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Bullying at the University of Newcastle (Australia)
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This will help us gather as much information as possible so that we can put an end to this bullying with its' decades-long history.
"Systemic bullying, hazing and abuse generally are identified with poor, weak or toxic organizational cultures. Cultures that are toxic have stated ethical values that are espoused but not employed, and other non-ethical values which are operational, dominant, but unstated.
Such cultures thrive when good people are silent, silenced, or pushed out; when bad apples are vocal, retained, promoted, and empowered; and when the neutral majority remain silent in order to survive. Those who are most successful in such a toxic culture are those who have adapted to it, or adopted it as their own". (McKay, Arnold, Fratzl & Thomas, 2008)
Wednesday, April 29, 2015
"The University (of Newcastle) is a model for integrity" - according to itself
"..for years universities have declared how much importance they attach to ethical practices. Look at any university website, search for values, mission, integrity, code of conduct and the like, and you will probably find impressive commitments to ethical standards and practices."
The University of Newcastle in its Code of Conduct states that one of its values is HONESTY which "involves acting lawfully and with academic integrity".
Another value is TRUST - "being able to rely on the integrity, honesty, capability, confidentiality
and fairness of others".
ACCOUNTABILITY - "committed to academic integrity and hold to account any unethical behaviour or wrongdoing.
"As a result, the University (of Newcastle) is a model for integrity".
Robertson continues, stating
"Universities should take their ethical responsibilities seriously, not just because most are answerable to taxpayers, or because they must comply with public sector ethical standards.
Society can quite reasonably look to universities to set consistently good ethical standards for others to follow. And universities must be willing to practise by the same ethics they teach their students in many disciplines, including in business ethics.
According to the Ethics Resources Centre in the US, "a strong ethical culture creates a happier, healthier organisation". Unfortunately, when staff witness superiors turning a blind eye to conduct that seems inconsistent with the university's own values and policies, the organisation's ethical culture is diminished."
Tuesday, April 28, 2015
Shock horror! Economists query the pay of top university administrators.
"Capping the salaries of top university administrators, rather than using government debt to finance exorbitant payrolls for these bureaucrats, would help a bit."
Does the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Newcastle actually deserve/work hard enough to deserve a salary that is around EIGHT times that of a senior lecturer?
Are the salaries of the Deputy Vice-Chancellors of the University of Newcastle justified/justifiable (around SIX times that of a senior lecturer)?
Never mind the Pro-Vice Chancellors of each Faculty!!
Sunday, April 19, 2015
Deny, silence, gag, defend,...........
"The University of Newcastle provided documents showing it previously paid undisclosed commissions totalling almost $24 million to international student agents since 2010.
It has also revealed that money spent on hospitality for the agents soared from $8,000 to $36,000 last year.
The university said the extra spending was "an investment in a training event" in 2014."
$36,000 is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING for the University of Newcastle.
It spends endless amounts of money on using legal firms to get rid of whistleblowers, providing higher salaries, rewards and promotion to academics who get rid of whistleblowers, to silence/gag students and staff who have been bullied/harassed/victimised at the University, paying senior management exorbitant salaries, keeping the vast media and spin department going, etc etc.
As a taxpayer, are you happy for your money to be used like this?
Would you like $36,000 to be spent on your next company event?
What about $24 million - yes, $24,000,000.00?
Friday, April 17, 2015
Another way that the University of Newcastle (mis-)uses taxpayers' money
We know that large amounts of taxpayer's money are used to pay staff to remain silent about the bullying and harassment that they have suffered (it costs around $450,000 to gag a member of staff). At least FIFTEEN people have reported that they have been gagged by the University to keep quiet about their bullying.
We also know that large amounts of money are used to keep the media machine going - to pay spin masters to aggressively market the University.
"The University of Newcastle (UON), which has paid previously undisclosed commissions totalling almost $24 million to agents since 2010, told Four Corners that it had also run into trouble with its offshore partners.
"In January 2014 UON terminated a contract with an agent as a result of an investigation that confirmed fraudulent documentation had been submitted by the agent as part of two student applications," a UON spokeswoman said.
