text: Gallery: A new year means a new onslaught of diet-related cookbooksStockbyte, Thinkstock 12.27.2012The 2012 crop of healthy eating books runs the gamut from secrets of the rich and famous to levelheaded lifestyle recommendations and quick-loss programs. Here are a few that crossed our desks.Stockbyte / ThinkstockFor celebrity worshippers — One Dish at a Time by Valerie Bertinelli (Rodale Books) Television actress-turned-Jenny Craig spokeswoman Valerie Bertinelli offers recipes and stories based on her Italian-American upbringing. Dishes such as ribollita, a tomatoey vegetable soup, garlicky linguine and clam sauce and chipotle-spiked bison burgers (from the American side) sound warm and filling enough for a cold winter day. Each recipe offers calorie counts (some of which you'd rather not know — that bison burger will cost you around 600 calories). And for those of you who didn't catch it, the title riffs on Bertinelli's claim-to-fame, the 1975 television show "One Day at a Time." Yes, that's correct, 1975.AP Photo / Rodale Books— Now Eat This! Italian by Rocco DiSpirito (Grand Central Publishing) Celebrity chef Rocco DiSpirito's latest installment in his "Now Eat This" series conjures more than 90 Italian dishes, such as chicken parmigiana, lasagna Bolognese and whole-wheat pizza margherita, all under 350 calories. And yes, there is still cheese involved. Even desserts make the cut. A fat-free ricotta cheesecake boasts just 176 calories, and a cannoli, those cream-filled pastry tubes, 136 calories.AP Photo / Grand Central PublishingFor magazine readers — The Food Lover's Healthy Habits Cookbook by the editor's of Cooking Light magazine (Oxmoor House) More than 250 recipes from the editors of Cooking Light magazine pair with lifestyle changes and a 12-month plan for carrying them out. A solid how-to for people seeking a healthier lifestyle, the emphasis here is on cooking at home and incorporating more fruits, vegetables and grains into your diet. Cooking techniques and introductions to potentially unfamiliar ingredients, such as edamame (soy beans) and the ancient grain farro, are peppered with recipes for dishes such as oatmeal pancakes, the Middle Eastern red pepper dip called muhammara and cinnamon-laced beef tagine with butternut squash.AP Photo / Oxmoor House— 101 Recipes You Can't Live Without by Lori Powell (Rodale Books) The nutrition experts at Prevention magazine build their recipes around 13 essential nutrients, such as magnesium and vitamin D. Vitamin B12 and omega-3 fatty acids arrive in a bowl of spaghetti with sardines and caramelized fennel. Roasted pork tenderloin with edamame succotash brings vitamin C and folate. And dark chocolate pudding (with whipped cream) squeaks by with a quarter of your daily calcium. Who doesn't want to feel good about dessert?AP Photo / Rodale BooksFor list makers — The 7 Day Slim Down by Alisa Bowman with the editors of Women's Health magazine (Rodale Books) "Lose 7 pounds this week!" boasts the cover of this book, which offers what it calls "the Vitamin D diet." Based on research that suggests vitamin D promotes weight loss, this diet offers lists, lists, lists: a slim-down shopping list, a day-by-day, meal-by-meal menu list for the first week, and charts for "pick this, not that" and other dieting techniques. Vitamin D-rich dishes such as mushroom, onion and avocado quesadilla, chicken cacciatore with sauteed escarole and beef barley soup are staples here.AP Photo / Rodale Books— The Belly Melt Diet by the editors of Prevention magazine (Rodale Books) This one's got the others beat, because apparently you can lose 8 pounds in just 3 days. List lovers will gorge on quizzes (What kind of bird are you, lark or owl? Are you getting enough sleep?), lists of nutrient-rich foods and yes, day-by-day, meal-by-meal guidelines. Recipes for dishes such as orzo and chickpea salad, sweet potato and black bean chili and pan-seared salmon over kale sneak in amid copious amounts of text.AP Photo / Rodale BooksFor sexy ladies — The MILF Diet by Jessica Porter (Atria Books) Don't know what MILF means? Don't look it up unless you're OK with profanity. Let's just say it's a reference to attractive older women and leave it at that. This book builds its healthy eating plan around what it considers "MILFy" foods — whole grains, vegetables such as kale and bok choy, plant proteins like lentils, seaweed and fermented foods such as miso. This diet promises not only a youthful body, but a detoxified one with fully raised consciousness. Recipes for dishes like polenta with wild mushrooms, and sea vegetables with onion, carrot and corn are intended to keep you both desirable and desiring.AP Photo / Atria Books— Cook Yourself Sexy by Candice Kumai (Rodale Books) The spaghetti-strap camisole on the cover says it all. Author Kumai, a former model and Le Cordon Bleu-trained chef, offers recipes for miso-glazed cod with baby bok choy, Dijon-braised Brussels sprouts and oxtail ragu with pappardelle to move you toward a sexier bod (and perhaps even help you cook in high heels and a mini-skirt, as she apparently does). Michele Kayal/THE ASSOCIATED PRESSAP Photo / Rodale BooksShareAdjustCommentPrint xShareGallery: A new year means a new onslaught of diet-related cookbooks Email Twitter Facebook Pinterest Google Linkedin


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Genea-Blogger, Thomas MacEntee, today asked What our RootsTech Strategy will be for 2012. Please see his blog: Open Thread Thursday: What's Is Your RootsTech Strategy?
Actually, I have thought about this in preparation for this awesome experience. Having attended several "regional" events, including the New England Regional Genealogy Society event last spring, I know that I don't want to get overwhelmed with this event.
