personnel from the Halifax and Millersburg areas assisted in the search for Martin.
She has been returned to her parents.
PREVIOUSLY: Pennsylvania State Police are on the lookout for a run away teenager. 13-year-old Ceisha R. Martin ran away from home on Thursday and was last seen by her mother at about 3 p.m. However, her mother and her boyfriend did not alert police until 1 a.m. Friday morning. She said that her daughter apparently decided to run away from home after she was grounded. The 7th grader attends Millersburg Middle School but today was a Teacher In Serice day, so there was no school.
Ceisha does have a cell phone which is deactivated and only capable of being used with Wi-Fi. She does not have a Facebook account but has used google hangouts via Wi-Fi. She is a Hispanic, 5 feet tall, long brown hair and brown eyes and sometimes wears glasses. She was last seen wearing a black hat with a tiger, and jeans. She was carrying a book bag, blue blanket and possible purple purse and a black watch.
PSP – Lykens are out actively canvassing the area and local hangouts. Anyone who sees her and have information on her whereabouts is asked to contact PSP – Lykens Station at (717) 362-8700.


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Children's Ministries
At Crestwood United Methodist Church, we are dedicated to the littlest members of our church. Not only do we learn about the life of Jesus and how to live for Jesus, we have FUN. Activities during the year include: our annual Father/Daughter Dance, an Easter Egg Hunt, Vacation Bible School, Trunk or Treat, a Children's Music Camp, and so much more!! These events are open to members of our church as well as members of the community.
From left: Easter bunny, VBS, Children's Choir, Trunk or Treat
Our nursery has adult staff and volunteers who are dedicated to the safety and well being of our little ones in a fun-filled nursery. We follow Safe Sanctuaries policies at all times. The nursery is available for children up to 36 months during worship services, the Sunday School hour, Bible studies and other special events. A cry room with a rocking chair and toys is also available, in the balcony of the sanctuary, during all worship services.
Children's Church is for children from Kindergarten up to 5th grade, during our 11:00 service. Children start out attending church service with the family and are invited to come to a brief Children's Moment during a designated time of the service, in the front of the sanctuary. After that time the children will leave through the back of the sanctuary.
The preschoolers are taken to the Fellowship Hall for an age appropriate time of story and crafts while the older children journey to the Education Building Room 105 attached to the Fellowship Hall and experience an age appropriate worship service filled with worship music and a lesson from our Children's Minister. The children may be picked up from assigned locations after the church service.
Vacation Bible School Information is found here
Please feel free to contact us with your questions pertaining to your children's church experience. We welcome you and your children!
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I should have bought canned pumpkin, but bought the pie filling by mistake. 2 cans! All the cake recipes I have for pumpkin cake calls for canned pumpkin not the other. What can I do with these fillings??
Thanks in advance!
I've done that too!!!!!
Not sure, except pumpkin pie....I have used it in small amounts for cake along with regular pumpkin....just to use it up when there was that pumpkin shortage...and it didn't seem to affect anything.
Thanks Kitagrl.
I guess I'll be making some pies
Pumpkin-Toffee Triffle
Layer the pumpkin pie filling w/chunks of cake (spice, vanilla, chocolate), chopped Heath bars and whipped cream.
Good use of cake trimmings and in a clear triffle bowl it's so pretty.
Thank you Kristy. I might just bring that for potluck at work this Friday
This is seriously so good with sliced apples and gingersnaps! http://www.food.com/recipe/pumpkin-pie-dip-25730
Make pies?
why not make a spice cake and use this as a filling - mixed with ps, etc.? Sounds like something I'd try The good thing is that it's Thanksgiving sand people love pie!
They're not the same thing?
I accidentally did the same thing for a wasc recipe I had. The cake was only for my family so I used it anyway. It was fantastic! I use it all the time now and everyone loves it!


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U.S. News & World Report has ranked the NPS Department of Systems Engineering #20 among nationally ranked Industrial, Manufacturing, & Systems Engineering Graduate Schools in the country for 2015. The department improved its positioning from ranking 21st last year...read full list of rankings.
Paving the Interstices* of Multidisciplinary Space
by Kristin Giammarco
Some most exciting innovations for systems engineering are being found at the intersection of different disciplines. As lifelong students and practitioners of systems engineering, we examine a problem space horizontally, soaking in its breadth; then move vertically by abstracting up or decomposing down, depending on the detail needed to solve the problem. Put anyone, systems engineer by profession or not, who thinks this way in a domain or discipline other than one they grew up in, and something interesting tends to happen. They instinctively look for relationships between the new information being learned and the knowledge they already have, an effort that sometimes results in the recognition of a pattern. They see new potential applications of general principles, as well as new potential generalizations of detailed implementations. Statements such as the following are common when this occurs: "What you call X, we call Y. And what you call Z, well, we have nothing like Z over here, but we never even thought about the problem in that way before." This is the point at which a general principle or a detailed implementation strategy might traverse an interstice between one discipline and another, laying the groundwork for a new avenue of innovation.
