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The Lion's Tooth
At the front corner of our yard when I was growing up, where a sliver of lawn separated our driveway from the neighbors', the mailbox stood covered in the full glory of a finicky, magenta-blooming clematis my mom finally got established. From a block away this mature vine was a beacon—the subtle and regal color, the thick petals, and the puffy stamens. Someone who knew how to garden lived here. But in the grass popped up the misplaced bright head of a dandelion bent on ruining the majesty of the queen of vines. You could see it from inside the house, fifty feet away, like a pulsing strobe light. You could see it from down the street. At night you could, invariably—according to my mother—see it from an overhead Northwest Boeing 727 making its final approach to Minneapolis-St. Paul International. It was like an overnight pimple on the rejuvenated skin of my mom's late-spring landscape.
Dandelions provide one of the first sources of nectar for bees and other pollinating insects in spring, and confirm the first glimmer of hope we had when, back in March, the temperature briefly hit sixty. With their proliferate seed heads, dandelions are a staple of the American landscape. Once, when English colonists came to the new world, they were also an imported food staple, a cultivated delicacy for garden salads. Still, as humans have spread over the last 100,000 years, reaching North America some 12,500 years ago, the development of agriculture has placed us above and out of the confines of our environments—leading to the inevitable disappearance of over 95% of the plants the pilgrims saw in the new world. According to biologist E.O. Wilson, the earth loses nearly 3,000 plant, animal, and insect species each year, or three every hour. This constitutes what many scientists call the sixth great mass extinction in the 3.5 billion year history of the earth.
As the continents drifted apart long ago, separate and distinct ecosystems began to emerge. One such place can be found in the Hengduan Mountains of southwest China, the most biodiverse temperate forest in the world. Over the course of one day, starting from the valleys to the high ridges, one can move through all four seasons as the climate changes. This strong box of genetic diversity was perfectly placed to survive the ice age's glaciers that ravaged the fauna and flora of North America and Europe. As a result, many of the world's most common ornamental garden plants originate here.
Toward the beginning of the cretaceous period, dinosaurs were flourishing amid tropical and moist landscapes. On the basis of the pollen spores found in ancient sediment the world over, the first flowers began to appear among these reptiles some 134 million years ago. A recent fossilized discovery by paleobotanists Sun Ge from China and David Dilcher from the United States, shows a flowering plant named archaefructus dating to around 125 million years ago in northern China. Though it lacks petals, and while alive had no scent, it is not primitive enough to be the definitive first flower—but it is the first visual record of such a plant in the world.
The end of the cretaceous period, 64 million years ago, marked the most famous extinction period the world has ever seen, that of the dinosaurs and an estimated 50% of the total species on earth. The largest extinction occurred 235 million years ago when over 90% of the species vanished. Niles Eldridge, paleontologist and a curator of the American Museum of Natural History, says scientists have discovered a recurring pattern in these extinction events that cycle at about every 64 million years; and though they are usually caused by forces such as tectonic shifts, volcanic eruptions and meteor impacts, the current period is clearly caused by creatures living on the earth.
As human agriculture, through the monoculture of its crops, brings an end to ecosystems that support vast species, as fences and poisons and suburbs create barriers to migration routes, as foreign invasive species are brought in accidentally or to beautify our foundation plantings, in our eyes, native species become pests and die away. Through farming, humans no longer fit into the larger picture, are no longer bound or balanced by a place's ability to physically sustain them. But eventually, at around 10–13 billion people, our agricultural effects may catch up with us and we will outgrow the planet's capacity to nourish us, even with the advent of genetic engineering of crops and animals. With projections of human population to be at 8 billion by 2020, we simply dwarf the estimated 10–30 million species of other life forms that we rely on to replenish and maintain our world. If we truly are in the midst of the sixth extinction, Eldridge says that the hope of our population cap will mean the level of lost species should not reach that of the largest extinction 235 million years ago.
Such statistics aren't meant to terrify, or even to humble in the strictest sense, but they should make one more aware of the value—beyond nature for nature's sake—of the biologic and human cultural diversity that needs to be preserved in order to balance ourselves with the world for the first time in our species' history.
When I was growing up my dad had a gas edger. He fitted a makeshift metal tube to the exhaust of this edger and shoved it down into holes we found in the yard. For my mom, if she could, she'd use as violent a means to rid the world of dandelions—with a passion for Armageddon that I've only come to know recently, all dandelions must die. Their seed must be wiped from the earth. One spring I casually mention over the phone how happy I am to see dandelions, that their emergence means the forsythia and tulips are not far behind. "I hate those damn dandelions," she replies. "I wish I could pluck every last one of them so we'd be done with it." It seems strange to me as I think about dandelions as a foreign species, brought here by us, thriving in spite of our chemicals. Don't they now have a right to exist, much as the fictional Frankenstein did?
In Switzerland, the government has requested that an ethics panel weigh the dignity of plants, or, to find out what plants' rights actually are. Is pulling a dandelion morally wrong? According to journalist Katherine Kersten, "The Swiss have added a provision to their constitution requiring 'account to be taken of the dignity of creation when handling animals, plants, and other organisms.'" The ethics panel was formed in an attempt to give such concerns practical examples and applications. One illustration is the following, where Kersten is citing Wesley Smith from the Weekly Standard:
A farmer mows his field [apparently an acceptable action, perhaps because the hay is intended to feed the farmers' herd—the report doesn't say]. But then, while walking home, he casually 'decapitates' some wildflowers with his scythe. The panel decries this act as immoral, though its members can't agree why. The report states, opaquely: 'At this point it remains unclear whether this action is condemned because it expresses a particular moral stance of the farmer toward other organisms or because something bad is being done to the flowers themselves.'
This panel does not consider that genetic engineering is unacceptable to the plant's dignity, but it would be so if it caused plants to lose their independence as free, reproducing, and wild organisms. I wonder how many "introduced" cultivars of plants in the gardening industry have lost their own dignity over the centuries? But still, is my mom insulting the flora, feverishly yanking every dandelion flower and sharp-leaved stalk from the ground? The entire wildness? The creation itself? Or is she saving the native plants? If we genetically engineered a dandelion that acted more like a prim and proper front-of-the-perennial-border ground cover, what would change? Our dignity might increase at the expense of the plant's—perhaps.
Walking along the back fence of my small lot, I noticed my neighbor—who lives on a mostly wild three acres—came along his back property line and yanked out large prairie thistles. Then, apparently, he laid them down parallel to my fence, almost as if they were sacrificial offerings. I don't know if he thought I'd planted them, or what statement he might have been making. I do often seed just over the fence line—perhaps he saw me—simply because I'm amazed his wild backyard only grows invasive cedars, not one wildflower benefitting bird or bee anywhere. We need prairie thistles.
And we need dandelions. I need dandelions. They're the first bright sign in spring that winter is finally over, yes, praise be, finally over. And I've come to appreciate them for this reason mainly, but also for their importance to, say, emerging queen bumblebees hungry to start a new colony. I also have fond memories of frying their blossoms at camp one year, and drinking warm Kool-Aid to wash them down. In a way, this flower is my first flower—likely the first one I ever touched as a child, the petals staining my knees as I roughhoused outside or whose seeds I blew in to the air.
The dandelion is a weed because it doesn't belong here. The dandelion is a weed because it has the ability to spread quickly and thickly on disturbed land, and its progeny will always lay waiting just beneath the soil, hidden under other plants, caught between blades of grass or cracks in concrete where the rain settles it in so we can't get to it. The dandelion is a weed because it reminds us too much of ourselves, of how our own thoughts and actions can suddenly become loosed from our ethics and morals. It seems such a plant should be placed at the center of our gardens.
