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Mr FLETCHER (Bradfield) (20:28): I am very pleased to rise to speak on the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission Bill 2012 and the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (Consequential and Transitional) Bill 2012. It is an uncontentious proposition, a view shared by all in this House, that charities and not-for-profit organisations do vitally important work across so many areas of our community. Many schools, for example, are operated by churches and other not-for-profit organisations. Many great hospitals were established by religious orders and many hospitals continue to be run by charities and not-for-profit organisations. Charities support the poor, the sick and the disadvantaged, in Australia and around the world.
It is therefore clearly desirable to consider a change to the law so that charities and not-for-profit organisations face a less expensive, less burdensome and more efficient regulatory regime.
If such a regime were before the House this evening in the bills which the House is considering, then we in the coalition would be only too pleased to welcome it and support it. Unfortunately, the bills that are before the House this evening do no such thing. They are sold as delivering reductions in red tape and reductions in the regulatory burdens faced by charitable and not-for-profit organisations. Sadly, they do precisely the opposite. It is for that reason, amongst others, that on this side of the House we are unable to support the package of changes contained in the bills before the House.
In the time available to me, I would like to make three points. Firstly, while these bills clearly will, should they pass into law, add a layer of federal regulation to the charity and not-for-profit sector, they do nothing to reduce other layers of regulation, particularly at the state level. Secondly, it is claimed that, even if these bills do nothing to improve the position at the state level, they will deliver some efficiencies at the federal level, but on analysis these claims are quite implausible. Thirdly, contained in this package of measures is the imposition, in a number of ways, of onerous, challenging and difficult new requirements for charitable, not-for-profit and voluntary organisations which place burdens on organisations and people wishing to make a contribution through the sector.
Let me turn firstly to the question of how this package of measures imposes a new regulatory regime at the federal level when the government has clearly conceded that it has not secured any tangible outcomes in rolling back the regulation of charitable and not-for-profit organisations at the state level. This was a very clear message from participants in the sector who appeared before the recent inquiry conducted by the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services as well as a number of other committees of this parliament which have looked at these bills. The national and state and territory peak bodies for volunteering highlighted the significant concern in the sector about the duplication and overlap between Commonwealth and state and territory laws governing the not-for-profit sector. They had this to say in their submission:
The ACNC—
the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission—
is meant to relieve these compliance burden issues by providing a 'one-stop' regulation shop. However it is argued by some that red-tape reduction cannot be achieved without collaboration between Federal and State and Territory governments.
… … …
A number of NFP agencies expressed their concern about this matter … harmonisation between the two levels of government is some time away.
Mission Australia also commented on the disparity between what was promised to the sector and what is actually going to be delivered, having this to say:
We support the notion of the ACNC as a one-stop regulatory stop and support the notion of a Charity Passport that will see us provide our financial and governance information once, to be used often. Yet it is disappointing to see no evidence of how this is being achieved.
Our overriding concern is that rather than reducing red tape and compliance burden, the ACNC will add another layer of compliance and that nothing will be taken away.
Those are the words of one particular non-profit organisation analysing the practical impact of this package of measures on their activities. Their conclusion is that, despite the bold promises, the practical consequence will be no reduction in red tape but, on the contrary, an increase in red tape. In a similar vein, Father Brian Lucas of the Catholic Church had this to say, when he appeared before the committee recently:
Much has been said about the need for reduction of red tape. That was very much the rationale that led a number of the various government inquiries to recommend a national regulator. You will have heard, I am sure, that there is still concern in many sectors that particular legislation that we are now dealing with does not bring about the reduction of red tape that was envisaged.
The Australian Conservation Foundation had this to say:
ACF is concerned that rather than remove duplication, the ACNC Bills will duplicate reporting obligations.
We heard that these issues are of considerable concern to independent schools, who are worried that they will be required to report much of the same information that today they provide to the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations to the ACNC as well. So far, there has been no indication of any information-sharing agreement having been reached between the ACNC and the Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations. We heard from the Catholic Bishops Conference that they are concerned about Catholic schools facing a competitive neutrality problem because this will impose new, burdensome reporting obligations on Catholic schools, obligations which will not be faced by the state school just down the road.
Against this backdrop of real and tangible concerns, what satisfaction has the government been able to offer that there will be a harmonisation between federal and state and territory obligations leading to the promised reduction in red tape? I am sorry to say that absolutely no satisfaction on this point has been given by the government.
In evidence to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services, the interim commissioner of the ACNC task force told the committee that no state or territory government has yet entered into a memorandum of understanding with the Commonwealth to participate in the new regulatory arrangements. There is no state or territory government which has yet entered into a memorandum of understanding.
We heard from Mr Ronalds, a senior official of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. He was asked about the progress of negotiations with the states, and he was also asked why it was the case that these arrangements with the states had not been put in place first before the imposition of this new layer of Commonwealth regulatory requirements. Here is what he had to say—with, I must say, a certain lofty disdain which perhaps only officials of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet can display. He said:
Our view—and, I must say, with our considerable experience of COAG processes—is that that would take many years to do.
By that he means many years to arrive at a deal between the Commonwealth and the states. He went on to say:
Our perspective is that it was much better to begin the regulatory reform process, to make the improvements at the Commonwealth level and to then work very constructively with the states and territories, and that is in fact what is going on.
That is his claim. I must say that I was wholly unpersuaded by that claim, because, if you analyse what Mr Ronalds said when he said it 'would take many years' to achieve a deal between the Commonwealth and the states and territories, what he is in fact saying is that it is going to take many years before regulation at the state and territory level is likely to be wound back. That therefore means that for many years charities will now face the operation of this new Commonwealth level of regulation on top of, in addition to, the existing level of state and territory regulation which they face.
Let me turn, then, to the second point I want to address, which is that the efficiencies which we are told will be achieved at the federal level by reason of the introduction of the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission are quite implausible. It really does strain the credulity of any objective observer that these benefits will be claimed. In practical terms, the benefits are going to require other Commonwealth departments and agencies agreeing either to hand over their own regulatory powers to the ACNC or, at the very least, to harmonise their regulatory requirements with the ACNC. For example, it was claimed that the charities would be able to lodge their details once with the ACNC and that, once those details were on the register maintained by the ACNC, then any other Commonwealth agency or department which is to grant them money under a contested grant process, for example, would be able to take the information as read. There will be no need to provide it separately, and so, rather than having to provide a 20-page application form, they will only need to provide a couple of pages because most of the information will already be on the ACNC's register.
Wouldn't that be a marvellous thing if it were in fact to happen? Wouldn't it be a marvellous thing if these efficiencies could be achieved? On this side of the House, we do not dispute that it would be a marvellous thing; we are just deeply sceptical that it is actually going to happen. There appear to be no tangible mechanisms to ensure that bureaucrats in other departments will cheerfully vacate the field when the ACNC comes along. I asked a question on this point, at the committee's hearings last week, of Ms Linda Lavarch, who is chair of the Not-for-Profit Sector Reform Council. This was her very reassuring answer. First she told me that there is a compact that has been signed to deal with these matters. Then she said:
A compact advocate at the deputy secretary level has now been appointed in each department. It is their role to take the leadership in their department to ensure that they not only are the principals of the compact but also have a shared vision with the sector about reducing red tape. The red tape is not just reduced for the sector; it is reduced for government as well.
I am deeply sceptical. In theory, of course, it is plausible that the ACNC could be a one-stop shop and that other agencies could wind back their levels of involvement and accept, for example, information that had been already lodged with the ACNC. In practice, this would require a remarkable and most unlikely change in bureaucratic behaviour.
