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Exceptional Chromosome Regions Workshop I
Jacques R. Fresco
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Marion Johnson and I have developed a methodology for binding single nucleic acid strands specifically to purine-rich.pyrimidine-rich sequences of protein-depleted chromosomes under conditions that are non-denaturing to double helical DNA. The binding occurs by triple helix formation and is remarkably sequence-specific under conditions of appropriate stringency. The probe strands are 15-25 residues in length, can distinguish a single base pair difference in the target sequence, the binding is quantitative, and the method should be relatively easy to adapt for the isolation of a long DNA chain in which a target is present. So far we have used this approach to develop fluorescent cytogenetic probes in human and drosophila chromosomes (cf. M. D. Johnson and J. R. Fresco, CHROMOSOMA (1999) 108:181-189.Currently, we are using it as the basis of a novel approach to gene therapy and also to develop cytogenetic probes for genes amplified in various types of Cancer.
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My hands are my outlet, my imagination, my expression. I have been creating and crafting things for as long as I can remember. I can now check off an item on my life list, because I am making a living selling what I make and love doing it. This blog is an outlet about my craft business, the process, the people I am working with, but most importantly my inspirations that surround me every day.
Monday, November 23, 2009
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Kohler Holiday Marketplace 2009
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Color My World
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Getting Read For Christmas Show #1
I've been working on my inventory for the last three weeks. My studio looks like a cotton candy factory! Headbands...added lots of flowers.
Monday, November 9, 2009
Candy Cane Lane "Whimsy style"
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Pumpkin Pancakes
Can you smell that baking pumpkin pie? My house smells like bubbling cinnamon, cloves and ginger. Alright, I wasn't that motivated, but I did have a hankering for pumpkin pancakes this morning. I found a lot of recipes online, but I tweaked one for a very subtle, pumpkin-y flavor; great for the very finicky.
Pumpkin Pancakes
2 Cups Flour
3 T. brown sugar
1 t. white sugar
1 t. cinnamon
1/2 t. cloves
1/2 t. ginger
1/2 t. nutmeg
2 t. baking powder
1 t. baking soda
1 1/2 cup milk
1 egg
2 T. oil
2 T. vinegar
Blend dry ingredients and wet ingredients separately. Mix together until just combined. Batter will be very thick. Scoop into prepared griddle. Flip when brown. They get thick and fluffy, so make sure they are thoroughly cooked through when taking them out of the pan! (Obviously I don't care about perfect circles. I go for the organic shape).
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
A Little Love-Bug
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Fruits of My Labor...How lucky!
When I struggle deciding how large I would like my business to grow, I come across little gems like this video I just received. The client bought this witch-y tutu for her little song-bird. It reminds me how lucky I am... and how important focused, individualized service and touches really are.
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So, I have been making the occational cake for friends and family. Saturday, we had a baby shower for a friend with a great sense of humor. We constructed a replica of her Boxer, Libby. Libby is very excited to assist in the nurturing of the new little arrival.
I have included a couple of pictures to give you an idea of how this cake was made. The basic shape of the cake began with a stack of 6" hearts on the bottom, followed by 8" ovals, and the neck used 3 1/2" rounds. The head was constructed using foam balls and modeling chocolate (this cake needed to be kosher for religious reasons, so the typical medium of rice cereal and marshmallows could not be used)
Now that I am not baking for the general public, Sonya is allowed in the kitchen to watch.
The cake is covered in "stucko" after carving, which is a mixture of mousseline buttercream, filling, and cake crumbs. It allows for a smoother surface to ice.
The next step is a thick and very smooth layer of ganache. At this stage, you add the subtle details like muscle tone, brow ridges, etc.
Now, you can add the fondant, food coloring paint, ears and eyes.
The finishing touch of a matriarchal-looking lace cap and, VOULA! Instant Nanny!
Which one is the cake? Who knows- they both look soooooo excited!
Monday, February 14, 2011
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Working moms, stay-at-home moms, and everyone in-between are welcomed to participate in the creation and collaborative identity of GeniusMoms.com. Contributors from all over the world are expected to participate in the online community, as well as industry professionals who also gracefully balance motherhood. Commitments from best-selling author Loral Langemeier, human potential specialist Shellie Hunt, and Self-esteem expert Debra Gano, have already been established. More partnerships and expert contributors will be announced shortly.
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THE performance on Monday evening against Southampton was poor . The first half was the worst we have played for a long time and how we were still in it at half-time was anybody's guess.
There were very few good performances apart from the centre-backs and Tim Howard.
Steven Pienaar was badly out of sorts, Leighton Baines lost his ability to cross, Leon Osman and Phil Neville looked weak as a partnership, Marouane Fellaini was here, there and everywhere trying to find his place in the game and Nikica Jelavic's confidence looks shot.
Kevin Mirallas and Victor Anichebe looked good when they came on and we did have two or three good chances in the second half, but it would have been daylight robbery had we won.
Now Mirallas is back, take Jelavic out of the firing line and stick him on the bench for a few games with Victor up top.
We can't just keep hoping the goals will flow back.
JELAVIC should be kept in.
I think his problem is one which tends to bedevil us golf hackers – looking to see where the ball has gone before he has hit it.
I have noticed on at least two of his recent misses that his eyes are on the goal – not on the ball.
IF David Moyes doesn't get some funds to strengthen the team, then we are going to start on the slippery slope back to mid-table mediocrity and join the also-rans.
We seem to have already jumped onto the slippery slope and passed up on not one but two great opportunities to eat away at that chase for fourth and been found wanting on both occasions with Swansea and now Southampton.
We desperately need a few new faces to freshen things up and hopefully kick on but without fresh impetus I can only see our season going the way of the last two results and all our good early season play and results will result in a Europa League place at best.
WE played poorly against Southampton and came away with a point.
We were up against a side that was running like there was no tomorrow and trying to impress their new boss.
It was to be expected; indeed, it's what happened and we scrambled a draw.
Let's take it and move on. The lads will know they could have done better.
They're all entitled to an off day. They've put some great shifts in this season – Chelsea at home for example when we got nothing.
WE cannot and will not play well every game. The first half against Southampton was very poor but we were better in the second.
Back-to-back goalless draws is disappointing – we need to start scoring again.
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This is billed as completely consensual, with it made clear that "the husband has authority to spank the wife. The wife does not have authority to spank her husband." The site was created by wife-spankers who were sick of stumbling upon porn when they searched for other like-minded folks online. Lest you become confused that the CDD site is a BDSM site with a Christian spin, they're sure to reiterate that this is about adhering to Biblical gender roles -- not about sexual pleasure. Unless you get off on asserting your patriarchy by slapping yourCould be just that I'm in an odd mood, but I'm less angry right now and more blackly amused by their "we're not SSC wait yes we are wait no RTFB!" take on consent issues:
propertywife. Not an unheard-of phenomenon, as the site acknowledges
Somehow I don't think "just because you can doesn't mean you should" quite applies. But that might just be my "rabid feminism" talking. Ooof.
But what if sometimes your wife doesn't want to be spanked? Well, let's not use an inconvenient phrase like "domestic violence" or "spousal abuse." Nah, "non-consensual CDD" would be more appropriate, really. And the site basically says that it's a man's god-given right to hit his wife, even if those pesky laws against domestic violence get in the way.Non-consensual CDD:
Though we believe the Bible gives a husband the authority to use spanking as one tool in enforcing his authority in the home with or without his wife's permission, in today's world we recognize the legality that mandates that all CDD must be consensual. Therefore we will do not condone nonconsensual CDD as a rule.
How progressive of them!
Anyway, I'll try to resist further snarking. On to my point:
How concerned should feminists really be about this? Should pro-SM feminists specifically be more concerned about this than anyone else?
I've pretty much written these people off as an example of the wonders of the internet: No matter what it might be, however weird or vile, there is at least one internet group devoted to it and how cool it is.
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Our experience of Chinese New Year in Shanghai (2015) involved an amazing amount of fireworks. It started about a week or so before the actual date and kept right on going for another week or so after. The actual eve of the New Year the fireworks sounded like a war zone and went on for at least an hour. Fireworks were invented in China, as you may know, and they are integral to Chinese culture. Fireworks are used to celebrate everything, all year round. It is not like it is in the States where there are very limited types of fireworks that are available to the public and they are only sold for a limited time prior to the 4th of July. The fireworks sold to the Chinese public are big ones that shoot up into the air and make a great deal of noise.
Click here for video from 2015 (Be forewarned, it is loud.)
Unfortunately, during the Gregorian calendar New Year's celebration 2016, many people were killed and injured in a crowd incident. As a result, fireworks are now banned in most of Shanghai, even for New Year. It has been a very quiet year. Therefore, this year we traveled up to Jaiding which is outside the banned zone to see some fireworks.
