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With the Pro Bowl in the rear-view mirror, and the Super Bowl almost here, Packers fans are already looking forward to the 2018 draft. There are many reasons to for excitement and optimism but also concerns for a team that has some gaps to fill, question marks, and a brand new GM who will be running his very first draft. While Brian Gutekunst has plenty of experience in draft situations, and has learned from one of the most thorough GM's in the league for years, this is still a new experience and also a very important draft for the Packers…View More


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Saturday, September 7, 2013
Trading This for That
Weekends seem different these days. I'm turning a blind eye to the end of summer slipping away, because it doesn't seem worth considering.
Instead of other pursuits, I'm mis-ordering Chinese food, managing to sweep my kitchen, and getting around to ordering a photo book of Edie's first year.
I'm reading A Nearly Perfect Copy, letters from my friend Jen, and Entertainment Weekly. I'm eating candy that my pals Allen and Jenny sent (along with a book), and listening to music to promote healing my friend Sarah sent.
I have an appointment to see my orthopedist on Monday. I'm trying to keep my hopes down about the news she'll give me, and just hope that everything still looks good (and is healing waaaaaaaay faster than planned).
Annie is coming for a visit/to help me out this Wednesday, and I'm trying to stop looking at fun things we could do together, and instead gather the movies we'll be watching. Don't worry, Annie, we'll also paint nails and make fudge.
I'm doing a lot of trade-offs these days, and trying to remember that trade-offs are a part of life.
*this photo was taken in Utah last summer. I uncovered it last night when I was making the photo book.
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This post is all about my visit a few weeks ago to Burton Agnes Hall which is set in the beautiful countryside near to Driffield and Bridlington. I'd meant to post this earlier but I've been suffering with bouts of illness lately so I've not got round to it. In fact with me being off from university for the summer and having lots of extra time on my hands I was hoping to blog a lot more than I have done, but I've been ill on and off for pretty much the whole summer (bummer!). I'd been wanting to visit Burton Agnes pretty much ever since I moved to the area as I'd heard about their art collection being pretty good and I wanted to check it out.
The weather was perfect on the day so ideal for exploring the gardens. But as we arrived at lunch time, we decided to get something to eat at their café first. And honestly the café wasn't a great start to our visit. The place was lovely don't get me wrong and my mum thoroughly enjoyed her lunch but if you happen to be vegan or lactose intolerant its not so good. There are options, the soup of the day can sometimes be vegan for instance but unfortunately that day it wasn't. There is also a salad that is another option but when I tried to order this they said they didn't have it. So I was left with ordering a jacket potato but without the butter and baked beans. So it came and it looked really nice, but I noticed it came with a salad, a fairly decent one at that. Understandably I was puzzled with the fact I couldn't order a salad from the menu but can easily get one as a side with a different meal. The only difference that I can remember between the salad on the menu and of my side was that it had walnuts in it so that made me feel like they could have rustled me up a simple salad as a replacement as I was clearly asking for things without dairy in. Anyway I proceeded to eat my meal and as I cut into my potato you could clearly see that there had been butter on it, and I tasted it and yes there definitely had which out of everything annoyed me the most because I could have had a genuine allergy. So all I could eat was the side salad and some crisps which meant I went hungry for the rest of the day until I went home. And me being me, I hate causing a fuss and wouldn't say anything, so suffered in silence which is my own fault really. Not good start, but it was the only downside to the day.
The hall itself made quite an impression walking up to it along with the glimpse of the grounds it was situated in, safe to say it was spectacular but not intimidating. And I had a thing about the door, I don't why but I loved it. I think we had the luck of picking a quiet day as well because everywhere it was peaceful. Walking in you're instantly wowed by the first room which I can't even remember what they called it but you entered it from the small entrance hallway. It was like a small hall with ornate carvings and wood panelling lining the walls, leading to the staircase and other ground floor rooms, all of which had lovely views of the garden. Another thing you're hit with is how amazingly homely it is, even though it is obviously quite grand it still feels like a home. Which to be fair it still is someones home, as it has never changed hands by sale, it isn't owned by the National Trust or English Heritage so it hasn't been altered drastically in any way since it's been built.
I absolutely adored the staircase and all of the rooms impressed me, some of them with the original or almost original décor such as the Chinese room. But a few stick in my mind, such as the library and the Queens bedroom with an ornate ceiling, or a drawing room with an art collection to die for. The Long Gallery on the third floor is one of the newest rooms in the house as it had been refurbished not that long ago but it still continues with the grand décor. This room also houses an amazing art collection, which is eclectic to say the least varying from fine to modern art including a glass sculpture I fell in love with. The amount of French impressionist pieces I was also impressed by, I was exceptionally pleased by this as I saw pieces by Renoir and Matisse among other well known names in real life for the first time. The impressionist art movement was one of my inspirations growing up so I was very happy about this.
After looking around the house, we went on to have a look round the gardens which were very pretty, especially the walled garden. Which had everything in from vegetable patches to pagoda's wrapped in flowers and a maze in which mum and I took forever to find our way out. The main grounds had a really nice fountain with a spherical sculpture which moved constantly that I really liked. They also have a woodland walk which me and mum didn't do.
On the grounds there is still the original Norman hall which was built before the main hall, which is definitely interesting to look at. They also have a super cute gift shop and another shop which sells anything for your garden and home. All in all mum and I had a really good day, I loved the hall and its the ideal place to visit on a sunny day with a picnic.


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Carmelo Anthony is expected to be back in the lineup when the New York Knicks began a three-game stretch of games in Texas by visiting the San Antonio Spurs on Thursday. Anthony has missed three consecutive games with an ankle injury and the results were disastrous with the Knicks losing the three by an average of 18.7 points. San Antonio has won three straight games and thrashed the Brooklyn Nets on Tuesday.


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Pattern Paradise's weeklong celebration of our one year blog anniversary has now come to an end. I hope you've enjoyed all of the giveaways this week. The grand prize Red Heart Yarn gift pack had a huge participation rate and has now ended. The winner is Danielle Woods-Drown! Danielle, you have until Monday 9/8/14, midnight US eastern time to claim your prize, please contact me via the contact form on this blog or at [email protected]
Thank you all for joining us this week and for your ongoing support!


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The Story of Western Wireless
Objectives of Creating a Storybook for Western Wireless as it Prepared to Merge with Alltel:
- Commemorate the 11-year history of the company in an engaging, readable format
- Capture the tight-knit, work hard/play hard culture through favorite memories gathered from key contributors to Western's success
- Gift employees with a keepsake of an extraordinary experience
Thanks for the Memories
After earlier successes at McCaw Communications (later AT&T Wireless), John Stanton, Terry Gillespie and Don Guthrie founded a company that grew to become Western Wireless, specializing in mobile phone service to rural markets. They again racked up a series of extraordinary achievements, including the spin-off of one division (Voicestream, which later was acquired by Duetsche Telecom and renamed T-Mobile).
In just 11 years the Western Wireless co-founders had established a dominant position in the western U.S., and they realized that the only option for staying competitive and continuing to grow was to find a merger partner in the eastern part of the country. They found the perfect partner in Alltel. And yet, it was a bittersweet decision when the board of directors voted to accept a merger agreement; they all realized that any merger fundamentally changes a company and its culture, and they all agreed that Western had been an unusually enjoyable experience.
The founders thought long and hard about how they could appropriately thank their employees for helping them to create not just one, but two, successful wireless companies. The answer: a book of stories, told through the voices of employees.
