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September is here and another school year has begun.
For some, this time of the year is filled with excitement and anticipation—who's going to be in my classes? What should I wear on the first day of school? For others it is a wistful time, wishing the summer hadn't gone by so fast.
For some parents it is a time of sadness—walking home after dropping your child off on their first day of kindergarten, or driving home after dropping them off at their first year of college—Where did the years go? Of course, for other parents this is the most wonderful time of the year ☺.
Perhaps you remember your first day at school, your first teacher or the kid you sat next to at the cafeteria. If you were an introverted kid, the first day of school often involved sweaty palms and knots in your stomach.
The first day of school has often been portrayed on film. One of my favorites is the 90's classic, Billy Madison, but I'll save that for another sermon ☺. Toward the beginning of another 90's film, Forrest Gump, there is a moving scene that captures the anxiety that often accompanies the first day of school.
Forrest is sitting on a park bench reminiscing with a stranger: "I remember the bus ride on the first day of school…very well." The film flashes back to a scene of young Forrest with braces on his legs as he awkwardly clunks up the stairs onto the bus and begins clunking down the aisle, the bus lurches down the road and he struggles to keep his balance as he looks for a place to sit.
"Seat's taken," scowls one boy. He continues down the aisle and sees another empty space—but another boy, who refuses to even make eye contact with Forest, sneers, "Taken," as he puts his books down in that empty space.
As Forrest continues clunking down the aisle, a girl with long hair simply shakes her head at him and looks out the window.
As Forest approaches the back of the bus, he sees another empty space, but the boy sitting next to it covers that space with his arm, "Can't sit here," he drawls.
As the bus continues moving, Forrest continues to struggle to keep his balance. His face is dripping with panic. He turns around and begins walking back toward the front of the bus.
"You know it's funny what a young man recollects," the adult Forrest continues as he narrates, "'cause I don't remember being born, and I don't recall what I got for my first Christmas and I don't know when I went on my first outdoor picnic…but I do remember the first time I heard the sweetest voice in the wide world…"
The film then shows young Forrest beginning to head back toward the front of the bus, when he hears the voice of a little girl named Jenny, who gently and reassuringly says to him, "You can sit here if you want."
We all need a safe place to sit, a place where we are welcomed, a place where we are invited, especially in the times when we feel alone clunking down the aisle of the bus, struggling to keep our balance as life continues speeding down the road.
In today's Gospel passage from Luke, Jesus is at a dinner party at the home of a Pharisee. Pharisees were religious leaders who focused on one thing and one thing only: keeping the law, specifically the laws of the Old Testament. Pharisees tended to be highly educated, wealthy, and quite concerned with their social status. This was particularly the case when it came to dinner parties—both regarding who would be invited, and where they would sit.
We often see this same scenario at wedding receptions or banquets. Sometimes when I officiate a wedding, I attend the reception, and I must confess that when there is assigned seating, I feel bad for those assigned to my table—nobody goes to a wedding reception excited about the prospect of partying with a priest ☺.
Back to the passage…Luke notes that the people at this particular dinner party "were watching (Jesus) closely," which I'm sure was fun for Jesus, but Jesus was watching them too, and "noticed how the guests chose the places of honor."
Jesus teaches about humility, about taking the lowest seat instead of the seat of honor, but he takes it one step further and addresses the host of this dinner directly:
"When you give a luncheon or a dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors, in case they may invite you in return, and you would be repaid. But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind. And you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you" (Luke 14:13-14).
Jesus' words flew in the face of all the Pharisees held dear, both their preoccupation with obedience to the law and their concern for social status—because the Pharisees considered the poor, crippled, lame and blind as not only the last people you should ever invite to your house for dinner, but also deemed their suffering as being due to their disobedience to the law.
Yes, you can take this passage at face value, and be on your guard against intentionally taking the seat of honor at the next banquet you attend, or make sure you invite people you wouldn't ordinarily invite to your next party, but this passage goes way past that, because it points us to the gospel.
The gospel is not about social status or the law; the gospel is about grace.
And the reality is that you and I are the ones who are poor, crippled, lame, and blind, that as Paul preached last week, you and I are like the woman with the crooked back Jesus healed, you and I are bent in on ourselves because of our sin.
And the gospel is good news because in spite of all that, Jesus has personally invited you to his dinner party.
Singer-songwriter Bill Mallonee puts it this way:
"We're blind men, sad men, dreamers with wishes
Paralytics, lunatics, and the backstreet fringes
All find a place in Your home, at Your table
And you make them well 'cause You're willing and able"
("Who Knows When the Sunrise Will Be" from the 1996 Vigilantes of Love album, V.O.L.).
When my kids were little, my wife Steph and I used to read to them a lot. One of their favorite books (and one of mine too) was Go, Dog, Go!, the 1961 classic children's book written and illustrated by P.D. Eastman. (For some reason our kids weren't as interested in reading Crime and Punishment or As I Lay Dying ☺). Throughout Go, Dog, Go!, various dogs are frenetically driving from place to place, always on the go. At the end of the book, however, the frenetic going comes to an end in a surprising way:
Go dogs go! There they go.
Look at those dogs go.
Why are they going fast in those cars?
What are they going to do?
Where are those dogs going?…
They are all going to that big tree over there.
Now the cars stop.
Now all the dogs get out.
And now look where those dogs are going?
To the tree, to the tree
Up the tree, up the tree
Up they go to the top of the tree
Why? Will they work there? Will they play there?
What is up there on top of that tree?
A dog party! A big dog party!
Big dogs, little dogs, red dogs, blue dogs, yellow dogs, green dogs, black dogs and white dogs…are all at a dog party!
What a dog party!
Like the dogs in Go, Dogs, Go! we often find ourselves frenetically going from place to place, or like Forrest on the bus, clunking up and down the aisle, we run from relationship to relationship, or from job to job, or from fraternity to fraternity or sorority to sorority… even from church to church—looking for a place where we are actually invited, where we are accepted, where there is a place for us to sit.
Rock 'n roll icon Tom Petty puts it this way: "And it's hard to say who you are these days, but you run on anyway, don't you baby? You keep running for another place to find that saving grace" (from the song "Saving Grace" on the 2006 album, Highway Companion).
The good news of the gospel is that Jesus has personally invited you, all of you—the poor, crippled, lame and blind—to his party, because he loves you unconditionally.
Jesus' words are Jenny's words, "You can sit here if you want."
One of my favorite Christian writers and speakers, Brennan Manning, died this past April. In his final book he wrote this: "My message, unchanged for more than fifty years, is this: God loves you unconditionally, as you are and not as you should be, because nobody is as they should be" (All is Grace, p. 192).
In his most famous book, The Ragamuffin Gospel, Manning gives an illustration of this unconditional love of God in the following story from a surgeon named Richard Selzer, who recounts what happened once after performing surgery:
"I stand by the bed where a young woman lies, her face postoperative, her mouth twisted in palsy, clownish. A tiny twig of the facial nerve, the one to the muscles of her mouth, has been severed. She will be thus from now on… to remove the tumor in her cheek, I had to cut the little nerve.
Her young husband is in the room. He stands on the opposite side of the bed and together they seem to dwell in the evening lamplight, isolated from me, private. Who are they, I ask myself, he and this wry mouth I have made, who gaze at and touch each other so generously, greedily? The young woman speaks, "Will my mouth always be like this?" she asks.