Trying to be involved with the Conference, as a participant, spending time in the Exhibit Hall, and networking with the 80+ Genea-Bloggers, I am sure that it can be too much to handle.
My plan, follow as much of the planned schedule that I have already planned on, BUT be flexible enough to make changes "on the spot". There is a lot of opportunities to learn. I want to take advantage of that.
I like Thomas' term micro blogging. I will have my iPad with me and will try that. I am going to use that to take notes, as I did at the NERGS last spring, but do the note taking in Evernote, which I have been using for Webinar Notes. Now to learn how to Copy and Paste, quickly, between Evernote and Twitter on the RootsTech 2012 AP on the iPad. But, I have a couple of days to learn that.
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HILLSDALE � The calendar says it�s nearing the middle of April, but someone must have forgotten to tell Mother Nature as temperatures continue to hardly reach the mid-40s.
One day, hopefully soon, those temperatures will take a turn for the better and when they do, the Hillsdale Kiwanis and Hillsdale Rotary clubs are looking to make the Sandy Beach bike path a little more scenic.
For the second consecutive year, members of both organizations will participate this Saturday in a sort of spring cleaning of the 7-mile trail that stretches from Sandy Beach on Baw Beese Lake into Jonesville.
�We really enjoy it. It�s great to see the smiles on the people�s faces that we help and that in turn makes us feel good,� said Kiwanis Secretary Joan Van Arsdalen.
The two organizations will meet at 9:30 a.m. at Mrs. Stock Park parking area for coffee and rolls before departing for the pickup. The trail will be divided into sections around a half-mile long, and those sections will be assigned to small groups. Van Arsdalen expects the pickup to be completed by 11 a.m.
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NEWTON, Mass. – The eighth-ranked Duke field hockey team rallied from a 1-0 deficit, scoring with 20 seconds remaining in regulation and again just 53 seconds into overtime to top No. 7 Boston College 2-1 in a critical ACC matchup Saturday afternoon at the Eagles' Field Hockey Field.
The Blue Devils improved their season ledger to 12-4 overall and 3-2 in conference action and also moved to 5-4 against ranked opponents and 4-1 in overtime contests with the dramatic overtime victory. Meanwhile Boston College dropped to 12-5 overall and 1-4 in ACC contests.
Trailing 1-0 for nearly 50 minutes in regulation, Duke pulled redshirt sophomore goalkeeper Lauren Blazing from the cage with seven minutes to go on the clock, giving the squad an extra player up top. The Blue Devils then capitalized on a yellow card called on the Eagles, as senior Grace Christus put back her own rebound shot to send the match into overtime. The goal was Christus' first of her career.
Sophomore Aileen Johnson found the back of the cage just 53 seconds into extra time to secure a 2-1 win for Duke.
The Blue Devils finished with an 11-10 advantage in shots while placing eight of their 11 shots on goal. The squad also recorded four penalty corners to three by Boston College.
Duke was active offensively from the opening whistle, logging three shots and a penalty corner opportunity within the first three minutes of play. The defensive unit was tested early at the other end of the field, but remained solid against three consecutive shots by the Eagles in the 10th minute.
The game remained scoreless for much of the first half before Chapin Duke put Boston College up by one with an unassisted goal at the 22:56 mark. The Blue Devils had a couple of opportunities towards the end of the period with a pair of late penalty corners, but went into the intermission facing a 1-0 deficit.
At the break, Boston College led in the shots category by a 7-4 margin while Duke held a slight 3-2 edge in penalty corners.
Senior forward Emmie Le Marchand opened the second half with a look at the cage that was saved by the Eagles' Leah Settipane. Following a dangerous offensive possession by Boston College, redshirt senior Devon Gagliardi broke inside but sent a shot wide of the goal. The Blue Devils continued to press forward, as a shot by senior Paula Heimbach was stopped by Settipane on a penalty corner play. Duke then pulled Blazing from the cage, setting up the equalizer by Christus.
Blazing posted two saves in the win while Settipane made six stops for the Eagles.
The Blue Devils close the non-conference portion of their regular season schedule Sunday, Oct. 26 at 1:30 p.m. in a matchup at Boston University. Live stats will be available for that contest.


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KANSAS CITY, Kan. - The Columbia men and women's soccer teams were among the collegiate programs recognized Monday by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America with the Team Academic Award for the 2012 season.
To be considered for the NSCAA Team Academic Award, a team must have a collective grade point average of 3.0 or higher. A total of 723 college soccer teams received the honor this season and 150 schools had both their men's and women's teams earn the accolade, including Columbia.
The Columbia men's team posted a 3.42 GPA, while the women's squad came in at 3.31.
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New London - Less than a year after returning from a reduced work schedule and time off due to a work-related injury, police Chief Margaret Ackley is again back to a shortened work schedule, using sick time and compensation time - more than seven weeks' worth in the first three months of the year, city records show.
Ackley has taken off at least 38 days - a mix of compensation and sick days - since Dec. 30. Records show that she still has 30 weeks, or 1,197.5 hours, of compensation time yet to use, according to information obtained by The Day as part of a Freedom of Information request. Records show she has not logged a full work week in any of the first 12 weeks of the year.
In October 2012 Ackley was hit in the head with a window that blew out at the emergency operations center on Bank Street during Superstorm Sandy. It led to a "light duty" work schedule in which city officials said Ackley was unable to work for more than two hours a day for more than two months. By Feb. 20 she was placed on medical leave that lasted for more than a month.