There is another tradition, a very long television show. I do not know exactly what time the show starts, but it runs right up to midnight. We watched several hours of it. It involves a variety of performances – singing, dancing, comedians, and skits. Some of the grander performances are done on location in various cities – Harbing, Shanghai, Beijing, etc. It was quite spectacular and interesting even though we do not understand a word.
The next morning we went into the center of old town Jaiding to the Daoist temple and Quixia ancient garden. We arrived in the afternoon. It appeared that we missed the crowds who had been there earlier to make prayers and offerings to start the year off right.
We spent a little time in the garden and checked on the kittens we had seen four months ago on our previous visit.
Not a lot has changed except size.
One of the greatest features of Chinese gardens, in my opinion, are the cave structures. I am very jealous of the kids who grew up in playing in these gardens and caves.
I made Daddybird watch my bag while I walked through. A young family with a little boy came along and debated whether to go through. The boy wanted to do it, but was unsure, so Daddybird encouraged them to go. Carpe diem! The boy came back by and said "thank you."
We called it a day, took the bus to the metro station and then home.
To see all pictures, click here. To review our previous visit to the garden to compare foliage and cats, click here.


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All treatments and doctor's appointments were done in September and we are officially finished!
As Ardith says "1st step Happy Dance, 2nd step Holidays!!!"
We missed most of summer so we are currently travelling in California and Arizona again.
Check our blog of this trip http://celebrationfreedom.blogspot.com/
Thursday, October 14, 2010
October 2010 - Celebration of Freedom
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We have turned the calendar to January....2013....a brand new year. As we do this we are full of anticipation...wondering what the New Year will bring. It is exciting!
How have I spent this past year?
Have I made the most of each new day I've been blessed with?
There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.


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The challenge was to create a piece that reflected her daughter's life and the people important to her. Robin has a beautiful daughter who she has raised on her own. Both are avid animal lovers. So photos of herself in childhood and adulthood along with family members including her beloved canines were included in the piece. I used canvas as the background fabric, transferred photos using gel media, stenciled and painted accents, then machine stitched to finish. The hand dyed boarder was hand stitched to frame the piece with accenting colors and textures.
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Dear Leo and Miller,
It's Valentine's Day and I want to show you my favourite photo of our wedding day. I can't remember who took it. Someone with a broken phone because there's a strange line down the image and there is definitely something not quite right with the light. But it is my favourite photo from that day. I love it because we don't know it's being taken or at least we aren't looking at the camera which is good enough. Your Dad looks at a camera like he hates the world or at least his life: it's very rare that a photo captures him looking even neutral never mind happy. So to have a photo where he looks like he's enjoying himself is a wonderful thing. I love that you can see my dress riding up at the side because I have a 5 month old baby bump beneath that beautiful dress that was getting bigger by the day.
There were only 17 people at our wedding (including us) and we all went for lunch at our favourite restaurant. We ate oysters and drank champagne – it was perfect.
You should probably know that I fainted twice during our marriage service. It was a very sunny day for October and the sun was beaming down through the stain glass windows in the church directly onto my face. I also hadn't slept that night because, Leo, you were poorly and I lay on the floor by your cot all night convinced you were going to be sick again and choke to death. I was also wearing very restrictive underwear to try and make my dress fit a bit better. It was a perfect storm of terrible conditions that physically and literally floored me. Twice. After the second time, I remember someone saying "Give her some sugar." And your Uncle Mark gave me a soft mint. Then we tried again and eventually got through the promises and the vows etc. And then we were married. (Incidentally, the vicar who married us was a brilliant man called Nick Chamberlain who became the first Church of England Bishop to openly be in a gay relationship.)
I want you both to know that your Dad is the love of my life and I am lucky that I met him (again) when I was old enough to appreciate a good thing. We have barely spent a handful of nights apart since the first night we spent together. I understand now that love means wanting the other person to be happy. And you can't be happy if they aren't happy. Also, being married means taking it in turns to be strong. Without him my life would be a mess – in all ways. We were parents before we were husband and wife, we have always been more than just the two of us. Our lives are full, sometimes too full. But there is no amount of chaos we can't get through together.
Love Mum.
PS. I am trying to stick to the ethos that these letters don't have to be perfect, they just have to exist. So I started it today and I'm finishing it today like all the rest and it will just have to be good enough.


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So Sergei Kostitsyn was finally traded.
If anyone thought we'd seen the end of trading down after Ribeiro was traded for Janne Niniimaa then they'd be wrong. Sergei was traded as an RFA, mind you, for the chance to sign Dan Ellis and Dustin Boyd two days ahead of schedule. Consider that the Habs don't even have room for Ellis (more on that later), and it's the chance to sign Dustin Boyd.
But wait, if they do sign Boyd, it's a compensatory draft pick due to Nashville.
So we're down to Sergei Kostitsyn for nothing. Maybe we get a draft pick if Nashville manage to sign the Belarussian.
If the Habs wanted Boyd, they could have signed him first thing July 1st for the same salary and avoided having to give up a draft pick. If they wanted Ellis, they could do the same, though they might want to check back on all that talk about salary caps surrounding the last trade.
Whatever the case, it's a downgrade in talent that was necessitated by the Canadiens inability to keep another youngster in line. Think the Habs are the only team with spoiled brats acting up at every turn? Hear of Patrick Kane? No, the Habs are only unique in their complete inabaility to contain matters and turn what may be a quiet and productive trade into nothing.
I didn't love Sergei as a player. Nor did I subscribe to the idea that we should persist with his painful development. But trading players for nothing is a fool's game. And our team is at it again…


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Okay... so maybe I really don't, but I would like to try!
While I am living here in Fort Collins I will only be working 3 days a week at the boutique in Boulder... so I would like to start running the other 4 days each week. I am not much of a runner, and since moving to the mountains it has made it that much more difficult for me. So why am I pushing myself to start? Because it is good for me of course! I am starting small, today Stone and I ran only about a mile and a half. I am writing this on my blog so you people out there, if you know me, can keep me accountable to this.
Running 4 days a week begins now!
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Grown by Grace farm is the name of our 14 acre homestead in Iowa. We came up with this name as it is our desire to grow by God's grace here, whether it be our babies, 4 kitties and a woof, crops, or gardens! Jon and I are both born again christians, which means we have a "new life" in Jesus Christ as we recognize Him as Savior of our sins, by His death and resurrection from the cross. I hope to use this blog to share with you some of the Lords blessings on our lil' country life here :)
Monday, December 23, 2013
Merry Christmas !
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Clubs & Activities
Clubs & Activities
National Honor Society
The RUHS chapter of the National Honor Society recognizes students for both academic and extra-curricular effort. Selection to NHS is a privilege, not a right. Students do not apply for membership in the National Honor Society; instead they provide information to be used by the local selection committee to support their candidacy for membership.
Membership is granted only to those students selected by the Faculty Council. This is not an election, nor is membership automatically conveyed simply because a student has achieved a specific level of academic performance.
The Selection Process is as follows:
- The chapter advisor reviews student academic records to determine those students who are scholastically eligible for membership (i.e. those students with a 3.50 or higher cumulative G.P.A.).
- Students who are eligible scholastically will be informed that for further consideration for selection they must complete the Student Activity Information Form, outlining their accomplishments in the areas of Service and Leadership.
- Faculty and staff are invited to evaluate the candidates in the areas of character, service, and leadership. Those evaluations are then passed on to the chapter advisor.
- The Faculty Council then reviews the Student Activity Information Form along with the faculty and staff evaluations and any other verifiable information about each candidate. The leadership, service, and character of every candidate is reviewed carefully.
- The final selections are made by five faculty members appointed by the High School principal as members of the Faculty Council. Candidates receiving a majority vote by the Faculty Council will be inducted into the chapter.
Selected candidates and their parent(s) will be informed in writing of their acceptance and the date and time of the induction ceremony. Students who are not selected will be informed in writing by the chapter advisor and invited to discuss the areas of growth they should work on during the following year.
For more information about the National Honor Society, contact Advisor Kelly Tucker.
Outing Club
The Randolph Union High School Outing Club is open to all students in grades 7 through 12, and is a four-season organization committed to providing students, parents, teachers, and volunteers with a wide range of wilderness experiences including hiking (day and overnight), backpacking, snowshoeing, indoor rock climbing, and more.
Members regularly enjoy guest speakers and take part in workshops, shelter adoption programs and other outdoor-related activities. To learn more about the Outing Club, contact Advisor Hayley Quinones.
YATST at RU
No, this isn't a misspelling or a new secret language. It's an acronym that stands for Youth and AdultsTransforming Schools Together at Randolph Union
In the spring of 2016, students "voted with their feet" in showing little interest in running for class office and student council. According to Kara Merrill in the Student Services office, only one student showed an interest in running for class officer out of 16 potential offices in grades nine through 12. And prior to that, she said, the numbers of students interested in student government had been declining.
