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According to the RTA salik was going to reduce traffic on Sheikh Zayed Road by 25%.
It has, by more than that I'd say, so I'm sure they'll claim it's a great success.
What will probably be ignored by them is the fact that every other alternative road is jammed solid, as predicted by just about all of us. All of us who, according to the RTA, don't know what we're talking about as we have no experience in traffic flow, unlike the RTA which does know what it's doing.
Oh yes. The evidence about whether they know what they're doing or not is all around us isn't it.
Remember the Gulf News item back in May? Headline was "Authority dispels fears of clogged Dubai roads" and it went on to quote Engineer Maitha Obaid Bin Udai, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Traffic and Roads Agency at the RTA, as saying that the toll system would not create traffic congestion. The full story is here.
That was in response to Brigadier Mohammad Saif Al Zafein, Director, General Department of Traffic, Dubai Police, saying the new road toll system will clog traffic rather than ease it. That story is here.
The Brigadier was right, we were right, the RTA got it wrong yet again. Inevitable isn't it.
Monday, July 02, 2007
Salik's working well then.
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We had a lovely evening. We started by making some fresh butter, using the old spaghetti jar method, and then blended up some flavored butter. I had a variety of dried and fresh herbs to use, along with some honey and cinnamon. I even baked a couple of loaves of Irish soda bread for us to use for taste testing. There were some really yummy blends to try. Be sure to check out the Imbolc page for all the recipes I've put together for this holiday. If you try making your own butter, please be sure to comment and let me know how it turned out, and if you make any flavored butters, please comment with you flavor blend. I'm always looking for new flavors to try. Also, don't forget to check out my Imbolc board on Pinterest for other recipes ideas, along with decorating ideas, tarot spreads and altar layouts.
After making fresh butter this evening, it's made me miss making my own butter. So, I think I'll be going back to make my own fresh better. This will also give me the butter milk I need to make the Irish soda bread that my husband loves so much.
Until next time... Blessed Be!

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According to a notice from the Green Bay Packers eNews:
"After a week of interviews that included several qualified candidates, Head
Coach Mike McCarthy on Saturday named Bob Sanders defensive coordinator.
"Coming into the interview process for the defensive coordinator position,"
McCarthy said, "I did not know much about Bob Sanders other than I had been
told he did a good job here last season. Bob and I met for several hours every
day last week. We talked about everything from defensive philosophies and
schemes to our own coaching and personal backgrounds. I was impressed with
Bob's football knowledge and, equally, with him as a person and his character.
I felt like this is someone I could have a partnership with and who I would
have great confidence in to run our defense."
Sanders, 52, brings continuity to a defense that ranked seventh overall and
first against the pass in 2005, his first season as Packers defensive ends
coach. A protégé of former coordinator Jim Bates, who parted ways with the team
Monday by mutual agreement, Sanders has been coaching for 30 years. In four of
his five seasons in the NFL, Sanders has coached on defenses that finished
among the league's top eight in yards per game."
More here.
Saturday, January 21, 2006
Sanders is the new defensive coordinator.
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The gardens were created by members of the Cornish Tremayne family, over a period from the mid-18th century up to the beginning of the 20th century, and still form part of the family's Heligan estate. The gardens were neglected after the First World War, and only restored in the 1990s, a restoration that was the subject of several popular television programmes and books.
The gardens now boast a fabulous collection of aged and colossal rhododendrons and camellias, a series of lakes fed by a ram pump over a hundred years old, highly productive flower and vegetable gardens, an Italian garden, and a stunning wild area filled with primaeval-looking sub-tropical tree ferns called "The Jungle". The gardens also have Europe's only remaining pineapple pit, warmed by rotting manure, and two figures made from rocks and plants known as the Mud Maid and the Giant's Head.


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Warning: This is going to be a long-ish post, but I will reward you with a lot of pictures.
I have had an obsession with Incubus for about 10 years now and have somehow never been to one of their concerts. My friend T is a huge Incubus fan, and she actually hung out/talked to Michael Einziger, the guitarist, a few years ago.
I was super stoked when they decided to play a show in Tulsa, only a couple hours away from Oklahoma City. T and I got tickets, and last night we saw them in concert.
We were brimming with excitement:
We had pretty good seats. I was iffy about the people around us though. We had this group of douchebags and douchebaggettes behind us that kept
yelling talking to each other about drinking Scotch and how it "wasn't Johnny Walker Scotch, but it will do."
There was also an interesting couple in front of us. An obnoxious girl who was surely on meth, and a guy with a weird mushroom tattooed specifically around this big mole on his neck.
Brandon Boyd, the lead singer, is so beautiful. There are no other words to describe him. His voice is flawless live. It's so beautiful that I felt like floating around the room, being held by his sexy tone. I promise I don't do drugs. The music was incredible. There wasn't a song that I didn't like, and they sang one of my favorites from the new album, "If Not Now, When?"
Here is "In the Company of Wolves", it's a 60 second clip and taken with my phone so the quality isn't the best:
After the concert we hung out in the casino and just walked around. As we were walking by the bar we see THE Isaac Hanson. Mmmmm Bop! We didn't get a picture with him because we didn't want to bug him and people were already bothering him. What do I do instead? I turn into a creeper and take a picture of his back.
I swear it really is him.
Tarah and I, still in stalker mode, chose to go find the Incubus buses. There were probably about 20 people waiting by a fenced in area where the buses were parked. We decide we would have a better chance of seeing/meeting them on the other side where no one was standing. It was a lengthy walk to the other side of the fence, and almost as soon as we get over there, Brandon Boyd comes out to the bus. He then walks over to the group of people on the other side of the fence and starts signing autographs and taking pictures. We decide to stick it out for a little bit and then maybe when he turns around to walk to the bus, we get his attention and he comes over to us. Big dreams? Yes. We were confident though. He spends a good 10 minutes signing autographs on the other side, meanwhile the bass player, Ben Kenney, comes out to light a cigarette. We call him over and he comes with the bus driver and another guy. He is super nice and talks to us for about 5 minutes through the fence. We each got a picture with him through the fence.
I'm not posting Tarah's picture for three reasons.
1. The way the wind is blowing it looks like she is a genuine man-lesbian with a legitimate mohawk.
2. It makes me almost pee myself from laughing so hard, I wouldn't want whoever reads this to lose their bladder function.
3. She didn't send it to me, because for some reason she doesn't trust that I wouldn't post it on here. Obviously I would. Not.
After Ben leaves, Tarah and I decide to go back to the other side where Brandon is still signing autographs. I put my running skills to use and bolt over to the other side before it's too late. I get there and I am in awe of his shyness and beauty. I yell out his name and ask if he will take a picture with us. He nods and comes over to where we were.
Now, I realize this is not a cute angle for my face/triple chins and this does not do justice to how beautiful this man really is. In fact, he may look a little cross-eyed in the picture. Tarah was also in this picture to the left, but she looks like she has a Hitler mustache so she kindly asked me to crop her out. Pictures weren't on her side last night.
Remember how I'm smooth when it comes to being around famous people?
I frantically say, "I've been a fan for a really long time, I love the music." Tarah just laughs. Then as he's done with our fence picture I say, "Thank you so much, I'm such a huge fan." Because I'm sure he NEVER hears that and it's so original. He smiles politely, says "Thank you" and tells everyone he has to get on the bus.
I end up getting high (figuratively) off the whole experience of meeting one of my favorite singers and can't stop talking about it on the way home. I'm sure Tarah wanted to stab me by the end of the two hour drive.
I'll be on vacation in Cancun for a week starting today, so I will be sipping drinks and being lazy instead of blogging. I already do those things anyway, I'm just trading my couch for the beach. Cheers!


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Composition of the fat extracted from the seeds of theobroma bicolor
The fat fromTheobroma bicolor was analyzed for glyceride content by thin layer chromatography (TLC), and for fatty acid composition and triglyceride (carbon number) composition by gas liquid chromatography (GLC). The fat was then separated into glycerides of different degrees of unsaturation by means of silver nitrate TLC. Then, the bands were examined by GLC before and after conversion to methyl esters. From the results obtained, the distribution of the fatty acids on the individual glycerides was calculated. The fat consisted of 96.5% triglyceride with only 2.5% diglyceride and 1.7% free fatty acid. The major fatty acids present were 42.3% C18:0, 45,2% C18:1, and 6.0% C16:1. Most of the triglycerides were of carbon number 52 (18.0%) and 54 (77.6%). The major triglycerides were 38.6% 1-stearyl-2,3 diolein (SOO), 25.4% 2-oleyl-1,3 distearin (SOS) and 13.8% 1-palmito-2-oleyl-stearin (POS). Only 44.3% of the fat consisted of monounsaturated triglycerides.


