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3 Easy Steps: Applying Permissions Using Alfresco Web Client
In Alfresco, you apply permissions to certain space/folder or documents to restrict a user to certain actions that he/she can perform on a folder or document. For example, you don't want everyone to to have a capability to create documents or folders in Folder A. What you can do is to apply a READ ONLY permission to a user to Folder A. In this way, a user can only VIEW the contents of Folder A.
For beginners, below are the steps to apply permission using Alfresco web client:
1. Log in to Alfresco and proceed to the space/folder you want permissions to be applied. Click More Actions –> Manage Space Users.
2. Click Invite. You'll proceed to Invite Users Wizard page. In this page, you can invite a user or a group by selecting from the drop down list of Specify Users/Groups. Enter a group name or username and then click the search button. Select a user or group from the search result and then select a Role you want a user to have as seen below:
Note: To further understand what Roles are, you can visit this link.
3. Click Add to List button. Click Next. You will be directed to a page which will ask you if you want to send an email to the invited user, for now select No and click Finish button and you're done! You should be able to see that the user has now a Role in the specified folder.
Now we are done! Please note that applied permissions will only affect the space to which it is applied. You can also apply permission using java-script API's provided by Alfresco. On my next post, I will concentrate on using java-script to apply permissions. =P


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Rocky Mountain High
Our vacation home in Colorado had it all - lots of space, beautiful outdoors, baby supplies like a crib and high chair, tons of toys perfect for a two-year old (cars, action figures, tinker toys, viking hats!) and a giant bathtub for swimming.
We had such a great time over the 5 days. There were so many pictures, it took awhile to sort through. Gram, Izzy and I went to Denver for a conference and stayed with relatives, Ruth and Em. Ruth and Izzy became instant friends. Ruth is my grandmother Helen's niece and they were very dear friends. It was great for Izzy to meet relatives who loved her namesake, my grandmother, so very much.
Em, Ruth, Izzy, Gram and Kennedy, the dog. The rest of the family joined us for a long weekend high up in the mountains just outside Boulder.
Grandaddy, Gram and Izzy ready for some hiking. There was a trailhead about a quarter mile walk from our vacation house in Nederland, CO. If you don't know the story of the frozen dead guy, I can fill you in.
Charlie did well on our short hike as long as he could have an occassional "pig ride" what he calls a piggy-back ride, from Dad.
Downtime after a hike. With four adoring grandparents around, I am not sure Izzy was set down the entire long weekend...
Watching baseball on tv with Gram and Grandaddy.
Charlie in the morning - a bit grumpy before having his milk. No idea where he gets that from... Good thing we brought Curious George on the ipad.
The first trail head we set out for was a bit too high and still had a lot of snow. We weren't exactly prepared for hiking in the snow. We got out to take a few pictures before heading down trail to a lower starting point.
A beautiful waterfall along the trail.
Despite starting lower, we still hiked up into the snow. It made for a challenging hike. Gram found a walking stick to keep her traction - a natural outdoors woman!
We spent an afternoon walking around Boulder. It was great for kids. There were lots of places to run around and climb, like on these great animal statues.
There were musicians and street performers. This musician sang Charlie's favorite song "Old McDonald" just for him.
Definitely the highlight for Charlie was the man making balloon animals. Charlie requested Elmo and he was not disappointed.
Charlie was literally jumping up and down in anticipation of Elmo.
Ta da! Elmo went everywhere with us and amazingly never popped. He was invincible. He even made it home to KC on the airplane. He is still alive in the backseat of Ryan's car, now about the size of Charlie's hand. I'll have to post a current pic of Elmo...
Future rock climber.
We went on a horse trail ride. Charlie wanted to come, we weren't sure how it would go. He was a champ and rode on the horse with the trail leader for the hour ride. Sharon made the smart decision to tell Charlie she was the horse teacher and he thought riding up front with the teacher was a great idea.
Papa and Grandaddy on horse back.
Charlie and his horse, Poppy. He sat by himself on the horse for a picture, grabbed the reigns and didn't seem at all afraid. I'm sure we will pay for this fearless trait some day...
There was an old-fashioned carousel in Nederland that we visited several times.
There was a coffee shop and candy store in an old train car next to the carousel. By the time Ryan and I and his grandparents all purchased something, Charlie had apple cider, carmel apples, doughnuts and a sucker. Only on vacation Charlie!
The deck at our house was great for racing cars and playing catch. It was even more fun to have to chase the balls/cars after they rolled off the deck. Charlie was having an early morning game of catch in his pjs.

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once again I am so happy that you are here. This week was definitely one for the books on the crazy scale. Mainly it was just thursday to top all of the weird stuff happening. For one we had a patient come in and take his shoes off in our lobby and then proceed back the hall to his appointment in his socks. Only to realize he had his shoes off when he was getting ready to leave. He claimed he was so used to taking his shoes off in his home that he did it here. I am sorry but if you are so comfortable in your Doctor's office that you take your shoes off at the door then there some problems. On top of that we also had the Time Warner guys here switching our phone lines from AT&T and to TW and the one guy was hitting on me the whole time and when I finally went to another office to hide from him in order to eat my lunch he left his phone number for me on a sticky note! Slick move sir but really I am not interested, that ring on my left hand for one means I am not up for a date or anything and when you sit here and tell me that you carry around two batteries for your cell phone because you play games on it so much that the battery does not last well there is just something wrong with that right there. Sorry Ken from Time Warner but you will not be getting a call from me anytime soon (or ever!)
Dear Nicholas Sparks,
Thank you again for writing an amazing book and then having it turned into a movie! I saw the Lucky One in the movie theater and when I was on one of my many trips to Wal-Mart this week I ended up buying the DVD to add to my Nicholas Sparks collection.
I am so excited to be having another 3 day weekend but really I feel like we were just celebrating Memorial Day weekend to kick off the summer and here we are heading into Fall. Where did the summer go? I am hoping Fall just takes it's good ole time to give us plenty of nights around the fire, wearing flannels and drinking apple cider with friends and family.
Dear Anthony,
I love coming up with cute texts to send to you using the emoji icons and then your responses to them.
Dear Wedding,
I just realized today that you are roughly 8 months away! Oh geez....this really is sneaking up on me like super fast! I still have a super long list of everything that needs done but hopefully this month we can check off getting our engagement pictures done, mailing out save the dates, finding a photographer, hiring a caterer and buying a dress! I feel like once that all is done we will have an idea what really needs done and I can worry about all the little details this winter in between hunting.
Dear Running,
I am finally getting back to running on a daily basis, crossing fingers that I can keep it up through this 3 day weekend (: but it really does help to have a running buddy! Maddy ended up joining me this week and hopefully will be running with me more often.