Initially the declining lack of interest in Student Council came as a bit of a surprise, but it led to a new and different student leadership model that has attracted more students than used to run for class office. Today the RU Student-Faculty Senate is a more egalitarian, all-are-invited-to-participate model of student government, and it's continuing to gain momentum.
This past year (2017), 36 students responded to the open call for involvement, and 22 committed to being a part of the YATST / Student Senate. The group is also partnering with Up! For Learning, a Vermont based organization that helps students develop the skills they need to assess their learning environment, and begin making positive changes at their school.
Students interested in becoming a part of YATST should contact Advisors Kara Merrill, Lisa Floyd, and Bev Taft; or, Campus Life Committee Chair Carol McNair.
Captains Council
The Captains' Council helps to better prepare our current varsity RU athletic team leaders. Leadership is something that is both innate and must also be fostered through experience. The Captains' Council meets bi
-weekly to discuss various aspects of leadership, to organize and lead service experiences for the benefit of the athletics community, and to recommend non-captain student athletes to attend the Student Leadership Conference (November each year).
Membership to the Captains' Council is comprised of named captains across all RU sponsored varsity sports teams. The definition of an RU captain: A captain must lead by example and also display leadership characteristics such as humility, compassion, and fair and consistent treatment of themselves and others in the body and spirit of their team.
The Yearbook staff is responsible for the design, creation, editing, and printing of the annual RUHS yearbook. To learn more about or to participate in putting together the Student Yearbook, contact advisor Kelly Tucker.
The Encore Theater Company (ETC) at Randolph Union High School performs two (and sometimes three) full length plays every year. Open to all students, the company performs comedies, dramas, musicals, and more to the delight and appreciation of community members from throughout Central Vermont.
Students who are new to drama but interested in leaning more are welcome and encouraged to join the troupe and get their feet wet by participating on a lighting, sound, or tech crew, or just volunteering backstage to get a better understanding of how plays come together and what's involved in bringing the written word to life. Any academically eligible student is welcome to join the program, and more than 40 students choose to do so each year.
ETC members take an annual trip to New York City to attend a professional performance, and an end-of-the-year Induction and Recognition night caps the ETC season (although the trip to NYC will not take place during the 2017-18 season).
Volunteers are needed throughout the season and the company welcomes any and all who wish to help create costumes, build and paint scenery, sell tickets, and provide refreshments for rehearsals and intermission sales.
For more information about the ETC Theatre Company, contact Advisor Brian Rainville at 802-728-3397, ext. 202


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Lazy Newbies
He's seriously disappointed in the attitude of a Newbie that has approached him for help. I don't blame him, and I doubt anybody else will.
One of the points I have tried really hard to get across, through some earlier postings on my blog, and in my presentation, is that if you want other people to help you, you have to learn to help yourself first.
You can't demand that other people tell you step by step what to do, to me that is tantamount to asking them to do your job for you.
I've said all this, and more in my How to be a Good Newbie and Newbie Hints and tips posts.
I've even gone so far as to suggest the things you need to know, and what are the best ways of learning them.
In being a Newbie, the most important part of the learning process is to actually 'understand' what you are doing. Blindly following instructions, without fully understanding what you are doing and why you are doing it is just plain dangerous.
Read the concepts guide, read the backup and recovery manuals and try things out on a test system in order to make sure that you understand what you have learned.
It is attitudes like the person in Tom's post that give Newbies a bad name.
Being a Newbie DBA is a challenge in itself, please don't make it more difficult than it needs to be.


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"The final phase is a self-feeding panic, where the bubble bursts. People of wealth and credit scramble to unload whatever they have bought at greater and greater losses, and cash becomes king"
- Manias, Panics and Crashes, the HP Bible
And no, "cash" or "money" has not meant and will never mean owning one specific currency. "Cash" or "money" take many forms. "Liquidity" is what Kindleberger was getting to. And so should you.
Money is any token or other object that functions as a medium of exchange that is socially and legally accepted in payment for goods and services and in settlement of debts. Money also serves as a standard of value for measuring the relative worth of different goods and services and as a store of value.
Market liquidity is a business, economics or investment term that refers to an asset's ability to be easily converted through an act of buying or selling without causing a significant movement in the price and with minimum loss of value. An act of exchange of a less liquid asset with a more liquid asset is called liquidation. Liquidity also refers both to that quality of a business which enables it to meet its payment obligations, in terms of possessing sufficient liquid assets; and to such assets themselves.
March 02, 2008
One more time, for the newbies: Cash is King
"The final phase is a self-feeding panic, where the bubble bursts. People of wealth and credit scramble to unload whatever they have bought at greater and greater losses, and cash becomes king"
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I can never get tired of this quote Keith.
Read it here first in HP.
Appreciate it.
- March 02, 2008 11:01 AM
BS Keith. Hard assets are king. Cash, as in ANY currency is trash. This is because Berneke and other global CBers are about to demonstrate that they have a lot of bullets left through CB intervention in the global economy. Indeed, BB has been sitting in his ivory tower cooking up what, 14 schemes, to solve the "zero bound" problem? There WILL be liquidity. The buyer of last resort will take up the bad debt and anyone sitting on cash is going to be suprised...
-Matt C
- March 02, 2008 2:08 PM
The big question is what will be of value after a big crash? When the Soviet Union crashed, there were reports of vodka being a medium of exchange....
- March 02, 2008 2:26 PM
- keith said...
Gold is cash
Corn is cash
Euros are cash
Oil is cash
Silver is cash
Baseball cards are cash
Shiny beads are cash
If it's liquid and can be used as a payment mechanism between willing parties, it's cash
What else is cash?
What's not cash?
I'm wondering how much longer the US dollar will be cash
- March 02, 2008 4:31 PM
Decent American Whiskey, and quality firearms/ammo are always cash equivalent.
I expect to make change with 38 special bullitts when I buy flour and salt in the near future.
Guns beat gold in the insanity that will be post constitutional America. The laws are no longer a constant, so the masses will find the next lower level of mutual exhange, until its armed negotiation. Think in terms of the old west of the 19th century, with a Post Soviet - Chechneyan social undertone attrributable to the millions of illegal Mexicnas wandering around in their "New Dominion's of California, Texas, and Arizona. (I exclude New Mexico, since even illegal's have a certain common sense to avoid that rodent infested place, as they seek an economic system that improves their lot, and New Mexico is right down there with Guatemala as to government, economics and culture>)
- March 02, 2008 4:43 PM
As one of my favorite financial advisors, Jim Sinclair, said:
During this economic downturn, you must remove all financial intermediators that stand between you and your assets.
Which means: First, get out of debt, then stock up on cash (Swiss Francs are my favorite. I believe they are still backed by gold), gold, silver, other hard assets, firearms and ammunition (a rifle and pistol per family member is the standard to shoot for).
Then, I think you are good to go...
- March 02, 2008 6:24 PM
- firstname.lastname@example.com said...
But a house is always a GREAT investment!!
Ammo is cash. Glad I bought a new jumbo stand-up safe.
- March 02, 2008 7:44 PM
This is so true because didn't Warren Buffet brag about how much he made in 2007 and this year (so far it only the beginning of March) his profits have gone down on his Birkshire Hathaway 18 percent. I never did think Goggle was worth 600 bucks a share and I see others agree at the beginning of the year it was 600 a share now it what 450 or around there somewhere. As I said before it is only the beginning of March. Wait until the technology starts to tank again because people don't have extra money to keep up with latest gadgets and programs and the cost to maintain them companies are going out of business and no one is buying business programs or the latest technology to replace workers. I see a lot of restaurants going out of business because I see it being hard to pay 8.00 for a super burrito or 6 for a burger add in the fries and a drink 10 bucks. Now the investors are figuring out that they can keep making money on a necessary commodity being gasoline and they have to keep up with a fast and furious lifestyle it's not the explosions at refineries that are determining price it's investors. What's gonna happen when people just can't do that anymore either. When I was in the military in 1976 (US ARMY) the guys used to say the Republican's always start a war to keep the economy moving well it didn't work this time with Bush and now the government really has nothing left to offer. You are on your own.
- March 02, 2008 9:54 PM
What else is cash?
Good Pot
- March 02, 2008 10:13 PM
"Guns beat gold in the insanity that will be post constitutional America"
Have you seriously thought this through?
1oz of gold for roughly $1000, 200 krugerands in your pocket and you have $200k. Now take that $200k and turn it into 2000 SKS's at $100 a piece, and try shove them in your pocket, how you going to move them hi-jack a fuckin train?
Another thing to think on, is if there's running battles in the streets, as you think, guns wont be worth shit, as you wont be able to cross the road without falling over the things as the dead and dying don't take their weapons with them.
- March 03, 2008 12:25 AM
Ready or Not...
Rumor has it that the next US President WILL NOT RENEW Bernanke's appointment as Fed Chief and will appoint a Fed Chief who will DRASTICALLY RAISE THE INTEREST RATE to save the US Dollar and terminate with extreme prejudice crippling debts.
