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On Prophesying by Dreams
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As to the divination which takes place in sleep, and is said to be based on dreams, we cannot lightly either dismiss it with contempt or give it implicit confidence. The fact that all persons, or many, suppose dreams to possess a special significance, tends to inspire us with belief in it [such divination], as founded on the testimony of experience; and indeed that divination in dreams should, as regards some subjects, be genuine, is not incredible, for it has a show of reason; from which one might form a like opinion also respecting all other dreams. Yet the fact of our seeing no probable cause to account for such divination tends to inspire us with distrust. For, in addition to its further unreasonableness, it is absurd to combine the idea that the sender of such dreams should be God with the fact that those to whom he sends them are not the best and wisest, but merely commonplace persons. If, however, we abstract from the causality of God, none of the other causes assigned appears probable. For that certain persons should have foresight in dreams concerning things destined to take place at the Pillars of Hercules, or on the banks of the Borysthenes, seems to be something to discover the explanation of which surpasses the wit of man. Well then, the dreams in question must be regarded either as causes, or as tokens, of the events, or else as coincidences; either as all, or some, of these, or as one only. I use the word 'cause' in the sense in which the moon is [the cause] of an eclipse of the sun, or in which fatigue is [a cause] of fever; 'token' [in the sense in which] the entrance of a star [into the shadow] is a token of the eclipse, or [in which] roughness of the tongue [is a token] of fever; while by 'coincidence' I mean, for example, the occurrence of an eclipse of the sun while some one is taking a walk; for the walking is neither a token nor a cause of the eclipse, nor the eclipse [a cause or token] of the walking. For this reason no coincidence takes place according to a universal or general rule. Are we then to say that some dreams are causes, others tokens, e.g. of events taking place in the bodily organism? At all events, even scientific physicians tell us that one should pay diligent attention to dreams, and to hold this view is reasonable also for those who are not practitioners, but speculative philosophers. For the movements which occur in the daytime [within the body] are, unless very great and violent, lost sight of in contrast with the waking movements, which are more impressive. In sleep the opposite takes place, for then even trifling movements seem considerable. This is plain in what often happens during sleep; for example, dreamers fancy that they are affected by thunder and lightning, when in fact there are only faint ringings in their ears; or that they are enjoying honey or other sweet savours, when only a tiny drop of phlegm is flowing down [the oesophagus]; or that they are walking through fire, and feeling intense heat, when there is only a slight warmth affecting certain parts of the body. When they are awakened, these things appear to them in this their true character. But since the beginnings of all events are small, so, it is clear, are those also of the diseases or other affections about to occur in our bodies. In conclusion, it is manifest that these beginnings must be more evident in sleeping than in waking moments.
Nay, indeed, it is not improbable that some of the presentations which come before the mind in sleep may even be causes of the actions cognate to each of them. For as when we are about to act [in waking hours], or are engaged in any course of action, or have already performed certain actions, we often find ourselves concerned with these actions, or performing them, in a vivid dream; the cause whereof is that the dream-movement has had a way paved for it from the original movements set up in the daytime; exactly so, but conversely, it must happen that the movements set up first in sleep should also prove to be starting-points of actions to be performed in the daytime, since the recurrence by day of the thought of these actions also has had its way paved for it in the images before the mind at night. Thus then it is quite conceivable that some dreams may be tokens and causes [of future events].
Most [so-called prophetic] dreams are, however, to be classed as mere coincidences, especially all such as are extravagant, and those in the fulfilment of which the dreamers have no initiative, such as in the case of a sea-fight, or of things taking place far away. As regards these it is natural that the fact should stand as it does whenever a person, on mentioning something, finds the very thing mentioned come to pass. Why, indeed, should this not happen also in sleep? The probability is, rather, that many such things should happen. As, then, one's mentioning a particular person is neither token nor cause of this person's presenting himself, so, in the parallel instance, the dream is, to him who has seen it, neither token nor cause of its [so-called] fulfilment, but a mere coincidence. Hence the fact that many dreams have no 'fulfilment', for coincidence do not occur according to any universal or general law.
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On the whole, forasmuch as certain of the lower animals also dream, it may be concluded that dreams are not sent by God, nor are they designed for this purpose [to reveal the future]. They have a divine aspect, however, for Nature [their cause] is divinely planned, though not itself divine. A special proof [of their not being sent by God] is this: the power of foreseeing the future and of having vivid dreams is found in persons of inferior type, which implies that God does not send their dreams; but merely that all those whose physical temperament is, as it were, garrulous and excitable, see sights of all descriptions; for, inasmuch as they experience many movements of every kind, they just chance to have visions resembling objective facts, their luck in these matters being merely like that of persons who play at even and odd. For the principle which is expressed in the gambler's maxim: 'If you make many throws your luck must change,' holds in their case also.
That many dreams have no fulfilment is not strange, for it is so too with many bodily toms and weather-signs, e.g. those of rain or wind. For if another movement occurs more influential than that from which, while [the event to which it pointed was] still future, the given token was derived, the event [to which such token pointed] does not take place. So, of the things which ought to be accomplished by human agency, many, though well-planned are by the operation of other principles more powerful [than man's agency] brought to nought. For, speaking generally, that which was about to happen is not in every case what now is happening, nor is that which shall hereafter he identical with that which is now going to be. Still, however, we must hold that the beginnings from which, as we said, no consummation follows, are real beginnings, and these constitute natural tokens of certain events, even though the events do not come to pass.
As for [prophetic] dreams which involve not such beginnings [sc. of future events] as we have here described, but such as are extravagant in times, or places, or magnitudes; or those involving beginnings which are not extravagant in any of these respects, while yet the persons who see the dream hold not in their own hands the beginnings [of the event to which it points]: unless the foresight which such dreams give is the result of pure coincidence, the following would be a better explanation of it than that proposed by Democritus, who alleges 'images' and 'emanations' as its cause. As, when something has caused motion in water or air, this [the portion of water or air], and, though the cause has ceased to operate, such motion propagates itself to a certain point, though there the prime movement is not present; just so it may well be that a movement and a consequent sense-perception should reach sleeping souls from the objects from which Democritus represents 'images' and 'emanations' coming; that such movements, in whatever way they arrive, should be more perceptible at night [than by day], because when proceeding thus in the daytime they are more liable to dissolution (since at night the air is less disturbed, there being then less wind); and that they shall be perceived within the body owing to sleep, since persons are more sensitive even to slight sensory movements when asleep than when awake. It is these movements then that cause 'presentations', as a result of which sleepers foresee the future even relatively to such events as those referred to above. These considerations also explain why this experience befalls commonplace persons and not the most intelligent. For it would have regularly occurred both in the daytime and to the wise had it been God who sent it; but, as we have explained the matter, it is quite natural that commonplace persons should be those who have foresight [in dreams]. For the mind of such persons is not given to thinking, but, as it were, derelict, or totally vacant, and, when once set moving, is borne passively on in the direction taken by that which moves it. With regard to the fact that some persons who are liable to derangement have this foresight, its explanation is that their normal mental movements do not impede [the alien movements], but are beaten off by the latter. Therefore it is that they have an especially keen perception of the alien movements.
