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Minerva Week 3: Gimme Shelter
What does it mean to settle in? What does it mean to feel at home? This week was about finding my places. This week, I realized how fun it was to stay at the… YMCA!
The Chinatown YMCA is right across from the First Chinese Baptist Church, a striking building that has been standing since 1888. I remember taking a picture of it on my first trip to San Francisco. Now, every time I come out of a class (spin! cardio yoga! pilates! Aquafit!) or from swimming laps in the salt-water pool, it greets me.
I fell into a rhythm of gym-class-study-eat, punctuated by a talk from one of our Deans. Dr. Dan Levitin has just finished writing a book about information overload called "The Organized Mind." He offered to share some wisdom about being a highly effective person while still being highly human.
I learned re-acquainted myself with the properties of complex systems and learned about scientific models and theories.
Then, on Friday, Minerva held an academic picnic in manicured Yerba Buena Gardens (Yerba Buena was the name of the settlement that became SF). We had the floor to share thoughts about the courses so far. Many of us felt that the flipped classroom model was being implemented without proper feedback. We wanted to know when we were correct or not correct. Some of us (myself included) were frustrated with the student-run sessions that take up 2h20min of highly precious time on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. We knew vaguely that we were supposed to teach each other, but without much more guidance, in many of the sessions we felt like independent reflection time could help us learn better. Faced with an onslaught of grievances (which is generally what comes out when you ask for feedback, it's strange that we are so quick to jump to problems), the Academic team held firm. "We hear you, but we won't make changes without a lot more data. We put a lot of time and thought into this framework, and while we can do a few of the things you asked, we aren't going to remove the sessions. You have to remember that you are building out a system that will be used for hundreds of people next year." I respected the integrity Rena and Kara showed, but still left feeling a little frustrated about the format of the session (trying to talk over each other in a noisy park wasn't the best way to go about getting all of our concerns recorded and shared). I am sure it will improve next time.
We had a session about extra-curriculars and fear elimination (doing things you are afraid of), that ended up evolving into a deep discussion about what internal barriers we feel are holding us back. Shane and I talked about the tension between being a "successful" person without a lot of depth or being a person who works and lives deeply. I can feel the San Francisco tech culture whispering to me, "Speed up, want more, do, do, do." I am in a land of possibility, I know. I'm also aware that sometimes the most important battles aren't the sexy ones that offer short-term payoffs.
Then, I went to an aerial dance performance about the plight of homeless older women.
Dancers were suspended from an 80-foot wall. Some of the performance involved weaving sounds with words taken from interviews. I heard, "I was born and raised in San Francisco. I am sixty-four years old." "It's hard to leave your stuff." "It's dangerous sleeping outside at night in this city." "My boss knows. Everyone knows, they can see it. They're not stupid. But you have to put aside a lot of pride to say "I'm homeless."
All the while, I was thinking, "I travelled to the other side of the continent and I found that I needed to make a home. Someone who was born here, has lived a hard, good life and paid her dues simply couldn't do that." I watched the dancers chasing after broken umbrellas – shelter that wasn't really shelter. I wondered about how I am connected to and supporting the systems that force people onto the streets, fighting gravity (as the performance in thin air emphasized).
After the performance, the friendliest of us started talking to three interesting-looking people in the audience, one of whom was carrying a wire-art tree. One was a linguist working to create automated call-center software, another was a writer, and the third was a carpenter. They were shockingly friendly, and pumped us full of knowledge about the local poetry scene, a naked street festival taking place this weekend, and great restaurants. My favourite of their offerings, though, was when Ben (the linguist) told us some San Francisco folk history. One was about Joshua Abraham Norton, a rich heir who fell from grace when his investments in Peruvian rice went south. "You might expect a man to go crazy after that," Ben said, "but Norton went a special kind of crazy. He proclaimed himself Emperor of the United States and Protector of Mexico. He had a uniform made for himself and submitted a proclamation of his title to the SF Chronicle." That in itself is not extraordinary. People went mad before Norton, and have gone mad since. But, incredibly, many San Franciscans embraced his new identity as a benign form of eccentricity. Some helped him print his own money. Many greeted him by his new name. Once, when a racist and angry mob was about to attack China town, Norton went in front of all of them and said the Lord's Prayer. They were ashamed and left.
There was something crucial in that story, something about embracing the eccentric rather than ignoring or even tolerating them. I thought again about the broken umbrellas, and the many homeless people I had avoided on my way to and from the dance. I am so glad we'll be studying homelessness in San Francisco as part of our Complex Systems class. I have been triggered by these experiences and I want to stitch them together into something meaningful.
Be safe and be well!
Gabriel permalinkSeptember 22, 2014 12:56 pm
Very nice website.
Thanks for the diagram on Daniel levitin's talk. is the talk available on the web to view or listen to?


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Commuters on the 6:54 p.m. train from Kiama to Sydney got a shock when a children's python appeared in one of the carriages.
Staff were alerted to its presence, but it wasn't until the train reached Sydney's Central Station, (about an hour and half away) that the unexpected customer was taken care off.

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Finley: NYTHA election appeals process flawed
In a letter sent to the New York Thoroughbred Horsemen's Association through his attorney, Terry Finley is objecting to the process being used to hear his appeal of his narrow loss to Rick Violette earlier this month in the election for president of the horsemen's group.
Finley, founder and president of the West Point Thoroughbreds ownership group, lost by 625-611 to Violette, a trainer who was elected to a third term as NYTHA president. Finley has taken issue with the distribution of ballots to eligible members, claiming not all eligible members received ballots or were sent them in a timely manner.
On Dec. 17, nine days after Finley filed his appeal, NYTHA's board laid out a four-step process by which Finley's appeal would be heard. By Jan. 5, Finley is required to submit a comprehensive and detailed written statement specifically describing his objections to the election, with all supporting evidence, such as documents and affidavits.
Finley, who is seeking a new election be held, objects to the fact the NYTHA board is running the process, calling it a conflict of interest. Secondly, Finley objects to attorney Bryan Cave representing NYTHA in the appeal, claiming Cave was "intimately involved in the election process" that is being protested.
Third, Finley is protesting limitations placed on him that allow him to only submit a written objection, but does not allow him to review membership rosters, call witnesses or attend the appeal hearing. Finley, or other parties, would only be allowed to testify if the board members hearing the appeal deem it necessary.
Finally, Finley objects to the closed-door nature of the process. NYTHA, in its release outlining the appeal process, said that none of the board's "discussions, communications or deliberations are to be disclosed to Finley, to any of the interested parties, or to the public in general."
In a letter sent to the firm representing NYTHA, Finley's co-counsel Chris Green wrote, "There is absolutely no reason why the protest process should take place in secret, and there are many good reasons why it should be open to NYTHA members."


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...When our friend Leilani posted the sentence "Too Many Dicks on the Dancefloor" as her Facebook Status, I assumed maybe she spent too much time this weekend at a Gay Club. It couldn't even come to mind that what she was referring to, was the Michel Gondry-Directed episode of Flight of the Conchords. When I finally had a chance to Catch in on the TV... I literally fell off the couch. Sad thing is, this actually hit too close to home (no joke). Ladies...I know some of you must read this blog. Do us fellas a favor and balance out the Dance Floor, Please!!! I know it's cold out there and stuff but seriously, no one wants to experience the following: o_O
ps: if you are one of the lucky ones in Boston to actually own an HD Digital Radio don't forget to catch Leilani's Show on 92.9HD2 RadioYou from 6-8pm Saturday Night!!!