Obama and Clinton insiders have been talking to Mr. Paul Ruben former UST Secy in Clinton/Gore White House and former Citigroup CEO and former Goldman Sachs Vice Chairman as possible replacement for Bernanke.
I highly recommend his book,"A World of Uncertainty."
- March 03, 2008 12:55 AM
Two mutual funds that I have and recommend for the current and future economic environments:
PRUDENT BEAR GLOBAL INCOME/SAFE HARBOR FUND(www.prudentbear.com)
PERMANENT PORTFOLIO FUND(www.permanentportfoliofamilyoffunds)
Both invest in gold bullion, gold stocks, Swiss bonds,Singapore Dollars,Central Fund of Canada,and
3-month US T-Bill.
I also recommend Vanguard Treasury Money Market Fund (www.vanguard.com)Minimum to open:3,000.Minimum checkwriting amt.250.00
US Global Investors US Treasury Securities Cash Fund (www.usfunds.com)Minimum to open:
1,000.Minimum checkwriting amt.No minimum!!
Both of the above invest 100% in the 3-month US Treasury Bill considered to be safer than cash since cash itself are Federal Reserve Notes that can be disavowed by the US Treasury at any given moment via "force majeure" meaning US Treasury will no longer pay interest on the debt to the Federal Reserve by switching to another form of currency:paper or digital. In other words the Treasury will honor the 3-month T bill but will not honor cash dollar bills of any amount.Google/Search PROTOCOLS FOR ECONOMIC COLLAPSE 2008 BY AL MARTIN
It will shock you!!
I am now looking into E-GOLD,the very first 'digital gold' exchange.You can open an account at any amount and your balance is determined by the price of gold and number of ounces in your acct.Use one of their approved vendors and you can access your account from any ATM in the world.They claim that their bullion holdings are in London,Nevis,and Dubai.Do not use an unapproved vendor such as GOLDXCASH. Read up on E-Gold on Wikipedia.com.
- March 03, 2008 1:48 AM
We are in a mess. Even the people with "cash" are freaking out. The news that the PPI rose 1% in January ( 12% year inflation) at the producer level means that not only do we have core inflation but monetary as well. The Fed is bailing the housing market by making your existing dollars worth less. Yikes.
- March 03, 2008 3:33 AM
Americans have forgotten the meaning of "money" or "cash". Properties of Money: medium of exchange, store of value, measure of value, fungible.
FRNs do well as medium of exchange, poorly as store of value and measure of value because of inflation.
Gold/Silver do well as store of value and measure of value. Except during the past 50 years, they both did well as medium of exchange.
Corn fails on store of wealth - it spoils. Fails on medium of exchange - bushels of corn are tough/expensive to transport.
Baseball cards are not fungible - you can't cut a card in half and have it retain half it's value. Don't do well as a store/measure of value. You need a market to determine value - which is why debt based securities are failing today.
FRNs aren't really money - they only do well as a medium of exchange. Same for all other debt instruments.
I'll agree on whiskey, but not whisky.
- March 03, 2008 4:52 AM
In some mediterranean countries, olive oil was once as good as cash........
- March 03, 2008 7:46 AM
An old guy who lived through the 1930's depression told me they had instances where they used persian rugs to exchange for what they needed. This is in Greece though I'm sure it happened everywhere.
We're about to get a 'living history' lesson and we won't like it.
- March 03, 2008 1:34 PM
Women will be able to exchange what nature gave them no matter what. I think I will be a suburban Madam, and pick up REO McMansions in various cities, and run brothels staffed with the better endowed former used house sales women.
- March 04, 2008 5:06 AM
Google/search PBS/FRONTLINE and go to their 'watch online' menu and pull the AMERICAN PORN episode. It goes into great detail about the economics of the porn industry and you will be shocked as to who the major investors are.
- March 04, 2008 3:11 PM


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Now, onto some fashion! I haven't done a ton of shopping this summer, but one amazing thing that I picked up recently are these shoes! I'm totally in love with them. The bonus? I found them at Saks Off Fifith during one of their big 50% off everything sale. Such a happy girl here.
The shoes are so pretty, that I decided to pair them with a simple black dress. Surprisingly, they are super comfortable. I was so excited to find a link to them online. You can pick up a pair for yourself! Well, if you're a 9, 10 or 11. Sorry ladies with small feet!
I actually started the day with a necklace in addition to these earrings. Once I got to work and looked into the mirror again, I decided that it was too much. I took the necklace off right away. Less is more when it comes to this outfit!


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SOURCE: Contender.com
April 23, 2014 09:30 ET
Peer-to-Peer Price Discovery Marketplace Stands Up to Ticket Goliaths by Launching Free Model
Peer-to-Peer Price Discovery Marketplace Stands Up to Ticket Goliaths by Launching Free Model
LOS ANGELES, CA--(Marketwired - Apr 23, 2014) - Contender.com, the first peer-to-peer secondary ticketing website that's free, fair and flexible has officially launched today. Founded by industry veterans Wes Brodsky and Ken Blaustein in 2012, Contender.com is an online marketplace where buyers and sellers safely negotiate using their PayPal accounts, to agree on what a ticket's really worth, without dodgy middleman or baked-in fees.
"We started our company because the secondary ticket industry is broken and inefficient," says Brodsky, Contender.com's CEO. "Buyers are blindly overpaying for tickets and sellers are losing revenue due to price speculation, all the while the ticketing behemoths are lining their pockets. Users are intentionally blocked on resale marketplaces from knowing each other's level of price flexibility, causing tickets to either go unsold, or binding one side of the transaction to a competitive disadvantage."
"The industry's deliberate manipulation of the market operates in stark contrast to the needs of consumers, who are fed up," adds Blaustein, Contender.com's head of creative and business development. "With a decisive pivot from our competition's antiquated model, we're able to offer a solution that helps our users complete mutually beneficial transactions, without us getting in their way. Users deserve a transparent alternative to piggish fees, artificial prices, or the need to resort to some weirdo they emailed online. Those days are over."
Contender.com is an unbiased marketplace providing buyers and sellers unrestricted access to virtually every concert, sporting event and theatre performance. Fans set the rules, right down to the exact seats they choose, how long each offer is valid for, and have the power to accept, reject, or counter any offer, at any price point, even if the event is sold out.
The mission is simple. Eliminate the industry nonsense, ditch the fees, and harness the accountability of PayPal to prevent fakes, flakes and scams from ruining the experience. For the first time people will have the independence to acquire the exact seats they want, at a price both sides can feel good about.
Negotiate tickets, not the nonsense.
Learn more about Contender here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxKqTl9M1cA
About Wes Brodsky
With over 15 years in the secondary ticketing industry, Wes serves at CEO and co-founder, overseeing the architecture of Contender.com. Brodsky quickly rose to become the top individual ticket reseller on eBay while also serving as a consultant to both eBay and PayPal's ticket experience team. In 2008, he developed his beta site SaveFans.com, the first negotiable online marketplace for tickets, which Mashable named one of its "Genius Startups" of 2011, before creating Contender.com with Blaustein.
About Ken Blaustein
Ken Blaustein brings 20 years of entertainment marketing and branding experience as co-founder of Contender.com -- a result of former staff positions at Phillip Morris USA, Sony Music, Warner Bros. Records, and EMI Music Group. Additionally, Blaustein served as a marketing and development consultant for Electronic Arts, MTV, and Major League Gaming. He is responsible for driving the company's design, branding, and strategic partnerships, and works in tandem with Brodsky to develop the company's strategy and development.
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Source: Flatmattersonline
URL of the article: http://www.flatmattersonline.com/matthias-dandois-wins-kog-2011-world-circuit
Matthias Dandois just won the KOG Round 3 in Tokyo, Japan, and is the 2011 World Circuit Champion! Congrats to Matthias! Check out some of the videos from the livestream! Which was pretty awesome!
1-Matthias Dandois
2-Moto Sasaki
3-Yohei Uchino
4- Shinde
5- Takahiro Ikeda
7- Tsutomu Kitayama
8-Taikou Kaneta
9- Hiro Morisaki
10- Yuki Sakai
For even more videos:
Hit the link, scroll down and check the right hand side!
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In my day job, I get to do a lot of cool stuff and this month is no exception.
I am proud to announce (shameless plug!) that I wrote a little weight loss plan for Choices Markets, our first ever, called Find YOUR Healthy Weight.
Before you go doubting my intentions...this is no fad diet. Find YOUR Healthy Weight is all about getting off the diet roller coaster (a familiar theme around here, n'est pas?) and eating whole food, plant-based diet to help you normalize your weight for life. Included in the book is a workout plan designed for us by Innovative Fitness, a 7 day meal plan, grocery shopping lists and 25 recipes to help get you started. The book is just $11.95 at your local Choices Markets.
We are also hosting an unprecedented amount of programming at the stores to support you on your path to health: nutrition tours, dietitian consultations, a weight loss club and seminars.