Evelyn Clark was chosen as the storyteller for the project, invited in by the Seattle office of Fitch, a worldwide design consultancy owned by WWP in the UK. While Fitch designers went to work on creating an appropriate format and design theme, Evelyn set about interviewing a carefully selected, representative group of people who had contributed to Western's success; they included board members, the first people hired (some of whom had since left the company), the executive team, and a number of other employees, some who had been part of the team for several years and some only a few months.
Their stories of memorable experiences and legendary characters painted a vivid picture of what it had been like to be part of a dynamic, hard working, "wild west" company that had overcome nearly impossible challenges. Together we created "Joys of the Journey", a beautiful book that highlighted favorites memories in a series of vignettes with catchy titles and featured photos taken by employees over the years; with fun (and often nonsensical) captions.
Executives distributed the gifts at a special party for employees on Western's 11th anniversary, when the merger was official. The results:
- The book was an instant hit, generating a new round of storytelling
- Employees who might never have approached the founders at the office lined up at the party to personally thank them for a wonderful work experience
- Lined pages in the back of the book, provided for people to write parting comments to one another, were quickly put to use
It was immediately clear that the books would, indeed, become treasured possessions as the years go by. After all, how many people have the opportunity to work with a reknowned pioneer who works hard, plays hard, and inspires employees to follow suit?


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This is an article of the informal collective CatArTica Care, made up of artists, independent curators, art critics and musicians. The article is written by: Michele Tarzia, Elvira Lamanna, Tebala Valentina, Luigi Scopelliti and Roberto Giriolo and it is the result of our shared thoughts coming from October 15, the day dedicated to contemporary art in Italy. The event Emigration zone, part of the Ecumene project by Camera237, was held at the migrants' cemetery of Armo (Reggio Calabria).
During the event, the artist Luigi Scopelliti has situated his sculptures at the cemetery: 45 swallows on some stones among the migrants' graves. As collective action, we also realised all together little temporary plates with migrants' names and we placed them on the graves, with the participation of all the people present at the cemetery. The names of the migrants were written in white varnish, and their names were added to their identification numbers, already placed on the graves.
Michele Tarzia of {movimentomilc} has organised a series of poetry readings and testimonies. Some people have read them in a spontaneous way and the readings were accompanied by a guitar and a double bass in the background. The whole day was a very intense moment of both commemoration and reflection. These are our thoughts.
17:48 October 15, 2016. Cemetery of Armo, Reggio Calabria.
The guitar begins its soliloquy. People situated plaques on the graves with the names written in white. The silence is so intense that the wind has stopped to whistle down, maybe because of the fear of disturbing. A symphony of peace, a requiem of hope comes from the hill of a small village towards the infinite sky and slowly accompanies us toward a secular commemoration.
A minute of silence. [1']
We don't feel the wind yet. Exchange of glances. Some people are moved, others are concentrated. All of them are absorbed with thoughts that I do not know. Someone starts to speak up, but suddenly the sound coming from the double bass's bow pervades the atmosphere. The sound is both so delicate and strident to fall silent the voices. The dead, who are watching us and spying on us, are aware of our intent, they know that their buried brothers have had little luck in the sea. From the hill of the cemetery, we can see that sea, like a creative presence, a welcoming mother, as if perhaps the sea was waiting for another boat to be welcomed. One, two, three, four and five people follow one another and read white sheets of paper. Simple white sheets of paper with a strong idea of resistance. They are testaments, poems and letters of people who belongs to this land, and as all of us have the will to talk, to speak, to tell about what is happening.
Memory of present. Dyscrasia of collective thoughts.
Adal Neguse writes about his brother, a testament that cannot be unnoticed. Unread.
"My little brother Abrish, those who chased you out of your country and those who did not want to give you the protection you seeked, they might have their price up on the sky. But I have to promise you one thing today that I will/shall not leave your enemies to be in peace. Death to this barbaric dictator!!!
Abrish, my eyes are in tears and my heart is bleeding.
Rest in peace!".[1]
A light turns on like a lighthouse in the sea, a welcoming hope dedicated to the viewer, or perhaps, to the citizen, the one who talks so much about equality and brotherhood, about love and peace among the people. I am talking to the one who goes out on a sunny day to take a walk, whose thought is: "it is hot today"!
The border is an imaginary line, made up of several border points. If only we could remove these border points, then we would have only an imaginative vision of borders, where the everyday fragility finds love and the greeting of the world is in everyone's hands.
We need not imposed rituals. The entire day was a ritual of both action and reflection that has rediscovered the communality of a "we" in its rhythms, without names, nations, borders. As Hannah Arendt stresses in The human condition (1958), human beings are equal because no one can choose with whom they can cohabit the Earth, our common place. As human beings, Arendt says, "we" have both speech and action as characteristic traits of our common human condition. This commonality comes from sharing a human plurality, in the meaning that everyone embodies, at the same time, uniqueness and communality that must be protected for all human beings as equal. "We" as equal beings means taking into account all the contradictions of such a condition (uniqueness and commonality) as well.
It means that those who have no voice and rights, as people who migrate with journeys inhumane conditions, must be considered to be equal human beings. Our actions and speech embody all the contradictions of a tragedy of migration, starting from our territory and challenging who does not act to promote this protection of equal human beings, such as the governments conceived only as nation-states delimited by imposed borders.
According to Arendt, only by "acting in concert", being together with others, equal human beings are united in a commonality deriving not only from this equality, but also from the respect for the different uniqueness that each one embodies being unique.
Yet, how should we react in the face of a terrible tragedy of human beings who migrate and die in the sea? How can governments allow this tragedy to happen?
How can we understand the pain, the anguish felt by people who migrate hoping for a different future?
Necropolitics is how Achille Mbembe defines the action of the governments that decide who must live and who must die.
However, "acting in concert" means to take collective actions with the awareness that we are equal persons. We should always start from our reality, even if it is very small in relation to migratory tragedy. Our "acting in concert" starts when during a September morning we went with Luigi and Michele to the migrants' cemetery in Armo (Reggio Calabria), where 45 migrants are buried. The majority of them were youth and women, coming from Ethiopia and Somalia.
It would have been significant to know these people's dreams, their uniqueness as human beings. That morning, I was struck by a phrase that Luigi said: "I do not feel on top of the situation". I was struck by it because the tears are made up of pain, guilt and of shame as well. We feel ashamed because of the privilege and dignity to live a life without bombs, torture, and a lack of freedom and of a dignified life.
History does not forget, and even "we" should not do it. We have both word and deed, but only by "acting in concert", we could produce something new in the present. Yet, shame and grief are emotions, as well as fear, that can paralyse us. And, this is the reason why "acting in concert" toward the commonality of a "we" is urgent and very current today. Especially, it is worth to build something "common" for those who have no voice, or nobody is listening to them, without the fear of the "I do not feel on top of the situation". We should keep this feeling of understanding and sharing our doubts and fears, and only in this way "acting in concert" can give a voice to those who are voiceless.
Thinking about the "common" through not imposed rituals and actions aims to unveil a lack of dignity for a recognition of equality and communality. It is a self-organised process, but must be done "acting in concert". "Acting in concert" means also reading, writing down the names in white on the plaques and reflecting upon poems or words coming from testimonies that belong to equal and voiceless human beings.
The first time I set foot in the cemetery of Armo (Reggio Calabria), I began to understand that the numbers of the death reading on the social networks, hearding on the TV, were tangible! They were tangible there, in front of me, on a land that was arid and dark and they were tangible like the millions of thoughts which would have filled my head soon.
It was the end of June, the vegetation was growing again on the maddu (this is the name with which that dark soil is called in Cataforio, my suburb in Reggio Calabria). Small numbers on this land broke down the environment's tranquillity, pushing my thoughts towards a feeling of anguish. I am feeling the same anguish even now, while I am writing these few words.