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Here are samples from the Soligor 20mm f2.8 made by Mitake Optical that is also available under brands such as Spriratone, Promura, Mitakon and CFI Schirmer. Known for its crazy and bubbly bokeh.
Soligor C/D 20mm f2.8
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XR Rikenon 28mm f3.5 Aspherical
October 1, 2015
Recently acquired this lens from a 2nd hand local lens importer from Japan. I believe it was sold only in Japan but a local photographer whom I acquired the XR Rikenon 45mm f2.8 told me he saw one in one of the local camera stores in Makati back in the late 90″s. The two lenses were both released at the same time and only had a year of production run (1996-97) which make them both quite rare. The lens weights just 55 grams and is made out of good plastic and has metal mount and accepts 52mm filters.
Here are sample shots taken w/ a Pentax K-5ii:
Wide-open SOOC.
100% crop of the above:
Like other old lenses, it also suffer purple fringes as shown.
Taken by a GXR w/ A12 M mount + K-mount lens adapter.
Pentax K 28mm f2.0 vs Sigma 30mm f1.4
May 2, 2014
Been wanting to test this favorite two lenses of mine for a while. Here's a quick comparison of the two on their close focus capability. I only tested it on f2 and f5.6. As can be seen below, on f2 aperture, the Sigma wins since the Pentax Hollywood is used fully wide open. But on f5.6, Pentax wins big upon 100% view.
On a 100% view, its more obvious to see the character of each lens.
Added a photo taken from Sigma at 1/60 as the 1/40 is a bit of back focus.
Pentax HD DA21mm f3.2
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It's that time of the year again! Spring training is now in full swing!
The rush of visitors from up north, the smell of fresh hot dogs AND Baseball minus the cold weather! It doesn't get better than that!
At Jet Blue park approximately 11,000 people pack the stands to watch the The Red Sox play every February and March. This stadium is a replica of Fenway Park and even has the famous "Green Monster"! So come out to watch a baseball game in this beautiful weather if you haven't done so already! For schedule and ticket sales click here.
Another famous MLB Team also comes down to sunny SWFL for spring training, The Minnesota Twins play at the Hammond Stadium in Fort Myers also for the months of February and March. These teams draw hardcore fans willing to take a "mini" vacation to see their favorite team as well as first time baseball game attendees. Their games guarantee an exciting afternoon! To view game schedule and tickets click here.
The Red Sox and The Minnesota Twins play against many other MLB teams like the Pirates, Marlins, Phillies and many more so you can catch all your favorite players in action!
If you're coming down to SWFL for Spring Training and you want to explore the beauty of SWFL, definitely check out our beaches!


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Variables and Data Types in C
sum = a + b
where we know the value of a and b. We have to find the value of sum. How can we do it by C Programming?
According to Algebra, we know
a &
b are called
variable and '
+' is an
operator which operate the sum of variable
a and
b. In c programming those are the same as Algebra.
Variable is the name of data where we can store the value and this value is changeable. In C Programming, every variable has an unique memory address of system and this memory address is the location of variable we declare in program. When we declare a variable in our program to run or compile computer keeps a memory address for this variable.
Variable Declaration in C
There has a little difference of variable declaration between algebra and C Program.
In Algebraic variable declaration it is not required to declare of its data type. Such as, is it integer variable or float variable? But in C Program, it is required to declare data type alongside variable before using any variable in program. So the variable declaration in C will be:
data_type variable_name;Example:
int sum;Similarly integer number, we can declare variable for fractional number, character and words or sentence (String).
For fractional the data type are
float &
Question: What is the difference between float and double in C? Ans:For character and string is char.
Question: What is the difference between character and string in C?
Ans: String is the sequence of character. So more than one character makes string.
Question: Can I declare same data type variable alongside another variable declaration?
Ans: Yes. You can declare more variable same data type in line and you have to separate by comma (,) between those variables. Example:
int sum, int a, int b;or
int sum, a, b;Don't forget to put semicolon after finishing statement.
But the another good news is that you are allowed to declare different data type variable declaration in line. Example:
int sum, float amount;
Initialization: Assigning or Putting Value to Variable
We have learned how to declare variable but we don't know how to put or assign value to variable.
If we want to put 2017 to an integer type variable
year then we can do it as below:
int year = 2017; /*If we don't declare data type before */
year = 2017; /*If we declare data type before as int year; */
Most of lesson to write a program to calculate the sum of two variable whose value is given.
So we can write a program like this:
#include <stdio.h>
int main()
int a, b, sum;
a = 30, b = 20;
sum = a + b;
printf("Result = %dn",sum);
return 0;/*END OF PROGRAM*/
Run the program and your output will be –
Result = 50
1. In variable declaration we have declared three variables in line.
2. In variable initialization or assignment, suppose we have two given value 30 for a and 20 for b. We have assigned those values to its related variable in line and separated by comma and it is legal and easy. We could also as below:
a = 30;
b = 20;
3. In printing the calculation of sum, we have used
printf() function. Since we want to show the result after printing "
Result =", we put this string withing double quotation in
printf() function. Here,
%d is for printing the integer value. It is called format specifier. Some format specifier:
%f for float, %c for character, %s for string, %lf for double etc.
Another the most important observation about
prinft() function in this program is, we use comma after double quotation and put the variable name of sum. Yes, we have to specify which variable's value we want to print.
If we would want to print the value of variable a then we had to replace
sum with
Question: Can I use anything for variable name declaration, such as
sum1, 2sum, #sum, div&as, 3242 etc?
Ans: No.
Though, the name of data is called variable, to define or name of variable there has some rules. You can't use whatever you want to name of your selected variable.
Rules of Variable Name
- First character must be underscore or an alphabet. Without this you are not allowed to use another.
- You can use only digit, underscore and alphabet in your variable.
- You are not allowed to use keyword as variable name.
- You can't put space in variable name.
Exercise1. Find out the valid variable name from the following.
Value2_, var-name, amount_for, com+pro+math, _value, #NUM, Number of Loan.
2. Assume variable
Var1 and
var2 are declared before. Which initializations are true.
Var1 = 20; var2 = 30;
Var1 = 20, var2 = 30;
Var1 = 20;
var2 = 30;
Var1 = 20,
var2 = 30;
3. Write a program to calculate the division of two variable, where
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Can We Fix American Cities by Tearing Them Down?
Maryland Governor Larry Hogan held a sidewalk press conference last week in Baltimore's Sandtown-Winchester neighborhood. He promised to revitalize the city by spending $75 million to tear down 4,000 vacant houses.
"Fixing what is broken in Baltimore requires that we address the sea of abandoned, dilapidated buildings that are infecting entire neighborhoods," he said.
Then the yellow paw of a Komatsu excavator ripped the face from a nearby row house, and Baltimore joined a growing club of declining U.S. industrial hubs that have decided they have more housing than their populations can support. The logic is that removing blighted sections of the city will help the larger body thrive, eventually clearing the path for redevelopment. The hard part is conceding that some areas are beyond short-term redemption.
"When you demolish with no plans for new residential development, you're admitting that right now there's no demand for this block, this neighborhood, this city," said Erika Poethig, a fellow at the Urban Institute. "It takes a certain amount of political courage to do that."
Efforts to eliminate derelict homes in the U.S. were turbo-charged in 2013 when the U.S. Treasury allowed six states that had received money from a pool known as the Hardest Hit Fund to use some of it for tear-downs, in addition to other foreclosure prevention initiatives for which it was originally earmarked. The reasoning behind the move, which made $370 million available for the demolition of residences, is that vacant homes lower the value of neighboring properties.
Through September 2015, Michigan spent $84 million in Hardest Hit Fund money to tear down 5,850 homes, including more than 3,200 in Detroit. Research published in October by Rock Ventures, the holding company for Quicken Loans founder Dan Gilbert, reported that the program added 4.2 percent in value to all homes within 500 feet of each demolition.
In its 2016 budget appropriation, passed last month, Congress allocated an additional $2 billion to the Hardest Hit Fund. Advocates for blight elimination would like Treasury to expand the number of states that can use the money for demolitions from six to 18, said Dekonti Mends-Cole, policy director at the Center for Community Progress, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit dedicated to the issue.
Maryland is not among the states that qualify for those funds, making the efforts announced last week among the most ambitious blight-removal plans that are not reliant on federal funds. In addition to the state initiative, Baltimore has demolished 1,280 homes through a city government initiative called Vacants to Value, according to the Baltimore Sun. The city is also chipping in $19 million to aid demolitions in Hogan's plan. In 2014, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, raised $50 million in bonds to tear down as many as 5,000 homes in Cleveland.
There are other reasons to demolish homes beyond raising property values. Crime is one: A working paper published earlier this year by the Harvard Joint Center for Housing Studies found that doing so may reduce burglary, theft, and vandalism. Mental health is another: An article last year in the American Journal of Public Health measured the heart rates of pedestrians as they walked past vacant lots, suggesting that removing neighborhood blight offers a path to reducing stress. Once a building or a block has been torn down, however, further challenges appear.
Demolishing an abandoned building may be less complicated than figuring out what to do with the land it stood on. Detroit has sold land to neighboring home owners for $100 a lot, and it has experimented with a program to use vacant lots to prevent storm water from flooding the sewage system. In Baltimore, Hogan's plan includes $600 million in redevelopment funding that may one day lead to new, affordable apartments and supermarkets. Initially, most lots will probably be converted into parks.
Then there's is the question of which houses are worth saving and which should be torn down, a key concern in places such as Baltimore, which has about 16,000 vacant dwellings. "I argue that there is a lot of demolition that is absolutely necessary, but you have to have larger strategies," said Alan Mallach, a senior fellow at the Center for Community Progress. "I worry that if the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail."
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Just Energy Group, Inc. (JE - Free Report) further expanded operation globally through the launch of Just Energy brand in Ireland.
Just Energy is an electricity and natural gas commodities, energy efficiency solutions, and renewable energy options provider with over 1.5 million customers across North America, U.K. and Germany. The company began expansion in U.K. under the Hudson Energy brand in 2012, followed by the launch of Green Star Energy in 2013 which markets electricity and natural gas to U.K. consumers. It further expanded presence by venturing into Germany during 2016.
With the company's initiative to expand in Ireland, management believes that it is well-positioned to offer comfortable, convenient and flexible product options to customers. Additionally, the company specializes in offering an unlimited tariff plan that allows them to pay one flat amount every month, regardless of electricity and natural gas usage.
Our View
Just Energy has made significant investments during the first quarter of fiscal 2018 to support its strategy of setting the stage for prolonged profitable growth on a global scale. The company's attrition rate improved to 14% during the same quarter. Consumer net additions of 13,000 retail channel expansions(RCEs) improved as compared with 7,000 net additions in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2017. This can be attributable to the largest sales quarter primarily in U.K. business.
The company's recent step toward expansion in Ireland clearly indicates its mission and strategy of delivering quality services to new customers, thereby ensuring profitability.
With steady focus on retaining existing customers and winning new customers in the long run, the company is poised to benefit from expanding operations in new markets. This in turn will lead to sustained growth, and result in significantly higher margin numbers going forward.
Company's Future Plans
Just Energy has further plans of entering the Japanese market in fiscal 2018 for which it is actively pursuing business development steps. This clearly demonstrates that the company is focused on delivering services to more customers and is likely to achieve growth targets going forward.
Price Movement
Just Energy has outperformed the industry in the last one year. The company's shares gained 22.4% compared with the industry's advance of 19.5%.
Such outperformance can be attributed to the company's international geographic expansion strategy and strong results from its U.K. business.
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NewJersey Resources delivered an average surprise of 632.7% in the trailing four quarters. Its 2017 estimates have risen by a cent to $1.74 per share in the last 90 days.
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It's been slightly more stressful than I prefer for the week between Christmas and New Year's, traditionally an oasis of downtime. Our furnace conked out on the 26th, and finally got fixed this morning; in between we stayed warm with borrowed space heaters, but were worn down by uncertainty about when the needed part would come and whether it would work.
Still, even with that hassle, we had a much more enjoyable post-Christmas week than many people across the nation, who were snowed in or stuck in airports for days. We were warm, we had our gifts to enjoy, and we could get out for treats. I knit a balaclava to keep Noel's head toasty when he goes to Sundance in a few weeks. And today, with the heat back on in quantities sufficient to keep a tropical fish healthy, we finally completed Cady Gray's most heartfelt Christmas wish (and the holiday video below).
So here in one tidy package are our wonderful holidays, from what we were thankful for to what we'll be writing thank-you notes for.
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Unique masters program targets English teachers
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"It's tailor-made for English teachers in the B.C. education system," says Yao, an arts and social sciences faculty recruiter who has helped organize an information session for prospective MATE students:
Nov. 5 from 5:30-700 pm in room 3240 at the Surrey campus.
"After consulting with a number of teachers who had struggled to complete our regular MA program, we thought what was needed was a special stream of our program that had teachers' needs and schedules in mind," says English department chair Tom Grieve
"We developed introductory courses to get students up to speed with current approaches to literary study and with new research methods and core graduate courses in Shakespeare and 20th Century literature. The other graduate courses offer the same rewards and challenges as those in our regular program."
MATE is a cohort program limited to only 12-15 students a year, to encourage a sense of community among and between students and faculty. Courses are scheduled in the summer and in the evening, with on-line course components to supplement face-to-face instruction.
During the two-year program, students take professional development seminars and six graduate courses covering a broad spectrum of traditional and new areas of study. A graduating essay completes the degree requirements.
Although a MATE degree can lead to significant salary increases in most professional teaching environments, students typically choose the program because of its intellectual engagement and breadth of scholarship.
Maureen Butler, a local college teacher, says, "After over 20 years of teaching, I have found the opportunity to reinvent myself as an English student to be stimulating, challenging and exciting."