You can learn more in our newsletters and at the Find YOUR Healthy Weight home page.
If you want to hear me speak about finding YOUR healthy weight, you can do so at the following times and locations:
Thursday, January 5 7PM Choices Markets Kelowna
Monday, January 9 7PM Choices Markets South Surrey
Thursday, January 12 7PM Canadian Memorial Centre for Peace West 16th Ave @ Burrard
Tuesday, January 17 7PM Choices Markets at the Crest (Burnaby)
All seminars are $5 at the door.
Good luck to you as you make 2012 your healthiest year yet!


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That's the cover of the second issue of the previously discussed Tiny Titans/Little Archie crossover, featuring Tiny/Little versions of EDILW favorites Josie and The Pussycats. I was pretty excited about this project when it was first announced, but I think I just got ten times as excited as I was then.
Also, I just noticed that the Pussycats—like Betty and Veronica on the cover of the first issue have Art Baltazarized versions of the little Dan DeCarlo upturned noses, while the Tiny characters are generally nose-less. Apparently Baltazar didn't just redraw the Archie characters in his Tiny Titans style, but filtered there designs through his Tiny Titans style?
That's pretty fantastic.
(Image spotted at and swiped from Johanna Draper Carlson's post on Archie Comics news)
Saturday, July 31, 2010
F Yeah Tiny Titans/Little Archie!
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The couple in seats 31 & 33* - We have enjoyed several trips in the UK and Europe by train and they seemed too good to keep to myself. We hope they will be of interest, and perhaps inspire others to go on similar "adventures" by train. Do feel free to comment and ask questions! These are all real reports of our own experiences and none is sponsored by any of the businesses mentioned in them; all views are my own. - * Our favourite seats on Virgin East Coast electric trains
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Some pictures, comments and observations...
WOW! Looks lovely, wish it was snowing hereDebbie
I see snow has come early for you as well. We've had some locally too. Very unusual for us so early.Great shot. I love the previous one too!
Hard to believe, but you have more snow than we do!Sheilax
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|I'll get to this in a minute...
I was supposed to be grocery shopping.
That's what I had planned for this morning after my kids walked the mile into town in 82 degrees to watch a 10 minute parade - didn't happen.
That's what I had planned after my kids hung around the lake in town and enjoyed the coolness - didn't happen.
Instead, here I sit. On my deck. Working on my blog while I drink a banana daiquiri as my day ticks away.
Today has been relatively calm, except for these dang deer-flies that won't leave me alone since I smell like bananas.
Seriously, where the heck did they come from. We moved from deer-fly country three hours north. Why are they here?????
So after the boys and I made it to the deck I started documenting my day, of course. Beginning with the geese in the pond across the road.
The babies are getting so big!
Then there were the kazillion pics I took of our Ameriadian flag blowing in the breeze.
Yes, it's Ameradian. not Canamerican, like India used to claim it was. It may look like a plain American flag but it isn't. I bought the flag on the way to my Girl Scout trip to Canada so it was first flown over Ontario for a weekend before it ever flew over American soil.
Wait! Isn't Canada in North America? So isn't that America? In that case, I guess it did fly over American soil..... maybe...
|See the geese in the background.
They are so cute!
Say hello to My Little Friend
Andrew found this cute little guy in an area that India and Andrew cleared out for my vegetables. I made him laugh repeatedly when My Little Friend kept "talking" to him in a silly voice.
Up next, a fierce game of kickball where Andrew thought he could beat the team of Nick and me. Didn't happen. Mom kicks kickball butt any day of the week.
|Nick was getting a bit smug at our making points, and started gloating.
We kept repeatedly kicking the ball onto the pitch of the house and into the ditch on the other side of the hedges. It was pretty cool watching the ball start at the peak and roll from roof to roof before bouncing around the front deck and into the sidewalk between flower beds.
|The boys debated on how incredibly hot it was in the sunlight.
I killed a wolf spider. I didn't mean to. He hid under my computer and I tried to move him but mortally wounded him instead. I feel so bad.....
Now some random pics of the day:
|Nick, India and I played with our old mailbox
and came up with this.
|Esme is the only one of our cats allowed outdoors
since she always stays near us.
|He's old, he's blind and he is devoted to his Mommy
- me -
My little Timothy!
|Sugar, Great Googly Moogly, Kitty
Whatever you call her, she is darn cute!
|Some of my plants I re-potted the other day.
I seriously love plants.
It's a good thing I fell in love with a Dutchman who's Dad used to own a nursery.
|Banana Daiquiri - does it get better than this?
|Matthew's official Memorial Day portrait.
He poses so nicely for me, don't you think?
|Matthew's idea of Memorial Day fun
after rebuilding the garden tractor.
I think haying equipment would have been more appropriate.
Five acres, one lawn mower, three days
..... repeat.
|All I needed was 3 cups of shredded Gouda -
India was so frustrated trying to get that amount.
And for some reason she kept slapping my hand.
|This bottle was knocked off the table 7 times and never even cracked.
|Matthew took this pic of the sprinklers - pretty cool!
I thought how much more tidy it would be to cover the grates in aluminum foil.
A plan not well thought out...
So India and I were forming the Gouda-filled burgers in the kitchen when William came running in saying the grill's cabinet was on fire. I ran out and saw the flames shooting out of the sides of the cabinet and from the top. I ran back in to get the extinguishers.
No, I will not pretend I was calm.
I was picturing the tank exploding along with my beautiful house.
As I was spraying the foam, thick black smoke poured up the hill toward the shop, where Matthew and Andrew were. Sorry, too much panicking for anyone to take pics.
Things I learned:
I know how to use a fire extinguisher
Our smoke detectors work.
Matthew and Andrew can run really fast!!
|Check this out!
The cover melted to the bag of mesquite chips
but never damaged the bag or chips.
|The foil melted off.
I guess the grill was trying to remove itself from the covering.
|Matthew to the rescue.
|Matthew hosed off the foam so we could continue cooking.
How funny that just a couple of hours earlier I was thinking of using the grill cleaner on it.
I counted 8 times that Matthew repeated "Don't cover the grates in foil" during the time he was cleaning the grill - and since then...
Or as he said when Andrew jokingly asked if he wanted some foil, "I don't need no stinkin' foil."
Every so often that rancid burning plastic/rubber/whatever it is smell comes out of the open windows of the house. Thankfully the baby chicken and the Cockatiel in the house are still okay and the smell didn't overwhelm them.
|These were in the pot on the side-burner.
Although the water was completely gone, the noodles cooked perfectly.
hmmm... new cooking tip?
|Back to business as usual.
India and Matthew cooking the burgers
with William's supervision.
Love the extinguisher and debris all around
|Can we call these post-flame-broiled?
|Look familiar?
Nope - now we can see his other eye.
Now we finally got a picture of Matthew.
Still looking at his phone - he was watching "Scrubs" on Netflix
(New profile pic for FB? hmmm...)
As the sun was setting, We played another rowdy game of kickball where India joined us while the two dogs stayed clustered by my feet and ran with me.
The game often turned ugly with brutal attacks made on me by India. She even had me to the ground while she kneeled on my hair as Andrew was pulling her off of me.
I will adamantly deny any attacks that she may say were made on her by me.
She lies!
We played long after dark in the light of the streetlight, deck light, lamp post and solar lights (the town has street lights all the way to the state line). The combo lit the front lawn pretty well.
I'm ending my blog a little after 10pm. I'm in bed, exhausted, drinking iced tea and talking to Johannes. Andrew and Nick are playing with sparklers and things like whatever this is in the pic, since Matthew and I told them we've already had one bonfire today.
Before I end this I would like to share something I discovered in the blogosphere.
I found this video at The Laughing Mom .
Like Terri says at the end of her blog:
This video captures one of the most heart-felt random acts of patriotism I've ever seen. An American Airlines employee known only as "Brett" spontaneously sang the Star Spangled Banner over a loud-speaker at Chicago O'Hare International Airport on the anniversary of 9/11, bringing dozens of travelers to their feet as they looked on in silence. Brett has an amazing voice and he used it in an incredible random act of patriotism. I challenge you to have a dry eye after viewing it.
Thank you Brett.


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Linking today to Run-a-Roundranch.
Wednesday, March 4, 2015
Do or Die Birding
Linking today to Run-a-Roundranch.
15 comments:
- TexWisGirl said...
love the fieldfare and the mistle thrush!
- March 4, 2015 at 5:19 PM
- David Gascoigne said...
You truly are the living proof that working a local patch on a regular basis is perhaps the most rewarding birding of all. I am sure that regular readers of your blog are just about as familiar with it as you are, and we all enjoy it vicariously. Great work, Phil. And no more about cold breezes you big baby!!
- March 4, 2015 at 5:30 PM
- eileeninmd said...