Elvira Lamanna, Visual and auditory session by {movimentomilc} and Luigi Scopelliti's Emigration zone, Armo's cemetery (Reggio Calabria), October 15, 2016.
Elvira Lamanna, Visual and auditory session by {movimentomilc} and Luigi Scopelliti's Emigration zone, Armo's cemetery (Reggio Calabria), October 15, 2016.
Elvira Lamanna, Visual and auditory session by {movimentomilc} and Luigi Scopelliti's Emigration zone, Armo's cemetery (Reggio Calabria), October 15, 2016.
Roberto Giriolo, Visual and auditory session by {movimentomilc} and Luigi Scopelliti's Emigration zone, Armo's cemetery (Reggio Calabria), October 15, 2016.
Roberto Giriolo, Visual and auditory session by {movimentomilc} and Luigi Scopelliti's Emigration zone, Armo's cemetery (Reggio Calabria), October 15, 2016.
Roberto Giriolo, Visual and auditory session by {movimentomilc} and Luigi Scopelliti's Emigration zone, Armo's cemetery (Reggio Calabria), October 15, 2016.
Roberto Giriolo, Visual and auditory session by {movimentomilc} and Luigi Scopelliti's Emigration zone, Armo's cemetery (Reggio Calabria), October 15, 2016.
Roberto Giriolo, Visual and auditory session by {movimentomilc} and Luigi Scopelliti's Emigration zone, Armo's cemetery (Reggio Calabria), October 15, 2016.
Roberto Giriolo, Visual and auditory session by {movimentomilc} and Luigi Scopelliti's Emigration zone, Armo's cemetery (Reggio Calabria), October 15, 2016.
Roberto Giriolo, Visual and auditory session by {movimentomilc} and Luigi Scopelliti's Emigration zone, Armo's cemetery (Reggio Calabria), October 15, 2016.
Those numbers pushed me to create something plastic and light. I worked there every day for almost a month, and every time I went to the cemetery, I felt always the same feelings, then I came back home tired and full of thoughts, while my installation was taking shape. The 45 swallows of this installation are linked to this feeling of anguish and are the symbol of the hope for an utopian world, where we are no more witness of those tragic events, but we become aware that there is a restart, a destination beyond a specific place, beyond these hills and this sea. Many hands joined me in this journey. In our puffy eyes I saw the feeling of being unprepared and dismayed, but also the anger, the desire to give or do something.
After a research, from Reggio Calabria's port captaincy I got the names, the age and the origin countries of some migrants at the cemetery. Gradually those numbers turned into human beings or just an idea of human beings that our imagination built. We situated the names on rusted plaques, as memory of the boats crossing over the Mediterranean and we wrote down their names in white varnish in order to stress the iron's coldness. Our collective action was to place them on the same maddu (local dialect word for soil) which now becomes womb, welcoming those its sons once again. The swallows are going to take flight towards South East and look far away from those names, towards the endless sky, the African's sky.
We, who live safe in our warm houses. We, who find hot food and friendly faces on our way back home in the evening, consider if these are men [and women, and children].
I felt the most terrible emotion in front of the neat tract of burial mounds and numbers on plastic plaques – some pitiful little flower here and there – when all together replaced the names of those people who died in the sea to their respective number. The physiognomies of their faces' precious ebony appeared clearly in my mind, but that ebony was defaced by tears and sea. And it was terrifying and sad at the same time. Because, according to me, the responsibility was also ours, of us who at that time were crying and accepting them in death, but we were not able to save them when they were alive. I felt the sweetest emotion when I looked around and our eyes embraced. I realised that something had changed inside us and the consciousness and experience of that collective action had united us all so closely: no more an us and a them.
Probably Luigi's art installation and that ritual of gestures and readings will not change the facts, but in a small way they approached conscience. In Armo (Reggio Calabria), like anywhere else on this Earth «beautiful, without frontiers or boundaries» (like Michele said us quoting Gagarin, the Russian cosmonaut who observed Earth from the space), our struggle against the abuse and intolerance resists through active and reactive sharing of love and beauty acts. These ones make us "human" again. All of us are human beings as well as those desperate people who continue to die in our Mediterranean or, even before, in our African desert.
Let us meditate that this came about, and continues to be.
I am a father. I have two sons. Many times I wondered what I would be willing to do if my kids or my wife were in danger. "I would have crossed over the sea by foot", once I said to a friend of mine. I do not understand how you cannot understand this feeling. I do not understand how you can be insensitive to the request for help and asylum of a person. According to UNHCR, in 2015 about one million people has crossed the Mediterranean.
How many of us would put in a boat full of people, a child of six months, two or three years, for a journey from Libya across the sea? My feeling could be paradoxical, but I have ever felt compassion towards these people, but I have nurtured a strong respect for their courage. I feel respect for both the will and the determination they have to search for happiness, for the deep love towards their children, for exposing themselves to both terrible dangers and pain.
I do not aim neither to celebrate anyone nor to find new martyrs or heroes.
In this small cemetery of Armo, in the province of Reggio Calabria, 45 "travellers" – as I like to call those who rely on courage and love to search for a better life – are buried. I want only to commemorate the courage, the determination, the triumph of life that does not give up to the subjugation and oppression, refusing war or discrimination.
All this is a beautiful lesson of love and courage for me. NOTHING MORE.
Even if one day I would be forced to flee or to fight to save myself and my loved ones, and even if I will die crossing over a sea, a desert or climbing a mountain, chasing for salvation, peace and happiness, I would like to be remembered as a man who has had courage and has done everything to be "free".
Here you can find all the readings of that day in a video "Abrish 1": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjEZ4R2X4_8&feature=youtu.be
CatArTica Care
Michele Tarzia, Elvira Lamanna, Luigi Scopelliti, Valentina Tebala, Roberto Giriolo
Thanks to: Camera237, Daniele Laro, Daniele Fera, Carmelo Manglaviti, Tiziana Sorgonà and all the people who took part in this collective action.
[1]Adal's letter to his brother Abraham, one of the victims of the massacre of 3 October, 2013, happened off the coast of Lampedusa. The letter was published on 7 October, 2014 www.archiviomemoriemigranti.net.


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My call blocker in my cell phone shows 'reported telemarketer' calling from Hackensack, NJ. It's the usual, no message. I've been striking out a lot here lately. Below is a copy I'm adding to the numbers I am currently checking.
Nothing comes up here! Are people not posting as prolifically as they once were? Regardless, the call filtering program that came preinstalled on my phone put a caution up about this number (and a few others) as 'reported telemarketer'. Such a number gets an Amber colored icon that appears as it rings suggesting answer if you want; use caution! In the call log it is also Amber.
Some that are 'confirmed' problem callers are prevented from even ringing in. Those go directly to voice mail. In the call log they are coded Red.(Google Support called to help me with something and were coded Red. I changed the status to green OKing it.)
As an aside, I have only received telemarketer & robo-calls over the past few weeks. I wasn't sure if I had registered my cell #, so I called them earlier. They checked their database to see if the # was registered, which was since 2012. I'd forgotten!
Maybe I was lucky being spared the bother but,I still keep a landline with a different # so if I need to give a phone number for something, I have it to use. It's cheap enough and also has a call blocker on it. I'm very selective with whom I share my cell number.
I've come here several times now to try to find more information about who is being blocked on my cell since the phone app just says what's been reported but there are no comments to see. I keep drawing a blank on probably 75% of the numbers. I wonder if this because so many people's only phone(s) are cellular and the apps that screen like mine need zero input other than maybe OKing a number so it can ring in on future calls.