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The Tide of the Mermaid Tears
Ember Taffee lives with her mother and sister in a cottage by the sea. She loves to walk along the ocean, especially in the morning and evening, and search for treasures in the sand. Some of her very favorite treasures are Mermaid Tears, or Sea Glass. Glass that's been in the sea so long, it's smoothed and shaped like a perfect tear. One morning, just as she's about to give up her treasure hunting, she finds five beautiful Mermaid tears, and then she finds a man washed up on the beach. This is no ordinary man, he's extraordinarily handsome, so much so that Ember pretends to herself that he's a present for her from Neptune himself. The man needs help, so Ember helps him to her cottage so that her mother can care for the man. Ridge West has some secrets that he's not willing to share with the helpful Taffee family, simply to protect them from any harm that they might share for helping him. But soon he falls deeply in love with Ember. Little does he know that she's falling for him as well. But they must face his past and his future together before they are to live happily ever after. I enjoyed this story. This one like most of the others, is a fairly quick read. It's clean, I don't think there were any swear words in this one like there have been in others and the hero is an old fashioned kind of guy.


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The pumpkin pie (made from those huge pumpkins we grew in our garden) is cooling and the pecan pie is about ready to come out of the oven. The can of cranberry sauce is ready, thanks to some thoughtful visitors who brought it from the US last year. I brought back some canned sweet potatoes and marshmallows from my trip, so we'll have that traditional dish as well. Mashed potatoes, green bean casserole, corn, and carrot salad are also on the menu. What we won't have is turkey. The electricity has gone off several times a day for the past two weeks, so there is little chance of having power long enough to cook a turkey. Instead, David is grilling chicken and Harold Sichimwa is frying some.
We are expecting at least six Peace Corps volunteers from our area to join us. Some we have met, but some will be new friends. Then we'll have a mixture of Americans, South Africans, and Zambians to round out our guest list.
My own children have friends and extended family to share the holidays with, and we are blessed to be substitute family for other young people who are far from home. We have much to be grateful for as we look forward to Thanksgiving Day. And we will be extremely thankful if the electricity stays on while we do rest of the cooking!
Wednesday, November 25, 2009
Thanksgiving Eve, 2009
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And I hope, if it is still functioning your gobbling Thanksgiving turkey provides a little timely entertainment and reminds you of our love for you,too. Happy Thanksgiving, David and Linda.
- Thursday, November 26, 2009 2:34:00 AM
- Rebekah said...
Happy Thanksgiving!!! My family is coming to abilene since I"m on call or at least some of them are should be interesting!!
- Thursday, November 26, 2009 3:38:00 AM
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Designer Maya Lake incorporated her signature African inspiration into the brand's new collection, this time playing more with digital prints and trendy asymmetrical peplum details.
Boxing Kitten recenlty released the lookbook for their 2013 Spring/Summer collection which features ethnic looks of bustiers with hotpants and longer hemlines.
Take a look at the collection below:
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Water stations in Aylmer modernized
There are four water stations in Aylmer that will be updated between now and March 2018. These renovations are paid for by grants from the Ministry of Affaires municipales, which started in March of 2015. The city asked for a
portion of the $2.67 billion total – to be shared among all Quebec cities.
Work is underway at the large water treatment plant on Lucerne Boulevard near Parc Moussette, serving Hull-Aylmer, a $58 million modernization. The city estimates this major project will see the facility through the next 25 years.
According to city spokesperson, Yves Melanson, "The work scheduled for the Aylmer facilities is maintenance, similar to changing your car's oil. The more often we can perform these updates, the better the plants will run in the future."


