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Mack's Morning Report – 8-3-15 – Nats Confident, Future Starters, Tim Stauffer, Travis d'Arnaud
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Hi, good morning everybody. Great win last night.
Couple of questions:
1. Does anyone know what happened to Luis Mateo? Wasn't he highly thought of at one point?
And 2. Does anyone see Domingo Tapia one day recovering from TJS and contributing to the major league bullpen?
Two semi-forgotten guys. Just thought I'd ask. Ty.
- August 3, 2015 at 8:23 AM
- Thomas Brennan said...
The Mets certainly caught the nation's attention last night, with the third of 3 tremendous starting performances vs. a clearly tough Nats line up. the Mets have drastically improved their offense and their starting pitching has been strong, and I guess there will be an update on Matz that he can start throwing. He could relieve in Sept, or Niese or Colon to pen and he starts.
Wilmer had his Jerry Maguire moment and has two key hits Friday, just missed one Saturday, and doubled off the wall Sunday. I think the love he got has made him feel accepted and loved, and he will hit better the rest of the way. Lots of good things, and a weak remaining schedule, so let's win this thing.
- August 3, 2015 at 8:27 AM
- Thomas Brennan said...
Ty, Luis Mateo had discomfort last year so they shut him down. He started to pitch again July 1 in relief, has worked his way up to Savannah, and looks close to the old Luis: 13 IP, just 6 H, 3 BB, and 12 Ks, ERA 0.69. Seems on his way back. Perhaps in the 2016 pen? He was I believe ranked a #9 Mets prospect after his Brooklyn stellar 2012 season.
Tania? Maybe the Tommy John fixes him, but he was a puzzling low K, high BB guy. Only time will tell.
- August 3, 2015 at 8:35 AM
- Ernest Dove said...
Not a lot of 'sexy' names out there in the farm system in regards to starting pitchers, but as I've said before this team has now immediately turned into a hitting dominated farm.
- August 3, 2015 at 8:55 AM
Thomas, thanks.
Weird you can throw as hard as Tapia did and still have a low SO9 in the minors. I think I have a hard time moving on from guys who throw 100 MPH.
Speaking of hard throwers, any chance Josh Smoker is in the majors next year, if not this one as a Septemeber call-up? AA pitcher, former first round pick, LH who throws 98. But also alas yet another LHP who's not a LOOGY, has reverse splits from what I can see.
- August 3, 2015 at 8:57 AM
- Christopher Soto said...
Mateo has resumed throwing this season. The club is SLOWLY bringing him back and so far he has looked pretty good. Haven't heard anything about his pitch velocity but the K's are there.
Before all his injuries I had him in the same boat as Ynoa....a solid prospect with a ceiling as a potential #3 MLB pitcher. If he comes back 100% and flashes his 2012 self with the B-Mets....he'll shoot up everyone's prospect lists.
As for Tapia....unfortunately...I do not see him contributing to the MLB in the future. Everything I've seen happen to him over the past 12 months suggest that he's flamed out. Maybe he comes back throwing 100mph again....but at this point we can't count on it.
- August 3, 2015 at 9:02 AM
- Christopher Soto said...
REF: 2nd comment in regards to Tapia
Yea he threw ridiculously hard but he always suffered from "Bobby Parnell syndrome".
A 100 mph fastball that is straight as an arrow is easier to hit than a 91 mph fastball that breaks 5 inches in.
Ref: Smoker
Smoker has been superb for the Binghamton club this season. With the Leathersich injury and Logan Verrett stretching back out as a SP....Smoker could be the next man up in case of injury at the MLB level.
- August 3, 2015 at 9:06 AM
- Hobie said...
Thanks for the Jannis article link. 27 isn't geriatric for a K-baller; will be tracking him.
Thomas -
I see Jose Medina (who had a rough 1t year state-side as a 17 yr old) is putting up DSL numbers in limited relief (10. IP, 0.87 ERA, 1.16 WHIP with 8 K and zero BB). Any thoughts?
- August 3, 2015 at 9:11 AM
- Ernest Dove said...
Oh wait what about Matt Bowman? Kinda highly thought of before this years christening into the PCL.
Although, my non expert eye ball test of him during spring game this year saw EVERYBODY hit him HARD, regardless of resulting in a hit or out.
- August 3, 2015 at 9:13 AM
Hey, Christopher, thanks for the insight. I'll keep my eyes peeled for Smoker. LGM tonight! I think Colon getting it together could be a somewhat overlooked key for this stretch run.
- August 3, 2015 at 9:30 AM
- Lew Rhodes said...
Wilmer showed the fans that he loves being a Met in a way that couldn't have been more real
Because of that, the fans will now love him back
Now, let's hope he keeps hitting like he did this weekend - I think he becomes our Zobrist - can play all 4 infield positions
- August 3, 2015 at 9:49 AM
- Lew Rhodes said...
I have to say I am not too worried about the pitching prospects left in the minors - we have a stud staff locked up for 4 years - we have time to draft and develop the next stud - hell I see Wotell and Sixto being ready in 4 years
Now the system needs to turn out some bats to pair with our stud pitching - Conforto, Cecchini, Smith, Rosario and Nimmo are still here and will give us so.some hitting to pair with Mack's Fab Five
- August 3, 2015 at 9:53 AM
- Lew Rhodes said...
I have to say I am not too worried about the pitching prospects left in the minors - we have a stud staff locked up for 4 years - we have time to draft and develop the next stud - hell I see Wotell and Sixto being ready in 4 years
Now the system needs to turn out some bats to pair with our stud pitching - Conforto, Cecchini, Smith, Rosario and Nimmo are still here and will give us so.some hitting to pair with Mack's Fab Five
- August 3, 2015 at 9:53 AM
- Thomas Brennan said...
Smoker could be the real deal. Let's also keep Dario Alvarez in mind. Truly sensational since My e started...18 innings, 5 hits, 28 Ks. 6 Ks in 3 scoreless innings in Vegas so far. Josh has been impressive, but Dario the past 2 months: unreal.
I have no input at this time on Jose Medina. Anyone who does, feel free to chime in.
- August 3, 2015 at 10:28 AM
- Mack Ade said...
Hobie -
Media is only 18 so the world is an oyster; however, far too early to project
- August 3, 2015 at 10:29 AM
- Thomas Brennan said...
Bowman has been very hittable with low K rate in AAA. He's not top 5 based on that. Hopefully he figures it out.
Re: my prior comment: Dario Alvarez has done that extraordinary pitching since JUNE started.
- August 3, 2015 at 10:33 AM
Waaaay under the radar, Scott Rice is having a fine season (ERA a little over two in hitters' paradise PCL). And he's a true LOOGY who was successful in Queens before being injured.
- August 3, 2015 at 5:38 PM


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Paxton turned 18 months on the 5th of JULY!!! I can't believe it! He goes to nursery now! He is getting so big and is learning so much so fast! We have to be careful what we say around him, because he is starting the mimiking phase! He copies everything! Mark and I can't imagine our life without this crazy little boy and we love him more than we ever thought possible!
~ 10th percentile for height (he's a midget) ha ha.....the dr. says he should be having a growth spurt any day!
~50th percentile for weight....still pretty little, but eats us out of house and home!
~75th percentile for his head!!!!! Thata boy! He's nothin but brains!
He is getting very independent, loves to be outside, says momma all of the time, and loves to see his grandparents and aunts and uncles! We love you Pac Man!