Phil, glad you were able to get out birding... Wonderful birds and gorgeous photos. It is too hard to pick a favorite. We had black ice this morning and 8-10 inches of snow due overnight..Happy Birding to you!
- March 4, 2015 at 6:20 PM
- Linda said...
Phil, so glad to see a post from you. Your captures are glorious and captivating. :)
- March 4, 2015 at 6:49 PM
- Chris Rohrer said...
You really have some lovely images of the Fieldfare and I think I'm in love with your Mistle Thrush. What a beautiful bird. The markings are quite distinct. The Greenfinch almost looks like our Evening Grosbeak over here by the way its sitting and calling:) And then there's a Redshank. But that Fieldfare.....
- March 4, 2015 at 6:59 PM
- Andrew Fulton said...
Wonderful images Phil...
- March 4, 2015 at 7:32 PM
- Margaret Adamson said...
Lovely selection of birds today Phil.
- March 4, 2015 at 8:31 PM
- Gunilla Bäck said...
The thrush is a beauty and I always love seeing robins.
- March 5, 2015 at 6:41 AM
- Knipsa Passtscho said...
Beautiful bird pictures!
I love the robin :)
Have a beautiful day
- March 5, 2015 at 1:54 PM
- Marie said...
I love that mistle thrush...I've never seen one, even pictured. Great birds!
- March 5, 2015 at 2:19 PM
- TexWisGirl said...
thanks, phil!
- March 5, 2015 at 2:39 PM
- Ida said...
What a sweet little Robin sitting on that fence. - You always have such pretty bird shots. I really like the Green Finch and the Mistle Thrush. Birds I've never seen before.
- March 5, 2015 at 6:15 PM
- DeniseinVA said...
A delightful series of birds. I saw a Fieldfare for the first time last summer, and I would love to see a Mistle Thrush next time I go.
- March 6, 2015 at 1:40 AM
- Janice Adcock said...
Thanks for sharing these nice shots.
- March 6, 2015 at 3:57 AM
- Lew Newman said...
I love spots!
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I kept staring at them.
.all different.
.some broken.
.others stained.
.a few had scars showing years of experience.
.some pretty damaged beyond repair.
.all sitting there just waiting for my next move.
As I cut each of those thirty pallets apart, I couldn't help but continue to draw parallels to kids whose path has crossed mine over eighteen years. Each had a story and none were more important than others.
There were the cracked, broken, seemingly "unsalvageable" boards - those kids who came from broken, struggling homes – I kept wondering, almost obsessively, where that one boy was – I worried about him each day after he left my classroom, seeming so lost, but I wouldn't give up hope, not even after all these years.
There were those who were perfectly straight and narrow – the kids who knew exactly where they were headed even in third grade. Nothing shocking me about their drive, their plan for their future.
There were some marked and scarred – the kids I found fascinating because they used those scars and turned them to strength. Those silent fighters who turned turmoil into triumph. Maybe I was most fascinated because they are the ones I see in my own school experience.
As I dulled blade after blade, the Hubs rolled his eyes and wasn't thrilled in the least with my latest adventure. Life with me is like riding the Bullet train ...... on the OUTSIDE!!!! I like things interesting and I don't mind change. Him? Keep things the same, no changes please. He couldn't see what I saw in those boards, couldn't see my vision for the end product of creating a "feature wall". He just waited - and I'm sure somewhere secretly hoped that just once, one of my crazy plans would fail enough for me to quit coming up with the next one! He seems to forget there's a driven, crazy woman in the person he married!
After each board was cut, I piled them neatly in the corner, waiting to bring each to its new home. There's something about the drone of a Saws All – there's so much time to think, to ponder, to create, to wonder. I felt so connected to this project because as I worked I went through dozens of names in my head, kids that were mine, kids that I fought to help them to their potential. I knew I had a huge job to get each onto a twenty foot long wall and make something beautiful. I was determined and fierce about this job. I knew I had to work carefully and change the plan as I worked in order to get the most from every board – I became more determined and passionate as I placed each board.
Section after section, I stepped back to look carefully at what was forming; changing the plan as I went. Some I needed to take off and rework, while others needed a little nudging or bending to work themselves. Some were where they needed to be, some had to be worked differently. And then it hit me – this is more like education than I even realized. I had one job to do; cover that wall with wood and have amazing things happen in the process to produce a beautiful end product. How I got there wasn't the focus. I used a little skill and some talent, love for art, a careful eye, and craft to get to the end product. Sometimes it was easier than others, sometimes it got messy, but in the end there was something beautiful.
Isn't that the job we face each day? We walk into a room filled with kids that carry some mark and it's up to us to find the beauty and prove they will succeed, no matter the standard, no matter the module or lesson – KIDS are why we're there. And just like putting that wall together piece by piece, step by step, that's what we do for kids, we build them up and help them to see the worth and beauty in themselves, to see themselves as lifelong learners.
We are given different children, at different places, with different stories.
We are expected to help them make progress no matter the place they're at, the baggage they bring.
What scares me about education right now is "sameness" or my current thorn: "similar".
Similar scores
Similar experience
Similar books
Similar worksheets
Similar scripts
At what point does this sameness become harmful rather than helpful?
At what point will be able to respect who kids are and the stories that are theirs? Bring kids farther on their journeys while honoring who they are and how they learn? Giving each a unique experience that will help them move further on their path to becoming lifelong learners.
I grew up in a time where the way I learned wasn't okay. My story was pretty average; middle class "intact" family, two income family, two siblings, a dog and a cat.
But that's where it ended.
School was hard for me – I vividly remember getting in trouble for doing Math a certain way by tapping on the numbers (that I should have made a fortune off of – known now as Touch Math) and was made to feel like a fool while adding numbers by making tens (hmmm, thanks in advance Singapore for sending me royalties). Drawing what I learned was something I did in secret; I'd make up songs to remember things like the Preamble and prepositions, but did all not chancing a teacher finding out.
Left brained students were encouraged and did exceedingly well; they sat in their rows or spots and listened intently, they crossed all their t's and dotted each and every i, they scored exceedingly well on standardized tests; it worked for them because that's the audience teachers taught to.
My right brain and I were left floundering; believing that I wasn't smart enough because I could NOT sit there for hours on end and "just be quiet and listen" – I thought things through and took them in so many directions, making my own connections, that I missed facts in between.
I believed that I was a dumb kid.
I believed that I wasn't good enough – to whom? I don't know, but I was a kid and all I knew was that the experience of school was painful.
I believed I was irreparably damaged.....until I was strong enough to push through and not let people hold me back. I'm so sorry to say that the best day of my own school life was when I walked out of public education, well-earned diploma in hand.
No one cared about my story.
No one looked at my scars, that school itself had caused, and saw strength and triumph, but only damage and defeat. And I still see this with my own kids; the "sameness" continues although we don't want to see it that way.
And that's what scares me now heading into a world of modules and sameness. The way I learned, the things I had to do to make sense of my learning were just not okay within the parameters and script my teacher was using. Whole groups and teacher droning just about caused me to lose my mind.
We need to move carefully in this time of such quick change. As my great grandmother used to say – The more things change, the more they stay the same.
I'm not the same.
My kids are not the same. Most, not even similar.
Each is unique, each with a story to tell ...... and I feel passionate and responsible and driven to keep pounding away and advocating for each of them.
There are too many stories that have no voice but mine.


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Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Erin was off to Banff last week for WordFest, a writers' festival that the school's writing classes attends each year. She's an old hand at the trip: this is her third year. She enjoys it, both socially and educationally. This year an assistant teacher who had just met her on the trip expressed incredulity that Erin had ever been shy. Uh, yeah ... in fact she's still shy, but she can definitely come across totally differently in the right environment, the writers' festival trip being the right environment. She had fun.
Since that trip put Erin 85% of the way to Calgary, we opted to drive out and meet her at the end of WordFest and drive her on to the east to the big city for a violin lesson, with Noah getting a viola lesson on the same trip. This entailed staying at a new, interesting hotel in Banff, so the younger two decided to come along as well. We drove out on Saturday afternoon arriving mid-evening, left for Calgary at 8 Sunday morning, fit in the two lessons, then turned around and drove the whole distance home, arriving mid-evening. Doing this with the two eldest in a day and a half is one thing. I figured that with all four it would kill me. But actually it wasn't so bad. The kids travel so well now. They nap a lot. They don't whine. They are accommodating with their bathroom and food needs. When they're awake, they are enjoyable. They invented a game called "Rock, Paper, Random." It's a word game that's sort of a cross between Rock, Paper, Scissors and Apples to Apples. You and your opponent yell out in tandem "Rock, paper, ___!" inserting some random noun at the end, and then you table arguments as to why your random word wins over the other person's. The most convincing, or elegant, or witty argument wins the round. For instance Noah's "door" won over Sophie's "tooth" once he reminded us that you can tie a loose tooth to a doorknob and yank it out.