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"I will go in unto the Altar of God
To God, Who giveth joy to my youth"
Tridentine Community News (November 4, 2012):
Church Music Association of America Program Director Arlene Oost-Zimmer this week released the preliminary list of speakers for the 2013 Sacred Music Colloquium, to be held June 17-23, 2013. For the second year in a row, the conference will be based at Salt Lake City, Utah's Cathedral of the Madeleine. The Colloquium is the largest conference of its type, offering a week's worth of seminars in traditional sacred music. Classes cover performance and conducting of Sacred Polyphony and Latin Gregorian Chant for both the Extraordinary and Ordinary Forms, plus English Chant for the Ordinary Form. Attendance has grown every year; in 2012 approximately 300 people devoted an entire week to this immersion in sacred music.
Readers of this column will be pleased to note that Assumption Church Tridentine Mass Music Director Wassim Sarweh will present one of the talks, on the subject of accompanying Gregorian Chant on the organ. Wassim's predecessor and former Windsor resident Matthew Meloche is also one of the speakers, along with some of the biggest names in Catholic liturgical music.
Among the Faculty:
- Adam Bartlett, Saints Simon and Jude Cathedral, Phoenix, AZ
- Mary Jane Ballou, Cantorae St. Augustine
- Wilko Brouwers, Monterverdi Choir, the Netherlands
- Dr. Horst Buchholz, St. Louis Cathedral
- Richard Chonak, Webmaster, CMAA
- Charles Cole, Westminster Cathedral; Brompton Oratory
- Gregory Glenn, Cathedral of the Madeleine
- David J. Hughes, St. Mary, Norwalk, CT
- Dr. Ann Labounsky, Duquesne University
- Melanie Malinka, Madeleine Choir School
- Dr. Mee Ae Nam, Eastern Michigan University
- Dr. William Mahrt, CMAA President, Stanford University
- Matthew J. Meloche; St. Joan of Arc Parish, Powell, Ohio
- Jeffrey Morse, St Stephen, the First Martyr Church; Sacramento, California
- Arlene Oost-Zinner; CMAA Programs Director; St. Cecilia Schola
- Daniel Bennett Page, Mount Calvary Church, Baltimore; University of Baltimore
- Rev. Robert Pasley, CMAA Chaplain; Pastor, Mater Eccelsiae, Berlin, NJ
- Kathleen Pluth, STL, Hymn Writer
- William Riccio, Jr.
- Jonathan Ryan, Organist; Jordan Prize Winner
- Wassim Sarweh, Church of the Assumption, Windsor, Ontario
- Dr. Edward Schaefer, University of Florida
- Dr. Susan Treacy, Ave Maria University
- Jeffrey Tucker, Chant Cafe, CMAA Director of Publications
- Msgr. Andrew Wadsworth, Executive Director, ICEL
Further information about the conference and an impressive video documentary of a previous Colloquium by Corpus Christi Watershed, showing the sorts of material covered, are available at: www.musicasacra.com/colloquium.
Private Masses
As an increasing number of Holy Masses in the Extraordinary Form are held across the world, we are hearing more frequently about so-called Private Masses. This is a term which can cause some confusion. Before we can clearly explain what a Private Mass is, we should first define its alternative, the Public Mass.
A Public Mass is one which is announced on a church's schedule. It is open for all to attend. Regular parish Sunday, Holy Day, and weekday Masses fall under the classification of Public Masses.
Private Masses can take several forms, ranging from truly private to quasi-public:
- A Mass literally celebrated privately, such as by a priest in his own room.
- A Mass celebrated in a facility designed for priests to celebrate Masses without a congregation, such as the private chapels in the sacristy of the main chapel at Orchard Lake Seminary. The vast array of side altars in the main chapel of Detroit's Sacred Heart Seminary is also intended for this purpose.
- A Mass celebrated for a special-purpose congregation, large or small, such as if a priest offered a Mass for family and friends on the occasion of a special event in someone's life.
- A Mass offered in a public venue, perhaps even on a regular basis, though not regular enough to be listed on a parish's schedule. London's Brompton Oratory, for example, offers a 5:30 PM Private Tridentine Mass at a side altar Monday-Friday. The celebrant travels a good deal, so there are days when the Mass is not held. The parish elects not to publicize the Mass because they cannot guarantee the availability of a substitute celebrant when the main one is away. Despite this irregularity, this "Private" Mass attracts a sizable congregation every day, larger than those attending many parishes' weekday Public Masses.
Next St. Albertus Mass
The next Tridentine Mass at St. Albertus Church will be held in two weeks, on Sunday, November 18 at noon. A reception will follow the Mass in the rectory.
Tridentine Masses This Coming Week
- Mon. 11/03 7:00 PM: Low Mass at St. Josaphat (The Holy Relics)
- Tue. 11/04 7:00 PM: Low Mass at Assumption-Windsor (Daily Mass for the Dead)
- Fri. 11/09 7:00 PM: High Mass at St. Josaphat (Dedication of the Archbasilica of Our Savior [St. John Lateran]) NOTE: The Mass schedule at St. Josaphat is subject to change. Please call the parish office before going to a weekday Mass at St. Josaphat.