That certain persons in particular should have vivid dreams, e.g. that familiar friends should thus have foresight in a special degree respecting one another, is due to the fact that such friends are most solicitous on one another's behalf. For as acquaintances in particular recognize and perceive one another a long way off, so also they do as regards the sensory movements respecting one another; for sensory movements which refer to persons familiarly known are themselves more familiar. Atrabilious persons, owing to their impetuosity, are, when they, as it were, shoot from a distance, expert at hitting; while, owing to their mutability, the series of movements deploys quickly before their minds. For even as the insane recite, or con over in thought, the poems of Philaegides, e.g. the Aphrodite, whose parts succeed in order of similitude, just so do they the 'atrabilious' go on and on stringing sensory movements together.Moreover, owing to their aforesaid impetuosity, one movement within them is not liable to be knocked out of its course by some other movement.
The most skilful interpreter of dreams is he who has the faculty of observing resemblances. Any one may interpret dreams which are vivid and plain. But, speaking of 'resemblances', I mean that dream presentations are analogous to the forms reflected in water, as indeed we have already stated. In the latter case, if the motion in the water be great, the reflexion has no resemblance to its original, nor do the forms resemble the real objects. Skilful, indeed, would he be in interpreting such reflexions who could rapidly discern, and at a glance comprehend, the scattered and distorted fragments of such forms, so as to perceive that one of them represents a man, or a horse, Or anything whatever. Accordingly, in the other case also, in a similar way, some such thing as this [blurred image] is all that a dream amounts to; for the internal movement effaces the clearness of the dream.
The questions, therefore, which we proposed as to the nature of sleep and the dream, and the cause to which each of them is due, and also as to divination as a result of dreams, in every form of it, have now been discussed.


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An international team of researchers co-led by a University of Minnesota scientist has sequenced the genomes of two fungal pathogens — one that threatens global wheat supplies and another that limits production of a tree crop valued as a future source for biofuel.
The sequencing of the genetic codes of wheat stem rust pathogen (Puccinia graminis) and poplar leaf rust pathogen (Melampsora larici-populina) is expected to help researchers develop control strategies to address worldwide threats to wheat fields and tree plantations. The study, which was published this week in the early online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, was a six-year collaborative effort of USDA's Agricultural Research Service (ARS), the U.S. Department of Energy, the National Science Foundation, the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, the University of Minnesota and the French National Institute for Agricultural Research.
The study represents the first genome-wide characterization of any rust fungus, a diverse group of more than 6,000 species, according to Les Szabo, a lead researcher on the project. Szabo works at the ARS Cereal Disease Laboratory on the university's St. Paul campus and is a member of the plant pathology department faculty.
Rust fungi are obligate biotrophs that depend on living tissue of their hosts for survival. These pathogens secrete proteins that enable them to block the host plant's defenses and steal nutrients. The research uncovered evidence that both pathogens have a large repertoire of "effector" proteins, an indication that they likely have adapted and co-evolved with their host plants, according to the study authors.
Because they need a host to survive, the pathogens can't be cultured in a laboratory and are notoriously hard to study. But the genetic sequencing opens a window into the never-ending arms race between these pathogens and their hosts, Szabo said.
Wheat stem rust has caused major epidemics of both barley and wheat worldwide. A new strain known as Ug99 has recently spread across Africa and into Central Asia, and is able to overcome most of the stem-rust-resistant wheat varieties developed over the past 50 years.
Poplar leaf rust can cause losses of up to 50 percent of annual growth in poplar tree plantations. Poplar is an important crop for the wood industry and is becoming increasingly important to the biofuel industry in the United States and Europe because their rapid and significant biomass production.
"These pathogens pose a great threat to two very important agricultural crops. The more we can learn about them, from the molecular underpinnings of the pathogenicity to their survival and spread, the better we will be able to develop effective, safe and long-lasting control strategies," said Marty Carson, ARS-CDL research leader. ARS is USDA's principal intramural scientific research agency, and the research supports the USDA priority of developing new sources of bioenergy and promoting international food security.
The team's sequence data, gathered since the projects began in 2004/2005, has been released in GenBank, a genetic database administered by the National Center for Biotechnology Information at the National Institutes of Health.

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Hasta la vista, baby.
Posted by Zalatix | Wed Nov 7, 2012, 01:59 AM (3 replies)
Hey Admins, can you fix this?
I wasn't calling for physical violence in this thread EXCEPT in self-defense, which is legal in any court of law.
Posted by Zalatix | Tue Nov 6, 2012, 03:27 PM (79 replies)
A Republican told me today that we're sending Obama back to Chicago. I agreed.
IN 2017, in accordance to the US Constitution's 2 term limit, after we elect ANOTHER DEMOCRAT to succeed him!!!!!!
He didn't like that. I think I lost a customer. Or two.
Posted by Zalatix | Tue Nov 6, 2012, 02:39 PM (2 replies)
Duh!!! Protectionism is rising because globalization has hurt American workers.
Free trade advocates keep bailing out water from their lifeboat but they won't recognize the cannon hole that's been blown through it: globalization has destroyed job stability, stagnated wages, and has kept job growth LAGGING BEHIND population growth.
Free trade advocates can't bring themselves to realize that the longer globalization goes, the more spectacular its collapse will be. It is Ouroboros.
Protectionism isn't a nationalist or racist response. It is an immune system response to a clear and present economic pathogen. Globalization cannot sustain itself - by nature it is a polluting influence that cannot survive without keeping third world nations impoverished (see: the US telling Haiti not to raise its minimum wage) while moving jobs out of more economically stable nations, thereby destabilizing them. Globalization must destabilize the healthy and keeps the weak perpetually weak. If weak nations become strong then there's no reason for globalization: because then it costs too much to continue.
Globalization holds no benefits for American workers. The trade deficit is itself a shining example of what is inherently wrong with the system. No amount of reform can make this deficit go away. And that trade deficit is the world's anti-American sentiment given voice: American workers are being driven out of the global economy, and even being driven out of their own economy. Free traders know this, and they would resort to anything to keep this fact from being discussed.
Unfortunately for them, Americans know they are being pushed out of the global and even domestic economy. Which is why the great modern Ouroboros is unsure of whether it will be put down mercifully by protectionism, or whether it will be allowed to keep imploding.
Oh yes, free traders, globalism is very much imploding. It is headed for a disastrous end by its own hand, or by the hand of Protectionism. There is no scenario that sees globalism coming to a good end. The only choices left are whether it will collapse disastrously on its own, or whether it will be euthanized by the electorate. Globalization has passed that point of no return. Self-destruction or economic euthanasia. What will it be?