Mayor Daryl Justin Finizio said he is aware of Ackley's time off this year and pointed out in a recent email, "There is nothing improper in her use of comp and sick time, and the Chief remains an employee in good standing with the City of New London." He declined to answer any further questions on use of compensation time, his executive order ending compensation time or compensation time being used by Ackley, citing a pending lawsuit by Ackley against the city. The chief is suing the city, Finizio and attorney Brian Estep for reneging on a contract she signed in 2012 that would have paid her outright for the compensation time she accumulated since becoming chief in 2009, or about $60,000, according to previous City Council estimates.
Ackley could not be reached to comment Friday. Her case is pending in New London Superior Court.
As it stands, the indication in a memo to Ackley is that she has until June 30 to use up the compensation time, or lose it.
City Councilor Martin Olsen said authorization for the chief's time off is not within the purview of the council but called the time off and pending lawsuit "a dicey situation" that is "not in the best interests of the department or the City of New London."
"When she was initially hired as chief, she was exceptionally visible. She has become exceptionally invisible the last year or so," Olsen said. "She's walking a tight rope, but staying within the law. What's going on is not a healthy situation for the city, the citizens or the morale of the department. It's frustrating, I can tell you that."
Councilor Erica Richardson, chairwoman of the public safety committee, noting that Ackley has served the city for more than 25 years, said, unless she's breaking some law, it's much to do about nothing."
"You're allowed to take it whenever you want to take it as long as her job is being done," Richardson said. "If she's not going to get paid for it. � I'd use as much time as I could."
Richardson said Deputy Police Chief Peter Reichard, who is acting chief in Ackley's absence, "has stepped up and the department hasn't skipped a beat at all."
Both council members said they are barred from any discussions that touch on Ackley's pending lawsuit.
Ackley claims in her suit that in December 2011, after announcing her planned retirement, Finizio requested she postpone it until Dec. 31, 2015.
As part of the agreement to keep her on as chief, Ackley signed a contract that would pay her a $110,725 annual salary with an agreement that she had accumulated 2,000 hours of compensation time. The agreement states she would be paid, in separate paychecks, the equivalent of 1,196 work hours at her regular rate of pay. The rest of the compensation time, or 804 hours, would be kept and used "subject to review by the mayor," according to the contract. The contract also calls for 190 hours of vacation time, 40 hours of holiday time, sick time and 24-hour use of a city vehicle.
Just two weeks after the contract was signed, however, the City Council cited budget concerns and rejected it, along with a $25,000 settlement Finizio had offered her to settle her claims of harassment and interfering against former City Councilor Michael Buscetto III.
The practice of compensation time, paid regular work days off in lieu of overtime, for nonunion employees was halted through an executive order by Finizio in 2012. Finizio replaced compensation time with flex time, or unpaid days off, and ordered that all remaining compensation time be used by June 30, 2013.
Records show Ackley was granted an extra year to use up her time because of the injury and subsequent time off.
A July 25, 2013, memo from former Chief Administrative Officer Jane Glover to Ackley shows Ackley was allowed to carry over the amount of compensatory time on the books at that time - 1,584.5 hours - because of her injury when she was "unable to use compensatory time for nearly five of the 10 months allowed by the mayor to use or lose such time."
Ackley's attorney, Leon Rosenblatt, said the executive order amounted to "changing the rules in the middle of the game."
"If you tell people who have accrued time through the years they are being cut off � the natural consequence is that people are going to take time off," Rosenblatt said in an interview this week. "If she was doing that, she is doing what any sensible person would do. �The mayor is trying to take something away from her that already belongs to her. Earned time is a property."
Rosenblatt said he would sue the city again if Ackley is forced to leave accrued time on the table.
Richardson said she hoped for a speedy resolution to the lawsuit so that the focus can turn back to the achievements of the officers at the department and not the controversies.
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I began my day driving through Renfrew for it was time to head up to Pembroke after I finished up with the Pontiac Archives. I wanted to explore the Quebec side of the Ottawa River on my way up north.
I was now familiar with Bruce Road which stops at the light right by the Rocky Mountain House in downtown Renfrew. I decided to end my stay in Renfrew by having breakfast there. I had dinner the night of my tour of Allumette Island, Chichester and Sheen. It has all knotty wood paneling inside. Someone had placed figurines on the chandelier in the middle of the dining room area. I thought that was funny. It was very homey and the food was good: http://www.therockymountainhouse.com/
Storyland Road was not to hard to find and I was at the Portage Du Fort bridge:
The drive to Shawville is lovely.
I was back at the Pontiac Archives and dug into the genealogies, this time focusing on collateral lines: Poupore, LaCour/LeCour/Tebeau/Record/Ricard, Williams, Moor/Moore, Perrault, Leahy, Downey, Malone, Murphy, Burns, McPherson, Welch/Walsh, Frazer, Kennedy, Butler, Ryan, Ferguson, Sauvé and others. These are the families that married into my great-grandparents Archie and Mary McDonell's siblings families. There was not as much information as I had hoped and not as far back in time that I had wanted. I was looking at 1850 to 1901.
The Pontiac Archives is in Shawville which locates it further south in Pontiac and I have noticed that there is a concentration of documentation, histories and more from Fort Coulonge to Gatineau. For some reason the upper Pontiac is less emphasized. Why is that?