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Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Sunday, March 28, 2010
If you are not a college basketball fan, this is probably completely boring. But, I am, and my alma mater - Michigan State is off to the Final Four again this year.
I've kind of run out of scrappy mojo of late, but I hope to order some pictures this week and receive an order full of new scrappy goodies. I'm also working on a tutorial for the Apron Strings blog. I should have that written up and photographed later this week.
Alright, I'm off to bed, heading to Lansing with a coworker for a meeting/training (all day) in Lansing. Leaving wayyyyyyyyyyyy to early for my taste.
I've kind of run out of scrappy mojo of late, but I hope to order some pictures this week and receive an order full of new scrappy goodies. I'm also working on a tutorial for the Apron Strings blog. I should have that written up and photographed later this week.
Alright, I'm off to bed, heading to Lansing with a coworker for a meeting/training (all day) in Lansing. Leaving wayyyyyyyyyyyy to early for my taste.
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Monday, March 22, 2010
Apron Strings March Projects and a Quick Recap
It's been a week since I last posted, the week has been busy. We had Alexa's conferences, she's reading well above grade level and spelling words from the next grade as well. :) Swimming lessons are going much better, Ava is listening and participating. We're going to look at getting them enrolled again, if there is a short session before summer, or after T-ball finishes in early summer.
My March projects -
My March projects -
And a couple of cards:
I'm already looking forward to April's kits, the "smaller" kit has some new Little Yellow Bicycle in it and some Sassafras as well. But, April's kits are a month away, and I saw one of my favorite lines from CHA available:
And, somehow it made it in my shopping cart. Hmmm. I need to go through my pictures and see what would work with this line. Should be arriving at my door later this week.
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Monday, March 15, 2010
Project 12 February Layout
I finally finished this layout over the weekend. I've had it in progress since the end of February. I like how it came together, I'm really digging white boarders on all my photos. All Pink Paislee papers on this layout, some Maya Road chipboard and Thickers. I stayed pretty true to the sketch this month.
Alright, Apron Strings March kits are up, the newsletter should be up soon. I'll post my layouts in the next day or so.
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Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Icicles, icicles, icicles...
We just don't get this at the house.
Probably 6-7 feet long. We checked on my IL's cottage. I was playing around with the camera. The textures and crystaline structure in the icicles was fascinating.
I liked the depth of field here. With my point and shoot nonetheless! Someday I'll have a DSLR...
Alright, I'm off to bed!
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Monday, March 8, 2010
Playing with colored pencils!
Kind of brings you back to childhood. I've had some Prisma pencils and some Koh-I-Noor pencils for a little while but wasn't sure what to do with them. Always wondered how people got such cool colors and blends with the pencils. My images were just...blah. I saw on Gloria's blog how she used odorless mineral spirits (OMS) to blend the pencils. And, her cards are awesome. With Gloria's tips, here is a new and improved use of the Koh-I-Noor pencils.
I wanted my title to mimic the changing color of the Sassafras paper (scalloped border). I used some Studio Calico stamps (love these!) and then colored the images and blended the colors with OMS. Really the title is not that crooked. Apparently, I can't take a straight picture of late.
The title.
And the scalloped border.
All papers and embellishments (sans stamps and pencils) were from the January Apron Strings kit. Trying to use up some of my stash!
So thanks for the tip Gloria! I can't wait to play around more with the pencils. I've already created a birthday card and used this technique on my stamped images.
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Sunday, March 7, 2010
A little under a week until the kit is live at Apron Strings, and I had the privledge of working with the "Smaller than a Breadbox" kit. Here is the layout that is up on the ASD slideshow.
Everything is from the kit, except for the Thickers. I actually colored them with some Green Maya Mist from the Apron Strings pantry. This layout highlights Ava's big personality. She has really changed from the shy, quiet, baby of few words. Not anymore!
My favorite layout was actually from the Piggy Tales papers, I'll share that layout after the kit goes live later this week.
We spent a night up at my IL's cottage, I'll upload the pictures of the HUGE icicles in their yard. Some were 5-7 feet long!
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Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Good Grief, it's March.
Really? I just realized school will be out for Alexa the second week in June. Already? I can't believe how fast it's gone by. In honor of the (slightly distant) upcoming summer vacation, I have a mini-album to share. I started to put this album together when I went scrapping with Jenn. I kept it simple, as I wanted the wood to show through. The wood is a thin sheet of balsa wood, I picked up at Joann's. To give it some color, I used some Tea Dye ink - it works best if you take ink, drop some on to an old cloth and rub the ink over the wood. The pages are 4x6, and balsa wood is very thin and easy to punch with the Bind-it-all. Pictures are all from last summer.
The papers, die cuts and rub-ons are MME and the labels are from October Afternoon.
That's it for now. Layouts are up on the Apron Strings web site, the March kits will go up for sale at the end of next week.
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Other provisions relating only to Wales
Clauses 190 to 192
Clause 190: Publication and provision of material
364. Existing powers under section 537 of the EA 96 are limited in that they enable the NAW to require governing bodies and LEAs to provide or publish information relating to schools only after it has been provided to the NAW by each school, or by the LEA, and published by the NAW.
365. This clause allows the NAW to provide "qualifying material" to governing bodies and LEAs and to require them to provide it to specified persons or to publish it. "Qualifying material" is material which will help parents choose schools for their children, increase public awareness of the quality and standards of education and assist in assessing how well schools manage resources.
366. It is the intention that the qualifying material which LEAs and governing bodies will be required to publish or provide under this new power will be such as to enable parents and others to measure progress made by pupils while at the school (value-added), and that it may also take into account the socio-economic conditions of the area in which the school is located.
Clause 191: Partnership agreements and statements
367. This clause enables the NAW to make regulations requiring any LEA in Wales to enter into a partnership agreement with the governing body of any school maintained by that authority. A partnership agreement will set out how an LEA and a governing body will carry out their functions in relation to a school.
368. The regulations may, for example, require the agreements to cover the procedures to establish agreed common objectives for pupils' educational progress; the actions which the LEA will take to promote high standards in schools; the actions to be taken to support transition for pupils moving from a maintained primary school to a maintained secondary school.
369. If no agreement can be reached the LEA has the power to draw up a statement covering how it and the governing body are to discharge their functions. Both the LEA and governing body are under a duty to have regard to the agreement (or the LEA's statement) in carrying out their functions.
Clause 192: Transition from primary to secondary school
370. This is a new power for the NAW to require the governing bodies of primary and secondary schools to draw up plans together to facilitate the transition of pupils from the one to the other. It includes a power for the NAW to specify in regulations the content and timing of the plans and to give guidance on matters such as the making of the plans or which schools are to be considered as "feeder schools".
Provision of services
Clauses 193 to 195
Clause 193 and Schedule 19: Transport for persons over compulsory school age
371. These provisions are designed to give effect to improved planning, coherence and publicity of local transport policies for pupils of sixth form age.
372. The amendments give LEAs a co-ordinating role in developing policies with key partners to provide effective and efficient transport arrangements for post 16 students. Every LEA will draw up and publish a policy statement setting out the provision of, or support for, transport for students of 16-19 or those completing courses started whilst 16-19. The statement will include provision and support made by schools and FE colleges in the local area. Section 509 AA (8) makes it clear that LEAs can make transport arrangements over and above those set out in the policy statement and so allows the LEA and its partners flexibility to respond to changing or unforeseen circumstances where particular cases occur that are not contained in their policy statement. Section 509AA(9) provides that the Secretary of State or NAW can direct an LEA to make arrangements for transport which are not in the statement. Section 509AB includes matters to which the LEA must have regard when preparing the statement and section 509AC contains definitions.
Clause 194: Remission of charges relating to residential trips
373. This clause amends section 457 of the EA 96 which prescribes those children who are entitled to have remission of charges in respect of any board and lodging provided during residential school trips. The clause will provide the necessary flexibility required to keep pace with proposed changes by the Treasury to the Tax Credit and Benefit System by allowing the Secretary of State to add to the benefits, allowances or tax credits that would give a child eligibility to the remission of charges for board and lodging whilst on a residential school trip. It will also allow the Secretary of State to limit eligibility to families who are in receipt of particular tax credits by reference to their income level.
Clause 195: LEA functions concerning school lunches, milk etc.
374. The effect of the amendment is to replace the existing provision relating to school meals and milk in the EA 96 by substituting for section 512 three new sections. The new section 512 sets out an LEA's functions in relation to the provision of meals, milk and other refreshments. The new section 512ZA enables an LEA to charge for meals and the new section 512ZB makes provision for free school lunches and milk.
375. Children attending maintained nursery education currently have differing entitlements depending on whether the school they attend provides part-time, or part and full-time, education. The current definition of a maintained school excludes those schools that do not provide some full-time education. Therefore some children who attend maintained nursery schools and whose parents are in receipt of the appropriate benefits do not receive free school meals.
376. The current legislation requires that LEAs, and schools who have a budgetary element for school meals delegated to them, to provide eligible children, who attend on a part-time basis, with free school lunches. The proposed changes will ensure that all children who currently receive Government funded education will also be entitled to receive free school meals, where their parents receive the appropriate benefits.
377. The legislation will extend entitlement for free school meals to eligible children of nursery age who attend settings outside of the maintained sector, who are in receipt of government funded nursery education.
378. The clause applies to maintained schools and maintained nursery schools, and children in funded nursery education.
379. The new provisions enable regulations to prescribe other conditions that must be met in relation to children for them to be entitled to free school lunches. It is intended to use this power to restrict the entitlement to free lunches to those children who are required to attend over the lunch period. It is also intended to protect the position of any child who currently is in receipt of free lunches, but would otherwise lose his entitlement as a result of these changes by making appropriate provision in the commencement order by virtue of clause 201 (5).
380. A regulation making power is created that will allow the Secretary of State, or the NAW, to add to the benefits or allowances, receipt of which by a child's parent or a child, entitles the child to receive a free school lunch.
381. The new section 512ZB also makes the provision of free lunches conditional on a request for free lunches being made by or on behalf of a child. This brings the law into line with current practice and ensures that LEAs have legislative backing to resist requests for monetary compensation for the loss of free meals where no application has been made.
Clauses 196 to 203
Clauses 196 and 197: Fees and records
382. Clause 196 enables the Secretary of State by regulations to prevent fees from being charged for the provision of specified FE courses at FE or HE institutions and limit the amount of fees which may be changed. Clause 197 enables the Secretary of State to make regulations concerning the retention and disclosure of educational records of FE institutions. These clauses re-enact section 218(1)(f), (4) and (9)(a) of the ERA.
Clause 198: Baseline assessments
383. This clause removes the statutory requirement on schools to carry out baseline assessments of children. Statutory baseline assessment will be replaced by the foundation stage profile which will be completed at the end of the foundation stage for all children in government funded early years settings (see clause 79).
Clause 200 and Schedule 20: Nuisance or disturbance on educational premises
384. This schedule amends section 547 of the EA 96 ('Nuisance or disturbance on school premises') to extend its provisions to non-maintained special schools, independent schools and LEA-maintained facilities providing instruction or leadership in sporting, recreational or outdoor activities, such as LEA outdoor education centres. Schedule 20 also amends the Further and Higher Education Act 1992 (FHEA) by inserting a new section, which consolidates the provisions of section 40 of the Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1982 ('Nuisance and disturbance on educational premises') and extends those provisions to any institution within the FE sector.
385. These changes extend the scope of the existing provision. They also make a consequential extension of the powers of the police and persons authorised by the relevant bodies responsible for these educational institutions to remove trespassers believed to be committing the offence and to bring forward proceedings against them.
Clauses 201 and 202: Recoupment: adjustment between LEAs and special cases
386. Inter-authority recoupment occurs when a child is educated outside the LEA in which he or she lives. In these circumstances, the LEA providing the education is entitled to "recoup" the additional costs it faces, in making that provision, from the "home" LEA.
387. The effect of these clauses is to remove the Secretary of State's role in settling disputes between LEAs in England about the amounts to be paid. Current arrangements are retained in relation to disputes between LEAs in Wales. The NAW intends to update the regulations applicable in relation to inter-authority arrangements. Any dispute relating to children who are educated in Wales but the responsibility of an LEA in England will be determined by the NAW, with the agreement of the Secretary of State in England. Where one LEA is in Scotland and the other in England, any dispute which arises will be determined by the Secretary of State.
388. Clause 202 also transfers to the NAW, so far as exercisable in relation to Wales, the power to make regulations under section 494 of the EA 96. This relates to inter-authority recoupment in relation to pupils permanently excluded from a school maintained by one authority who are being provided with education at a school maintained by another authority.
Clause 203: Paid chairmen for local learning and skills councils
389. Clause 203 provides for the LSC to pay the chairmen of local learning and skills councils. At present these chairmen are unpaid. The amount of their remuneration will be decided by the Secretary of State.
Clause 204: Orders and regulations
390. This clause contains general provisions about orders and regulations under the Bill.
391. All orders or regulations under the Bill are to be made by statutory instrument except for an order made by the Secretary of State under clause 161 in respect of a failure to meet standards in an independent school, or an order by the NAW under clause 186 requiring proposals to secure regional provision.
392. The provisions seeking to amend the basic curriculum, the make up of the key stages, the requirements of the key stages, the alteration of key stage four, and attainment targets for all key stages and subsidiaries in respect of review bodies, have (in England) to be made by statutory instrument under the affirmative resolution procedure.
393. All other statutory instruments made by the Secretary of State have to follow the negative resolution procedure, apart from exemptions for schools related to performance, educational programmes under the National Curriculum, assessment arrangements in respect of all key stages, or commencement orders, where no parliamentary procedure is required. In addition, if an order is made in respect of teachers pay and conditions which gives effect, without significant modification, to recommendations of the STRB, no parliamentary procedure is required.
Clause 205: Wales
394. Most of the functions of the Secretary of State under education legislation have, so far as they relate to Wales, been transferred to the NAW by Order in Council under section 22 of the Government of Wales Act 1998 (c. 38). Textual amendments to reflect this have not been made to the legislation. The legislation, therefore, continues to refer to the Secretary of State only, but references to the Secretary of State have to be read, in relation to Wales, as references to the NAW.
395. Subsection (1) of this clause ensures that where the Bill confers a new function on the Secretary of State by amending another Act, this new function is also exercisable in relation to Wales by the NAW, and references in the provisions concerned to the Secretary of State are read, in relation to Wales, as references to the NAW.
396. Subsection (2) of this clause then ensures that, where functions under any Act have already been transferred by an Order in Council under section 22 of the Government of Wales Act 1998 and an amendment conferring further functions on the Secretary of State is made to that Act by the Bill, any powers to vary or revoke the functions transferred to the NAW also apply to the new functions conferred by the Bill.
Clause 206: General interpretation
397. This provision provides a definition of "the local education authority", and defines the terms "prescribed" and "regulations".
398. The clause also lists a number of provisions in the Act and provides that those provisions and the EA 96 are to be construed as if those provisions were contained in the EA 96. This means that definitions that apply for the purposes of the EA 96 as a whole also apply for the purposes of the Bill. However, if an expression is given a different meaning in one of those provisions in this Bill its meaning prevails over the meaning given for the purpose of the EA 96. Construction as one also has the effect that references to "this Act" in the EA 96 include the provisions of the Bill that are listed.
399. The provision also confirms that any reference in the Bill to a community, foundation or voluntary school, or a community or foundation special school is to have the same meaning as in the SSFA, unless the other context otherwise requires.
Clause 208: Transitional provisions etc.
400. This enables regulations made under the Bill to make such provision as appears to the Secretary of State necessary or expedient for the general purposes, or any particular purpose or for giving full effect to the Bill. In particular, they may make provision including modifications for any provision which comes into force before another provision comes into force, or before anything which has to be done under another provision has been done.
401. Regulations may also be made for amending, repealing or revoking a statutory provision passed before the Bill is passed, for applying such provision, and for making savings from any amendment or repeal by the Bill.
Clause 209: Minor and consequential amendments and repeals
402. Clause 209 introduces Schedule 21 which contains a number of minor amendments and a number of amendments consequential on other provisions of the Bill.
403. Paragraphs 3 and 4 of the Schedule repeal sections 23(4)(b), 39, 40, 41 and 42 of the FHE Act 1992.
404. These sections of the FHEA relate to the transfer of FE colleges from institutions maintained by LEAs to independent corporations financed by the Further Education Funding Councils (FEFCs) now replaced by the LSC and the NCETW.
405. They were introduced to provide new FE corporations with a safeguard against entering into unfair contracts with LEAs with whom they felt disadvantaged in negotiations for transfer of land. The provisions provided for the Secretary of State's, or NAW's consent where the LEA was seeking to exclude the transfer of land, or were seeking to enter into a contract, with a third party, to the value of £50,000 or more which would bind the institution in the future.
406. College governing bodies' experience means they are able to protect their own interests without the Secretary of State's, or NAW's, support. Further, we consider these provisions to be obsolete given that there are no longer any LEA controlled institutions to which these sections apply.
407. Section 23(4)(b) requires the Secretary of State's, or NAW's consent to make agreements between LEAs and colleges to exclude land from transfer to the college.
408. Section 39 prevents the local authority from disposing of land used or held by FE colleges before it is decided if the land should transfer to the new body responsible for the FE corporation.
409. Section 41 deals with the control of large contracts entered into by the local authority that could be binding, at a later date, upon the governing bodies of new FE colleges.
410. Sections 40 and 42 are concerned with the enforcement of Sections 39 and 41 and so naturally fall. Their enforcement measures are seriously diminished as the Education Assets Board (renamed the Education Transfer Council) has been dissolved.
411. Paragraphs 5 and 6 amend section 54(1) of the FHE Act 1992 to correct a minor defect and repeal section 60 which serves no useful purpose.
412. Paragraphs 14 and 15 correct incorrect references in the Employment Rights Act 1996 to governors.
413. The remainder of the paragraphs make minor amendments consequential on the new provisions in the Bill, as follows:
New Power To Provide Financial Assistance
414. It is expected that under current plans around £5.5 billion in 2003-04 will be administered under the new power. The total amount of the annual grants made under the powers being repealed is £4.1 billion. In addition, £1.4 billion of annual grants, currently paid under section 88B of the Local Government Finance Act 1988, will in future be paid under the new power. Actual levels will depend on the outcome of the forthcoming Spending Review.
Nursery schools to have a governing body
415. There will be some transitional impact on LEAs in respect of work associated with the initial set up of governing bodies for nursery schools. In many areas nursery schools already have governing bodies or similar management arrangements, and a local infrastructure therefore exists to manage the implementation of new requirements. However even where governing bodies already exist they are not statutory and the LEA will have work to do to set up new statutory ones. The overall estimated cost of setting up and maintaining governing bodies will be £0.5m per annum to be met from within existing resources.
Schools causing concern
416. It is envisaged that the costs for LEAs to run competitions and involve private sector partners in turning round schools causing concern following a direction to do so will amount to a maximum of £10,000 per school. The Department does not expect to use the power in other than exceptional circumstances.
417. The costs associated with IEBs will be heavily dependent on the circumstances of any individual case, including the number of interim executive members appointed and the time commitment required. IEBs might be appointed to replace the governing body of a weak or failing school only in exceptional circumstances. Three IEBs a year would cost a total in the region of £25,000.
Accounting and Audit requirements
418. The Bill will impose requirements on the way maintained schools keep their accounts and report information based upon those accounts.
419. It is expected that the initial costs of implementing the accounting requirements through CFR will be £350,000 for the Department for Education and Skills, £180,000 for all English LEAs, and £4.6 million for all English schools (or £200 per school). The estimated continuing annual additional cost of CFR will be £100,000 for English LEAs, and £1.15 million for English schools (or £50 per school). The audit requirements currently envisaged in England and Wales are estimated to cost an additional £17m per annum. All costs will be met from existing resources within the system.
420. These costs are against predicted annual savings of more than £100 million from giving schools a facility to improve resource management and securing for the first time a systematic annual audit cycle for schools.
Establishment, alteration and discontinuance of mainstream schools
421. The effects of these provisions in the Bill will be minimal. There may be slight increase in costs of adjudicator service, LEA administration and Departmental handling depending on the number of cases. A working estimate is £35,000 per annum, to be met from within existing resources.
Implementation of the foundation stage of the National Curriculum
422. The foundation stage has already been in place for a year so the Department has already provided money, training and support for funded maintained and non-maintained early years settings. Continued financial support of this nature will need to be made available for this sector to ensure that there is on-going training for the foundation stage.
423. This will need to be supported by a centrally directed quality assurance programme, working closely with EYDCPs and LEAs to monitor their training materials and programmes and offer support where needed.
424. The Department already provides financial support for carrying out the current baseline assessment arrangements. Continuing funding will need to be made available to LEAs to support the introduction and implementation of the foundation stage Profile. It is estimated that a further £2 million will be required in the first year of the scheme, to be met from within existing resources
Student Loans
425. The Bill will enable the Secretary of State to pay off over time the student loans of newly qualified teachers in shortage subjects starting work in maintained schools or the FE sector.
426. The cost of the scheme will ultimately depend on the number of people who apply for it and how much outstanding debt they have, but we estimate that the scheme might cost around £15 - £20 million per year for each cohort who join the scheme, until their debts are repaid. This cost will fall to the Consolidated Fund, by means of Annual Votes.
Independent Schools
427. The Bill will require Ofsted to inspect all non-association independent schools fully and publish reports - putting them broadly on the same footing as maintained schools. Just over half of all independent schools are already fully inspected by the Independent Schools Inspectorate and the inspections result in published reports.
428. The likely cost of the new inspection regime is £2.5 million per annum, with initial costs to be met from within existing resources. Some of the additional costs may be recouped through charges to schools. The increased costs arise from the need to increase inspection manpower by utilising Registered Inspectors for inspections.
Rights of entry in relation to inspections
429. The Bill proposes that the rights of entry of school inspectors should be extended to include premises where schools have arranged for educational provision to be made for pupils aged 14-16. It is envisaged that the larger number of hours per visit and additional overhead costs will result in additional annual costs to Ofsted of up to £0.6 to £1 million.
SEN Tribunal for Wales
430. The Bill provides for the creation of a separate SEN Tribunal for Wales. It is anticipated that the Tribunal will be effective from September 2003. The estimated cost for setting up the Tribunal and running it for the remainder of the year 2003-04 would be £450,000. The running costs following this will be £450,000 per annum, all costs to be met from existing resources.
431. There will be modest savings in programme and running costs expenditure for the current SEN Tribunal when SEN appeals relating to Welsh LEAs are dealt with by the SEN Tribunal for Wales. These cases currently account for 4 - 5% of the Tribunal's case load.
Allowances in respect of education and training
432. The annual amount currently spent on the Education Maintenance Allowances pilots is £195 million. This amount will now be paid under the new power so the overall financial effect will be neutral.
|© Parliamentary copyright 2001
|Prepared: 26 November 2001