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Saturday, October 18, 2008
I tried my hand at decorating a cake. I'm no professional....
Here's the cake that I decorated for Little Missy. It's a chocolate cake and I made the icing and added some pink coloring to it. I made two 9" cakes and iced in between them. I'm hoping that it will taste good. I did forget to cross my "t" in Birthday, Bulldog pointed that out to me. LOL It takes a 7 year old to let you know you've done something wrong! LOL
Anyway, I didn't think I did too bad considering that I don't normally do this. I got the edible image from my friend that works at Dairy Queen-it cost me $3.18. Not too bad for something like that I thought. Considering going to Wal-Mart and getting a cake it a min. $20! If I would have gotten the ice cream cake there at DQ it would have been like $30! So....$3.18 is ok for me! I made the icing and had the cake already so it was CHEAP!
I need to subtract that $3.18 from my last bit of food money for the rest of the month.
Well, I just wanted to post my cake. Not professional but at least I can tell her when she grows up that I made her 1st Birthday Cake myself. DH said just go buy her the cake! I said no, I want to do this!! I really felt good making that today. I wish that I would have done this with the boys. No reason why I didn't I just didn't. I wish I would have.
Well, it's someone's bedtime so I'd better get her ready. The boys need to get in the bed too. We have church in the morning.
Hugs to all. Hey-if you've read anything on my blog.....don't be afraid to post a comment. I LOVE COMMENTS! That tells me SOMEONE is actually reading!! LOL LOL
God Bless.
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- Miriam said...
I read your blog!! :)
The cake looks good! I've never "eaten" any edible images, but have seen a few on some cakes. Was it a design they already had, or did you take them a picture to copy?
- Tuesday, October 21, 2008
- Tennille said...
Angie, Loved the cake you made. Just made Ian's birthday cake also. Decorated the top of the cake with toy dinos, rocks and trees. The kids loved it!! Hope camp meeting was great. Tell everyone at Grace we said hello. Love Tennille
- Saturday, October 25, 2008
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Saturday, 19 November 2011
Shadow Shot Time for Joe and Carrie
This post is dedicated to Joe, aka Spadoman from Round Circle, who has been having a very rough time in his life right now.
As well as my friend Carrie from Grow Our Own who is also having an exceptionally difficult time in her life.
My thoughts are with you Joe and Carrie .. wishing all will turn out right, and that you will feel much better VERY soon !
Many times with shadow and light .. some what like our lives .. we see more shadow than light .. but even in shadow there is colour waiting for us to stumble upon .. sometimes it takes a while to see it .. how ever it patiently waits for us .. and we do eventually recognize the beauty that has been there all that time.
The best of light is some times hidden in the darkest of shadow .. but that is the beauty of the beast .
The shadow illuminates the light more brilliantly .. what would light be without shadow ?
When we get over those shadow times in our lives .. we seem to appreciate the light and colour so much more ...
May you have the most beautiful light and colour to your life still waiting to be illuminated for you Joe and Carrie
I almost forgot to mention this is Tracy's meme over at Hey Harriet so wander over there and have a look see at many other pictures portraying the shadow and light.
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- Magical Mystical Teacher said...
These exquisite shadow shots are certain to bring joy to Joe and Carrie. Wonderful!
I have a little shadow that always follows me;
My shadow is my best friend, as anyone can see.
No matter where my feet go, my shadow's always there—
Except, of course, at midnight with darkness everywhere!
© 2011 by Magical Mystical Teacher
Sunflower Shadows
- 19 November 2011 at 09:15
- Ralph said...
The shadows fall over us at times, allowing us to more appreciate the sunshine that envelops us which is more often than shadow. A hope we share. Perspective is in order, and the family and friends that send us hope are a wonderful thing...even the dark sky has much color inside. We merely have to look a little more closely...
- 19 November 2011 at 09:57
- Sylvia K said...
Beautiful shadow shots for the day and I'm holding good thoughts for Joe and Carrie! Thanks for your concern and for letting us know! Hope you have a good weekend! Stay warm.
- 19 November 2011 at 10:43
- Ms. Becky said...
I'm loving that bush, whatever it is. the rounded leaves are beautiful and they're color fabulous. your heart-felt message for Joy and Carrie is beautiful also. happy SSS to you, bless your huge heart.
- 19 November 2011 at 11:14
- sarayutouched said...
very nice post!!!
- 19 November 2011 at 15:13
- Karen said...
A lovely post Joy!
- 19 November 2011 at 15:39
- Lisa at Greenbow said...
I wish your friends well too. Beautiful thoughts with gorgeous photos.
- 19 November 2011 at 16:02
- Dianne said...
thoughtful post
lovely photos
- 19 November 2011 at 17:00
- T... said...
very pretty, love the colours of fall......
- 19 November 2011 at 19:06
- nana_ang_poppaphil said...
What a lovely post, such nice words of encouragement for your friends. I hope things improve for them both very soon.
Your shadow shots are gorgeous.
- 19 November 2011 at 19:59
I enjoyed your words on light and shadow and the beautiful photos. Hope all is well with those you noted. Best wishes to them.
- 19 November 2011 at 20:14
- Hey Harriet said...
What a beautiful post! I sure hope everything will be ok for Joe and Carrie.
Have yourself a wonderful weekend!
- 20 November 2011 at 00:43
- Carolynn said...
Beautiful photos and that first shot is especially lovely. One of my favourite quotes (I'm a collector of sorts) is by Ruth E. Renkai "Never fear the shadows. They simply mean that there's a light somewhere nearby."
Thanks for stopping by my place for a visit and leaving such a sweet note. Feel free to drop by any time.
- 20 November 2011 at 01:08
- Carole Meisenhelter said...
beautiful photos and lovely sentiments
- 20 November 2011 at 02:40
- HOOTIN' ANNI said...
So so pretty. And the 'drama' of the colors and shadings is just outstanding.
- 20 November 2011 at 06:06
- Genie said...
What a lovely tribute to your friends. The pictures accompanied by your beautiful work say it all perfectly. We all have our dark days and our bright days, and we have those with that silver lining at the end. A wonderful post with lovely photos. genie
- 20 November 2011 at 07:32
- CanadianGardenJoy said...
usually I answer each one of these lovely comments to my post .. but today is a bit of a hard one for me and I have to thank you all as a group : )
I SO very much appreciate you all visiting and leaving your wonderful comments !
You are all very sweet souls : ) thank you !
- 20 November 2011 at 08:19
- aka Penelope said...
The sentiments in your commentary are as lovely as the photos that you captured. As you have said there is much light to discover within the shadows.
- 20 November 2011 at 10:48
- chubskulit said...
Beautiful shots!
Sun Catcher Shadows , happy Thanksgiving!
- 20 November 2011 at 11:41
- Marguerite said...
Fantastic shots as usual Joy. What do those beautiful leaves belong to? Your take on the shadow and light in our lives was inspirational.
- 20 November 2011 at 12:55
Such pretty, pretty shot. What a kind friend you are to take the time to write that message for people who are hurting. Very well shot and well written.
- 20 November 2011 at 18:26
- ☆Mama Ko☆ said...
The one with clouds looks magical to me for taking shadows of the clouds
- 20 November 2011 at 20:57
- CanadianGardenJoy said...
Thank you all again for visiting and leaving such kind comments : )
I tried to visit you all and have a peek at your wonderful pictures : )
- 21 November 2011 at 06:18
- Gatsbys Gardens said...
Joy, what a good friend you are, such beautiful comments and photos.
- 21 November 2011 at 09:18
- Muddy Boot Dreams said...
Those are amazing shots Joy, some for the new office when it materializes?
The last one, almost feels like the surf of the ocean, the way the clouds are scattered.
Thought I would tell you, in my upcoming post, I am using WARM FLY on all three pics as a tribute to YOU!!
I do so much like the title warmfly better then whatever silly name they decided to call it. Honestly.
Look for it Tuesday. Take good care of yourself.
Jen @ Muddy Boot Dreams
- 21 November 2011 at 11:31
- Lola said...
A wonderful post. So thoughtful of mind & soul. I do pray for the best for your friends. Better health soonest.
A HAPPY THANKSGIVING to you & yours.
- 21 November 2011 at 11:34
- GRACE PETERSON said...
Hi Joy Dear, Sorry I've been away so long. I hope your friends are feeling better soon. I love your comparison analogy of light/shadow and good/bad times in our lives. Very true. Also you always have THE BEST header/banner shots. Gorgeous! Big hugs!
- 21 November 2011 at 21:25
- rebecca said...
thank you for your love and your light.
- 22 November 2011 at 01:05
- CanadianGardenJoy said...
I want to thank you guys again for leaving such wonderful comments for me .. I would answer each one individually like I always do but I am not in great shape right now .. all day in emergency knocked the stuffing out of me (per chance a reference to American Thanksgiving ? wink wink .. at least my humor is still intact ?
Again thanks guys !!
- 22 November 2011 at 05:46