"Yes," I say, "it will…because the nerve was cut." She nods and is silent.
But the young man smiles.
"I like it," he says, "It is kind of cute"…Unmindful, he bends to kiss her crooked mouth and I am so close I can see how he twists his own lips to accommodate to hers, to show her that their kiss still works" (106-107).
On Good Friday, Jesus walked alone down the Via Dolorosa, not with braces on his legs, but with a cross on his back. There was no place for him to sit and rest.
The Bible tells us that, "Jesus came to what was his own, and his own people did not accept him" (John 1:11). In other words, Jesus was not invited to the party.
And the people Jesus came to save nailed him "to the tree, to the tree."
And on that tree, he gave his life to express once and for all his unconditional love for the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, and yes, for the Pharisees too, his unconditional love for everyone clunking up and down the bus aisle or frenetically going from place to place—in other words, for you and me.
And on that tree, as a nineteenth century hymn puts it:
Grace and love like mighty rivers poured incessant from above
And Heaven's peace and perfect justice kissed a guilty world in love
("Here is Love," by William Rees).
The good news of the gospel is that his kiss still works—Jesus invites you to his party.
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Projection Gold-Leaf Electroscope (early 1900s)
Gold leaf electroscope (ca. 5" tall and 8" long) for qualitative demonstrations of electrostatic phenomena. The lamp is protected by the horizontal cylindrical housing on the right. An image of the gold leaf and its supporting rod is projected through the lens and onto a screen for easier viewing. In this example, only a fragment of the (single) gold leaf remains. The body is made of black painted brass.
In general, an electrophorus would be used to transfer a charge to the horizontal disk (Volta plate) on the top. For an explanation of how an electroscope can be charged and how an electrophorus works, click here.
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Microsoft has boosted security in its new OS. Has it done enough?
Microsoft is hoping to polish its tarnished security track record with the final release of its long-awaited Windows Vista operating system. The company has been touting the OS as its most secure platform to date and used this as a major selling point at the glitzy international launch in January.
"Some of what we've done with Vista is really about getting the fundamentals right to build an inherently more secure product," says Scott Charney, Microsoft's vice-president of Trustworthy Computing.
Although there is a consensus among many in the industry that Vista is Microsoft's best effort to date when it comes to securing a platform, some experts have reservations about whether the improvements will be enough. Others have complained about some of the company's methods to improve security. Even before the release of the OS, much of the debate has focused on a kernel-patch protection mechanism that has locked security companies out of the operating system's kernel code.
Security experts are quick to point out that no matter how many improvements are made to Vista's security, there will always be vulnerabilities and a need for third-party security solutions. "Vista is never going to be the end-all security solution," says Richard Jacobs, chief technology officer of Sophos. "It is not going to be without its own vulnerabilities, which will be identified over time."
Nevertheless, Microsoft remains confident that Vista's improvements will speak for themselves once the migrations from older Windows versions begin. "We are delivering what customers asked for: the most secure and reliable version of Windows yet," insists Stephen Toulouse, senior product manager of Microsoft's security technology unit. "There are a number of features that are fundamental to the baseline security of the operating system. We're completely changing the way we engineer our products."
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The changes to Windows have their origins in a company-wide email Bill Gates sent out five years ago. It laid the philosophical groundwork for what would become Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing (TWC) initiative. Microsoft brought Charney on board a month after Gates sent that memo, with the mission of breathing life into the initiative. Since then, he has led the cultural revolution at the company to improve in the four pillars of trustworthy computing: security, privacy, reliability and business integrity.
"We've done a lot of work in all four areas, but I can say quite clearly that security has received the most focus," Charney says. "People have a lot more faith in our products now than they did five years ago. They are now seeing changes in our products and services."
Charney believes that Vista will be the most visible indicator of his work so far. "It brings a lot of security, privacy and reliability - classic TWC features - to the client operating system," he adds. "Vista is the first client operating system to go through the security development lifecycle (SDL) and be focused on threat mitigation throughout its development."
Logistically, SDL put security at the forefront from the earliest stages of Vista's development. The idea behind the improved process was not to chase the impossibility of perfect code, but to mitigate risks by lowering the number of bugs in the code and reduce the severity of those bugs that remained.
"The product itself underwent basically the largest penetration testing effort of any commercial software product in history," Toulouse claims. "And security researchers have had unprecedented input into the design of the product. But, having said all that, we certainly understand there's going to be updates to Vista. The goal is that to the extent that there are updates, there will be fewer, and these will have less impact on customers."
Charney explains that the SDL's tenet is to be secure by design, secure by default and secure by deployment. The first aspect is the most fundamental and includes rigorous code testing and the creation of threat models during development. The second element relies on architecting the software so that default settings are less vulnerable - for example, Vista is the first iteration of Windows that sets user access controls so that machines aren't set at administrator levels by default. And the third aspect includes improvements in the automatic patching process and management of security within the OS.
All of this, explains Toulouse, should help create multiple layers of defence that should have a synergistic security effect. "There is no one silver bullet, and that was the approach we took with Windows Vista," he says. "Knowing full well that you can't ever get the code 100 per cent right, we decided to make the software more resilient across multiple layers."
So will it all work out in the real world? Some analysts believe that Vista truly will mark a turning point for Microsoft, while others in the vendor community are less certain. "We think Vista is going to bring about fairly dramatic security benefits to Windows users," says Andrew Jaquith, program manager for Yankee Group's enabling technologies enterprise group. "They've put a lot of effort into improving the OS in a very basic way."
In a recent poll conducted by US technology provider CDW Corporation, the majority of IT decision-makers familiar with Vista rank security as their biggest driver for adopting the new version of Windows. Even some in the security community, rarely known to pull punches on Microsoft, have responded relatively favourably to the new release.
"It's a very good thing that Microsoft has spent a lot of effort on security in Vista," says Ari Hypponen, chief technology officer of anti-virus vendor F-Secure. "It will be much more secure out of the box than any previous version of Windows. The biggest improvements are not very visible, as they spent a lot of time securing their code."
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However, all of this early enthusiasm does come with some reservations. Jaquith, for instance, worries that new features, such as the user-access control, are onerous to use and could prompt people to turn them off. And many security professionals are quick to remind anyone who will listen that Vista's bolstered security is no replacement for strong third-party solutions. "Vista will be the most secure Microsoft operating system today, but it won't be good enough without a security package," Hypponen insists.
Even Microsoft executives agree with this sentiment. Charney cites the need for additional security solutions as one of the reasons why his company threw its hat into the security ring last year with its own offering, Windows Live OneCare.
This entree into the niche has not been without some controversy, as some vendors have complained that Microsoft has already thrown roadblocks up for its competitors with a new feature in Vista. In its effort to protect against the growing threat of rootkits, Microsoft integrated a new feature called PatchGuard into the 64-bit version of Vista. The mechanism acts to block access to the kernel's code and prevent applications from changing the kernel while it is running.
But many high-profile security companies, notably Symantec and McAfee, have complained vociferously that not only is Microsoft blocking the baddies with this new feature, they're keeping security software vendors out as well. Some executives believe the locking down of the kernel is part of Microsoft's gambit to corner the security software market now that it has launched OneCare. Ultimately, they claim, the move will hurt users.