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I don't think I'll find out until next year.
Wednesday, 16 May 2012
Aquilegia collection
I don't think I'll find out until next year.
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Dainty flowers, but very strong. I've also got some on my patch.ReplyDelete
I wish I had some in different colours, mine seem to be a very ordinary white bordering on pink - sometimes.ReplyDelete
I love aquilegias - they self sow themselves all over my garden. It's a lovely surprise seeing what colours I get each year. Those purple ones are just lovely.ReplyDelete
They obviously enjoy the conditions where they have seeded themselves - nature knows best - mine are only just opening - they are just right for my type of gardening.ReplyDelete
And you not even a flower man Mark. Aquilegias are rather promiscuous. We have a mixture of invited and uninvited ones. One has made a home in a planter at the base of a palm plant. It's doing no harm so is left to get on with it. They do seem a favourite with aphids though.ReplyDelete
These are beautiful and those first ones are a stunning colour! lol x btw, I like your new banner!!ReplyDelete
Very nice! I really like the shape of those.ReplyDelete
Pretty, pretty, pretty. Nice shots Mark.ReplyDelete
They have lovely flowers indeed but, they are also tough and invasive. Good self-seeders. They run quickly a very deep tap root so be careful to pull any seedling out on the places you don't want them to be.ReplyDelete
I have loads of self seeded aquilegias in my garden, they even settle themselves in between the paving.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous17 May 2012 at 11:38
They are lovely - one of my favourite flowers at this time of year. I really love your deep purple one. They managed to self seed gently here when it was building rubble, I still find the odd one in odd places out the front, though I have rounded most of them into the borders now!ReplyDelete
One of my favorites as well. They do self seed prodigiously, and so "walk-about" the gardenReplyDelete
I just wanted to tell you that yours has become my favorite blog. I used to read it first, because I couldn't wait to see what was happening, but now, I save it for last, so I can end great. Thanks so much, I know it isn't always easy.ReplyDelete
KeriAnne; Thank you so much for that lovely comment! That has really made my day. I shall hope not to disappoint you... :)ReplyDelete
Lovely bean plants. Hope that you will share them with readers, after they start fruiting.ReplyDelete
I grew some last year. They did grow well, but due to lack of trellis support, it just gave up!Plant to grow this year, after summer . (India).
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Become an EPF Agent :
1. Open your chat menu
2. Open 'Questions'
3. Click on the EPF postcard one
4. Hopefully, someone will send a postcard like this:
5. When you hover over the bottom with your mouse, you should see 'Go There' and you should click that
6. You will be automatically taken to the Everyday Phoning Facility which looks like this:
7. Once you are inside, click the telephone which looks like this:
The first thing you need to do is throw a snowball to the target at the top here:
8. After doing so, walk over to the green square for the speed test. On your marks, get set, go! Waddle over to the red square as fast as you can!
9. The next test, you need to hide from the cameras. Throw a snowball at Camera 2 and hide behind the wall. This way, Camera 1 won't find you.
10. After the hiding test comes the knowledge test. It will ask you to walk over to the blue square. Don't waddle to it. Throw a snowball at the fuse box.
11. Congratulations! You are now officially an EPF secret agent!
Become a Tour Guide:
Here's how to become a tour guide on Club Penguin:
1. Click on the Map in the lower left.
2. Go to the Ski Village.
3. Click on the Tours stand.
4. Click on "Would you like to become a tour guide yourself? Click here for more details" at the bottom of the tour guide sign.
5. Click on "Take the quiz.
6. Use the answer key below of the possible questions on the tour guide quiz:
How many sled-racing courses are there?
How does the pink puffle play?
Skips with skipping rope
What is the name of the big fish in ice fishing?
What day does the newspaper come out?
Which of these games has a shark in it?
Jet pack adventure
What color of puffle can catch on fire?
How many coins does it cost to buy a player card background?
What is thrown out of the truck in level 4 of bean counters?
In what room can you find old copies of the Penguin Times?
Boiler Room
What is the name of Captain Rockhopper's ship?
The Migrator
Which of these rooms does not have a game in it?
Which room has a cuckoo clock?
Ski Lodge
How do you get a pin?
Click on it
Which of these places doesn't have music playing in the background?
Pet Shop
7. After passing the quiz, you will receive a tour guide hat.
8. Finally, you will be given the tour guide manual.
You can now give tours on Club Penguin!
Become a Card-Jitsu Ninja:
When you become a Card-Jitsu Ninja on Club Penguin, you can then become a Card-Jitsu Fire Ninja and Card-Jitsu Water Ninja. Let's begin. Here is how to become a Card-Jitsu Ninja:
1. Head over to the Dojo Courtyard located on your map.
2. After you go to the Dojo Courtyard, walk inside the Dojo.
3. After you walked in, you can check out the belts you can obtain and basic instructions.
4. If you clicked on the belts, you can see, it is a long way to become a black belt Card-Jitsu Ninja.The black belt is the final belt.
5. Now if you checked out the instructions, it teaches you on how to play Card Jitsu.
6. After you have read the instructions, you can now battle a player by walking towards the greenpillow that Sensei sits on.
7. After walking towards the green pillow, it will ask you if you want to play Card Jitsu, click "Yes".
8. After you have clicked on 'Yes', you can now begin earning your first belt. Click on "Earn your belts".
9. Here is the combination to Card Jitsu. Fire beats ice, water beats fire, and ice beats water.
10. Now, you can begin to battle your opponent. You and your opponent will have 5 cards to pick, you have have 20 seconds in total to choose a card.
11. After you have picked your card and your opponent has, the opponent's card will flip. It will follow the combination rule. However, if both of you chose fire, water, or ice, it will depend on the amount the card has. But if both of you have a different type of card, the type that beats the other, you win. For example:
My opponent picked a fire card with the amount of 10. I picked a water card, with the amount of 4. Who wins this round? I do, because water beats fire. So the amount doesn't matter unless you both chose the same type of card.
12. To win, you must have one of each, or three of the same.
13. Now, when you have earned your black belt, you need to challenge Sensei for your black ninja mask.
Sensei can be difficult to defeat, but it's possible.
14. After you have defeated Sensei, you will earn your black ninja mask. Now you can head over to the Ninja Hideout.
Become a Water Ninja:
There are 4 different items: 1) The Water Sandals 2) Water Coat 3) Water Mask and 4) Water Helmet. TIP: To earn items more quickly , talk to the Sensei and click "Earn your Water Suit" Looks a lot like CJ Fire, huh?
They look sweet huh? But to earn each item, you must play Card Jitsu Water and win. So how does this work? How do I play Card Jitsu Water?! It's almost the same as the original Card Jitsu, but a little different. First of all, talk to Sensei and click "Earn your suit"
Now what? Card Jitsu is more like Frogger! You need to jump from one square to another BUT to win, you must be the last one to fall! It's easy, just choose a card to turn off the other element. For example:
I've chosen a FIRE card, now I need to melt the ice from one of the green squares cause fire beats snow and so on. Get it? Once you melt it, you jump to it so you won't fall and lose. It's pretty easy… If you fall, you lose!
Each time you win the game, you will receive "points" to unlock the next item and like that. Once you get every single item, it's time challenge Sensei.
It will take you a couple of times to bet Sensei, but once you bet him, you will receive the water jem. Sensei will place this jem on your medal and it looks awesome!
Become a Fire Ninja:
There are 4 different items: 1) The Flame Sandals 2) Magma Coat 3) Lava Mask and 4) Fiery Helmet. TIP: To earn items more quickly , talk to the Sensei and click "Earn your Fire Suit"
They look sweet huh? But to earn each item, you must play Card Jitsu Fire and win. So how does this work? How do I play Card Jitsu Fire?! It's almost the same as the original Card Jitsu, but a little different. First of all, talk to Sensei and click "Earn your suit"
Now what? The game will start in a few seconds and you must be ready to win! LOOK! There are some rocks on the lava! Click a rock and a number will appear. This number means you have to move the number of places to the right or left.
Rules are the same. Fire bets Snow, Snow bets Water, and Water bets Fire. If tied, the highest number wins. Anyway, if you win, you will receive one point of energy and if you loose, you will loose one point of energy too.
Each time you win the game, you will receive "points" to unlock the next item and like that. Once you get every single item, it's time challenge Sensei.
It will take you a couple of times to bet Sensei, but once you bet him, you will receive the fire jem. Sensei will place this jem on your medal and it looks awesome!
CONGRATULATIONS! You are finally a Fire Ninja! There are more adventures coming for you soon! Rumor says the next journey will have something to do with snow! We don't know yet, but make sure to come back for your latest Club Penguin cheats!
Hey! I could have sworn I've been to this blog before but after reading through some of the post I realized it's new to me. Anyhow, I'm definitely delighted I found it and I'll be bookmarking and checking back often!
This website online is really a stroll-by for all of the information you wanted about this and didn't know who to ask. Glimpse right here, and you'll undoubtedly uncover it.