Yesterday Fiona went off to Nakusp for a skating outing at the arena there with a couple of friends. Today Noah, Erin and I head 90 minutes south to Nelson for youth choir and a meeting about the 2012 trip to Cuba.
And then tomorrow at 6 a.m. Erin leaves with a couple of friends to Montreal. Last summer Gwen Hoebig recommended the McGill performance program to Erin and suggested that if she could find a way to get lessons with particular members of the violin faculty this would be helpful to her future prospects. So when we found out our friends were heading off to visit another (mutual) friend who is currently a student at McGill, we asked if Erin could come along. She has lessons scheduled with three of the top violin faculty. The lessons are well-timed: with her recitals coming up she can certainly benefit from getting different perspectives on her performance repertoire, and also from the opportunity to just play for lots of different people. And getting herself known to these teachers is definitely a good thing. She'll be back after the weekend, in time to make it to her weekly gig as accompanist for the community choir. And then in the next three and a bit weeks she'll have two or three trips to Kelowna for rehearsals and recital, and one or two trips to Calgary for lessons. Yikes.
The day after tomorrow Chuck, Sophie and Fiona will be heading to SW Ontario for an extended-family get-together. Chuck's mom's 90th birthday is coming up, and there are new great-grandbabies in the family to meet. Chuck is the youngest of his mom's eight children, and Fiona is the youngest of her 20 grandchildren. There will be many more great-grandchildren in the future. Sophie and Fiona have already been recruited as part of the church-basement-decorating committee, and will be playing their violins as part of the musical entertainment. They'll be gone for just four days, two of them spent in travel. Not relaxing, but they're definitely looking forward to it. Fiona hardly remembers meeting most of the extended family ever. She knows some of them via Facebook, but is very excited to meet them in real life.
And Noah and I: we're staying home for six days straight. Yay!
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Wow-za. I admire that you all pull together to travel wherever you need for the things you are passionate about. To juggle so many different needs and schedules - whew!ReplyDelete
My boys don't like to travel much and usually opt to stay closer to home-last weekend we had a 5 hour drive to Minneapolis, and they actually made it without too much discomfort...a first. I figure as they get older it will get smoother, but don't know if *I* could ever handle the miles you put in at the wheel! ;)
So will you cut back once the winter weather kicks in this year?
I am a very shy person, and quite an introvert. BUT when in certain social situations I tend to appear more outgoing and seemingly gregarious, probably to overcompensate for my discomfort. It wears me out, but works.
Denise, I'm exactly the same way in social situations. When it matters to me to appear gregarious, I can. When I'm with people I like but am not concerned about appearances, I'm most comfortable hanging back and just being myself: then I don't find it so draining. Erin is the girl who was homeschooled chiefly because she got so anxious in group situations that she was unable to speak at all. So it is very neat to see that she's got the coping mechanisms now, and that they're robust enough that she can totally fool someone she's spending the better part of four days with.ReplyDelete
The cross-Canada trips are definitely an exception. Fortunately I don't have to drive for either of those: the airport is 4 hours away and it is the adults flying along with the kids who are doing the drive. The frequent trips to Kelowna for rehearsals will continue only until mid-November when Erin does her recitals. The rest will alas continue unabated through the winter. I dream of having a good winter vehicle with AWD and decent ground clearance.
I love the Rock, Paper Random idea. My kids are very into creating their own variants on Rock, Paper, Scissors, and deciding which beats what. It all started with Rock, Paper, Scissors, Diamond, Laser when DS was doing a project on diamonds. Now I hear DD inventing her own variants talking to herself.ReplyDelete
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Action items.
Action 1: Please contact Milo Robinson (firstname.lastname@example.com) if you are interested in participating on the ROADIS Team.
Action 2: Milo will ask Sharon Shin if the items discussed today could be rolled into the Terms of Reference document for definition.
Action 3: Census, USGS, and FEMA should begin to document their data using the geospatial investments table.
Action 4: Milo will send out the definitions from the Table for Aligning Geospatial Investments for comments.
Action 5: Please provide Julie with edits for the FGDC Policy to Endorse External Standards.
Action 6: There is consensus on the value of the FGDC Policy to Endorse External Standards but it needs to be wordsmithed. FGDC endorsed the general approach and additional comments will be needed.
Action 7: Get in touch with Mike Domaratz (email@example.com) if you would like to join the Homeland Security Working Group and work on the issue of public accessibility of data.
Action 8: Shell Sutton will email a soft copy of the TIGER Team questionnaire to the Coordination Group.
Host: Michael Sherman, NCPC
Milo Robinson, FGDC
Alison Kiernan, FGDC
Shelby Johnson, AGIO
John Clark, GSA
Charles Roswell, NIMA
Mark Bradford, BTS/DOT
Carol Brandt, USDOT/BTS
Myra Bambacus, NASA
Richard Pearsall, USGS
Julie Binder Maitra, FGDC
Norman C. Andersen, INCITS L1
Fred Broome, Census
Wendy Blake-Coleman, EPA
David Morhouse, DOE
Susan Hargrove, DOE
April Avnayim, Census
Anne O'Connor, Census
Shawn Silkenson, LMCO
George Percival, NASA/GST
John Evans, NASA/GST
Billy Tolar, USGS/National Atlas
Shel Sutton, MITRE/NIMA
David Stein, NOAA
Andrea Petro, OMB
Jason Freheige, OMB
Chuck Croner, CDC
Sam Bacharach, OGC
Mark Beichardt, OGC
Rick Yorczyk, NOAA
Kim Burns, ESRI
Bonnie Gallahan, FGDC
Hank Garie, GOS
Michael Domaratz, USGS
Jeff de La Beaujardiere, NASA
Rob Dollison, ORKAND/GOS
Chris Clarke, NRCS/USDA
Ed McKay, NOAA/NGS (retired)
Sherry Konigsberg, BLS
Jack E. Huntley, USACE
Barry Napier, FEMA/IGPT
Betsy Banas, USFS
Steve Slack, USFS
Robin Fegeas, USGS
Ann Sulkovsky, DHS
David Painter, FGDC
Leslie Wollack, GOS/NASA
Stan Ponce, USGS
Molly Singer, ICMA
Michelle Torreano, EPA
Theodore Hull, NARA
Shane Dettman, NCPC
On the Phone
Anne Miglarese, NOAA
Ivan DeLoatch, FGDC
Welcome – Milo Robinson, FGDC
Milo thanked the National Capital Planning Commission for hosting the meeting.
Geospatial Information Technology Association (GITA) is proposing that a Team visit Japan for the purpose of exchanging information with the Road Administrative Information System or ROADIS that provides the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, 11 designated cities, and the utility companies responsible for gas, telephone, cable, electric, water, sewer, and subway train services with up-to-date and highly accurate information for managing and protecting infrastructure. The trip is in conjunction with the GITA – Japan Conference in November of 2003. It is estimated that will be cost approximately $2,500 for each Team member.
Action 1: Please contact Milo Robinson email@example.com if you are interested in participating on the Team.
The Congressional Research Service (CRS) has asked agencies how much money they are spending on GIS software. If your agency has not yet received this survey, please be aware that it is being circulated.
The Open GIS Consortium (OGC) will be hosting an Emerging Technology Summit on June 5-6 in Tyson's Corner, VA with speakers including Tim Berners-Lee, who is credited with the creation of the World Wide Web, and Gov. Jim Geringer. For more information visit: http://www.gita.org/events/ets/web_services/open.html
FCC Data Holdings – Don Campbell, FCC
Don Campbell works in the FCC Office of Engineering and Technology. His office creates maps detailing the extent of terrestrial, space, and broadcast services. These files have documentation and are available for download. In some situations the FCC does not have PCS towers listed, because anything over 200 feet must be registered with the FCC and therefore many towers are built just under that height. FCC does not have the locations of wireline facilities. FCC regulates all non-federal use of the radio spectrum because they cross State lines.
Q: How do PCS's deal with 911 calls?
A: The PCS sends the operator the coordinates of the caller. The PCS phones transmit geospositional information to the 911 PCs.
Please contact Don Campell with any questions (email@example.com).
Aligning Geospatial Investments – Milo Robinson, FGDC and Jason Freihage, OMB
An ad-hoc group reviewing geospatial investments has developed a table to identify where agencies have been making geospatial expenditures. Milo has circulated the table to the Coordination Group members for comments.
Q: What do the definitions on the table mean? For example: Data Acquisition, Data Integration, Data Archive, and Data Dissemination.
This table is meant to be a useful tool. It may be helpful for partnerships to be included in the definition for Data Acquisition. It was hoped that it could be kept to the four categories of data ownership, but perhaps we also need Data Reporting as a category. Some agencies, such as FCC, don't have a Data Archive because the data is live/real-time.
The table allows you to put a cost on your data and show how valuable it is to you. Data derives meaning from analysis. Under the Data Collection bin – more and more data will come from State and locals in the future. We need more clarity on whether the data is off the shelf or a product of individual data collection. Both categories should fit in the Data Collection bin. Data Access includes maintaining servers to keep data available.