The kernel dispute
"In the enterprise scenario, PatchGuard prevents us from getting deep into the core of the operating system," says George Heron, chief scientist for McAfee. "By not being able to monitor some of the data in the critical memory areas and the operation of that core, we're not able to detect a certain class of malware that Microsoft is frankly not able to do now."
Though Microsoft has offered to provide application programming interfaces (APIs) to grant limited access to the kernel, vendors have received no timeline for delivery, and analysts Gartner predict that they won't be delivered until 2008. Even then, Heron is concerned that they will be too little, too late.
"I worry because offering up a token API or two is very likely not going to be enough," Heron says. "It might sound OK to the public, but from a technical perspective, visibility through one peephole to the kernel is not going to suffice because malware has the tendency to hide in all of the dark corners of the basement of the operating system."
Ultimately, Charney says that security vendors are putting Microsoft in a difficult position by asking for things to be reverted back to the way they used to be. "Do you leave it open and leave the world at risk, or do you make one of these fundamental shifts in security, recognising that there will be some backward compatibility issues, and that the ecosystem will have to adjust?" Charney counters. "It seems to me that just leaving everyone at risk isn't the answer. At the end of the day, we have a fundamental choice, and it doesn't seem (Symantec and McAfee) are thinking about how the security model has to change to reflect the threat models."
Toulouse concurs that Microsoft is doing what it believes is right for users, even in the face of some resistance from vendors. The initial complaints are to be expected, they're growing pains, he says. But he believes that as the industry matures the dissent will die down.
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Today, he is being WARNED! Yes the capitals are intentional because this latest warning comes from no less than former prime minister, Mahathir Mohamed.
The former PM says that Najib should listen to views expressed by Perkasa because it is a "mouthpiece" of the Malay community.
Really? So, if you are Malay and don't agree with what Perkasa is doing you better make your voices heard. NOW!
This next bit from Dr. M is quite scary. He said that Najib must listen to their (Perkasa's I presume) view "whether it is sane or insane".
And this is the man who was our Prime Minister for 22 years! Now I feel insanely stupid.
Mahathir also said "The Government is listening to the grouses of other communities and it should also listen to the grouses of the Malays''.
Hello uncle! When has the Malaysian government NOT been listening to the grouses of the Malays and looking after them? Tell me. Which period of our 50+ years as an independent nation? Got meh? I think it is just people like you and Perkasa who are insisting that fiction be created to cover up history.
"Dr Mahathir said sensitive religious and racial issues should be discussed behind closed doors for the sake of stability."
I tell you ah, politicians lie so often that they totally forget what they are saying. This man is speechifying about Malay rights and all and he tells us that racial issues should be discussed behind closed doors for the sake of stability?
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Our baby is one year old and we are worried about his safety on our back deck, specifically with regard to the handrail and spindle spacing. What size opening is safe for our baby?
The standard for spindle spacing is a maximum of 4". If there are spaces in the railing that a 4" ball will pass through it is technically not up to code. If the spacing is greater than 4" a small child could get their head through the railing and become stuck when trying to back out. Let's face it this is a very rare situation and most often the problem will be with the space under the railing which is often 6-10" off the deck. Another common problem is railings that can be a climbing toy. A fall from the deck can have very serious consequences. Remember that the code has a built in safety margin. If you measure every opening and find some are closer to 5" I would not tear the whole railing apart to make changes. Take a piece of paper and cut a 4" circle out of the center. You will be amazed how small this is. Even most newborns have heads larger than 4" The real dangers are from stairs and falling over the railing.
We have a deck that is quite high. It also has a bench seat. Someone told me the seat is not allowed by code, can you explain?
The use of a bench seat usually allows children to climb under or over the seat and fall off the deck. Bench seats need to have a 36" high seat back that prevents someone from falling over the back. If this seat is over 60" from the ground the seat back needs to be 42" high. Remember that decks are dangerous places and building them properly is critical to your families safety. I recommend you obtain a permit for all the requirements of your area as many jurisdictions have specific rules they enforce.
We are building a new deck this summer. What are the rules for the railings?
There are some standard rules such as no openings greater than 4" but there are other less obvious rules you need to be aware of. Ultimately the rules are there for your safety and the safety of anyone who may use your deck. No railing should be designed in a manner that will allow it to be climbed. Another rule is that bench seats need to have a 36" high seat back that prevents someone from falling over the back. If this seat is over 60" from the ground the seat back needs to be 42" high. I recommend getting a permit from the city so you can view all the code regulations. Make sure that the railing is properly attached to the deck surface and the house if possible. A loose railing is just as dangerous as one that has over 4" openings.
I have a lot of ice on my concrete walk way in the spring. Is there a type of ice melt you recommend?
The best approach to removing ice on the walk is to never let it get there in the first place. If you have a downspout that drains onto the walk you should redirect the water overhead so it drains on the grass on the far side of the walk. Put a post in the ground and place the downspout on it. Draining water on the walkway is a fall looking for a place to happen. As to ice melts I do not know of any particular brands that will not eat away the concrete over time. Salt based ice melting products are very hard on the walks and the lawn for that matter. It is best to control the water in the first place. If you must use salt do so sparingly.
Deck Safety
Deck safety is something an inspector needs to pay close attention to. It is important to remember that a home inspection is not a code inspection. That means the inspector is not trying to go through the home and point out every code infraction. The deck is one area where the line between the home and code inspection may intersect. As a home inspector I try to look at the deck in terms of safety for those using it. I don't know if there will be seniors or infants on the deck so I personally point out issues that may lead to a fall or trip on the deck.
When looking at the deck I pay close attention to the deck surface for rot or other openings that could trip someone. I also look at the railing to see if there are any openings larger than 4". I chose 4" because that is what is the current standard or code as the maximum opening between spindles. If I notice that there are openings of five or six inches I simply state that the deck could be made safer if it was up to the current standard of 4". Most of the time the clients are not at all concerned but I feel it is my duty to forewarn them just in case they may feel it is important enough to make the changes.
There are other common issues with decks that I look for. The biggest safety issue in my mind is the use of bench seating on the deck. These benches usually have ample room for children to crawl under and over the edge of the deck. Worse yet the top of the bench back is often very high off the ground. A small child of four or five can lean over or climb over the back and fall several feet to the ground. The rule for bench seats is that if the deck surface is under six feet off the ground the back of the bench seat must extend 36" above the seat itself in a manner that would not allow a child to climb over it. If the deck is over six feet the back of the bench must be 42" over the seat.
The underside of the deck should be examined to check for poor construction methods and attachment to the home itself. I do not concern myself with the code in particular as I am primarily concerned about how strong the deck is and if it looks unsafe. I always say there are several ways to build a deck, many of them wrong. But of those that are wrong, the majority are perfectly safe and strong. Remember code enforcement has not been around forever and many of the old decks are fine even if they don't necessarily meet the standards set forth in today's code.
Some other areas of deck safety are loose or missing railings. If the railing is rotting and about to fall off it is important to note that in the inspection. Similarly if the railing is missing it is definitely a fall hazard. Building steps is one of those tough jobs that requires a bit of math. Many homeowners can't seem to master the concept and therefore end up with a set of steps that are either too steep, have irregular tread width or have different riser heights. The brain will often develop a pattern when treading on steps and you place your feet where your brain expects the next step to be. The problem is, it is not where it should be and down you go. It's amazing that only one inch change in riser height or tread depth can cause a nasty fall and even death.