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Title: Hide me among the Graves
Author: Tim Powers
Publisher: William Morrow, Harper Collins
Genre: Fantasy, Historical Fiction
Pages: 528
Source: Publisher
Rating: 4/5
This is the first Tim Powers novel I have read and can confidently say that may be I will read another one. I liked this one. I did not love it but I sure did like it a lot. The blend of fantasy fiction and historical fiction intrigued and that's what prompted me to read this book. I am glad I did. It was a different sort of experience for me.
Hide me among the Graves is a very distant sequel to his book, The Stress of her Regard (you don't have to read this one first). The book is about pre-Raphaelite painter Gabriel Dante Rossetti and poetess Christina Rossetti as they fight the Nephilic vampires banished by the Romantic poets Byron and Shelley. Interesting, isn't it? There is more to it than this. Someone re-woke the Nephilim and Christina invited one of the vampires to her house, in the form of her uncle John Polidori, and now everyone is in danger – of not dying but of turning to a vampire. The Rossetti family is accompanied by an ex-prostitute, Adelaide, her lover and a missing daughter.
This is the plot and thus begins the Victorian journey of Goth and Darkness. Hide me among the Graves is a very fast read. One doesn't have to think so much while reading it and once a while you need a book like this, amongst the literary reads. The characters are unlikely and you will not know what hit you as you read along. Imagine Christina Rossetti fighting a vampire – I love this kind of flights of fancy in books, the unexpected always lurking to take you by surprise.
Tim Powers' writing is sharp and meant for readers who are into vampires but not of the pop kind. The book has famed poets and artists peeping from the pages and the reader can sense Powers' love for the Classical. The secondary characters are also well-rounded and not ignored in the book, which is another plus for me when I read a book.
The setting of the book is brilliant – Victorian London – dark and cold, perfect for a book of this nature. Hide me among the Graves is a delightful read – it has the "secret fantasy" element that unravels itself as you go along and at the same time it mingles with the classical without getting too pedantic (though sometimes predictable). I enjoyed the book.
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A financial services provider partnered with TEKsystems to build a secure identity and access management (IAM) program to address regulatory audit findings and improve the end-user experience.
The client, recently designated as systemically important to the U.S. financial market, is the world's leading equity derivatives clearing organization. The corporation clears a wide array of diverse and sophisticated products. Offering clearing and settlement services for transactions in futures and options, the client also clears transactions for security futures, over-the-counter and exchange-listed options.
Due to the highly sensitive nature of finance and its associated data and policies, the financial services industry is heavily regulated to protect consumer and institutional assets. Overarching regulations and industry mandates are constantly changing in response to evolving threats and industry needs; businesses must address emerging security issues or face severe consequences. Leaving security and access issues unresolved can result in audit-related fines, shaken investor confidence, a tarnished brand perception and heightened security risks.
In addition to managing security issues associated with external threats, organizations must protect their assets internally as well. It is important that organizations give internal and external identities—including contractors, vendors and business partners—the appropriate level of access to information, applications and networks needed to complete their responsibilities. However, privilege levels can vary widely depending on an identity's job function, seniority or specific projects. Maintaining diverse access privileges for thousands of identities can be a daunting task as individuals are onboarded or offboarded on a regular basis. Organizations must have a scalable IAM program and IAM systems in place to ensure proper clearances or privileges can be quickly updated to reflect business and regulatory changes.
Organizations often rely on IAM programs backed by sound governance policies to ensure compliance and streamline user account management and maintenance via automated policies and processes. A robust IAM program can help establish and enforce repeatable business processes, and the underlying infrastructure service components needed to create and maintain accurate and timely user identities that dictate access privileges and restrictions. A secure program can also improve business efficiencies by minimizing the need for help desk support and allowing identities to be self-sufficient in resolving issues. Companies must find the right balance between restricting access to information necessary to safeguard the business while granting internal and external identities the appropriate access needed to be productive and profitable.
Identity governance and administration, Identity and access governance, User administration and provisioning
The client, a financial services provider, operates under direct oversight of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). The client is regularly audited by these organizations to ensure it complies with the most recent regulatory and security mandates that govern the financial marketplace. During a recent audit, the client was found to be lacking in numerous IAM standards needed to help protect sensitive business assets and mitigate security risks for the organization and its end users. Among the findings were:
Due to the highly regulated nature of the client's business and the extensive regulatory audit findings that had been identified, a formal IAM program backed by a sophisticated IAM tool was needed for the client to remain in good standing with the SEC and CFTC, and most importantly, remain operational. A sound IAM program would help ensure the proper privileges and access credentials were associated with the correct internal/external personnel and business partners to help fortify the client's operations and data management.
Previously, the client had relied on internal security analysts to oversee the manual creation, maintenance and decommissioning of user accounts within the computing environment, which left room for errors or oversights in regard to account maintenance and management. Additionally, while the client had a legacy IAM tool in place to aid in password synchronizations across internal directories, other functionalities had never been implemented, so the full benefits of the tool were never utilized.
The client sought a trusted IAM advisor to guide them in building and implementing a secure IAM program to address their IAM audit findings. The client also wanted a partner that could assist them in selecting an off-the-shelf IAM software product to replace the existing legacy tool responsible for password synchronization. A formalized IAM program backed by versatile IAM software would automate user account functions, help eliminate user maintenance errors, improve overall organizational efficiencies, and better protect the business from potential security threats and future audit issues.
Having previously partnered with TEKsystems Global Services® on a variety of projects, the client was aware of our dedicated Information Security Services practice and IAM expertise. The client's director of security operations / security services met with practice leaders to discuss their IAM challenges and see how TEKsystems could help mitigate the challenges they faced. After hearing our proposed solution, and based on their confidence in our ability to deliver a mature IAM program, the client promptly selected TEKsystems without needing to consider alternate vendors.
Our solution consisted of three sequential components:
Based on our assessment of the SEC's and CFTC's audit findings, we designed a comprehensive roadmap to guide the client in building a secure and robust IAM program. The custom, multiphased roadmap outlined ways to address and correct audit findings, including issues with access requests and access reviews, the cleanup of idle accounts and password management. Additionally, the roadmap provided ways to enhance the user experience and streamline IAM processes and procedures outside of issues noted in the audit findings.
Choosing a new IAM software suite to support roadmap initiatives and address audit findings was a critical component of our IAM solution. We outlined governance parameters under which the new IAM tool would operate—specifically defining and reviewing associated IAM business requirements and functionalities. We then identified key components and features an ideal IAM tool would have, and researched relevant identity governance and administration products available in the market. We assisted the client in meeting with software vendors to review products and compare functionality against our identified requirements. Based on these meetings, the client selected a new, robust tool.
Phase two of our solution involved implementing the new IAM tool. We assisted the client with defining business requirements and oversaw the installation and configuration of the tool as the client's IAM subject matter expert. We then thoroughly tested the solution to ensure it complied with the client's stated business requirements. The new IAM tool had a wide array of modules to centralize disparate IAM functions, including modules to govern access reviews and access requests, policy monitoring, and role management, among other core IAM functionalities. After the software was installed, configured and thoroughly tested, the client was able to utilize the tool to perform password synchronization and decommission their previous IAM tool.
The next phases of our solution will be implemented over the next several years in accordance with IAM initiatives outlined in the roadmap. While the original roadmap we prepared was based on three years, the nature of the client's business dictated that numerous stakeholders were involved in key business decisions, which lengthened the time it took to implement major organizational changes. To accommodate this reality, we adjusted the timeline to more accurately align with the client's pace of implementation. The revised roadmap will be rolled out over the next three to five years.
A key priority addressed in our roadmap was improving the client's access review process. We recommended using the IAM tool to automate and streamline the process, incorporating business-friendly entitlement descriptions, so the appropriate certifiers would be alerted via email and given the ability to evaluate access from a centralized Web portal.
In addition to strengthening the access review process, we delivered a plan to establish sophisticated policy monitoring to better coordinate the decommissioning of user accounts and proactively reduce risks for future audits. Previously, changes to user accounts were sporadically reviewed, and generally inconsistencies or errors were only caught during an audit. Under the new module, policy violations will be flagged within the system in real time so any changes to user accounts can be implemented within days as opposed to months.
To help enhance the overall user experience, we recommended implementing several self-service features, including self-service password reset. The new module will give users the ability to answer security questions to independently reset their passwords / unlock their accounts. This functionality would help reduce the number of password-related calls to the help desk and improve end-user satisfaction.
We also recommended the client begin tracking IAM baselines so that as each new tool module is implemented, the director of security operations / security services would have evidence to show executive management a decrease in IAM audit findings, process improvements and cost reductions to justify the continued spend on the IAM program.
TEKsystems will support the client's IAM program development over the next several years. Future roadmap components will continue to address existing audit findings, proactively avoid future IAM issues, mature the client's IAM program and strengthen the overall security of the business.
With a dedicated Information Security Services practice, we were able to provide the client with a comprehensive roadmap specific to their unique needs. Our seasoned practice professionals have more than a decade of experience in their field, which allowed them to draw on a wide breadth of past experiences and know which strategies really work. We made suggestions on ways to improve efficiencies, address audit findings and centralize many of the previously disparate IAM functionalities within the organization.
Aside from being a highly regulated financial services provider, the client is a private, nonprofit organization, which meant making weighty organizational decisions could be a lengthy process. Though our roadmap was originally positioned to take three years to implement, we evolved our solution to fit a more realistic timeline of five years given the conditions within the client. We also were flexible in working within the client's timeline and coordinating the new IAM tool's implementation in conjunction with the third-party software vendor.
The client's preexisting relationship with TEKsystems helped solidify this engagement. The client was confident in our abilities based on past TEKsystems Global Services projects, including in areas of applications management outsourcing and quality assurance and testing. Based on this relationship, the client felt they didn't need to go through a formal RFP process prior to selecting TEKsystems to drive the formation of their IAM program.


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Thursday, November 11, 2010
Nursery Tree Nails Did
6 comments:
- KarenD said...
Adorable! Sorry about the cuticle massacre; I don't know why pros do that.
- November 11, 2010 at 4:36 PM
- rins said...
Hi! First, I really love the design on your nursery and how you mimicked it on your nails! How cool is that?
I'm sorry about your nail salon experience. I can relate. It's confusing, really. They're supposed to be the professionals and yet they can't even apply nail polish properly. :(
- November 12, 2010 at 4:51 AM
- Jackie S. said...
- November 12, 2010 at 11:01 AM
- Jackie S. said...
an about the cuticles, that is nail rape...OMG, I would have screamed and left immediately. No worries, a little TLC and they will be back to normal.
- November 12, 2010 at 11:02 AM
- Akuma Kanji said...
Your cuticles look worse than mine usually do! Oh my gosh those people! You should sue them :P but the nursery mani is very pretty and sweet ^__^ ***
- November 14, 2010 at 4:38 AM
- Niki* said...
LOL I know! They didnt even photograph badly they are just that torn apart :(
I've been rubbing Lemony Flutter and cuticle oil on them for a couple of days now so hopefully they bounce back. Poor cuticles
Thanks for the comments on the nursery! Its really coming together!
- November 14, 2010 at 5:21 AM


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My Herb Storage Shelf
We have a bathroom in our basement that is huge - not sure why it ws made that way, but it is bigger than any bathroom in the house and all it has is a potty and a sink. There are lots of shelves there so I use it for our non food storage. As I am deep cleaning our house my number one goal is to get it all put together so the preparedness items are available to use. I have had things all over the house. So I put in the repective area's a couple bars of soap and the rest in the storage area, two tubes of toothpaste in each bathroom and the rest in storage. I have a better idea of what we have and what we need.
One thing I do as far as inventorying our food is once a case is opened it is off the food storage list and added to the "need to buy" list. I just adapted that to the non food as well.
To have a successful food storage you need to have a system of inventory that works for you.


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SUP recap:
29 days
17 stand-up Paddleboarding virgins
4 nationalities (American, Swiss, New Zealand, British)
2 dogs
If you know me, have heard of me, or have seen my Instagram and Facebook feeds, you'll know what I'm talking about. My new love is stand-up paddle boarding. It started last winter when Toni and I were in the Turks and Caicos. We decided to rent paddle boards and just give it a whirl. We'd never tired it at all. But sweet jesus WAS IT FUN. We didn't fall despite the wind chop and waves and I knew right then and there that I must have one! I had HUGE plans for the spring. Aaaaaand then I broke the living SHIT outta my ankle while in Guam, in March. What followed was about 6 weeks of being house bound, a surgery, a whole lotta metal in my leg, crutches, a peg leg, months of physical therapy, 25 lbs of gained weight, and a complete and total appreciation of those around me.
When I finally got the go ahead from my surgeon that I could continue on with my life, I was so grateful that I decided that paddle boarding would be a gentle and low impact way to get back on my feet (literally). My physical therapist encouraged me to go for it. So, through my friend, Harmony, owner of UrbanOcean, that I knew from my good ole Mexico days, I ordered some gorgeous SUPlove paddle boards.
When I finally got them in the mail, I could barely wait to get on the water. I ripped into the boxes immediately. And my love affair began.