Of workers in seven educational categories -- high school dropout, high school graduate, some college, college graduate, nonprofessional master's, Ph.D., and M.B.A./J.D./M.D. -- only those in the last two categories, with doctorates or professional graduate degrees, experienced any growth in mean real money earnings between 2000 and 2005. Workers in these two categories comprised only 3.4 percent of the labor force in 2005, meaning that more than 96 percent of U.S. workers are in educational groups for which average money earnings have fallen. In contrast to in earlier decades, since 2000 even college graduates and those with nonprofessional master's degrees -- 29 percent of workers in 2005 -- suffered declines in mean real money earnings.
In short: remember how everyone said Americans need more skills and education? Well, those who got that, are benefiting less and less. Because of globalization, Americans are competing harder than anyone in the world for a ever-shrinking pool of jobs and decreasing wages, relative to the population.
The problem is not how much education Americans get. The problem is that only 1% of Americans can ever be in the 99th percentile, period, no matter how much education the country gets. The problem is that the gains from globalization are only going to 1% of Americans. Everyone else is getting the shaft.
If every American had a PhD in a high-tech field, there would still only be 1% of Americans whose incomes would rise as a result of globalization. Before globalization matured in the 1980s, this was not the case. Free traders don't ever want to talk about that. No matter how much you bring it up, they will not discuss it. It is the smoking gun of globalization, the shining evidence of its culpability in the decline of America's working class.
In short, TAA is inappropriately designed to address the protectionist drift. The labor-market concern driving this drift is not confined to the problem of how to reemploy particular workers in particular sectors facing import competition. Because the pressures of globalization are spread economy-wide via domestic labor-market competition, there is concern about income and job security among workers employed in all sectors.
In short: globalization displaces Americans from manufacturing, and these displaced workers are trying to get into other fields, all of which are becoming overcrowded with applicants. Trade adjustment assistance doesn't work because of one basic problem: there are not enough jobs to go around. Ever played musical chairs? It's like that.
If there hadn't been globalization, domestic jobs would not have left the country, and this would not have happened.
If the United States today undertook the goal of boosting its college-graduate share of the work force to 50 percent, the graduation of that median American worker would, if the rate of past efforts are any indication, not come until about 2047. And even this far-off date might be too optimistic. In the past generation, the rate of increase in the educational attainment of U.S. natives has slowed from its 1960s and 1970s pace, in part because college-completion rates have stalled. Rising income inequality may itself be playing a role here. Since 1988, 74 percent of American students at the 146 top U.S. colleges have come from the highest socioeconomic quartile, compared with just 3 percent from the lowest quartile. Moreover, even college graduates and holders of nonprofessional master's degrees have experienced falling mean real money earnings since 2000. If this trend continues, even completing college will not assuage the concerns behind rising protectionism.
In short: globalization has forced more people to get college degrees, and now there are a glut of college graduates, which is driving their wages down by right of increased supply overwhelming employer demand.
If there hadn't been globalization, domestic jobs would not have left the country, and this would not have happened.
A New Deal for globalization would combine further trade and investment liberalization with eliminating the full payroll tax for all workers earning below the national median. In 2005, the median total money earnings of all workers was $32,140, and there were about 67 million workers at or below this level. Assuming a mean labor income for this group of about $25,000, these 67 million workers would receive a tax cut of about $3,800 each. Because the economic burden of this tax falls largely on workers, this tax cut would be a direct gain in after-tax real income for them. With a total price tag of about $256 billion, the proposal could be paid for by raising the cap of $94,200, raising payroll tax rates (for progressivity, rates could escalate as they do with the income tax), or some combination of the two. This is, of course, only an outline of the needed policy reform, and there would be many implementation details to address. For example, rather than a single on-off point for this tax cut, a phase-in of it (like with the earned-income tax credit) would avoid incentive-distorting jumps in effective tax rates.
This does absolutely nothing for people who don't have a job, and is a perfect explanation for why there is nothing that can be done to save Globalism.
Nothing can be done. Even invoking Franklin Delano "I stopped Smoot/Hawley" Roosevelt is useless against reality: globalism is going to die, and it is going to die quite painfully, if not by protectionism then by a total economic collapse either because of the ongoing pattern of mass impoverishment, or the collapse of the US Dollar.
Invoking FDR cannot save Globalism. Globalization is a WEAPON to use against America's working class, and nothing more. The question that free traders have left to deal with is: which awful, painful way do they want this anti-American weapon to die? All that is left is Protectionism now, or a devastating collapse later. That's it and that's all that's left for Globalism to choose, folks.
Posted by Zalatix | Mon Nov 5, 2012, 08:46 AM (16 replies)
A Letter From a Republican Male Voter to Richard Mourdock (WARNING!!! Potentially OFFENSIVE satire)
Disclaimer: this shit is probably offensive. EXTREMELY so. It touches on the assumption that a woman is property and other issues that make sensible people's skin crawl. It is, however, a response to this epically awesome, powerful and hard-hitting modern satire by John Scalzi. Ultimately this post is the trope of a Republican male voter who defends Richard Mourdock, brutally played straight. There are some absolute HOWLERS of illogical reasoning and even self-centered thinking contained in this letter: but again, it is what you'd expect to hear from the mind of a Mourdock supporter.
Minorities, it may also sound insensitive in that I am also bringing up racial issues in this letter. I trust you remember history and the magnitude of racist reactions to allegations of rape by minorities. I am using this trope to help drive the point home. These racists are to be reviled, rape by minorities is no more or less horrible than rape by whites, which is why I wrote it the way I did. Think like a Conservative: what hurts more than anything? The thought of a minority touching your wife. It's how they think, and it's what I am satirizing.
Christians, please note that I am staying in character here; this fictional fellow I am portraying does not represent Christianity even though any logical understanding of Mourdock supporters must conclude they think they are devout, righteous Christians. They are not. Perhaps I will go wrong in assuming that their brains are complex enough to reason things out that far.
Rape victims, especially those who got pregnant by rape, should probably stop now. Full stop.
A Letter From a Republican Male Voter to Richard Mourdock
Greetings from a fellow Indiana Tea Partier! I am writing to you because I love God, I love limited governments, and I share your feelings on abortion. We are going to send Obama back to Chicago and hopefully we will send you to Washington, DC as our next United States Senator!
Sometimes it is easier to talk about one's principles than to actually live by them. We have seen that recently with Governor Chris Christie who embraced Mr. Obama (I can't call him President, because he's not a U.S.-born citizen and his occupancy of that office represents an illegitimate Muslim takeover of our Christian nation) when the chips came down. Instead of protesting the need for Washington, DC / FEMA intervention, he abandoned his principles and clung to Obama as if for dear life, praising the "benefits" of collectivist intervention. It's as if he completely forgot that had New Jersey never sent tax money to Washington, they would have had plenty of money to take care of their own problems regarding Sandy. As I said, when the chips came down, expediency ruled over principles in Chris Christie's world. Sadly that is the case with far too many people, which is why our Christian nation is in the mess we're in now.