Let me turn briefly to the third point I want to make, which is that the new law presents major difficulties for charities in a range of areas. First of all, it imposes onerous new requirements to deal with issues like the threat of money laundering. It is hard to understand why this needs to be dealt with in the ACNC Bill when there are already other regulatory regimes which address the issue of money laundering.
Another way in which this new legislation creates difficulties for charities is that it establishes draconian powers on the part of this new regulator. Just as one example, the new regulator will have the power to disqualify a director, whereas, by contrast, if ASIC, the corporate regulator, wants to disqualify a director, it must first seek a court order. In fact, this regulatory regime is extraordinarily intrusive, with enforcement powers and provisions—division 70, 'Information gathering powers'; division 75, monitoring powers; powers to gain warrants; powers to enter onto the property of charities; and so on. This is very far from being the so-called light-touch enforcement regime that we were promised by officials appearing before the committee.
In conclusion, the coalition stands for supporting not-for-profit organisations and volunteers. We believe that this onerous and intrusive package of regulation will do precisely the opposite, and that is why we oppose it.


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Saturday, October 31, 2009
Thompson Farm Shed, 159
After leaving Mr. Chestnut's we moved closer in to Moreland and painted at the Thompson's farm for the afternoon. There were too many great structures and fields to chose from, so I picked to one where I could paint in the shade. At this paint, after dusting off a small painting by this point, I really had a grasp on the palette and what it was capable of. I could see it in everything I saw, which is necessary if you aren't going to bumble along through a painting. It makes it much easier to see, mix, and execute. I struggle with this a bit, as usual, but at the end, I was pleased with everything but the cloud. I will rework or repaint this one at some point.
Friday, October 30, 2009
Mr. Chestnut's Shed, 158
I got a little ahead of myself with the last few postings, so I am backing up to day 2 of the workshop. After we experimented with the Zorn palette, this was the first piece I did out in the field. Nothing to write home about. This was the first go with the Vasari grays and the rest of the color that are included in the palette of death. I struggled a bit with this piece, it was small and i felt a bit awkward working on it, 5"x7" just isn't my size and I really prefer something closer to square like a 6"x8". But, you labor an and you get what you get. I try to hold judgement until I am done with a piece. You never know how it is going to turn out until you are done.
Vasari grays are an amazing shortcut to values. Each of the grays we used were infused with a color form the limited palette to get the grayed off look you actually see when you are out in nature. You may not realize it, but when you really look they are there!
I am somewhat accustomed with the use of gray, I have alwasy tubed by remnants from my palette at the end of each day and then used that to mix with each color on my palette to neutralize the tube colors. Vasari paints are hand mixed and hand tubed, using no chalks or fillers. They may soon become my paint of choice. They do exactly what you think they will do when you use them.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Tree Tops, 157
Once again, working on my trees, specifically the "sky holes." These were not as successful as I would like, but I good piece not the less. Sketch holes are more low key in comparison to the rest of the sky, just because they are surrounded by a darker color and stand out too much if done in the same value. Just because I understand it, doesn't mean I can do it! Equally as hard would be rendering tress with minimal leave, like the trees on the left. Too much contrast there between the three itself and the background. Hope to rework this one later and fix the sky holes.
Monday, October 26, 2009
Big and Tall, 156 SOLD
This one really worked out, as far as the masses are concerned. This was painted from a view down the power line, I was downhill, eye level with the grasses. It was beautiful, I loved the shape of the skyline. Very pleased with mass of the large oak on the left of this piece.
In the workshop, we worked with the Vasari brand neutrals, adding one of the 3 primaries to the mixtures in order to create these tonalist landscapes. Vasari's are hand made and hand tubed by a guy named Scott. He uses his eye to mix the colors, no gas spectrometer here. Their paints are used by Gene and Scott and the neutrals are actually mixed to Scott's specifications. They are tremendously expensive, running around $25 per 40ml tube but they are worth every hard earned penny.
I got rained on while finishing this piece. The cool thing about painting in oil in the rain.... you can do it until it rains too hard. Oil are oils and water is water. I love plein air painting and today was a tribute to that. It is especially satisfying in conditions that are less than favorable.
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Autumn Oak, 155
This is a smaller piece done at the workshop on one of those cold and dreary mornings last week. This piece was done quickly, about 20 minutes, then I scraped it back with the palette knife and reworked it. I was specifically working on the mass of my trees that day, mine tend to break up as I add more values... it is difficult to see and think of them os one big shape. The blue is a bit much for the distant trees, but I loved the color, so I left it in as a reminder.
Friday, October 23, 2009
Gosch Trail 2, 154
This was the last of the pieces I did on the first day of the workshop. I introduced some cobalt blue light to the mix to shake things up. The foreground is a little cool, but other than that, I was pleased with the outcome. I have enjoyed this palette very much and plan on doing much more with it. I am very excited about using the Vasari oil for the next few days. The grays are amazing, and I am afraid that at $25 a 40ml tube, I may never use another paint. I am also seriously considering stepping up to lenin mounted on birch. I will have to crunch the numbers, after all, and increase in the cost of material comes through on the retail end, but, quality is quality.
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Gosch Trail 153
This is one of the pieces from the workshop that I felt I could post alone. This was done in the Zorn palette. We worked at Millie's place in Newnan, out Smokey Rd. It is beautiful land out there and they have a great spot for this type of workshop, lots of trees, water and boathouses... good stuff.
The Zorn Palette
On day one of the workshop, we worked with the Zorn palette, which consists of yellow ochre, cadmium red medium, black and white. In the last image of the day I added cobalt blue light for a twist. It was great, I may spend a whole month working on my values with this palette. It was fantastic and so fun to use.
The first day focused on mastering the value planes, the basis of teaching by John Carlson. If you paint landscapes and have never read John Carlson... you need to. I have his guide to landscape painting and have read in twice since I got it this summer. Basically stated, Carlson says that if you can master the 4 value planes, you can do pretty much anything else to the piece and it will still read and a landscape. The lightest plane is the sky, the second lightest is the ground, followed by the slants (hills and mountains) and the darkest being the uprights (trees or buildings in shadow).
Gene Costanza Workshop
I have been very bad about posting the last week. I have been trying to ready myself for a 5 day workshop with Gene Costanza, who is one amazing landscape painter and friend to Scott Christensen, another amazing landscape painter. To me, these guys are the titan of American landscape painting and are both avid plein air painters.
Teaching full time as well as drawing 3 editorial cartoons a week, being a daily painter and being partially responsible for an art auction fund raiser for my school in a month, it makes it difficult to get away. Sadly, the next thing that went after my daily mountain bike ride, was my painting. Sad but true, but in my defense, it was the last thing to go! I know that I will more than make up for the time lost in these 5 days.
Above are pictures from day 2, I did not get my camera out yesterday, I was too busy painting. Those images will be posted later. We spent the day in Moreland, GA painting at Mr. Chestnut's farm and, up the road a bit, the Thompson farm.
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Three Mini Pumpkins, 152
I worked off of my palette from last night, unless you couldn't tell. Something I picked up from Jill Steenhuis. She sometimes uses the same palette for up to a month. She scrapes all the excess and places the new "colors" back in there slots along the edge. She uses a large hand held palette and puts it in the freezer, which works very well if your palette fits in a freezer. Mine may fit in a deep freeze, maybe. The one time I did freeze a palette, it didn't go over very well with Jules. It is bad enough the house is covered in my painting explosion, but the freezer is just taking it too far!