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Thursday, April 09, 2009
Free Online Photography Tutorial
For those who would rather not enroll in photography classes that either do not suit their time or budget, like me, I'd recommend the Composition Tips of the Digital Photography School.
Yup, I've checked them out today and I'm excited to go out of the house tomorrow. For the longest time now, I have wanted to attend photography classes. Sure. But, ahem... I don't.... kjljd*90d6s9dmffiojsoidufs. Pretend to understand it will ya? At Digital Photography School, they feature articles that are suited to the novice - as in zero knowledge - to the advance hobbyists. Interesting are how the author even critiques the mistake on his own photos. Other links they have are those that will explain the basic principles of Photography such as aperture, lighting, speed, ISO, etc, etc. But that really bores me which is probably why I never got to finish any of those tutorials. Thus, when I chanced upon the composition tips which deals very casually on the basic principles, I got some tips about them too. Very nice. You just have to try it.
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Thursday, June 28, 2012
Well everyone, the sequel to my first book, Tombs of Terror, is now available. The second book is called The Lost Curse and it includes the characters from the first novel only, this time, they are in the United States. There is adventure and danger, history and culture. For those of you who may not know, a Hollywood movie producer read my first book, Tombs of Terror and called to option the movie rights. He has since met with a major Hollywood studio about turning my first book into a movie and said the meeting went very well. He is excited about the book and the timing for turning it into a major motion picture. Now the sequel is out and those who have read both say The Lost Curse is even better than the first. If you want some good, page-turning summer reading and the hint of a movie isn't incentive enough, here is the first review of my new book, The Lost Curse. Review of The Lost Curse Enjoy! And happy summer reading! .
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In less than 3 weeks Disney•Pixar's newest feature film will make its debut in theaters across the country. The June issue of The Atlantic contains an article about Inside Out's director, Pete Docter, and the research he conducted while piecing together the storyline. Daniel Smith, the writer of the article, does a good job explaining the director's academic research as well as his personal reflections and experiences that eventually resulted in his newest movie.
I don't often read magazine articles, but I recommend this one to any fans of Disney•Pixar's previous movies or anyone even slightly interested in theories of emotion. There are big-name psychologists mentioned, whom Docter consulted to ensure his storyline was grounded in contemporary emotion theory. (One of the psychologists, Paul Ekman, was cited in my last post which was also about Inside Out.) Click on the link in the citation below to read Daniel Smith's article in The Atlantic. And check out the second official trailer released in the U.S. to see another preview of Inside Out.
Smith, D. (2015, June). Pixar's Mood Master. The Atlantic. Retrieved from https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/06/pixars-mood-master/392093/.


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Are you doing your best work? Are you doing GREAT work?
Seth Godin, always one to challenge us to think differently, had this very short post on his blog this past week, and it's food for thought.
Not only doing great work makes us uncomfortable, but being challenged about it can make us uncomfortable.
I'm guilty of sometimes saying, "I'm doing the best I can." But am I? Probably not. In reality, like Godin says, "I'm doing the best I'm comfortable doing."
I can probably do more. Can you?


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For some time now I've felt like I've wanted to simplify my life. By simplifying I mean my house, and all the stuff I have accumulated over the past 50 years. Simplifying seems to be the current trend, and I think it's a good one. To only keep the things that bring joy, and to get rid of the rest. I like it.
But how do I do it? Where to start?
I used to think that organizing was the the solution, and while I still love to be organized, I need to simplify first. There is a difference between an organized life and simplified life. While it may be organized, I still find we have too much stuff. A basket for this and a bin for that, most of which holds things I might use once or twice a year. It's taking up too much space in our home. When you simplify, you scale down, and keep only those things that are useful and you really love.
While "spring" cleaning, I tried to sort through and only keep the things we'll actually use or need. I have a problem with letting go of things, but it seems to be getting a little easier the older I get. I want to keep working on this until I'm finally free of the clutter that is weighing me down. I have lots of favorite things and way too many other things that I really don't use or love. Sometimes we have so much stuff that you can't enjoy those special things. For example, I love to cook and I spend alot of time in the kitchen. If my cabinets are cluttered with dishes and pans that I rarely use or are worn, they are only talking up space and are not really making me happy.
Not long ago, I went through every cabinet and got rid of all of my dated baking dishes, pots & pans, and mix-matched dinnerware. I bought new bright yellow Rachel Ray baking dishes, new pots & pans, and all white dinnerware. I LOVE all of it. Not only is it pretty, but I actually want to use all of it and do most every day. I had held on to some of that stuff forever. I didn't like it. I didn't use it, yet it took up space and cluttered my cabinets for years. I finally let it go!
I am also trying to simplify my life too. I get so tired of being too "busy". I live by a calendar and tons of sticky notes!
Simplify....less stuff.less work.less expense=more money.more time.more joy.
It's a work in progress for me, but it's a goal that I think will help me to slow down and enjoy all the good things in my life and help me to focus on what really matters!


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FRANCISCO: Oh, thank you.
SCOTT: No, you paid yesterday. It's only fair.
FRANCISCO: This is more expensive than yesterday. I'll give you some money later.
SCOTT: Francisco, forget about it. It's Chinatown.
FRANCISCO: Hahaha.
SCOTT: Hahaha.
FRANCISCO: Hahaha. ... What does that mean?
SCOTT: I take it you've never seen the movie.
FRANCISCO: What movie?