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Monday, April 19, 2010
I didn't realise I had new followers
However! While i was visiting ones blogspot, (hello, notRuairi) I stumbled on another, A Chick Named Hermia
And I love love love it and I saw she had this huge list of things she wants to do and I've always meant to do that so, I'm ditching homework to make my list.Of things I want to achieve.
I'm going to use different font to distinguish properly.
1. Learn to cook, and hold a dinner party.
2. Go to a party where they have a photobooth.
3. Go to a burlesque show
4. Put on a burlesque performance.
5. Yell "Penis" in a park.
6. Run a kissing booth.
7. Road trip.
8. Interrailing.
9. Learn to speak French. Thats an important one!
10. Become a cool indie socialite for 5 minutes.
11. Live in a tree(house) for a while. At least a week.
12. Same with a cute trailer.
13. And a houseboat.
14. Have gappy legs.
15. Be a musician, for a little bit.
16. Write and direct either a short film or a full length feature.
17. Go to the cinema alone.
18. Go skinny dipping in somebody elses pool.
19. Flash oncoming cars. With a mask on of course.
20. Be in a flash mob.
21. Protest.
22. Get kissed on Valentines.
23. Go for a day out with a random stranger.
24. Tell every person I know exactly what I feel about them.
25. Throw a rave.In a warehouse.
26. Meet Matthew Gray Gubler, and Adam Brody.
27. Be a MILF.
28. Be a hot weather girl.
29. Be in a tabloid.
30. Write something.
31. Read some intelligent books.
32. Get on a bus and get off at a random stop.
33. Busk, or partake in some sort of street performance.
34. Design clothes. And be mentioned as one to watch at fashion week.
35. Be in the cool crowd.
36. Learn to knit.
37. Write letters to people.
38. Leave a note in a book, in a library, park bench, restaurant, or whatever.And include my email address.
39. Sip coffee and talk about philosophy in Paris.
40. Go in search of a midnight kiss.
41. Learn to dance. Properly, like jazz dancing.
42. Invent an ice lolly, or ice cream.
43. Fly.
44. Go to a drive-in theatre.
45. Find sushi that I like, and eat it often.
46. Be in an episode of a csi/detective drama.
47. Be on a best dressed list.
48. Stay out all night.
49. Leave a disposable camera at a party, and see what pictures I get after.
50. Drink cocktails with Holden Caulfield.
I'll stop at 50 for today!
4 comments:
- notRuairi said...
Ah, I like this list. Particularly the challenge that #50 presents.
I still haven't finished my own. It's hard to come up with 100 things you haven't done that you really want to do.
- April 20, 2010 at 2:46 AM
- Orla said...
I also want to drink cocktails with Holden Caulfield....and now I want to make a list!
- April 20, 2010 at 6:02 AM
- Graham said...
I like 24
- September 5, 2010 at 9:57 AM
- Daigu said...
Take advantage of my welth of experience, won't you.
I went to a party with a photo booth. I looked drunk for five years.
I ran a kissing booth. There were a lot of refund claims.
I lived in a tree, for eight days once (the house was a shanty) and found out, that birds work hard and play hard.
I went to the cinema alone. I mean, there was no one else there. It was in the afternoon.
As for number 32, I overslept once. Does that count?
There are no cool crowds. There all hot and bothered.
I wrote something once. It nearly killed me. I still wear scars.
Staying out all night - when morning comes - is where all religion originates.
Holden Caulfield owes me money, and I slept with his wife; which makes us even, but uncomfortable.
Also: yell "penis" in a park, they come runnin'.
Some of the things I've learned. Unlearn them for me, will ya?
- October 16, 2010 at 4:23 PM


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A Lesser Life:
The Myth of Women`s
Liberation in America
By Sylvia Ann Hewlett
A Lesser Life:
The Myth of Women`s
Liberation in America
By Sylvia Ann Hewlett
William Morrow, 452 pages, $16.95
Sylvia Ann Hewlett had it all: A graduate fellowship at Harvard. A Ph.D. from the London School of Economics. A prestigious job as assistant professor of economics at Barnard College, Columbia University. A supportive husband. A baby. Problems.
``Up until the time I had children, I was profoundly confident in my ability to find fulfillment in both love and work,`` Hewlett writes. Then the inexorable, practical realities of trying to combine mothering with a demanding professional career closed in. She had to go back to her job 10 days after her first child was born, stumbling along with part-time sitters. Breastfeeding did not go well. Later, her stillborn twins were born three months too soon. A premature son had serious allergy problems. And after feeling that she had been forced to shortchange her academic career, she failed to gain tenure at Barnard (``seven years of hard work down the drain``).
Millions of women live out versions of this story. If they concentrate on work during the prime years of career development, time runs out for having babies. If they try to combine motherhood and job, they discover, in weariness and guilt, that they can not do it all.
What makes Hewlett--and this book--different is what the British-born economist did after losing out at Barnard. She took a job with the Economic Policy Council and headed its just-published study on ``Work and Family in the United States.`` (Far better than this book does, the council`s report spells out specific actions government and employers could take to reduce the career- family bind so many young women face.)
The women`s liberation movement picked a wrong strategy when it demanded civil rights and job equality rather than better social support systems for women, Hewlett argues in her book. Feminists made a fundamental error in insisting that women could succeed in jobs competing on equal terms with men
--a mistake that alienated them from mainstream mothers and forced women with strong career interests to give up having children or to endure chronic exhaustion and guilt from trying to combine job and family without adequate help.
``Women are in the unfortunte position of having lost the protections and guarantees of the traditional family without improving their earning power in the marketplace,`` says Hewlett.
Hewlett writes admiringly about the family support systems that have evolved in many European countries, paid for by government or forced on employers by law. ``The Europeans got it right when they decided to push not only for equal rights in the sphere of work but also for social benefits to ease the family reponsibilities of working women,`` she says.
Her recommendations for helping American mothers include what has become a familiar list: An expansion of maternal and paternal leave. Federal maternal and child health programs. A variety of flexible work schedule choices such as flextime, part-time work, shared jobs and telecommuting. More preschool and early childhood education offered through public schools. An expansion of public and private day care. An extended public school day for older children. Pay equity.
Still, given the sweeping title and the author`s professional credentials, the book has serious gaps.
Hewlett fails to deal objectively with the real needs of young children and the growing bulk of research that supports current concepts about child care. She dismisses such information as being ``at cross purposes with the needs of our age`` and as a relic of the aberrant ``cult of motherhood`` of the 1950s that should be relegated to the past along with ``Doris Day and the `50s ideas of femininity.``
What she says, essentially, is that because women now have so little time to give their children, then children must be redefined as not needing much personal maternal attention. To suggest that babies, toddlers and preschoolers may not have changed as much in three decades as mothers have is to push working women into ``a bottomless pit of maternal guilt.``
It`s disappointing that as a scholar and academic, Hewlett doesn`t offer more than self-interested opinions on the real needs of young children. The book is well larded with quotations and case histories from young mothers who have pushed themselves into chronic weariness and career slowdowns by trying to combine fast-lane work with motherhood--like many other recent books. But nothing is heard about youngsters` problems or feelings.
It`s also unfortunate that Hewlett did not write more as an economist as well as a tired mother. It isn`t enough to detail the familiar problems, however compelling the quotations and case histories, or to advocate that government and business must create better support systems for families. Hewlett could have steeled her arguments by dealing, as an economist, with the hard-headed objections to what she proposes.