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14 comments:
- Rob (ourfrenchgarden) said...
You, are one of life's nice people. Full stop
- August 22, 2010 at 3:39 PM
- Diana Studer said...
With you, we celebrate one of the Ungardener's free-spirited plants. And we DO eat those salad leaves!
- August 22, 2010 at 4:25 PM
- James Golden said...
I try to educate my eye to see them as beautiful and appropriate, and mostly leave them alone. This eloquent essay helps.
- August 22, 2010 at 6:44 PM
- Gail said...
I love them Benjamin and let them be for the bees~gail
- August 22, 2010 at 9:12 PM
- Linda said...
That they're the first flower of childhood is very true.
And to see bunches of pissenlit leaves for sale in French markets makes one rethink the weed concept.
- August 23, 2010 at 3:43 AM
- Steve said...
If you really love dandelions you'd make hamburgers out of them: http://fat-of-the-land.blogspot.com/2008/04/dandy-burger.html
- August 23, 2010 at 8:44 PM
- Benjamin Vogt said...
Rob--Uh, hey there friend, as an English teacher I must tell you your grammar and syntax are confusing...
EE--You do eat them? Now it all makes sense.
James--But I have to say, they sure do grow in the worst places, like sidewalk cracks and in the middle of plant clumps, esp groundcovers.
Gail--Preach it sister.
Linda--I would love to be at a French market right now. Hey, Rob up there, fly me over to your place ey?
Steve--No thank you. But you are welcome to try.
- August 23, 2010 at 9:47 PM
- Layanee said...
They are the first flowers many of us appreciate as small children. My grandmother served up the greens. I liked them. A little vinegar and a bit of butter...delicious and more so after a long winter without a mega grocery store nearby.
- August 24, 2010 at 8:49 AM
- Inddor Fountains said...
Dandelions are invariavly a sign of wonderful weather to come...they also make great wine!!
- August 24, 2010 at 10:21 AM
- Kateri said...
Beautiful essay. (as you might guess from the name of my blog, I love dandelions.) I like the idea of a ethics panel for plants. I've watched with a heavy heart as beautiful productive fruit trees where ripped out and shredded on the my college campus to make way for a wider driveway and sidewalks. Another time my heart bled to see masses of wild daisies at their peak on the edge of a public lake and walking trail mowed down. It made me so angry that some one was senselessly destroying something so beautiful with no thought. If they wanted to mow, they could have waited another two weeks and no harm would have been done.
- August 25, 2010 at 9:51 PM
- Benjamin Vogt said...
Layanee--It's been a while since I Ate them, but I suppose I should try again. Right?
IF--Wine! I've heard that. Really?
Kateri--Last summer (or the year before?) the city mowed down MASSIVE swaths of sunflowers near my house. One smaller group was around that depressed area next to highway interchanges, the other part of a large field geese land in while they migrate in the fall. This larger field is next to an undeveloped 4 lane road leading to downtown, so I assuem teh city thought it looked weedy. Boy was I angry!
- August 26, 2010 at 10:02 AM
- Gloria Bonde said...
If dandelions were rare we would all try to grow them. Fickle humans that we are. I have very little lawn and use corn gluten in the spring to prevent the pretty yellow beauties.
- August 26, 2010 at 2:57 PM
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The ride is bumpy but the Fortuner feels tough enough to last through a nuclear war
Toyota's Fortuner created a frenzy when news of its imminent arrival first surfaced on our pages in November 2008. Here was a proper middle-of-the-road Toyota SUV that seemed to tick all the must-haves. Yes, weak brakes were a big issue on early cars, the Innova-like interiors increasingly faced a lot of flak, and buyers really did miss having the option of an automatic gearbox; Checklist for the facelift done then.
As facelifts go, this is a good one, especially from the front. Toyota has thought it important enough to upgrade the entire nose of the car and, as a result, looking at it head-on gives you the impression that this car is all new. Sharp lines replace the outdated rounded forms, the new Fortuner's wider wraparound headlights and wider chin give it a fuller-looking face, and with cuts on the bonnet bumper and chin, this Toyota SUV looks more Land Cruiser than Fortuner. The chrome grille is now much wider, the rounded, pod-like Xenon elements in the headlights look good and the new alloys are smarter and lighter looking. The wheel and tyre size, however, are the same. Also the same, expectedly, are the doors, the general glass area, and the big wheel arches. Toyota has made changes to the rear too, but the changes here aren't as well thought out or executed. The rear wheel arch now extends back into the rear bumper, which does look nice, and there is a new Land Cruiser-like bar of chrome across the tailgate. But the transparent tail-lights with their odd- looking red elements look distinctly aftermarket and cheap.
Toyota has updated the cabin of the Fortuner and though it hasn't done as thorough a job as with the exteriors, perceived quality has gone up. The swathe of piano black wood running across the dash is quite impressive, the Camry steering wheel looks better than the Innova wheel used earlier, and the automatic gearlever looks pretty upmarket too. You get a reversing camera, powered seats and even cruise control. The double-DIN touch-screen audio system is easy to use as well, but the silver satin finish contrasts with the design of the interiors and makes it look like an aftermarket addition. The shiny plastic surrounding the vents is cheaper looking still. The seats of the Fortuner remain the same – the driver's seat is supportive and adequately padded, there is sufficient room in the rear for three, though the third row is best for kids.
The biggest change, however, is that the Fortuner now gets an automatic gearbox. Now this is 2012 and we are well into the era of eight-speed autos and twin-clutch gearboxes, but Toyota's automatic is pretty basic. This is strange, because competitors are literally throwing gears at their SUVs these days. The Ford Endeavour comes with a five-speed automatic, Hyundai's recently launched Santa Fe comes with six and even the cheaper-by-half Scorpio Automatic has six gears. And the Fortuner has no paddle-shifters and no tip-tronic either. All you get are three regular forward gears plus one overdrive; as simple as a spanner. But simple doesn't mean it doesn't work.
With 35kgm of torque produced from just 1400rpm, the Fortuner has plenty of pulling power, and that means Toyota can use tall gearing. So second on the Fortuner is as tall as third on the Endeavour and the gearing gets even more spaced out after that. What also helps performance is that this two-wheel-drive automatic Fortuner is 95kg lighter than the four-wheel-drive manual. So it feels pretty lightfooted and full of energy as you step off the line. Toyota's 3.0-litre lump is also pretty smooth and so pottering around town, with the high-geared motor ambling along, is really relaxing. You can cruise up to speed quite effortlessly; you always feel like you have plenty of torque to dip into, and the leviathan really does feel effortless, even when pulling up inclines. Things are pretty relaxed out on the highway too. The Fortuner accelerates well on half-throttle, the big diesel motor merrily gurgling along, and getting to its natural cruising speed of approximately 130kph is no sweat too.
Things, however, get a bit sticky when you're in a hurry. The gearbox's lack of ratios and sluggish nature mean kickdowns are only executed after a bit of a pause. You really need to 'kick' the accelerator to get a downshift going and the gearbox seems to get flustered, even jerky at times. Still, the automatic Fortuner is no slouch and in fact is much quicker than the manual four-wheel-drive car in a straight line. It is a second faster to 100kph at 11.8 seconds, three seconds faster to 140kph which comes up in 23.9sec, and by the time you get to 150kph, the automatic car is four seconds clear of the four-wheel-drive manual. Dropping the front drive-shafts, differential and low-ratio transfer case sure seem to have made a difference. This very strong performance also makes it substantially quicker than the four-wheel-drive Ford Endeavour 3.0 auto, which is approximately two seconds slower to 100kph and a full 10sec slower to 140kph. And despite having fewer ratios, the Fortuner is quicker in-gear too. It only gets out-dragged by the monocoque Hyundai Santa Fe which, despite having four-wheel drive, is a second and a half quicker to 100kph. What's also noticeable however that is the Toyota motor doesn't get too strained or vocal when it is on the boil; the common-rail unit remaining strain- and stress-free as well.