Such a scenario played out when I went on an educational expedition to our Computer Sciences Department to study software engineering. Some schools host their software engineering programs in the same department as their systems engineering programs, capitalizing on the similarity between the disciplines. NPS's software engineering programs reside right alongside the computer sciences, an approach that, in a way, capitalizes on the differences between the disciplines. Many in the computer sciences community have a software coding background, and so have analytical, detail-oriented minds that value sharp precision and abhor ambiguity. Thus my predisposal to accepting abstraction as a workable medium for analysis without getting into implementation details led to some interesting conversations. These conversations inspired me to think differently, and ask questions I never would have thought to ask, such as: How can abstract concepts be formally organized? Is abstraction just for the high level parts of a system's design? Is there a formal way to express some system architecture principles that are currently only expressed in natural language, if expressed at all? Can the concept of separation of concerns extend beyond its current use in software, and benefit system-level designs as well?
Monterey Phoenix (MP), an approach to system architecting created by Dr. Mikhail Auguston in the Computer Sciences Department, is a good example of research that spans at least three disciplines: software engineering, systems engineering, and computer science. These disciplines are currently each lending their own unique perspectives to fuel MP's development from concepts, approaches, and techniques that may never have intersected had not a multidisciplinary approach been taken. In this instance, the multidisciplinary approach was not designed, but a coincidence of interested faculty and students with different backgrounds making an effort to see problems through the lens of another discipline. The fact that MP employs a high-level, domain-independent language facilitated these conversations; no one needed to be an expert in the vernacular of an unfamiliar domain (the language of logic is soothingly familiar to all domains). The multidisciplinary approach taken for this research has led to a fount of possible applications. Examples of research directions follow (if you are an NPS student looking for an original Masters or PhD research topic, see the full description of the "Architecting with Monterey Phoenix" project at https://catalyst.nps.edu):
- Automated use case scenario generation
- Visualization of possible architectures in a stakeholder-chosen notation
- Composition and reuse of models
- Behavior patterning of natural or human designed systems
- Estimation of system performance and/or cost
- System safety estimates based on interaction with environment models
- Use in requirements engineering, risk analysis, architecture and design, integration, test and evaluation, reliability/maintainability/availability analyses
- Assertion checking (testing a model for the presence or absence of some suspected property)
The interdisciplinary space already has many roads trodden upon, but there are probably far more untrodden spaces that are ripe for research and realizations. So, if you are stuck on a particular problem, it might pay to investigate whether a solution exists in another domain, perhaps disguised as a principle or implementation approach expressed in another domain language. It sometimes takes a massive amount of energy to press past the edges of one's comfort zone, especially when unfamiliar nomenclatures abound, the return on investment is unknown in advance, and time is ever short. Those for whom the drive of curiosity propels them beyond the comfort of familiarity will be innovators in multidisciplinary space.
* An interstice is "a space that intervenes between things" or "a gap or break in something generally continuous" [1]; its use here is inspired by Ray Deiotte and Robert K. Garrett Jr. [2], Missile Defense Agency, who in their report have woven concepts from multiple disciplines into an elegant solution for transforming models in physical space to models in event space.
[1] Merriam-Webster online dictionary, http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/interstice
[2] Deiotte, R., Garrett, R.K. "A Novel Approach to Mission‐Level Engineering of Complex Systems of Systems; Addressing Integration and Interoperability Shortfalls by Interrogating the Interstitials." 13‐MDA‐7269 (29 April 13).
NPS SE Supports Solid State Laser Project with ONR
by Ron Giachetti
Associate Professor Douglas Nelson is leading a team of faculty to support the Office of Naval Research (ONR) Solid State Laser – Technology Maturation (SSL TM) Program. Involved SE faculty members include Harney, Robert (Bob) (CIV), Langford, Gary (CIV), Papoulias, Fotis (CIV), Stevens, Mark (CIV) and Giachetti, Ronald (Ron) (CIV). The NPS team is providing guidance on systems engineering activities, system integration, and requirements engineering. The SSL-TM has the goal to design and build advanced development model prototype solid state laser weapon and install it on a Navy ship. The SSL-TM is intended to provide capabilities for counter-UAV and defense against small boat swarm attacks. A capstone team of mostly Navy civilians in Dahlgren is doing a capstone project in support of this effort.
Giachetti, Ronald (Ron) (CIV) or
Modular UGV
by Timothy Chung
Several unit members of the ONR/NRL S&T113 reserve unit drilled at NPS this past weekend, to include activities pertaining to the design and construction of a chassis mount, depicted in the attached photos below, to enable sensor/weapon/actuator and computation (autonomy) integration onboard the set of SE and CRUSER robots. This initial base design will be replicated on the remaining fleet of ground robots, which are to ultimately be used in both the classroom, student projects, potentially faculty research, and of course, STEM outreach activities.