This piece is a departure of some sort, I am not sure where it is going, but it is going somewhere different. This piece is interesting to say the least. I hated it at the beginning and just continued to chip away and walked away with something I am not ashamed to share. Sometimes you should just walk away, but the majority of the time, I try to reserve judgement until the piece is done and if I still hate it, then I can toss it.
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Pear with Stem and Leaf 151
Julie and her Mom picked pears before we left Paris, TN this weekend. When I got home, she showed me that they had left the leaves on some of them because they thought it would make an interesting painting... and that it did. This is another one of those paintings that took on a life of its own, without a title, you would never know what it is. Maybe I will return to my ambiguous titles like Kandinsky, and call them compositions... Composition VI, etc. I was very pleased with the abstract quality of this piece as well as the texture of the brushwork and knifework.
Monday, October 12, 2009
Tomatoes on a Vine 150 SOLD
This one almost slipped through the cracks. I did it on Saturday at the Fair about 2 weeks ago and promptly forgot to take a pictures of it. I enjoy working in natural sunlight, it really enhances the form of the object and makes for a much easier painting and color mixing session. It was also helpful to have people see what I do and how I do it until the crazies come out and want to show you their binder full of work they copied from magazines, but that's another story.
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Stand of Pines Diptych, Commission 148 SOLD
The Heritage School in Newnan, GA, my alma mater and current employer commissioned a couple of permanent pieces for the office. To date, these are the largest Stand of Pines pieces I have done in oil and they work together as a larger piece, a diptych if you will. I took a bunch of great pictures of the process, but they have been lost in cyber world, maybe I can rescue them and post at some point in time. They were too large to work together on the easel, so I started by drawing and painting them on the floor of the studio and then put the finishing touches on the pieces individually on the easel. There was a lot, a lot of paint used on these bad boys. Lots of think brush work and palette knife work...
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Pumpkin on Blue, 147
I did this piece right after the fair but I have been so busy I have yet to post anything all week, even though I have completed several paintings, I guess that is a good problem to have. I have been taking a great deal of pictures but have once again suffered a severe external back-up drive met down and can't get to the latest pictures I have taken... I think it is time for a new computer with enough hard drive space to keep all of my music and pictures on it. This one is limping around and so is the external.
I have had the little pumpkins sitting around the house and used them as paper weights at the Fair. I was somewhat pleased with the outcome here, I need more time back in the saddle and I know I can make something interesting out of these little dudes!
Friday, October 2, 2009
Three peach Slices on Blue 146 SOLD
Last piece before the fair, unless I paint tonight, which I will. They will be wet, but what can ya' do. I hope to paint some during the festivities as well, it is hard to paint and talk to people, but I did a bit of it last year, of course those pieces were covered in dirt and bugs, but that only adds to the piece...
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Teachers are such a giant role in the lives of our children and set such wonderful foundations of life in out children, they should all be treated like royalty, right? Well I know all the lovey dovey, wonderful words of wisdom can be set aside in the case of my Daughter's Kindergarten teacher (not because she is not wonderful because she is for SURE) She however deserves special treatment because She too has to listen to my Daughter's none stop talking. LOL And she really does talk a lot (She gets it from her Dad, really....I swear! Ok fine it comes from me)
Anyways, back to the subject...this is the gift basket I made for her. It turns out I was extra inspired thanks to my Great Friend Char explaining to me in a better way, how to make awesome Christmas Ornaments and finding out that the Teacher has the same Christmas colors as me. So this is the basket which I later also made a tin to match that my BF Sarah filled with her delicious Christmas baking and we presented it to her together a few nights ago at the School's Christmas Concert.
So, do you see that box in the back center of the basket? Well the details on that will be coming on Monday. We Loonie Stampers have a special post for you tomorrow and then I will let you see it...LOL


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To the outside world, it was a Sherwin Williams van.
During the workweek Dad used it to call on customers; hauling paint and carpet to businesses and schools all over Fayette County.
But on blue-sky-sunny-breezy summer Sundays just like today, that van became our magic carpet. And its cargo was simplified to an afternoon's essentials: him, me, and the tall cardboard box that sat between us, whose contents I was solely responsible for.
It was my solemn duty to keep the box filled to overflowing with our basketballs, footballs, and, most importantly, our bats, balls and gloves.
Climbing into the van, we never had a destination mapped. That was always part of the adventure. We'd drive until we found a court with good nets and space to throw. Our drives might take us up the road to the Junior High, or over to Boyle School, or across town to Oliver playground, or sometimes up and over the mountain to Jumonville.
He always let me pick the location and the order of events. Whenever and wherever we'd arrive at a field, court or playground, I'd initiate the proceedings by dumping the tall cardboard box of its contents.
The majority of the time, basketball batted lead off. We'd warm up with make-it-take-it, then transition to Around-The-World, and then customized variations of H-O-R-S-E. Sometimes he'd let me switch the name to don't-tell-mom-swear-words. "S-H-I-T" was our personal favorite … because the loser was obligated to say it aloud (ha).
In his day Dad was more of an underneath guy on the basketball court, more meat-and-potatoes than finesse. But he had a good hook shot in and around the paint, which, of course, I practiced and practiced and practiced when he wasn't looking. I still remember this one Sunday afternoon at Jumonville when he chased down one of my missed shots to the other side of the basket, caught it in stride, and in one motion, spun his body and flipped the ball, no-look, over his shoulder with his right hand … kissing it perfectly off the backboard. The ball went in just as a car was driving past, prompting the passenger to spontaneously yell out the window, "Nice shot!" Yeah, that's my Dad, I remember thinking proudly.
When basketball winded us, we'd break out the gloves. He'd let me pitch, humoring me by calling for curves, sliders, changeups and fastballs, though they all pretty much behaved the same coming out of my left hand. After I'd retire a side (thanks to a most generous strike zone), I'd back pedal to an outfield distance. "Make me run, Dad," I'd command. He had this gift for aiming perfect pop flies just enough to my right or left to summon me to a full sprint and a leap, reach or dive. And whenever I'd rescue a ball inches before it sailed over my head or hit the ground, it was hard to tell who was more excited, him or me.
In those days, there was no greater feeling in the world than chasing down a pop fly and swallowing it with my outstretched, oversized, Reggie-Jackson-model Rawlings ("The Finest In The Field") that Dad had bought, used, with the best $25 he ever spent.
Our Sunday afternoons seldom had a clock. Depending on our ambition and energy, sometimes we'd flee to another park or playground in the same outing. Sometimes we'd cycle through sports a couple times. We'd just play ourselves tired and hungry, then pile back in the van, re-filling the tall cardboard box that sat between us.
And, since Mom unapologetically never cooked on Sundays (she more than earned a day of rest with her efforts during the week), it gave us an excuse to make a pit stop before returning home. Among our favorite haunts was this deli-slash-convenience store on the other side of town, whose name escapes me. The ritual of our dinner menu, though, is forever etched in memory. We'd pull tall, glass bottles of Pepsi from the cooler, order a pound of Swiss Cheese from the deli, then retreat to our magic carpet, sipping and munching contentedly in the parking lot, while I'd crack open fresh packs of Topps cards in search of Pirate treasures. We convinced ourselves that the finest Swiss Cheese in the world could be found at this specific convenience store in Uniontown. For the record, I'd still testify under oath to that fact.