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Hope everyone had a great weekend, I did!


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A friend of mine was drafting a pattern for a child's apron and we decided that it would look perfect with the name embroidered on it. I had the perfect little girl in mind for an apron, so I purchased the fabric, embroidered her name, and sent everything off to Michelle @ Crafty Asian Girl. Look at how cute this turned out! If you need a child's apron definitely get in touch with her. If you want it embroidered like this one we can work together on your order! We make quite the team!
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
What a great team!
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1 comment:
- ellemenopii said...
That is adorable!
- February 25, 2010 at 9:28 AM
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Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Tuna Cake
13 comments:
- The Creek Cats said...
Nom nom nom! That tuna cake looks delish! Glad you had a great purrthday, Patches!
Best of luck to mom and dad and new baby!!!
- April 15, 2009 at 7:56 AM
- pughy said...
That cake looks so yummy. I bet you ate it all up pretty quick.
Hugs Ginger Jasper xx
- April 15, 2009 at 8:35 AM
That looks like it was yummy! Good luck to your Beans today!
- April 15, 2009 at 10:41 AM
- Tuck said...
That looks fantastic! We look forward to hearing news about the baby!!
- April 15, 2009 at 8:27 PM
- Zoolatry said...
Wishing one and all well... a belated birthday wish... and may all good things come your way over the next few days.
We are emailing a special picture to you...
- April 16, 2009 at 10:28 AM
- ML said...
Yummy, that's mine favorite kinda cake.
A noo baby??? Wow, you is lucky.
Keep us posted.
Love & Purrs,
- April 16, 2009 at 10:42 PM
- Ailurophile said...
This indeed looks very yummy! Many concatulashuns Patches, belatedly, on your purrthday! And to your mom and dad! All the best :)
- April 17, 2009 at 12:43 AM
- Karen Jo said...
Your tuna cake looks really yummy. I wish your Mom and Dad the best of everything with the new baby and I hope he/she arrives soon.
- April 17, 2009 at 2:42 AM
- Jan's Funny Farm said...
Wow, your mom really knows how to bake a tasty birthday cake!
We hope all goes well with the new baby!
- April 17, 2009 at 8:58 AM
- Angel said...
Tuna cake is the best. Hope Mom and baby are doing ok. dad, too!
- April 17, 2009 at 10:41 AM
- The Meowers from Missouri said...
that is THE most fabulous cake!!
best fishes to you an' yer beans on the kiddeh matter--go, MOM!!
- April 17, 2009 at 12:58 PM
- Sweet Praline said...
That looks like a great birthday cake. I hope your day was extra special.
- April 17, 2009 at 9:08 PM
- Everycat said...
Belated Happy Birthday purrs and wishes to you Patches, that cake looks yummy.
We are very happy your Dad had better news about his throat and we are sending huge, rumbly kidden producing purrs to help too.
Make sure your Mom and Dad get plenty of rest too
Whicky Wuudler & Family
- April 19, 2009 at 2:45 AM


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How to Cancel Credit Cards
You have been paying off your credit cards and are slowly getting out of debt, but as long as you allow the credit cards to remain open, you find yourself increasingly tempted to fall back into destructive spending patterns. Read more to learn how to get rid of credit card debt and close old credit card accounts once and for all!
How to Cancel Credit Cards
Step 1Contact your credit card company. Remember to document the conversation by noting the name of the representative you spoke to, the time and date of your call, and the content of the conversation.
Step 2Re-affirm your conversation in writing by sending the credit card company a letter informing them that you wish to close the account. Request a confirmation letter to validate the cancellation.
Step 3Check your credit card statement the following month. You will receive one additional billing statement before a final statement showing that the account is closed. If the credit card company has not closed the account contact the company again to insist the account be closed in its entirety
Step 4Contact the three credit reporting agencies to check that each has been notified of the closed account. Your credit report should reflect that no further action has been applied to the credit card account
Step 5Use a pair of scissors to cut the card into many pieces. Be sure to dispose of it properly.


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Dhanesh Wisumperuma
The Nation, 08-07-2012
The much anticipated global environment summit or the Rio+20 Conference is over. The outcome was discussed and reviewed during the past week. The key outcome of the declaration is a plan to prepare a set of goals, "Sustainable Development Goals", which is to be implemented in future. There is no legally binding target or stern action aimed at conserving the environment and achieving sustainable development.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon has said; "Rio+20 has given us a solid platform to build on. And it has given us the tools to build with – the work starts now". However many civil society organizations have pointed out that the outcome is too weak to solve pressing environmental and development issues. The United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development has not provided the dramatic turn of events the world expected.
In other words, the world leaders have collectively postponed answering crucial environmental issues, at least by another three years. It is too early to guess whether there will be a legally binding treaty by the end of this period. No one can confirm that the tug of war between the developing and developed nations is yet over. It is worthy to note that there were certain "unholy" alliances observed during this summit where some countries that are well known political opponents, joined together to water down some key points of the declaration.
Result not unexpected
The result of Rio+20 was not entirely unexpected. Many leaders, scientists and campaigners had no hopes for crucial development at the summit. Attention on environmental issues has been declining in the global political stage, mainly due to emerging economic crisis and the confrontations between developed and developing nations. No leader was taking environmental issues seriously.
This was the cause for the lack of leadership at Rio+20, which is being blamed as the major cause for the summit's failure. Some leaders of the major economies were absent, while there was an encouraging participation from the developing nations.
Way forward
What is the role of the public at this stage? They can accept all whether those are good or bad, and without taking any effort to make a change. Or they can voice their concerns and act, since they have every right to do so.
For instance, change is taking place, seeded and promoted by the general public. These initiatives include age-old practices widely followed by people in the past but almost forgotten due to the advent of modern technology. Many such grassroots level developments are taken as models for sustainability. Unfortunately, most of these are still not absorbed into the mainstream processes of relevant fields. Sustainable agriculture is a prime example and is now being increasingly accepted at the face of serious environmental concerns.
Changing people's attitudes is crucial. What is necessary is not just to mobilize people or the community, but to mobilize the political leadership. People can take steps to motivate their leaders to create the change people need. Leaders should be encouraged to accept the limits of nature, natural resources and "real" sustainability, as this word is often used to denote destructive development processes.
Hence mobilizing people, who can in the long run lobby their leadership, is crucial. A strong voice from the community backed by sound sustainability is the need of the day, a fact highlighted by some of the environmental and social activists who returned from Rio+20. This requires active participation of various social groups - civil society representatives, journalists and most importantly, people who are conscious of the environment.
Sri Lankan scenario
Recent environmental and development related issues in Sri Lanka have apparently triggered mixed reactions. Certain actions, with regard to natural resources and environment, taken by the present government are controversial. For instance, the massive development drive in the country has a significant impact on the environment and natural resources, raising grave social concerns.
This could make the negative effects more serious than the long-term benefits. The recent cancellation of permits required for sand transportation is a prime example. We are aware of the land degradation resulting from excessive river sand mining in many areas and close monitoring is necessary to reduce this impact. Similar exploitation of other natural resources – both biotic and abiotic – that is connected to rapid economic development is observed.
The most important issue is that the environmental policies change with the government, in many countries of the world. Moreover policies of the same government can change within a short period of time. However, such change is only positive and acceptable if it benefits all or the majority of people as well as sustainability – something most people forget. Lobbying by people and informed groups could change the direction of policies of a government. Hence need for activism remains essential more than ever. Highlighting this collective responsibility, mentioning his little daughters an activist of Greenpeace said "…their future is decided by all of us, who must unite to build a movement of movements to force the future we want".
There is a long way to go. But there may be the 'sustainable' future we want!