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Here's an object lesson: Take an egg, hold it aloft, let go, and watch what happens.
Last year (2008) will go down in history as the year that our Humpty Dumpty economy fell. Now all the king's horses and all the king's men are trying to put it back together again. It will never be the economy that it once was.
For a lot of people, Humpty Dumpty was the focus of their life and their being. Their hopes and joys and self worth were in the fragile egg.
With the fall of Humpty Dumpty, my feeling is that America is in the beginning stages of a journey back to a more agrarian-centered culture.
Some will laugh off that statement as absurd. But as the economy declines and, thus, standards of living decline, and oil-based energy resources decline, a more agrarian way of life is the only viable option. More people are going to be working in the earth, growing food, working to provide their needs with their own hands. That is not the industrial way. It is the agrarian way.
But I don't suppose it will be an easy and painless transition. I suspect we are in for higher unemployment, economic deflation, inflation, depression, food shortages, civil unrest and maybe even the imposition of martial law in America before all is said and done. Maybe all of that will be the easy part.
I don't pretend to know what will happen. But I know many things are fundamentally wrong. I know that the industrialized culture with it's prideful, self-centered greed, and corporate pillaging of people, and communities, and the planet is wrong. And I know debt-based economic systems with fiat money schemes are wrong. I know strong centralized government, run by the moneyed interests, for their benefit is wrong. And I know that a nation that strays from God's laws, to the point where it condones and proudly practices things like sodomy and the murder of unborn children, is wrong.
Because those things are wrong, they will prosper only for a season before they crash and burn, and justifiably so. I think their season maybe drawing to a close.
And, justifiably so, we will also see the "prosperity gospel" that has been so prevalent in America suffer an ignominious death. You know, that heresy that proclaims that God wants you to be wealthy and have an abundance of possessions. Are Christians still believing this now that Humpty Dumpty has fallen?
One of the most powerful messages I have ever heard about the wickedness of the prosperity gospel is less than three minutes long and it is on YouTube. It is by John Piper. I have watched it probably thirty times now. It hits me in the gut every time. Watch it and you'll see what I mean. And take note of the words of John Piper's prayer. It is being answered.
Less than three minutes....
John Piper on the Health, Wealth & Prosperity Gospel
P.S. Last August I posted an essay titled A Missive on The Prosperity-Driven Life. You can Read it Here
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So, Philip will leave his chair of CEO (perhaps Mitch gently pushed him away...) to dedicate his full time to product development and strategy.
May I apply to his current position?
After all I have a Book-Keeping Certificate.
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A flying visit.....(not creating atm due to house build, but thought I'd post this piece)
I made this hanging a little while ago for the turquoise art call for Stamper's Sampler.You can see this, along with two other pieces I made, published in this months edition (JUNE/JULY).
Stamps used are all by ART JOURNEY from the Gorgeous Kids plate.
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Damn classicists. Hope you're well, RM. Got the copy-edited MS of my book the other day; not sure if this is the place to give out that kind of information, so apologies to all if it isn't, but you seem no longer to be posting on your Red Mist 'blog.


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|Hampden War Memorial Hall
CenotaphUnfortunately ANZAC day falls this year on Easter Monday. This means that we are getting only one day off. Over in Aussie the government has declared a 5 fay weekend rather than the 4 day that we get. There is a lot of bitchin and whining on this side of the Tasman. It would be nice to have another day but financially we need to have the school up to full capacity over the school holidays. For us school holidays are a time when we can double our turnover so that is good for the business and for the local teachers who can pick up some more coin. Right now we are up in Hampden at my Mum's house. The girls are off riding horses, Mari is upstairs practicing the violin and Nanna is slaving away in the kitchen preparing lunch. Joanne (my older sister) has been n Hampden for the last week looking after our kids and visiting my mum. It has worked out really well for us in Dunedin because we have been child-free for a while. The kids are coming back to Dunedin with us tomorrow afternoon after the ANZAC service in the Hampden hall. (it looks like it will be too rainy to have it at the Hampden memorial. This will be the first ANZAC day that the kids and I have not attended and Dawn Service at the Cenotaph in Dunedin