Finally what the deck is mounted on matters. If the deck is freestanding or attached on only one side to the home, it can usually be placed on patio blocks and 4×4's. Today we see a lot of the concrete deck blocks in use which help add stability. If the deck has walls and a roof it is likely best to have the deck mounted on sona tubes buried well below the frost level. This ensures that the walls of the porch or deck move at the same rate as the home. It is important as well to look at the span of the stringers to see if the deck support posts are adequate and enough supports are being used in comparison to the deck size. If the deck is built with the lumber touching the ground it is usually not a good sign. If the lumber is not pressure treated outdoor wood it is also not good as rot will set in very early in the life of the deck. So my advice when evaluating a deck is to look at all these things closely and always ask yourself if the deck is safe and look for problems such as those mentioned above as well as several others I could mention.
Finally its Barbeque Season.
If you are like me, a barbequed steak is a true summer treat. It is a time to gather in the great outdoors with friends and family. There is just something about cooking outdoors that is kind of neat and the taste of food cooked over open flame is the best. Of course there are a few safety concerns when you deal with open flame.
First of all I have inspected many homes that have melted siding. If the barbeque is pushed too close to the house the vinyl will overheat and melt. I would estimate that one in twenty homes that I inspect have melted siding. I wonder how many homes actually have burnt down as a result of barbeques. Overall I think barbeques are quite safe if you keep them away from combustible materials that may catch fire.
If you are using a propane bottle be sure it is certified and that it is not leaking. A 20 lb propane bottle has enough power in it to move an entire house off its foundation if it explodes. Also pay attention to the amount of propane the filling station attendants put in your bottle. If the bottle is overfilled and it heats up in the hot sun it could explode. Once again remember that propane gas is very dangerous and must be treated with the utmost caution.
Finally if you are fortunate enough to have a natural gas line plumbed to the deck where you can connect it directly to the barbeque you should be aware of a few safety rules here as well. First of all there should be a shut off located outside in easy reach of the barbeque. If something goes wrong you don't want to be running into the house to find a shut off valve. Secondly be sure to keep the valve closed and capped when it is not in use. I have come across several leaking quick connects because the valve was left open. I hope you find the tips helpful and that you enjoy your barbeque as much as I do.
DECK TIPS: Common Deck Seating Problem
Common bench seating structures (like brackets found at your local building supply stores) are not designed to be on decks higher then 2′ off the ground according to local building standards. The bench seats are actually considered "a climbing apparatus". Children could climb on them and topple off the deck. The reason they are allowed on lower decks is that there is no railing requirement for decks below 24″.
In order to have these bench seats on decks over 24″ high you will need a back rest at least 42″ above the seat. This back rest needs to be securely fastened to the decks vertical uprights and not have any opening greater then 4″. As most of the bench seats are placed on higher decks it is important for the homeowner to know that this type of deck would not be granted a deck permit in Lloydminster and would not pass current code requirements.
Thanks so much to Kirk Kimberly, Owner of Simple Design Decks for this great safety tip. Visit Kirks website at www.simpledesigndecks.com Stay tooned to see if we can get some more deck tips from kirk.


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Holidays can be really hard work, so after a fairly busy week and a big day at the temples I am about ready for a day off to relax, do the laundry and get a haircut. Around the corner we find a laundry and drop the washing in making sure we settle on a price which was fair at $2 a kilo. Just down the road is a barber shop with an old dude cutting hair and I think this is the spot for me, it should be nice and cheap. I walk in and do the sign language for a head and face clip and asking the old barber how much? He just smiles and gently pushes me towards the chair, I ask again how much and he just smiles and wraps the apron around my neck. I look at this man in the barber mirror and see the wise old smile on his face and get the distinct feeling that this man understands more than he makes out and I am going to get fully stitched up here. He pulls this old pair of hand operated clippers out of a drawer and proceeds to start clipping my hair clip, clip, clip, bit by bit. These clippers are that old I am sure he must have cut Pol Pot's hair with them 40 years ago. After about an hour the clip is finally finished, he brushes me off, unwraps me and as I stand up he sticks his hand out and says with a smile" that'll be $10 thank you" in perfectly good English.
Jo and the kids who have been sitting in the shop the whole time are laughing their heads off. We all know that I have just paid this wily old barber 2 days wages for a 1 hour haircut. But I figure because I haven't paid for a haircut in over 15 years I am in front anyway. I also say that hair is overrated at the best of times, if your not paying for a haircut or shampoo or something you've gotta wash it, comb it, brush it and look at it in the mirror. So obviously hair is a complete waste of time and money.


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STEAM Activities for Children
WonderLab is a hands-on STEAM (science technology, engineering, arts, and math) after school opportunity for grades K–6 children of Lesley University students, staff, and faculty, and surrounding communities. Activities take place in the new WonderLab classroom in Lesley's University Hall, science labs, and green spaces in a variety of urban settings. Lesley faculty and students teach the programs.
Launched in the fall of 2016 by faculty from the Graduate School of Education and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, WonderLab employs 10 Lesley students each semester, and 2-3 students over the summer. Since its start, we've served around 150 children in after school, vacation, and summer programs, and our staff have attended conferences and festivals, visited camps and schools, and provided off-site programs. Through, WonderLab Lesley students have also gained opportunities for field-based assignments. WonderLab site.
Research Component
The WonderLab project's primary goals are to inform and guide teacher education in inquiry-based science education, and to gather evidence to capture learning through critical exploration. As part of this process, WonderLab directors are hoping to better understand how participation in informal STEAM learning at Lesley impacts students' learning, including: (1) their understanding of and interest in science and STEAM; (2) their sense of place and environmental awareness; (3) their development of critical thinking skills in STEAM contexts.
Selected Program Highlights
After-School Programs
- Alewife Brook Stream Study Field Trip
- Chromatography Leaf experiment and artistic data representation
- Planting garlic in Lesley Doble Campus Garden and weeding beds
- Convection currents lab and movement data representation
- Water studies; cohesion, adhesion, surface tension
- Ant research; longitudinal study, mapping out data collection sites, collection ant samples, identifying ants, learning about ant behaviors and ant colonies
- Research/evaluation expressed through stop motion animation videos
- Tree observation longitudinal study, data expressed in journals, visual art, and movement scores
- Mass Audubon soil program
- Altered Field Journals; field journals made from recycled books
- Rube Goldberg machine creation
- Visit Mt. Auburn Cemetery once a month to support citizen science research
- Plant in Lesley organic garden
- Science Methods classes conducting hands-on field-work with children
Vacation Week and Summer Programs
- Urban Ecology & Citizen Science: students work alongside Lesley scientists to study pollinators, frogs, and trees at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.
- Treasure Hunts & Mapmaking: students take on the role of cartographers and explore and create different types of maps, learning how to read them and how to use them in orienteering challenges as they guide each other to hidden treasures in nature.
- Telling Stories from Nature & Digital Photography: students explore how images tell stories, and investigate different ways of telling the stories found in nature using photography, mixed-media, and stop-motion video.
- Mass Audubon Habitat Trekkers program: exploring Mount Auburn to find pollinators.