Toyota has also left the tuning of the suspension largely untouched, so there is some amount of stiffness at low speeds and you do feel the bumps on broken surfaces. Up the pace, however, and the ride smoothens out, and that little bit of extra stiffness in the springs means that there is not much boat-like pitching. What's also different and quite nice on this car is the lighter steering. Now devoid of the push-pull of the four-wheel drive system, it's much lighter to use and this is particularly impressive when the Toyota is driven in city conditions. Full-fat SUVs are seldom great driver's cars – the physics just aren't in their favour – and the Fortuner is no different. Body roll is still considerable, body control is loose, and it feels progressively top-heavy the harder you drive. The light steering that is devoid of feel around the centre doesn't help either. What Toyota has improved considerably are the brakes. In 2010, Toyota upgraded the Fortuner's weak brakes with larger and thicker front discs and this has really improved things. Pedal feel is better, the Toyota has more stopping power and you don't need to pay attention to braking as much as you had to earlier. Hit the brakes hard at 80 and, with help from the ABS system, the new Fortuner comes to a dead halt in 24.6 metres, a full four metres shorter than the earlier car.
Though this version has no four-wheel drive or low range, the torque of the motor and the impressive traction of the rear wheels mean you can actually go dirt tracking. The ground clearance is the same, so rocky ground isn't as much of an issue and you can go pretty far off-road too, as long as you keep things real and don't try anything too ambitious. Deep sand and slush, however, are best avoided.
At the pumps, the Fortuner 2WD Auto isn't too bad. We got 7.8kpl in the city and, thanks to the tall fourth gear, 12.7kpl on the highway.
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Poor Keiichi. All he wants to do is work for a living but his efforts are consistently hamstrung by a unique "gift." Put into circumstances that are out of his control, Keiichi can't help that the manifestation of good luck makes him a "Lucky Pervert" and no matter how hard he tries to fight against sexual destiny, he can't stop having sex with his female coworkers. No matter where he is, Keiichi will inevitably have sex with his coworkers and thereby complicate his working relationships until he's fired. Thanks to his friend Yoshio, who owns a manga cafe in the city, Keiichi is given one more chance to hold down a job. Will he last long enough to finally achieve financial stability or will he find himself just fucking around? The answer is, I hope, obvious.
Mankitsu Happening is a delightfully fun and sexy workplace comedy where the laws of gravity, physics, and reality don't get in the way of any excuse to fuck. Surrounded by a squad of beautiful women, this harem comedy features great sex, goofy situational comedy, and memorable characters. There's Kururu, the younger sister type who was friends with Keiichi when he used to visit the store before leaving for college. And also Rei, a quiet and somewhat spacey senior employee. Eventually, two new characters will show up and have equal time with our hero. Otona is a famous pop idol who visits the cafe incognito to avoid attention and paparazzi. And eventually, the crew of the manga cafe meets with Sayaka, the haughty owner of a rival cafe whose accidental mischief with Keiichi instills a desire to shut her rival store down for good—that is, until a little freewheeling sex saves the day. For reasons I'll go into later, Rei ends up being my favorite character because her silence hides a deeply erotic and naughty woman whose sex scenes are the highlight of the series.
But before we get into which girl is my new waifu, let's talk about how Keiichi finds himself getting in deep with his coworkers and admirers. As previously mentioned, our hero is a Lucky Pervert who got fired from his last few jobs because he was unable to keep his pants on. His power is alive and well at the manga cafe, which presents itself after he accidentally stumbles upon Kururu masturbating in one of the booths, a tableau that leads to oral sex and a tit fuck that lasts until the pair are discovered by Rei, who seems pretty nonchalant about the affair. Revealing his "condition," Keiichi spends the next day being watched by Rei at every opportunity. The situation comes to a head when Rei walks in on Keiichi in the men's bathroom under the pretense of an inspection. The visit surprises Keiichi who, in his panic, accidentally catch himself while zipping his pants, causing him to leap into the air and crash, dick first, onto Rei's face. His odd luck strikes again as the woman willingly receives Keiichi in her mouth and takes the situation to its inevitable conclusion. Both Rei and Kururu can't get enough of Keiichi and engage him in sex whenever the situation allows (like when Kururu falls off a ladder and into the boy's arms, who for some reason holds her in a spread eagle position). Both women are down to fuck at any time, something that Keiichi is cautiously optimistic about, even as the sexual antics up the ante.
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1816 Lease of 1&3 Princes Street
The 1816 lease of (today's) 1&3 Princes Street
This is a lease from my collection, dated 14 August 1816 and made between Surgeon Markes Lambe of the first part and Thomas Phelps and Robert Fitchett of the second part, for the premises today known as 1&3 Princes Street but in 1816 being in Hendford, also known as Cattle Market.
This Indenture made the fourteenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixteen Between Markes Lamb of Yeovil in the County of Somerset Surgeon of the one part and Thomas Phelps and Robert Fitchett both of Crewkerne in the said County Gentlemen of the other part Witnesseth that for and in consideration of the Sum of five Shillings of good and lawful Money or this Realm to the said Markes Lamb in hand well and truly paid by the said Thomas Phelps and Robert Fitchett at or before the sealing and delivery of these Presents the Receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged He the said Markes Lamb Hath bargained and sold by these Presents Doth bargain and sell unto the said Thomas Phelps and Robert Fitchett their Exec(utor)s Admin(istrator)s and Assigns All that Messuage or Dwelling house situate at Hendford in the Town of Yeovil aforesaid together with the underground Kitchen Cellars and several Offices adjoining and attached thereto And also All that Hall now used as a Kitchen lying behind the said Dwellinghouse which said Dwellinghouse Offices Hall Garden and Premises are bounded on the north by the Dwellinghouse and Premises late in the occupation of Charles Geard but now of Joseph Male and by a Malthouse now in the occupation of the said Samuel Watts or his Tenants on the east by Hendford Street in Yeovil aforesaid on the south by a Lane leading from Yeovil aforesaid to Hewish Common Fields and on the west by a newly erected Wall extending from the side of the said Malthouse and forming a right angle therewith until it meets the boundary Wall on the South against the Lane leading to Hewish Common Field aforesaid and by the partition wall dividing the said Hall or Kitchen Room from the Malthouse which said partition Wall forms part of the premises hereby bargained and sold and which said Messuage or Dwellinghouse Offices Hall Curtilage Garden Plot and Premises were formerly in the possession or occupation of one John Rooks Sadler deceased and John Rooks Clerk his Son or one of them afterwards of Thomas Rooks Sadler another Son of the said John Rooks deceased since of Samuel Toms then of Samuel Watts the elder late of Joseph Watts of Yeovil aforesaid Gentleman who considerably altered and improved the same and now in the tenure possession or occupation of the said Markes Lamb And all Houses Outhouses Edifices Buildings Ways Paths Passages Waters Watercourses Easements Profits Commodities Advantages and Appurt(enance)s whatsoever to the said Messuage Tenement or Dwellinghouse Offices Curtilage Garden Heredit(ament)s and Premises hereby bargained and sold belonging or in anywise appertaining or to or with the same or any part thereof now held used let occupied possessed or enjoyed or accepted reputed taken or known as or to be part parcel or member thereof or of any part parcel thereof To have and To hold the same Messuage Tenement or Dwellinghouse Offices Hall Curtilage Garden Heredit(ament)s and premises hereinbefore more particularly mentioned and described and hereby bargained and sold or intended to be unto the said Thomas Phelps and Robert Fitchett their Ex(excuto)rs Adm(inistrat)ors and Assigns from the day next after the day of the date of these Presents for and during and unto the full end and term of one whole year from thence next ensuing and fully to be complete and ended Yielding and Paying therefore unto the said Markes Lamb his Heirs and Assigns the rent of a Pepper Corn on the last day of the said term if lawfully demanded To the Intent that by virtue of these Presents and by force of the Statute made for transferring of uses into possession the said Thomas Phelps and Robert Fitchett may be in the actual possession of all and singular the said Premises mentioned to be hereby bargained and sold with the Appurt(enance)s and may thereby be enabled to accept and take a Grant and Release of the Freehold and Inheritance thereof in such Grant and Release mentioned expressed and declared of and concerning the same In Witness whereof, the aid Parties to these Presents have hereunto set their Hands and Seals the day and year first above written
Markes Lambe
Transcribed by Bob Osborn
E Watts' map of Yeovil of 1806. To put its location into context, today's 1 & 2 Princes Street is seen here at centre, to the immediate left of the "l" in "Cattle" (see enlargement below). Cattle Market is today's Princes Street, while Borough is today's High Street. The lane leading to Hewish Common Field, today's Huish, is at bottom left with Waterloo Lane leading down to centre bottom and what would later become Clarence Street running up to top left of centre, between Mr Goodford's garden and the Congregational Chapel. The very narrow lane that would become known as Porter's Lane, eventually widening to become today's Westminster Street runs left from Cattle Market.