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With all the work that goes into getting stock ready for fairs ,I have only just managed to put some
time aside to sit down and share some photos with you all.
This Beautiful glass display dome was found at a carboot sale by a friend,
who knew I would just have to have it!
It now displays some of my most prized pieces
A stunning tiara made up of diamante stars which I found at a local theatre clearance Dated around 1910 and my Great grandmother's 1915 silk crochet wedding gloves and a spray of ivory silk flowers from her wedding dress.
This amazing Phrenology head was a gift for my 16th Birthday, I have always found it
fascinating and have bought many books on the subject but have never put it in practise.
And I leave you with two of my favourite things Sweet peas and Flamingos
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The New Persian Empire
It is said that the Phrase "Useful Idiots" was coined by Joseph Stalin when he observed the hard core liberal left turning the other cheek and chanting peace slogans while Hitler was rolling across Europe. Prime Minister Chamberlain now posthumously infamous for his "peace in our time" speech when he served up Poland to the Nazi believed it would end there. Meanwhile Poland became a slaughterhouse. It then became a resource and beachhead for further conquest of Europe. One must wonder how many millions of innocents died under the phony pretence of "peace" at the hands of the Chamberlain administration.
I recall my time at the University of Arizona from 1979 until 1983 vividly. I clearly remember the sickening spectacle of hatred for President Reagan by the peaceniks and nuclear freeze crowd. Under Carter, the military shrank (money shifted into the black hole known as the welfare state) and the defense systems that kept the peace and kept the Soviets in check since 1946 became dangerously antiquated.
Thug regimes like the Soviet Union understood and respected only one thing. Power. They controlled the media, and they tolerated no descent. Anyone organizing opposition or even caught reading illegal non party approved opinions became enemies of the "state". The liberal left in this country and others admired the ideals of the Soviet Union. A utopian world where nobody is hungry and everybody works. The concept of individuals rights were non existent. All are sacrificed to all for the greater good…. For mother Russia…. for "the state" Altruism taken to its logical ends and no different from the Nazi doctrine.
And yet many liberals admired their ideals and accused capitalism of being cruel and exploitive. Ignoring the fact that capitalism is the only possible moral approach to upholding an individuals rights….and their right to generate and accumulate wealth by providing a service or product others buy voluntarily. Capitalism is the ONLY system that declares all relationships as voluntary. Those that speak of welfare and an obligation to your neighbor speak of slaves and masters. And they intend to be your master.
The nuclear freeze advocates were the 80's version of Chamberlain.
September 11, 2001 revealed the result of such pacifist thinking. The current regimes in Syria, North Korea and Iran are the Hitler regimes of our times. The Middle East in particular is the linchpin for what is in store for our demise and the demise of what Lincoln called 'the last best hope for the world". Under Clinton, we saw the future of the Middle East if we do not stand and fight. The Taliban obliterated any pretence of rights. They whipped, tortured, and executed anyone they wanted to, for any infraction perceived or imagined. They roamed the stands at soccer games and whipped people for expressing any emotion. They drove onto the field in the middle of a game and executed women and children with bullets to the back of the head. Afghanistan was a sanctuary and training ground to spread fundamentalist "Islam" throughout the world.
Meanwhile in 1990 Iraq invaded Kuwait. A coalition including almost every Arab state voted to authorize force to expel the Bathist regime (modeled after the Nazi's) from Kuwait. John Kerry voted against the use of force to liberate Kuwait. John Kerry was a "useful idiot" to the enemy.
After invading two countries, using poison gas and turning Iraq into a slaughter house he was warned through at least 20 resolutions by the toothless and corrupt UN, to disarm and prove that WMD's were destroyed. He laughed in their faces and continued to play a game of cat and mouse. Saying he would comply only to ultimately refuse inspectors access to sights suspected of weapons programs. This continued for 8 years under the Clinton administration. Bush inherited the mess. Only months after taking office, a massive attack on our soil was executed under the supervision of bin Laden. The Middle East as a whole gloated. They said there was no proof that Bin laden was involved. After the video of him taking credit for the attack those same people said it was a CIA fabrication. Religious brainwashing is a fascinating thing. They believe they will go to paradise when they die (with no evidence) but do not believe their own eyes when confronted with reality. One could say the same thing with the liberal pacifist mentality that now directs the United States towards its surrender and inevitable demise.
Upon final warning to Sadam to leave the country he confused George Bush with John Kerry and the Chamberlains of our country. In the first few days of the war, the left predicted mass starvation of innocent civilians as they became refugees. They predicted
A long bloody war that would cause thousands of U.S. casualties. But it did not happen. The bathist regime collapsed inside of 3 weeks. Upon entering the cities in Iraq it was discovered that every Mosque and school was filled with weapons and ammo. Factories making suicide bomb vests in the thousands were discovered. Millions of US dollars were found stacked to the rafters all over the country. Terrorist training camps with aircraft fuselage used for practicing hijackings were discovered. Iraq was the new terrorist training camp that replaced Afghanistan.
Both Vietnam and The Korean wars were funded and supported by sponsors. China equipped and trained the North Koreans. The Soviets and the Chinese trained and funded the North Vietnamese.
Iraq is the new critical flashpoint. Syria and Iran are heavily funding the fundamentalists in Iraq. Iran has thousands of agents in Iraq right now. They know that if Iraq develops an elected democratic government, they are doomed. They will not let that happen. Both of these countries are run by thugs and maintain power by killing their opposition. Both are committed to the destruction of Israel. Both fund Hezbollah and Hamma's. Both have sabotaged any peace initiative with Israel by attacking Jewish civilians and then cashing in on the death of their own fellow Muslims by relying on useful idiots to publicize the death of non combatants. It is easy…. kill some innocents, and then hide behind civilians when retaliation is inflicted. Moral equivalency is thus achieved.
This can only work with the assistance of useful idiots. And it is working very well. Although 30,000 people die on our own highways every year, every casualty, every death of an American soldier is broadcast on the news every night. Every rogue soldier who shoots a wounded terrorist, or mistreats a prisoner is publicized and it is implied that it is the policy of the US government to behave as such and we are put in the harshest light possible. The enemy meanwhile slaughters 'fellow Muslims" in attempt to create a climate of terror that paralyzes them into complete inaction to rebuild their country. This is how Hamma's works, this is how Gaza and Palestine is kept under rule by a few thugs. Create a climate of terror. Syria and Iran are the masters at playing this sick game of terror and they are counting on the useful idiots to keep the formula working.
The Tsunami showed the goodness of western civilization. It also showed that Syria and Iran need to direct their funds to the terrorists, certainly not to help their fellow Muslims. Their fellow Muslims are cannon fodder to be slaughtered as such for the PR value they can gain.
Iran accurately sees that they are the closest they have ever been to regaining the Persian Empire they once were. They know that the useful idiots will overtake the ultimately pacifist United States who has no stomach for casualties. They know that in a war of attrition we will certainly lose. They have endless supplies of suicide bombers. They have billions of dollars to spend in order to wear us down. There is no descent in Iran or Syria to object to the huge sums spent with the sole objective of dominating the Middle East. Iraq is theirs. It will become a puppet state of Iran. With no other country even willing to see what is happening and unable to learn the lessons of history, it is destined to happen.
Shortly the new Persian Empire will emerge. Once the United States departs, Iran will have free reign to exert itself in the Middle East. Soon after dominating Iraq it will pacify all of its neighbors and undermine all of the current regimes, It already has plans to vaporize Israel.
With control of the middle east and the control of 40% of the world's oil….it will likely result in world war 3 if we are not slowly strangled to death first.…… Mullah's with nuclear bombs.
You don't need to hear the rest of this story. But you can thank the useful idiots for helping it come to that.
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Let's face it, teaching grammar can be really boring. The information can be dry and sequential – the abstract thinking of grammar can be a daunting task for children with learning disabilities.
I recently had started working on a new math program with my boys – MOTL- Math on the Level, written by Carlita and John Boyles, I have found this program to work wonderfully for my boys so far and brings forth new life into the teachings of math, something that was severely dreaded in our home studies.
While learning more and more about the methods MOTL uses I had the idea that I could incorporate these same methods into our Grammar program, another area that was not very exciting.
~ Grammar in "5"~
***Introducing one to two new grammar/usage concepts per week while reviewing through a 5 a day review the areas that have already been learned and introduced. These 5 areas are: Parts of speech, Capitalization, Punctuation, Sentences, Writing/Word Usage (subject/verb agreements)
The idea is that skills can be practiced and slowly built upon while continuing to practice skills already introduced in a quick fun manner. ********
I have researched and looked at MANY grammar programs and there are things I like in many of them, so I decided to combine all the things I liked in certain programs and begin my own scope and sequence for grammar ~ based on my children's academic level, needs and abilities.
Using State Standards to guide me and research on programs, I gave brief assessments to my boys to find out where they were at in the world of learning grammar and usage.
Once I knew where they were at and what their needs were I began my work building a guided reference towards each concept along with lesson ideas, activities, resources – like interactive websites for fun games and practice of current concepts.
My boys both have memory difficulty so when we learn something in grammar it is forgotten quickly unless there is a consistent effort to review which can be hard when it comes to grammar.
Using this kind of method aides in helping them work with areas they have learned while building upon new concepts.
Click on: "Grammar in "5", template for worksheet. ( contact me if you would like a copy of our suggested sequence) I will also be posting this when complete on my group files over at the AKOL group.
For me, because the methods of MOTL have worked so well, it only seemed natural to build on something that was working and bring it into our other subjects, like grammar- another subject that is sequentially based or can be sequentially based like the subject of math.
I attempted to "try out" my idea over this past week and found the boys to meet grammar head on with "vim and vigor" the quick lesson instructions and resources I have used have made grammar fun and interesting.
We have tossed our grammar workbooks - now they are only used as a "guide". We use "notebooking style" methods for notes and activities. It has changed how we do grammar dramatically.
For more information on the Grammar Binders scroll down to read my blog post of February 26th for more information on the binders themselves.
I believe to have finally solved our grammar problems with a scoop of ingenuity, a few sprinkles of resourcefulness and a whole lot of prayer :) .
Hope this helps you along your grammar journey for all your home learners ~ Happy Grammar!
Friday, March 6, 2009
Grammar Woes ~ What does Math have to do with it?
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- LaRessie said...
The link for the grammar in 5 is not working. I would LOVE to see it. I will see you around on the MOTL board. God bless.
- March 7, 2009 at 6:21 PM
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|The leaders 1 mile from the start heading up the Calico Hills trail.
A bunch of us got together again this year on the first Saturday of January to run the Red Rock 50 K Fat Ass. The fat ass means that it was just a bunch of people, whoever wanted to, showing up for the run and running it. It is not technically an organized run so there was no entry fee and very little support. We were fortunate again this year to have the father of one the runners go out with a truck and some water to the White Rock loop where we were able to fill our water bottles each time we passed.
It turned out to be a great day for a run with no wind and clear blue sunny skies over the gorgeous Red Rock scenery we were about to run through and enjoy that day. Temperatures at the 8 AM start were in the mid 30s and it warmed up to the mid 50s. There were about 20 of us who started that morning and of those about a half dozen finished the entire 50 K. I was the last one to finish the 50 K in seven hours 32 minutes. The race started at the entry gate and headed up the Calico Hills trail until we reached the White Rock loop where we then made two loops, one clockwise and one counterclockwise; then, finally returning down the same trails. It's a very challenging demanding course because there is a total of 5600 feet of elevation gain and loss and many of the trails are very rocky and technical.
I felt exhilarated after this run as I manage all the race elements very well and I could've kept running quite a bit more that day if I had or wanted to. Even though it was a fairly chilly day, I drank twice as much as I normally do on a run and still I felt I was barely hydrated. I fueled primarily on dried bananas and figs again and this time whenever my stomach felt a little bloated I slowed the pace to allow my system to absorb the nutrients and water. I had strained my psosas, groin and hip flexor muscles on my left side badly during the Zion 100 last April and they flared up again after the Javelina 100 last November. They didn't bother me before or after this run however, indicating that the physical therapy that I've been doing for the past two month have been effective. I'll have to post some video of the eccentric hip flexor/psosas muscle exercises that I've been doing.
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Hello Cue!
We have welcomed a new member to our class. Cue is a leopard gecko and a very cook Christmas present. We want to thank Petsmart Pals in the Classroom grant for helping to offset his initial cost and set up. Since we are on break, Cue has come home to live with me for the break. We have already had some crazy times. With the power going out at my home we had to pack up and go to my Moms to make sure he was warm enough. I had noticed that he was becoming milky in color and was ready to shed. While there he shed. We got to watch him remove the skin and eat it. It was awesome! He is eating 5 crickets a day and we're going to try mealworms next week. I can't wait for us to get back to school so the students can start playing with him and taking care of him, too!
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If you're talking monsters, rarely is two heads a good thing, ranking somewhere between "slobbering, snapping jaws" and "insatiable hunger for human flesh" on the Bejeezus Scale. If you're talking monster movies, though, two heads are almost always better than one.
And that's exactly what the creepy-cool stop-motion animated "ParaNorman" is: a shambling, drooling, two-headed monster of a monster movie. That is, it's a film that functions on two distinct levels, each nicely complementing the other.
First, of course, it's a fun, and beautifully crafted, ghost story, spinning a cobwebbed-draped tale of an oddball boy whose gift for speaking with the dead makes him an object of ridicule in his little town. Until, that is, a 300-year-old curse -- placed upon it by a spiteful witch back in the days of shoe-buckles and scarlet letters -- sees tiny Blithe Hollow invaded by zombies.
Then, it would appear, young Norman is the only person, undead or alive, standing between his cursed town and certain doom.
Think "The Wonder Years" meets "The Walking Dead."
On that level alone, this second effort from the fledgling but quality-conscious ghouls at Laika animation studio soars, resurrecting as it does some harmless old-school, monster-movie fun. With "ParaNorman" coming on the heels of their similarly spooky 2009 gem "Coraline," the folks at Laika -- reveling in a ghostly sensibility that previously had been reserved for Tim Burton films -- seem to be making an art form out of good-naturedly scaring the Underoos off of pint-sized viewers while simultaneously delighting their parents.They do it artfully, too, with a stop-motion meticulousness that suggests an undertaker's grim attention to detail, from the skull-and-crossbones wallpaper in Norman's bedroom to his "Friday the 13th" ringtone. (Tip: Sit through the credits for a behind-the-scenes time-lapse treat, about 30 seconds long, that shows how Laika brought Norman to life.)
Like "Coraline" before it, "ParaNorman" also takes full advantage of the vague creepiness inherent in stop-motion animation. After all, this is an art form built around bringing tiny dolls to life. Nothing disturbing about that. Rather than fighting that built-in creepiness and spinning a bright and shiny tale that contradicts the visual weirdness, "ParaNorman" just arms itself with a graveyard shovel and moves toward the light.
But beneath all that -- beneath the good storytelling, the playfully ghoulish vibe and the overall visual artistry -- lies a surprisingly sweet and unexpected throughline about embracing the weirdness in other people. That might sound hokey, but directors Chris Butler and Sam Fell manage to breathe life into that idea wonderfully, and without getting preachy about it. (They do it far better than recently opened "The Odd Life of Timothy Green," another movie beating the embrace-the-outsiders drum.) In their hands, "ParaNorman" isn't just a kiddie movie. It's also movie for weirdos, outcasts and freaks of all shapes and sizes. (You know who you are.)
"The Odd Life of Timothy Green"
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Sure, its attempts at humor are often something short of clever, trending as it does toward booger jokes and other touches of middle-school pandering. Also, like so many movies nowadays -- for children and grownups alike -- "ParaNorman" confuses the idea of a third-act payoff with noise, coming awfully close to disappearing into an overstimulating maelstrom of chaos. But that's mostly picking at nits -- or at maggots, in keeping with the theme of the film.
In "ParaNorman," Butler, Fell and company have crafted a refreshingly enjoyable bit of family entertainment. In the process, they've also made the best animated film to hit theaters so far this year.
4 stars, out of 5
Snapshot: A stop-motion animated comedy about an oddball kid whose gift for speaking with the dead earns him only scorn -- until his town is invaded by zombies.
What works: In addition to the wonderful, creepy-cool visuals, it resurrects an irresistible old-school monster-movie vibe.
What doesn't: The humor at times misses the mark, and when it's time for the climax, the story threatens to disappear in a maelstrom of chaos.
Voice cast: Kodi Smit-McPhee, Tucker Albrizzi, Anna Kendrick, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Casey Affleck, John Goodman, Leslie Mann, Jodelle Ferland. Directors: Chris Butler, Sam Fell. Rating: PG, for scary action and images, thematic elements, some rude humor and language. Running time: 1 hour 33 minutes. Where: Find New Orleans showtimes.