I want to share with you a story of a calling that led me to face my own moment of truth. Recently, I was called upon to either stand by my principles or deny them. It wouldn't be the first time that, facing hardship, a supposedly devout follower of Christ did such a thing. Fortunately, I am a God-fearing man and I do actually attend church and I do try to learn the lessons imparted to me. I could say I was somewhat prepared for the test that was put before me. At least, I feel I reacted the way God would want, and not the way that emotional and moral convenience would dictate.
The test came early this summer when my wife was coming home with groceries. She was detoured by road construction into a poor neighborhood. She was broadsided by a car with three drunk men. These men - one white men, a Hispanic man and a black man - dragged her from her car while she was still recovering from the airbag that hit her in the face, stole her cell phone, held her down, and took turns raping her while she screamed for help. As if this wasn't bad enough, they... did other, equally horrible things to her. When it was all over they threw her back in her car and threatened her with death if she didn't drive off. Thankfully her car limped to the nearest gasoline station where she got help.
As you can imagine, Mr. / future U.S. Senator Mourdock, the test was two-fold. The second part came when we discovered that she'd gotten pregnant. A football injury in high school rendered me unable to father children, so we know for certain that one of those men is the biological father. What we don't know yet is which man impregnated her.
I love my wife dearly and it was utterly devastating to know what happened to her and to see her emotionally wrecked by her experience. It was even more devastating, emotionally, to find out that she had gotten pregnant as a result of this brutal rape. To make matters worse, the perpetrators used her cell phone and took turns filming the incident. We found all of this out, plus the following, only because law enforcement got involved: since they knew Youtube would erase the video, they posted it on a foreign site and bragged about what they did, and even made mock bets on what race the baby would be if she got pregnant. Her cell phone had a lot of personal information on it, and as a result they monitored our emails and Facebook posts and started asking her how "their" baby was doing.
It is obvious what our solutions were. Either have the baby or get an abortion. Coping with a pregnancy caused by rape has unimaginably difficult for me. I found it hard to touch her because of the way she had been defiled by those men. Worse than that, she started suffering morning sickness and finally she started to show. I could not help but wonder if this was a legitimate rape after all. Not a night went by that I didn't get on my knees and pray over these issues. I didn't know what to do. To put it crudely, the option of abortion started looking pretty good as a solution.
But I think you know what God would say. A life is a life, it isn't the baby's fault how he or she is conceived. A child is a gift to an otherwise childless couple. A gift given to us under circumstances that we would not find desirable is a gift nonetheless. It's no different than an adoption, it's not our child in either case. Actually, it is - this child is half hers, biologically speaking. Just as people die when their time comes, they also live when their time comes to enter this world.
I've harbored feelings of anger at the rapists, guilt that I wasn't there to protect my wife, even jealousy over the fact that one of these men fathered a child while I could not. I've felt deeply insulted that they put a baby in my wife's belly and left their mark upon her and within her forever. I've contemplated with terrible uncertainty how I'll feel when I look into the eyes of a rapist's child, and even more uncertainty at how I will raise that child as my own. Through prayer I have started to get over my reluctance to touch my wife; as surely as it wasn't the baby's fault that they're alive and growing inside her, it wasn't her fault that she was raped. I can't let them win. I can't let the devil win.
As for not knowing the father of our baby, we chose not to get DNA tests. The tests are unnecessary to ensure the life of the baby. Why know who the father is if you have moved past your anger, or are trying to move past it? Thus, as part of my Christian therapy I have started meeting with the perpetrators in prison. I didn't start doing that right away, mind you. It took until I was able to accept in my heart that our child is a gift and that the circumstances of their creation was secondary, even if not irrelevant. I had to remember that just as these men sinned by coveting thy neighbor's wife, I have sinned in many ways - ways which I feel are much lesser, but which are not lesser in the eyes of God. Forgive us our trespasses, is part of a basic Christian prayer. For the sake of my own soul I am still working my way through this. Part of this working through process involved thanking these men for being the deliverers of God's gift to my family.
In closing, Mr. / Future Senator Mourdoch, I had planned to write you this letter 2 months ago, but I kept putting it off. I understand why now. The three men who accosted my wife and gave her the blessing that's swelling inside her now, accepted a plea bargain. They received a reduced sentence and have joined the prison ministry, and are already model citizens behind bars. I am confident that they are well on their way to repentance and emerge as productive members of society. So perhaps it was a gift to them as well.
I am supporting your candidate for U.S. Senate, Mr. Mourdoch, because while your words are uncomfortable for people to hear, they are truthful. Thank you.
A Republican Male Voter
* Dear Republican Freeper trolls who wandered in here, I hope you read this, and I hope this sinks in a day later and forty inches beneath your mental dermis before you realize what you just read.
Posted by Zalatix | Sat Nov 3, 2012, 11:09 PM (8 replies)
Proof that Capitalism is little more than religious superstition
"Lower taxes = economic growth" is an item of faith. Couldn't have said it better.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. government agency has withdrawn a report that challenged Republican ideas about taxes and economic growth - an action that drew fire from Democrats who accused it on Thursday of bowing to political pressure.
Republican lawmakers blasted the Congressional Research Service (CRS) report when it was issued in September and then went to the agency to complain. The report suggested that lower tax rates on the wealthy are not linked to economic growth, an item of faith among many conservatives.
The CRS, a non-partisan arm of the Library of Congress, withdrew the report in an unusual move late last month, the agency confirmed on Thursday.
Posted by Zalatix | Fri Nov 2, 2012, 11:07 AM (1 replies)
Al Gore was a climate change prophet.
Now he is a climate change historian.
That is all.
Posted by Zalatix | Fri Nov 2, 2012, 07:15 AM (8 replies)
When I stand back and assess our fight against the GOP this year...
we've done a hell of a job.
We here in California have been tearing it up. At this late hour I feel safe to say we're going to retain every seat, take a few GOP seats, and Obama stands as much chance of even SWEATING over California as Romney stands a chance of insourcing every job back from China and calling for tariffs to boot.
Spurred by fears of voter suppression, black voters out east camped out overnight to vote early. It looks like Hispanic groups are going full speed with nationwide mobilization efforts, too. They sure are in California - I see LOTS of Obama stickers in Latino neighborhoods whenever I visit relatives down south.
I've briefly talked to Dems in other states and they're all practically too busy canvassing and calling to explain that they're out canvassing and calling! It looks even busier than 2008 when McCain was riding Obama over his post GOP convention bounce and wallets in Main Streets all over the country opened up to help Obama's campaign. It looks even more intense than that now, at least when it comes to sheer efforts, if not also in sheer money. I haven't gotten any calls for money from the Obama campaign in weeks, has anyone?
It's friggin' wild out there. It's like we've been on afterburners since Romney got the nom. (Damn, if only we'd been like that in 2010.)