The 1816 indenture from my collection.


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If your little one is like mine, they are getting close to needing to learn to tell time. My son thinks 5 minutes and 5 hours are the same thing and that 6 o'clock is late. Ah to be young and ignorant! Now that summer vacation is here it's the perfect time to help them learn to tell time. This play clock is not only educational, but it is also fun!
To make your own, all you need is some ink jet magnet sheet, a printer and a pair of scissors. Just print the free printable template (download here), cut it out and have fun! Depending on the type of magnet paper you use, you might want to be sure to let it dry completely before playing. Other than that, have fun and happy learning!


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Would you go into debt to have a career that paid what teachers are paid? Would you then, on that salary, pay out of pocket for school supplies? When your child is being "a handful" could you even begin to imagine that your child's teacher had him and twenty-five others all at the same time for seven hours that day? What about when the girl that was calling your house last night fighting with your son because he's now dating someone else? Did you know that girl started a fight in the classroom the next day and it was a teacher that had to break it up?
These are our children's teachers. These are SPECIAL people with SPECIAL hearts. Some of these teachers put their life on the line and gave their lives for their students, your children, on Friday, December 14, 2012 in Newtown, Connecticut. Even after this tragic event, Teachers went back to work this Monday morning, with heavy hearts. Teachers have been going back to work since April 20, 1999, after the Columbine shootings.
I just want to say, Thank You. Thank you for going to work and going back to work after these tragic events. Thank you for having patience with our children when they don't quite understand something the first time they hear it and you take time to show them. Thank you for following your heart and becoming a teacher when the pay just isn't there. Thank you for being there for our children and us, as parents, when we have questions. THANK YOU!
It's often times in life we don't stop and say thank you, when we should, and sometimes it's even too late when we realize we should. I could never give my daughter the education that the teachers in my daughter's school system can. As hard as it was to know she was going back to school this morning, as a mom, I knew she was going to school to be with THESE teachers. The ones who would give their lives for their students. So, I let go, I let her go and I smiled knowing for seven hours she will be as protected as that teacher can protect her, and well, that's good for me.
Monday, December 17, 2012
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Well, the family interested in Sammy has him tonight. Stressed me out. Placing dogs is the hardest part of rescue. Very nice family, I just hope that their other dog will accept Sammy. They seem like they are willing to work with them.
Sammy is a good boy and gets along with other dogs. I screwed up and introduced them too fast. Entirely my fault. My brain is still mush from the trial. I guess we all make mistakes. Though I do think dogs can get around that with time and work.
So now I'm stressed and have to go utilize Luna Tail, my anxiety blog, to work out my emotions about it all. :p


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Here's a good look inside Penn State football practice, featuring James Franklin's version of the "Oklahoma" drill. In it, players go full contact in a confined space, often outside their normal positions.
Note in one drill, receivers Matt Zanellato, Jake Kiley and DeAndre Thompkins effectively play linemen, with fellow receiver Richy Anderson carrying the ball.
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This is an appeal from a decree of the court of appeals of the District of Columbia, which affirmed a decree of the supreme court of the District dismissing a bill in equity, which had been filed in that court. The complainants were legatees of one Augustus G. P. Colburn, and their trustee, Franklin H. Mackey, against Robert E. Grant, the executor of the estate of [181 U.S. 601, 602] George Fitz James Colburn, a deceased trustee of the estate of said Augustus Colburn, for an accounting, it being alleged that there had come into the hands of said trustee and his cotrustee, both of whom were deceased, a large sum of money, namely, $28,000, and that only $5,000 thereof had been accounted for. The codefendants of the defendants' executor were those persons who would be entitled to distribution of his testator's estate. The case was heard upon the pleadings and an agreed statement of facts.
The stipulation of facts was as follows:
Mr. Franklin H. Mackey for appellants.
Mr. J. Holdsworth Gordon submitted the case for the appellees.
Mr. Justice Shiras delivered the opinion of the court:
The case was heard in the supreme court of the District on bill, answers, and an agreed statement of facts. Some complaint is made in appellants' brief of the alleged fact that the court treated certain allegations in the answer of the defendant executor as evidence, although an answer under oath had been dispensed with, and it is said that only those portions of the answer which admitted the allegations of the bill, or contained admissions against interest, should have been considered.
We are inclined to think that, upon the record made up and presented at the hearing, the court had a right to consider all the allegations of the answer. No replication, putting the allegations of the answer in issue, appears to have been filed, and the court may have well supposed that the complainants had agreed to have the case disposed of on bill, answers, and stipulation. If such a course was a surprise to counsel, application should have been made to have the decree suspended, and for leave to take rebutting evidence.
However, we have examined and compared the respective allegations of the bill and answer, and do not perceive that, even upon the theory of appellants' counsel, any such substantial [181 U.S. 601, 605] difference in the facts could have been made to appear as would have justified a different result.
Not only, then, is there an agreement as to the controlling facts, but there also seems to be little or no controversy in respect to the principles of law involved. The learned counsel for the appellants concedes, in effect, the propositions of law found in the opinion of the court of appeals, but contends that a proper application of those propositions would call for a different decree.
The purpose of the bill is to have the estate of George Fitz James Colburn held liable for a defalcation by John W. Taylor, who was united with said Colburn in the administration of a trust estate created by the will of Augustus G. P. Colburn, father of George F. J. Colburn.
The father, who was a resident of Newark, New Jersey, died on May 27, 1872, and in his will, dated May 25, 1872, devised to said son, for and during his natural life, a certain dwelling house and lot in said city, with power to the trustees named in the will, who were his said son and John W. Taylor, to sell the same at any time, and to invest the proceeds of such sale as advantageously as possible, and to pay over the income arising therefrom to his said son during his life. Shortly after the death of the testator the trustees sold this real estate for the sum of $27,000, which was paid partly in cash and partly in instalments. George F. Colburn subsequently removed to the city of Washington, where he died in September, 1897.
John W. Taylor was a prominent lawyer in the city of Newark at the time of his appointment, and continued so to be up to the date of his death, and was regarded by the general public as a man of business integrity at the time of his death by his own hand on November 20, 1893.