With the recent turnover in the unit, ARSENL has stayed engaged and looks forward to continuing to work with ONR 113, given their valuable contributions and interactions with NPS. I'm eager to keep marching forward with both our new and veteran ONR 113 members, and look forward to keeping you both apprised of these successful interactions.
Modular UGV Inquiries
The NPS ABET Accredited SE Master's Programs
Master of Science in Systems Engineering (MSSE) -Resident and Distance Learning
The Naval Postgraduate School's Department of Systems Engineering is one of three US institutions offering two ABET Engineering Accreditation Commission (EAC) Master's degree programs in Systems Engineering. The Master's of Science in Systems Engineering (MSSE) curricula is offered as a resident and distance learning degree program, each one accredited by ABET. The Johns Hopkins University and Air Force Institute of Technology are the other two institutions. The two MSSE programs are among six ABET accredited programs offered at NPS through the Graduate School of Engineering and Applied Science (GSEAS), the other programs include Astronautical Engineering, MS; Electrical Engineering, MS; and the Mechanical Engineering, MS. Click here to learn more about the six different SE degree programs and the department's student outcomes and educational objectives. Read Why ABET Accreditation Matters
What are the SE Department Programs?
Curriculum 232, the DL Lead Systems Integrator Certificate Program
Curriculum 282, the Systems Engineering Certificate Program provides the fundamentals of systems engineering to Engineering Duty Officers and other officer communities without requiring the student to enroll in an NPS degree program.
Curriculum 311, the DL Systems Engineering Non-Resident Masters Degree Program (MSSE and MSES)
Curriculum 308, the resident Master of Science in Systems Engineering Analysis (MSSEA), is an eight-quarter degree program intended primarily for Navy Unrestricted Line Officers. It is jointly offered by the Departments of Systems Engineering and Operations Research. It is sponsored by the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations (OPMNAV 8F).
Curriculum 581, the hybrid Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Systems Engineering
Curriculum 721, the DL Master of Science in Systems Engineering Management (MSSEM) is a distance-learning program intended for qualified military officers, senior enlisted, federal government civilians and defense contractor civilians.
TPS Co-op Program - The cooperative education program with the Navy's Test Pilot School allows some officers selected for TPS to attend NPS for 5 quarters prior to starting course work at Patuxent River. After completion of TPS school and their final DT-II test plan, students are awarded an ABET accredited Master of Science in Systems Engineering similar to those students in the standard 380 curriculum. TPS Co-op students enter in either July or January.
Contact the NPS Academic Associates and Program Officers for additional information about these programs:
Academic Associates:
- Dr. Paul Montgomery, Curriculum 232/282
- Mark Stevens, Curiculum 308
- Dr. Ronald Giachetti, Curriculum 311
- Mark Stevens, Curriculum 580
- Dr. Eugene Paulo, Curriculum 581
- Dr. Kristin Giammarco, Curriculum 721
Program Officers:
- Ronald Carlson, Curriculum 232
- Dr. Walter Owen, Curriculum 282/721
- LCDR Keith Littrell, USN, Curriculum 308
- Joseph W. Sweeney III, Curriculum 311 - Open Enrollment
- Brigitte Kwinn, Curriculum 311 - Sponsored Cohorts (non-NAVAIR)
- Ronald Carlson, Curriculum 311 - NAVAIR
- CDR Michael Porter, USN, Curriculum 580
- Dr. Paul Montgomery, Curriculum 581


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Taking my creativity beyond the beads
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My first blog post - ever.
As the website and this blog are so new, I thought it would be an idea to share things I do and that don't involve beads. All the beady things are already on the website and this way you can maybe get to know me a bit better ...
Most of these are what I call "challenge-pieces", because my son wants to be a dinosaur or my daughter "needs" a Hello Kitty lamp shade and then I try to come up with something.
Sometimes the results don't meet expectations, but I always try my best and learn something along the way. It may be a new skill that comes in handy again or it's just that spending the money and leaving the work to the pros is much easier and better for the nerves ;)
So, here they come - the not bead related creations of mine ...
(Please do excuse the low quality of some of the photos, but my photography skills are still developing and today much better than they were way back. Unfortunately, once a cake is eaten you can't retake the photo.)
My son's "Nemo"-cake - Nemo endet up in a support role, but my son is now 7 and still talking about this cake.
A dinosaur costume - In the end I ran out of time and just stapled the tail shut after stuffing it, but the staples are still doing the job 3 years later and my daughter loves the costume too.
Display shelf for Lego-figures - The new love in my son's life and he could never find the figure he wanted. When I saw this old drawer from a printers cabinet at a car boot sale I thought it would be perfect and with a layer of paint it is well up for the job.
I painted this pig for a Pin-the-tail game at a Pig Race (fundraising event for my daughter's playgroup) and - even if I say so myself- it was a big hit with the kids and made the parents giggle too.
When we moved from Germany to the UK I made this for my daughter to make her new room as appealing as possible and it worked.