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I've enjoyed many of the recent posts that describe the authors' evolution as writers. There are many different stories, but everyone, despite having a distinct voice and point of view, seems to end up confronting the same issues: writing nonfiction simply, clearly, and engagingly. Precisely the qualities the previous sentence lacks.
Is it just me, or does something about the blog format foster a confessional mode of expression? Reading I.N.K. posts often makes me feel as if a mistake has been made — why am I in the company of so many writers who can express themselves with such eloquence and so little apparent effort?
I started making books for children as a form of visual expression, and I'm still trying to get comfortable with thinking of myself as a writer. Twenty years ago I was an experienced graphic designer, an inexperienced illustrator, and an even more inexperienced new father. Reading piles of books to my daughter — we started when she was too young to even sit up — started me thinking that making a book might be fun. Notice I say making, because my first books were really all about the images. From the beginning, however, I was drawn to nonfiction about the natural world, and I realized that words might be necessary if I wanted a book to convey much actual information. Or get published. I did make one wordless picture book — Looking Down — but the other subjects I was interested in exploring required some annotation.
Now, twenty books or so later, I find that writing has become my central preoccupation when I'm working on a book. I love the visual part of the process, and approach it with very little trepidation. I'm confident that I can solve a book's visual challenges, one way or another. Illustrating the book is a reward — it's like dessert. The writing, however, doesn't get any easier. Just the opposite, in fact. In my early books I was blissfully naive about the writing process. I just wrote down what I thought would explain the image on the page. I didn't rewrite as much. I was a designer and illustrator making a book, so I didn't worry too much about the text.
It's been the slowly developed recognition that I have as much responsibility (more?) to the words as to the images that has made writing more and more of a focus. I remember being surprised and a little bemused that teachers and librarians encountered at schools and conferences were reading my books and thinking about the way they were written, sometimes recognizing pattern and intention that had never occurred to me.
It's much more difficult than I imagined, being a writer. It's humbling, frustrating, exhausting, gratifying, and intoxicating (not in the Dylan Thomas sense, at least most of the time).
In the interests of making this post a little more than a self-absorbed soliloquy, I'll share a few of the books I've found helpful on my journey:
On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: The Classic Guide to Writing, by William Zinsser
(this book was recommended in a recent Vicki Cobb post, but it's well worth a repeat mention)
Also Zinsser's Writing to Learn.
This one is probably too obvious to mention, but I will anyway: The Elements of Style, by William Strunk and E.B. White. This link is to a new edition cleverly illustrated by Maira Kalman.
Bryson's Dictionary for Writers and Editors and his Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words are both useful.
Ways of Telling: Conversations on the Art of the Picture Book, by Leonard Marcus, is a inspirational series of interviews with iconic children's book author/illustrators.
Finally, all of Edward Tufte's books are invaluable to anyone interested in the presentation of quantitaive information. Their subject is visual presentation, but Tufte does such a good job of explaining what he's showing us that they are also a useful resource for writers. You could start anywhere, but one of my favorites is Beautiful Evidence.