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Biggest Uranium Mine (Source: Namibia Economist)
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15 February 2008
Posted to the web 15 February 2008
By Chamwe Kaira
UraMin will open its uranium mine at Trekkopje in July, Managing Director Bert Leathley said this week. The firm expects to export its first yellow cake at the end of 2009 through Walvis Bay, Leathley told the Economist. He said US$920 million will be spent on capital expenses to bring the mine into production. The company expects to produce 8.5 million pounds of uranium oxide per year, making it Namibia's biggest uranium mine.
Leathley however said that the export markets for the uranium oxide were yet to be confirmed.
The firm was currently in discussions with NamPower over power supply, he said. NamPower is faced with a deficit in supply and recent press reports have indicated that power supply to new mines may only be available in 2009.
Leathley also said the desalination plant, which is being jointly built with NamWater, will be completed in the second quarter of next year. The first stage is an N$250 million seawater intake and a pipeline to bring the water from the Atlantic Ocean to the shore three kilometres north of Wlotzkasbaken.
The second is an US$110 million desalination plant for UraMin, and a second one for NamWater costing approximately the same amount.
He said a decision on whether the company will list on the Namibia Stock Exchange, like other uranium companies, has not been taken. Xemplar, Forsys, Deep Yellow and Paladin Energy have all listed in the country.
The company's 100%-owned and 129,000-hectare Trekkopje Project is located about 65 km north-east of Swakopmund.
The project has an estimated resource of 502 million tonnes of uranium oxide at a grade of 0.013%. Trekkopje is expected to become one of the world's 10 largest uranium mines when it achieves production, and will also be one of the top five low-cost, open pit uranium operations.
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Courses Taught
JAMS 101 — Introduction to Mass Media
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JAMS 562 — Media Studies and Culture
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Media history, consumer culture, cultural industries, cultural space, social memory
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Time Inc., Late Modern Media, and the Making of 1970s America (under contract with the University of Illinois Press).
2016. Richard K. Popp, "Airline Advertising, Fear of Flight, and Shaping of Popular Emotion," Journal of Consumer Culture, 16, no. 1 (March 2016), 61-79.
2015. Richard K. Popp, "Solidarity, Media, and the Limits of Postcapitalist Theory," Journal of Communication Inquiry, 39, no. (2015), 139-157.
2014. Richard K. Popp. "Information, Industrialization, and the Business of Press Clippings, 1880-1925." Journal of American History, 101, no. 2 (Sept. 2014), 427-453.
2014. "Cultural History and Media Studies." In Blackwell's International Companion to Media Studies: Research Methods in Media Studies, ed. Fabienne Darling-Wolf (Oxford: Blackwell).


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Ipswich: The funeral service for Ione V. Zahalka, 90, of Ipswich will be 3 p.m. Saturday at the UCC-Congregational Church on state Highway 45 in Ipswich.
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--Dee Puett, Photographer
--Dee Puett, Photographer
- AnonymousSeptember 4, 2012 at 8:00 AM
He's probably saved himself more times than any of us can count by pretending to be something more viscous than he is. "Puff up REAL big, they hate that. . ." - FerngullyReplyDelete
- James SmithSeptember 4, 2012 at 6:07 PM
This snake actually is not a northern water snake--though a spectacular animal and one I don't get to see in the wild where I live. He looks to be a prairie kingsnake (Lampropeltis calligaster) very similar to the Eastern milksnake of NYS and New England in looks but with narrow saddles where the milksnake has circular ones. He was probably hunting frogs, garter snakes or baby water snakes if he was found near water. The "fake rattler" display is a classic defense practiced by kings, rats and bullsnakes, among others. Kings, like the one in this photo, have smooth, shiny scales; water snakes have keeled (rough) scales.ReplyDelete
It's very rare to encounter these snakes out and about by daylight: they're secretive, semi-nocturnal burrowers. Congratulations on a great encounter with some awesome pics!Replies
- AnonymousSeptember 5, 2012 at 6:03 AM
Thank you for the information! I thought his protective stance was a little odd, I had never observed the 'rattling' in my other encounters with water snakes, normally when I encounter them they will study me for a moment then move on. It is remarkable and one of the things I find most interesting about snakes that so many different species can look so very much alike. (Dee)Delete
- CroconutSeptember 5, 2012 at 7:54 PM
I remember being surprised when I first saw a harmless colubrid rattle its tail, but it was in captivity :>ReplyDelete
This snake looks a lot like the Mexican corn snake that is the most common species in my state. :D Beautiful animals and pics!
- AnonymousJuly 6, 2015 at 6:13 AM
Guys... This is most definitely not a northern water snake and certainly not a rat snake or milk snake either. This is Lampropeltis Calligaster- "Prairie kingsnake". Go ahead. look it up you will see for yourself.ReplyDeleteReplies
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Below is the progress diary for August (I'll be updating it as the month goes on). If you're interested, here's the intro, and here are the diaries for January, February, March, April, May, June and July.
The red number in the right-hand column is the total word count. Please wish me luck in watching that number tick up to 1,000,000 over the rest of the year!
The Million-Word Diary: August
|1st Aug
|Yikes, this is a bad way to start the month. No words!
Still can't get the brain working! Blah. Argh. Meh.
I'm getting very close to the million word target and for some reason:
|17th Aug
|I had a little taste of editing today! Okay, it wasn't really editing... it was more like "fighting Word's dodgy formatting". The unfortunate thing about Word is that it's often configured to retain the formatting when pasting from other documents. You think you're just getting the text when you cut-and-paste but, depending on how your version of Word is set up, you can end up with all manner of weird stuff coming along too, such as random paragraph indents or irritating spacing of lines and/or paragraphs.
Anyway, a friend is currently editing a book of poetry and flash fiction (one of the flash fics is by me - hooray!) and I was able to help out. I didn't enjoy my IT career, but I have to admit it's been useful in helping me know all the weird things computers love to do to screw us over.
It all got sorted and apparently I now get a credit in the book notes! And, as an extra bonus, I even was allowed to throw in a couple of sneaky edits to my flash fic piece. Maybe this editing lark isn't so bad after all :-)
Still no words done, though! The brain really has died this month. I could try and blame the heat, I guess. It's well over 30 degrees each day and so I spend my time asleep more often than not, but I can't use that excuse forever. Anyway, I'm still ahead - I guess that's all that matters. I wrote loads at the start of the year and gave myself a bit of breathing space... so that's what I'm using now. Here's hoping I manage to get back into it soon!
|25th Aug
|After about a month of major writer's block, I'm finally writing again! I can't tell you what a load off this is. In the end it took 6 cups of coffee and 3 huge glasses of wine, but I finally broke the back of Crimble's autobiography. I'm 6,000 words in and am fairly sure I know what happens next, so am confident enough to jinx it with this diary entry! Can't believe I finally got there. I'd cry with relief if I had the energy.
Crimble's autobiography. Sigh. I've been putting this task off for ages but that's crazy because this is the story I want to work on - the one I've been planning for a decade and now, finally, have time to complete.
The hilarious/depressing thing is that I'm not managing to count any new words! Thing is, I have two drafts of the same story. Both are similar (in that the events are the same) but the characters have all changed quite radically, so I'm trying to grab the best bits from both drafts, while rewriting to ensure the character voices are consistent throughout. The word count is impossible to calculate because there's so much chopping/hacking going on... I grab a few paragraphs from each of the two drafts, smash them around for a while, throw in a few new words here and there so everything makes sense, and then rewrite the results to make it cohesive. If I were to attempt counting the new words as I went along, the work would be impossible.
I guess I always knew this would happen at some point in the "million words" project. There are some jobs in writing that you simply can't calculate in terms of word count. You can't even calculate them in terms of time because sometimes you'll be hacking one paragraph around for an hour, and then the next couple of paragraphs come up perfect straight away.
So, ultimately, I have no new words. Not anything I can count towards the "million words" project anyway. Joining two rough drafts (and cleaning them both up into a decent second draft) isn't something that's going to result in an impressive word count. Not when you're only counting new words, anyway.
|31st Aug
|A whole month of zero words. Yikes. I'm doing okay with Crimble's autobiography, but in terms of new words that I count towards the "million words" project, I've done nothing.
Zero words is not a new thing. There have been plenty of months full of zero words in my life so far. But when I'm meant to be writing at least 2,000 words a day, this is really not good :-(
Come on, Brain. Enthusiasm, please!