This textile flower was a project at the 2014 Etsy Craft Party I attended and stuck to an Alice band it looks great, nice and colourful for a little girl.
The results from a 2 hours cupcake decorating "course" with a local group of crafty mums - yum ;)
Especially because this is the first blog post for me, I would love to hear from you.
Do leave a comment with praise or critique - I can take it as long as it's constructive :)


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Outside of our regular everyday awesomeness, The Little Video Shop is home to some of the area's greatest weekly, monthly, and annual events!
Check back often or follow our social media channels to keep track of all the great stuff happening at 13 Baldwin in the heart of Baldwin Village.
Weekly Events
Friday, Saturday and Sunday, free screening outside on our large screen of Felini, Antonioni, Goddard to just name a few as well as North american classic.
For the summer we will be doing live entertainment every saturday Night outside, from Belly Dancing to Tango, Japanese, or musical numbers, come in and join us.
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These Pumpkin Pie Whoopie Pies are packed with pumpkin & autumn spices but they also have the most amazing marshmallow buttercream centre. Plain Delicious.
Halloween isn't a huge thing for us in this house, but, it's autumn and pumpkins are everywhere. I like to take advantage of this fact. And let's face it, letting my girls carve out a pumpkin lantern doesn't seem that bad because I'm then left with a pile of pumpkin flesh ready for making into Pumpkin Pie Whoopie Pies. For the last three years this is what we've done.
If you are not into pumpkin, don't be put off, this is the one time all year that anybody in this house eats pumpkin. It's a texture thing – sorry. But it seems we are all willing to get over this issue for the sake of a few Pumpkin Pie Whoopie Pies. Maybe it's because they're so large.
The fun starts with the carving out of the pumpkins, kids adding faces while I clear up the
mess seeds and roast the pumpkin flesh.
Next, the spice mix – cinnamon, cloves, ginger, mace, allspice, nutmeg all mixed up in a bowl filling your kitchen with a warming autumnal aroma. Then there's the filling – closely related to buttercream, but involving vanilla and marshmallow – posh buttercream.
These are the star ingredients – fresh pumpkin, spice mix, posh buttercream.
But what exactly is a whoopie pie? Whoopie pies originate from America. In fact, they are, apparently, the official State treat in Maine. (Don't you just love the idea of an official treat?) Anyway, the whoopie pie is two domes of cake – usually chocolate – sandwiched together with a creamy filling. I like to think of them as free-form individual sandwich cakes as you just dollop the cake batter straight onto baking trays and away you go. No fiddling with paper cake cases involved (bonus).
Oh, and did I mention how fantastically large they are?
Confession: Whenever I make these Pumpkin Pie Whoopie Pies I always make an odd number of domes so that I can satisfy my eagerness and eat the extra one straight away. I can never wait until after tea to try one, sometimes not even for them to cool. On the plus side, if ever one breaks or falls on the floor during the sandwiching process I have a spare, though that would definitely lead to tears.
Pumpkin Pie Whoopie Pies
Spice Mix (see notes)
- 3 tsp Ground cinnamon
- 2 tsp Ground ginger
- 1/2 tsp Ground allspice
- 1/2 tsp Ground cloves
- 1/2 tsp Ground mace
- 1/2 tsp Ground nutmeg
- 250 g/ 2 cups Plain flour
- 1/4 tsp Salt
- 1/2 tsp Baking powder
- 1/2 tsp Bicarbonate of soda
- 2-3 tsp Spice mix (depending on personal taste (I use 2 1/2 tsp))
- 120 ml/ 1/2 cup Groundnut oil (sunflower is a good alternative)
- 200 g/ 1 cup Soft light brown sugar
- 1/2 tsp Vanilla extract
- 1 Large egg
- 100 g/ 1/2 cup Fresh pumpkin puree** (see notes)
Posh Buttercream
- 40 g/ 3 tbsp softened butter
- 80 g/ 3/4 cup icing sugar (plus extra for dusting)
- 40 g/ 3 tbsp cream cheese (half fat is fine)
- 1/2 vanilla pod
- 50 g/ 7 tbsp vanilla marshmallow fluff (near the peanut butter in most supermarkets)
- Pre-heat the oven to 170ºC/ 325ºF/ GM 3
- Mix all the spice blend ingredients together and store in an airtight jar (keeps for around 3 months)
- Sift the flour, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda, spice mix and salt together into a bowl
- Put the oil, sugar and vanilla extract into a large bowl and mix with electric beaters until well combined and beginning to lighten in colour (3-4 minutes). Add the pumpkin puree, mix again, then add the egg, followed by a final beat
- Add half of the flour mixture and blend well on a medium speed, scraping the edges of the bowl to incorporate all dry ingredients. Add the remaining flour and mix again, being careful to not over beat once all dry ingredients have been incorporated
- Using a dessert spoon place neat blobs of the cake batter onto baking sheets - aim for circles around 3cm in diameter and spaced at least 3cm apart as the mixture spreads significantly in the oven. Aim for around 8 blobs per sheet. You should easily get 2 full baking sheets and the cooking time is quick, so any left over batter can be used up in the same way when you have finished baking the first lot
- Bake for 12-14 minutes, until very slightly golden and springy to the touch. Cool on the baking sheet for a minute then transfer to a wire cooling rack
- Make the filling by beating together the butter and icing sugar. Next beat in the cream cheese and the seeds scraped from the half vanilla pod. Finally mix in the marshmallow fluff