The university has also recently splurged on hospitality for its agents. Last year, its budget for entertainment soared from $7,850 to more than $36,000. Its spokeswoman explained that, in 2014, "the university hosted a major summit in Australia for its offshore agents, as well as summits in regional hubs across Australia"."
Why are we not surprised?
Monday, April 13, 2015
"Fat cats slurping on the cream"
8 times
that of a senior lecturer!
Her salary increased by 13.8% between 2012 and 2013.
As HW says, "the whole deregulation debate has been propelled because universities are broke. Apparently they're not."
Wednesday, April 8, 2015
"Surreal nightmare"
Comment from survey respondent (survey of staff/students bullied at the University of Newcastle):-
"Holy moly, what hope is there then if this is the kind of behaviour that goes on"
What is heartening (but sad) about many of these comments is the disbelief and shock shown by commentators about the extent and nature of toxic bosses/bullying in workplace, especially universities like the University of Newcastle.
- This is the saddest series of comments I have ever read. What is wrong with us? Where is the love we were filled with when we were born? And this Hell is being built in Universities! It reads like we are in a Gulag.
- The stories shared in this thread demonstrate how deeply entrenched toxic bosses are, even in universities.
- Change needs to come from the top and whilst universities continue to ignore evidence for bullying and harassment, nothing will change. Good people will continue to be forced out and suffer the consequences.
- Holy moly, what hope is there then if this is the kind of behaviour that goes on.
- Universities have also been known for toxic bosses, favoritism, nepotism, etc. and they seem to reward toxic bosses.
Are the University of Newcastle staff prepared to do ANYTHING to hang on to their power and privilege?
Are the staff at the University of Newcastle (rightfully!) too scared about the consequences if they speak out?


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Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Friendship Triangles and Quilt Show
Happy Quilting, I'll be back with a new quilt very soon. Enjoy the dog days of summer.
22 comments:
- Nicole said...
Your triangle quilt is wonderful! I started one similar to it many years ago, but didn't finish it. I think I need to re-examine that pattern and make it up with more current fabrics. Thanks for the inspiration.
- August 17, 2010 at 8:31 AM
- Floss said...
your triagles look great.
Thanks for sharing the other quilts too.
- August 17, 2010 at 11:26 AM
- Terry said...
Your quilt looks fabulous! I knew it would! Those borders are perfect for it! And good job on the miters too! :0)
- August 17, 2010 at 11:41 AM
- Karen said...
Your border fabric was a good choice. It certainly does pick up the colors from your quilt center.
- August 17, 2010 at 2:10 PM
- Lori said...
Wendy! The blue paisley is so perfect!! It really does allow the center to shine.
The fantastic blues throughout the whole quilt really make this one a stunner!!!
- August 17, 2010 at 2:35 PM
- Shakerwood said...
The quilt turned out beautiful and yes, it deed need the mitered corners. Great job!
- August 17, 2010 at 2:54 PM
- Sue-Anne said...
Your quilt looks great Wendy. Well done with the mitred corners, they look perfect.
- August 17, 2010 at 3:13 PM
- Quilts And Pieces said...
You did wonderful on your mitered corners! Good Job!
- August 17, 2010 at 8:07 PM
- Bogdan Stelistul said...
Salut!!!My name is bogdan from Romania!!!
We can be friends ???
- August 17, 2010 at 10:15 PM
- Kaaren said...
Awesome job, Wendy and you chose the perfect border. Your mitered corners look perfect to me!
I can't wait to see it after it's been quilted.
- August 18, 2010 at 4:36 AM
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- August 18, 2010 at 6:20 AM
- Darlene said...
Oh Wendy it's fabulous - love the border fabric and your miters are perfect. woohoo - it's done!!!
Thank you for sharing pictures from the quilt show.
- August 18, 2010 at 7:14 AM
- Carol said...
Wendy it is spectacular! Your miters are PERFECT!!!!!!!!!! Thanks for the quilt show pictures...I love the first quilt!