After Taylor's death it was discovered that he had squandered many estates in his custody, among others the said estate of Augustus G. P. Colburn, except the sum of $5,000, which was under the exclusive control of George F. J. Colburn, and which latter sum is not in controversy here.
Upon the death of Taylor, George F. J. Colburn, as surviving trustee, made claims against the estate of Taylor for the amount [181 U.S. 601, 606] of his defalcation in the estate of Augustus G. P. Colburn, and upon said claim of $22,000 he received a dividend of $3,342.45. The amount so received was subsequently, with the consent of the residuary legatees under his father's will, invested by George F. J. Colburn in an annuity for himself, which he enjoyed until his death.
Without going into further details, it is evident, and, indeed, is conceded, that George F. J. Colburn was not involved in the dishonest acts of his cotrustee, and which resulted in the loss of the larger part of the trust estate. Nor is it contended that, as a matter of law, was George F. J. Colburn liable for the malfeasance of his cotrustee.
What is contended is that an abandonment of discretionary power by a trustee to a cotrustee, where the trust is entitled to the united discretion of both, is such an act of supine negligence as to render the trustee who has abandoned his active participation in the management of the trust liable for the losses occasioned by the misconduct of the cotrustee; that George F. J. Colburn did so abandon his functions as trustee, and that accordingly he was, and his estate now is, liable for the money misapplied by Taylor.
The courts below did not refuse to recognize the soundness of appellants' statement of the law as a general proposition, and, indeed, stated it strongly in the following language:
But it was the opinion of those courts that, while such is the general doctrine, yet that the facts of the present case do not call for its application; that the conduct of Colburn was not in the nature of an abandonment by him of duties devolved upon him as trustee under his father's will.
The supreme court thus expressed its conclusion:
The court of appeals, after a full statement of the facts and the law applicable thereto, expressed the following conclusion:
Another fact in this case is not without weight.
After Taylor's death, and when it appeared he was a defaulter, Colburn at once presented a claim, as cotrustee, against his estate, and was allowed a dividend in the sum of $3,342.45. Thereupon the residuary legatees consented in writing that Colburn should have a right to use said sum in the purchase of an annuity on his own account.
While we are not disposed to accept the suggestion, on behalf of the appellees, that by consenting to such a use by Colburn of the money received from the estate of Taylor, the residuary legatees were estopped from claiming liability for the rest of the fund misapplied by Taylor, we yet think that such a consent tends strongly to show that the residuary legatees, who were fully aware of all the facts and circumstances, did not regard Colburn's conduct as subjecting him to liability for Taylor's misconduct. And the further fact, shown by the record, that no intention to hold Colburn for Taylor's defalcation was ever disclosed till more than two years after Colburn's death, and nearly six years after that of Taylor, tends to show that the effort to so hold him is an afterthought, not entitled to the approval of a court of equity.
The treatment of facts and law in the opinions of the courts below, contained in the record, was so full and satisfactory as to relieve us from further discussion.
The decree of the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia is affirmed.
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Citation: 181 U.S. 601
Docket No: No. 221
Decided: May 20, 1901
Court: United States Supreme Court
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Contracts for the next stage of engineering, design, and planning work on the two largest projects in Let's Get Wellington Moving (LGWM) have gone out for tender.
LGWM Programme Director Andrew Body says this is a big step forward for the $6.4 billion programme as it develops a multi-modal transport system that will move more people with fewer vehicles.
"At its heart, Let's Get Wellington Moving seeks to deliver a multi-modal transport system that moves more people with fewer vehicles. Mass rapid transit will transform Wellington's public transport network and help shape a more compact and sustainable city and region," says Mr Body.
The business case for mass rapid transit will inform decisions about the type of mass rapid transit (mode) and the preferred route. The business case for the state highway improvements project will identify preferred options for the Basin Reserve and an extra Mt Victoria tunnel.
"We need specialists with a strong understanding of what it takes to get things done in Wellington, combined with international expertise in planning, design and implementation of mass rapid transit.
"We're looking for innovation in planning and design, including opportunities to enhance spaces for the community. We'll also ensure the special character of the Basin Reserve is preserved.
"The estimated combined investment in mass rapid transit and state highway improvements will be $3 billion. This will be a once-in-a-generation investment in Wellington's transport network. With an investment of this scale we must ensure we get it right.
"We need to determine the most appropriate route and type of mass rapid transit, and how it integrates with the wider transport system, particularly the bus network, and other projects in the programme including the state highways package.
"The state highways package will investigate which improvements at the Basin Reserve will provide the best outcomes for the transport network and the community. It will also investigate the extra Mt Victoria tunnel, and how the wider transport system will operate with these improvements.
"Our plan is large, complex, and ambitious. With projects as big as these, we need to investigate and plan carefully at the start. We'll be working closely with our partners, stakeholders, and the community as we design each project," says Mr Body.
The tenders close on 23 December and will be awarded in the new year. The initial business case work is expected to be completed by early 2021. LGWM is a partnership between Wellington City Council, Greater Wellington Regional Council, and the NZ Transport Agency.
LGWM's vision is to build a great harbour city, accessible to all, with attractive places, shared streets, and efficient local and regional journeys. To realise this vision, the programme is focused on moving more people with fewer vehicles.
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Focusing on the one. 'Relationship is about the one."
Here's a great article on 5 important, maybe most important, steps or ways to raising healthy well-adjusted kids.
For this plus size woman who desires to move more this is a great article. I need more motivations like these.
Amazing, feel good, go away being uplifted - quotes from inspiring children's books.
Doing a Beth Moore Bible Study right now Believing God...and talking about miracles...then I read this.
And this...this is what I believe!!!!
Mom's and Dad's read this!
I love Scouting magazine. It's on my Facebook feed. Here's a way to make the most of your walking workout.
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Save the Children, the global charity mired in allegations that it failed to investigate sexual abuse and inappropriate behaviour by staff, is to be formally investigated by the Charity Commission.
In a statement announcing a statutory inquiry, the commission said it had been prompted by "concerns about the charity's handling, reporting and response to serious allegations of misconduct and harassment against senior staff members in 2012 and 2015".
The commission describes a statutory inquiry as its "most serious form of engagement" with a charity.
The news, announced on Tuesday night, will be another blow for the charity two months after it emerged that both Justin Forsyth, its former chief executive, and Brendan Cox, the former policy director and widower of the MP Jo Cox, left the charity in 2015 following allegations of misconduct. The two men knew each other from their years working for Gordon Brown and the Labour party.
After he left Save the Children, Forsyth went on to a senior role at Unicef. He resigned in February after the reports of inappropriate behaviour emerged. Cox also resigned from the charities More in Common and the Jo Cox Foundation, set up in the aftermath of his wife's murder.
The commission, which itself has been criticised for failing to follow up allegations involving the charities it polices, has been working with Save the Children since the facts about Forsyth and Cox emerged in the wake of the scandal involving Oxfam workers in Haiti.
Save the Children is already reviewing its workplace culture and the implementation of recommendations made by a previous review.
But the Charity Commission said its recent work with it, and new information from other sources that has recently come into the regulator's possession, meant that the commission wanted to make further inquiries.
It says it is concerned about how the 2015 allegations were reported to the commission, and how other complaints were handled and reviewed. It also questions "the charity's decision-making since February 2018 on its public position regarding these allegations".
In wording that suggests that new witnesses may have come forward, the statement says the investigation will look at the frankness of the charity's disclosure to the commission of "serious incidents relating to staffing matters".
However, the investigation is only into the management of the charity itself, not its charitable work.
It will take place in private, hearing evidence from staff, past and present and any other witnesses, and examining documentation. It will be conducted by the commission's investigations and enforcement unit, headed by Michelle Russell.