This will be used as a planning tool to show how data is being managed and accessed, as well as a tool to open communications with OMB so they understand what we are buying. This information could be integrated more in the Annual Report. The Geospatial One Stop will focus more on long-term data buys.
Q: EPA has millions of facilities that they don't have lat/longs for. How do you get the locations that aren't reported?
We need to come up with clear definitions that define the internal components of what we do. We also need clearer definitions for Module 3 regarding Data Acquisitions.
Sharon Shin is working on a Terms of Reference document.
Action 2: Milo will ask Sharon Shin if the items discussed today could be rolled into the Terms of Reference document for definition.
Action 3: Census, USGS, and FEMA should begin to document their data using the table.
Action 4: Milo will send out the definitions from the Table for Aligning Geospatial Investments for comments.
URISA Give and Take Summit – Kathy Covert, FGDC
The URISA Give and Take Summit will be held on May 21 at Jury's Washington Hotel on Dupont Circle. It will help determine how all the geospatial programs fit together. For more information please visit: http://www.urisa.org/Summit.htm
FGDC Policy to Endorse External Standards – Julie Binder Maitra, FGDC
The objective of this policy is to provide a mechanism for FGDC to endorse or recommend non-Federal standards. Nothing in the policy will supercede the authority of an agency or organization.
Standards Categories: FGDC Standards; FIPS; American National Standards (ANSI); International Organization for Standardization (ISO); Consortium developed specifications; and other standards – those that don't fall in the previously defined categories.
External standards must be reviewed through a standards process.
Comment: The document doesn't flow and needs a wordsmithing job before it hits the street.
Action 5: Please provide Julie with edits for the FGDC Policy to Endorse External Standards.
Common standards are necessary to promote the NSDI and this policy is hoping to bring the Federal community around to using common standards through a formalized process. The intent is not to encourage agencies to accept standards as architecture. The Policy is not designed to be anything more than a mechanism that the FGDC can use to accept standards that the Federal government must abide by. It is a mechanism to bring in non-Federal standards that are of use to the Feds. We don't want to be duplicative.
Action 6: There is consensus on the value of FGDC Policy to Endorse External Standards but it needs to be wordsmithed. FGDC endorsed the general approach and additional comments will be needed.
Public Accessibility of Data – Mike Domaratz, USGS
The FGDC Homeland Security Working Group is working on Principles and Guidance for the Evaluation of Homeland Security Implications of Public Access to Geospatial Data. The group will evaluate the need to reduce or eliminate public access to specific geospatial data for Homeland Security reasons. They plan to look at the costs and benefits of public access; provide criteria regarding the sensitivity of a particular data holding; and look to balance security concerns and public information access.
Mike Domaratz will work with Hank Garie to get States and locals involved in this discussion. The library community is also a big part of this issue and should be involved in the discussion.
Comment: Free access to information is an important part of our country and we need to fight for freedom of information.
Action 7: Get in touch with Mike Domaratz (firstname.lastname@example.com) if you would like to join the Homeland Security Working Group and work on the issue of public accessibility of data.
NSGIC Perspective – Shelby Johnson, AGIO
NSGIC is happy to have a voice within FGDC. NSGIC is beginning to reach out and understand where they fit in the world. NSGIC is coordinating GIS data and policy. At the mid-year meeting in Denver, NSGIC created a State Model for Coordination to characterize States that have successful geospatial data programs and determine common characteristics for success. It was found that governors who have State GIS Coordinators tend to be more effective. The NSGIC Annual Conference will be in Nashville from September 15-18. To register: https://www.amrinc.net/nsgic/secure/2003annual.cfm
Comment: NSGIC is not stepping up with a resolution endorsing the Geospatial One Stop (GOS) Standards and Portal. NSGIC could come up with a policy to use these standards.
Reply: NSGIC is just realizing that they have influence on the GOS. And NSGIC does participate with the Standards Working Group.
GIRM Presentation – Myra Bambacus & John Evans, NASA
The Geospatial Applications and Interoperability (GAI) Working Group was chartered to develop and maintain a reference model to support development and interoperability of systems providing data and services. The Geospatial Interoperability Reference Model (GIRM) is not a standard, policy or mandate, but is a tool to enable geospatial interoperability. The GIRM draft was released for public comment at is available at: http://gai.fgdc.gov/girm/
The group partitioned the "standards space" into features, coverages, maps, metadata, reference systems, and services.
Purpose and benefits of the GIRM:
- Hyperlinks to open interface standards
- Fits technologies and applications into a "big picture"
- Guides software development
- Curriculum design; marketing and advocacy; etc.
- Informs technology decisions
- Focused on interoperability among systems and services
- "Open" specifications defined and maintained by broad voluntary consensus
- Mature specifications (adopted or near final)
- "A tool, not a rule"
Q: After the collection of comments on the GIRM, does the person who made a comment get feedback?
A: They are in the process of getting comments back to people.
In the next month or two the GIRM will be posted to the GAI Working Group site as a proposed reference model.
Discussion/Wrap Up
The NIMA National Center for Geospatial Intelligence Standards has a TIGER Team that has a questionnaire that agencies are welcome to fill out. The final report is due in August.
Action 8: Shell Sutton will email a soft copy of the TIGER Team questionnaire to the Coordination Group.
The public review for the Address Data Content Standard is underway and will go through July 31. For more information on participating in the review please go to www.fgdc.gov.
Next Coordination Group meeting:
June 3, 2003
Hosted by FCC at their office on 12th & D Sts.
(An agenda with location info will be forwarded in late May)


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Wicca, LDS, Scientology, and "mainstream" Christianity
RE: Wicca, LDS, Scientology, and "mainstream" Christianity
(29-12-2013 08:48 PM)RobbyPants Wrote:(29-12-2013 08:31 PM)Alla Wrote: OK. How does it make me spiritual?
No laser-shooting eyes?? Dang.
RE: Wicca, LDS, Scientology, and "mainstream" Christianity
@Kestrel: Let me try clear it up a little. Let me use purpose to be the distinguishing element between anthropomorphise and altruism. When trying to describe the GENUINE actions of an animal acting selflessly, I'd use altruism. When manufacturing human characteristics in an animal I'd use anthropomorphise. Very similar but there is a slight difference.
How do I understand the motives of animals? Well quite simply actually. I use my intelligence to observe the actions and hypothesise an outcome. Since we are also animals I'm not far off in applying simple human logic and reason to understand a lesser creature. One would think this to be a position of advantage. I can empirically prove this when the animal acts in the way I originally hypothesised. Isn't this how science works?
Also understanding is a matter of subjectivity.
8000 years before Jesus, the Egyptian god Horus said, "I am the way, the truth, the life."
RE: Wicca, LDS, Scientology, and "mainstream" Christianity
BlackMason Wrote:I can empirically prove this when the animal acts in the way I originally hypothesised.Putting good natured ribbing aside, for the moment.
You, nor anyone else, can empirically prove to know what the elks motive was in the link Chas provided.
The documentation of seemingly exhibited "altruism" in the animal kingdom are anomalies at best.
In the link Chas provides, the video is narrated by the researcher.
Here is a quote from the video by that same researcher, as he witness' another elk join the first:
"All my textbook biology fails me. When it's survival of the fittest, where's the room for this compassion?"
In one sentence he swipes clean the desk of his intellect of all papers, books, experiences as a scientist and replaces it with drooling emotion.
Furthermore, he goes on to unequivocally pronounce that the elks intention is to defend the injured companion!!
What scientist does that?
Not a single word of thought that perhaps the elk in question was following, (and here's a word that's too long in coming within this conversation), instinct.
Taking the fact that the fight or flight instinct drives almost all animals, it is reasonable to posit that fight or flight came into play here. It is far more plausible and palatable that the uninjured elk got its wires crossed and upon witnessing the plight of the injured elk processed that it was the one under attack, not having a sense of "self". It very well may have vicariously told itself that it must defend itself.
A far more reasonable conclusion, than just some emotional Walt Disney explanation.
Of course, let us not forget the remainder of the elk herd from which this injured elk most assuredly traveled. (Number unknown.)
Are the other elk, who did not make an appearance, now all "selfish"? Do they all have a lack of "compassion"?
It just don't work.
It is an interesting observation that, the atheist will give no quarter, (and rightly so, IMO), to the theist who will skip over the more plausible or realistic explanations of how the theist claims to arrive at a given conclusion, yet this discussion shows the atheist is not immune to emotional projection, in order to see what they want to see as well.
BlackMason Wrote:...Since we are also animals I'm not far off in applying simple human logic and reason to understand a lesser creature. One would think this to be a position of advantageemphasis mine
So where is your boundary for that parameter? Does it apply to mammals only? Or does it include, fish, birds, insects, bacteria?
"If you're going my way, I'll go with you."- Jim Croce
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