Around dusk Dad would whisk us home. As we pulled to the curb in front of our house on Mullen Street, our magic carpet transformed back into his Sherwin Williams van. I'd remove our tall cardboard box to make room for the week's paint and carpet deliveries.
And patiently wait for the next sunny, summer Sunday.
We came home very late last night after a brief, but nourishing, family vacation. The good (and, these days, too-rare) kind, where the days didn't have a clock. In her typically inspired, herculean, and meticulous packing efforts, Karry reserved room in a basket for our football, basketball and gloves. Surprisingly, I didn't have to twist Peter's arm (um, more than a couple times – ha). Honestly, he coaxed me on a couple occasions to throw some baseball (which, as he's gotten older, we don't do very often). I believe we actually passed ball three of the days we were away.
And without any prompting from me, he made a rule. Whenever we played ourselves tired or hungry, he'd direct me to aim a pop fly to his left or his right, so he could give chase and make a leaping, diving, or shoetop grab before we were allowed to call it quits. And when he'd rescue a ball from hitting the ground or from sailing over his head, it was hard to tell who was more excited, him or me.
We got in so late last night, we saved our unpacking for this afternoon. I found myself removing the basket with our balls and gloves, and thinking about that tall, cardboard box that used to sit between my Dad and me in our magic carpet.
And on our second Father's Day since his passing, I find myself clinking a metaphorical glass Pepsi bottle with all those blue-sky-sunny-breezy, summer Sunday afternoons.


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Monday, July 18, 2011
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Catching Up
Here is a little recap of what we've been up to the last couple months. I'm a visual person so I'll just give you some pics.
a couple of goof balls
Daniel's graduation. Wheres Waldo?
A sock creature I made London (the girl I nanny for).
A quadruple layer chocolate raspberry cake I made Paula (London's mom) for her b-day.
Girls Camp in Georgia in July! Hot doesn't begin to explain what it felt like. But I love my girls!
My brother Jacob and his fiance Kayla!!!
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Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Team-Up Thursday: Week Twenty-One (CHAOS)
Whew. This week was the perfect one for our theme because CHAOS has definitely reigned supreme. It's our last week of school -- today is the last day -- and combined with two family birthdays and Father's Day this weekend, it has been hectic.
My contribution to CHAOS comes straight from "Mismatch Day" at school. Couldn't resist photographing the plaids, checks and tie-dye all in the same picture (and on the same body, I might add). I wanted to grab a photo of someone's house that had been TPd Monday morning, but they had already cleaned it up when I got back down there with my camera...at 6:30 a.m.!
Now, if I had simply seen Melody's shot without knowing the theme, I would never have thought CHAOS. But knowing they were stuck in the airport (and on the airplane?) at the end of their vacation, it fits just perfectly.
Can't wait to see what everyone has come up with this week, particularly those of you who joined us in the world of CHAOS. Next week, we're attempting AFTER DARK. Should be a fun one!
Remember to post a comment and visit our flickr group to be inspired by all the great diptychs.
18 comments:
- Corey~living and loving said...
what an interesting diptych. I'm not sure I could have guessed the theme, but it really does make sense when it is explained.
love your mismatch. So Colorful and happy. :)
Berta and I did AFFECTION.
- June 16, 2010 at 9:11 PM
- carrie said...
Your colors are so happy...they almost don't even seem chaotic to me! Your pic is so bright and happy! This was a fun one...we played along with chaos, too!
- June 16, 2010 at 10:27 PM
- Kerstin said...
I think Marcelle and I have to choose chaos next time and then I can show you what this means by MEEEE - just kidding- a very intersting theme and as you said - if not explained I wouldn't have thought about a chaos in Melody's photo.
Again you both did a great job - love your colors and Melody`s idea behind
- June 16, 2010 at 10:47 PM
- Marcelle said...
Great theme and well shown in two very unusual way...I would have shown something totally different, but love how you both thought out of the box.
- June 16, 2010 at 11:05 PM
- Golightly said...
That's the thing, chaos can be tricky to photograph. I can totally feel Melody's sense of chaos in their trip. I love what you did, too.
I think I was more traditional in my chaos this week.
- June 17, 2010 at 12:22 AM
- bBchronicles said...
LOVE your photos - an interesting take on it! Love coming by to see how we all look at topics so differently. Great job.
Corey and I did affection! Crazy!
- June 17, 2010 at 12:43 AM
- Jen said...
Cara and I chose shoes as our theme this week. Chaos would have been fun. We may have to do that soon. I love the plaid and tie-dye combination.
- June 17, 2010 at 4:48 AM
- jillconyers said...
Tina and I chose down-low as out theme this week. Do you ever start with an idea in mind for your theme and end up with something totally different?
I"ll be back to browse this weeks dips after i get a run in before it gets too hot :)
- June 17, 2010 at 4:52 AM
- shirley said...
Two very different takes on a difficult theme. The two pictures together are on opposite ends of the spectrum - colorful and neutral. But hey, that's what chaos is!
Lee and I chose Summer Fun today.
- June 17, 2010 at 5:35 AM
Yep, CHAOS it is. Summer vacation is filled with it. I'm back though!
- June 17, 2010 at 5:51 AM
- Kimberly said...
So often my summers are filled with chaos, so this is a nice kick off to the season. Mismatch day, what fun! :)
Carrie and I went with Chaos this week too.
- June 17, 2010 at 6:27 AM
- Killlashandra said...
Airports breed chaos, good thought there. :) And I know about mismatch day, my daughter calls it clash day. Now there's a picture I should have dug up to share too.
Here is Marty and my take on CHAOS with an added bonus for any wine drinking Dad's out there.
- June 17, 2010 at 7:32 AM
- jillconyers said...
I got the mismatch day but I never would have made the end of vacation connection. Great dip!
- June 17, 2010 at 9:08 AM
- Amy Jo said...
I used to love mismatch day at school! I hope the boys enjoyed it as much as I used to.
Here is the latest in the alphabet diptychs.
- June 17, 2010 at 11:54 AM
- michel said...
I love how explanations change a photograph. great job this week ladies! I had too much actual chaos in my world this week to be able to participate. Next week sounds fun with "after dark" !!
- June 17, 2010 at 1:10 PM
- Arizaphale said...
For me, Chaos would just be a self portrait! I particularly enjoyed your chaotic colour and pattern grab. JoLyn and I have 'made it' this week. We did Speed.
- June 17, 2010 at 3:33 PM
- Cara said...
I love both your takes, I can totally relate to Melody's after traveling a few weeks ago.
I should have done Chaos since that seem to be the definition of my life at the moment.
Jen and I did shoes and I love it!
- June 17, 2010 at 6:32 PM
- Andrea said...
Wow what different interpretations of the theme and I love them, shows real creativity...def a theme I will remember to try out soon.
Thanks for sharing!
- June 18, 2010 at 9:47 AM


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I managed to meet and even exceed one of my goals for the last week. I really wanted to finish the quilting on this Beginner's Luck quilt. I did that, and I am almost done sewing on the binding.
I used a light aqua thread and stitched in the ditch. It made me realize that I really don't like stitching in the ditch. It matters if you go off the lines. With free motion quilting, its a lot more forgiving. I'm going to focus on the positive though, and take delight in the fact that I'm not perfect. It's much more fun that way.
Anyway, I am super happy that its done because I started sewing this quilt before Christmas I think. I was planning on having it done by the end of January, so that I could run a Quilting 101 evening class this spring.
That didn't really work out, but it will be offered for the end of May through June. More details to follow when I get some good pictures of my completely finished project.