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Tomorrow will be the day of my 1st wedding anniversary. We've planned a day out with a romantic dinner in the evening. I made a dress to wear for the meal. I am very exited to wear it. I mainly make little cotton dresses at the moment as they are the most comfortable to wear in the summer but for this special occasion I decided to go for a beautiful brocade. But more about that next time.
Channeling my inner Nancy Sinatra....
This is what I wore to work today. I made this dress on Thursday. I went for a very simple design for this very busy print and it turned out very 60s mod. I am sure Edie Sedgwick would have liked something like this. So I decided to go for a little bit of beehive to finish of the look. I got some nice compliments at work. Thank you ladies, I know some of you have a peek at this blog every now and then.
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Gorgeous! I've been dressing more 60's recently. I find I often shift into the 60's in the summer. I have just finished making my first 40's skirt and intend to make a simple 60's shift dress next. I wish I could finish a dress in a day!! You look lovely - fantastic fabric!ReplyDelete
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Congrats on your 1st anniversary! I love this dress that you made..but then I love all the things you make!ReplyDelete
So cute and fresh looking. Love how you did your hair.ReplyDelete
oh wow, this is totally rad and looks fantastic on you!ReplyDelete
Cute dress. And your hair looks beautiful this way!ReplyDelete
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This will be a quiet week – I've got my Dad making his annual visit, a talk, a short trip, and then a slew of guests arriving for the weekend for Simon's 9th birthday party and Simon's first Torah reading (he's too young to read in the main synagogue, but he'll be the youngest kid ever to chant Torah at our shul in Junior Congregation), and there's a lot of cooking, plus the getting-ready-for-winter stuff is in high gear. So don't expect too much of me ;-).
The single FAQ about me is "how do you do it all?" The standard answer I have given since the question started to occur is still true – I don't. I don't do it all, and one of the things about writing is that it smooths things out and reduces them, and makes everything look like it flows more smoothly than it does. This isn't a conscious intent of mine, and I do try to be aware of it, but the very fact that no one actually wants to hear about the six interruptions I had getting a piece done to help someone spell this, wipe someone on the potty, get drinks of water and intervene is squabbles makes everything look clean, when it is actually quite messy and sometimes chaotic.
Still, so many people tell me that it is helpful to be able to see how my life actually works that I do feel inclined to do it periodically. My first attempt was around the same time of year in 2006, and appears in _Depletion and Abundance_ – what's different now is that the kids are 4 years older, and the issues are somewhat different…somewhat. Here's the story of last Friday. As I write this, Eli is 10 1/2, Simon will be 9 next Saturday, Asher is five and Isaiah will be 7 next month.
The time change is still a huge issue for us – Eli has some mild sleep issues (most kids with autism do, and his aren't bad) but he simply does not grasp the concept of a time change. Indeed, there's something about the increasing darkness that sends him to sleep even earlier. Which means that he's up *even earlier* – we try and shift him by keeping him awake, and end up in this weird position of my kid trying to sneak off to go to sleep at 5:30 in the afternoon. All of which means that after a pleasant summer of sleeping until 6:30 most mornings, we're often seeing the number 5 – and occasionally even 4 again. But hey, we're farmers, right, so we don't mind. Right.
5am – It wasn't a great night to begin with. The coyotes that den in the big field across the road from us were singing, which I don't mind at all – it is lovely and eerie and faint through the closed windows, and I was only vaguely aware of them. But about a minute after they began their song, Mac started barking. That's ok too, since he was on the perimeter of the property, and that's his job. But Mistress Quickly (our emergency backup dog) felt that she should be doing something too. What she decided to do was sit under our window and sing along with the coyotes. Coyote voices are lovely. MQ's singing, not so much. She sounds like Scooby-doo trying to do shape notes. After a few minutes, I stagger downstairs and lure her and Mac into the garage, where they will be somewhat muffled and go back to sleep. This was 1amish.
At 4am, we start to hear Eli. The good news is that he's learned to hang out fairly quietly and play in the kids' room for a good while if he's up in the night – some years before we used to have to get up with him, but now he just plays quietly…but you still hear it. We try and ignore that and the muffled sounds of singing.
At 5am, Simon comes out and stands in the doorway asking "is it time to get up yet?" The rule during long light days is that you can't come out (except to pee) until the sun comes up. The new rule involves the clock, and Simon keeps "forgetting" that he isn't supposed to come bother us until six…"Oh, I thought you said 5." Mmmmmmhhhmmmmm. Sure you did kid. Eric mutters some vague threat if he doesn't go back in his room and BE QUIET.
5:07 – Eli is noticably louder now – Simon is the official leader of child delegations here, and Eli had clearly thought that SImon's approach to our room meant it was time to get up. The banging goes on for a few minutes. Blah! Fine, we're up. Sort of.
The kids coming bouncing out of their room excitedly explaining to us about the game they were playing involved firing stuffed animals at each other. We stagger down and grumble, but it is hard to be too grumpy when four small people are just thrilled to see us. Five year old Asher is the brightest and cheerfullest, and hardest to resist.
5:15 – We divide duties. Eric sets to assembling toast (toast and oatmeal are our most common breakfasts) and apple cider (we happen to have some, most mornings the kids drink herb tea) for breakfast, and starting baths (the ground is muddy from lots of rain earlier in the week and we were too lazy to clean them last night), while I light the fire in the cookstove, put on the kettle and release the dogs from the garage and give them breakfast. The dogs alternate between homemade dog food (butchering extras, brown rice, vegetables) and a good quality natural dog food, but they prefer the homemade. I worry about nutritional deficits, through, and don't quite have the nerve to abandon the commercial stuff altogether. Mac eats inside, MQ is outside, since is food aggressive and gets fat really easily, and Mac needs about 3xs as much food as she does.
The fire lights quickly – it has been warm, 50s during the day, but the nights are cold, so I find that a small fire in the morning really takes the edge off of things. We let it go out by mid-day but usually manage to get lunch heated up on it as well. I put the kettle on over the firebox for my tea – I'll be more cheerful after tea. It isn't that I need the caffeine, I don't, I just need the ritual.
I do dishes while the fire heats up. Eric sterilizes the milking equipment. The kids are eating breakfast in the living room – if it is toast only, I let them eat on the wood floor, since it is no more work to sweep the crumbs there than at the table. Eli listens to music while he eats, Asher and Isaiah are sharing a big armchair and looking at an encyclopedia of dinosaurs, and Simon is drawing cartoons. We do sit-down family meals for all other occasions, but breakfast is very much come as you are.
5:45 – Water is hot and Eric has sourdough toast waiting for me. I pour our tea – mint for him, black for me and we kick Asher off the couch and stick him in the tub so that we can take it over. I look forward to this part of our day every morning – we try and sit for 15 minutes before getting really going.
We discuss our plans for the day. We had a disappointment this morning – our friends Jon and Steph and their three kids, including their 2 month old daughter, who we have not yet met, were supposed to be spending the weekend, but there's a message on the machine from late last night that their 2 year old has been throwing up and they won't make it. Damn. We debate whether to try and make plans with other friends for the next day, or to leave the space open. We decide on the latter – too hectic, and often enough we end up hanging out with friends at synagogue until mid-afternoon – while their kids play with ours. We don't need to rush that.
6:15am – I make Eli's lunch from yesterday's leftovers (Eli doesn't like sandwiches), pack his backpack, and get things ready for school. You have to give the kids this credit – mornings are way less hectic when you have 3+ hours to get ready for school. I'd still rather have the sleep, though.
The kids sing Modeh Ani, brush teeth and rotate through the bath and hair washes. I head upstairs to check email – I'm definitely *not* officially working this morning – I'm really trying to get to the point where I work only three days a week, and ignore my email in the interim. But I'm helping run an event next week, and there are organizational details that can't wait. I want to stop in and visit a friend on my way back from my travels, and that requires email, and I have a couple of other folks I've been neglecting. Sigh.
7:30 – I managed to ignore my blog, my class, all emails not deemed urgent or immediately relevant to something. I'm done – yay! I will check email at least once again today, since I'm waiting for an answer on something, but for me, that's pretty good.
I feed the stove, do more dishes, and run a couple of loads of laundry while Eric goes out to milk the does. I finish Eli and the younger boys' hair washes and set Simon to self-bathing. Laundry is hung on drying racks indoors – I'll hang a load outside once the frost melts and the sun is really up.
I check on the rabbits – I'm debating moving them over to the hay barn for the winter, but figure I'd better check the weather forecast – if it is going to stay nice and warm, we might as well leave them out in the fresh air on the front porch. I have two does expected to kindle in 12 days, though, so I do want to get them moved and settled before they are too close to delivery. After a quick forecast check, I decide it can wait until early next week.
8:15: Eli's bus comes. Yesterday was Veterans day and no school, so we had two neighbor kids and three friends' kids visiting us and the kids had a great day racing around. They found a leopard frog (I was surprised that it was still out and about) who, afer a raging debate about which Death Eater from Harry Potter to name it after (I'm still not clear why it *had* to be named after a death eater), was named Dolohov. At the end of what was almost certainly a traumatic day involving too much child attention, Dolohov was returned to his spot on the creek, and the kids have announced their desire to see if they can find him again. Off to the creek!
Eric filters about 2 gallons of milk – I need to make cheese and yogurt ASAP, as it builds up rapidly if I don't. I put that on the day's agenda. Eric mixes up a batch of challah, the bread we eat on Friday nights and sets it to rise near the back of the woodstove.
8:30: Today's agenda is particularly exciting – we're going to be watching CNN – that's the "Caprine Nookie Network" – today is the day that Frodo, our senior buck, gets let in with the senior does. We hadn't planned to do this until early December, but yesterday I found out that the date for my old friend Jesse's wedding has been set, and I need to move the breeding back so that the babies are all born and life is stable enough for us to go away in early June. I'd been sort of paying attention to the doe's heat cycles, but not terribly carefully, since I thought I had another month to track them, so I'm not sure where we are in all the cycles. So Frodo gets to just go in with the older girls altogether.
Eric is cleaning out the barn – once the heavy snow sets in, this becomes a much harder job, and we tend to just go the deep bedding route, layering fresh, dry bedding on top of the old. The composting that happens in the lower layers helps keep the barn warm, and with enough carbon, it never smells bad. But depending on the kind of year we have, the job of cleaning out the barn at the end of winter can be intimidating – so we try to have done it as close to the first heavy snow as possible. We do a full clean out about every two weeks now, and we know that each one could be the last now, although I hope to get at least one more in. Last year, with the very late heavy snow we had in early March (four feet!), we didn't get the barn cleaned out until April 1, and that was a *big* job.
I separate out the baby goats and stick them in the pasture, and go up to the monastary and select Frodo from the bucks and bring him down. Eric is dumping the manure and straw mixture on the garden beds in the side yard – each of the annual beds gets a thick layer, while the perennials get a slightly thinner one.
Frodo is, to sa the least, delighted by his good fortune. The does are a little less excited by his overtures, but Bast seems like she may be coming into receptivity…maybe.
The boys announce no sign of yesterday's frog (if he's smart, he got out of Dodge), but that they did see the Great Blue Heron. This is the latest we've ever seen our Heron, and we wonder if we've been missing him or he's migrating later this year. It has been very warm, a mild fall for the most part.
While keeping an eye on adventures in the goat department, I plant tulip, muscari, snowdrop and daffodil bulbs, spread the mulch Eric has been layering on, spread leaves we've gathered from the streetsides on our trips into town on the woodland beds (we don't manure these beds, using leaf mulch instead, because we've found that some of the woodland plants don't seem to respond well to even composted manures).
Isaiah is done with the creek and helps me plant. All my kids love to participate on the farm, but Isaiah is a natural gardener, and always wants to be part of planting and harvesting. We talk about his garden plans. in New Haven, I saw a corn variety "bloody butcher" that I'm determine to grow here – it was beautiful and huge, and Isaiah and I talk about how tall it grows and whether we'll be able to get it to 15 feet like the ones I saw in New Haven? We talk about soil fertility and why corn is a heavy feeder, and what we should feed it with. The folks in question fed theirs with leaf compost and diluted human urine. We suspect we can do that, plus some goat manure.
10am: Eric is done with the poultry areas and one of the goat stalls and calls it done for the morning so he can do some homeschooling with the kids. We'll do the other half on Sunday afternoon, moving that manure onto the lower main garden. We've also got some more composting – finally, we feel like we've got enough animal livestock to almost keep up with the farm's fertility needs – we're coming into balance.