Other Activities
- STEAM Beans, supported by Lesley University, is a unique STEAM program designed by Graduate School of Education alumna Sheila Johnson. The unique curriculum developed for African American girls in grades 1-5 meets two Saturdays each month during the academic year. http://www.steambeans.org/.
- WonderLab STEAM Exploration Party: hands-on explorations with plants, animals, water, rocks, engineering design, and technology.
- Climate Cafe: families learn more about climate change through a panel presentation by children in grades 1-6, followed by an open discussion with Massachusetts Audubon Society and Lesley University climate scientists and educators.
- STEAM Beans and the Hidden Figure Dreams: Celebration of modern day "black girl magic" as elementary age black girls facilitate an exploratory learning experience in STEAM. This scholar led activity is NASA's Hidden Figures dream as it places students at the forefront of real world, culturally relevant, project-based learning.


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Warning. I am not an expert on this subject.
Why the American usd was based on gold
First a bit of history.
Fiat currencies gain legitimacy by perception. A currency must be perceived as valuable and reliable to be legitimate. For some time, the American dollar [usd] adhered to some quasi "gold standard". The usd was backed by gold and owners could exchange usd for an equivalent amount of gold at anytime. America had the world's largest gold holding at the time. The system was perceived as legitimate.
Why the American usd was based on oil
That changed starting in 1971.
The on-going military failure of the illegal Vietnam War, trade imbalances, and other factors rapidly drained America's gold reserves. In 1971, president Nixon unilaterally got off the gold standard. America needed a new way to legitimize its currency. The national security adviser, Henry Kissinger, made a deal with Saudi Arabia. America provided military protection. In exchange, Saudi Arabia priced oil in usd. This artificially created demand for usd. All nations must get usd, which is used to buy oil. In essence, the usd was supported by oil instead of gold. This, a pillar of the American regme's power, is called the petro dollar.
The petro dollar as super theft
It is an unlimited credit card. America can print money to pay for everything. All the usd currency holders are robbed via an imperceptible inflation when the money supply increases. For example, after money printing, a piece of bread that used to cost $1 may now cost $1.1 because there is more money chasing the same amount of goods.
The petro dollar system is supported by the regime's other pillar, the American military.
Any nation that tried to leave the petro dollar system or create an alternative system was crushed by the regime's military [see Iraq and Libya].
See https://www.amazon.com/Super-Imperialism-Origin-Fundamentals-Dominance/dp/0745319890/
The petro yuan challenge
Now you understand why the petro yuan is an important event.
If the petro yuan succeeds, even modestly, the demand for usd would drop correspondingly and thus its currency value would also drop. The drop of usd's value would increase the cost of imported goods from major exporters such as China.
Keep in mind that the American savings rate is an abysmal 5%. One rainy day can ruin their life. An eclipsed petro dollar system would be akin to a thunder storm.
Don't celebrate too soon
I am doubtful the petro dollar will be dethroned quickly [within months or years]. The biggest reasons are inertia, threats of violence, fear of the unknown, and media control. Despite the usd's perpetual theft via money printing, it is held by giant institutional investors. It is used extensively in international trade. The American military can still impose its will by violence. The usd does provide relative stability. The petro yuan has no track record yet. Much [not all] of the western media projects the perception that America's economy is healthy while downplaying its immense structural weaknesses.
I should add that the petro yuan does seem to be positioned to dethrone the petro dollar eventually. This is a chart of the past world reserve currencies.
Each nation enjoyed world reserve currency status when it became a powerful empire that greatly influenced trade. Today, the world's biggest trading nation is China.
China also has the world's largest physical economy based on manufacturing eg they actually make useful things. America, in contrast, is increasingly based on FIRE [finance insurance, and real estate.]
Further reading
Death of US dollar? China launches petro-yuan to challenge greenback's dominance — RT Business News
The Petro-Yuan Bombshell
For decades, many Asian women, especially Asian "feminists", juggled two personalities simultaneously.
In one personality, they publicly fought against racism and social injustice. Examples of such injustice include red lining, imperialism, Islamophobia, discrimination, racist stereotypes, police brutality, hate crimes, glass ceilings, etc. The bulk of these crimes are the creation of white men.
In the other personality, they were the white worshiper with zero self respect. Such Asian women are so infamously easy that a white nationalist site has described dating Asian women as a "rite of passage for white nationalists". Remember, that's not just any white male, but a white nationalist - the polite term for a white supremacist - a white male who views other races as "beneath" him.
When called out for their dishonesty and hypocrisy, these Asian women resorted to more lies such as…
● "Love" is colorblind / I don't see color
● It's just my "preferences".
● White males "treat me better".
● Asian men are jerks.
● Asian men have "tiny" penises.
● Asian men are just jealous losers.
● Asian men are hypermasculine/violent
● Asian men are girly
For a long time, with the enormous help of a white male controlled media, they fooled the world into accepting those lies. Not anymore.
Note: It turns out this author only goes half way. She blames racist white males, but ignores Asian women's complicity. I'll let these two wisemen sum it up. They do a much better job.
she fails to ask the most important question of all: why are Asian women choosing to partner with racists? Why are they choosing complicity in white nationalism and anti-blackness? Lim deals with this awkward fact by ignoring it…
The uncomfortable truth here is that white nationalists pursue and attain Asian female partners simply because they know they can, and that there are some Asian women who are very willing to partner white racists. There's no mystery about it.
At first, I didn't click it because I thought I would be disappointed. Then finally, I clicked it…and was disappointed.
The difference between what I want to see and what I actually see in the media can be summed up in two words: personal responsibility. I'm really not so surprised that the Alt-Right is into Asian women, and I'm not so surprised that Asian women are into Alt-Right white guys. Asian women are often conservative, so there's no surprise that conservative guys would like them. Many (though of course not all) Asian women also love and idolize White guys, so there should be no surprise there either. What is surprising is that writers in major newspapers continue to talk about problems and ONLY point the finger at White guys. If racist Alt-Right White guys are marrying Asian women, you can't just question the White guys. Obviously Asian women are also choosing the Alt-Right. Shouldn't this be at least as big of a story?
The Alt-Right's Asian Fetish - The New York Times
Note: This review is written with special a focus on how Chinese soft power can be improved. This is catered to the Chinese government, entertainment bodies, and related institutions. This is not written so much for the end consumer, though they may find value in this.
Sky Hunter is the name for a fictional group of Chinese air force elite. They must take down a group of religious fanatics/terrorists.
Excellent. The cast looked great and I saw no signs of white worship eg choosing people with western features. Most actors looked good and had unmistakably strong Asian features.
Attractive people with strong Asian features make good soft power
They made a big mistake in the casting of enemy factions. They looked too good. They need to learn from the Western playbook. Westerners specifically cast ugly Asians constantly. They do not cast good looking Asians.
Most of it was good. The sparse amount of humor, when it happened was on point. However, delivery was often a bit clinical. The worst dialog appeared during patriotic speeches. That stuff was cringe inducing. It felt like it was written by a committee of geriatric bureaucrats. As much as they try to stir up pride and positive emotions, it just made my eye roll and bury my face into my palms to hide my embarrassment.
Other scenes involved actors speaking English with terrible accents. They need to stop doing that.