I'm going to run a couple others and rather than retype all this, I'm going to paste it since it holds true no matter the number I searched.


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Honey Roasted Peach Buttermilk Ice Cream
The latest sugary android version is going to be Kit Kat! And it is actually in collaboration with Hershey's, with promotions starting on the 6th.
The easiest dessert in the world: Unsweetened Strawberry Granita.
Chicken Curry with Fennel seeds and Dried Fenugreek Leaves…not hot but fragrant
Delicious tart with soft onion, cheese and fresh thyme
Smoked salmon and Swiss chard are layered under baked eggs and creamy Brie.
Fried Cashew Milk? You bet! Anacardo Leche Frita is a sweet, creamy, and crispy treat all in one simple package.
Coconut Key Lime Cake - Key lime and coconut are such a perfect combination. This tropical cake has been lightened up, but you'll never notice. It's moist, sweet and delicious!
Chicken pockets stuffed with feta cheese and yogurt!
Coconut Lime Detox Drink.
Rustic peach and almond tart. Delicious and easy to make!
Mini Baked Frittata with Bacon, Tomato, Sharp Cheddar, and Green Onion
Brown Butter Vanilla Bean and Nutella Swirled Rice Krispie Treats! A kids favorite back-to-school treat and adults love them too!
Chilled Pea Veloute with Fennel Sorbet, light summer starter, from Graham Campbell
Monstrously tall carrot cake with coconut cream cheese swiss meringue buttercream. Don't mind if I do!
Sourdough brioche with honey, buttermilk and lemon essential oil (in french)
Move over Oatmeal, Try Quinoa instead in these chocolate caramel over load cookies for the Ultimate flavour and texture experience.
Vegan banana bread muffins topped with maple frosting and nuts.
Fried Green Tomato BLT
Mini Sweet Potato Hand Pies - A sweet, flaky, light mini pie filled with a mixture of bourbon, maple syrup and pureed sweet potato
Baked Ratatouille Fries - crispy baked zucchini and eggplant fries with spicy tomato dipping sauce.
Garlic bread rosette, a new form on garlic breads
Flourless Peanut Butter Swirl Brownies...vegan, flourless, gluten-free, grain-free, dairy-free and no refined sugar!
Peach Galette - A perfect way to end the summer.
This truffle scented cheese souffle is champagne living on a beer budget FO SHO.
Easy Homemade Greek Yogurt, oven, milk, 3 tbs yogurt, easy, step-by-step photos!
Panino With Chicken Mayo, Onions & Arugula
You will flip out over this deep fried cake batter cookie dough bites. The cookie dough taste just like yellow funfetti cake
Banana's foster pudding parfait. Banana pudding and Banana's foster meet
Salted whiskey chocolate chip cookies
Mini Chicken Nugget & Egg Sandwiches - a real yummy indulgent tea-time snack
Chinese Barley and Candied Winter Melon Drink
Root Beer Float Ice Cream
Oh-So-Cheesy Loaded Nachos with 2 kinds of beans, so good, you won't miss the meat at all!
Chanterelle Soup served as a tapa with Parmesan Bread
White Chocolate Cream and Mascarpone
Tortellini Pasta Salad
BBQ Pork Spare Ribs with Blackberry Hoisin Sauce, low and slow
Grilled Cheese Italiano Sandwich with Crispy Salami, Melted Provolone, Fresh Basil and Pepperoncini with Spicy Marinara Dipping Sauce
Red Velvet Cake Ice Cream
Swiss Chard and Arugula Ravioli Nudi in Simple Tomato Sauce
Honey Lavender Cupcake with cream cheese frosting
Oven Baked Korean Chicken Wings
Three Mushroom Ginger Chicken
Partridgeberry (lingonberry) muffins, crunchy crumbly topping, perfect for a rainy day


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Friday, May 05, 2017
A Slight Lurch In The Right Direction
I spoke with The Ravishing Mrs. TB two nights ago about it. To be perfectly honest with you, I think she may be more fed up with the whole thing than I am at this point (which is saying something). Yes, traffic is appalling and yes, in two years our traffic patterns should reduce once again when Nighean Dhonn is finished with her current school and we only have one school to drive to - but that does not fix the underlying problems that exist here.
What does that mean? It means a minimum of 6 years suddenly shifted to 2 years.
That includes a number of assumptions of course, like college will continued to be covered and I can find a job somewhere else if needed (and in all fairness, in two years I should have a much clearer picture of how my current job is going) - or I figured out something else that can support us somewhere else (unlikely, but possible). It also assumes that the economy here will stay at or above what it is now such that our home value will give us something when we sell.
But it is important because it can help to frame discussions, about what we have and what we do. Certain things - like continuing to reduce debt and become more frugal - take precedence as a required item (that ship is turning - slowly, but it is turning). Actually setting aside and saving money specifically for the purpose of (ultimately) not having to work becomes an item of discussion. And a discussion about what we have and what we need also becomes an increasingly relevant discussion (one I have struggled with for years but now am finally having some clarity about).
It is still potentially a long way hence and fraught with possibles and maybe-nots. But just the hint of change has a surprising power, a hint of energy I had not anticipated. Perhaps after feeling being in a rut for so long has left you with few options, the whiff of a different future is enough to waken long slumbering dreams, like the sun on February's daffodils.
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- Rain said...
I think it's really exciting to plan for change! It is scary too, I have my moments when I see myself serving hamburgers at McDonalds when I'm in my 70's...of course, I want to take every step NOT to be in that position.
Is there a way to plan a home business? Alex and I are on that route slowly but surely. It might not be huge with regards to income, but it'll help down the line.
- LindaG said...
Yup. That can happen. Happened that way for us. One year we weren't ready for him to retire, the next year we are. We had just refinanced our house with the intention of staying in NC for another two or three years at least; then we were in full on let's get stuff moved to Louisiana.
Good luck to you and God bless you in these plans.
- Toirdhealbheach Beucail said...
Yes, that image is in my mind as well Rain. And as time moves faster than I can count, time to start planning to prevent it now.
A home business might be a possibility in my line of business, eventually. There are certain certifications that I need to get and certain experience I need to grab but I could see a road to something to manage the transition from full time work to partial retirement.
- Toirdhealbheach Beucail said...
Interesting Linda. Was there a particular event that made the change, and did you come to it together or separately on your own and suddenly realize you were both thinking the same thing?
- LindaG said...
We started discussing it about 2008, really, after his brother offered to sell him the family farm (I use the term loosely because it hasn't been a farm in decades). Since hubby was working Civil Service for the Navy, he told me about certain things that would have to fall into place. One came up about 2010, but we both agreed we weren't ready. Then another opportunity came up suddenly in late 2011. He had been having more health problems, and with changes in the military, he decided the time was right and I agreed.
So it was mostly his decision; but we discussed it a lot over the years.
- Toirdhealbheach Beucail said...
Thanks for sharing. This is part of a slow motion ongoing discussion here as well. There are some things I can plan for; the others will simply take God aligning the correct things in line. Which He will, of course in His good time.
- LindaG said...
Amen to that. As He did for us. :)
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Just wanted to tell you keep up the excellent work!
- Toirdhealbheach Beucail said...
Thank you so much! Appreciate you stopping by.


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Poly drug use & alcohol have contributed to the 62% increase in fatalities over the past decade.
The Health Research Board has published the latest drug-related deaths figures for Ireland.
Almost two people died each day here during 2014 "as a result of poisoning, trauma or medical cases linked to drug use."
The 697 deaths compared to 431 in 2004 – an increase in a decade of 62%.