I also have some other fun stuff to share that will be coming to this blog very soon.
What have you finished lately?
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There are noises... instruments play in his old room.
I woke the other day to the sound of his voice.
I couldn't see him but I heard him purring.
Then a Luna moth greeted me at my door, our door.
I felt the loving Spirit. I pet his body and touched my forehead with
the yellow dust.
I listen... I fight for the bits of sanity, that I have left... Walking on an edge,
that etches its patience on the souls of my devoted feet.
Then he shows up...I afraid? No... The road has been so long and I have little fight left in me.
My destiny, I beg to know, as I tumble through a kaleidoscope of colored bits.
My back is against a corner, as a hand reaches up from a shallow grave.
I have nothing else to trade for time.


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You thought that the Sam Harris and Andrew Sullivan debate was over after Andrew said that it was time to end it and Sam agreed? If you did, you were wrong. Andrew's back with a new love plea aimed at Sam called "Pax Christi."
Andrew first points to core issues they agree on:
We both accept the role of some mystery in the universe, something we cannot yet explain, something humans may never be able to explain rationally. You air this at the end of your book, "The End Of Faith," where you describe your own Buddhist experimenting and meditation. We also both accept the danger of fundamentalism. In many ways, both our books are aimed at fundamentalist politics, and the existential peril it threatens in an age when the technological capacity for mass destruction is world-threatening.
Andrew next points to two issues they disagree on:
... how best to understand mystery and how best to counter fundamentalism.
Sam had wrote:
You want to have things both ways: your faith is reasonable but not in the least bound by reason; it is a matter of utter certainty, yet leavened by humility and doubt; you are still searching for the truth, but your belief in God is immune to any conceivable challenge from the world of evidence. I trust you will ascribe these antinomies to the paradox of faith; but, to my eye, they remain mere contradictions, dressed up in velvet.
Andrew claims that he really is bound by reason but only up to the point where reason tells us little or nothing at all. What Andrew fails to understand is that the only thing you can say when reason can tell you nothing is "I don't know." All you've really got left without reason is hope, not faith. Religious faith takes an extra and irrational jump that defies reason. Real faith, which is not religious, has to be earned by those who want our faith. It's just like Sam said, Andrew offers only "contradictions, dressed up in velvet."
Andrew is claiming to have a source of information that goes beyond reason, but he cannot provide evidence that this source has ever given anyone else accurate or tested information. In fact, his supposed two sources of information are flawed because they are the same source used to make a lot of wrong assertions, the Bible and religious experience. That's having faith in something that goes against reason.
Andrew claims:
We may disagree where that boundary is. There is more space beyond my reasonable barrier than yours, more content, more meaning.
Andrew has failed to demonstrate any such extra content or meaning or space. It's an empty, unsupported claim and his religion is still just institutionalized, dogmatic Christianity that merely arises out of an, at least partly, unquestioned tradition.
I do not claim that my faith must in any way impinge on your life or on anyone else's...
That's nice. It's at least something we can live with in peace. I could also live in peace with any Muslim who adopted the same philosophy. It is still not, however, something that can go unchallenged by rational investigation. Andrew's writing evidences exactly the kind of irrationality he claims not to have.
I fail to see how my Christianity is less reasonable than your different, and more modest embrace of mystery.
Then Andrew simply fails to see the obvious which Sam has pointed out over and over again. Andrew's blinders are remarkable in that regard.
Andrew also quotes Einstein's dictum:
"Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the discernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion. To that extent I am, in fact, religious."
The "religion" of Einstein does not endorse any dogma, it really is the mystery as opposed to Andrew's irrational hope in a loving skydaddy he calls faith. Einstein did not have faith in a Bible, dogma, or believe in life after death.
I am more religious than Einstein, because I have experienced the love of Jesus and his redemptive, transformative power.
That statement doesn't hold water for this reason: Love from anyone, redemption and transformation are all rather abstract yet emotionally loaded forms of information. A raw experience cannot give you that kind of information without being heavily interpreted. An example, an African tribesman and an anthropologist, the tribesman says that he knows there are demons because he has experienced them, and in fact he's experiencing one at that very moment. The anthropologist asks, "What is the experience like?" The tribesman says, "I can feel the demon pounding away inside my skull." So, the anthropologist gives the tribesman some aspirin and the demon appears to go away. What is an experience of a demon to the tribesman is just a headache to the anthropologist. The experience was not proof of the tribesman's conclusion.
[By the way, I think that story about the tribesman and the anthropologist comes from George H. Smith, not Sam Harris or Dawkins. Smith was an earlier atheist author who never got the kind of recognition Dawkins or Harris has yet probably deserves more.]
In 1903, French physicist René-Prosper Blondlot, working at the University of Nancy, thought he discovered a new form of radiation. He called them N-rays, for the University of Nancy. Several other physicists claimed to be able to detect N-rays after reading about Blondlot's supposed discovery. Other physicists working to replicate the effects failed. Lord Kelvin, William Crookes, Otto Lummer and Heinrich Rubens failed to do so. Following his own failure, US physicist Robert W. Wood went to Blondlot's lab in France to investigate further. There Wood secretly removed an essential prism from Blondlot's detection apparatus, yet Blondlot's people still said they observed N-rays. Wood reported on this in the September 29, 1904 edition of Nature and suggested that N-rays were a purely subjective phenomenon, with the scientists involved having reported only subjective data that matched their expectations. By 1905 no one outside Nancy believed in N rays.
The incident is now a cautionary tale among scientists on the dangers of experimenter bias. Blondlot and the others deceived themselves into thinking they were seeing something when in fact they were not. They saw what they wanted to see with their instruments, not what was actually there. The Blondlot episode illustrates the human fallibility of scientists and the self-correcting nature of science.
Science, these days, has become systematic in its attempt to get around these limitations. We try to remove subjectivity and purely personal experience from the scientific process. We have "Double blind experiments," lots instrumentation recording everything and doctors are advised not to diagnose people they're emotionally involved with. Instead of trying to achieve any similar kind of objectivity, Andrew just wallows in his subjectivity and ambiguity and so called "paradox."
If you know anything about psychology, you know that the human brain is a powerful simulation engine. Your brain conjures up dreams almost every night of things that never existed. We all go temporarily insane and delusional in our dreams. And the dreams, if you're not a lucid dreamer, are experiences that feel real when having them. We only believe them simulations of a fantasy world inside our heads after we wake up. When we get a dream-like event happening in our waking lives some people might call it a vision of God or say "God talks to me."
Our normal perceptions do not correspond directly to reality. The things that we perceive are not entirely determined by what our senses detect. Our perceptions are also determined by what we expect, what we know, what we believe.
Andrew's claim that he has experienced the love of Jesus and his redemptive, transformative power is exactly the kind of thing a fundamentalist's would say. They'd call an experience like that being born again the first time it happened. Andrew thus offers to the stupid and potentially violent strain of fundamentalism that he opposes a kind of endorsement of unexamined experience as a valid means of gaining "knowledge."
He is irrational as long as he endorses such emotionally loaded subjective experiences as a source of information on anything other than the state of his own brain.
Fundamentalist religion is on the march, its certainty dangerous, its ambitions terrifying, its capacity for destruction incalculable.
That same fundamentalist religion is rooted in the same "beyond reason" argument Andrew has.
In my more realistic moments, I have come to accept the inevitability of large-scale global destruction in my lifetime.