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And what we rejoice in defines us (the facebook 'like' function has hit on something!)
But ultimately, it is rejoicing in God which sustains us - "the joy of the Lord is your strength."
We are defined in Him, by Him and through Him -
it is in His image we are made, and in Christ, we become like Him.
I found a perfect tree-seat in the park yesterday. The sun warmed my arms, I'd a back-rest, a view out across the park and playground, far enough away from the football to not be bothered by it, with birdsong to listen to, this morning's sermon on which to reflect and a heavenly Father to whom to pray, by His Spirit, through the intercession of the One who will not break the bruised reed, nor quench the smoking flax. My beech's new leaves glowed above, delightful yellow-green against the sun; occasionally a delightful little breeze sent them all vibrating without stirring the branches.
Perfect for solitude, but joy must be shared.
We have this of our Father, in Christ, who as Wisdom said,
"The Lord possessed me at the beginning of his work,We share our delight with the Father, in Christ caught up into the joy of the Godhead, even as His creation.
the first of his acts of old.
Ages ago I was set up,
at the first, before the beginning of the earth.
When there were no depths I was brought forth,
when there were no springs abounding with water.
Before the mountains had been shaped,
before the hills, I was brought forth,
before he had made the earth with its fields,
or the first of the dust of the world.
When he established the heavens, I was there;
when he drew a circle on the face of the deep,
when he made firm the skies above,
when he established the fountains of the deep,
when he assigned to the sea its limit,
so that the waters might not transgress his command,
when he marked out the foundations of the earth,
then I was beside him, like a master workman,
and I was daily his delight,
rejoicing before him always,
rejoicing in his inhabited world
and delighting in the children of man."


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NPR Books Watch — 3/26-4/1
Formatting's a bit wonky this week, but what can I say …
Anyone who emails me the imprints of all the books listed (or houses if no imprint is available) will win the NPR Books Grid for the prior week that includes, in addition to the information below, interviewer, pub date, imprint, genre, post-interview Amazon ranking, pre-interview ranking (if the book was mentioned on Shelf Awareness and I was able to look up the number before the interview), and interview hyperlink.
* indicates the interview is a rebroadcast.
TOTAL book stories for the past week: 23 (23 last week)
All Things Considered: 3 (4 LW)
Diane Rehm: 2 (3 LW)
Fresh Air: 5 (2 LW)
Morning Edition: 4 ( 3LW)
NPR.org: 4 (5 LW)
Talk of the Nation: 2 (3 LW)
Tell Me More: 0 (0 LW)
Weekend Edition Saturday: 2 (0 LW)
Weekend Edition Sunday: 0 (1 LW)
All Things Considered 13 Bankers Simon Johnson
All Things Considered For All the Tea in China Sarah Rose
All Things Considered Solar Ian McEwan
Diane Rehm Paul and Me A.E. Hotchner
Diane Rehm Big Short, The Michael Lewis
Fresh Air One Nation Under Dog* Michael Schaffer
Fresh Air Ill Fares the Land Tony Judt
Fresh Air Between Two Worlds Roxana Saberi
Fresh Air Sabbath World, The Judith Shulevitz
Fresh Air Hollywood Economist, The Edward Epstein
Morning Edition New Kind of Christianity, A Brian McLaren
Morning Edition Son of Hamas Mosab Hassan Yousef
Morning Edition Rule of Benedict, The David Gibson
Morning Edition Murder City Charles Bowden
NPR.org What We're Reading, March 30-April 5
NPR.org Surrendered, The Chang-Rae Lee
NPR.org Supreme Power Jeff Shesol
NPR.org Solar Ian McEwan
Talk of the Nation What is This Thing Called Love? Gene Wilder
Talk of the Nation Life in Year One Scott Korb
Weekend Edition Saturday Best Kind of Different Shonda Schilling
Weekend Edition Saturday Hellraisers Robert Sellers
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Good Books.
Comment by Eddie | April 2, 2010 |


text: Dem Office Holders Gravitate Toward Obama Cuts into Clinton's lead among governors, members of Congress By Jason Farago, Newser Staff Posted Mar 14, 2008 2:30 PM CDT 0 comments Comments Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama D-Ill., points to a questioner during a news conference in Chicago, Wednesday, March 12, 2008. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) View 6 more images (Newser) – Barack Obama is cutting into Hillary Clinton's lead among the most prestigious superdelegates, the Democratic Party's members of Congress and governors. Among those 313 superdelegates, Clinton has the support of 103 and Obama of 96, reports Bloomberg. Clinton maintains an overall lead of 259-212 among superdelegates, but that too is narrowing: since her victories in Texas and Ohio, she has only picked up one superdelegate while Obama has netted 9. Underlying Obama's growing support among party officials is his electability. "All along he has been the one person McCain does not want to run against and that is still true," said Jay Rockefeller, the West Virginia senator. Polls from Iowa and Kansas show that John McCain would beat Clinton but would lose to Obama—one reason that both those states' governors have thrown their support to the Illinois senator. View 6 more images


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One woman's stories, adventures, observations and rants, lived through and beyond metastatic breast cancer.
Monday, April 11, 2011
without judgment
7 comments:
- zoom said...
Good for you - both for the commitment to be kinder to yourself, and for joining a writing class!
I am inclined towards self-criticism too. But whenever I catch myself at it (or overdoing it), I try to treat myself the way I would treat a friend - kinder, gentler, and with far more humanity.
- 2:21 pm
- Blondie said...
The hardest time in the world to fight non-self-judgment? At a writing class!! LOL. I am also working on trying to stop judging myself--it's a rough road. Thank you for the reminder to try!
- 2:22 pm
- Lene Andersen said...
it's such a massive breakthrough, that moment where you realize that you would not accept someone treating the person you love the way you treat yourself. And you're right - there's plenty of backsliding and plenty of re-learning the lesson. I'd like to believe I learned it for good, but it keeps cropping back up. Nonetheless, congratulations on coming a better friend to yourself!
And congratulations on the writing class. You're a brave woman.
- 7:11 pm
- Ana Marie said...
good luck in your writing class and in all you decide to do! i would suggest not worrying about the judgement you place on yourself.. we all do that.. but instead focus on that being the only judgement you accept... nothing anyone ELSE says should affect you! much love!
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- Ann said...
Every decision we make is the right one for us at the time we make it. I think also, that one of the most liberating realisations in life, as we grow older and understand that life is too short, is that we don't have to like everyone and if people dislike us it is their loss. Hope the writing workshop went well. Cheers, Ann.
- 3:39 pm
- laurie said...
I feel so lucky to have such wise, kind and thoughtful women reading my blog. Thank you. You give me something to think about every day.
- 2:02 pm


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Netanyahu's Speech to the UN General Assembly
Here is the full text
Here is a segment
The Contentious Centrist
"Civilization is not self-supporting. It is artificial. If you are not prepared to concern yourself with the upholding of civilization -- you are done." (Ortega y Gasset)
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Netanyahu's Speech to the UN General Assembly
1 Comments:
- At 11:48 PM EDT, EscapeVelocity said...
Fantastic speech.
Obama is a national and international embarrassment, however.


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text: > [I'm Ccing Dan to give him a chance to rebut my comments...] Then by all means let us also give him some context. Dan: I have sent about three notes to FSB at this point trying to clarify what it means to say that something is high-assurance software. This followed a discussion about djbdns in which several unusual attributes of the implementation and documentation were outlined by others. Most of these unusual attributes have now been explained on the list. I have said nothing negative about the security of djbdns. In fact, I've agreed that based on the reported bugs it looks pretty good, and that the reward offer is certainly a good and useful thing to have. What I *have* said is that based on the descriptions on FSB to date, [and also based on my own examination of the qmail package at one point, though I didn't mention this on the list,] I am aware of no evidence that would support a claim for high assurance. In particular, I am not aware that any rigorous and proper evaluation process has been done for either piece of software. If I am mistaken about this, I would be *delighted*, and I hope that you will correct me. I want to emphasize that when I use the term "high assurance", I am speaking in the context of security standards and processes such as Common Criteria (and friends). I am not trying to make any claim about djbdns. Rather, I am trying to point out some deficiencies in people's understanding of the term "security". Jonathan