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• Prescription drugs were implicated in 259, or three in every four, poisonings during 2014.
• 235 or two in every three people died in 2014 because they took a mixture of drugs, with an average of four drugs involved. Benzodiazepines were the most common drug group involved in poly drug deaths.
• Notwithstanding a small decrease in alcohol poisonings, alcohol is still implicated in one-in-three deaths and remains the single most common drug implicated in deaths over the reporting period 2004-2014.
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•Hanging was the main cause of non-poisoning deaths. There was a 21% increase in deaths due to hanging between 2013 and 2014.
Highlighting the dangers of poly drug use, HRB Chief Executive, Dr. Graham Love, says: "It is not just illicit drugs that are resulting in death. Over time we are seeing a rise in the number of deaths involving prescription drugs and cocktails of different drugs. Alcohol is also implicated in one in three deaths. Mixing drugs increases the risk of death, which is clearly reflected in these figures".
The HRB's lead researcher, Ms. Ena Lynn, adds: "We should not lose sight of the fact that each of these statistics is a life cut short, and that family members are deeply affected. These statistics give us some insight into the impact that drug use has on people and society"
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More than 20 years ago, Adrian Gotts finished high school in Australia and started on his welding career path by taking an apprenticeship.
Then, his training was interrupted when he started caring for a relative who had dementia. And that led him down a very different career path in disability and senior care, in which he has been employed for the last 15 years. He has cared for people with dementia, autism, and schizophrenia, and worked in a hospice care unit.
When the mother of Adrian's daughter decided to move back to Wisconsin from Australia, Adrian followed in order to be part of his daughter's life as she grew up. And, he was in fact, a stay-at-home dad before his daughter started school.
After that, Adrian began working in Wisconsin in a facility serving people with disabilities. An outgoing and compassionate person, Adrian has found his career as a caregiver to be rewarding in that he knows he is making a positive difference in people's lives by helping to alleviate their challenges and suffering.
Nonetheless, over the years, Adrian has missed building things. He had a workshop and tool shed at home in Australia, which he had to leave behind. So when he learned recently that there is a high demand for welders in Wisconsin for jobs that pay well, he decided to take the opportunity.
The first step for Adrian was going back to school, starting in December 2013. He lives in La Crosse, Wisconsin, where Western Technical College is located, so that was a natural choice. Adrian took advantage of the opportunity to earn credit for previous work/life learning. He was awarded credit for several classes when he demonstrated that he had already mastered the required skills. This allowed him to save time and resources while moving his career forward in the welding field. "They really go the extra step for their students," Adrian said of the faculty and staff at Western, whose flexibility he has really appreciated. They have also allowed him to use their facilities outside of class meetings to practice his welding skills.
Adrian has continued his full-time job as a caregiver while taking classes at Western. He attended school part time during the evening to obtain the Basic Welding short term technical diploma. The Basic Welding pathway is fully embedded in the Welding program and the Manufacturing Systems Maintenance Technician (MSMT) program. Adrian choose to return to Western full-time from January through March 2015, in order to complete the Welding Technical Diploma program in the spring, and be able to start a new career that much sooner.
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Observance settles in with a set-up and atmosphere that keeps you interested. We follow Lindsay Farris as he surveills Stephanie King in the apartment opposite where there is a constant mystery created about who she is and why he is spying on her. She works for a scientific institute when he calls to find out more, they suddenly get tight-lipped and then hang up on him after he gives her description. She may be being abused in some way and seems involved, even possibly engaged he concludes, to the scientist from the institute whose family has a disturbing history. Things start to get creepy when it appears that the scientist and maybe even the woman are looking back and noticing him there. The scientist even accosts Lindsay Farris in an alley and warns him off. Lindsay Farriss Controller avoids answering any questions about the situation. All of this creates a more than reasonable tension Joseph Sims-Dennet creates one especially uneasy scene where Lindsay Farris ventures into the womans apartment to plant bugs after she says she is going to have a shower only for her to emerge to answer the phone as well as a number of jumps.
All of this is good and promising build-up. Added to this is an infection story where Lindsay Farris starts coughing up worrying amounts of black ichor and looking unwell. He also starts to have hallucinations about his brother being dead or opening doors to see a raging sea there. The soundbite description you could coin for Observance would be an indie film mix of Francis Ford Coppolas The Conversation (1974), a superb psychological drama about the effect of surveillance on the observers mind, and one of the recent works about the horror of infection such as Thanatomorphose (2012) or Contracted (2013). The natural question that is building in the audiences mind at this point is to wonder what is going on.
The great frustration about Observance is that it is all build-up and no third act. It never provides any answers as to what is going on. There is no explanation about the infection or where it is coming from in fact, this only seems there in a couple of scenes but the film never pushes it for the sense of a growing sense of decay and horror as you get in Contracted and especially Thanatomorphose. Moreover, all the questions about the purpose of the surveillance, the sinister things happening to Stephanie King, the activities of the institute and the scientists familys history are lead-up and backstory that leads precisely nowhere. There have certainly been films that have made a virtue of defying an audiences expectation of answers and endings see the classic likes of Blow Up (1966) and The Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) but Observance lacks any sense that it is doing unique and groundbreaking things in subverting expectation; it is just a film that exists as a frustrating line of questions without answers.
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By fits and starts, I'm trying to get SB back up and running.
Such as it is.
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But hey, at least now you can "Follow my blog with Bloglovin!" Right, now that that's out of the way ….
By fits and starts, I'm trying to get SB back up and running.
Such as it is.
Image credit: Ernstl
But hey, at least now you can "Follow my blog with Bloglovin!" Right, now that that's out of the way ….
This month marks my four-year divorce anniversary. Although I've dated from time to time in the interim, for the most part since then I've been a single man. I can't imagine why.
Being such a catch and all.
For most of that time I've maintained profiles on several dating sites, notably OkCupid and POF. I'm not entirely sure why, though. The results have been, shall we say, less than impressive.
I spent a good part of the afternoon cruising YouTube in pursuit of various yuks and giggles. Apart from my usual diet of Monty Python, Epic Rap Battles of History, Aqua Teen Hunger Force and Rush videos, I also perused some of the truly bad advertisements of the 80s and 90s. So I figured, "Hey, this sort of thing makes for a quick and dirty article, so why not go with that angle today?"
"Cygnus X-1" on a ukelele, man. Awesome.
Why not, indeed.
Circa 1982 the absolute coolest thing to have was the Atari 2600. This was the one and only thing I wanted on my Christmas list, man. Problem was those things were expensive back then, and my parents weren't exactly technophiles to begin with.
They bought their first VCR … in 1989.
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As fate would have it I got an Intellivision for Christmas instead. Was that because my parents appreciated the fact Intellivision's graphics blew the doors off the Atari 2600? Oh, hell no! It was on sale, y'all. At any rate, I played the ever loving crap out of that thing. I might still have it if the guys at Mattel didn't design it with dedicated controllers. Thanks a lot.
Anyway, I'm digressing a bit. Home video games nearly died off in the mid-80s, with consoles such as the Atari 2600 and Intellivision (what gamer geeks call "second-generation consoles") taking a massive dump in sales and essentially disappearing from the market. The industry was brought back from the brink a couple years later by the Nintendo Entertainment System. This ad is for an NES game which became quite popular:
Possibly an acting school project. "Be the psychopath. Feel the psychopath inside you."
I didn't have an NES, only returning to the ranks of home gamers with a Super Nintendo a few years later. The Legend of Zelda was a pretty cool game for its time. Apart from its batshit insane commercial, it was noteworthy for a few other things. One, whereas most NES games came in gray cartridges, Zelda came in a gold cartridge. Two, the protagonist was not named Zelda. In fact, the Zelda character doesn't appear until the very end, after you defeat the game. I'm not even sure about that.