It's not actually necessary except for human stupidity. The Islamic terrorists cannot possibly win; they're acting in a suicidal and stupid way. Bush taking out whole states trying to get a few people within them is like using a cancer drug that also destroys healthy tissue. We should get better drugs now that we know the disease exists. We should be able to get into foriegn lands and extract only the quilty leaving the rest of the country intact.
Islamists are not only capable of inflicting Armageddon, they clearly want to. They are not subject to intimidation, which is what makes religious faith at its most intense so powerful. They cannot even be stopped by force. We have learned that in Iraq. Bullets cannot change hearts. It is so easy to destroy; it is so hard to build.
And there is it, your basic Republican fear mongering. I bet those Muslims are saying the same thing about America.
Your answer to this crisis is an attempt to abolish the legitimacy of all faith-based discourse, to end the toleration for religiously-rooted argument, to "end faith."
There's that word "abolish" again. More fear mongering against us. Did Sam ever use that word "abolish" himself?
… by attacking and undermining those of us who sustain a non-fundamentalist faith, you may make the problem worse.
Really? How is it any worse than just having yet another religion on the planet? Are we somehow too convincing?
The irredentist and fundamentalist remnants, freed from any internal religious discourse with the rest of us, and cordoned off from respectable discourse, may well become even more extreme.
And what kind of productive internal religious discourse is Andrew engaged in with people like Dobson, Robertson, bin Laden...? Is Andrew any better at convincing those with other views than Sam?
Convinced that the choice is solely between fundamentalism and atheism, the vast majority of believers will then be trapped perforce in the fundamentalist camp.
Andrew's facts are wrong, the fundies must be coming from Andrew's moderate camp, not ours, because the stats point to moderates losing ground while both atheism and fundamentalists gain.
Here's some data, "WHY THE GODS ARE NOT WINNING," by Gregory Paul & Phil Zuckerman.
In general, moderate, liberal, churches are shrinking while atheism and fundamentalism gain converts and in general, the relative increase goes to atheists and Muslims. The Muslims are gaining more through just giving birth to more Muslims, while the atheists are doing all most all of the converting. The old religions can only indoctrinate children.
Given the ubiquity of faith, given the absence of any civilization in human history that has been free of it, given the evolutionary and biological inclination toward faith, given the respect that a man even as rational as Einstein paid to the "veneration" of the force beyond all of us, your project is absurdly utopian. And like many utopians, you may, I fear, be making hell on earth more likely.
Andrew is using the same straw-man argument he got called on before in projecting goals onto Sam. Certainly, the urge toward religious belief is very old, perhaps as old as mankind and allusions to religious belief can be found even in the traces of the most ancient civilizations. But there is something else in that evidence – a continual evolution and change in religion as it has to adapt to new knowledge and circumstances. Atheism really is the only rational adaptation of religion to modern scientific knowledge.
… several experiments in atheist and rationalist government were indeed carried out. You may recall the guillotine - synonymous with the dawn of the rational Enlightenment.
Yea, so? France is still here, it's a nice place now, and it's fairly atheistic. Does Andrew think there should have been no French revolution? Does he also think there should have been no American revolution?
Religion was also extirpated by force in the Soviet Union and Communist China; it was coopted by the state in Nazi Germany; in Pol Pot's Cambodia, the record of atheism in contrast with religion is quite clear.
Is it? The Soviet Union overthrew the Czars. Should they have remained under the Czars and stayed one of the most backward countries in Europe? And when the next change came, and the wall came down – not a shot was fired. At least those deadly atheists had enemies worth fighting, can Andrew say the same about the Inquisition's enemies? And why does Andrew leave out how Americans almost exterminated the Indians? Why does he leave out Darfur where religious groups war? Rwanda? Sudan? And so many other mass killings going on that are not atheistic?
It seems Andrew doesn't bother to read the links he puts up on his blog. I recall Andrew linking Pinker's article, "A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE."
In spite of the big atrocities Andrew lists, violence is actually way down according to Pinker:
In the decade of Darfur and Iraq, and shortly after the century of Stalin, Hitler, and Mao, the claim that violence has been diminishing may seem somewhere between hallucinatory and obscene. Yet recent studies that seek to quantify the historical ebb and flow of violence point to exactly that conclusion.
Some of the evidence has been under our nose all along. Conventional history has long shown that, in many ways, we have been getting kinder and gentler. Cruelty as entertainment, human sacrifice to indulge superstition, slavery as a labor-saving device, conquest as the mission statement of government, genocide as a means of acquiring real estate, torture and mutilation as routine punishment, the death penalty for misdemeanors and differences of opinion, assassination as the mechanism of political succession, rape as the spoils of war, pogroms as outlets for frustration, homicide as the major form of conflict resolution—all were unexceptionable features of life for most of human history. But, today, they are rare to nonexistent in the West, far less common elsewhere than they used to be, concealed when they do occur, and widely condemned when they are brought to light.
… choice to focus on relative rather than absolute numbers brings up the moral imponderable of whether it is worse for 50 percent of a population of 100 to be killed or 1 percent in a population of one billion.
Andrew claims:
The relevant categories are therefore not, I would submit, faith and reason. The categories are those who rely on reason alone, those who use faith to trump reason in all respects, and those who understand that human life is inherently a balance between the two.
There is no such thing as a person, at least one who isn't psycho, who uses "faith to trump reason in all respects." Even the worst of fundies and terrorist try to balance reason and faith. It's a battle between ancient superstitions versus modern reason.
Your faith-free world is not a human one;
Is Andrew saying Sam and me are not human? Isn't that called "dehumanization?"
…and it is not in that sense a rational one. My response is a balance, a triangulation of sorts. And a triangulation is not a contradiction.
Triangulation, well, yea, like Bush trying to weasel his way around the stem cell debate and getting his facts wrong about the stem lines. Andrew's facts are wrong. Atheism is growing in Europe and the religion that does exist there is getting vaguer and abandoning the Bible. The group that's being recruited from is Andrew's moderate group.
But the second and deeper response is Christianity itself, at the core of which is a radical refusal to force anyone to do anything.
Really? No burning heretics like Giordano Bruno at the stake, no Inquisition, no putting Galileo under arrest, no crusades, no witch burning? Why, because Andrew Sullivan, after almost 2000 years of his Church forcing everyone to say what the Church wants, has finally figured out what Christianity is about, and it's the opposite of what the Church has been about:
That is what the cross means to me: voluntary submission to violence as the only way to transcend violence; submission to death as the sole means to overcome death.
That's right Andrew; go singing to meet your death as lion food in the Roman circus.
Jesus was not speaking to his generation. He was speaking to the future. He was speaking to us, …
He was speaking to Andrew personally about Andrew's blogging?
That does not preclude self-defense.
But other things Jesus said do preclude it, such as "But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil." (Jesus, Matthew 5: 39)
I am not a pacifist. I believe in just wars when necessary and a strong defense to deter mischief. I supported Clinton's war in the Balkans and Bush's war in Afghanistan and, at first, in Iraq.
Then Andrew is contradicting himself. All people who endorse wars say "only when necessary." The problem is figuring out what necessary is.
…our preference for material gain over spiritual calm.
Like the spiritual calm and gentle voice of Osama bin Laden?
Instinctively, I am a realist. I know the odds of surviving this with our civilization intact are low.
That's not realism. That's the worst kind of pessimism and fear mongering. We've killed more people in car accidents than the terrorists have killed over the same period.