A REQUEST: If you have ancestors who settled in Pontiac Counties please take a few minutes and print off or create a file that you can attached and send to the Pontiac Archives via their email or by mail. Here again is their link: http://www.pontiacarchives.org/ Don't think that the Internet is the only way to spread the news about your family. People are so impacted with information and lack of time they don't always have that choice to be on the internet all the time or they don't have that kind of access due to money concerns.
Please send and or give them your family histories, I did!
I finished up at the Pontiac Archives and said my thanks you and goodbyes! I was glad I had visited.
There was another restaurant and pub to the left of the library as you exit the front door that had a deck. It was on Rue Main. I decided to try that for a different experience and it was great. Entering it through their door was a little odd. I cannot remember the name and I can't find it online. It had comfort food as well as a bar in the middle of the very long room. I had worried about food but I can guarantee you will be able to get a good meal in Shawville.
Here are a few more photographs of Shawville for your enjoyment.
After quieting my tummy, I headed up Hwy 148 (301). This highway is wonderful. It is a two lane road but it is in great condition. I had no problems with driving along it. Now that I know this, I can advise that if you want to stay somewhere other than Renfrew and drive to Shawville to do research at the Pontiac Archives you can do so without a problem. The distance and weather might be a factor but the road is great. Crossing the Ottawa can be done at Waltham, Portage Du Fort and at Qyugon you can take a ferry, otherwise you do have to come from Gatineau northwest or south from Waltham. Hwy 148 follows the Ottawa River and if I had more time I would have done the whole tour. Hwy 148 seems to end when it meets Hwy 40 near Pembroke after crossing Allumette Island.
Try this link for a very interesting information about road trips for the Outaouais area – the Quebec side. You will have to do a little digging to find the various specific road trips for Outaouais: http://outaouais.quebecheritageweb.com/attractions-and-tours They are an online magazine of articles formation about the history of the towns, sites and more along the Ottawa (Outaouais) River and some photos. I was very happy to find this website.
Because of the time constraints I headed up to Campbell's Bay to go to the Palais de Justice for Pontiac County (County courthouse). It was open in the morning 9-12 and afternoon from 1-4 pm M-F and I had to get there quickly. I figured I could double back to tour a little of Calumet Island after my visit to the Palais. This website has the information about Quebec's courts: http://www.justice.gouv.qc.ca/francais/joindre/palais/cartes/campb-carte.htm
My goal was to obtain printouts of the land lots that I had identified for several of my ancestors: Archie, John his brother, and others that I suspected of being related.
It was a little confusing to figure out which room to go to because I was finally hit with French as the only language. As you enter the building on your left there is sign that has the word "Ligne" in it and that is where I went to get these printouts.
The clerk was very nice and of course she started speaking in French till she realized I did not. I had taken the time to write everything down so that she could just use my list. We settled on the price of $4.00 for each printout and I asked for several. She headed out instructing me to wait in the lobby and disappeared for about 15 minutes. She came back with a stack and told me the last one didn't exist. My lousy handwriting made it look like another number so I corrected that and she kindly obtained the copy for me and didn't charge me.
Sigh! This is where I made a big mistake. I did not review the papers at that time. I paid my money and asked her about accessing these documents and she said that I could do so online because that was were all the land records were. It was not till much later that I studied them only to find out that they went back and stopped at early 1900. I had thought I would get the lot history all the way back to the beginning circa 1850. So they were all 1900 and to the present and only one showed me anything of value. I was very disappointed and mostly frustrated. I was hoping it would give me some information about Archibald's early years.
DO NOT DO WHAT I DID! CHECK THE PRINTOUTS before you leave. I am told that there was a fire in Hull in 1900 and that destroyed things? I do not know how this affected the records for Pontiac County? The online source for the land records may not go back far enough. I don't know? I am still trying to figure out Quebec land records. More on this topic in a later post.
I did learn and confirm that the land records printouts are at this location or all are online at the link given below. I can access them even though I am a USA citizen. She told me that they charge like a $1.00 so you do have to use a credit card to sign up to use the online system, but it is only for verification. That was encouraging. I knew about this website but hesitated to sign up. I think I will take the plunge when I get home and see what I find.
I have tried to type this exactly as it was written on the summary sheet she gave to me.
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The clerk also gave me this url to go to.
The area along Rue Front in Campbell's Bay has a parking lot right on the Ottawa River. Actually I think that was what was distracting me and I was becoming very tired. I love rivers and the Ottawa is as fascinating as others I have seen and especially because it was a big part of my great parents Archie and Mary McDonell's lives and my grandfather Ronald's, he grew up along its shores.
I pulled my car into this parking area on Rue Front and dallied enjoying the view.
There was a church across the street on Rue Front:


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When Jean Stone first stepped up to the church piano as a 6-year-old girl, President Franklin D. Roosevelt was in his second term, the Golden Gate Bridge had just opened, and gas was 10 cents a gallon.
When Jean Stone first stepped up to the church piano as a 6-year-old girl, President Franklin D. Roosevelt was in his second term, the Golden Gate Bridge had just opened, and gas was 10 cents a gallon.
On Sunday, Jean will close the keyboard for the last time as a pianist and organist after over 75 years of service to churches across Tennessee.
Jean started her career as a church accompanist at Liberty Methodist Church in Gallatin, Tenn. She was 6 and so small that her feet came nowhere close to reaching the piano pedals. But she could pound out a good version of "Jesus Loves Me" — as long as it was in the easy key of C.
"It was the only song I knew for several months," said Jean, laughing. "My aunt had me play it every week until I learned something new, and the congregation convinced me they thought it was just wonderful."