But charity law is intended to ensure that charities serve their beneficiaries, and although the report will be published, the commission has no power of sanction. A spokesman emphasised that the decision to open a statutory investigation did not mean it had established any evidence of wrongdoing. It carried out more than 100 such inquiries last year.
In February, Save the Children's current chief executive, Kevin Watkins, announced a "root and branch review" of the charity's organisational culture, including measures to preserve staff safety and "any behavioural challenges among senior leadership".
The charity said the review would commence by the end of this week and that it would report its findings in June. The final report will be "published, shared with the Charity Commission and made available to government and every single member of staff".
In evidence to a House of Commons committee at the time, Watkins said Save the Children dealt with 193 child protection and 35 sexual harassment cases involving allegations against its staff around the world last year.
He told the international development select committee that the misconduct cases in 120 countries led to 30 dismissals.
A Save the Children spokesman said: "We apologise for any pain these matters have caused and sincerely hope that the complainants feel able to help us with the review in the coming weeks.
"This is so that we can better support our skilled and highly valued staff as they help change the lives of millions of children around the world every day."
As the scandal threatened the vital work of numerous charities, the heads of 22 aid organisations took the unprecedented step of apologising for the sector's failure to tackle sexual abuse. They vowed to toughen safeguards against misconduct.
The letter, signed by the heads of ActionAid UK, Christian Aid, Cafod, Care International UK, as well as Oxfam, Save the Children and others, said: "We are truly sorry."
The scandal has been blamed for last month's Sport Relief event raising a third less than expected on the night.


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The pictures that I have have all been posted. They are in several albums. Click on the link to go there.
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Reunion 2011 - Patriots' Point
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Individuals can post their own pictures to these albums or send an email to email@example.com and we'll get them uploaded for you.
You are invited to add your comments (including identifying the guilty or innocent as you prefer).
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We did visit the lab to see the Hunley. They wouldn't let us take pictures in some parts of the building (where the sub is actually located) but we were among the first privileged members of the public to see the sub upright. Apparently some members of the press were there the day before and this was posted on the YahooNews site, complete with photos of the restricted area. Click on the link
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on 01.01.11
Mine: this will be the year of the Canadian shanty's rebirth, spearheaded by a handful of hardscrabble Newfie indie-rock bands.
Twenty eleven sounds like a made-up number
on 12.31.10
Happy New Years! My new year's resolution is not to have a baby this year.
Please get out of my dwelling!
on 12.31.10
Two guests down, four to go.
I am a bad host.
Syne You've Been Gone
on 12.31.10
What's with everyone always writing "Happy New Year" with all initial capital letters? Anyway, a belated happy new year to the Pacific 'foggedtariat. To rest of you lot, wait your turn. Sheesh.
When Did Employers Stop Training People?
on 12.31.10
I was just talking to Buck about high-end electricians -- the guys who install major industrial power systems (yeah, breakfast-table conversation in the Breath household is sparkling). Apparently (according to Buck, I haven't checked), this is one of the many areas where there's a generation of skilled workers retiring, without people on line to follow them.
Generally, talking about getting a job today, it's a commonplace that you can't get looked at for anything unless you have experience doing exactly that thing. It's a Catch-22 for job-seekers: you can't learn how to do anything useful in school, you need on the job training, but employers don't voluntarily do on the job training anymore. And it's not great for the employers either, because it's hard to find people with perfectly tailored experience for your openings, so if you don't expect to train your hires, you end up hiring any idiot who fits the slot.
When did that change? It seems as if employers used to accept that largely, they were going to hire generally competent people without all that much specific knowledge of the job, and train them, but that assumption went away across the board sometime in the last couple of decades, and nothing functional has replaced it.
Now See Here
on 12.30.10
Via this, I bring you the recently discovered work of Vivian Maier, Chicago-based street photographer.
When in Rome, don't pet the pigeons.
on 12.30.10
Recently, I found myself party to a conversation that began by my interlocutor saying, "I need some advice."
Being too clever by half, I didn't hesitate to offer up, "Never get involved in a land war in Asia." But almost immediately, I was dissatisfied with my answer. Surely, there must be better generalized aphorisms one could have at-the-ready for opportunities such as these.
Which thought soon wandered over to the realization that coming up with a list of random pearls of wisdom (and I'm not sure, but I think the less likely to be immediately applicable the better) seems a task uniquely suited to the talents of the Unfoggedtariat. So, by all means, have at it.
On a seemingly unrelated note, I had a very strange Unfogged-based dream last night. Very, very strange.
It might be the weird hand-caressing.
on 12.29.10
This hand model creeps a lot of people out on Facebook:
on 12.27.10
I'm disproportionately delighted by the product descriptions on this page:
Milk, a natural product overflowing with nutritious and taste properties, has been consumed by humans for over twelve thousand years by several civilisations. Dairy products, with milk as the top ingredient, are established partner to a balanced diet for people of all age.
Milk is the archetypal vital food, a dietary resource and symbol of purity, synonymous with wealth and abundance. It travelled through centuries and still remains one of the most established foods present in our daily diet.
Centrifuge skimming was invented at the end of the X1X century and changed the whole process dramatically: cream is obtained within minutes. Pasteurization, a process invented around the same period, ensures its preservation. Fresh and authentic, Chagnon creams will surely fulfil your gastronomic cravings.
The basic principle of butter-making has remained the same since at least... five thousands years!
Ice cream is part of Québécois' taste legacy. Indeed, who is able to resist a hot piece of pie served with ice cream?
Start your day on a good note with a glass of orange juice, or freshen up on a hot summer day with cold lemonade, or please the kids with our famous grape beverage: Chagnon juices are always appropriate.
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Die, bankers, die! Of embarrassment.
on 12.27.10
From an article* about the bank bailout in The Week:
Last week we learned that JPMorgan Chase had hit up the Fed for secret loans on seven different occasions, utilizing a program created to spare banks from having to "embarrassingly make their needs known to the public." Goldman Sachs President Gary Cohn told the "whopper" that his firm could have survived the crisis without the Fed's help. In reality, the firm "turned to the Fed every single day during the darkest weeks of the crisis," for a total of 84 loans.
A secret program to save the banks from embarrassment?!? Did everyone know about this except me? From EMBARRASSMENT? Somehow it is extra infuriating that we were concerned about the poor dears being embarrassed.
* I have a subscription to The Week, but online it's behind a paywall. They're summarizing an article from CrainsNewYork.com, which is also behind a paywall. Hunting around, I wasn't able to find a free source that I felt like quoting.
Would you like to come up and look at my deep packets?
on 12.27.10
In a sign that I apparently have something approaching zero expectation of privacy, I kind of sort of figured this sort of data mining was already happening:
Computer security expert Joshua Wright says over the past five years or so, a lot of ground has been lost when it comes to online privacy. Wright tells Linda Wertheimer that Internet service providers, ISPs, are realizing there may be some new business opportunities with collected user information.
The full transcript isn't available yet. It's the kind of encroachment I want to feel all up-in-arms about, but in actuality I end up with a reaction of "ho hum, whatevs, I'm not doing anything unusual or illegal online, so what do I care?" which I think is probably a pretty common reaction, which in turn makes this sort of thing inevitable. Which bugs me. But apparently only enough to write about it. On the internet.
Update: Transcript up. Relevant bit below the fold.
Mr. WRIGHT: An ISP is in a unique position to monitor all of the Internet activity from your computer. Where you might visit Amazon.com - and Amazon.com knows about the activity that you do when you're on their particular website, they don't necessarily have access to other websites that you browse, as well. But the ISP does have all that information. And so they're in a very powerful position to be able to collect and mine all of that data.