I beat Zelda (to this day one of the very few games I ever beat) on a friend's NES about 10 years after it came out. As for technology, I bought a DVD player on my own for the first time … four months ago.
This ad ran in the Chicago market in the 90s. When I was still in college at Idaho State, I heard whispers about it. A local ad so incredibly awful that its notoriety transcended its media market. There was still doubt, though. I'd never actually seen the ad, and I couldn't believe someone would unintentionally make something that stupid.
Then in the summer of 1996, I moved to Chicagoland and finally beheld it myself. It is very horrifyingly real:
Wow. Just, wow.
Never mind the hysterically bad acting for a moment. If you hear a thump on the roof of your car, chances are you don't think it's a guy in an eagle suit. If it is, you may be able to file a claim for any damage he caused. Well, assuming you had insurance.
And if it were that easy to figure out, no police force would have a problem with ticket quotas ever again.
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No, no. The best thing about this ad is that the character – specifically called "Eagleman" – lays an egg. And he does so after assuming a position like he forgot his birdie Ex-Lax that day, of course.
It's sure a good thing society has since evolved to the point where we're not constantly annoyed by auto insurance commercials, isn't it?
I'm back in the 2T for the first time in over a month. Beachy is currently transfixed by a show called Four Weddings on TLC. The fact an eight-year-old is into this is a bit disconcerting. However, given that she shushed me during a Lumber Liquidators commercial, this is evidently the wrong time to ask. I guess now is as good a time as any for the Friday Crap Roundup.
Dang, Good Friday indeed. As of this writing Superfluous Bloviations has already doubled its all-time daily hits record. There's still a good six hours left in the day too. Call me crazy, but I suspect The B-52s fan club found me.
The Love Shack is full today.
The one vote for Devo is mine. Oh well.
Unless you've been living under a rock, or in Oman, or something, you probably noticed the same-sex marriage issue dominated the news this week. I have just south of 700 friends on Facebook at the moment. I estimate about 400 of them changed their avatar this week to this, or a variation thereof:
I think it pops well.
I find it curious that red – the same color the Republican Party uses – was chosen for this campaign, however I certainly support its aims. Although I personally have little use for marriage, I think it's wrong to deny it to anyone else. Either make marriage legal for everyone or remove the concept from the state entirely. Anything else is half-assing it.
These are absolutely landmark cases the Supreme Court is considering, but I feel at this point the worst-case scenario decisions only delay the inevitable. Same-sex marriage is here to stay. Twenty years from now we'll be wondering what the hell the big deal was.
A few days ago I mentioned in passing another web site I run called the Quebec Nordiques Preservation Society. Earlier this week I was interviewed by The Wall Street Journal of all outlets about it.
Yes, I'd love to see them back in the NHL. No, I'm not Canadian.
It wasn't much of an interview. I last worked on the QNPS over eight years ago, and I'm not involved in any of the current efforts to bring the NHL back to Quebec City. Accordingly I very strongly doubt I'll be quoted in any article. Yet people are still looking at this obvious web leftover from the 90s. Amazing.
I recently rediscovered this album. It was one of my absolute favorites in high school. Such a shame Sting went all soft rock on us.
Love the bass line.
By the way, if Beachy wants a regatta setting for her wedding, she'd better be prepared to get married in Burley.


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Climate change and urbanization are significant planning challenges for water supply management. New methods developed to address this challenge have significantly advanced the assessment of strategies to adapt water infrastructure to climate change, but they still have a critical limitation: they fail to account for the adaptive nature of human management in response to change. This gap is particularly apparent at the urban scale, as many water management and climate adaptation decisions are made by cities.
To address this challenge, Tufts Water Diplomacy | IGERT fellow Margaret Garcia is developing a coupled socio-hydrologic model of urban water management. The Las Vegas metropolitan area was used as a case study to develop an initial model due to its combined challenges of population growth and climate change, common to many cities in the arid west. She is currently expanding this work to other cases to develop a more widely applicable model. Margaret conducted the initial modeling work as a visiting researcher at the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis in Laxenburg, Austria, through their Young Scientist Summer Program.


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School of Hotel & Restaurant Management
Ms. Jo Chosen as One of Hays' Pivotal People
Professor Julene Boger (aka Ms. Jo) had no idea one of her students, Cody (Dakota) Hays recognized her in the April 2016 Association for Career & Technical Education article, "Pivotal People – How CTE Educators Change Lives."
"My favorite teacher in college, Ms. Jo, worked in hospitality since she was a teenager and eventually worked her way up to become the general manager of a full-service inn. This inn just so happened to be at Northern Arizona University and eventually turned into the School of Hotel and Restaurant Management (currently ranked #14 for top hospitality schools in the world). Her ability to connect with students and empower us to do our best really reflects her genuine character. She's one of the most engaging teachers I've ever had and the sincerest person I've ever met."
"It was an honor," blushed Boger.
"Equally appreciated was knowing that one of our alumnus, Andy Kuntz* ('02) was a mentor for him in high school as well. Kuntz is now the State Director for high school culinary programs in Arizona. Cody was mentored by Andy, even after high school," she said.
"That was kind of nice, that I had a student that was a student of a student," chuckles Boger.
"I just know that whatever Cody receives, he gives back somehow. Not necessarily monetarily, but maybe in his time. He is a good mentor for students as well," she said.
In the same breath, Boger was notified by the NAU Office of Student Life and the Associated Students of Northern Arizona University (ASNAU) that Hays had nominated Boger for a Louie Award. The Louie Awards are a chance for members of the NAU community to recognize outstanding students, faculty, or staff, "…an honor that recognizes 'unsung heroes' on campus for their commitment to the Lumberjack community," stated the 2016 online call for nominations. [Boger was unable to attend the 2016 Louie Awards on April 5 due to a prior commitment to the FCB Etiquette Dinner for Residence Life (story HERE).]
While being an educator doesn't require recognition, these do help affirm what gives it meaning, especially given the source.
"Coming from a student, this [educator] article means the world to me," said Boger.
* Kuntz worked at The Inn at NAU when it was open and upon his graduation did a short stint as Sous Chef at the Inn.
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The ECONOMICS and POLITICS of WELFARE STATES In a welfare state, government programs take primary responsibility for providing the economic security of unemployed, ill, or retired citizens.
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In a welfare state, government programs take primary responsibility for providing the economic security of unemployed, ill, or retired citizens.
Modern welfare states, emerging gradually in late 19th century from poor relief schemes, provided relatively universal coverage in the 20th.
To block socialism's appeal, German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck created first state-run social insurance program paying retirement benefits (1889). System was funded with payroll taxes paid by employees and employers, with governmental contributions. It also included disability benefits for injured workers.
Why did Bismarck set the age of retirement at 65 years? What problems does it create for today?
Nordic systems of 1930s based on mutualist benefit provisions. UK's 1942 Beveridge Report formed basis for a pension fund to which workers made compulsory contributions during working lives. Universal coverage included income & assistance to workers and their families in the event of injury or illness; eventually a "socialized medicine" system.
America's individualist culture delayed the welfare state, but the Great Depression (1929-41) made rudimentary welfare politically feasible.
FDR's New Deal tried to rationalize market instabilities by strong federal government intervention. It transferred money to unemployed workers by Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA), Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), and Civil Works Administration (CWA). The Social Security Act of 1935 provided Old Age and unemployment insurance, and welfare benefits for such dependent groups as children and the handicapped.