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Well, the sad day has come. Tonight is my last night in Japan. We were good this week and actually went to church instead of sight-seeing. I was glad we do for a couple of reasons. I got to say good-bye to my friends Shari & Kate. I also got to see a few of our ward members. Brother Carter, one of our bishopric members was here for a short time, was there along with Brother Wilson & Brother & Sister Martin and their kids. Brother Wilson & Brother & Sister Martin still have a while to hang out in Japan. Everyone is here basically for the same reason. It was a lot of fun to see some more familiar faces! It's kind of funny that I could be in a strange branch in Japan and have so many familiar people from 2 different wards in Washington.
Another reason I was more than happy was it was freezing! It wasn't raining (for which I was grateful), but it was still cold and windy. When you are wearing a skirt, not so much fun! Especially when we walk everywhere and I did not bring my winter coat! Brrrrr!
Last night we had quite the entertaining evening in our motel room. We were just hanging out watching a movie and all of a suddan our stinky smoker neighbors started yelling at each other. It was quite exciting, if not a bit white trashy. Tom was at the door looking through the spy hole trying to see if anything was going on in the hallway. Tom eventually called the front desk and they said we were the 2nd people to call and they had already sent someone up. This whole episode lasted for about 5 minutes or so. Very entertaining, if nothing less! The joys of motel living!
Now, most of my bags are packed and I will head to the naval base tomorrow morning to hopefully catch the bus to the airport. If that doesn't work out we have a back-up plan, but there shouldn't be a problem with the bus! It all depends on how many people sign up vs. how many seats are available. But good for me, I am priority 2 our of 6 so I have a pretty good chance even if they are booked full!
Tom won't be home for about 3 1/2 weeks. Sad for me!!! But I'll still have Jakey to keep me company until then and lots to do to catch-up on at home. I also have some vacation weight to loose. I guess my vacation is over!
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July 02, 2016
Emma Watson announces Carrie Brownstein's 'Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl' for Our Shared Shelf
8 comments:
- Ross Taggart said...
Apropos of nothing I voted for that one :)
- 7/02/2016 08:44:00 pm
- PDXP said...
Nice! I love Carrie. They should do something together.
- 7/03/2016 02:31:00 am
- Anonymous said...
What happened for the seriousness of HeforShe? Sometimes I think she is already bored with the superficiality of her own approach, but the bookshelf- oh well. I hope she gets some decent film offers soon, for her year off is getting ridiculous. I am just going by the information she offers about herself.
- 7/07/2016 05:36:00 pm
- Ross Taggart said...
I am not sure what it is you expect Anon she does things like we all do when we have something to contribute it is not easy she can't just make a throwaway comment without massive attention and judgment.
We would all like her to be involved with things we do and she does her part but she has to have a life like everyone else.
Imagine what it must be like 1000's of people say the love and follow you and lots saying they hate you. None of them actually know or in some cases even want to know you are just a person not some image people have made (I am not addressing you directly here Anon I do not sense you are like that) to suit some personal need.
I suspect she has good days and bad days wondering what she has taken on and why she did it but in the end she will stand by what she said if at all possible. Is that not what we all do.
She may well fail in some or all of these things it happens I hope in my small way to help her and us avoid that.
- 7/07/2016 05:47:00 pm
- Anonymous said...
I never said I hate her, in fact I follow her career, and I believe she has developed well out of the character Heromine. I just do not see a real stand for anything that is relevent. Sure gender equality is important, but her perspective is more that men get more money than women in the film industry. I find this focus shallow. Embarrassing coming from someone so intelligent. Sorry, but I cringed.
- 7/07/2016 08:26:00 pm
- Ross Taggart said...
I did say my comments where not directed at you specifically or any one just an observation. She is raising the issue of equality in all areas actuality if you check her Twitter and Facebook, She focused on her industry as I do on mine what else can she do cant solved the problem on her own she is just one woman after all. She is aware of her influence and tries to avoid using it unduly.
- 7/08/2016 01:06:00 am
- Anonymous said...
Check out the women working in factories in the UK-close to home. Women are suffering.
- 7/08/2016 12:52:00 pm
- Ross Taggart said...
Yes we; Emma, HeforShe feminists everywhere and you I suppose are working. It is a task but if Emma can turn any of the 1% that can only be good can it not.
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The ETSU baseball team faced La Salle at Thomas Stadium in a three-series game that began on March 11.
The Bucs last played the Explorers in 2012.
La Salle finished out the 2015 season with a record of 24-27-1 and currently has a record of 3-12-0.
"La Salle has a physical, veteran ball club out of the Atlantic 10 Conference, so we will need to be at the top of our game to have success," said coach Tony Skole before the games.
The Bucs had an overall record of 21-35 at the end of the 2015 season, and they currently have a record of 8-8.
"La Salle's record doesn't show it, but they have a good ball club," said senior infielder Trey York (Knoxville, Tenn.). "If we pitch and hit to the best of our ability, I like our chances."
York has been playing impressively in his senior year at ETSU. In the March 9 game against Tennessee, he got his third homerun of the 2016 season and had a nine-game hitting streak after the second game of the La Salle series.
In the first game of the three-part series, ETSU started out strong but allowed La Salle to make a comeback in the last three innings, making the final score 6-4.
"La Salle has some really good pitchers, so we need to do all we can to get as many quality at bats as possible," York said.
Games two and three were held back-to-back on Saturday.
Senior pitcher Lee Haeberle (Hendersonville, Tenn.) had a career high of nine strikeouts in eight innings in the first of Saturday's games.
The Bucs gained the upper hand over the competition during the eighth inning, in which they scored four runs and won with a final score of 6-3.
In Saturday's second game, the Bucs fell to La Salle with a score of 9-4. Senior Robby McCabe (New Port Richey, Fla.) scored his second homerun of the season.
However, this game ended York's hitting streak.
"I feel good about our ball club," Skole said. "We have won 5 of our 7 last games, but we must continue to improve. We need more consistency from our pitching staff. If they can keep making progress, then we will have a chance to have an exciting season."
The next game for the Bucs will be on March 18 at 6 p.m. in Johnson City. They will play FGCU, who currently has a record of 7-9.
"Every game is a challenge for us," Skole said. "Right now we are concentrating more on just playing the game of baseball well. If we do the little things well, we can have a successful series."


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The current challenge from The Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers is to make a card using an image - no sentiment. Crafting i an iterative process for me - keep trying until I get it right. Here is my first attempt:
Come play along with us at Words 2 Scrap By - Ahoy Matey! Did you know that September 19 is Talk Like a Pirate Day?!?!
Thursday, September 3, 2015
The Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers - I is for Image
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Beautiful card! It's funny how one element can make a card go from flat to fab. Thanks for joining the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers for our "Image Only" challenge!ReplyDelete
Both versions are beautiful, but I agree, that the ribbon can make it look like a totally different card. Like that mirrored paper and the tree look so nice silver embossed. Enjoy your day.ReplyDelete
Ohhhhhhh my all time favourite stamp set! Thanks for joining the sisterhood of snarky stampers for our "I is for Image" challenge!!ReplyDelete
So very pretty! And you're right, the ribbon kicks it up a notch. Thanks for joining the fun at the Sisterhood of Snarky Stampers!ReplyDelete
I LOVE this stamp. Simply gorgeous. That ribbon does it!ReplyDelete
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Dont Feed the Pigs!
Do we really need Oil for all our fuel and energy needs?
Electricity is for collecting, Wind can be a motor driver. Water loves to run down hill and pass any opening with speed, its also powerful when its all steamed up. How is it that we still rely on crude for our energy? ummm its GREED, its driven by a greater energy than its self ... fuckin money pigs.
Their greed runs deep, deep into our lives. Oil spills/dumps, to bring up prices also cause side effects that linger. Death to our ecosystem. Here is just one testament of its crude cut into life. Prince William Sound
So how do we turn it all around? BE INFORMED! MAKE PERSONAL CHANGES! yeah and DON'T BELIEVE THE CRAP THAT WE ARE RUNNING OUT OF ELECTRICITY. Its the company that we personally buy our electricity from .... they aren't paying their bill and the provider is shutting them off. Its manipulation, gouging and greed. Electricity is a natural phenomenon just waiting to be collected. But its the money pigs in between that makes its availability a crisis.
Some energy's stated availability is built on word of mouth. Its momentum, greed.
If we start a rumor that there's a toilet paper crisis? Ahh ... come on you know what will happen to the supply. But will all those, hording the TP, actually go find out if we really do have a shortage? NO. Prices go up because the sellers see a great way of Gouging the fearful public and becoming richer, and the fearful public hover over their bathroom doors and count the squares being used.
Water, Steam, WIND and the most powerful of all our resource's, the SUN with our solar gathering genius. What the hell is going on here? Is it the big money guys stopping the change?
Don't Feed The Oil Pig any longer. Choose alternative ways of energy. Look into solar, find out if it can be used in your personal life. Funding and supporting alternative energy sources can and will make a difference in the future, but we need to investigate and start it at our level and talk about it everyday.
Make a difference Say Something to Someone! Don't just stand there by the bathroom door and count your stack of toilet paper rolls in fear. SEARCH OUT ALTERNATIVE WAYS TO WIPE OUR ASS, MAKE THE PRICES OF THE TP GO DOWN BY USING SOMETHING ELSE! Because right now the pigs are stickin it in our ass. Wake UP!
Second Life's Burning Life Opens September 27th thru October 5th 2008
There you will see our statement in sculpture form. Go See! Take with you a thought. Make Changes in your personal life.
Think Differently. Burning Life (Port Zero) Dont Feed The Pigs!
Thursday, September 25, 2008
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Nampak tak there's a small gap between my boobs and tummy. I guess the baby is moving down slowly =)
Kalau nak cakap tentang pengalaman throughout my pregnancy ni pulak, rasanya sampai ke sudah takkan siap thesis writing aku cenggini. Maka, kita hold dulu part tu dalam err hati. Huehue
Frankly speaking, I am so freaking nervous right now. I can't my imagine how would I look while pushing the baby out nanti. Hehe. And I don't even know what would be my fate in the labor room later. Would it be wonderful or the other way around. Allah knows better :)
Hmm.. By the way, kenapa aku banyak fikir eh. Fikir like macam-macam lah. Or is it just a normal feeling for a preggy mommy to feel like this? Hai la...
Alright bebeh. You better not to think that much AJ. Remember, Allah hears your prayers. So keep praying AJ. You'll become a Mommy soon. Don't stress out yourself okayyy. InsyaAllah everything will be just fine. Amin :')