- August 18, 2010 at 8:15 AM
- Cheryl said...
Hi Wendy,
Saw your comments on my blog and just had to come visit yours. Your friendship triangle quilt is stunning. A labor of love! I have a free pattern that describes how I miter a corner if you are interested, but you look like you have it down! I also love your embroidery! I am a follower now so I will keep in touch as your remodel and embroidery progress. Wow, love the wool applique! We share some of the same interests!
- August 18, 2010 at 7:09 PM
- Jen said...
You got such a perfect border for that quilt! It frames it very subtley and you did a great job on the mitering. I think mitered corners look so much more professional. On the last quilt I pieced I was watching TV while I put the borders on. After I finished and looked at it, I said, "Oops, forgot to miter the corners."
- August 18, 2010 at 9:20 PM
- Sharon said...
I love this and the borders you have chosen are wonderful. It definitely needed mitered corners, it's great!
- August 18, 2010 at 10:01 PM
- quiltingnana said...
love the creativity of the cat quilt...the triangle quilt is lovely
- August 20, 2010 at 6:50 AM
- Red Geranium Cottage said...
Love your friendship quilt. I have never done a mitered border and I dont plan on it. lolol You did a great job though. Mine would be all puckered.
You know we'd rather see the quilts than the cars anyway right?? :-) Thanks for the show.
- August 20, 2010 at 8:52 AM
- August 20, 2010 at 6:34 PM
- Magia da Inês said...
♥♥ Olá, amiga!
Que lindo! Que fofura!!! Que delicadeza!... seus trabalhos são encantadores. ♥♥
Bom fim de semana!...
♥ ...com tudo de bom!
♥ Itabira
Brasil ♥♥
- August 21, 2010 at 6:24 AM
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- August 23, 2010 at 1:45 AM
- Wendy P said...
I know what you mean about starting this quilt. I have a box of tiny (1 to 1 1/2 inch) hsts from trimming other quilt blocks. I know there is a quilt like yours in my future, but I know it will make me insane too!
Your quilt is so pretty. Totally worth the work.
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On our second day enjoying the beautiful beach at Disney's Aulani Resort, my husband went swimming with his iPhone in his pocket. Which did not have a waterproof case. So we quickly added one more excursion to our list: a trip to the AT&T store for a new phone. Fortunately he had the phone long enough that he was eligible for an upgrade rather than having to pay full price. But it was still an expense we hadn't planned for.
When we got home, I remembered we had the insurance policy and looked up baggage loss. It said cell phones & other electronics were covered for up to $150 per device. And there were no restrictions for being careless, clumsy-minded, or simply having a middle-aged moment!
I just had to send in some paperwork: a summary of what happened, a diagnostic report from AT&T saying phone was dead, an estimate to replace it, and a 'denial of coverage' letter from our homeowner's insurance (since the baggage portion of travel insurance is secondary coverage).
A few weeks later, I received a check for $149, which more than reimbursed us for the $113 we spent on our Travel Guard policy.
I have to mention that later on the trip, my son ALSO went swimming with his phone. Since it wasn't a smartphone, AT&T gave us a new one for free in appreciation for our customer loyalty, so we didn't submit a claim. However we could have received up to $150 towards a new phone for him as well, since the policy covered up to $1000 for baggage loss. That also included things like lost, damaged, or stolen items, as long as the appropriate reports have been filed with the police, the airline, etc.
As you can see, even one little incident like this can make a travel insurance policy worthwhile. I have to admit, it's more likely that my family will dump a beach bag filled with electronic gadgets off a boat than cancel a trip last minute. But since insurance policies are so reasonably priced, that alone makes it worthwhile. And the peace of mind that comes from knowing thousands of dollars of travel expenses are also protected is priceless.
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The Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) is a network protocol that ensures a loop-free topology for any bridged Ethernet local area network.
The definition says:"network protocol that ensures a loop-free topology for any bridged Ethernet local area network." A loop free topology! which means if you CONFIGURE it properly, it WILL work as designed.