When you go to use Amazon, you are arguably opting in to that service. You're deciding to do business with Amazon. They provide targeted advertising to you to continue selling their products. And most people find that reasonable.
What we have with this deep packet inspection from ISPs is a different situation, where it's not opt in, and in some cases it's not even opt out. The ISP is collecting all of this information and using it to deliver targeted advertisements to you, but you don't have any influence to say I want to receive these or I do not want to receive these.
Christmas Roundup
on 12.26.10
(1) Snowflake ornaments made from royal icing should be hung on high branches of the tree. Unless they were actually intended as dog biscuits.
(2) Note to a small girl of my acquaintance who arrived at dinner with a Nerf machine gun that looked like something the Marines in Aliens would have been carrying, immediately began chasing Newt around the apartment while peppering him with Nerf missiles, and then later came to me complaining that he had spoken harshly to her: As I said last night, that's one of the disadvantages of gunfire -- after the shooting stops, sometimes hurtful words are said.
Everything else went off like clockwork, though. Today will be devoted to sitting about slothfully, occasionally shoveling leftovers into our gaping maws. Happy St. Stephen's Day!


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Everyone loves to study and emulate successful leaders who have demonstrated the ability to win in their respective field. We particularly love picking up knowledge from leaders in the world of sports. Their expertise in coaching, leading people and running a team can easily be translated into business tactics.
Alan Stein Jr. shared this on the Follow My Lead Podcast as to why sports and business go so well together: "Both require similar things in order to be successful; building habits and doing thing during unseen hours, effective leadership, and 'we' people instead of 'me' people."
One of the best parts of following sports leaders is every year there are new stories and victors to learn from and emulate. Here are seven leadership lessons from Bill Belichick and six other coaches who won championships in 2017:
1. Bill Belichick (New England Patriots)
Belichick and his Patriots team capped off a miraculous comeback over the Atlanta Falcons in the second half to win his fifth Lombardi trophy and cement his status as one of the most the elite coaches of all time.
Known for his hard-nosed and buttoned-up leadership style, Belichick rarely gives one on one interviews. But in a sit down with Suzy Welch he shared this:
"Leadership means building a team that is exhaustively prepared, but being able to adjust in an instant." He went on to say, "The only sign we have in the locker room is from the Art of War, 'every battle is won before it's faught'"
Key Takeaway: Preparation is critical for success; but, in today's fast paced world, pivoting will be required and it's only possible with great teamwork.
2. Steve Kerr (Golden State Warriors)
Kerr's team battled the Cleveland Cavaliers, led by LeBron James, and beat them four games to one in this year's NBA finals. Not only did he win his second NBA championship as a coach, but he also holds the highest winning percentage in NBA history.
His leadership style is one of a true servant leader. After this year's title he tried to avoid the microphone in order to give his players the chance to be in the spotlight. When he he did finally speak, he used all of his time to give praise to his other coaches, players, and team ownership. Kerr knows he is just a spoke in the wheel, and it's his job to push those around him to levels of which they didn't even know they were capable.
Key Takeaway: It's not about the leader, it's about the team.
3. Joe Madden (Chicago Cubs)
Madden and his Cubs broke a 108 year world championship drought when they defeated the Cleveland Indians in Game 7 of the last year's World Series.
His leadership style is known for being quirky and unique, but there are great lessons to learn from Madden. His team didn't shy away from the expectations of them from the beginning of the season. They used terms like "Embrace the target" (world champions) and "Try not to suck."
Key takeaway: Don't shy away from high expectations, embrace them.
4. Dabo Swinney (Clemson Tigers)
Swinney and his Clemson Tigers team won the school's first football national Championship since 1981, defeating the mighty Nick Saban led Alabama Crimson Tide in one of the greatest football games ever.
His leadership style is one filled with purpose and positivity. He embodies the idea of a Welder leader by consistently leveraging both love and discipline at extremely high levels. In his post game interview right after winning the championship he said, "I told our players, the difference in this game was going to be love (for each other)."
Key Takeaway: Serve your people's hearts and not their talents.
5. Mike Sullivan (Pittsburgh Penguins)
Sullivan and his Pittsburgh Penguins successfully defended their Stanley Cup by defeating the Nashville Predators in Game 6 of this years finals.
His leadership style is one of great intensity and focus. He relies heavily on his staff and the players on the team to be leaders themselves. After a big win in the playoffs Sullivan said, "I think when we have focus–short-sighted focus on the task at hand, and we don't get ahead of ourselves or we don't dwell on what happen in the past–that's when you have the best ability to reset that mindset, it always falls back to the leadership of the group."
Key takeaway: If you are the only leader on your team you have no chance.
6. Dawn Staley (South Carolina Gamecocks)
Staley and her South Carolina Gamecocks won their first national basketball title by defeating Mississippi State in dominating fashion.
Staley was a Hall of Fame player before she became a coach. She knows how important the connection with people is to the success of any leader. She lives by two mottos: 'a disciplined person can do anything' and 'dare tocubs do what you don't want to do to get what you want.' In a recent article from players tribune she said this about the secret to leadership: "If there were ever a secret to being a great coach, that's it: the connection."
Key takeaway: You are nothing as a leader without healthy relationships.
7. Roy WIlliams (North Carolina Tarheels)
Williams is a basketball coaching legend. Having gone to six national title games and winning his third last year in dramatic fashion against the Gonzaga Bulldogs, his name is synonymous with success on the court.
Williams is also known for being an elite recruiter, which is why he has been in the postseason every year of his head coaching career outside of his first. Williams plays to his strength and spends a lot of time recruiting, but he doesn't for a second underestimate the importance of character. He wrote, "Too many coaches lower their program's standards and take talented players with questionable or poor character."
Key Takeaway: Character matters and it always will.
This article originally appeared on Inc.com
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text: By Muhammed Sailu Bah Prices of some basic food commodities have hiked in the market as the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan commenced late last week. This new development was confirmed by both customers and vendors of these commodities when the reporter visited the Albert Market in Banjul during the weekend. Speaking to Lamin Minteh, a retail vendor who sells some basic food commodities, he said two weeks ago the price of a bag of sugar was D1,200 and that when Ramadan approaches it rose to D1,300. "As we are in the Ramadan now the bag of sugar is costing D1375 and D1,400 in some areas," he said. He also noted a sharp decline in the number of customers coming now compared to previous years. "A lot of customers used to come and buy the commodities we sell during Ramadan but nowadays the business is very slow," he revealed. Mr. Minteh said some people wrongfully blame the people doing business for hiking goods without any legitimate reasons. "We don't just increase our prices as we wish. The retail prices of the commodities we sell are always dictated by their costs from wholesale traders and importers," he added. Mbye Jeng, a canteen owner doing the same business as the previuos vendor, said certain commodities are even scarce now such as milk powder which is always in high demand during the fasting month of Ramadan. "Juice and foil paper are also not available since the fasting month began," he disclosed. Mr. Jeng also said that the price of a bag of Irish potatoes has risen from D550 to D700 at the start of Ramadan, likewise a bag of Onions from D500 to D675 and the 20 litres of vegetable oil from D900 to D940 and the list goes on. On the retail prices, he said a kilo of Irish potato has hiked from D30 to D40. One of the customers called Amie Jagne, who came for shopping to prepare for the evening meals, lamented the price increases. "My money is finished and I've not got all that I needed because of the price increases," he lamented. Visiting the abattoir, this reporter was told by the butchers that the prices still remain the same as before the start of the fasting month. He said meat and bone is D175 per kilo, beef steak is D225 per kilo and that mutton is D225 per kilo. The butchers also noted a slowdown in business.]]>


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The psychedelic garage rock king Ty Segall makes a whole lot of music, so you probably will not be surprised to learn that he's got a new album coming out on Friday. Segall's new one is self-titled, and he recorded it with his Magick Band, which features Mikal Cronin, Emmett Kelly, Charles Moothart, and Ben Boye. We've posted the early singles "Orange Color Queen" and "Break A Guitar," but the one you really need to hear is the 10-minute spazz-out "Warm Hands (Freedom Returned)." Thankfully, you can now stream the entire album below, via NPR.