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hi everyone!
It's been a wile since I posted something, and I'm really sorry for that.
My vacation was amazing and now school has started again and I have already so many work to do!
What did I do the last 3 months? I went on a vacation to New York and St. Maxime in France, I spent time with my family and friends, and I partied, a lot :D
these are a few photo's of the summer. I hope you like them ;)
all pictures from NY


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For the May update, we conclude the short-lived recording career of The Fucking Fulfords, an improv group named after a sweary aristocrat who was briefly on Channel 4. This release features four personnel, two new two old, and a new location – the top of Liam's staircase. The sound is better than the previous release, though these things are all subjective aren't they. The June release will be another stab at Creeping Jaw Society, a ragtag release of half thought through and half composed tunes on a record called 'The Properties of Song'.
Also, as you may/may not have noticed, updating listening habits via lastfm is now going to be very sporadic. I'm going to try and not post anything up here unless it is long and rambling or related to the archive.
Postscript – Just wanted to share a final thought from Simon Reynolds, from his new book Retromania:
There's a delirious quality to the archive fever raging across the web…It's like some kind of blind data-swarming drive, as if we are ants or bees building a vast construction whose ultimate purpose is beyond our ken. Which is perhaps why techno-utopians are so tempted to talk mystically about the noosphere as an emerging macro-intelligence. But another way of seeing it would be as a gigantic data dump, the collective archive as landfill.
I think perhaps he'll be all over the Adam Curtis thing tonight. Me too.
Tags: adam curtis, archive, simon reynolds, the fucking fulfords, vstm, wdt, whitethorn


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This week was pretty crazy! We had our Fall Festival and trunk or treat. It turned out really great! We had 3 investigators show up! And an even bigger miracle happen! (I'll get to that later)
One of the investigators has 3 kids under 3 and her husband didn't stay. So we were running ALL over the place trying to find people that would watch her baby, or take her kids trunk or treating. Or just trying to find a ride for them was crazy hard! There was one great member who helped us out so much! She answered so many prayers that night, I don't even think she understands! The investigator was super thankful that she was invited and glad that everything turned out well!
About half the people that attended were actually non-members! We were able to talk to a few but not too many because we were too busy asking people to talk to our investigators or finding people to watch her baby so we didn't get stuck with him, because that's a really big rule to break!!
There was a string of miracles that happened! Weeks ago we talked to this guy on the street and he was super nice. Not really interested, but he said his daughter has been a member for 5 years. We ended up seeing him again a week later and we invited him to the Fall Festival. He said that, that was the same weekend his daughter was coming in town and that he'd really try to make it with her.
Well they actually showed up!! We were amazed! It turns out that it was only they're second time ever seeing each other! We just happened to talk to him, his daughter just happened to be a member, she just happened to be coming into town seeing her dad, seeing her dad for the second time ever, the very weekend we happen to be having the Fall Festival. It's just one string of miracle.
Our ward mission leader talked to them a little bit more than we got to and invited them to church and to have a lesson after. All 3 lessons were on temples and family history work. haha not exactly the best thing for a newbie. He seems pretty golden! He really enjoyed the first lesson and was able to feel the spirit. He told us that if he came to know that these things were true than he'd get baptized!
The best part of this was I think for the daughter, she served a mission and is now a ward missionary in her home ward. She was so excited that he agreed to take the lessons and that we talked to him one day on the street. It was just one simple oym (open your mouth) one contact, that answered a lot of prayers.
My lesson I learned this week is that you should talk to everyone because you never know what prayer you're answering. Whether it's just someone wanting a nice little conversation, or if it's a family member asking to help the one they love, a prayer is a prayer no matter how small. Or how "small" it may seem. If it matters to you it matters to Him.
I know that all prayers go answered. Even though they may seem "unanswered" God always does what's best for us. That may mean helping us learn a little more about patience, or it may mean that what's best for us is going through whatever we're going through. That just means we really have to learn to rely on Him to get us through it. I know that while He may leave prayers "unanswered" He never leaves us.
Well I love you all!


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Our wedding day was a dream come true!
This day was simply... perfect! It's where I put on my white dress. Strapped on my crystal heels and clipped on my long cathedral veil. It's where my daddy locked arms with me and walked me down the aisle. It's when I kissed the man of dreams for the first time as my husband. It's when my high school sweetheart became my MR. EVERYTHING!
Below is a timeline of wedding day. For a complete story, please click on the title above each picture.


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NAPERVILLE — Taking an editorial stance is your job. The reader may agree or disagree with the editorial. If the reader responds to the editorial, you, and all good newspapers, offer an op-ed section that voices the position of your readers.
So far, so good.
Part of your job, however, in taking an editorial stance is to be sure and consistent in your position. Whether you are right or wrong (in the eyes of the reader), the one thing that is taken as a given is that you have fully researched your position and have declared that your newspaper stands for or against, based upon your research.


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Harry Potter fans, beware! Lord Voldemeowrt is real!!!!
This kitty lost his nose and ears to cancer. Plus, he is an evil sorcerer with the largest collection of black caftans in the western hemisphere!!! Just kidding. He's just a cat.
This sweet ball of felinehood hates fellow cats but loves people. UK readers (and I know I have them) you can adopt him! Click here to find out.


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320 sqft
Bar & Restaurant
À partager
This is a niche events space for small gatherings a short walk from Manchester Arndale. Although it's a grungy space, it comes with lots of personality.
There is exposed steel piping along the ceiling and walls and the concrete flooring has been worn in. The furnishings are an eclectic assortment, think leather sofas, wooden stools and school benches. There is also a ping pong table set up in the centre of the room.
The space located in a back alley opposite the Allotment bar. During the day, it is a quiet space visited by locals looking for a cool place to meet friends. The venue would best suited to an intimate underground event such as a film screening or an acoustic gig.
HALF-DAY HIRE (11.30am-3.30pm)
- £295/booking + VAT.
FULL-DAY HIRE (8am-3.30pm)
- £590/booking + VAT.
ADDITIONAL HOURS (3.30pm-close)
- £65/hour + VAT (Sundays-Thursdays)
- £125/hour + VAT (Fridays-Saturdays)
The space is off the beaten track so would better suit a ticketed event.
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Look at all the fun things I found while shopping at the trim stores yesterday! The buttons are vintage, and some of them will be used for earrings while the others will probably become embellishment on a cute crocheted hat I found at Anthropologie last week. And I couldn't resist the egg cup. No idea what I'll do with it; maybe it will just sit on the desk and hold paperclips for the time being.
I also bought some terrific ribbons as embellishment for the aprons (oh, look! I was a stressed-out wreck when I wrote that post too!), which are coming along nicely. I won't bother to show them yet; they can wait to be photographed once they're finished.
AND I bought three books! More on those later.
On the not-so-goodies stressed-out wreck side, we are suffering some serious sleep deprivation over here. Little has discovered separation anxiety, and the waking and screaming keep getting worse and worse. This is when I miss Todd the most (he travels during the week and makes it home during the weekends), and when I am simultaneously glad that he isn't here to suffer through it with me. Ooh, our poor neighbors who swear they don't hear the screaming - it sounds like the poor baby is going to blow the walls off our apartment, she's so loud!
Fortunately we are going to the pediatrician today for Bebe's flu shot. The shot won't be fun for either of us, but at least I can talk to the pediatrician about getting expert help with the sleep problem. I don't know if I can continue this way much longer. Such a happy, sweet-tempered baby; how can the nights be so painful for both of us?
On a more light-hearted note, we walked by Rockefeller Center yesterday, and the skating rink is being prepared for a (televised?) opening celebration happening today. I snapped a quick photo in passing. You can see all the lights being set up on the right side of the picture.


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Mia turned 7 on Sunday. Her original plans involved going on a cruise to Disneyland with her entire 1st grade class and any one else she's ever known. Eventually that morphed into me taking Mia and 2 of her friends to brunch at the fancy restaurant at the top of the Space Needle. I think that was a good compromise, no? Though if you've taken even one almost 7 year old to a fancy restaraunt lately you probably would have told me to do the cruise. Not that they were bad, but when you take kids to anywhere fancier than Red Robin, you suddenly realize just why it is that you go to Red Robin, and it's not for the food. I think the best part was when Mia opened one of her presents and used her outside voice to exclaim, "It's just what I wanted-- a whoopee cushion! When you sit on it, it sounds like a fart!!" I would just like to say to the (childless) couple sitting right next to us: thank you for not snarfing your fresh-squeezed organic orange juice. I was not so restrained.
Do you know how many times I've heard the word fart in the last 72 hours? As well as the sound to go along with it? And then there was my dad who was gently encouraging Mia to take the thing to church. What really cracks me up though is that Mia doesn't use it for jokes on other people. No, it's for her. To sit on. Over and over again. Oh, and by the way, it's self-inflating. This means she can entertain herself for hours. All she has to do is sit on the cushion, perform a slight bum lift, and repeat the process for as long as she wants. Yesterday this went on the entire time she was doing her homework. She now sees no reason why she shouldn't enjoy a fart sound every time she sits down. In fact, she was quite upset when she came home from school today to find I had moved the whoopee cushion off of her chair. "Don't you know that this belongs permanently on my chair?!" she scolded. And then she promptly sat on it for punctuation.
She has a nick name for it. I believe it's Fartsy.
Oh, and within the first 24 hours, it popped after a particularly enthusiastic pounce. Thank goodness for duct tape, eh Fartsy?


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In an earlier post about using Virtual Server on top of Vista – I mentioned that you needed to run Internet Explorer 'As Administrator' in order for the Virtual Server website to work. The problem that you will hit is that the .URL that is used in the Virtual Server start menu cannot be started 'As Administrator'. I have found that if I make a shortcut with the following command (one line):
"C:Program FilesInternet Exploreriexplore.exe" "http://localhost/VirtualServer/vswebapp.exe?view=1"
It will work as a Virtual Server webpage shortcut and it can be started 'As Administrator'. You can configure this shortcut to always run as administrator by selecting the advanced button under the shortcut tab and checking the option to 'Run as administrator'.