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*** oh my god. I wrote this so long ago and never published it! So long, in fact, I refer to Miriam as 1 year old and none of this is still true! whoops! well enjoy. I don't think the story has a shelf life. Should still be good, if not a bit stale ***
Miriam is so so so brilliant. She's clever; does very well communicating her wants and needs; easy to understand; patient about her limitations. She's seriously an exceptional child (says the mother) and I hope everyone reading this can be lucky enough to interact with her beautiful personality.
But. But. She's still a one year old and doesn't quite grasp why or how we do the things she sees us doing. And so she's often doing them wrong.
Here's a list of examples I've compiled, addressed to Miriam.
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Trying to climb over the back of the couch: You feel you need to start from a lie down position on the seat cushions and climb your toes up first. Entertaining and painful to watch. And slow. So slow.
Sleeping: anywhere but here my dear
Playing with the dollhouse: No it's not your house.
Giving baby a hug: Looks like choking. Probably feels like it too.
*the post ends here like this. I'm going to leave it as is. I'm sure I was waiting for Miriam to screw up some other simple task and provide more content for the post. And while I'm sure she did do that, I completely forgot what I was doing and here we are. xo


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I haven't been blogging much or coherntly lately. I have spent the past two weeks getting ready to travel, traveling and unpacking from the trip.I have no idea why one six day trip takes a total of two weeks to do and undo, but it does. Thankfully, this trip was our seventh to WI so we have it streamlined. We know what to bring and how much. The older two are old enough that, wish some guidence, they can pack their own backpacks and take care of basic needs, like eating, drinking and looking at books, on their own.
But I am exhausted.
Today I had a total meltdown. I.am.just.done. I felt like all I do is cook, clean, change diapers, nag at little people to clean and feed some. Oh, and vaccum up dog hair. Our dog is a 100 pound black lab who is 90 pounds of hair... and it's 90+degrees outside.He sheds. Alot.
I have no idea why I am so tired. Adam is loving and supportive and even cooks meals on the weekends. He does all the shopping. He takes care of Georgie when he is home and drags another kid or two with him on errands. I have loving spousal help- what the HELL is wrong with me?!
Then I think... I have been pregnant or nursing since Aug 2003. In seven years, I have grown FOUR entirely new human beings, supported them and their little support system for 35-40 weeks before expelling them from MY body. The second they were out, they were dependent on me for everything AND I used my body to feed them. For 9-21 months, depending on who the kid was, I was their sole or main source of nutrition, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Twice, I was both pregnant and nursing. Twice, I have had trouble breastfeeding taking alot of time and physical and mental energy to overcome those problems.
Every time, I have had to be pretty active post birth, either battling my own complecations (PIH after Joseph was born), caring for young children without help (Adam went back to work on overtime when Camille was born) or problems with the baby (Cole and Georgie). I WISH I could have spent time in bed at home; I'm happy I had help with the others after Cole was born!
Housework, meals and child care doesn't ever end and diaper don't wash themselves. (Although I wish they would; I have diapers that need to go in right now!) General life insanity goes on.
When I was pregnant with Camille, several people told me that the close age spacing is great for the children but hard on the parents. I agree. We had orginally planned to have our kids, just two but maybe three (I was open to four and Adam thought I was nuts), about 2.5 years apart. Camille and Joseph are 21 months apart; then three years and now Cole and Georgie are 16 months apart. I love it. I honestly do. I like having them close in age. I would have never planned it that way at first but now I think it is great. I would do it again in a heartbeat.
I am on 24 hours a day, seven days a week. I have had one four month break from nursing/pregnancy since 2003. I am the primary care taker of the house and kids, one of whom is completely dependent on me. Joseph and Camille can and do help out but they are children. They can't drive, clean a whole bathroom perfectly or be expected to do tons of chores. Sometimes (all the time?) I go into other's houses and seen neat, clean, dust free rooms and feel... like a slacker.
I've begun reading a blog called "Rasing Olives." We are so not Quiverfull or Proventailist (I think I could be, if my uterus- and husband- were different but I like them (well, the husband!) they way they are so I go with it) but she has some awesome tips on her blog. We are so using the magnetic paint and chalkboard paint in our new kitchen.
Anyway, her guest post, "Does it Get Easier?" really struck a cord with me today. The kid clutter, DOG HAIR and general dirt and grime were getting to me. I like a clean house- well, one without toothpaste on the mirror! I'd like the cobwebs to go away. And I just don't have the time to do it, even with helpers (or, especially with helpers!) I feel, and this is stupid, like the house is too dirty to go anywhere because when I get back from wherever, I will be tired and there will be twice the mess (dirt plus trip dirt) to deal with.
I need to shut up, get over myself, relax and enjoy the kids where they are. I love this time- I truley do. Even with a massive blow up (my friend confessed to me tonight she did the same last week), wishing my kids would CLEAN THEIR ROOMS ALREADY (again, my friend said the same), I honestly love having small children underfoot.
I need to get out of the house more, go to the mall or pool or something. Part of me really dreads doing that because of all the comments I get. When we were in WI, some elderly gentleman actually counted my kids as they were leaving the hotel and snickered! Seriously! Who DOES those things?! I think I need to re-perfect my Mommy Glare. Heh.
I need to remember that my body has been through alot and it's okay to sit down, relax, play with the kids a nd just chill.
Joseph is going to be in full time school in a few weeks. This is the longest he will have been away from me on a consistant basis. It's scary and liberating all at the same time. I will be an older mother, one with a school aged kid. Wow. Just wow.
I'm at the beginning of parenting Cole and in the thick of it with Joe. It's a tiring balancing act, one I am happy to do even if I am tired all.the.frickin.time. It's passing all too quickly- with kids fairly close in age, I know it won't be long before Cole will be in first grade. I need to sit back, hang on and enjoy the ride.


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In one of the most shocking legislative moves in modern history, a bill that sought to ban child marriage in Pakistan has failed, after the Council of Islamic Ideology declared the legislation "anti-Islamic" and "blasphemous."
The bill, which was reviewed by the CII — whose job it is to advise the legislature on whether bills are compliant with Shariah law — did not make it past the first stage in the legislative process. It was pulled after the CII found that the bill violated Islamic law, which deems marriage acceptable as soon as a girl hits puberty.
The Pakistan Muslim League party's Marvi Menon pulled the bill Thursday after hearing of CII's condemnation of the proposed legislature.
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The Child Marriage Restraint (Amendment) Act of 2014 already violated Islamic law as it states that the legal age of marriage for a woman is 16. This recent proposal aimed to change that to the age of 18. The bill also had provisions that allowed for punishment of those who continued to engage in child marriage.
According to an organization called Girls Not Brides, over 21 percent of Pakistani girls are married before the age of 18.
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In a sickening turn, CII Chairman Mohammad Khan Sheerani said that any attempt to change this was pointless and unnecessary because Shariah law allowed for girls to be married even at age 9, so long as they have reached puberty.
"Parliament cannot create legislation that is against the teachings of the Holy Quran or Sunnah," Sheerani said back in 2014.
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The CII was created in 1962 with the purpose of advising parliament on Islamic law. However, the group has been known to call DNA evidence inadmissible in rape cases, as recently as 2013, and opt instead to bring back the old practice of requiring four witnesses to support rape claims.
This unfortunately is not only happening in Pakistan. As insecurity has forced so many Muslims to emigrate, they have brought their belief system with them wherever they settle. Because of this, the practice of child marriage has been spread further and further.
In the United Kingdom, for example, there were 1,485 cases of child marriage in 2012, with reports speculating that that rate would increase to 14 million child marriages a year before 2020 arrives.