I think all that panic mongering about voter suppression and Republicans winning or coming even in the polls has only served to mobilize people AGAINST the GOP. Talk about exploding in the faces of the Guardians Of the Plutocracy! All they've got left now to save them is Tagg's voting machines. Unfortunately voting machines are practically weapons of mass destruction in the war against a legitimate democracy. How do we beat that one?
Posted by Zalatix | Fri Nov 2, 2012, 02:59 AM (1 replies)


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By JULIE PACE
AP White House Correspondent
JOHANNESBURG (AP) _ Inspired by Nelson Mandela's struggles in South Africa, a young Barack Obama joined campus protests in the U.S. against the racist rule that kept Mandela locked away in prison for nearly three decades.
Now a historic, barrier-breaking figure himself, President Obama arrived in South Africa Friday to find a country drastically transformed by Mandela's influence _ and grappling with the beloved 94-year-old's mortality.
It was unclear whether Mandela's deteriorating health would allow Obama to make a hospital visit. The former South African leader is battling a recurring lung infection and is said to be in critical condition at a hospital in the South African capital of Pretoria.
Speaking to reporters on Air Force One as he made his way to Johannesburg, Obama said he would gauge the situation after he arrived.
"I don't need a photo-op," he said. "And the last thing I want to do is to be in any way obtrusive at a time when the family is concerned about Nelson Mandela's condition."
Obama's visit to South Africa is seen as something of a tribute to the man who helped inspire his own political activism. The president will pay homage to Mandela at Robben Island, the prison where he spent 18 of his 27 years in prison. And with South Africa's ruling party, the African National Congress, facing questions about its effectiveness, Obama will urge the government and the South African people to live up to the democratic example set by their first black president.
"He's a personal hero, but I don't think I'm unique in that regard," Obama said during a news conference Thursday in Senegal, the first stop on his weeklong Africa trip. "I think he's a hero for the world. And if and when he passes from this place, one thing I think we'll all know is that his legacy is one that will linger on throughout the ages."
Obama and Mandela have met just once, a hastily arranged meeting in a Washington hotel room in 2005 when Obama was a U.S. senator. A photo of the meeting hangs in Obama's personal office at the White House, showing a smiling Mandela sitting on a chair, his legs outstretched, as the young senator reaches down to shake his hand. A copy of the photo also hangs in Mandela's office in Johannesburg.
Since then, the two have spoken occasionally by telephone, including after the 2008 election, when Mandela called Obama to congratulate him on his victory. The U.S. president called Mandela in 2010 after the South African leader's young granddaughter was killed in a car accident. Obama also wrote the introduction to Mandela's memoir, "Conversations With Myself."
Despite the two men's infrequent contact, people close to Obama say his one-on-one meeting with Mandela left a lasting impression.
"He is one of the few people who the president has respected and admired from afar who, when he met him, exceeded his expectations," said Valerie Jarrett, Obama's senior adviser and close friend.
Obama's own political rise has drawn inevitable comparisons to the South African leader. Both are Nobel Peace Prize winners and the first black men elected to lead their countries.
But their paths to power have been vastly different. While Mandela fought to end an oppressive government from the confines of a prison cell, Obama attended elite schools and rose through the U.S. political system before running for president.
"President Obama would believe that the challenges he has faced pale in comparison to those faced by President Mandela," Jarrett said.
Mandela had already shaped Obama's political beliefs well before their first encounter. As a student at Occidental College in Los Angeles, Obama joined protests against the school's investments during South Africa's apartheid era. In 1981, Obama focused his first public political speech on the topic.
"It's happening an ocean away," Obama said, according to a retelling of the story in his memoir "Dreams From My Father." "But it's a struggle that touches each and every one of us. Whether we know it or not. Whether we want it or not."
More than 30 years later, as he traveled through the African continent, Obama recalled the influence Mandela had had on him during that period of his life.
"I think at that time I didn't necessarily imagine that Nelson Mandela might be released," Obama said Thursday. But the president said he had read Mandela's writings and speeches and understood him to be a man who believed in "treating people equally and was willing to sacrifice his life for that belief."
Following his release from prison, Mandela was elected president in 1994 during South Africa's first all-races elections. He served just one term, focusing in large part on racial reconciliation in the post-apartheid era, and retreated from public life several years ago.
The most recent images of him depict a frail man apparently approaching the end of his life. While South Africans have long been loath to talk about Mandela's inevitable death, there is now a growing sense in the country that the time is near. Well-wishers have delivered flowers and messages of support to the Pretoria hospital where he is being treated, and prayer sessions have been held around the country.
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Google's Chrome Web browser has leapfrogged Firefox to claim the number two slot in the browser battle, according to Web analytics firm StatCounter.
Chrome held 25.69 percent of the worldwide market in November 2011 compared with Firefox's 25.23 percent. Internet Explorer remains the top browser globally with a 40.63 percent share of the market.
Of the top five browsers, only Chrome is seeing rapid growth — in November 2009, it held just under 5 percent of the market. Firefox and Internet Explorer have been slowly losing market share the past two years, while Safari and Opera have been more or less flat.
Chrome has often been cited for its superior speed and stability over other browsers. Each Chrome tab is assigned its own process, so one buggy site won't crash the whole browser. Recent versions of Firefox, by comparison, have seemed a bit slow and bloated. Word of mouth about Chrome seems to have slowly accelerated over the past few years, according to StatCounter data.
NetMarketShare, another Web analytics firm, shows Chrome still in third place, but on a similar trajectory to overtake Firefox soon.
In the United States alone, StatCounter finds Chrome still in third place, but also not by much.
Technically, it's still Microsoft's world on the Web, but not quite like it was in the days when Internet Explorer had more than 90 percent of the browser market. Perhaps by the time Windows XP is no longer a dominant operating system, Chrome may have a shot at the browser crown.