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Labb is a northeastern Thai food made with ground meat, herbs, spices and rice powder (in Num Tok blog). It tastes sour and spicy almost like a salad. We eat it with sticky rice and fresh vegetables like cabbage and Thai basil. When I worked at a restaurant this menu was a special menu, because not too many American people (in my town) know about this, but after checking online this is one of the top ten menus people are searching online. It's not hard to make Labb. In Thailand the most popular Labb is made from ground pork or beef also you can use chicken or for vegetarians use mushrooms still making this dish taste good. But remember you have to mince or ground the meat or mushrooms otherwise we don't call this Labb….
Ingredients : 1 serving
1 cup ground pork (any kind of meat or mushroom)
2 tbsp. fish sauce
2 tbsp. lime juice
1 tbsp. rice powder
1 tsp. chili flack
2 tbsp. shallot or red onion
1 tbsp. chopped green onion
1 tbsp. chopped mint
3 tbsp. water
Cooking instructions
1. In a medium sauce pot add water and turn the heat on until it boils then add ground meat. Break the meat while it is cooking. When the meat is cooked turn the heat off.
2. Add all of the ingredients except green onion and mint into the cooked ground meat and toss it until mixed well then add green onion and mint at the end (to prevent over cooking the herb)
3. Serve with sticky rice, fresh cabbage, cucumber or carrot for cooling down the heat.


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I am blessed to work at a large church in Rogers, Ar. I have been at Fellowship for the past 5 years and absolutely love the people I get to work with and the work I get to do. It is definitely like my second family. They have supported me, prayed for me and encouraged me every step of our journey. They went all out in throwing us an amazing shower. Complete with delicious pies!
This one was at Marc's office. I obviously did a horrible job of capturing it and getting a decent pic of anything. They made a lovely meal for us and blessed us with several wonderful gifts.
I feel like each shower we had was so surreal. I almost felt like I was just pretending and taking someones spot just walking through the fun motions.
We seriously have felt so honored and blessed by each shower we have had (which I'm well aware has been several). I'm so incredibly thankful to each person that has played a part in throwing us one or just attending one of the many. I'm humbled by the love and graciousness that we have experienced and will forever be grateful.
Maren is one lucky kid and her closet already shows how spoiled she is... oops!


text: At 11:12 AM 2/15/2003, Howard Chu wrote: >Thinking about this more, my previous post didn't make much sense... In a >regular (non-transactional) read operation, BDB releases locks as soon as the >read finishes. I think this is the ideal mode of operation for reads. >Wrapping reads in a transaction means locks will accumulate until the end of >the transaction, which increases the probability of a particular read causing >another write to block. If we just break the search operation into many >little read transactions, this is no different than the locking behavior of >non-transactional reads. So, I still don't see any advantage to be gained >here, and I don't see that the BDB library itself needs any changes. The concern <http://www.sleepycat.com/docs/ref/lock/notxn.html>: It is important to realize that concurrent applications that use locking must ensure that two concurrent threads do not block each other. However, because Btree and Hash access method page splits can occur at any time, there is virtually no way to guarantee that an application that writes the database cannot deadlock. Applications running without the protection of transactions may deadlock, and can leave the database in an inconsistent state when they do so. Applications that need concurrent access, but not transactions, are more safely implemented using the Berkeley DB Concurrent Data Store Product. > -- Howard Chu > Chief Architect, Symas Corp. Director, Highland Sun > http://www.symas.com http://highlandsun.com/hyc > Symas: Premier OpenSource Development and Support > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Kurt D. Zeilenga [mailto:email@example.com] > >> One possible approach is not to wrap the whole search operation >> in a single transactions, but use many. One for baseObject >> finding, one for candidate determination, and one for each >> candidate. However, this would likely cost way more than 10% >> (with logging). >> >> Kurt >> >> >> At 04:11 PM 2/14/2003, Howard Chu wrote: >> >I guess it's worth exploring. It might be nice if BDB >> provided a locker >> >entity for this purpose - i.e., like a transaction, all >> locks are held by one >> >locker, but without any of the logging associated with a >> real transaction. I >> >haven't convinced myself yet that it really buys us much. >> > >> >In the normal case, you slow down the search by 10% and get >> no other benefit. >> > >> >In the case of multiple concurrent operations, you actually decrease >> >concurrency because locks obtained inside a transaction are >> held to the end >> >of the transaction, no matter if you explicitly release them or not. >> > >> >In the case of a search spawned while processing another >> transaction, you are >> >creating nested transactions, which decreases concurrency >> even fruther >> >because all of the locks in each nested transaction are held >> until the parent >> >is released. If you don't nest the transactions, then you're just as >> >vulnerable to deadlock as before. >> > >> >The deadlock problem seems to arise from the fact that we >> can either use >> >transactions, in which case all locks are tied to that one >> transaction (this >> >is good because it prevents us from deadlocking ourself, bad >> because it keeps >> >locks longer than they're needed) or we have every >> individual operation >> >getting/releasing its own locks on the fly (bad because we >> can deadlock >> >ourself easily). What would be ideal is something in the >> middle - passing a >> >locker ID to every BDB function, so that it gets used for >> all the locks, and >> >they are all released at the exact moment we wish. >> > >> > -- Howard Chu >> > Chief Architect, Symas Corp. Director, Highland Sun >> > http://www.symas.com http://highlandsun.com/hyc >> > Symas: Premier OpenSource Development and Support >> > >> >-----Original Message----- >> >From: firstname.lastname@example.com >> >[mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com]On Behalf Of >> firstname.lastname@example.com >> > >> >I think we should restart discussing on the >> transaction-protected searches. >> >The overhead of transactional searches does not seem to be >> prohibitively >> >significant. >> >(I remember around 10% when I experimented with it.) >> >One concern is the semantics of the aborted LDAP search. >> >1. abort the whole search ? >> > In this case, it would be the client's responsibility to >> resend the >> >search request. >> >2. abort a single db->get() of the candidate loop ? >> > We should have one transaction per loop iteration. >> > The overhead of frequent transaction begin and commit has to be >> >measured. >> >- Jong >> > >> >BTW, Joseph, what is the version number of BerkeleyDB ? Is it 3.x ? >> > >> >------------------------ >> >Jong Hyuk Choi >> >IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center - Enterprise Linux Group >> >P. O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598 >> >email: email@example.com >> >(phone) 914-945-3979 (fax) 914-945-4425 TL: 862-3979 >>


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BEIJING: China's vehicle sales rebounded in June, the country's top industry association said, shaking off weakness seen in the previous two months as carmakers grappled with a rollback in tax incentives that drove strong growth last year. Total vehicle sales hit 2.17 million in June, up 4.5 percent from a year earlier, while sales for the first half of the year rose 3.8 percent to 13.4 million vehicles, the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM) said on Tuesday. The rise in sales, which industry insiders said was helped by hefty discounting, lends a sheen to the world's largest auto market, but growth overall is struggling to keep pace with 2016 when the market grew at its fastest pace in three years.
Overall vehicle demand in China would likely grow just 1-4 percent this year, mainly because consumers made purchases last year to benefit from lower tax rates, said Yale Zhang, head of Shanghai-based consultancy Automotive Foresight. In January, CAAM predicted sales would rise 5 percent this year, slowing from 13.7 percent in 2016, citing the rollback of a tax incentive for small-engine cars and economic pressures. It stuck with that forecast on Tuesday. June's rise, however, marks an improvement from April and May, when vehicle sales fell 2.2 percent and 0.1 percent, respectively, registering two straight months of declines for the first time since 2015.
Peter Fleet, Ford Motor Co's <F.N> Asia-Pacific chief, told Reuters average vehicle transaction prices in China had fallen about 4 percent in the first half of this year against 2016. "We continue to see negative industry pricing in China," he said. Ford is among the foreign brands strong in the small sedan segment that have seen China sales slow this year, others being General Motors Co <GM.N> and Volkswagen AG <VOWG_p.DE>. Buyers in China have shied away since the purchase tax on vehicles with engines of 1.6 litres or below rose to 7.5 percent, from 5 percent, at the start of the year. However, there is one bright spot: sales of new-energy vehicles (NEVs) – all-electric battery vehicles and plug-in electric hybrids – that saw a 33 percent bump in June to 59,000 units, the latest CAAM data shows. In the first half of this year, sales volume of such NEVs totalled 195,000 vehicles, up 14.4 percent. China is the world's largest market for green energy vehicles, with the government aggressively promoting the segment, including spending billions in subsidies, in a bid to fight intense urban air pollution.


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We have been working on synonyms all week and, WOW, what a difference I have seen in their writing! I frequently heard my writers talking about the 'boring' words that they used synonyms for in their stories. To celebrate our increasing vocabularies, we cooked up some delicious synonym cinnamon buns! They were so proud of the powerful words they have been writing and saying, not to mention they LOVED rocking the chefs' hats!
We also spent time putting said to bed this week. I thought I would include a picture of an anchor chart that we created one morning after reading My Rotten Redheaded Older Brother by Patricia Polacco. My students were amazed at how many different ways they could communicate in their oral and written language instead of just using "said." In fact, this minilesson went beyond any guidelines for a proper minilesson! We had the best discussion that I just could not find it in my teacher's heart to stop. After being at the mat for about 30 minutes (and completely engaged!), I apologized to my writers for taking up so much of their writing time. On of my little friends spoke up and said, "But Mrs. Goldhardt, this was so worth it!" If that doesn't SCREAM meaningful instruction, then I don't know what does.