- Once the cake domes are completely cool, pair up similar shapes & sizes then use the buttercream to sandwich them together. Finally, dust the tops with icing sugar


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I wear them, mostly, I always have. Although I still remember my foray into a skirt. I was four years old, and more than anything in the world, I wanted to be a witch for Halloween. My parents, bless their hearts, did not try to stop me; my mother paid for my costume from Kresges Five and Dime. My Aunt Dorothy, who took care of me during the day, did tell me, mildly, "witches are girls," but I was adamant in my conviction, witches were witches. If I'd had the vocabulary to articulate what I meant, I would have said that witches were beyond gender, perhaps pre-gender, a witch was not a girl, a witch was not a boy, the witch mask was so frightening I could barely stay in the same room with it, and at night I had to put it in my closet and close the door. I knew it gathered the shadows of winter coats unto itself and became something more, a thing of rustle, of teeth, and bony hands talking to themselves in the dark.
It's a wonder I ever slept. The mask, wart-nosed, green. When I wore it, the elasticized string cut into the tender skin behind my ears. The accompanying skirt was snappy, short, and lemon yellow; I liked the way the waistband grabbed my waist and left blue indentations in my skin. I felt secure: my mask in place, I could look out from inside the witch, I could be the witch myself, and not have to see it. I inhaled the scent of plastic, and paste, my breath heavy and loud, wet around the mouth hole. And I was wearing a short yellow skirt, my cape patterned with crescent moons, and stars. I remember a wand, or was it a miniature broom? With my mask, and my wand, and my lemon yellow skirt, I had the power to summon every piece of candy in town.
I never had any interest in becoming a fairy princess, all pink and crepe, with sparkles. I wanted to be old, as old as tree roots, as old as stories. As old as the dark. In my little yellow skirt I was bright as the sun, my thin legs scabby with mosquito bites—I loved to test myself, to see how long I could be still, on the back porch in the evening, I'd watch a mosquito settle and prospect her spot. She'd inject me, and then, thrillingly, she swallowed, ingested. If I could stand the itch she'd become a red balloon. On wings the size of an eyelash she rose, and with no pause, no goodbyes, my blood in her belly, she took me away and she left me behind. Witchcraft.
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Thursday, September 16, 2010
The Edith Wharton Sentences
New York Stories of Edith Wharton I went back through the volume and highlighted one sentence from each story (sometimes from every page) that jumped out at me for some reason. Then I copied these sentences into a notebook, one at the top of every page. A couple years later, after I'd forgotten, on the whole, the context of the story of origin, I'd go to the notebook every few days, read one of the sentences, pick up my pen, take a breath and go, writing wherever my mind went and hoping to surprise myself. I liked the results enough that I told myself this would become an entire collection of short prose pieces, already grandly named "The Edith Wharton Sentences" (Now I think maybe I should make "sentence" singular.) But as with many of my grand schemes I petered out along the way, even while thinking some of the results were quite good. I always seem to let a new enthusiasm overtake an older one. Now I am going back, to polish these pieces, to make some new ones, and gosh darn it finish a whole project for once. I am even proclaiming this in a blog to make it more public. You all have my permission to hound me about it in a month. (:Hey McDonald, how's the Wharton thing coming? You didn't quit again, did you? Quitter.) One of the first selections, after the jump.
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Wednesday, September 8, 2010
An interview with me that one could listen to if one chose to do so
Thanks to Richard Fox for pointing out the link, and for Michael and Shelly for having me as a guest on Wordslingers in the first place. It was a fun evening. I didn't even feel exposed and naked like this lady in the window. You can listen to the 2008 interview by clicking here and then paging down just a tad.
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The Parakeet
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It's estimated that the number of choirs in the UK alone has risen to over 40,000 in recent years. A large proportion of those have been formed purely to share the enjoyment of singing – and perhaps performing – music within a local community, workplace or other environment.
One of the challenges faced by the growing number of choirs is finding a good source of quality music to work with which is both accessible and enjoyable for everyone to sing.
It was this challenge that inspired the idea for ChoirCommunity. With 30 years experience of leading choirs, Craig McLeish recognised the problem of finding good quality music. And he realised at the same time that he'd partially solved it for himself.
As a writer and musical arranger, Craig had created dozens of arrangements, which he had developed with his choirs over the years. Unfortunately, they were mostly stuck away in drawers (or on computer drives) and not easily sharable with anyone else.