There was a distinct lack of one-liners. The one liners that did exist were often below average. That caused many awkward silences especially after an action scene's climax. It caused the scene to end unceremoniously. Those were truly terrible wastes of potential.
The romance was awful. It was too wooden and it's a shame. The romance was between two characters who are dating in real life. They didn't even have an on-screen kiss. Very perplexing. Extremely frustrating. This is the sort of sanitized clinical style that hurts Chinese soft power. They are withholding emotions from the film and it shows.
A lifeless hug more suited between siblings than romantic partners
It gets worse. What makes this platonic scene so damning is the way the SAME Chinese media/soft power "leaders" apparently have zero problem with showing their women being seduced on screen by non-Asian men. So, clearly, there is some other factor[s] at work here.
Until the "leaders" of soft power share what is going on, we have to assume they are either infiltrated by foreign agents or grossly negligent and possibly grossly incompetent.
Another huge flaw was the during the rescue operation. They were looking for Chinese hostages to rescue, but ended up rescuing non-Chinese hostages by accident. Instead of showing off their humanity, they appeared very racist. The captain of the squad shouted "Where are the Chinese!? Where are the Chinese!?".
I am a xenophobic jerk. Now, where are the Chinese!
This was a grave error. The Chinese special forces looked like extremely selfish racists. Instead, they should have shown care for non-Chinese hostages but asked where are the other hostages. Perhaps they can add more emotional justification by saying "My family is in danger. Where are they?". This was a giant waste of an opportunity.
The action can be split into three categories. The fighter jets, rescue operations, and gun fights.
Fighter jet fight sequences were excellent. They were far better than I expected. Artists paid great attention to detail. Sonic booms were properly rendered. High temperature turbo fan engine exhaust distorted vision.
Sonic boom effect
What made this film stand out were the intelligence of some sequences. Instead of relying on forced luck, they showed creativity by employing brilliant tactics. The first fighter jet scene and rescue operation serve as two strong examples. In sharp contrast to brain dead Western styled action, the audience feels a sense of awe and accomplishment when the heroes come out on top.
Rescue operations were done very well in the beginning. We get to see cool gadgets and professionalism. Here is a see-through-wall device used to find hostages.
peek a boo fuggers
However, it devolves into Hollywood style moron gun fights a little later. The only saving grace here was the climax which was very well done. If they can tighten up the fight scene and get rid of the dumb, we-will-survive-machine-guns-by-ducking nonsense, it'll be even better.
Production values, cgi/special effects, sound effects
One of the best parts of the film is the inside look at the Chinese military technology. We get to see Y-20 transport plane, j20 4th generation [5th generation in Western terms] stealth fighter jet, J-10 and J-11 3rd generation [4th generation in Western terms]. Most of the action involved the j10 fighter jet.
Almost all the production values were at Hollywood level. There were a few instances were the cgi was blatantly low quality during unimportant scenes.
Yes, we can tell these buildings are fake. They are too "clean"
Director probably thought we wouldn't notice, but I did. They should have committed to a higher level of quality especially since the cost difference isn't that great and it's clear that they are more than capable.
There seems to be an excessive cleanness though. It makes the environments look fake. Things are too clean and too neat. Real human environments tend to be messier.
Sound effects, particularly the roar of the engines, the sonic boom's rumble and fighter jet's mini gun sounded on point.
On-screen text looked awful, which was very surprising because the computer terminals and screens all looked top notch. They rivaled the best that Hollywood has to offer. The contrast is just baffling.
The difference is night and day
Perhaps the rescue operation took place at night to be realistic, but I personally dislike night operations as it's very difficult to see things. I much prefer action scenes that take place during daylight. Numerous fighter jet sequences took place during the day and around scenic mountain vistas. Those were very entertaining to watch. I would have enjoyed more of them.
The shaky cam method used during the gun fights were awful. I hope they stop using it or find a way to make it more palatable by reducing the movement so it's not so jarring. Gears of wars's "roadie run" serves as a good template to learn from. It looks "real" while minimizing the headaches.
Opening and ending credits were terrible. They were very out of place.
Nothing says military action like lipstick colors /s
Warning to Chinese government and media
Your films are being unfairly attacked as propaganda. https://www.imdb.com is one of the most popular western websites for entertainment reviews. Many people gave the film a 1 out of 10. That's the lowest possible score. This film is no where close to 1/10. This is clear manipulation of the ratings to kill the film's success. The same cheating is happening at other Chinese films such as Wolf Warrior 2. https://www.rottentomatoes.comis the other big entertainment review site. Again, it's clear that anti-China racists are pushing their agenda to bury your film.
When white racism meets Chinese entertainment
These reviews are very important. Bad reviews kill films/tv shows, etc. Whoever is driving these reviews clearly has an agenda. The Chinese government would do well to punish Hollywood for their transgressions. Your investments into Hollywood are yielding awful returns while their Western cultural imperialism is highly successful. This exchange is one sided with you as the ultimate loser. I personally see no reason to continue this relationship.
The irony of these attacks is that this film is not even remotely "ultra Chinese propaganda". Here is what actual propaganda looks like…
white people white washing their crimes against humanity with lies
white people white washing their crimes against humanity with lies
white people white washing their crimes against humanity with lies
white people white washing their crimes against humanity with lies
white people white washing their crimes against humanity with lies
white people white washing their crimes against humanity with lies
white people white washing their crimes against humanity with lies
white people white washing their crimes against humanity with lies
white people white washing their crimes against humanity with lies
white people white washing their crimes against humanity with lies
A question you need to ask yourself is "why doesn't anybody complain about Western propaganda?". That's simple. They have been controlling the story for a long time and they have brainwashed people so hard that they did not even recognize Western propaganda for a long time. Secondly, non-Western countries are awful at attacking their Western credibility. The West succeeds in the soft power/psychological war in big part due to their offensive attacks against adversaries. They smear them with lies. They cast doubt about their perspectives by pre-emptively smearing it as "communist propaganda", "Chinese mouthpiece", etc. This causes people to reflexively doubt any entertainment/information that China puts out.
Oddly, non-western nations do not attack Western credibility enough. Their mainstream channels do not point out their crimes, propaganda, lies, etc. If such actions were done long enough. People's minds can be seeded with doubt and awareness. They would wake up. Ever since the 9/11 wmd farce was exposed, people have been calling out Western propaganda more frequently. For example…
Becoming aware of western propaganda. Priceless
Such reviews by the average film watcher almost never occurred in earlier decades. The Internet has changed the way psychological war is fought. It is much harder, if not impossible, to keep the truth hidden. Psychological wars do not need to be waged officially through government channels. Western governments do it through all kinds of unofficial channels including fake NGOs, fake "grassroots" newspapers, fake activists, etc. I am not advocating for attacks against foreign governments, but merely illustrating how the West successfully wages its psychological wars and the successful counter attacks they most fear.
Each year, the West goes through a tradition that says you should pay respect to the brave white men and white women who fought during World War 1. We are left to fill in the blanks but it's often implied that they fought for our "freedom".
Did they ever tell you why that war was fought?
Around the late 1890's, British imperialists and French imperialists had sprawling empires built upon White supremacist ideologies, racism, slavery, mass rape, mass murder, drug dealing, and plunder…or what the west calls "free trade" and "civilizing missions".
During this time, new up and coming Western powers appeared. The incumbent powers felt threatened by these new competitors. One of the new powers was Germany, who wanted a piece of the action. They wanted colonies too. The rest are minor details IMO.