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text: You've heard it over and over again: The CIO's role and the role of IT is in a state of flux. You've got to evolve or be left in the dust.\nIt should come as no surprise\u2014IT has moved out of the data centers and wiring closets and is now working closely with the business side to make existing processes more efficient. And IT departments are succeeding in increasing the efficiency of business. However, they are also falling short when it comes to strategic transformation\u2014to driving business growth in new areas\u2014according to a new survey by Juniper Networks and the Economist Intelligence Unit.\n\n"'We found that businesses today are primarily looking at IT to save money\u2014for organizational efficiency," says Bask Iyer, CIO of Juniper. "IT is not really looked at for growth. But the most financially successful companies are doing what other companies are not doing. They're working closely with IT to develop new products. And they say IT is supporting their business growth by helping identify new opportunities. The highest performing companies are clearly seeing the benefits. They tend to look at the CIO role and IT as a strategic partner rather than as a backroom operator."\n\n"Businesses still view the IT function in the traditional role of improving process efficiency," adds Rozina Ali, deputy editor of the Economist Intelligence Unit. "However, to really take advantage of an increasingly digitized world, companies need to recognize the potential value of IT as a collaborative partner in identifying new opportunities."\n\nThe survey, Can the IT Department Keep Up with Exponential Data Growth? was based on the responses of 474 IT and business executives from Germany, Japan, the U.K. and the U.S. The Economist Business Unit says 51 percent of the respondents were C-level executives and the remainder consisted of senior executives and managers.\n\nIT Time Filled by Incremental Improvements, Slowing Evolution"The reality is that many companies are forced to do more with less, and IT has been pressed to drive these efficiencies by making incremental improvements\u2014data center consolidation, server elimination, disk management, offshoring, etc.," Iyer says.\n"In most cases," Iyer says," tasks to make an organization more efficient have filled the dance card of entire IT departments. This focus on operational efficiency has slowed IT's evolution to a more strategic business partner."\n\n"In the networking space, we see the challenges identified in this research most pronounced," he adds. "Network managers often find themselves competing with more tangible, easily understood business applications for strategic budgets and senior-level attention. Networks have a hard time rising to the top of the list of strategic priorities. This is ironic, as the networks have become enablers (or sometimes inhibitors) for those new applications and business models that are more easily understood."\n\nThe majority of respondents, 52 percent, say IT's primary responsibility is to improve business process efficiency (32 percent say IT's primary responsibility is fixing hardware and software issues and 25 percent say it's improving security to mitigate potential IT-related threats). Also, overall, 42 percent of respondents agree that IT's main strength is the efficient execution of general business processes. \n\nIT Plays Strong Role in Financial Performance at High-Performing CompaniesBut among the highest-performing companies, which Juniper and the Economist Business Unit define as those companies who report their financial performance is stronger than their peers, IT is seen in a different light. \nCompared with their peers, 20 percent more of high-performing companies say technology plays a very strong role in their organization's financial performance; 11 percent more say they strongly agree that the IT function can support business growth by identifying new market opportunities; and eight percent more say the IT function is very closely involved in helping develop new products.\n\n"The highest-performing companies are also more likely to measure IT's performance in the context of business function," Iyer says. "They actually demand more from IT and they get it. The business should be demanding this. CEOs and executive boards should demand that they have a leader and a function that is strategically positioned and ready to contribute to growth."\n\n"This is one of the few functions whose value is going to increase every few years, similar to Moore's Law," Iyer adds. "Figure out what you want, demand it and go out and recruit it. There are people out there who can do the job for you. Don't use the excuse that your IT guy doesn't have the skills."\n\nSteps to Help IT Transform Into a Strategic PartnerIn Iyer's view, there are several steps companies can take to facilitate better interaction between business and IT that can lead to real innovation as opposed to just business process improvement.\n\n"Number one, as IT practitioners, we must embrace this interdependence between IT and business and step out of the support function into a more strategic role," he says. "We must also partner with the business to develop new products and identify new market opportunities. At the same time, the business needs to embrace the value of IT as a strategic partner. Finally, together, we must embark on this transformation to deliver both growth and productivity."\n\nFor instance, he says, companies can take a page from Google's playbook: At Google, when the annual planning process rolls around, it is the business unit leaders rather than the CIO that step up to defend new IT projects that will benefit their business unit. This, Iyer says, encourages IT and business stakeholders to align their priorities and the budget.\n\n"They step up and say, 'I cannot grow in these markets if these 10 IT projects are not executed,'" Iyer says. "Why is the CIO the only guy who is going to defend why IT should put money into the CRM system?"\n\nIyer says businesses should also seek to involve IT more closely in the Research and Development process at the beginning, where practitioners can help keep processes streamlined from the start rather than coming in after the fact to streamline workflow and other processes. Additionally, IT needs to embrace disruptive technologies like cloud, mobile and big data that propel business growth and create an opportunity for IT to step into a more strategic role.\n\n"It should be a collaborative process," he says. "There's no other breakthrough in management that I know of that has as much bang for the buck as information technology."\n\nThor Olavsrud covers IT Security, Big Data, Open Source, Microsoft Tools and Servers for CIO.com. Follow Thor on Twitter @ThorOlavsrud. Follow everything from CIO.com on Twitter @CIOonline and on Facebook. Email Thor at email@example.com


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Calm, shallow Akumal bay is a perfect vacation spot for children. The close proximity to archeological sites and other points of interest make it a geographically ideal starting point for adventures.
Akumal is a short distance from some of the the Riviera Mayas most remarkable destinations: Xel-ha, Xcaret, Cozumel and the spectacular Mayan ruins in Chichen-Itza, Tulum and Coba.
This peaceful resort is a two hour drive south of the Cancun International Airport. Most outdoor activities are available in Akumal, fishing, diving, sailing, sight seeing, jet skiing, and of course, sunbathing.
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Republicans keep rejecting the success of the stimulus package but that is nothing new, being opposed is just a Republican thing to do nowadays. President Obama said yesterday that even if he said the sky is blue, Republicans would disagree. Despite all that, in Texas, the stimulus seems to serve its purpose just fine, especially in the field of energy. Unlike what Republicans claim, it has provided incentives for small businesses with incentives to grow, save money, and it has also helped create jobs.
The Austin American Statesman shared a couple of stories about small businesses that have benefited from the stimulus. First is the Dog Ranch in Pflugerville. The owners wanted to install solar panels atop the ranch roof, a move they figured would save them some money on energy bills. The panel cost $87,000. With the stimulus funds(Grants from the Department of Energy) the owners received and Austin Energy's rebate program, they only had to pay $10,000. For the Ranch owners, this deal saved them a lot of money since they only pay one third of the energy bill they used to pay before installing the panels in addition to the tax credit they get from installing the panels, "We just expanded in December, and we wouldn't otherwise have had capitol to do it," Said the Dog Ranch owner.
Longhorn Solar is the installation company that set up the Dog Ranch solar panels. The company too has taken advantage of the stimulus money and now it has 10 employees and many more installation projects. Louis Petrik, the CEO of Longhorn Solar said "It (the Stimulus) allows us to put a lot of jobs in the pipeline and go out and actively hire,"
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Some window materials conduct heat and cold. The result is some energy loss through the window materials. The material that loses the most heat or cold is aluminum. Steel conducts about one-third the amount of heat and cold. Stainless steel conducts about one-third the amount of heat and cold lost with steel. The most efficient material for windows is wood, conducting 1/1000 the amount lost through aluminum. And just a fraction behind wood is vinyl. The bottom line is that the most energy-efficient window materials are wood and vinyl. Vinyl, of course, requires less maintenance.
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The newer resort of Nuevo Vallarta lies North of Puerto Vallarta. Nuevo Vallarta is a well planned newer area where you will find quality complexes and less crowded beaches. Located in the heart of Mexico's Pacific coastline, Vallarta is within easy reach of the US and Canada. It is encircled by the rugged, tropical Sierra Madre mountains to the east and fronted by the Bay of Banderas, Mexico's largest natural bay.