The biggest problem was that most of these arrangements existed without any consent from the publishers or rights owners. Other than sharing copies of these over the internet or via photocopies, which is a breach of copyright, getting permission to offer them to other choirs was a real challenge.
Meanwhile, leisure-time choirs of all types faced a dilemma: they either bought music from established online retailers, where each copy is often priced at £2.50 or more; or they looked for other sources, which were often 'grey' in terms of their legitimacy.
Craig was convinced there must be an opportunity to solve both problems: the difficulty of distributing arrangements without breaching copyright; and providing easy access to those arrangements for leisure-time choirs of all kinds.
He discussed the idea with his brother, Piers, whose years of experience in business and information technology provided the perfect complement to Craig's musical expertise.
After nearly a year of hard work, the ChoirCommunity website launched in January 2018, offering a variety of titles from Craig and two other 'launch' arrangers. With plans to expand the portfolio and partner with other like-minded musical organisations, we are delighted to become part of the Making Music network and look forward to supporting the unbeatable experience of singing together all over the UK and beyond.
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Of course, when the children are having so much fun, the parents should also relax! That´s why many luxury resorts have a SPA with jacuzzi and different beauty treatments and there are nanny services so you can just relax and enjoy! A lot of hotels also offer all inclusive regime so you can leave all your worries at home and in most hotels kids can stay for FREE! Check out the list of hotels for kids in the Canary Islands of 2020.
Even though Canary Islands belong to Spain, they are pretty far from the mainland Spain. As you can see in the map of the Canary Islands they in the Atlantic Ocean and are much closer to Morocco. Due to the fact that they are close to the equator and are surrounded by water, the climate is very warm in winter but it never gets extremely hot – which makes it a perfect holiday destination for families throughout the year.
Even though they are close to Africa, the culture is European and the islands are extremely safe. The local people speak in Spanish, but there are expats from all Europe and therefore you can speak in English in all the touristic places.
The second best thing about the Canary Islands (after the amazing weather) is that all the islands are not far from each other and you can go from one island to another by boat and see dolphins and whales on your way! Apart from that, all the islands have UNESCO protected areas due to their exceptional landscapes and biodiversity. There are many water sports in all the islands and you can also just relax in one of the many beaches.
The weather is really good throughout the year in the Canary Islands. In the months of June, July and August the temperatures are the highest and it is the busiest season, all the hotels are full of families with children therefore many hotels are fully booked and the prices are higher. During May and September there is a fall in tourists and therefore the prices can be lower even though the weather is great. During October, November, January and February the islands fill up with elderly people as the temperatures are warm but not too hot. It is a great time to come to the islands as the weather in the rest of Europe gets cold and Canaries become a perfect place for a short escape to the summer. December, March and April are also high seasons in the Canary islands when the prices are higher due to Christmas and Easter holidays.


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08 March 2017
Carey Olsen announces a new partner in the Cayman Islands
Leading offshore law firm Carey Olsen has promoted corporate and finance lawyer Alistair Russell into the partnership.
Based in the Cayman Islands, Mr Russell joined Carey Olsen in 2013, prior to which he was with Skadden, Arps, and Cleary Gottlieb, each in London.
Mr Russell works on a broad range of transactions including fund and general finance, private equity, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions and capital markets.
Jarrod Farley, managing partner of Carey Olsen's Cayman Islands office said: "The Cayman office has grown rapidly since we opened in 2012 and Alistair has played a key role in the development of our corporate practice. We are delighted to welcome him to the partnership.
"This is an exciting time for Carey Olsen as we grow our international footprint and consolidate our leading position in our established markets."
Alistair Russell said: "It is a pleasure and a privilege to join the partnership, and to continue to have the opportunity to work with such a dynamic, talented and fast-growing team."
Carey Olsen is one of the largest offshore law firms in the world with 49 partners and 200 lawyers across eight international offices. Over the past eighteen months, the firm has opened offices in Singapore and Hong Kong reflecting the growing demand for offshore legal services in Asia and the increasingly international and cross-border nature of the firm's client base.


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In May, Duck Sports Authority has been taking an in-depth look at recruiting for the 2013 signing class. Flip-flopping back and forth between offense and defense, we are closing in on the final positions and the Duck targets at each position. Today, we move back to offense to take a look at the wide receiver position. The Ducks roster is loaded with several very talented wide receivers, but are still looking for some of that talent to equal production.
Our first look series shows that only one scholarship player, Rashaan Vaughn is set to graduate after the 2012 season. There are two more, however, scheduled to graduate after 2013. That leaves the Ducks likely looking to add at least one to two receivers in this next class.
So, with that in mind, let's look at the players the Ducks have currently offered individually.
Robert Foster
Status: Offered, Medium Interest
Overview: Foster is rated as the 4th best wide receiver in the nation and 26th best player overall in early rankings. He has all the tools of the prototypical wide receiver; he is tall, has good hands, great vision and great speed.