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|Human Rights and Equality in Northern Ireland
Rev. Martin Smyth: The hon. Gentleman was right about the powerful representations. The problem with the Government Bill was that civil servants in Northern Ireland opposed its extension to Northern Ireland and, in fairness, I should say that, when I drew that to attention of the right hon. Member for Richmond, Yorks he quickly changed it.
Mr. Barnes: It was helpful that support came from all parts of the House. I remember the hon. Member for North Antrim producing his own private Member's Bill, which was much lower down the list. It was called the Civil Rights (Disabled Persons) (Northern Ireland) Bill. It was identical to my Bill, apart from the fact that ``Northern Ireland'' kept appearing. He managed to get called with a minute to go before 2.30 on a Friday, and had the wit to get up, move it and sit down. The Government nearly missed it and he nearly got Second Reading through without a debate, because there were enough people around to vote for it. Just as the Speaker was about to put the Question, one Conservative Back Bencher, who realised what the game was, got up and said a couple of words before the time ended.
I have often found with Northern Ireland issues that, right across the board, there are common concerns about economic and social issues. I remember us having a debate in a Room such as this over the question of Northern Ireland electricity privatisation, and a combined force of the Northern Ireland Members of Parliament with the Labour and Liberal Democrat opposition overturned the Government, although they turned it around on the Floor of the House with a vote.
Mr. Robert McCartney: The people of Northern Ireland are grateful for the efforts of people such as hon. Gentleman for crystallising, and focusing on, the many points that members of all parties in Northern Ireland have in common, rather than on those that separate them.
Mr. Barnes: Another indication of what was held in common was when I ran the Civil Rights (Disabled Persons) (Northern Ireland) Bill. I wrote to every political party in Northern Ireland seeking its support. I already had the support of the four that were in the House. I received letters of support from them all, even quite small parties, with the exception of two: the Conservative party in Northern Ireland, which was obviously not for my Bill but was in favour of the Disability Discrimination Bill; and Sinn Feinpresumably on the grounds that there was some embarrassment in supporting disability legislation when Sinn Fein's paramilitary wing was involved in creating so much disability on its own.
The Belfast agreement has extended the human rights agenda. It is to be defended despite some of the problems that the hon. and learned Member for North Down has put forward. The Unionists have an agreement that states that, constitutionally, Northern Ireland is part of the United Kingdom unless some alternative decision is made by the people of Northern Ireland. Furthermore, that decision would have to be made by referendum, not just by the people of Northern Ireland with a majority in each community, but by the people of the Republic of Ireland who would have to agree to the removal of articles 2 and 3 of their constitution. Both sides can claim that parts of the agreement have some significance in connection with themselves, their interests and their concerns. That is an advance, an assurance that the Unionist communities did not have.
There is also the wider Equality Commission. The only thing that concerned me about that, given my interest in disability legislation, was that the disability issue might get pushed on to the back burner and that an overriding commission might not be able fully to pick up its role. I am not sure what has occurred, and I may need some further feedback of the disability issues. However, the commission was part of the agreement and I accept it on those grounds, just as I accept the arguments about attempting to change the personnel, gender balance and community background of RUC officers.
There has been an attempt to create an artificial centre in Northern Ireland politics. As the divisions were of border and constitution, it seemed that that was the right effort in which to engage. I suppose that it is like a third way, between the two other positions. I am not a great third way advocate. When the third way is about economic and social matters, I detach myself from it entirely.
Perhaps it was appropriate that one Secretary of State for Northern Ireland was my right hon. Friend the Member for Hartlepool (Mr. Mandelson), because he had a great deal to do with shaping the third way approach. I have always felt that the third way could be a way forward on constitutional and border matters. The attempt to create that centre to trade off between the two sides seemed entirely justified in Northern Ireland circumstances. We want Northern Ireland to develop economic and social agendas and to act on its own behalf.
Northern Ireland Members who entered the House faced the problem of being out-groups in relation to the rest of the United Kingdom. They have often been radical in pressing for extra resources and provisions, because they have not been part of any Executive or Assembly and have not been responsible for the decisions that have been taken. That has now changed, and there will be a tremendous impact on Northern Ireland politics in future.
If the development works, it will be somewhat like developments that have taken place in the Republic, whose main parties have emerged from the dispute over the treaty and are no longer pro or anti-treaty. Mary Robinson said that they must get past the faded flags of the civil war. We must also get past some of the faded symbols that exist in Northern Ireland, important as they are to some people, who cannot move without concessions.
I am sure that the different groupings associated with different political parties will in time reflect more of a distinction on economic and social matters. They have often been united in their sense of being out of things. Now that there is shared power, politicians will have to make up their minds on economic and social matters, where the real and important political divisions lie. The third way of politics might find its way into all that, but I would not be on its side. I hope that there will be some scope for democratic socialism in those circumstances.
The human rights agenda is a significant matter and arises out of the past. The Belfast agreement has added a tremendous hope for the future. However, I accept the question asked by many hon. Members about what some community groups and human rights bodies are doing about the intimidation, beatings, exiles and all other horrors that exist. We have the equivalent of truth commissions and the inquiry into Bloody Sunday, and I accept that at some stage the whole past must be faced as people begin to talk about it. The forces of human rights and democracy will enable each group to have its say, but one group must not dominate another because it has a temporary majority. Democratic politics is about having the vote, human rights and a sense of an Opposition who might be tomorrow's Government and who are not squashed into the ground.
There are high hopes in Northern Ireland. The arguments of no-voters sometimes have some resonance. They do not accept the constitutional development. The hon. and learned Member for North Down spoke excellently about abuses and killings, which society has not fully faced and for which people have virtually been let off. Those are matters of serious concern. Serious human rights concerns are exhibited within them. I hope that the hon. and learned Gentleman and other hon. Members will look in another direction and use their arguments to help rebuild Northern Ireland; Northern Ireland could emerge from the situation as a beacon for the rest of the United Kingdom.
4.25 pm
Mr. William Thompson (West Tyrone): Time is passing swiftly and there are others to speak so I shall not detain the Committee long.
It is appropriate that as we discuss human rights and equality in Northern Ireland we reconsider the issue of the Parades Commission and the rights of those who seek to march and process the public highway in Northern Ireland. When the legislation creating that commission passed through the House, those of us who were opposed to it argued that many of its provisions were contrary to human rights legislation. It is timely that we should reconsider the situation now that the Human Rights Act 1998 has come into operation and in the light of the recent House of Lords decision endorsing our view that we have the right publicly to process the public highway. In that decision, Lord Irvine of Lairg said:
We have always argued that the loyal institutions have the right peacefully to process the public highway and that any unreasonable restriction is contrary to human rights. Since the Human Rights Act came into operation, the Parades Commission has had to address that issue and has sought in its determinationsI believe unsatisfactorilyto review the position. We have heard much talk about competing rights, even though a right is more than a liberty and a toleration and is something that should not easily be set aside. We constantly ask to be told the right that competes with the right peacefully to process the public highway, but have never been given an adequate answer. However, the chairman of the Parades Commission has now said that he thinks that the alternative right is the right under article 8 to respect for private and family life. That cannot be reasonably argued; it is more of an excuse than a reason. If one studies the various cases associated with the right to respect for private and public family life, one sees that that has absolutely nothing to do with a competing right of freedom to march. Article 8 has to do with the right of children
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shards on the tile, shards of my mind
outside i see the trees. all the leaves are gone, vanished into some cruel fancy of the wind, or clustered on the ground in pathetic heaps. the sky hints of snow. the air is icy, and i shiver at the thought of going out.
if i had my way, i would isolate myself from everything and everyone, to go hide in some dark secluded hole, where no-one can find me. i would have no reminders of things left undone, of words left unsaid, of changes left unmade. i would see no shadows of things i could have done, should have done, ought to have done differently. and for once the snide and ruthless audience that resides in my head, and lives to tell me what i did wrong, will have silence instead of critiques. oh, to hear a void in my mind, rather than the opera-house full of mockery and ridicule, that would be glorious indeed.
my eyes sting with half-conceived tears, and a dull ache has settled in my heart. my emotions have tied themselves in a knot in the middle of my chest and will not come undone, no matter how or which way i tug, and the end will not show itself.
so is the glass half empty? or is it half full? or perhaps it is shattered.
A riddle.
One if the riddles of my existence is the fact that I judge other people based on my own judgments of myself.
Sometimes when I'm with a friend, and I'm having fun, I would be perfectly happy to hang out with them all day. But when I think about how they are feeling, I assume that they are totally sick of being around me, that they want me to leave them alone, and that I am being a total nuisance.
I then spiral into a black and self-hating hole, where I assume that since my friend, as I assumed, doesn't want me around, then I am a horrible person, and therefore the world hates me and therefore I should also hate me, and if the world hates me, then my friend does too, and therefore I am an even worse person for inflicting myself on them, so then I hate myself even more.
And this happens even when I know the person really well.
I try not to let myself go into that sad little spiral, but sometimes, no matter how careful I am, I still slip up and fall in.
It's not fun.