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Microsoft announced Tuesday that its Dynamics AX 2012 R2 enterprise resource planning (ERP) product will become generally available on Dec. 1.
Dynamics AX 2012 is the current version of Microsoft's ERP solution designed for manufacturing, retail, public sector, distribution and services organizations. The forthcoming R2 release is aimed at fulfilling Microsoft's vision "for how organizations can use technology to be more agile and innovative through people who drive impact with the information, connections, and tools they need to make a difference every day," according to a blog post on Tuesday by Christian Pedersen, general manager of Microsoft's Dynamics Product Marketing Group.
Microsoft designed Dynamics AX 2012 R2 with the goal, in part, of enabling organizations to manage their global operations via a single deployment, Pedersen noted. Single-instance deployment helps trim deployment costs while providing organizations that have offices in multiple countries a shared infrastructure through which they can centralize operations. With R2, Microsoft is adding support for 11 more localizations -- China, Japan, India, Brazil, Russia, Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia -- bringing the total to 36.
In addition, R2 will feature a "data partitioning" capability that lets organizations select which information can and cannot be shared between which business units, while still using the same shared infrastructure.
"Data partitioning helps IT leaders realize IT operational efficiencies because the installation and system data are still being shared," explained this earlier post on the Inside Microsoft Dynamics AX blog. "And, data partitioning makes it possible to divide application data into partitions of organizations. You will be able to share application data and processes between organizations within a partition but not across partitions."
R2 will also feature improvements to Dynamics AX 2012's business intelligence capabilities, including new Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and integration with Power View, a data visualization technology that Microsoft introduced in SQL Server 2012.
The forthcoming release will also include enhancements to employee management.
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This Tuesday post on the Inside Microsoft Dynamics AX blog provides more details about new features coming in R2, including industry-specific improvements.
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The sidefx cookbook: https://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini/hom/cb/pythonsop.html
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=== Make a general python input window ===
=== Make a general python input window ===
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Python sop
The sidefx cookbook: https://www.sidefx.com/docs/houdini/hom/cb/pythonsop.html
Remember a python sop is like a wrangle, only obtuse. Generally speaking just use vex. A python sop is handy for esoteric things like reading in odd file formats and converting directly to geometry, or processing odd string and time formats into something more vex friendly for later on.
There's no implicit parallel processing here, so you usually have to setup a loop of some kind to read all the points or write all the points.
# add an attribute
for point in geo.points():
geo.addAttrib(hou.attribType.Point, "id", 0)
# get @ptnum, @numpt
for point in geo.points():
print point.number()
print len(geo.iterPoints())
# get an attribute
for point in geo.points():
print point.attribValue("Cd")
# set an attribute
for point in geo.points():
point.setAttribValue("Cd", [1,0.5,0])
Make a general python input window
Download scene: File:python_code_window.hip
The python console in Houdini is a live command line, which is great for some things, but doesn't allow you to enter multi-line code easily. Maya's script editor allows this, I wanted a similar thing in Houdini.
The python SOP looks like its the answer, but don't be fooled. Its the python equivalent of a point wrangle, its designed to process geometry, not do general node or UI fiddling (which is really what you'd want python for).
With the help of Luke Gravett, here's a way to make something akin to maya's python script editor. This is version 2 of such a thing, it's just a null with a text editor and a button to execute the code. An earlier version of this used an OTL/HDA, which was more fiddly than necessary.
- Make a null sop, name it 'my_python_code'
- parameter pane, gear menu, 'Edit Parameter Interface...':
- add a string parameter, label 'Code', enable 'multi-line string', language 'Python', set name to 'Code'
- add a button, label 'Run', change the callback method to python ('little dropdown at the end of the line), python callback is
- Hit Accept
Now you can type in code, click the button, make magic.
Get selected nodes
Get all upstream nodes
n = hou.node('/obj/grid1/null1')
To filter that down to all ancestor nodes that are alembic nodes, for example:
[ x for x in n.inputAncestors() if 'alembic' in x.type().name() ]
Get point attributes from a node
From the node get its geometry, then its point attributes, then the short names of those attributes.
[ x.name() for x in hou.node('/obj/mygeo/mysop').geometry().pointAttribs() ]
To go one further and make a nice list to feed to an attribute delete node, use a join() with a single space, prepend with ^'s, and stick an asterisk on the front:
print '*',' '.join([ '^'+x.name() for x in hou.node('/obj/geo1/mysop').geometry().pointAttribs()])
will return
* ^id ^Cd ^Alpha ^center ^orient ^P ^uniqueId ^materialId
Drag most things into the python window
Do this, and what you drag will be converted into the python text equivalent. This works for nodes, parameters, shelf buttons, most parts of the UI.
Write out mmb error text to file
Get parent vs get input
Parent in houdini means the container; ie if you have a subnet1, and inside is box1, if you ask box1 for its parent, its subnet1.
n = hou.node('/obj/subnet1/null2')
# <hou.SopNode of type subnet at /obj/subnet1>
If you have box1 connected to mountain1, and ask mountain1 for its inputs, you'll get box1 (as a list).
n = hou.node('/obj/mountain1')
# (<hou.SopNode of type box at /obj/box1>,)
get attrib from point listed in group field of sop
So many layers of indirection!
# get list of nodes, here i've dragged a bunch of nodes into a node list parm i added to a python script node I created above
nodes = kwargs['node'].parent().parm('nodes').eval()
# for each node in the list:
for n in nodes.split(' '):
n = hou.node(n)
# read the group field, here they're all in a format like '@myattrib=57-58'
group = n.parm('group').eval()
# use the handy globPoints function to convert that group syntax to a list of points
for p in n.geometry().globPoints(group):
# get the attrib we're after!
print p.attribValue('awesomeattrib')
Create a cop file node for every subdir of a directory
Assumes a lot; that the image sequence within each folder is of the same name, and the parent folder only contains subfolders with images, no error checking is done, may contain traces of peanut etc...
import os
dir = '/path/to/parent/folder'
seq = 'render.$F4.exr'
subdirs = [x for x in os.listdir(dir) if os.path.isdir(os.path.join(dir,x))]
for d in subdirs:
imgpath = os.path.join(dir,d)+'/'+seq
filenode = hou.node('/img').createNode('file')
press 'save to disk' on a rop
Most rops (both for rendering and for saving geometry) have the main 'save to disk' button named 'execute', and to press a button you call pressbutton. Hence you can do this:
n = hou.node('/obj/obj1/my_fbx_rop/rop_fbx2')
python expression for image path
Contrived example, more for the workflow than anything. Say you want to use python to generate the image path for a mantra rop.
- Alt-lmb click on the parm title to set an expression
- r.click, Expression -> Change language to python. The field will go purple to confirm this.
- R.click, Expression -> Edit expression. This brings up the multi line editor.
- Write your expression, the final output needs to be a return statement
- Apply/Accept
- lmb on the parm title to see the evaluated expression.