Strengths: When watching film of Foster, unlike many high school star receivers, Foster plays defense. As a defender, he is very physical and not afraid to make a play. That physical attitude will serve him well at the wide receiver position as he makes plays over the middle. He is also an exceptional punt and kick-off returner. He shows great vision, elusiveness and flat speed. Foster has strong hands and uses them to his advantage when going after the ball.
Weaknesses: With a player of this caliber, there are not a lot of weaknesses to explore. With Foster, the main weakness noticeable on tape is that he lets the ball come to him rather than going to the ball. At the next level that can be the difference between a reception and first down or a turnover.
DSA Odds: Very...
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The human body is, like the animal, a precious commodity. He has the ability to heal itself from wounds or disease, of which machine you can say that? A machine that repairs itself, we would be dismissed to the realm of science fiction, our body is doing construction work every single day!
Our immune system can be subdivided into an innate and acquired. As the name suggests, we have the innate immune system since birth. Regardless of whether the immune system with a foreign object ever had contact, it begins to respond. The adaptive immune system we acquire in the course of our lives, that is, we train it every minute, every day since we with bacteria, fungi and viruses, known as antigens are confronted. In order to keep them at bay and to destroy the immune system makes antibodies, also called immunoglobulins.
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Try to go regularly to fresh air, preferably 4 times a week.
¤Provide a sufficient amount of sleep. Everyone has their own individual sleep needs. It is important that you are recovering in the morning and come with no sleep deficit through the day.
¤With a balanced and proper diet, you supply your body with the important nutrients it needs to be prepared well in daily life. Especially fresh fruits and vegetables provide the body with essential vitamins. In the winter it is especially important to ensure an adequate amount of vitamin C.
¤Especially the elderly and people with weak immune systems benefit from a flu vaccination. The vaccine protects against the real flu, often a sudden febrile illness that can lead to death. They must be vaccinated every year and does not help against common colds.
¤Wash your hands when you get home. You would not believe how many bacteria abound on your hands, especially if you have a cold contact and had sick people.
¤A positive attitude not only ensures that you take many things in life easier, but also prevents negative thoughts increase your adrenalin level.
¤Avoid continuous stress, this weakens the immune system. Treat yourself to consciously take a break now and then, where you can relax.
¤Sport is murder? Who said a light cardio 2-3 times a week boosts the immune system and keeps your body fit and supple.
¤People in an intact living longer and are healthier partnership. If you live alone now, but then there is no reason to despair. You can also live happily alone. Happiness, after all strive to find away not, it is in itself.


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34 million fish recorded 4 years ago.
This is a fascinating place to visit at any time of year, but particularly in early October during the run of the Adams River sockeye salmon. The Adams River has one of the largest Sockeye salmon runs in North America.
Every fourth year is a "dominant" salmon run, with millions of fish to be seen. The Adams River Salmon Society coordinate the celebration known as the "Salute to the Sockeye" during the dominant years.
During the last 3 weeks of October, these years often have substantial returns of sockeye and offer excellent viewing opportunities. The best place to view spawning salmon will be on the new viewing platform approximately 300m west of the the parking lot.


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T.R. Glover's, The Jesus of History," was one of my major resources in church history class when I was in seminary. In this book Glover discusses the triumph of Christianity in the ancient world. It was, I might add, a highly improbable triumph from the human point of view.
How did it happen that such a small group of simple and unlettered men and women could go out into the world with the story of a crucified Jew who was not part of the religious establishment of the day and persuade men and women to accept Jesus as their personal Savior and Lord?
Glover's answer is that they were enabled by the grace of God to do three things:
They out-lived the world. They did this because they could say of Jesus: "He loved me and gave Himself for me" (Galatians 2:20). They also believed that He died for the whole world. Their faith in Christ gave them a new dignity and worth, a motive for service, and a reason to be forgiving that no one else in the world had.
They were also given a motivation to live lives of purity that no one else had. They could look at a prostitute – "the victim of common lust", as the early church father Tertullian, called her – and know that it was for even her that Christ died. By being redeemed she – and every other sinner as well — could become "a new creation."
They out-died the world. Tertullian, prior to his conversion to Christianity, was a famous Roman lawyer. He saw Christians die in a way that he had seen no other person die, and it shook him to the depths of his being. "Every man who sees it" he said, "is moved with some misgiving, and is set on fire to learn the reason."
The early Christians demonstrated the kind of bravery unseen before – even in the face of death. When simple men and women could choose to die like that, generally in extreme agony, the world took notice of it and was greatly impacted by it.
They out-thought the world. The citizens in the ancient world were generally very gullible and superstitious. Christians were clear-sighted and fearless. Notices were sometimes seen outside heathen shrines: "Christians keep out." They could see through the mumbo-jumbo that was being taught in them.