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Thursday, April 12, 2012
The Lion of Judah
For I am the lion of judah, the Lord empowereth my voice to tremble the mighty in their halls and set the wicked to fear in the power of Christ. By the words of God is the oath given, that all righteous men take peace upon the Lord their God. For all evil men fear the truth, and they more fear the Lord their God in Heaven; for by his righteousness shall things be set a right.
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CSO Goes to Washington
NALP, the Association of Legal Career Professionals, is dedicated to facilitating legal career counseling and planning, recruitment and retention, and the professional development of law students and lawyers. All of the counselors in CSO are members of NALP, participate in NALP activities, and attend the annal Educational Conference. This year, NALP's conference is in Washington, D.C. from Tuesday, March 30, through Friday, April 3, and we will be learning about new developments in the field from other law school career services people and also from recruiting personnel in large law firms and other large employers.
This year, Tom Maligno will be a presenter at two conference programs: "Counseling for Public Interest Careers from 1L to Retirement" and "A Report on the New Guide to Student Practice Rules: Boosting Practical Skills Training in Government and Public Interest Settings."
Brett Gilbert will be a presenter at a program entitled "Learning to Blog II" (a continuation of his program last year about blogging and the Career Services Office).
Brett also has been selected to be one of seven NALP members to blog the Conference in real time. So, if you want to check in and see what is happening at the NALP conference (What? Not on your top 10 list?), go to the NALP blog here and read all about it.


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With the GPR in state I saw an opportunity to demonstrate its capability at the Alutiiq Museum's community archaeology dig in Kodiak which was just moving into its second week. I have often volunteered at this dig and Molly has worked there several time.
The effectiveness of GPR can vary widely depending on a number of factors including soil properties, vegetation cover, and the features you are seeking to detect. This seemed like a great opportunity to test the GPR in Kodiak and demonstrate its effectiveness and limitations to the Alutiiq Museum's archaeologist and the volunteers working at the site. The rental company Northwest Geophysical donated the equipment use for three additional days.
With the help of my friend John we were able to survey two areas with the GPR, one of which was directly adjacent to the active dig site. By comparing the GPR data to the adjacent excavation and to multiple soil probes we were able to interpret the features seen in the data. The GPR seem to be effective at mapping late prehistoric house pits that have been filled with Katmai volcanic ash, but is unable to detect horizons below the ash and above the glacial till. It also appears that the GPR can detect fire hearths although I did not see one in the second house pit we surveyed so perhaps it was small or we just didn't detect that one. Hopefully the museum will excavate one of features we surveyed next year allowing us to better ground truth the GPR data.
|John packing in much of the GPR to the survey area
|Partially excavated house pit can be seen in the side wall of the archaeological excavation
|GPR ready to survey adjacent to the excavation
|GPR data overlaid on an oblique photograph
|GPR radiogram with my interpretation of the stratigraphic horizons.


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Blade No. 9, Blaze No. 4, Nightstalkers No. 8, and Morbius: The Living Vampire Nos. 28-32 (cover dates June, 1993- April, 1995)
Names of creators withheld to protect the families of the incompetent.
Consider this an exercise in masochism. I saw this series through to the end. It started out strong, with the first 8 or 9 issues being very enjoyable, and the things quickly went downhill. The main culprits were an abundance of crossovers between titles and a revolving door of substandard creators. So many '90s comic creators were and are a complete joke, offering self absorbed, self important drivel without having a clue as to what makes a good comic book.
I wish that I had bothered going through some of the boxes of floppies that people had given me in the last year or two, as I had several of the earlier crossover issues in there and didn't even know it.
Morbius' series ends with a thud. I suspect that this title was given the ax without a lot of notice, because it seems like there was a mad dash to get all of the dangling plotlines resolved before the last panel. It was not an effective ending to the series, nor was there any indication in the letters page that this was the last issue. Truly bizarre.
Some of the artwork is passable, and some of the writing is occasionally decent, but getting through these issues was like chewing chalk. Do you want to know what the truly sick thing is? I would gladly re-buy all of this stuff in trade paperback or, better yet, an Omnibus hardcover. I am truly ill and/or I hate my money.
Sorry, but there is no OCD zone for floppies.
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Understanding HIV - Learn what you can do to help reach your treatment goals
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Like most people, you probably have questions about HIV and how it's treated. This site was created to answer some of your questions and help you learn about EDURANT® (rilpivirine) 25-mg tablets, a prescription medicine used with other ARV medicines in patients who have never taken HIV medicines before and who have an amount of HIV in their blood (viral load) that is no more than 100,000 copies/mL. Your healthcare professional will measure your viral load.
This website does not take the place of talking with your healthcare professional. You should talk with your healthcare professional when you start taking medication and at regular checkups. You should not change or stop treatment without first talking with your healthcare professional.
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Can EDURANT® be taken with other medicines?
EDURANT® may affect the way other medicines work and other medicines may affect how EDURANT® works and may cause serious side effects. If you take certain medicines with EDURANT®, the amount of EDURANT® in your body may be too low and it may not work to help control your HIV infection, and the HIV virus in your body may become resistant to EDURANT® or other HIV medicines that are like it. To help get the right amount of medicine in your body, you should always take EDURANT® with a meal. A protein drink alone does not replace a meal.
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- Depression or mood changes. Tell your doctor right away if you have any of the following symptoms: feeling sad or hopeless, feeling anxious or restless, have thoughts of hurting yourself (suicide), or have tried to hurt yourself
- Liver problems. People with a history of hepatitis B or C virus infection or who have certain liver function test changes may have an increased risk of developing new or worsening liver problems during treatment. Liver problems were also reported during treatment in some people without a history of liver disease. Your healthcare professional may need to do tests to check liver function before and during treatment
- Changes in body shape or body fat have been seen in some patients taking HIV medicines. The exact cause and long-term health effects of these conditions are not known
- Changes in your immune system (immune reconstitution syndrome). Your immune system may get stronger and begin to fight infections. Tell your healthcare professional right away if you start having any new symptoms of infection
Other common side effects of EDURANT® include depression, headache, trouble sleeping (insomnia), and rash.
This is not a complete list of all side effects. If you experience these or other symptoms, contact your healthcare professional right away. Do not stop taking EDURANT® or any other medications without first talking to your healthcare professional.
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Please see accompanying full Product Information for more details.
About EDURANT®
EDURANT® (rilpivirine) is a prescription HIV medicine that is used with other antiretroviral medicines to treat Human Immunodeficiency Virus-1 (HIV-1)
in patients:
- Who have never taken HIV medicines before, and
- Who have an amount of HIV in their blood (called "viral load") that is no more than 100,000 copies/mL. Your healthcare professional will measure your viral load
- EDURANT® should be taken in combination with other HIV medicines. Your healthcare professional will work with you to find the right combination of HIV medicines
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My nephew is an apprentice chef who has worked at Sydney places like Establishment, Salon Blanc, Sydney Opera House etc, so I love to watch the fluidity of his work with food.
I was intrigued with his growing interest in food a few years earlier, when he cooked Sticky Date Pudding from Bourkes Backyard Online - the recipe found after a quick Googling. It was probably the first time that I had seen anyone cook direct from their PC, instead of from traditional Cookbooks, Magazines or PC print outs.
Equally intriguing for me is the growing global list of social media Tweeps & Bloggers who are now also tweeting & blogging about food.
I love blogs like Tony Hollingsworth, TummyRumbles & Inside Cuisine, And the lists feature on Twitter has been fantastic - Sydney loves Food, Reemski, FoodiePhotos, Frombecca & in mine, I follow Foodie Tweeps from around the Globe. It is so amazing to see these serious social media mavens also sharing their foodie experiences & insights.
Foodies were firmly part of the Web 1.0 scene even in the late 1990's. I remember asking on a Web 1.0 food forum for a Turkish pizza recipe, like what was served at an old Turkish restaurant in Hornsby, but long since burnt down. There were lots of offerings of Turkish Lahmacun minced lamb pides, however I never found quite what I was looking for. But I did get a lot of requests that if I found it - then please share it around. In fact I found that there are quite a few other Turkish Pizza types : Kasarli, Kiymali, Sucuklu, Yumurta, Karisik, Kusbasili, Kapili, Peynirli, Samsun, Ispanakli, Pastirmali.
And I hadn't even found this special Turkish Pide walking around Sultanahmet in Istanbul on the festive Ramadan evenings of October 2006. Athough we did find an amazing variety of Turkish Delight at the Egyptian Spice Bazaar in Istanbul!
And we do get great Gozleme from the Turkish Community at all the local food fairs down here in Wollongong's Northern Suburbs.
So in the meantime I did manage to create my own Chicken Pide, a fusion of Thai & Turkish, which even featured in Good Taste, an Oz cooking mag and is now on the http://www.taste.com.au foodie website. And it was here at Taste that I really first encountered social bookmarking, eg Delicious, Digg etc. I was a little intrigued & confused for a while as to whether Delicious was about food or social bookmarks. I asked advice from the IT geeks at work about this new world of social bookmarking. They shook their head and warned me off using such dangerous tools! Ultimately I did venture into Web 2.0 & Social Bookmarking for work applications, and of course to the Foodie 2.0 sites.
Finally after lots of "googling", I even found a blog which mentioned a "Mixed" Turkish Pide, found in King Street Newtown by Rachel, the foodie Dentist from Bathurst. In her rusticfillings blogspot :she describes its slices of turkish sausage, diced lamb, marinated minced beef, fresh spinach, fetta cheese, mushrooms and a freshly cracked egg on the top. It seemed close to what I recalled at Hornsby.
So maybe I'll just have to innovate using Rachel's rusticfillings blogspot description & the copy of Turkish Cuisine by Tugrul Savkay I brought back from Istanbul !