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The annual Relay for Life in my community has become a special event for me for many reasons. I wanted to share a few reasons why I continue to Relay.
This year was the third year I had the chance to see my friend Shelby. She is 8 years old. She had a brain tumor 4 years ago. The first year I saw her, she was in a stroller. Last year she was in a wheelchair, but could walk if each of her parents held one of her hands. This year, she was able to make a complete lap on the track walking on her own. She is a beautiful girl with gorgeous brown eyes that sparkle brighter than the stars. Her determination and her parents' dedication to her ongoing therapy give me hope.
This year my friend, Jim, walked the survivor lap with me. Exactly one year ago the same day, he was having 1/3 of his lung removed. He just had his one-year "all clear" report. He stayed the entire 24 hours with the support of his family and friends. This was a celebration of life for Jim and his many supporters.
I watched my friend, Darlene, carefully write out the names of her family and friends in whose memory she would walk. She made a sticker for each one. Her back was covered by the time she was done. I am in awe of her passion and dedication, but she is tired. She is tired of adding names to her back year after year. If love could cure, she would have cured as all long ago.
I met a woman who came to our tent. She was there with friends, family, and her 27 year old daughter who is battling a rare form of uterine cancer. Fragile and scared, it was evident she came to this event and others like it in search of hope for her daughter. When someone told her I was a cancer survivor, her eyes lit up, she hugged me tightly and whispered, "God bless you, God bless you." If for no other reason, I know I survived breast cancer for this very moment. The moment that gave this mother a little strength and perhaps a glimmer of hope that her daughter, too, could survive.
I connected with a community of people who care so deeply about one another and about winning the fight against cancer. The conversations that were heard around the track were about compassion, care, commitment, and defeating cancer. It is an emotional roller coaster of a day, but well worth it. I know that every dollar raised will be put to good use through research, early detection programs, and patient care services.
Thank you to everyone who supports Relay events in your own communities and to those who supported my team (we raised $33,000!!! this year and $60,000 total in the three years we have participated). Because of your generosity, lives are being saved and changed. Because of your dedication, the hope for a cancer-free future goes on.
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The New York Rangers and forward Mika Zibanejad agreed to a five-year, $26.75-million contract, the team announced Tuesday.
Both sides had a 9 a.m. ET arbitration meeting on Tuesday, but came to terms on a deal prior to a third-party's decision.
The deal appears to be a big win for Zibanejad. who was asking for $5.35 million per season from the Rangers, who were reportedly countering with a contract valued at $4.1 million per season, according to Sportsnet's Elliotte Friedman.
Zibanejad is coming off his first season with the Rangers since being acquired from the Ottawa Senators for forward Derick Brassard. The 24-year-old was limited to just 56 games due to injury, posting 14 goals and 37 points.
Zibanejad proved his worth in the postseason, where he led the club in scoring with nine points in 12 games.


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Ok veer ji, i cant help you much, as im not well versed in this blog thing either, but, give me 2-3 days and i might try get some answers.ReplyDelete
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If you want to post in Gurmukhi, its pretty easy, instead of using sikhitothemax, use www.srigranth.com ,all you need to do is copy and paste the gurbani on to your blog, and it actually shows up as gurmukhi.
but i want post my poems which i have typed in my computer. is it possible to do thatt.?ReplyDelete
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go here, and do what it says http://sikhbytes.guroocities.com/Font.htm
(readers of ur blog also must have this downloaded)
then, the first thing u need to type in ur post is EXACTLY THIS:
then, you have to type in the gurmukhi, when u want to finish the gurmukhi, type EXACTLY THIS:
and thats it really
hope this helped
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Go to: http://guca.sourceforge.net/applications/guca/
Unzip the file and open the G logo called "Unicode.Gurmukhi". Then copy paste the Gurbaani you want to use into the first box, click convert, and paste the Gurbaani from the second box to your blog or wherever else you'd like to use it.
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can you clarify how you blog in gurmukhi please? i can't figure it out, but i see that you've been successful.ReplyDelete


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I've got a sick goat and a new vet, and I'm a little scared with the treatment. She's 86 pounds (the goat, not the vet) and I'm supposed to giver her 5 cc of penicillin twice a day. In the past, the most I've ever had prescribed was 2.5 cc...and that is much higher than the labelled dosage, but of course a vet can prescribe more. I called back to "doublecheck" that I hadn't misunderstood the dosage and the vet tech went and talked to the vet and reiterated the dose.
Our old large animal vet left the area, so I want to cultivate a relationship with this new one. There is no other in the area. But I also don't want to accidently hurt or kill my goat. She got the one shot last night, and I'll give her a second this morning but I am really scared to give her this second high dose this evening.
What do y'all think?
I have done it more than once [under advisement by either a vet or my mentor]. I have used the dosage only in cases of life or death.. or in cases of if an infection sets in it will cause death.
I feel that your vet is right on.
thanks again to everyone!Tom A
When you say 5cc...What is the concentration of PenVK to fluid?
What does that translate to in mg/dose?
I personally am on the highest dose of PenVK that I have ever been put on for an abcessed tooth at 2000mg/day...
Found this on a Vet dosage site:
*Penicillin G procaine, Penicillin/benzathine: mammals-20,000-40,000 IU/kg IM BID or Q2d for benzathine preparations. Rep-10,000 IU/kg IM Q1-3d for benzathine preparations. Prototype penicillin antibiotic with narrow gram + and anaerobic spectrum of activity. Resistance is common. Benzathine preparation slows absorption from injection site, thus extending duration of activity. Some argue that absorption is so slow that therapeutic levels are never reached. Aqueous solutions for IV use and oral penicillin V are available.
Yeah, concentration is a good question. I'm giving her the only concentration I've seen sold in the farm-type stores...300,000 units per ml, and it is identical to the bottle that my former vet sold me a couple of years ago so I'm guessing that vet stuff is all standard (?).
So as I figure it, that is 35,000 units per pound per day. The dosage on the bottle is for meat animals, so I can't really compare.
If you're really concerned I would get a second opinion by calling another vet and just asking what the risks are of the high dosage, or the mfr of the med.
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text: Catholicism Sandip Roy: Saint sharing in Kolkata By Sandip Roy • Sep 20, 2017 Photo by Sandip Roy/modified from original Listen Listening... / 6:10 Sandip Roy's Dispatch - Saint sharing The arch diocese of Kolkata was set up in 1886, and it's saint is St Francis Xavier. But then along came Mother Teresa A woman takes on the Church by becoming a priest By Judy Silber • Feb 9, 2015 Tom Levy In the dining room of her San Francisco home, Maria Eitz shows off her priestly attire -- a beautiful red, embroidered stole. It is the only accessory that distinguishes Eitz from the rest of her community. Usually, there is more separation, especially during mass when Catholic priests wear robes. Considering everything else, her wardrobe is a relatively minor deviation. The Vatican bans women from the altar. Yet Eitz is a woman who two years ago became a Catholic priest. Gay priest ousted by conservative bishop By News Producer • Mar 6, 2014 From our partners at the East Bay Express. Will Durst: From Pope to "Joe" By Will Durst • Mar 3, 2013 A few words here about the recently resigned Pope. (It doesn't matter who you are, that's always going to be at the top of your resume).


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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4860334787725558976.post8050206018756219750..comments2015-08-07T12:46:19.357+01:00Comments on South London Semi: Another year, another to do list...amyoliverhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4860334787725558976.post-85292194287249766062011-01-22T21:30:11.985+00:002011-01-22T21:30:11.985+00:00I am getting excited with your project - i love th...I am getting excited with your project - i love that runner on your stairs.Melafriquehttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4860334787725558976.post-53451788725136012802011-01-19T21:53:42.056+00:002011-01-19T21:53:42.056+00:00Nick_cee, the shower head in the ensuite is Hansgr...Nick_cee, the shower head in the ensuite is Hansgroher and the one in the shower room is from Victoria Plumb.
xxamyoliverhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4860334787725558976.post-11546968480971518782011-01-18T14:50:15.563+00:002011-01-18T14:50:15.563+00:00WOW your bathrooms/loos are looking great, I am re...WOW your bathrooms/loos are looking great, I am really envious of your en suite and I am not a great fan of marble but that looks lovely.
Where did you get the shower heads from?
I love the grey in the small loo, and that yellow fabric will be perfect in there.
Congratulations to you and mr sls, in a few months you will have forgotten all the aggro and be enjoying your house again.Nick UKhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4860334787725558976.post-21723401028375374822011-01-17T22:31:09.244+00:002011-01-17T22:31:09.244+00:00LOL Julia, I wish it was you rather than me!!! I ...LOL Julia, I wish it was you rather than me!!! I also have 2 bedrooms to sort out after this, and a switch of downstairs rooms planned. I wish I was super rich so that I could get someone in to boss around to do it all!!