At age 14, Jean moved up to tackle the old Kilgen Pipe Organ at the First Methodist Church in Gallatin. The ancient organ was built in the mid-1800s and was difficult even for an adult to play. When Jean used the couplers, the notes became very hard to compress requiring tremendous arm and finger strength — especially from such a young girl. She played that organ as needed all though her high school years and college.
When she wasn't in school, playing for church, or accompanying soloists, Jean was studying piano and theory twice a week at the Ward Belmont Conservatory of Music in Nashville (now Belmont College). She continued to study there until she went to college, majoring in music, at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, Ky.
After graduation and marriage, Jean moved to Oak Ridge in 1956. Her first job was as choir director and organist at Trinity Methodist Church. During her tenure, her church musicianship grew and so did her family. Jean learned if she played louder or faster, all four of her children would snap their heads up to look at her as she sat at the organ.
"Sometimes my children fidgeted in church and I needed to get their attention so I could give them 'the Look,'" Jean explained.
Jean worked full time as a music teacher in Anderson County schools until her retirement, and was a partner in the Back Door Pizza in Oak Ridge and in the jazz band of the same name. She has honed her crowd-pleasing talent over the years, and enjoys adding a little swing to old classic hymns. Jean played at Trinity Methodist during the 1950s, the 1960s and the 1990s. She also served First Christian Church Oak Ridge as organist for 11 years and First Baptist Church of Lake City for six years.
This weekend she will finish her career as a church musician at First Cumberland Presbyterian Church of Oak Ridge where she has been employed for nine years.
"I am so grateful that church music has filled a large part of my life," Jean said. "Closing the keyboard will be difficult although I truly believe it is time." Asked what she intends to play at this last service before retirement, Jean said, "I just might play "Jesus Loves Me" one more time for old time's sake.
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The Second House
by Dana Gerhardt
Like a mischievous boy releasing a mouse in a roomful of cheerleaders, try dropping the subject of money into a gathering of metaphysical people. Watch how many scramble for the tabletops. When you're discussing the 2nd house, you have to talk money. Yet in most spiritual circles, money is a dirty word. Craving dollars is an affront to spirit and decidedly uncool (except of course, for those spiritual teachers whose hands are always open for donations). Nor is astrology exempt. More than once I've heard that charging for readings is blasphemous, since astrology is a "gift" (this might explain the profession's drive to prove that it's a "science"). New Agers, on the other hand, like money. They'll recite affirmations and magic mantras to get more of it. If you don't have enough, they argue, it's a sign that your thoughts are uncool.
Whether money is dirty or evil--or spirit-inspired--or as is more
likely the case, energetic but neutral, "How do I get more
of it?" is one of the top three questions on most clients' minds.
Frequently it's followed by the lament, "If only I didn't
have to make money!" What a tragedy the world expects us to
be house painters, insurance salesmen and loan officers, when our
souls cry for grander personas, to be artists, philosophers, adventurers.
Having to make money seems a wretched detour. I've heard it
said that God needs more dishwashers than kings, but why then, wouldn't
God plant in us a burning desire to wash dishes instead? This dilemma
is especially acute for the Pluto in Leo generation, whose dream
of creative self-expression is so keen—despite being raised
by Pluto in Cancer parents, for whom money, the security of it, the
status of it, was the greater prize.
Aside from love relationships, little provokes so much longing, anxiety, resentment, or confusion. Astrology locates one's financial status, along with the attitudes and conditions that help or hinder it, in the 2nd house. If you want to unravel your own money mysteries, it's through this house you must travel. What you encounter there, however, will hold the key to far more than just your bank account.
In Sacred Contracts, medical intuitive Caroline Myss identifies the energetic ground of the 2nd house. (1) Though Myss is not an astrologer, she has a keen grasp of archetypal energies. To diagnose the condition of your 2nd house, she suggests looking at an area of life where you feel continually disempowered. Though this conflict may surface in areas associated with other houses--your relationships (7th) or your career (10th)—your disempowered approach, she suggests, will likely source from the negative attitudes in your 2nd house. In other words, the key to your power in the world—or the lack of it—lies here.
The 2nd is a "succedent" house. This means it succeeds
or follows an important house on the angle. The angular houses (1,4,7
and 10) are, as John Frawley writes, the "structural key to
the chart, like the main beams in a roof." (2) Planets in angular
houses are stronger, have more power to act. They define the pillars
of your life: your personality, your home and family, your relationships,
your career. A planet transiting through an angular house will often
bring more dramatic changes than the same planet transiting another
house. Angular transits can initiate a theme that survives long after
the transit has passed.
This doesn't mean succedent houses are less important. Rather, their significance is bound up with the house that came before. Succedent houses play a necessarily supportive role. They're meant to stabilize whatever the angular house has launched. The succedent 5th, for example, rules children, romance and creativity-—but together they have a job to do. As activities, they further encourage the self-essence nurtured by home and family in the angular 4th. Likewise, the deepening intimacies, financial and sexual, of the succedent 8th test and/or strengthen the partnerships forged in the 7th. Similarly, social networks in the 11th can affirm or undermine the professional status developed in the angular 10th.
The role of the 2nd house, therefore, is to support whatever entity was birthed in the 1st. A vigorous 2nd house not only ensures your survival, it can make you a force to contend with. If you were a nation, for example, your 2nd house would describe your national assets, your banking system, the health of your exports and crops. If you were a country declaring war, in the war chart's 2nd house you'd find your allies, your ammo and your guns. Similarly, if you were a plaintiff in a lawsuit, the lawsuit chart's 2nd house would show the people testifying on your behalf. A strong 2nd house can make the difference between winning and losing.