In that world the way to destroy your enemy was to attach his name to a demon and the demon would kill him. "Go on," said the Christian, "Attach my name to a demon. This does not cause me to fear, for I have One whose name is above every name to keep me safe."
If Christians today are to have anything like the level of influence on our world that those first Christians had, the way to accomplish that has not changed:
- We must out-live the world in service, in love, in purity, and in joy.
- We must out-die the world – if that is the price we must pay for believing.
- We must out-think the world, not by clinging to old ways and patterns, but by being ready to give an honorable account of our faith in the face of every challenge that comes our way.


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Question No# 1
Modesty ( و م) is a good quality. In hadees literature; Salman Al-Farsi narrated that the Holy Prophet (PBUH) said:
"Indeed, Allah, is Hayy, Generous, when a man raises his hands to Him, He feels too shy to return them to him empty and rejected." (Jami` at-Tirmidhi: 3556) Holy Prophet (PBUH) also said: modesty is a department of Eeman. There is a verse in holy Quran in which Allah SWT says: Holy Prophet SAW feels modesty and do not ask you to go from his home. So it seems very necessary to adopt "Haya" in all aspect of our life.
Now a days we see lack of modesty from children towards parents; students towards
teachers etc. You have to find just five reasons/ factors causing decrease in modesty. (10)
Drawing unnecessary attention to oneself.
Having no awareness of Modesty.
Social Media.
flirtatious speech and conduct .
Drawing attention to hidden adornments.
Question No# 2
Which parts are mandatory to wash in ablution "Wazo"? Write their name and quote the
verse of Holy Quran in this regard. (3+2=5)
There are four mandatory acts in an ablution:
1-To wash the face once
2-To wash two arms together with the elbow once.
3-To apply masah on the one-fourth of the head, that is, to rub a wet hand softly on it.
4-To wash the feet, together with the ankle-bones on the side once.
"If anyone performs ablution like that of mine and offers a two-Rak'ah (units) prayer during which he does not think of anything else (not related to the present prayer) then his past sins will be forgiven." [Al-Bukhari]
"O you who have believed! When you rise to [perform] prayer, wash your faces and your forearms to the elbows and wipe over your heads and wash your feet to the ankles..." [Quran 5:6] "… and wipe over your heads…" [Quran 5:6]
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QUESTION NO 1:Lack of modesty:
Women's freedom.
Improper dressing
Internet and social media.
4- sex attraction
5- Quality of showing own.
6- Close physical contact with unrelated members of opposite sex.
7- lack of knowledge .
The fraiz of wazoo are:
To wash the face once.
To wash the both arms with elbows.
To apply masah on one-fourth of the head.
To wash the feet together with ankle bone on the side one.
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This action was taken after Mohammed Shafiq, chief executive of the Ramadan Foundation, called on Smith to 'apologise immediately', insisting 'our faith is not to be mocked'. Other, similar, demands followed.
British Gymnastics has made a serious error here, in my view.
Whether what Smith did was reprehensible, wrong, etc. is certainly a question with many facets, but I think the verdict is clear on whether he should have been disciplined by British Gymnastics. He should not.
I have heard well-meaning people say about this case that religion should be treated like race. We wouldn't allow Smith to take the piss (as we say in the UK) out of some ethnic minority. But then we shouldn't allow him to take the piss out of the religion of such an ethnic minority either.
But a religion is not a race. Mocking a belief system may not always be wise, nice, etc., but it is not something anyone should be disciplined for. Unless, of course, you think that religious belief systems are 'special' and merit special treatment compared to e.g. political belief systems more generally (and make no mistake religious belief systems invariably are political belief systems). [Conatus News] Read more


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The Wake-n-Bake Brunch is back to kick the new year off right and we at The Cannaisseur Series are excited to share the love of the season with you.
Upon arrival, you'll be greeted by our staff for the welcome hour with a sampling of delicious, mildly medicated mocktail and edibles. You will have a chance to sample from the vapor bar showcasing high quality extracts or try some mildy dosed edibles while getting to know some of the local pruveyors and farmers. This will be a time for you to grab a drink from the mimosa bar as well as meet and mingle with all of the other guests while enjoying some tunes.
After the welcome hour, we move to the dining hall to indulge in a 4 Course Brunch menu of non-psychoactive seasonal cuisine (vegetarian option available) accompanied by various beverages. The menu will celebrate the season using farm fresh ingredients and sustainably focused practices. Between each course, we will be sampling a carefully curated list of different cannabis intermezzos from a local farm including a sativa, a cbd and an indica.
Chef Coreen and her team will prepare your meal husband and cannabis entrepreneur Ryan acts as your host for the afternoon. He will guide you along your journey of exploring an array of cannabis while discussing the current and future climate of the cannabis industry in California.
Our goal is to create the most comfortable and relaxed environment with tasty food, plenty to drink and wonderful people. At the end of the brunch each guest will be taking home a gift bag (worth $100 retail) with a sampling of some of the days offerings and a few other surprises.
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