Ty Segall is out 1/27 on Drag City.


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Natural Stone Chakra Pendant Necklace
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Natural Stone Pendant Necklaces Chakra Bead Gemstone Crystal Quartz
Orange chakra color meanings: The second (2nd), sacral chakra stage of creativity and learn the dance of unity.
Blue chakra color meanings: The fifth (5th), throat chakra indicates our willingness to see solutions in everything and opens communication.
Indigo chakra color meanings: The sixth (6th), third eye chakra. We know more fully all the depth of chakra connectivity. When we peer past the veil of illusion all is revealed. Awareness is found in our innermost selves.
Violet chakra color meanings: The seventh (7th), crown chakra opening up to the light of a new spring, our awareness pulls itself up out from the strata of matter, layers of time, and levels of perception surging in our conscious background all the time.
Silver or white chakra color meanings: The ninth (9th), crown chakra located above the 7th chakra links you to the energies of the moon. It is the main hub for karmic understanding and channeling that governs intelligence, communication with spirit guides, and funnels information about incarnations.
Deep grey chakra color meanings: Associated with the Root Chakra (1st), and with survival here on earth. They govern our relationship with the physical world and our bodies.
Magenta chakra color meanings: Associated with the eight chakra (8th) and at times with the twelve (12th) chakra, with survival here on earth and with the blueprint of our soul. They govern our relationship with the physical world and our bodies. A mixture of red and blue, the color Magenta is associated with our outlook on life and our ability to create balance and harmony in our everyday experiences. Those experiences include physical, mental, emotional and spiritual.


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The Oregon State legislature has decided to limit the tax benefits of contributing to an Oregon 529 College Savings Plan. The new rules go into effect in 2020:
- Instead of a tax deduction, which counts against your income, there will be a minimal tax CREDIT. A tax credit directly reduces your tax liability, on a 1 for 1 basis. A deduction, on the other hand, is most valuable if your income is high.
- The current deduction for a couple filing jointly is $4865, but this will be reduced to a $300 tax credit in 2020. Even then, if your income is high, you will not qualify to take the entire credit.
- Although this is bad news for those who want to save aggressively for one of the most expensive endeavors we ever undertake – college – there is an opportunity to accelerate your saving – IF YOU CONTRIBUTE BY DECEMBER 31, 2019. By contributing about $25,000 now, you can take the full $4865 tax deduction in this year and each of the next four years, with some restrictions. It is possible that you will also be able to take the tax credit in each of the next four years.
- Amounts are less for single filers; deductions and credits are totals, so you cannot take the full deduction multiple times for multiple accounts.
- Information on the plan changes is here: https://www.oregoncollegesavings.com/faqs/is-there-an-oregon-income-tax-deduction
Oregon's plan has become less generous incrementally. When the Tax Act loosened rules for using the 529, allowing the funds to be tapped for grade school and other tuition, this state did not follow. Oregon still restricts the use of the 529 to post secondary education. Several states allow in-state tax deductions for contributions to out of state plans – not Oregon. Our plan has also been through an unusual number of manager changes. The 529 still gives you the benefit of tax deferred savings for college, but it does seem to us that limiting the benefits of saving for college is not a wise direction.
Talk to your accountant posthaste if you intend to pursue the carry forward idea; there are nuances to be aware of.


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Best Beginnings – working to give every baby in the UK the best start in life; supports vulnerable parents.
CANParent -is a network of organisations who provide universal parenting classes and advice that is proven to be effective. A universal parenting class is for all mums, dads and carers of children from birth to 18 years. Organisations that belong to the CANparent network have proven that each of their classes makes a real and positive difference to parents and families.
Care for the Family – a charity which offers support for parents, including parenting classes.
Family Nurse Partnership – a voluntary home visiting programme for first time young mums, aged 19 or under (and dads). A specially trained family nurse visits the young mum regularly, from early in pregnancy until the child is two.
Getting to know your baby – promoting emotional well being before and after birth.
Home Start -helps families with young children deal with whatever life throws at them. We support parents as they learn to cope, improve their confidence and build better lives for their children.
Incredible Years – a parenting programme for parents, children, and teachers, supported by over 30 years of research. The goal is to prevent and treat young children's behavior problems and promote their social, emotional, and academic competence. The programs are used worldwide in schools and mental health centers, and have been shown to work across cultures and socioeconomic groups.
Jane Evans – trauma parenting specialist and trainer, author of the book 'How are you feeling today baby bear? Exploring big feelings after living in a stormy home'.
The Knowledge Bank/The Relationships Alliance -The Relationships Alliance consists of OnePlusOne, Relate, TCCR and Marriage Care. Their vision is a future in which strong and stable personal and social relationships are seen as the basis of a thriving society. The Knowledge Bank contains up to date published and relevant grey literature in core subject areas surrounding couple and family relationships.
The National Parenting Initiative – parenting courses for all kinds of parents and carers; enter your postcode to find a course near you.
National Parent Partnership Network -Parent Partnership Services (PPS) offer advice and support to parents and carers of children and young people with special educational needs. They are statutory services which means there has to be one in every local authority.
Mellow Parenting – an international organisation delivering high quality training in its family of evidence based parenting programmes. Training is delivered to local authority and NHS staff as well as voluntary agencies working with the most vulnerable families in society.
Parent Perspectives – the latest news and expert perspectives on the parent/baby relationship – see for e.g. the difference in responding and reacting to stress.
Solihull Approach – The Solihull Approach Understanding your child's behaviour courses are a well-established and trusted way of understanding more about your child. Parents often say they feel calmer, more confident and have a better relationship with their child after taking part in one of their groups. Offers on line course.
Sue Atkins – parenting guru and author of Parenting Made Easy.
Wildlife trackers – to get children and their parents outside and learning about the world around them. The aim of the site is to give parents, schools and other organisations an easy to access, free tool that makes it easy and fun for them to support children in connecting with nature.
Getting the most out of life
Psych Central – American website looking at various aspects of psychology; useful 'parenting' section.
The Asssociation for Family Therapy and Systemic Practice – organisation for family psychotherapists which provides information and resources for all.
Living Life to the Full – offers a life skills course that aims to provide access to high quality, practical and user-friendly training in life skills. The course is written by a psychiatrist who has many years of experience using a Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) approach and also in helping people use these skills in everyday life.
Lifehack – offers tips about all areas of life to help to help you make the most of it.
Employment and Education
Pinnacle People – a leading provider of employment and skills programmes across all regions of England, helping people find long-term solutions to unemployment, providing them with the skills and confidence to make decisions about their future and get back into work.
The Learning Curve – a market leading provider of high quality training programmes for young people aged 16-18 and adult learners.
Your Home
Baby Proofing and Kids Safety at Home – a home safety guide which covers a wide variety of childproofing areas and considerations. Follow these tips and suggestions to reduce the hidden dangers in and around your home.
Fly Lady – an online support group, offering people help to sort out their home who are living in CHAOS (Can't Have Anyone Over Syndrome).
Quit Smoking Community – a US site, offering advice and support about quitting smoking
Smoke Free Homes – advice from the US Environmental Agency about risks to children from second hand smoke and how to reduce these.
Unf*** your Habitat is an excellent blog with tips and encouragement about keeping your environment clean and tidy, even when it seems overwhelming at times.


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