Eric practices reading with Isaiah and Asher, and sets Simon to correctly punctuating a series of very funny sentences. Isaiah is on the cusp of transitioning into reading becoming fluent, rather than an effort, and he's excited by the fact that he's almost there – he just wants to read as well as Simon. Asher can spell and write words, but he doesn't quite grasp how they go to together yet, but there's no pressure – he just turned five two weeks ago. The kids have a light snack – Mutsu apples and carrots from our root cellar.
11:am – Early lunch. On Eric's workdays, we always eat early because he has to be at work at 12:15, but we're hungry anyway – breakfast was a long, long time ago. I make tomato soup (not from a can, obviously), more slices of sourdough bread and sauteed cabbage with lemon-pepper. We eat a lot of cabbage in the winter, since it is green, fresh and stores so beautifully, and we all really enjoy it, particularly once the cabbage is sweetened by frost. At 11:30 Eric gets ready for work and heads out the door.
Friday is Eric's short day – most of the week, he leaves late, but often comes home late, particularly on nights when he does astronomical observing sessions, which can get him back as late as midnight. But Fridays he's back by 4pm. We realize just how lucky we are to have this schedule!
I realize that I had meant to go to Ag-Way this morning, and now that option is gone – our only car has left the building. Fortunately it isn't that urgent – we're lower on chicken feed than I'd like, but we still have adequate. I try and make sure I refill the recycled plastic barrels when they get to the 1/2 way mark, and it is somewhat below it now. It saves on trips to the store, and tomorrow we won't be able to because we don't engage in commmerce on the Sabbath. But I have plenty of feed yet, so it can wait until Sunday afternoon. I also always keep sunflower seeds around – for feeding the birds, treats for the goats and also to be used as emergency poultry feed, with a little grain. Our chickens are getting a bit more grain now, as there's little to forage for in November, but still half their calories come from scraps and forage – and we're hoping it will be more. Eric has been working to start collecting food scraps from the SUNY Albany cafeterias to take back for the chickens as part of the environmental program. We're hoping we can put food waste from the university to use in our farm.
Noon: The boys go out for half an hour to burn off post-meal energy, while I make a couple of phone calls, first to my sister to talk about plans for our visit in December, then to our hay guy to remind him that we want to get the last of our hay in before it rains again, and finally to a colleague from ASPO about the event going on next week in DC.
One of the big challenges of the last few months has been balancing my new commitment with ASPO with the rest of my life. There's been a lot of time and energy involved in it, and while it is good and useful time and energy, it also involves a new skill set for me. I have tended to prefer the hands-on, direct action part of most organizations – I resolutely avoid joining budget committees, getting involved in fund raising, etc… Now I realize these things are important, but I've always preferred hands-on work, but as a board member for ASPO, I've dived straight into the deep end of the end I've so long avoided, and the learning curve is tough for me. But the results are promising and I'm excited about it. I agree to make some phone calls on Monday to get people to attend our event.
12:45 – Homeschool. We are working on poetic forms, and we read some poems and the kids compose their own comic odes to animals on our farm. Simon illustrates his with cartoons, while I help Isaiah and Asher write their poems out.
Next, math – everyone has a math book – we use Singapore. Simon is working on long division and for fun, on using different bases – he likes working in base-12. Isaiah is working on two digit multiplication (while language skills don't come easily to Isaiah, math does) and Asher is working on single digit addition. The boys finish their math pretty quickly – everyone in our household loves math.
Simon practices reading Torah to me – Torah is written on the scrolls with no vowels, so not only does he have to learn and memorize the musical phrases that accompany chanting Torah, but he also has to remember what the vowels are. Most kids learn trope for their bar/bat mitzvah, some learn it before, but it is somewhat unusual for a 9 year old to have mastered it. But Simon is very musical, and has learned from his Dad. Being a convert, I never had a bat mitzvah, and I haven't mastered it, but at this point, I've heard Simon's enough to be able to correct his mistakes, but there aren't any.
We read some history – we're studying the fall of Rome and the tribal structure of Europe, and then we call it enough. We do reading, math and writing every day, and rotate through different sciences, history and ethics on different days of the week – generally, but the rules change as needed. The boys ask to watch "Schoolhouse Rock" as a reward for success, and I agree. They also are allowed two pieces of their remaining Halloween candy. I take one too, called "paying the Mommy tax."
2:30pm – The stove is out and the sunshine is warm, I go out to check on the does. Woot! Bast and Frodo are making more baby goats for me – yay, I like babies. Plus, I like Frodo and the girls to be happy, and they clearly are. When a doe is in heat, she *loves* that buck.
I do more dishes from the endless pile, more laundry from the other endless pile, sweep, tidy up various odds and ends, and start hauling in firewood. I also do one more email check, resist getting sucked into any discussions on various issues, and unplug the computer. It will stay off until Monday morning, so I make sure I dig out the phone number for my Sunday ASPO board meeting conference call. I braid the challah and put it on to rise again.
3:15 – Video is off, and we're outside waiting for Eli's bus – I'm putting plastic up on a miniature hoop-house to keep collards, kale and bok choy coming late into winter. Asher complains "do I have to go outside again?" but I drag him out with us – sunshine is too precious a commodity to be wasted in November in upstate NY.
The boys amuse themselves with chasing the chickens that sneaked through our poultry-permeable fence and into the gate. They have a great idea for a catapult and a game to made out of catching and catapulting unwanted chickens – they spend a lot of time describing how this will work and name the game "Peevish Poultry." This is an excellent time for an impromptu physics lesson.
The bus pulls up and I chat with the driver and Eli's aide for a minute. He had a good day, and he comes in and asks for a glass milk and a snack. We eat slices of bread with jam (Isaiah and Asher) or peanut butter (Simon and Eli) or goat cheese (me), and the kids drink milk or herb tea, and I have tea too. It is so warm and sunny that we sit outside and relax. Eli is playing ball, and I read to the other boys – we're working on The Swiss Family Robinson, although I do edit out some of the effusive verbiage as we go. Asher wants to read about dinosaurs again (no surprise), and painfully but happily sounds out the words "ornithomimus and dromiosaurus."
4pm: Eric is home and I set to making dinner. Eli plays out front on the swing set, the other three boys are climbing trees in the late afternoon light. I have rebuilt the fire, to bake the challah and dinner. Dinner will be a scalloped potatoes and cauliflower with dried tomatoes, steamed broccoli with garlic dressing, challah and, since it is Shabbos dinner, baked apples. I realize that with Eli's early crash, I'd better get the food on soon, so we work together.
After a while, the boys troop back in – they are getting whiny – they are tired, and fighting over crayons as they color on the floor in front of the stove. They are under everyone's feet, but I don't have the heart to kick them away from the warm spot, although I do have the heart to threaten no dessert if Isaiah and Asher don't stop bickering.
4:30 – I feed and water the rabbits and set them up for the night, then put the does and bucks in their respective barns. During the summer we leave them out on pasture at night, but in the winter they move into the barns overnight. I lure the poultry out of the barn rafters (where they roost in the late afternoons) with a little grain and shut most of them in their part of the barn. The silkies and Blackberry the rooster go in with the goats. I make sure everyone has hay and water, and that the goats' mineral blocks are moved back from the pasture to the barn (if I leave them out and it rains they melt and are wasted so we bring them back and forth). We don't have water in the barn, so while it remains comparatively warm, I can use the hoses, but soon I'll be back to carrying water from the house. Someday it would be nice to have it, but I don't really mind that much.
I separate the babies from their Moms – our summer babies are teenagers now, but they still nurse when they can, practically lifting their mothers up in their enthusiasm (as someone who nursed several of her kids to three, I can kind of identify ;-)). We let them have it all day – we don't do a night milking (babies get that), but we do want the milk in the morning, so the young does and our wether spend their night in the kidding pen.
5pm: Eric has dinner well in hand, and we sit down for the Sabbath. The boys set the table with the good tablecloth, candlesticks, tzedakah (charity) box (we empty our pockets of whatever money we have in them for charity before the sabbath begins), kippot (head coverings), challah platter (my grandmothers good transferware from the 19th century, which is lovely and sturdy was in a box for 40 years, so was deemed kosher enough for us), challah cover (made by my much-classier-than-I-will-ever-be friend Bess and hand-embroidered with a gorgeous sheaf of wheat) and kiddush cups. The kids bicker over who gets which cup (little wooden cups are painted with pictures of pomegranates, olives, grapes, barley, etc… – something for them to argue about).
We make blessings over candles, children, wine and challah, sing Shalom Alecheim, and settle down to eat by candlelight. Eli eats challah, drinks his juice and wanders off – he's just not that hungry, because he's so tired. He wraps up in a blanket and snuggles down on the couch to wait for us to put him to bed.
The other boys eat enthusiastically, as do we. I like this recipe with the cauliflower, plus it uses up some milk. Oops, I realize I forgot to make cheese – well, Sunday then. Pretty much everything we eat this time of year is local, except olive oil, salt, sugar and spices. It gets harder in the deep of winter at times, but even then, it is pretty easy to rely on local food for that vast majority of our consumption, and with what we grow, we spend less than average on food, even though we pay higher prices.
We sing a little at dinner – the previous weekend our synagogue had Joshua Nelson visit – he's an African-American Jew who is famous for his integration of Gospel and Cantatorial (ie, classic Jewish religious music) styles, and his album has caught the kids' fancy, so we amuse ourselves trying to compose some new gospel-style songs with traditional lyrics. I don't think we'll be competing with Nelson as songwriters. The kids talk about the day and week and about their favorite thing that happened. Two of the three younger boys vote for the Leopard frog and the day spent with their friends. Isaiah says the best part was having cocoa and pancakes and garden planning in front of the fire. Eli is not answering, Eric votes for lunch with our friends and I vote for the fac that new babies may have been made today. All good stuff.
6:15pm – Despite our best efforts to keep him upright, Eli is all done. The boys get into their fleece pajamas, brush teeth and head upstairs to bed. I read poetry to Eli, who loves Lewis Carroll, but who is only barely conscious. and decline to read the same dinosaur book again for the third time today with Asher, who reluctantly offers a Magic Treehouse book as a substitute. Eric is reading _Watership Down_ with Simon and Isaiah, who are delighted by it. We sing a series of songs associated long with bedtime in our house, ending with the Shema, and say goodnight. The boys are allowed to stay up as late as they want as long as they stay in their room, but by 7:30 even Simon, usually the last hold-out, is out cold. The mornings are starting too early.
7:30pm – We let the dogs out to guard, feed the six cats, and make a faint and not very effective stab at cleaning up. We're so tired that we decided to leave the dishes and child-chaos until morning. The fire is almost out. Eric has a beer, which I take an occasional swallow of, along with my cup of tea.
The good thing about having kids who have a fairly early bedtime (although not usually this early) is that Eric and I have evenings together – we can try and get things done, just hang out and sit, talk, or as we often do, just sit around and read. Eric is reading a paper of Gaia Theory and its implications for Climatology. I'm trying and failing to resist the first two seed catalogs of the year, Pinetree and Seeds of Change, both of which arrived in the mail today (and were promptly claimed by Isaiah – I managed to get them back, but when the hatchery catalogs arrive, those will disappear into his hands and never be touched by me again, unless he wants me to buy something for him – he's poultry obsessed even more than garden obsessed.) I have a book I need to review, and another one that I want to review, but my eyes keep straying back to those catalogs.
We discuss plans for the farm, including fun things like budgets and taxes for a while, but we're too tired to get serious, and we don't do actual financial planning or record keeping on Shabbos, which is supposed to be a delight. I don't mind talking generally about money, but I don't know that the work of balancing the budget falls in the "delight" category for either of us. We go over the plans for the weekend – when will I get to Ag-Way, when will Eric finish the barn, what will we make for meals, what else needs doing, but we gradually drift back into our books, and sit there, my legs lying across his lap, quietly and companionably.
9pm – We take showers and wash hair and head to bed. The dogs get warned not to sing, the lights are turned off and the doors locked. We sneak into the boys room for one last look at them, snuggled together in a row across two futons pushed together (we have four beds in the room, but for years they've preferred to all sleep together). I recover them, and Eric and I go into our room, which badly needs cleaning because it is the place we shove everything when guests come over. We are not going to clean it tonight, however, so we read and head to bed under cozy layers of comforters on a cold night.