The 1st house shows your emergence into life and the 2nd shows what keeps you here. It holds everything you can call "mine." Through the 2nd you extend into the world and ground your being. As a baby, this begins with acknowledging your very own fingers and toes, the food you possess with your mouth, the teddy bear that no one can sleep with but you. As you grow, you must continue the process of grounding, which keeps deepening your 1st house process of self-discovery. You keep learning about who you are through the things you want to own, the resources you have to use, the value you place on yourself.
The 2nd rules both what money can buy (possessions and material resources) and what it can't buy (talents, self-esteem, and values). If you're unhappy in your career, the work you're doing may not utilize your natural talents--described by the collection of sign and planets in and ruling your 2nd house. Moon in or ruling the 2nd, for example, suggests strong intuitive resources, emotional sensitivity, a desire to nurture. Unless this Moon is in Capricorn, Virgo, or Taurus, a career as an accountant might be torture. Maybe you like what you're doing but it doesn't pay enough. Why does your co-worker march into the boss' office and demand a raise when you couldn't do it if your life depended on it? He's got an assertive Mercury/Mars conjunction in the 2nd while you have a self-defeating Sun squared by Pluto.
Your 2nd house ground must be worked. You have to transform what you find there. As an infant, this house was a veritable Garden of Eden. Everything you needed—toes, food, and teddy bears--was magically supplied. Yet as you grew, you learned that gardens must be maintained. Vines need pruning, fruit trees must be planted, flowers have to be fertilized. Earth is a paradise, but it's also full of reality. Pests can destroy your garden, predators can steal your crops. If you don't learn how to increase your garden's yield, your needs won't be met, your desires can't be satisfied. If you wait for manna to drop from the heavens, you'll starve.
In other words, you have to get real in this house. You must learn how to use, protect, and manage its resources, or you'll suffer a fall from grace. Anyone who has a problem with money is just plain naive about that.
John is forty-nine years old. He has no savings to speak of and plenty of debt. For much of his adult life John has struggled to hold various minimum wage jobs. For the past ten years he's lived off his girlfriend's income. Benefic Jupiter in diligent Virgo rules his 2nd house cusp. John is a gifted artist and craftsman. His mosaic jewelry designs are truly inspired. "They're like paintings in stone," a friend once enthused. Yet John produces his jewelry infrequently. Even during his prolific times, he's been unable to support himself. Talking with John, I learned that his father, a carpenter and set designer for the Hollywood studios, had repeatedly warned his son not to work with his hands. Resenting his blue collar life, his father concluded that if you work with your hands, you won't make any money. The artist in John's 2nd house lay pinned and wriggling under this heavy pronouncement.
John's 2nd house ruler Jupiter is itself ruled by the planet of hands and craftsmanship, Mercury. Both these planets are in a tight hard aspect to Pluto. One is generally powerless to use planets in difficult aspect to Pluto until something is transformed. Mostly John has felt paralyzed--unable to do his art, unable to do anything else. Given John's hands are his best resource, by devaluing them, his father had essentially told him he was worthless. And for much of his adult life, financially and otherwise, John has unconsciously been proving this was true.
Patti has a 2nd house Jupiter in Cancer, conjunct the Moon and Uranus. When she first came to see me, she had money troubles too. Patti is a talented, well-educated woman, but her recent work history included a string of relatively low paying jobs, none of which she particularly enjoyed. In fact she'd just left such a job and wanted to know where to turn next. She hated being economically dependent on her husband.
It took a few sessions to unravel the financial secrets of Patti's 2nd house, but slowly the picture came clear. As a child, Patti observed her father's relentless criticisms of her mother whenever she spent any money. Patti decided to hold onto (Cancer) whatever money she got. By saving her allowance, she could win her father's approval. Working for her own money would later become important too, because that meant independence and freedom as a woman (Moon/Jupiter/Uranus). At the least, it meant freedom from a husband's criticisms!
Patti's 2nd house conjunction is a gifted combination; she has an abundance of talents to explore. As a teenager she Patti interested in music, but her father's ringing disapproval hit hard. "You can't make any money at that," he scowled. So Patti followed her father's footsteps and got a degree in his field. But curiously, she couldn't make money at that either. Patti eventually unraveled the mystery at the bottom of her 2nd house: Her father's devaluing of her creative gifts translated to the subliminal equation "You only make money when you do things you don't love." She complied with a history of jobs that she hated. Her resentment against this bargain kept her salaries low.
One of the biggest problems with 2nd house attitudes and values is that, initially at least, they're received. I remember sitting in a therapist's office years ago, complaining I was a failure because I didn't drive a Mercedes. "But Dana," my therapist replied, "you've never struck me as someone who cares about such empty status symbols!" It was a liberating moment. My father wanted to see me in a Mercedes; that would have signaled his daughter had finally arrived. The irony is that years later I actually did buy a luxury car (though not a Mercedes). Venus rules my 2nd house cusp; I like luxury items! By the time I bought the car, I had raised my income considerably. I had finally grown into my own money values.