High-water mark for U.S. welfare state was 1960s, when Lyndon Johnson used his landslide political capital to push through Great Society legislation: Medicare/Medicaid, Job Corps, Head Start, Upward Bound, Neighborhood Youth Corps, VISTA, Model Cities. The U.S. poverty rate fell from 22% to 13%.
Yet the Great Society was never fully funded; why?
By the 1980s, both Britain and America turned politically conservative, electing leaders who cut the welfare state in favor of market solutions.
To promote a more entrepreneurial culture, Margaret Thatcher reduced state controls over business. She curtailed the trade unions' power and fostered a more flexible labour market to create jobs. Her policies initially created very high unemployment and wealth inequality, but by the mid-1980s sustained economic growth led to improved U.K. economic performance.
Applying "supply-side" and "trickle-down" economic theories, Ronald Reagan used slowed social welfare spending, tight-money policies, & across-the-board tax cuts to boost business investments. Following a sharp recession, the U.S. economy dramatically expanded. But, high Cold War military spending contributed to huge federal budget deficits, tripling the national debt.
Was Reagan deficit a strategy to starve the welfare state?
Bill Clinton tried to expand the welfare state, putting Hillary in charge of an ultimately failed effort to create a universal health care system.
Their proposal combined complex government and market reform ideas that provoked opposition from many interest groups. With Democrats in disarray, Republicans effectively mobilized a grassroots anti-government campaign to defeat the plan. The 1994 right-wing Republican election victories killed any future chance for comprehensive health care reform.
Gøsta Esping-Anderson proposed an influential typology of welfare regimes based on a Marxist concept of the decommodification of labor.
Decommodified welfare states treat economic security as an entitlement, removing the recipients from compulsions and risks of capitalist markets. Rules about pensions, sickness, and unemployment benefits govern access and eligibility, income replacement levels, and protections against societal risks (1990 The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism).
Conservatism: number of major occupationally distinct pension schemes; expenditure on government-employee pensions as a share of GDP
Liberalism: means-tested poor relief; private pensions; private health spending
Socialism: share of population age 16-64 eligible for sickness, unemployment, and pension benefits; ratio of basic level of benefits to legal maximum benefits, average for sickness, unemployment, and pension programs.
Hicks & Kenworthy's factor analysis of E-A's data empirically identified only two welfare-state dimensions: "Socialist-liberal" and "Traditional conservatism."
Consequences of Welfare States
Does welfare expenditure affect national economic performance? Liberals claim that high welfare spending sacrifices strong growth, social democrats charge that it increases poverty and inequality.
E-A's typology is related to national income distribution: Social democracies have less inequality than conservative and liberal welfare states, as measured by the Gini ratio (where 0 = perfect equality).
What is the likely impact of recent Bush Admin's tax cut policies on U.S. inequality?
Hicks & Kenworthy's multiple regressions found socialist-liberalism scale decreased income inequality & poverty, raised women's share of earnings. Traditional conservatism increased unemployment & rate of unemployment.
Welfare Spending Slows Growth?
James Gwartney, Robert Lawson and Randall Holcombe. 1998. The Size and Functions of Government and Economic Growth. Joint Economic Congressional Committee, Jim Saxton, chairman.<http://www.house.gov/jec/growth/function/function.htm>
Dana Hill & Leann Tigges examined competing explanations of working-class institutional effects on quality of women's pensions.
Radical feminism: Male-dominated institutions produce male-biased outcomes, disadvantaging women's average pensions relative to male pensions, to average women's wage, & to average societal wage
Socialist feminism: Working-class institutions promote class-wide interests of equal gender benefit
Which nations have higher parity between male & female pensions?
Which hypotheses better fit the data?
How do women's access to economic and political institutions affect their security and retirement incomes?
John Myles & Jill Quadagno contrasted industrialism, class, & political explanations of the historical variations among welfare state forms.
Recent research shows that "politics matters," by documenting "the importance of working-class mobilization (in unions and parties) as a condition for early (e.g., 1920s) welfare state consolidation and for explaining national differences in their subsequent expansion. …[and] distinctive role of social Catholicism and Christian Democratic parties in generating high levels of social spending…"
Since 1970s, how have welfare states "accommodated to austerity?" What role are political institutions playing in welfare responses to globalization?
What are the welfare impacts from slower growth, aging populations, new gender roles, changing family structures, shifts in social class composition?
Are advanced capitalist nations engaging in a "race to the bottom," or are reports of the welfare state's demise greatly exaggerated?
What is the evidence for regime retrenchment or program restructuring?
How are "the new politics of welfare" creating resilient welfare states?
Walter Korpi disputed post-industrialist explanations of retrenchment, where demographic & economic changes drive permanent austerity.
The European welfare-state regress reflects the return of mass unemployment: "In the power-resources approach, … conflicts concerning the determination of demand for labor and levels of unemployment emerge as key issues. Government budgetary pressures … is to a major extent correlated with the rise in unemployment levels."
Why is unemployment a key variable? Who has interests in raising/lowering it?
What short-term benefit programs are being curtailed in European Union?
What role has party politics played in welfare retrenchment?
What will likely be Europe's future implicit social contract between groups?


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Asa Butterfield Promotes 'Miss Peregrine' During Build Series Stop
Asa Butterfield rocks his glasses during an appearance at the Build Series in New York City on Thursday (September 29).
The 19-year-old Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children actor is also featured in the new issue of Schon magazine. Here's what he had to share:
On making connections with his movie characters: "I find the characters which are the most interesting, or most relatable are the ones that have their own kind of issue or problem that they are dealing with. Whether they are the same ones that you are dealing with or not, it allows you to kind of empathise with the character."
On relating to Jacob in Miss Peregrine: "[He's] taken out of his comfort zone. He's kicked out of his home and is taken to a children's home. He's totally out of place; in the deep end. Me, growing up in this industry, thrown into this world which, when I started, I knew very little about… I'm still trying to grasp it all. I think actors are some of the most empathetic people because they have to put themselves in positions where they feel uncomfortable or they've got to deal with something terrible. That really allows you to feel for people in the real world who are going through struggles and are having a tough time."
On working with Tim Burton: "There were a lot of moments where we would do a take, get the scene right, and then he would come up to me and say, 'Now just do whatever you want; forget everything I've said and do your own thing.' Firstly, that makes you, as an actor, feel like he trusts your take on it which, when you're working with a director like Tim, means a lot. It also kind of gets rid of the pressure and gives the ability to take a deep breath, to start again, and to do something different."
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As some of you all know MAC Cosmetics is one of my favorite brands of make-up. I love their consistency in their eyeshadows, the range of colors that they offer, and the wearability of their make-up. Their products just simply outshine the rest!
MAC Cosmetics, Makeup Art Cosmetics, was founded in Toronto, Canada by Frank Toskan and Frank Angelo in 1984. The first U.S MAC store opened in 1991, in Greenwich Village, New York. The company's products were initially specifically designed for professional make-up artists, but are now sold to consumers worldwide. Angelo was the original founder. Toskan was a make-up artist and photographer, and Angelo was the owner of a hair salon chain. Since they were both involved in fashion photography, they both quickly recognized the need for more durable, versatile and creative cosmetics products that could handle the demands of professional photo shoots.
Always on the cutting edge with their engagement of celebrity endorsements, awareness of social and cultural diversity, and involvement in charitable social initiatives, MAC Cosmetics has now grown to become one of the most popular and influential cosmetics companies in the world.