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Kicking off this first entry I thought I would share the exploding box I made recently for a work colleague for her wedding on New Years Eve 2009. I seem to have developed a fondness for making the exploding boxes over conventional cards, I find them much more of a better keepsake especially for weddings and christenings as you can make them a lot more tailored to the event and individuals.
In this wedding box I was able to include photos of the happy couple around the middle layer, my sentiments around the inner layer and wedding die cuts around the outer layer. The centre piece is a mini cake edged with some fancy lace edging and a floral ribbon topper.
The photo's speak for themselves, hope you enjoy...?


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Monday, December 15, 2008
I don't know if you guys have seen, read or even heard. But the other day in a surprise visit to Baghdad, an irate Iraqi reporter threw some size 10 Stacy Adams at our beloved commander in chief. I guess thats what you get for a surprise visit. Maybe next time he would call ahead.
But hey, when you've thrown an entire country into turmoil, through military destruction, and lost of lives, all on a LIE, I don't think you can announce your visit ahead of time. He better be lucky he got a shoe tossed at his ass instead of an IED strategically placed at the podium. That would have been ugly. As much as I dislike this man, I'm happy to see a shoe tossed instead of a bomb or something like that.
My only wish was that the shoe thrower to be more accurate. Yup, I wish he had hit him in the face, but instead he missed. Though he intended to hit him, he was off target. I guess that's what you get for not throwing something heavy like steel toe boots or maybe some army issued Timberlands.
The thing that struck me as I watched the clip of this episode over and over as I rolled with fits of laughter, is that there was no secret service. Remember when Reagan got shot? There were like 400 secret servicemen around him at the time. Hell, one of them even took a bullet for the man. But George Bush? Depending on how you're looking at it, no such luck.
To me, it would seem that there would have been at least one brave white secret service dude (I'm sorry, but the brothas aren't that loyal) who would have dove in front of the shoe. If not that, he would have at least scooped up the president and whisked him away to safety. But yet, none of that happened. Instead, our Idiot In Chief was allowed to continue speaking. He even took this embarrassment and turned it into a comedy routine. I really would have liked to see what he would have had to say if that pissed off Iraqi decided to bare his ass and "moon" him on national TV.
Memo to the secret service: Umm, failure to do your job under the presidency of Barack Obama the likes of this shoe incident could possibly lead to loss of employment.
Its been reported that the Iraqi shoe assassin, had been recently arrested and tortured. See how that torture shit can come back to haunt you Mr. Bush? I'm also pretty sure that he wasn't too happy that his relatives had been killed as a result of the occupation either. For that, I guess our president can say that the surge worked. If it didn't, lord knows it wouldn't have been a shoe thrown. It could have been worse.
It may have been a rock. Those Iraqi's are known to be the shit when it comes to throwing rocks at tanks. I'm pretty sure as experienced as they are with the ethnic infighting, they wouldn't have missed. However, I'm glad that it was a shoe, and that Bush is alive today so that I can laugh at his ass. Its better to laugh at him after all of this instead of the country being thrust into mourning. Having to hear people talk about how GREAT he was would make me puke.
I gotta give him credit though, he has some quick reflexes. Did you see how fast he ducked, and avoided being hit? I could be wrong, but I think he picked up that "Matrix" move and added it to his repertoire after Hurricane Katrina, just in case one of those angry Negroes got brave. I don't know, but I know somebody needs to nominate that Iraqi reporter as Time Magazine Man of The Year. Just like my fat ass, I can't help but to think that somewhere in hell, there's a guy with a thick mustache, dressed in military style gear who is laughing his ass off right now.
9 comments:
- uglyblackjohn said...
He wasn't as smooth as Neo but the old guy did duck quickly. He even joked about it later.
The security guys came from the back AFTER the shoes were thrown.
It was prety odd to see the POTUS being put in that type of potential danger.
- December 15, 2008 at 12:20 PM
- Invisible Woman said...
LMAO at all of it, especially your post title :-)
- December 15, 2008 at 1:27 PM
- syamun said...
OK, so I must have laughed until my side started hurting......that was too funny.
Dubya may not have been good at anything else, but I bet he's a skilled dodge baller.
- December 15, 2008 at 2:30 PM
- jjbrock said...
I think they are asking why didn't Secret Services jump in front of the president to protect him. Please, Bush did the right thing he ducked. I was too funny!
- December 15, 2008 at 9:55 PM
- President Anthony Taurus said...
Mannnnnnn it was awesomeness. As I said in my blog I am only pissed that he missed twice. But, I think he meant to miss as the consequences might have been worse if he hit.
- December 16, 2008 at 8:22 AM
- Kit (Keep It Trill) said...
I swear, it looked to me like Bush was smiling when that first shoe missed him. He must thrive on living on the edge; he damn sure has taken this country to it and Iraq & Afghanistan over it.
That journalist was really beaten bad too - and I'll bet he'll get another round of punishment as they escort him back to Iraq.
If his guards are so brazen to do that to a shoe thrower here, imagine what they do to the men and teen boys they routinely rounded up in Iraq. Over 1,000,000 men, women and kids dead, no telling how many injured or taken into custody - and never charged.
It's a disgrace. Dummies nuke flies when a fly swatter will do, and wonder why we have so many more enemies now. All they had to do with that journalist was lock him up, but that Klan mentality over-rode logic and laws, as usual.
- December 16, 2008 at 9:46 PM
- a.eye said...
I hadn't even thought about the lack of secret service agents coming to his rescue -- I was too busy looking at his shit eating grin and worrying for the safety and life of the man throwing the shoes.
- December 17, 2008 at 9:23 AM
- ShesTooMuch4Em said...
In Iraq throwing shoes is a sign of true distain for something or someone. Remember when they were trying to bring down that statue in Iraq or whevever it was, all those people were throwing their shoes at it.
I'm at work and here those videos and what not are blocked so I can't see em but I read about it and was dying laffin!
- December 18, 2008 at 5:41 PM
Why do you think the secret service gave him time to throw the other shoe?? It was too funny..but what I want to know is how come we can come to "impeachment proceedings" because a president lied about having sex, but not when a president lies to get us into war under false pretenses? just curious...
- December 20, 2008 at 11:36 AM