Writing about the 2nd house, Dane Rudhyar makes an important point: We must transform this territory to suit our individual purpose and destiny. (3) If we don't, we're merely servants of the past, agents of ghosts, our lives being lived by our ancestors. Possessions must be used, says Rudhyar. This means impressing them with the rhythm of our individuality--—whether that's material possessions, our natural gifts, or the money we spend. We need to lead in the 2nd house and give its holdings a personal significance (which is how the 2nd truly supports the 1st). Rudhyar advises we dedicate what we have to who we are, for it's being that gives meaning to having. "Nothing is more futile and spiritually empty than having without being, and this is true of all kinds of possessing." (4)
John is lucky to live with a woman who believes in his talent. But years of her loving support did nothing for John's development as an artist. It was only when Lysa got fed up and demanded he start earning his share, that John took the emotional risks of supporting himself. Lysa has a good business sense and supplies a lot of the drive for his now budding career. But the excruciating steps of putting his work out there, whether sitting in a booth at a craft fair or even just hearing how customers received his commissioned pieces, are all John's. He is maturing, though shedding the old skin and growing the new one is painful. It takes courage. John couldn't have done it without the prickly need to make money.
That's why I'm suspicious when I hear people complain how the pressure to make money ruins the spiritual life or interferes with one's personal quest. Spirit and matter are inextricably bound. We find ourselves in physical bodies, on earth, needing to make relationship with other material things for good reason. Matter gives form to spirit. What better way to grow and develop soul than against the hard edge of materialism. If we could simply fantasize or "intend" our way to growth, would we ever descend from the ethers?
Modern astrology grants Venus rulership of the 2nd house. Traditional astrology makes Jupiter and Taurus its co-significators. All three may be important in getting the full 2nd house picture. Venus certainly describes one's tastes, the style one prefers to be kept in. To assess someone's self-esteem, aspects to Venus may tell an important story. But it's also helpful to look where the grounding, stabilizing force of Taurus is applied. Further, the North Node currently in Taurus (through December 2004) adds emphasis on 2nd house issues. Collectively, some will react with a greater desire to spend money on security (funding the war against terrorism, for example). Others will feel this as a need to clean up the nation's finances (addressing the deficit and unemployment). Individually, many will be focused on getting their financial act together.
Jupiter is the planet of wealth. You can't accurately assess
someone's wealth potential without determining this planet's
strength. That said, I've long puzzled over the following observation:
People I've known with the greatest money difficulties often
have Jupiter in or ruling the 2nd--while the more successful ones
often have a 2nd house Saturn. This runs counter to conventional
wisdom, which says Jupiter brings good fortune and Saturn brings
bad luck.
Maybe this is because we no longer live in the traditional world—where the family fortune spelled one's own financial fate, where jumping class lines was difficult, where Saturn described the limits of a life, rather than the efforts to overcome them. Jupiter brings an expectation of privilege--although most I've known with Jupiter in or ruling the 2nd come from middle class lives. Even so, their sense of entitlement is strong. No matter the actual balance in their bank account, about their future, they tend to feel secure. "Something will come," they say. And something usually does. John, for example, always had a roof over his head and a good meal, also money for shoes, his masseuse and his dental bill, despite going years without any income.
Jupiter rules my sister's 2nd. Saturn sits in mine. When we both were pregnant, I worried about how I'd manage the coming obligations, the costs of day care, my baby's health insurance, clothes, diapers, food. My sister was relaxed and happy. She was living on disability and the state paid for it all. I made six times my sister's income—but who had the greater fortune may be a toss-up! The difference between Jupiter and Saturn reminds me of the fabled grasshopper and ant. The ant works all summer while the grasshopper plays like there's no tomorrow, until winter comes and there's no food. I've been a 2nd house Saturn ant. I save and work hard. But I know a lot of Jupiter grasshoppers who play all summer and still don't starve when the winter bill comes due. There seems to be room for both in this world. So I'll leave it to you to decide--which planet is a blessing in the 2nd and which is the curse.
You can hear me speaking my 2nd house Saturn throughout this article. But I got a taste of the grasshopper's carefree spirit the last time Jupiter transited through my 2nd house. A new spirit of confidence entered my life, bringing an orgy of self-esteem that started the day Jupiter crossed the 2nd house cusp. It was as though some fine trade wind had just blown in and puffed up my sails. I started to value myself. A lot. And to the raised brow of my cautious Saturn, always in guilt and fear about buying things, I started to spend money without apology. Almost every weekend became a shopping trip.
Once Jupiter entered my 3rd house, I lost some of the excesses of that time (who could go shopping, I was too busy with paperwork!). Yet my newfound self-esteem remained. In fact my income rose dramatically not with Jupiter in my 2nd, but after it entered my 3rd. Clearly this was due to the positive seeds planted by the previous transit. I began a new twelve-year money cycle that was very different from the one that came before
Of course money isn't everything. It isn't even what I enjoy
most about my 2nd house. All of its struggles and successes
run much
deeper than dollars. Yet for a quick diagnosis of your 2nd
house health,
money is a good place to start. Look at your assets and bank
account. What do they say about your relationship to earth?
Next look at
your possessions. Do they reflect your individuality? Do you
own them,
or do they own you? How about your 2nd house talents? Are they
being used? And most importantly, do you keep transforming
this ground,
ensuring that your 2nd house holds attitudes of power rather
than defeat?
I used to work with a man who had a stellium of planets in the 2nd, including a Venus in Virgo. Money was not the driving force of Ed's life, but he liked what it could buy. In fact, one of my favorite lunchroom pastimes was listening to Ed romance his latest purchase. Whether food or furniture or the hardwood floors in the new house he just bought, he had a way of describing material possessions with such love and appreciation, you'd swear each was the finest, most delicious thing in the world. Occasionally I'd see or taste the thing he talked about and it actually seemed small and lackluster to me. But what a gift to have first seen it through Ed's more developed 2nd house eyes. The 2nd house after all sets the stage for our physical pleasures and comforts. It reminds us to take joy in earthy things!