HE, thanks for the tip. I did paint white over the tape (but used normal masking tape, not blue paint) but I didn't take it off while wet, which was my mistake. This colour needed 3 coats, so I thought it would work to leave it up. It really is a mess. My cleaner's boyfriend is a decorator, and she has taken pity on me and has him coming here this coming weekend to sort it out for £90 per day!! So at least that will be one more thing off my list!!

Thanks for the comments ladies, much appreciated, I do love getting feedback.
xamyoliverhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4860334787725558976.post-50729835711052497112011-01-17T22:13:20.773+00:002011-01-17T22:13:20.773+00:00Oh wow, it's looking amazing. Keep going, it ...Oh wow, it's looking amazing. Keep going, it will all be worth it! Can't believe how much it's all changed.

Do you want to hear my masking tape tip (although not sure worth using it for the wall/ceiling join...)? Apply blue decorator's tape. Run along the edge using your base colour (ie if ceiling is white and walls are coloured, use white). As soon as this is dry, apply your colour. Remove tape before the paint dries. This stops colour bleeding under and stops the tape peeling the colour off!

Not at all jealous...!houseenvyhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-4860334787725558976.post-49894428960805303562011-01-17T20:44:32.972+00:002011-01-17T20:44:32.972+00:00OMG it looks amazing - those tiles are to die for!...OMG it looks amazing - those tiles are to die for! There is so much still to do though - rather you than me (although I still need to get a load of stuff finished off in the lounge, hall and 2 bedrooms - oops). You can do it though - just get all the decorating stuff done first and while you are resting (!) surf the net to find the lights/blinds etc. You've done so well so far, the end is in sight... Take care, glad you are feeling better. xxJuliabhttps://email@example.com


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So I grabbed a dozen of cakes from a local bakery called HORUS SWEETS. It surprises me that in a country proud of its ancient culture, that the copywriter or designer didn't even bother to invest 2 minutes to confirm the spelling of one of the most prominent names in Egyptology. Notice how it's spelled differently twice on the package. Egyptians are like that though – laidback. Way, way laidback about everything. I ain't one to talk either in the grammar department. Nah' mean?
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text: shooting Michigan school safety bills begin 1st legislative hearings By Associated Press • Apr 30, 2018 Early versions of Michigan's first school safety reforms since the Parkland, Florida, mass shooting are steering toward campus security and away from gun laws. The Senate last week unanimously approved an extra $18.6 million for school safety initiatives this fiscal year. Michigan student charged with killing parents moved to jail By Associated Press • Mar 8, 2018 wikipedia A 19-year-old student accused of killing his parents at Central Michigan University has been transferred to jail from a hospital. Records show that James Davis Jr. was moved to the Isabella County jail on Wednesday. He heard the murder charges against him while in a hospital bed this week. Authorities say Davis Jr. shot his parents, James and Diva Davis, of Plainfield, Illinois, in his dorm room last Friday. Snyder is studying 'best practices' to stop school shootings By Associated Press • Mar 7, 2018 Gov. Rick Snyder says his administration is studying "best practices" across the U.S. to combat gun violence in the wake of shootings at a Florida high school and at Central Michigan University. The Republican governor hopes to make a proposal "relatively soon." He reiterates his support for "red flag" legislation that would let law enforcement or family members go to court to seek the removal of guns from dangerous people, "as long as it's done with due process." Shooting at CMU: 2 dead, suspect at large considered armed and dangerous By Mike Horace • Mar 2, 2018 wikipedia UPDATE: Police are asking for the public's help as they search for a 19-year-old man suspected of killing two people at Central Michigan University. Central Michigan University police confirm two individuals were fatally shot at Campbell Hall on campus this morning. The deceased are not students and police believe the situation started from a domestic situation. There are no additional injuries. Campus is on lockdown as the suspect is still at large. CMU police are working closely with local and state police. Police: Boy wounded in shooting that killed parents has died By Associated Press • Nov 10, 2017 Police say a 4-year-old boy has died after being wounded in a shooting that killed his estranged parents in southwestern Michigan. Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety Assistant Chief Vernon Coakley said the shooting Thursday morning outside a home killed Julina G. Gibson and Nicholas A. Mitchell and left the child in critical condition. Police: 3 shot, including 2 fatally, outside Kalamazoo home By Associated Press • Nov 9, 2017 Tony Webster via Wikimedia | CC BY 3.0 / Wikimedia.org Police say three people have been shot, including two fatally, at a home in southwestern Michigan following what was described as a family disturbance. The Kalamazoo Department of Public Safety says the person believed responsible for the early Thursday shooting of a child and two adults has been accounted for and there's no danger to the public. One of those shot may have been the one who fired the shots. Deputy Chief Karianne Thomas confirmed to the Kalamazoo Gazette that two people died, but didn't specify whether the child was among them. Man charged after 15-year-old shot outside Michigan school By Daniel Boothe • Nov 7, 2017 A 21-year-man faces charges including careless discharge of a weapon in a shooting that wounded a 15-year-old girl outside a Michigan school. Police say the girl was in a SUV with her parents and Kahlil Jamal Withers-Fleming about 4:30 p.m. Friday when a shot was fired inside the vehicle, which was parked in a lot at Pattengill Academy in Lansing. Person of interest sought in shooting of teen outside school By Associated Press • Nov 6, 2017 Tony Webster via Wikimedia | CC BY 3.0 / Wikimedia.org A 21-year-man was being sought as a person of interest in the shooting of a 15-year-old girl outside a Lansing school. Police say the girl was in a SUV with her parents and a 21-year-old man about 4:30 p.m. Friday when a shot was fired inside the vehicle which was parked in a lot at Pattengill Academy. The girl was listed Friday night in stable condition. Grand Rapids Police shoot man in chest while trying to make arrest By Associated Press • Sep 5, 2017 A man has been shot in the chest by police executing search warrants in western Michigan. Grand Rapids police say the man was shot about 4 a.m. Sunday as members of the Kent County sheriff's office were trying to arrest him and another person at an apartment complex. He was in critical condition at a hospital. The drug investigation involved a task force that included the sheriff's office and other police agencies. The task force made several arrests. No officers were injured. Grand Rapids police are investigating the shooting. Man sentenced to 28-90 years for Grand Rapids party shooting By Associated Press • Aug 25, 2017 A man has been sentenced to 28 to 90 years in prison for a shooting at a Grand Rapids party that killed one person and injured eight others. Twenty-one-year-old Jokari Lowery learned his sentence Thursday after pleading no contest to second-degree murder for killing 21-year-old Juwan Boykin on Oct. 9. Pages1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 next › last »