The key tension was a competition among some Western imperialists. They wanted to fight each other to decide who gets to be the world's #1 racist human rights abuser and thief.
And yes, you and I and everyone else are expected to "pay their respects" to these "heroes".
Always keep this in mind when white people call non-whites "naturally violent" and have a "flagrant disregard of human rights". These white lunatics were the only ones to wage not one, but TWO world wars.
BTW, those of you who had Asian relatives that served the belligerents should learn an important lesson.
You were betrayed. You were stabbed in the back repeatedly. Your contributions were erased. For example, your faces were excluded from any victory photographs. They mostly showed white faces in victorious poses. Certain promised salary/benefits were denied. Whites received full benefits. The British Chinese sailors who fathered children with White women were purged from society. Their children grew up fatherless. Whites were quickly welcomed back as heroes. That is how whites repay you. They repay you with racist hate.
By 1916, the Triple Entente had convinced the infant Chinese Republic, barely five years after its inception, to enter the war against Germany. Back then, in language that sounds very familiar now, they were called upon to behave as a responsible member of the international community and support the allied cause. It is little known on the European continent that, as part of WWI, the Chinese actually dispatched several hundred thousand workers, manual workers, to dig trenches and undertake all sorts of dangerous work on behalf of the allied cause. Many were killed in action. Many more through disease. When the war concluded, the Chinese sent a delegation to Versailles. However, they were kept in the waiting room and never admitted to the full negotiating table. Worse, deliberations at Versailles decided that former German colonies in China would not be returned to China, but they would be handed instead to [Imperial] Japan.
China's Long View: European Imperialism in Asia - The Globalist:
Sounds familiar huh? Today, you work in their r&d labs. You build their weapons. You build their cpus. They "thank you" by using those weapons against your family. They "thank you" by placing embargoes on the export of powerful cpu chips. Simultaneously, they "thank you" by calling you a bunch of uncreative copy cats.
Whites make it extremely clear. You are not viewed as an equal at all. The sooner you accept this immutable truth, the faster you will improve your situation. You deny this fact at your own peril.
Chinese-made car is named world's safest car [Euro-NCAP 5 star 2013]
Here is another China made automobile that has a perfect safety rating.


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High temperatures will reach the mid- to upper 70s in the afternoon, which is normal for this time of year.
The weekend will feature both sunshine for Saturday and a chance for rain Sunday with the approach of a cool front.
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Not only did McDonald's bring back the Shake Shake Fries—the fastfood joint brought it back with two new flavors.
Last Tuesday, May 2, McDonald's introduced the Creamy Truffle and Cheddar & Sour Cream variants to its Shake Shake Fries.
The Creamy Truffle is the rich and savory truffle flavor coupled with a hint of creamy cheese and chives. If you're looking for a creamy cheddar flavor blended with a sour cream twist, then Cheddar and Sour Cream is the perfect match for you.
If you still like the good old BBQ variant of the Shake Shake fries, it is still available.
Treat yourself and visit a McDonald's today because the Shake Shake Fries three awesome flavors are for a limited time only.
Now, we wonder: When will Ronald bring back its Twisted Fries?
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Every year, students at Jeparit Primary School go on different length camps.
One of them is a trip to Swan Hill Pioneer Settlement.
At the Pioneer School, all the students dress up in olden days clothes. Boys wear vest and shorts and girls wear long dress and aprons.
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Just under the wire (and perhaps the mistletoe)… a literary Christmas quiz, one that will require you to use your (egg)-noggin! Happy holidays to everyone!
- In O. Henry's short story "Gift of the Magi," what is the name of the woman who sold her hair to get a Christmas gift for her husband?
- In Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, during his Harry's first Christmas at Hogwarts, what gift—a Potter family heirloom—does Harry receive via an anonymous Dumbledore?
- What Shakespeare play is named after the Feast of the Epiphany, which takes place on January 6th (the day, according to some scholars, when the play was first performed)?
- What is the name of Scrooge's former employer, the proprietor of a warehouse who would host Christmas balls?
- In John Irving's A Prayer for Owen Meany, the narrator describes how Owen Meany, during one holiday season, played a role in a Christmas pageant and a role in a version of A Christmas Carol. What were these two roles?
- I am an American poet who wrote a poem called "Christmas Trees (A Christmas Circular Letter)," but you probably know me better for that other wintry poem, the one about keeping promises on the darkest evening of the year. Who am I?
- I am a classic American novel which ends with the line, "So we beat on boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly to the past." This Christmas, I was supposed to get 3D movie treatment (thanks to director Baz Luhrman), but the studios decided to postpone the film's release until the summer. I am who?
- In The Catcher in the Rye, which historical figure is Phoebe Caulfield reportedly playing in her school's Christmas pageant?
- John Milton, author of "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity," is better known for what other religious poem, about the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden?
- Chris Van Allsburg, the author of children's books such as Jumanji and Zathura, is also the author of which Christmas classic?
- Which now-classic Christmas movie—about a boy and his BB gun—is based on a book of short stories called In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash, written by Jean Shepherd?
- Joe Christmas is the main protagonist of what William Faulkner novel with a decidedly non-Christmas-y title?
- And what non-Christmas-y Yeats' poem ends with the line, "Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born"?
- The song "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day"—recorded by artists such as Frank Sinatra, Sarah Maclachlan, and Bette Midler—is based on the poem "Christmas Bells," written by which American poet (famous for "Paul Revere's Ride")?
- According to the Foreword of Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita, which character reportedly dies on Christmas Day 1952?
- What is the name of the young boy who is one of the two main characters in Truman Capote's "A Christmas Memory"? (Hint: he shares his name of a famous Christmas elf.)
- In what C.S. Lewis novel does Santa Claus give children named Peter, Susan and Lucy "tools, not toys"—including a sword and a red shield emblazoned with the picture of a lion?
- What is the official title of Clement C. Moore's "'Twas the Night Before Christmas"?
- I am an American poet whose poem "The Savior must have been a docile Gentleman"—which notes how Jesus was born in Bethlehem on "so cold a Day"—has two of my trademarks: it's brief (40 words) and full of dashes!
- Boris Karloff, who narrated the animated special "How the Grinch Stole Christmas," famously played what famous movie monster, originally created by Mary Shelley?
- What Scottish poet wrote the poem "Auld Lang Syne" in 1788?
- What Christmas ballet is based on an 1816 short story by M. T. A. Hoffman about a toy that comes to life?
- What Irish poet, famous for "Don't Go Gently into That Good Night," also wrote "A Child's Christmas in Wales"?
- I am the author of the one-act play The Long Christmas Dinner, but you probably know me better by my Pulitzer-prize winning play Our Town. I am who?
- Which Christmas carol began as a poem, written by Father Joseph Mohr in 1816, which was then set to music by his friend Franz Gruber?
1. Della
2. Invisibility Cloak
3. Twelfth Night
4. Fezziwig
5. Baby Jesus, Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come
6. Robert Frost
7. The Great Gatsby
8. Benedict Arnold
9. Paradise Lost
10. The Polar Express
11. A Christmas Story
12. Light in August
13. "The Second Coming"
14. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
15. Lolita herself (Mrs. Richard Schiller). She died while giving birth to a stillborn child.
16. Buddy
17. The Lion,The Witch, and The Wardrobe
18. "A Visit from St. Nicholas"
19. Emily Dickinson
20. Frankenstein's monster
21. Robert Burns
22. The Nutcracker
23. Dylan Thomas
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HealthIamA 23 year old who has been battling grade 4 brain cancer since 2012; AMA!