Here's an expression to set the path from $HIP, but then go 1 folder up and across, and use pythons handy file path manipulations to see the full path rather than ../ stuff:
import os
hip = hou.expandString('$HIP')
dir = os.path.join(hip,'../elsewhere/renders')
dir = os.path.abspath(dir)
file = 'render.$F4.exr'
return os.path.join(dir,file)


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Tuesday, December 28, 2010
The year of love!
35 comments:
Brilliant resolution! The Mr. and I used to have a regular date thing until our babysitter had babies of her own. Now we get out when we can, which isn't really often enough. We do try to have nights where we nest on the couch with a movie which works in a pinch. We are on the hunt for good sitter for next year.ReplyDelete
Have a wonderful time together when it's your night!
I love to see couples growing old together, sharing a look, a secret smile or holding hands. Too sweet and it could be guys too! CherrieReplyDelete
Wonderful idea! We used to do that with another couple - taking turn about we'd go out and one of them would come over and mind our kids and then the next week they'd go out and one of us would go to theirs and mind their kids. It worked perfectly for a few years actually. Have fun! :) KxReplyDelete
p.s. beautiful photo btw! :)
we have some friends kids who are teenagers now and they babysit all the time. We love date night, we probably get a babysitter at least once a month- but we make the most of it- it does add a fair bit to the night out but come summer we can just go the the beach and eat fish and chips. I think it is THE most important thing you can do for your family. Organising it is really just a phonecall... and well worth it.ReplyDelete
cute pic too. x
Yep - we're big believers in the date night. I reckon happy/sane parents are good parents, and some time out with just each other is a good start!! We have one tomorrow night, and we're off to the movies - bliss! Have a lovely date together! NicReplyDelete
That is the best new years resolution, time together alone is so important. My hubby and I have a date day or night every month and my mother in law is happy to help out. I'm so grateful to her for looking after the girls and for the alone time we get. I hope you enjoy your first date! xoReplyDelete
Nope... no date nights for us. We've been alone about five times since we became parents almost four years ago... and not all of those time were for "dates" :(ReplyDelete
We've been meaning to put more effort into this area of our lives too. We try to have "us" time at home of an evening... but it ain't the same.
Good luck with your date nights :)
sounds excellent & much needed after 10 years!ReplyDelete
we don't do date nights, maybe someday in the future, but for now that's ok, we can wait.
have a wonderful end to the year Kate.
gorgeous, gorgeous pic ♥
We haven't had date night for a few years, since our youngest was born. Quite frankly no-one could handle him! With the move and the kids going to a prep to 12 school - I am hoping to find a delighful young nanny so we can start dating again!!ReplyDelete
What a great photo with lovely smiles. Your ideas are fantastic and you've put them into action already. Nothing could be finer.ReplyDelete
Sounds like a very good idea Kate as you are both so busy! Paul and I havent had a date night since Lachlan was little actually - maybe I should pop that in my New Year's resolution too!ReplyDelete
I'm a big fan of the date night and enjoy it once a month.ReplyDelete
It is so easy to get caught up in the daily grind, to take each other for granted and to forget about what brought you together in the first place.
Enjoy your dates, you do look cute together.
good on you kate, great resolution. will have to take a leaf out of your bookReplyDelete
good luck on that! I think this is the most important thing we MUST do for all. Since this great great time together is making the relationship better, and it reflects on all around the house =)ReplyDelete
We used to have a "date" once a week, but when baby Alona was born 4.5 months ago, it changed and we are still trying to find a way through to keep this going on - because we both understand how important it is =)
OH You Two make my heart melt ... love your brilliant resolution ... I'd have held my hand up for sitter duty if I'd been closer ... drat ;) Stay warm and dry Darlings.ReplyDelete
How exciting!! For the last year or so one of my closest friends and I babysit for each other once a month so we can have date night.ReplyDelete
I go to her house and look after her 3 kids so they can go out and eat, drink and be merry, and then when it's our night she comes to my house and does the same. It's so wonderful!! We plan our dates a few months in advance so if we want to organise something special or get a group of friends together we can. Enjoy - it will be one of the best decisions for 2011.
Ive never thought about a regular date night but I have been thinking I want to surprise him with something once a month. Until he catches on that is.ReplyDelete
Yep! You guessed it! The first thing is going to be a raised bed vegie patch.
Yay date night! My hubby and I had one recently too - and we plan to have another one some day!!ReplyDelete
Yes, my new years resolution list is well and truely underway...love a good list!
Have a wonderful night :-)
My advice would be to make a plan and/or bookings!!ReplyDelete
After 5 years, we decided that we should have a date night, and headed off into the night with a vague plan to have dinner and catch a movie. We were so out of touch with our old stomping ground, we didn't realise two favourite restaurants had closed. By the time we found another - infinitely inferior - and were served dinner, we missed the movie. We also nearly had an argument. We were home by 10.30..... Not a great success.
Enjoy your time together!!!
We haven't had a date night in some time. That sounds like the best new years resolution ever - much better the diet exercise one I was thinking of.ReplyDelete
Good plan, Kate. We don't get out as much as we'd like, but it's worth it when we do!ReplyDelete
Sounds like a most excellent and important idea!ReplyDelete
Love this pic of you two love birds.
Haven't even thought of mine yet, perhaps get my license , but really get it this year xo
A great first resolution. Of late, I have been lamenting the lack of time for "us" but we are working on it. It is hard work now but should get easier as time goes on. Have fun with this resolution!ReplyDelete
We don't do it often enough, but when we do it's worth it for the conversation alone! I think consciously prioritising it is the only way to make it happen regularly. Great resolution!ReplyDelete
i think this is a perfect resolution and an important one to stick too. go you for already putting it into action! and what an adorable photo!ReplyDelete
im yet to make any resolutions myself.
I hope you'll have many date nights next year. I suspect that once you get into habit of having them it will be easy to organize.ReplyDelete
We end up going out together about twice a year, when my mum comes to visit (pretty sad).
I'm not making any resolutions at the moment, have some from about October (or even earlier), which I need to implement.
What a beautiful photo of you both.ReplyDelete
I hadn't thought about a date night. After nearly 6 years of staying-in-with-the-kids nights, perhpas its time to plan some. Enjoy yours!
I really like your date night plan - and will be adding it to the list of resolutions I've just started... thank you! Hope your third last day of the year was wonderful!ReplyDelete
(I just loved the puppy pics too!)
date night sounds blissful....we dont, but we should. im feeling some resolutions bubbling...i love a new year. and you two are too cute xReplyDelete
you two are gorgeous and i think i may need to steal your idea.ReplyDelete
Excellent! we don't have regular date nights...but we don't have kids yet...but it is still important and good on ya for putting it into motion..oh and gosh the puppies are precious! happy new year xReplyDelete
Lovely idea.ReplyDelete
We had regular date nights years ago when it was just the two of us. We shold do it again. Organising a regular babbysitter is a good idea. I might suggest atleast a monthly date night. Thanks for the inspiration.
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