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The Next Big Thing in Football … that could very well have been the title of this work by Chris Brown. Mr. Brown is a (now former) contributor to Grantland and editor of the website, smartfootball.com. The Art of Smart Football follows his 2012 book, The Essential Smart Football. Even if there is a degree of overlap with the two books, The Art of Smart is certainly more up to date, and if this work reminds us of anything, it is that nothing in football stays the same for long.
Football is undoubtedly the most strategically complex sport devised by humans. When baseball traditionalists argue against the use of the designated hitter because it detracts from the game's strategic complexity, they are referring to MLB's multiplication tables compared to the quantum physics of the NFL. The beautiful simplicity of baseball is a waltz with three beats to the measure — three strikes, three outs, nine innings. Football, on the other hand, has evolved over the decades from the Hokey Pokey, to the Fox Trot, to the Harlem Shake, to the Twist, the Watusi, to breakdancing and well beyond.
In the not too distant future, we'll have to explain to our children and grandchildren how football used to have these little gatherings between plays, called huddles. And then we'll try to explain, once again, why the American League has a DH and the National League does not.
The function of Mr. Brown's book is to describe what he calls the "strategic evolutions" that have occurred in the game of football — not every one of them and not every detail, but he packs a great deal into 164 pages. There are plenty of diagrams and photographs to illustrate some of the finer points of the game's X's and O's, but unless you've already been tutored for a few hundred hours in the very serious business of film study (as opposed to the product one gets from the comparative closeups of network TV) you may find yourself realizing: 1) You are no expert; and 2) You are not about to spend half your waking hours in a darkened room trying to become one.
If there is a thesis behind Chris Brown's analysis, it might best be summed up in this quote from the chapter on Chip Kelly: "It's hard to get a first down in the NFL. The defenders are fast, the tactics are sophisticated, and the state-of-the-art technology and scouting reports mean there are no secrets. What's innovative one week is passé the next. As a result, modern NFL game planning is an arms race of minutiae."
You may also come to appreciate how difficult it must be for reporters to maneuver around the complexities of their relationship with coaches and players because, in all likelihood, any substantive detail worth asking about (if they know enough to ask) will not get answered with anything but a grunt of coach-speak.
Nevertheless, Mr. Brown does offer fans a solid historical survey of many of the significant adaptations to the game's strategy through the trials, failures, discoveries, even desperation of several of football's most iconic figures.
Pete Carroll is one of the many examples who succeeded through failing. He was fired from head coaching positions with the New York Jets and the New England Patriots, but all the while his firm belief in a defensive system he learned in the 1970s while working for Arkansas under head coach Lou Holtz and defensive coordinator Monte Kiffin, the "4-3 Under," never wavered. Over the years, Carroll has developed variations on the 4-3 Under (which Chris Brown details) to the point where it's become more of a philosophy than a system, with the overarching principle behind it being aggressiveness. But he states plainly that success with any system depends on the willingness and ability to adapt within your system; to have the flexibility to adjust your scheme to fit personnel and other unique circumstances.
As complex as the game can be, throughout the book Mr. Brown remarks how coaches at every level are finding solutions to their challenges by simplifying. In the chapter on the West Coast offense, we learn how Green Bay Packers head coach Mike McCarthy simplified the system which dominated the NFL in the 1990s and early 2000s, removing much of its rigidity and complexity. The evolution of his own thinking accelerated while he was an offensive assistant working with Joe Montana after Joe Cool had been traded by the 49ers to the Kansas City Chiefs.
Eventually, with Green Bay, McCarthy's (and Aaron Rodgers') version of the West Coast offense reduced the number of plays in the playbook but gave the quarterback more authority to read the defense and adjust accordingly. In fact, the Packers were among the first teams in the NFL to use "packaged plays" containing multiple possibilities, including the choice to call a run or pass at the line of scrimmage. This style of offense is a far cry from the inflexibility of Paul Brown's system, over which his players mutinied.
Among those celebrated in the book for defensive inventiveness are Bill Arnsparger and Dick LeBeau for their development of zone blitzing, pattern-match coverages and the 3-4 defense. Zone blitzes combine blitzing the quarterback with zone coverage behind it. Pattern-match coverage refers to starting off in zone coverage and then switching to man coverage after the receivers show where they're headed. These variations on defense that have developed over the years actually mirror the goals of the West Coast offense: To make the results more certain, less risky, and less vulnerable to big plays by the opposition.
On the offensive side of the ball, Mr. Brown points out that there are essentially three different offensive systems in the NFL: West Coast, Coryell, and Erhardt-Perkins. West Coast, still the most used system in the NFL, dates back to Paul Brown and is a memory system. Each player memorizes his role for each play called.
The Coryell system (Air-Coryell was its playful nickname) is named after Don Coryell, the late, former head coach of the San Diego Chargers. The system involves a "route tree" that provides a three-digit scheme designating which receivers run which routes. His system was more flexible than the staid play-calling that preceded it, but Brown explains that the Coryell system has begun "crumbling under [its] own weight" because of many years of added complexity.
The third system was named after Ron Erhardt and Ray Perkins, who worked under New England Patriots head coach Chuck Fairbanks. This system dates back to the 1970s, but while its efficient and economical terminology and basic framework remain intact, the Belichick-Brady team has taken it to another level, one that (as Brown terms it) has "set the standard for modern offense." Of course, who else? Overall, however, there seems little question that the hurry-up, the no-huddle, packaged plays, and a variety of other innovations have resulted in a great many hybrid offenses in the NFL.
Again, just when you think Mr. Brown is veering off into a rat's maze of indecipherable complexity and terminology, he says something like this: "Good offense has always been about deceptive simplicity. The clearest path to success is to make things as simple as possible for your players while also keeping the defenses off balance…a team that tries to do too many things will master none of them. Packaged plays solve the quandary by combining simple plays anyone can execute in such a way that — if the quarterback makes the right decision — the offense always has the advantage, because no defender can be in two places at once."
The most important part of the above quote, however, is if the quarterback makes the right decision…a big if, and it makes one wonder, how teams expect a 22-year-old rookie to step into such a job and take off as if the change from college quarterback to NFL quarterback is a lateral move. The advantage of experience seems all the more critical for navigating the NFL house of mirrors.
One of Mr. Brown's chapters is dedicated to the defensive innovations of Mark Dantonio and Pat Narduzzi at Michigan State. This was a particularly interesting read in light of the Spartans' recent victory over Ohio State. Narduzzi was the defensive coordinator under Dantonio until he became the head coach at the University of Pittsburgh this year. How did they improve the Michigan State defense? They run the oldest and most straightforward front in football, the 4-3, but in MSU's case it "self-adjusts to various formations and routes." They keep their schemes simple, they don't run numerous complex defenses. They know that "… great D isn't a function of a magical scheme; it's about mastering fundamentals and playing with discipline and effort. The scheme is there merely to channel the players' energy and help them play fast and without hesitation."
Throughout the book there is expressed the idea that there are are no silver bullet schemes or strategies, no one-size-fits-all solutions. Rather there is a hint that modern, successful adaptations in NFL strategy involve a degree of jazz-like improvisation within a simple framework to which the organization is committed.
The fact that the concluding chapter of this book is devoted to the singular talent and achievements of Bill Belichick's defensive schemes does not make it too-predictable an ending. Mr. Brown's interesting description of Belichick is that he lacks classification, referring to his "ingenious defensive tactics and precision without sentimentality."
Even if you didn't know that his education as an analyst of football strategy began as a nine-year-old under the tutelage of his father (the highly regarded college advance scout for Navy, Steve Belichick), you probably wouldn't be surprised to hear it. Bill Belichick, as Brown describes him, is so well-versed, so creative, so utterly in command of the details of the game, that he seems entirely comfortable shifting between tactics from week to week; he calls the notion that he prefers a 3-4 defense a "media fabrication." Week to week, he usually wins the arms race of football minutiae, and thus the games.
Undoubtedly, Chris Brown's books are on every syllabus for graduate-level work toward a degree in coaching and The Art of Smart Football belongs on that list as well. It's well written and he's a fine storyteller. Not far into the book, however, I was turning it inside out looking for a glossary of terms. Sadly there is none. I can just imagine Mr. Brown's namesake, the original coach of the Cleveland Browns, glaring at me: There are no shortcuts, mister. Memorize them.
Naturally, at the end of each chapter, I found myself wondering how it applied to the case of the Cleveland Browns. If failure and desperation indeed make fertile ground for innovation, well gentlemen, shoulder to the plows.


text: I had my first baby (ever) hatch today on day 21. I'm wondering if that means the other two should be closely following since they were all incubated the same temp (same bator..LOL).. Is it normal for one to hatch and then for it to be DAYS later for the next? Or can I expect the other two real soon also? Or when do I throw in the towel? I'm hoping I don't have to wait TOO long! Hope I'm making sense - thank you!