The new MAC owners have continued on with the MAC AIDS Fund, a program where the sale of MAC's Viva Glam products provide help men, women and children living with HIV and AIDS. MAC donates 100% of the selling price of these Viva Glam products to the cause. As of 2008, the fund had raised over $128 million dollars. Since the campaign started the spokespeople chosen are alternative, influential and even provocative with RuPaul (a drag queen) being the first spokesperson and KD Lang, Pamela Anderson and Dita Von Tees being involved in later campaigns. Lady Gaga will be the next Viva Glam spokesperson launching in early 2011.
MAC also features additional programs for cruelty-free makeup products, child abuse and protection of the environment through recycling. MAC is definitely one of the leading cosmetics companies when it comes to social and environmental awareness. When it comes to contemporary cosmetics, MAC is very likely the most sought after cosmetics line. Within the MAC Cosmetics line are some of the most desired products on the market. MAC also provides their customers with a client-focused philosophy which contributes to growing number of clients who adore MAC products.
Color palettes have been developed by MAC Cosmetics for every possible shade, tone and type of skin. Well over 160 shades of lipstick and 150 shades of eyeshadow have been created to date with numerous finishes. In addition, MAC consistently releases fresh, new, limited edition collections. MAC's newly developed skincare line (2007) also meets the needs of diverse skin types. MAC also focuses on offering products to cater to the innovation and creative needs of professional makeup-artists and imaginative customers. MAC Cosmetics continues to be client focused and to offer their customers more than other cosmetics companies with overall client service as well as superior products and selection. As a result, MAC's popularity is continuing to grow, and clients are continuing to rave about their products.
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As featured in Digital Parenting magazine, Vodafone's virtual panel of experts provide advice on some of the digital challenges young people face.
Leading child and adolescent psychiatrist Dr Richard Graham investigates how young people's technology use can sometimes tip over into addiction.
One of the most difficult dilemmas that any parent faces today is knowing when the amount of time a young person spends online is becoming too much.
Fact vs fiction: The Diana Award's anti-bullying expert Alex Holmes sheds some light on the issue of bullying.
With so many scare stories about cyberbullying, it's not surprising that parents can feel overwhelmed. Our Q&A helps to shed some light…
Leading psychologist Dr Linda Papadopoulos highlights the consequences of the sexualisation of young people in an increasingly complex world.
How are young people affected by sexual images in the media?
Vicki Shotbolt of Parent Zone looks at online dares and other ways in which children and teenagers come under pressure from their peers on social media.
Is the internet to blame for young people feeling unhappy and anxious? YoungMinds CEO Sarah Brennan highlights some sensitive issues.
Parents have always had to respond to the world changing around them, and today their worries are often about issues relating to digital technology. Cyberbullying, sexting and online child sexual exploitation all create anxiety about children's happiness and mental health.
With growing concern about young people sharing naked photos and videos, Kate Burls of CEOP Command asks how can you keep your child safe?
The selfie has become a global phenomenon and it's not just young people who are at it. Selfies featuring popstars, politicians and even the Pope have gone viral on social media. You might even have posted a few yourself.
Jonathan Russell of The Quilliam Foundation offers practical advice so that parents can help to tackle extremism in the digital age.
Parents can help tackle online radicalisation by encouraging their children to appreciate the variety of identities and beliefs in the world today.
Tony Neate of Get Safe Online outlines the steps families can take to minimise online and mobile security risks.
With nine out of ten children (91%) aged 5-15 living in a household with internet access and 41% of 12 to 15-year-olds now in possession of a smartphone, the need for young people to be aware of how to conduct themselves safely and securely online has never been greater.


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What I Have Taught:
K-5 Elementary Music, fourth and fifth grade choir, and am currently co-director for our district fifth grade honor choir.
Where I am From and Where I Have Taught:
I grew up in the NASA area near Houston, Texas. I have taught most of my 29 years in Clear Creek ISD southeast of Houston.
Favorite Teaching Memory:
I am constantly running into students I have taught. I have come to dread the words, "Do you remember me?" Sometimes I actually do remember them which is fun. And other times I put on my best 'of course I remember you' face and go with the flow! It is always nice to run into them and find out what they are currently up to.
Quick, Fun Facts About Me:
I love to read. I am a fan of fantasy fiction- you know…. Harry Potter, Percy Jackson, and Eragon to name a few. I also enjoy action adventure novels. I am a fast reader and can get through a novel in a few days-of course not much else gets done but I'm okay with that!
Why I Love TpT:
I like sharing my ideas with other teachers. TpT is also a great resource for lesson planning and finding unique learning experiences for my students.
Music Teacher Quick Tip:
My district has a centrally located Teacher Center with a huge collection of dies to use for cutting out numerous shapes. As a part of their collection they have the full collection of music notes from whole notes to eighth/sixteenth combinations. I bought myself some rolls of contact paper and a handy small pocket divider that you might use for coupons. Spent a morning at the center and die cut tons of notes. I divided them into the pockets of the holder by kinds and when I need a quick visual of a rhythm or a song I pull out my notes and peel the paper off the back and slap my visual together in a matter of minutes! I have red, blue, green and yellow notes of all kinds ready to go at a moment's notice. Check out the photos below to see how I store these notes and a quickly completed project I used to review a recorder piece. The phrases of the melody were not in order and students had to play the segments to determine the correct phrase order.
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My Orchestra family packets have been fairly popular. Maybe you haven't seen this great lines and spaces bulletin board or these super awesome dynamics mobiles in my store. Check them out!
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Where the little boy shouts at the newly planted tree on 97th Street, "Willow Oak, why are you so small and helpless? Get old RIGHT NOW little Willow Oak!" but the Willow Oak doesn't appear willing or able to change.
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It's beginning to feel a lot like fall around these parts! September 1st hit and the weather took a turn. I've already busted out my Hunter boots and my riding boots. I haven't brought myself to make or eat anything pumpkin yet but it's not far away! I received Stitch Fix #29 last week and it was full of fall goodies. Here's what I got…
Edyson Hampton Corduroy Skinny Jean & Papermoon Gardner Button Back Detail Blouse
Look at these jewel colors! So pretty. I love the navy background of the top with hints of mustard and green. The button detail on the back is so fun. The pants are a rich burgundy color. While I love this outfit I don't think I would wear it very often. I can't see myself reaching for colored pants as much as I would denim. Both items returned, unfortunately.
Market & Spruce Chaplin Lined Hooded Anorak Jacket & Loveappella Jolli Knit Top
*Don't mind my dirty jeans. Parker was climbing all over me with muddy feet. I tried to edit it out but made it look worse!
The Market & Spruce Chaplin jacket is gorgeous. It's lined with a dark navy stripe and has a nice pop of orange along the front. I was half tempted to keep it even though I have a jacket almost identical. I had to remind myself that we are going to Cabo next month and stick to the budget! I did keep the Loveappella Jolli top though. It's gray and white and made out of the softest material. This is probably the 7th or 8th Loveappella top I've kept because they are so soft! I just want to live in them. I also love the split back detail and the fact that it's a little longer and covers my bum.
Romolo Genevieve Stacked Chevron Pendant Necklace
I had to ask the ladies in my Stylish Mama Facebook group if chevron jewelry was still in style. The style has been around for so many years, I just wasn't sure. The answer was YES! So I kept it. I can pair this necklace with lots of different tops and dresses. It's simple yet makes a statement.
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One of the things I most identify with Singapore is the work force. Not the business workers, the tough and dirty hard workers you see throughout the streets of the perpetual construction of Singapore. I'm still in awe on how buildings are constructed using bamboo scaffolding tied together with rope. During my latest photography walk at the Marina Bay I came across this group working the late hours of the evening to erect a stage. Such an inspiring site of their strength. I love the way their hot strobe lights gives the perfect back and rim lighting to accentuate their physique.
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