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The Catholics for Reproductive Health (C4RH) held a strategic planning workshop last June 24-25, 2010 at the Fersal Place Hotel in Quezon City to formulate the group's mandate for the next two years. C4RH is a fellowship of concerned Filipino Catholics, as individuals or as organizations, who affirm that the guiding principles of reproductive health do not contradict the practice of the Catholic faith, and who support the right to reproductive health.
20 representatives from partner organizations in 7 cities, including Davao, Cebu, Iloilo, Legaspi, and Tagbilaran, reviewed and redefined the vision, mission and mandate of C4RH. The newly-stated vision of C4RH is "a fellowship of Filipino Catholics living in harmony with their faith and right to RH", with a mission "[t]o organize and support fellow Filipino Catholics in understanding, appreciating and promoting RH as a right." The agreed upon mandate or major final outputs are: (1) sustained capacity building on RH and Religion; (2) a strong, established and maintained network of fellows; and (3) active and responsive advocacy on RH and religion. HAIN was designated the Secretariat of C4RH.
Monday, August 09, 2010
Catholics for RH hold strategic planning workshop
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I met an important man last night. He knows how things work in the government and systems that support or connect with it so well that he spoke truthfully when he said, " I know how to get things started and I can stop them too."
He was talking about building projects. He does great big ones like enormous housing projects and malls that incorporate businesses with residences.
A question that occurred to me when this important man said that he can start and stop things, was, "Yes, but do you know what to start and stop?"
That question cut into my sleep and woke me up early. I think the answer to it is, "No. He does not know what to start and stop."
I am a rather unimportant person and can barely manage to start and stop myself. I am not sure I know what to start and stop either, but boy am I good at asking questions!
Once upon a time a long time ago, I took a test for a job with my government. The test also happened to be used by the government to find people who have high IQs. I was one of those high IQs they found that way.
My government was rather irate that I had escaped their notice so long with my valuable high IQ. This was because they like to catch people with very high IQs and put them to work with important stuff like blowing stuff up and calculating how to blow things up, or programming computers to do that.
I was young, naive, and therefore decided to work for the government sort of as a volunteer. The job that taking that test got me was as a postal clerk. I would be paid as a postal clerk, and still do other things for the government.
I thought that what I was doing for my government would make the world better and help lots of people. That is why I did not ask for lots of money for using my high IQ for the government.
Government people did try to talk me into helping them do important work like blowing stuff up, but it was kind of late for me to do that. I already really hated math so much that I didn't find blowing stuff up or programming computers to blow stuff up, very appealing.
The government decided that they would use me in other ways, that might not be as useful to them as blowing stuff up and programming computers to blow stuff up. They had me doing all sorts of things. Many of them involved thinking and being a sort of mobile computer.
They mentioned that I was especially useful with information that was difficult to quantify so that it could be put into a computer.
Apparently I was very useful them in this way. They decided that I was so good at it that they would sort of loan me out to different government departments and even big semi-government corporations.
I was somewhat bemused by all of this. They considered what I was doing so important that they gave me body guards. Lots of body guards. I am not sure they even thought that I actually needed that many body guards.
It was just that we had that many government departments; it was about 15 at the time. Those different government departments didn't trust each other, so each one wanted one of their guys around me to watch out for the others and be able to influence me for their own purposes.
It was also a pain. They never left me alone, even at home. They didn't go right into the toilet with me, but they hid microphones in there.
The thing I seemed to be best at was asking questions. Lots of questions.
It escaped me then, why that was so useful. I can't say I really grok that now either, but it sure seemed to make people happy.
They would bring some important person with a problem to me. I would ask the person questions about their problem and the important person would suddenly seem to have a solution to it.
They would then bring the next important person with a problem and we would do it again.
It didn't seem to me that I was really doing anything, but everybody seemed to think I was really good at it.
They wanted me to do more of this. They started scheduling me with one important-person-with-a-problem, after another, all day long. There got to be so many people waiting to have me ask them questions and help them solve their problems, that they ran out of my time and got a backlog. I was scheduled for years ahead and there was still not enough time to go around.
I found out after a while of doing this, that I did not like some of the stuff that I was helping with.
Blowing people up and finding other ways to kill them was not something I liked helping with. Doing other nasty stuff to people was not pleasant to me either.
I didn't want to keep helping the government people do things that I considered wrong. I quit working for them.
They were mad at me for that. They took away my body guards. I wasn't sure that was bad.
All kinds of things happened to me that showed me things that I had not known while I was still working for the government.
One of these things I had not known, was that the bodyguards were not just there for the reasons I knew about, like protecting me from bad guys who might hurt me, or from being influenced by the other body guards. They were there to keep me from being useful to other people, especially people from other governments.
They would rather have me dead, than working to help other governments. I was almost killed lots of times since I quit working for the government.
I have been learning lots of stuff since I worked for the government. I think my questions are much better than they used to be.
One of those better questions is, "Why shouldn't I get to ask questions that help more people?"
Another question is, "Why should I have to die instead of getting to help people who are not part of the government of my country?"
There doesn't seem to be a shortage of problems in the world. These problems are real humdingers compared to the ones I ran across when I used to be working for my government.
Some of these problems involve climate change and other effects of environmental system trashing that the human race has been doing. I have lots of very good questions about this sort of thing. One good question is, "Why don't more people understand that the future of the human race is in danger unless we make big changes in how we live?
It seems to me that people who have most of the power and money do not want our problems solved. They do not seem to even want the rest of us to know much about those problems or think about them and work on them.
I think the rest of us can solve our problems and make things better for all of us even if the rich and powerful don't want us to do that. I think we should do that and start now.
Be important. Pay attention to what is going on and do your little bit to make it better. Do it now.


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BFA, MPS School of Visual Arts
Bon Duke was born, raised in NYC. He currently resides in Brooklyn NY. In 2005 he obtained his BFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts and recently completed his Masters in Fashion Photography while on full scholarship. Bon Duke is Co-Founder and Co-curator of The New York Fashion Film Festival, which was established in 2010. The new York Fashion Film, Festival is held annually, presenting the top films of the year, as well hosting a prestigious panel.
In addition to this Bon Duke has received awards and acclaims :PDN30 2013, NYC's 30 Under 30:Gotham's Game Changers, 50 Most Stylish New Yorkers, The Envy: 25 Under 25, Sebastian Professional Visionary
Bon Duke first started shooting fashion for the CFDA awards, as time progressed his work has become more prominent in fashion and videos. Not only has he done numerous photo shoots, editorials and advertisements, Bon has jumped into the Directors seat and has worked on numerous videos for clients.
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Hometown: Detroit, Mich.
Competed: 1964-88
Starts: 526
Wins: 21
Poles: 20
Benny Parsons, a Wilkes County, N.C. native who called Detroit home after driving a taxi for a living during his years in the northern city, won the 1973 NASCAR premier series championship in one of the most dramatic fashions in series history.
Parsons could be called an everyman champion: winning enough to be called one of the sport's stars but nearly always finishing well when he wasn't able to reach Victory Lane. He won 21 times in 526 career starts but finished among the top 10 283 times – a 54 percent ratio.
One of Parsons' biggest victories came in the 1975 Daytona 500. He also was the first driver to qualify a stock car at more than 200 mph (200.176) in 1982 at Talladega Superspeedway. He was named one of NASCAR's 50 Greatest Drivers in 1998.
Parsons also was known as a voice of the sport making a seamless transition to television following his NASCAR career. He was a commentator for NBC and TNT until his passing on Jan. 16, 2007, at the age of 65.
This is the latest in a series of GodfatherMotorsports.com biographies profiling the 25 nominees for the 2012 class of the NASCAR Hall Of Fame. Each of the 25 candidates will be profiled in the coming weeks, in alphabetical order.


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this post right here,
the one you are currently reading,
it may or may not be
[this is proof i need to get a life and stop blogging...]
in honor of the day,
i leave you with a few of my favorites.
moms say the darndest things
He gave me a swing
how we roll
thoughts from an airplane
i suck at sleeping
a too-personal love story
on air
its been a good time so far,
• west coast girl•
[formerly, west-coast-girl-east-coast-world]
forever a west coast girl now,
and happy bout it.
happy date night to you all!
(try the little urban spoon hoohah and go someplace fun!)
its over there ••••>


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Miracle at the Higher Grounds Cafe (Thomas Nelson, February 2015)
What if you could ask God anything? What would you ask? And how would he answer?
Chelsea Chambers is on her own. After a public split from her NFL superstar husband, Chelsea takes a bold step out of the limelight and behind the counter of the Higher Grounds Café, an old-fashioned coffee shop in dire need of reinvention. But when her courage, expert planning, and out-of-this-world cupcakes fail to pay the bills, this newly single mom finds herself desperate for help. Better yet, a miracle.
Then a curious stranger lands at Chelsea's door, and with him, an even more curious string of events. Soon, customers are flocking to the Higher Grounds Café, and not just for the cupcakes and cappuccino. They've come for the internet connection to the divine. Now the café has become the go-to place for people in search of answers to life's biggest questions.
When a catastrophe strikes and her ex comes calling, Chelsea begins to wonder if the whole universe is conspiring against her quest to make it on her own. After a shocking discovery opens her eyes to the unseen world around her, Chelsea finds the courage to ask, and heaven answers in a most unexpected way.
I was so curious when I saw that Max Lucado had come out with a fiction book! I have only known him to write some seriously good books, some of which I read on a daily basis, but they are definitely Non-Fiction!
Anyways, when I saw the book cover, and that it was written by Mr. Lucado, I knew instantly I wanted to read it! I'm very glad I did!! I'll admit, the beginning made it a tad bit difficult to keep reading... BUT, I'm so glad I didn't give up because it got soo much better!!
While Miracle at the Higher Grounds Cafe is fiction, Mr. Lucado did an excellent job of sharing how a very real situation (spiritual warfare) is happening all around us and our prayers are ever so important!! It is such a cute story and one that would benefit all who read it!!
Thank You Litfuse for allowing me this complimentary book in exchange for my honest review!