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Advanced M&P Glycerin Soapmaking Course
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Hand Sculpted Flowers
Highlighting surface detail
How to use texture
Advanced Loaf Designs
Plus many brand new designs and techniques
Many of the previous attendees have made their course fees back within one days sales from the new projects they learnt!


text: Strafunski is a bundle that provides support for generic programming in Haskell, based on the concept of a functional strategy. Functional strategies are generic functions that (i) can be applied to any type, (ii) allow generic traversal into subterms, (iii) can be customized with type-specific behaviour, (iv) are first-class citizens. Strafunski consists of a combinator library (StrategyLib) and a precompiler (DrIFT-Strafunski). Release 2.0 of StrategyLib and release 1.4 of the Strafunski variation on DrIFT are now available from: http://www.cs.vu.nl/Strafunski/ This is what you might expect fom the page: Questions and answers Documentation Download Background papers Applications of Strafunski Below we describe changes with respect to the previous release, and we give further pointers. StrategyLib ----------- Changes with respect to the previous release include: * Added many combinators to the library, and split up the module StrategyLib into: - The top-level module StrategyLib which imports all other modules. - A range of `theme' modules into which combinators are grouped according to the concerns they address. Among these are the TraversalTheme, the FlowTheme, the EffectTheme, the KeyholeTheme, the FixpointTheme, and more. - A module StrategyOverloading that allows type-unifying and type-preserving combinators to be treated in uniform manner. - A module StrategyPrelude which defines basic combinators that can be defined in term of truly primitive ones. - Some modules that do not provide strategy combinators but general utilities functions, such as MonadicFunctions, and MonadRun. * The underlying term representation has been improved. Conversion to/from this representation during generic traversal is now more efficient. Also, instances of the Term class have been added for the basic types Char, Int, 2-tuples, Either and Ratio. * The various theme modules feature many of the combinators that illustrate the design patterns for functional strategic programming as presented in [1]. * Added a number of examples, including one that demonstrates strategic programming on the abstract syntax of Haskell. The new term representation was contributed by John Meacham. DrIFT-Strafunski ---------------- Changes with respect to previous versions include: * Merger of instances derivation rules with those of jDrIFT. In particular, the rule for Term now supports the term representation module based on Dynamic as available in StrategyLib version 2.0. * Instance derivation for the ATermConvertible class, as available in the Haskell ATerm Library. * Command line option -r for generating instances only, i.e. not repeating the contents of the input file itself. * Command line option -g that allows global directives to be specified on the command line instead of in the input file. The DrIFT-Strafunski package was based on the original implementation of DrIFT by Noel Winstanley and its updated implementation by Malcolm Wallace. The new instance derivation rule for Term was contributed by John Meacham. We hope DrIFT-Strafunski will soon be made redundant by John's unifying implementation: jDrIFT. Background ---------- The following papers provide useful background info: [1] Ralf Laemmel and Joost Visser Design Patterns for Functional Strategic Programming. http://www.cs.vu.nl/Strafunski/dp-sf/ This paper seeks to provide practicing functional programmers with pragmatic guidance in crafting their own strategic programs. It presents the fundamentals and the support from a user's perspective, and includes a catalogue of design patterns. Read this paper if you want to use Strafunski. [2] Ralf Laemmel and Joost Visser Typed Combinators for Generic Traversal http://www.cs.vu.nl/Strafunski/sf/ This paper introduces the concept of functional strategies. It shows how strategies are modelled inside Haskell, and it present the first version of StrategyLib. Read this paper if you want to know what makes Strafunksi work. [3] Ralf Laemmel A Polymorphic Symphony http://www.cwi.nl/~ralf/polymorphic-symphony/ This paper reconstructs functional strategies as an amalgamation of certain bits of parametric polymorphism, type case, polytypism, and overloading. Read this paper if you want to know how Strafunski can be generalized and how it may look in future. Feedback is much appreciated, and can be directed to the authors: * Ralf Laemmel (mailto:email@example.com) * Joost Visser (mailto:email@example.com) Have fun!


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Thursday, December 3
In Anticipation of St. Barbara's Day Tomorrow
Matthew Alderman. S. Barbara the Great, Virgin and Martyr. (The Three Holy Maidens, III.) Private commission. 5" x8", Ink on Vellum. February 2008. Private Collection, Greenwich, Connecticut.
See if you can spot all the lightning-bolts worked into her robes in honor of this patroness invoked against sudden death and things that generally go boom.


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Observed phenomena: Noctilucent clouds
Observed NLC forms:
- I (Veil)
- IIIa (Waves, short, straight and narrow streaks)
- IIIb (Wave-like structure with undulations)
- O (Unusual forms)
Brightness of the NLCs: 3 (clearly visible, standing out sharply against the twilight sky)
Date: 27./28.7.2012
Time: 01:30-03:30
Observing place: Perniö, Salo, Finland
Observing method: Photography
Technical information about photographing equipment: Camera Canon EOS 1100D, lens Canon EF-S 18-55mm IS, Samyang 8mm fish eye
The NLC display of the second night of Cygnus 2013 -convention. This time I noticed the NLC's @ 01:30 and observed them until 03:30. In the middle of the NLC observing, I observed also variable stars. Tonights display was pretty much similar than last nights. During early night, the NLC's were at low altitude in the northern sky, but they rose higher later. The colour of the NLC's was clearly pale blue.
This display was clearly veil (I)+wave (III) -type display. In the early evening, the display was consisted of veil (I) and waves (IIIa and b). The waves were transforming into undefined, turbulent-looking form (O). Later the NLC's rose higher in the sky towards zenith. In this phase, veil (I) and turbulent forms (O) dominated the display, and only couple of small wave -sets were visible.