Why would any Western country want to allow immigration by people who believe that 9-year-old girls should be allowed to marry? In the West, we call that pedophilia. And we're right.
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This is my office/sitting room.
I love my wing chair. I bought it from Good Will a while back. I liked its small scale and color and how comfortable it is but the fabric is a bit worn and I thought I would reupholster it. Now I have it in the room, I absolutely love it as is. I love how it shows its age but it's not dirty (at least it doesn't look dirty) I think it's perfect. Now I understand when Brooke from Velvet and Linen said she will never reupholster her antique Belgian chair. I thought she was crazy.
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Illya is easily my favorite character in the Fate series. She was actually my main motivation to get through the Heaven's Feel arc in the visual novel because I didn't really like Sakura that much. I also remember that the first MDD Illya was one of the things I wished I had when I was still in high school with no job or allowance, so I'm pretty happy Volks made another version of her. Someone in there must be a pretty big Illya fan...or maybe they wanted to milk the Fate franchise more without using Saber again.
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I landed myself a second job that is a 3 week assignment. This resulted in working every single day, which was surprisingly not as bad as I thought. The pay is really good and the work is unbelievably easy. The only downside is that the commute is long and more expensive than usual. It makes me sad that I only have a week left at that place and I'll have to go back to my dead end job that leaves me exhausted at the end of the day. After getting a taste of such a desirable job, I find myself wondering to myself "What the fuck am I doing here?" when I'm working a shift at my first job.
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* (this is a really doggy post, sorry for so many puppy photos... I just didn't want to miss any details of her arriving...)
She was rescued with a month aged from a container... she was brought to an animal shelter whom they take care of lots, and lots of abandoned animals... it's so sad...they do such an amazing job over there. Because she was only a baby, she was lucky enough to find a wonderful host family. They've been taking care of her giving her lots of love and caring, but they already have two more dogs, so time to come back to the shelter was arriving... I saw a picture of her on Facebook, and we decided to take Cheers to meet her, and see how they could get on... surprisingly, we walked all together for a while, and all went pretty well! (Cheers has fear problems, though he's the best at home, cars, kids, trains, water, all scares him lots, and he turns out a bit defensive some times).
Today is our fourth day with Boira at home, as Cheer's sister. She's so clever, so brave, so loving and happy. She makes us laugh and care so much... Cheer's is having a hard time now, but we think they'll be the best brother and sister! they're really trying, and Boira is a wonderful girl, she's been really loved at her previous home, we're so thankful for that!
I take this post as an opportunity to please, if you want to have a small puppy, a dog or cat to love and care, visit your nearest animal shelter, is full of beautiful and suffering creatures waiting for you to look after! and it's SO grateful for them to have a family where they can be loved and happy.
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Families from each grade are invited to bring the following:
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Moniece Seduced, Had Sex With, Then Released The Cray Cray On Joe Smith Before Robbing Him!
Lil Fizz and Moniece Slaughter
Former singer and current reality star, Moniece Slaughter, who appears on the reality show "Love And Hip Hop Hollywood" has been slammed by former Los Angeles Lakers and Cleveland Cavaliers basketball player, Joe Smith, for having stolen $109,000 from him when they dated. Moniece dated Joe after the father of her child, rapper Lil Fizz, left her and was awarded full custody of her son, Kameron Frederic, as well as a restraining order, over her unstable and violent behavior.
Joe Smith: I want my money back!
Smith told TMZ, "She's crazy" (same thing Lil Fizz said). Smith complained that between October 2011 and March 2012, Moniece wrote 9 checks using his checkbook. Moniece made the financial instruments payable to one of her cohorts, Timothy Clayton Carr, bilking Smith out of $109,000. Carr cashed the checks for Moniece as she has no bank account. The basketball star filed a criminal complaint with the police in Manhattan Beach, but states his money still has not been recovered. The Manhattan Beach Police Department informed TMZ "the case remains open and active."
Lil Fizz: she's not getting my money for some plastic penises
Ironically, Moniece tried to extract $100,000 from Lil Fizz, to make plastic penis sex toys, she wants to sell through a company she has registered. Fizz looked at her with great skepticism and sarcastically told her no. I don't blame him. Fizz's money should go towards taking care of himself and their son. It's abundantly clear Moniece used Smith's herself and has hidden some of it.
Side Bar: why do some women want a plastic penis. It's so much cheaper to get a husband with a real one. Much more cost effective (LOL). Clearly Moniece doesn't believe in her product, as she was trying to get the real thing in attempting to seduce and move in with Fizz, but failed.
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Former NBA Star Joe Smith -- I Can't Get No Satisfaction! Money Still Missing After Reality Star Ex-GF Duped Me
11/17/2014 12:45 AM PST - Former NBA star Joe Smith claims his ex-girlfriend, "Love & Hip Hollywood" star Moniece Slaughter, bilked him out of a ton of money ... and he's pissed that cops have done nothing about it. According to a report filed with the Manhattan Beach Police Department, Smith claims that between October 2011 and March 2012, nine checks were written from his checkbook to a Timothy Clayton Carr ... totaling $109,000.
Smith told police he did not write the checks and does not know a man by that name. In June 2012, police were able to get a hold of Carr, who told them he was a friend of Slaughter and that he was cashing the checks for her as a favor because she didn't have a bank account. Carr told cops he was unaware the checks were stolen or that anything was wrong until Smith canceled the last check.
Carr also told police Slaughter had agreed to pay him back for the canceled check, but it when it came time to meet up ... she disappeared. But Slaughter told police an entirely different story. According to the report, Slaughter claims Smith knew all about the checks and signed them personally. She claims Smith only canceled the last check because the pair broke up.
After talking to Slaughter, police went back to Smith and explained her story. His response ... "She's crazy." Smith has told police he wants to press charges, but nearly 2.5 years later ... nothing has come of it. He tells TMZ Sports he's frustrated the case remains unresolved and feels police have been giving him the runaround. Cops tell TMZ Sports the case remains open and active.


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I was spending quite some time around this area of Ali Pitchay Road during my primary school time because my aunt was staying in the shop house in orange color behind this building. This building was left vacant for many years before a college & food court moved in several years ago. People normally did not walk on its corridor (several feet above the street) because it was full of bird dropping. As I remember, it was known as the Perak Rubber Association Building during that time. It is designed in a typical 1950's-60's architecture & looked like a ship sailing on land.
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Giving Thanks for the NaNoWriMo Win
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My Dragon is called nightmare he eats 3 sea dragons for breakfast. He likes to play with his friends in a secret cave.
He is a leader of a group that defends a lost city forbidden to people. Nightmare is only friendly to people he knows!! But watch out he might eat you.


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Well, you know what time of the year it is. I mean, yes it's the holidays but with Thanksgiving also comes the unofficial beginning of engagement season! For those of you who are wishing for Santa Claus to bring you a shiny new ring, we've got some eye candy for you — real engagements! Because looking at those emotional, touching and sweet photos are just oh-so-much better than eye shiny engagement rings, right? Well, maybe just sometimes 🙂
Anyways, we hope you 24 enjoy these amazing, adorable surprise proposals this Tuesday. We know we will! Oh, and boys please note — you MUST always hire a photographer for the proposal. How else will we get to remember the special moment?
Oh, and we decided to throw in these amazing 6 rules for getting engaged…just in case you want to send it along to someone special. Know what I mean?
Did any of these proposals inspire you? What is your favorite?