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I must have read my invitation wrong, but I thought last Thursday's gathering in western Mills County was supposed to be a groundbreaking celebration for the new U.S. Highway 34 - Missouri River bridge project.
I didn't know it was going to turn into a summit to discuss Nebraska's move to the Big 10 Conference and the future rivalry between the Husker and Hawkeye football teams.
Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman, Iowa Lt. Gov. Patty Judge and U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin all chimed in on the Big 10 issue during their opening remarks. Heineman said he and fellow Nebraskans are looking forward to having the Huskers join the Big 10 and playing Iowa every year.
Judge responded by welcoming Nebraska to the Big 10 on behalf of Hawkeye fans and actually predicted the Hawks and Huskers will meet at the end of this season in the BCS National Championship game. Her prediction drew a loud round of applause from folks from both sides of the Missouri River.
Harkin also acknowledged Nebraska's move to the Big 10, but said as an old Iowa State guy, he's going to miss the Nebraska - Iowa State rivalry and those unexpected Cyclone victories over the Huskers every now and then.
"About once every 15 years, we tip over their apple cart," Harkin said. "I'm going to miss that."
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As the politicians took their turns talking at last week's ceremony, they all made a point to recognize the efforts of Glenwood banker Larry Winum, the driving force behind this project for nearly 20 years.
The accolades Larry received were all well deserved. I found it appropriate that Larry was seated next to retired Nebraska state senator Paul Hartnett of Bellevue at Thursday's ceremony. Sen. Hartnett and Larry have been on this project from the get-go. Over the years, the new bridge had become a political football and I'm certain the bickering and lack of progress was a source of frustration for both of these guys.
The good news is that once the Highway 34 bridge gets built, all future disagreements between Iowa and Nebraska will get settled on the football field.
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Cross Product of Pi
I've been on a Raspberry Pi kick the last few weeks. Of course, there's nothing you do on a Pi that you can't do on any Linux system. Part of its power is that it is just a cheap Linux box. That means all the Portaudio DTMF code I've been working on would work just as well on a desktop box or a Beagle Board or any of a dozen other Linux-based computers.
I've made the point before that you can often use the Linux tools to do things without so much coding, and the tone decoding is a good case in point. I can use two pieces of software right out of the Raspberry Pi repositories to get the same function. The trick is using multimon, a piece of software aimed at ham radio operators. It can do many things, including decode DTMF tones. You can install it with apt-get right on the Pi.
There are probably a dozen ways to make multimon work with the Pi, but here's what I did:
mkfifo fifo.wav # create a named pipe to hold audio data arecord –r 22050 –D hw:AK5370 –f S16_LE –t wav >fifo.wav & multimon –a DTMF –t wav fifo.wav
arecord options, of course, depend on the hardware you have plugged into your Pi. You can use
arecord –L to find out what devices are connected.
Turns out multimon sometimes gives you multiple outputs from a single tone, so it isn't quite as robust as my code. However, you could probably work around it and since you have the source, you could fix it and contribute the fix back to the open source community.
Which leads to my real topic this week: How to build software for the Pi. There is something attractive about being able to log into the Pi and just build software on the box. This isn't bad at all for me because I'm decidedly low tech with my tools — just emacs and the compiler. You can use the
–X option for ssh to let windows show up on your X desktop. I often use sshfs to mount the Pi's filesystem too so I can use desktop tools to edit files.
However, the novelty of this wears off pretty quickly. The Pi is a lot slower than my desktop. If you like to use a big IDE, it probably is even worse. Of course, you can use the sshfs trick to do your editing, but you still have to compile on the little board. That is, unless you build a toolchain on your desktop that can cross compile for the Pi.
I've built a lot of cross compile chains and it is always a headache. I decided this time to try Crosstool-ng. It purports to be a tool for building toolchains with an interface reminiscent of configuring the Linux kernel.
You can follow the instructions for building crosstool on their web site. To build a Raspberry Pi chain, you want to select the ARM platform (32-bit and little endian) when you run ct-ng menuconfig from a working directory. You also want to select a Linux OS. My Pi uses the 3.2.27 kernel, which wasn't a choice, so I just selected the closest 3.2 kernel — it shouldn't make much difference. You might also want to change the compiler (I used the experimental Linaro compiler) and move the install location (but note that you need write permission for that directory; ct-ng won't prompt you for your root password).
Once you have your configuration saved, you can run ct-ng build and the tool will download all the files necessary and build everything. I have a pretty fast connection and it took about 10 minutes to download everything, so this is a good thing to do right before lunch. The total build on my machine took about a half hour.
I wound up with a directory called /opt/crosstools/x-tools/arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi that had all the compiler and binary tools required to build a program (because I had set the prefix to /opt/crosstools/x-tools). It was easy to add that directory to my path and compile a Raspberry Pi program:
Don't forget the tools get named with the cross target. If you run gcc you will still get your native system gcc. You want to use arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi-gcc (or whatever tool you are trying to run). A typical session might look like this:
arm-unknown-linux-gnueabi-gcc –g –o hellopi hellopi.c scp hellopi [email protected]: # copy to remote target ssh [email protected] ./hellopi
The crosstool-ng really works and not just for the Raspberry Pi. It does take a few minutes to run, but it saves a lot of time and annoyance compared to trying to build everything and configure it yourself.