Jun 10th 2017 by onemanbandjo • 19 Questions • 398 Points
I started battling grade 4 glioblastoma at the age of 18. 3 brain tumors, 1 brain surgery, 53 sessions of radiation, 5 different chemotherapies, and over 1 year of physical therapy. Still battling and still smiling.
Dude, where are located? I was diagnosed with an inoperable Grade 3 Anaplastic Astrocytoma in 2015 at the age of 20. If you ever feel like talking with someone your own age that is going through a similar situation with brain cancer, please do not hessite to get in touch!! Much love brother
Thanks so much. One tumor was in the middle of the brain but shifted to the right. It wasn't operated on but it's gone! Tumor #2 is on the right side of the brain, about 1-2 inches above the temple but deeper in the brain. Tumor #3 is on the left side and like tumor #2 but on the left.
What symptoms led you to go to the doctor when you got diagnosed?
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I knew I had two tumors in my brain two years before I had surgery, but the doctors hadn't been worried until 2012 when they started to grow. Most of my symptoms were migraines, loss of feeling in my left side of my body, seizures, and mental fogginess.
How did you find out that you had those tumors in the first place though? Was it routine or did something happen to make you go have it checked out?
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I kept failing a peripherals test (I don't have left peripheral vision) So, I was to get an MRI. Then, 2 tumors were found.
Wow... That's a lot to deal with so young.
My mom was recently diagnosed with breast cancer... I just wanna know what keeps you going every day? I'm worried for her and I want to do my best to keep her happy but I have no idea what to even say at this point.
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The best thing to do is just keep her happy however you can. I see happiness as a medicine. It works for me and I believe it can work for her as well. Be empathetic, but don't treat her any differently. Make her smile and smile with her.
How can you be empathetic and not treat her differently?
I have my own ideas, but what's your side of things?
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I don't believe it's true empathy if you do. I just wanted to point it out.
Side of things towards what exactly?
Here are some links to my music vids on youtube. I hope you enjoy;
When you had brain surgery, did all the tumors get removed?
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No. Only part of one tumor was removed, and the rest of that tumor ended up being malignant. The second tumor was inoperable because of its location. At the time, I didn't have my third tumor.
This is a really weird question, but what did the craniotomy feel like afterwards?
I had brain surgery in 2012, so my head was sore then. Nowadays it's minor headaches.
Depending on the surgery, they do actually have the patient awake for parts in some cases. They'll anesthetize them to get through the scalp and skull, and wake them up to have them answer questions so they can map out regions of the brain.
Haha that's because with some brain surgeries you do stay awake but I was actually asleep for mine. So, I didn't feel a thing. They gave me anesthesia.
I expect an AMA in a few years time! Good luck bro.
Thank you very much my friend :)
30 minutes before I took chemo, I would take another pill to help me with my nausea. I follow a vegan diet, so I eat a lot of fruits and vegetables.
Is there something that presses you on to keep living? 5 years sounds like a really long time to have cancer, I don't know about the cancer that you have, is it debilitating and you can't do a lot? Are you missing out on going to school or anything? I read you do music.
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I did have to stop school but I know that everything is for a reason. Because I know that, I'm never really worried. All this time I've been undertaking this battle has been great and I'm grateful.
What is your favorite activity and has that changed since your road to recovery??
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It's writing music and it never changed before and after the journey began.
Yes it's very expensive. I live with my parents and they pay the medical bills. It's hard to afford it all, so if you're willing to contribute please visit;
Thanks :)
This very comment above me gives me so many more reasons why I should thank god daily....what amazing faith you have..
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Thank you so much and yes! God deserves thanks to EVERYTHING!!!
I'm a vegan too! I always encourage all my friends who have any health issues to eat more vegan meals. I really believe what you eat can have a significant impact on your illnesses. What's your favorite vegan meal?
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That's awesome! So, don't hate me because I'm a not a full time vegan but I am full time vegetarian.
My favorite meal is actually yellow rice with pineapple, white onions, cilantro, Hawaiian seasoning sauce, topped with avocados that have chili powder sprinkled on top :)
what is the worst part of chemotherapy?
how did most of your friend/family react?
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Just the nausea chemo causes.
A lot of them (I think all) were in total shock. They were also in shock how positive I reacted to the news.
I noticed my comment got a load of down votes, I didn't mean anything bad by it or to offend you, sorry.
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No don't worry bud. I'm not offended or anything. No need to apologize but thank you for taking the time to do so.


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The Rainforest has a unique intelligence that will call on and strengthen your own healing powers. Indigenous cultures have used seeds to craft jewelry and carry the powers of their medicinal plants with them. These seeds have the ability to help the human body to be healthier and more balanced.
The amazing qualities of these seeds, berries, and nuts are not only available when they are eaten but also when they are carried on the body. We strive to connect you to women in South America that live in harmony with Nature and want to share their knowledge about healing and Natures medicine, through products that are made from renewable materials that originate from the Amazon Rainforest itself.


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Amazing Faces
By Lee Bennett Hopkins
Illustrated by Chris Soentpiet
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Amazing, your face.
Whatever we feel—whether happy or sad, excited or wishful, proud or lonely—our faces mirror our emotions. In this contemporary yet timeless collection, sixteen evocative poems are brought to life in diverse and detailed faces that reveal the universal feelings we all share. Girls and boys, women and men invite us to experience their world, understand their lives, and find the connections that bring us together.
Poet Lee Bennett Hopkins gathers these insightful works from an impressive array of authors, including Joseph Bruchac, Rebecca Kai Dotlich, Nikki Grimes, Pat Mora, Carole Boston Weatherford, Janet S. Wong, Jane Yolen, and more. Glowing illustrations created by Chris Soentpiet infuse the verses with atmosphere and exquisite settings. Readers of all ages will want to feast their eyes on these captivating poems and pictures again and again.
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is an acclaimed poet and writer, and has created numerous poetry anthologies for young readers. He is the recipient of the 2009 NCTE Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children, which honors his body of work, and founder of the Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award and the Lee Bennett Hopkins/IRA Promising Poet Award. Hopkins's books have won many honors, including ALA Notable Children's Books, Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, Children's Choices, American Bookseller Pick of the Lists, Christopher Award, and New York Public Library Best Children's Books. He lives in Cape Coral, Florida.
Photo: Charles J. Egita
is the illustrator of several highly praised picture books. Awards he has won include Original Art Show Gold Medal, NAACP Image Award, ALA Notable Children's Books, Texas Bluebonnet Award Masterlist, Jane Addams Children's Book Award, and Notable Books for a Global Society. Soentpiet also promotes children's literature and the arts at schools, libraries, and conferences across the United States. In Amazing Faces, he has indulged his interest in painting faces of people of different backgrounds. Soentpiet lives with his wife and their two children in the New York City area. Visit him online at soentpiet.com.
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Hardcover: 9781600603341
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Interest Level:Grades 1 - 8
Reading Level:Grades 3 - 4
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