So why is it disabled by so many "seasoned" veterans of the networking industry. Can you imagine if service providers took the same attitude so many of us veterans have by not following the rules defined by the protocol? None of our packets would would leave our cable modems! Please let us stop being so lazy and enable the protocols and treat them for what they were defined for. You eggheads please do not send me some crazy comments attempting to prove the protocol wrong, please read the rules and definitions of Spanning-tree basics. If someone can prove why it should not be enabled I am all ears. Please inform instead of marginalize and castigate. The inquisitions were over in the medieval ages. Please step into the modern world.
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The Mexican youth movement #YoSoy132 shook up the debate before the country's presidential elections in July. Now that the ballots have closed, #YoSoy132 is trying to find its footing in the nation's political scene.
Students like Santino Bucio, a #YoSoy132 spokesman, still organize nationwide marches, accusing President-elect Enrique Peña Nieto of voter fraud and the nation's top media company, Televisa, of biased coverage that favored Nieto.
"We live in a time when it's like the revolution is floating in the air,'' Bucio, who performs slam poetry at marches in Mexico City, says in the Storyhunter video below. "We have to grab it with our hands. All the ideas are there for the taking, and all you need is enough creativity to make it happen."
Despite passionate protest from students like Bucio, some interviewed in the video say the movement is at risk of fading away and they must unite with traditional politicians to influence policy in a sustainable way. Students began the #YoSoy132 movement by using social media to organize massive protests against Nieto, without officially supporting any other political candidate.
Storyhunters Pablo Abrahams and John Dickie update us on the movement's post-election plans in our latest dispatch below:
The Uncertain Future of Mexico's #YoSoy132 Movement from Storyhunter on Vimeo.
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|Judy Rodgers
in a San Francisco
Chronicle photograph
from 2003.
She had struggled with her health for several years and last winter was finally diagnosed with a rare form of cancer.
She will be missed, for her cooking and spirit of trying new ways of cooking old favorites; if you ever had a Zuni Cafe roast chicken, you will know exactly what I'm talking about.
This was a review of "The Zuni Cafe Cookbook" that ran in The Sacramento Bee in 2002. If you ever need a recipe from it, I still have my copy and would be happy to copy it for you.
By Lori Korleski Richardson
Judy Rodgers, welcome.
Unlike many chefs who seek to dazzle readers with their oh-so-cutting-edge creativity and slavish attention to detail, Rodgers would be comfortable in an ordinary kitchen. And you should invite her into yours - well, at least virtually, which you can do by picking up "The Zuni Cafe Cookbook" (Norton, $35).
Rodgers has succeeded in bringing forth a cookbook that elevates quality ingredients to their ultimate best, without a lot of bells and whistles. Her introductory quote, from the patriarch of the French family that set her on her way to becoming a chef, says it all: "Méfie-toi du cinéma dans la cuisine" - "Do not trust food for show."
The chef-owner of San Francisco's Zuni Cafe, Rodgers learned the sensuous side of food as a teen, when she went to live in Roanne with a family of restaurateurs. There she learned that even food as simple as a ham sandwich can be turned into something special, although she sampled fresh whole truffles steamed in Sauternes as well. She took extensive notes, but did not learn to cook then. She came back to the States to go to college in Berkeley, but ended up learning the cooking trade slowly at the feet of Alice Waters, who let Rodgers prepare lunches at Chez Panisse from the dinner leftovers.
She spent time later learning American cooking from Marion Cunningham at the Union Hotel in Benicia, and spent time in Florence, Umbria and Sicily to learn the roots of great Italian cooking.
And if the travelogue of an introduction isn't enough reading, Rodgers goes on to instruct the reader how to approach planning and cooking a meal. It's a lot to ask before one even gets to the recipes (43 pages), but it's not to be missed. She also weaves in stories with the recipes. I tried to keep "Zuni" by my bedside to read before going to sleep, but it made me want to get up and try things.
And later, when I did try some of the recipes - Zuni's signature roast chicken, the spicy squid stew that simmered in its own ink with notes of citrus and roasted peppers, the salt-roasties (creamer potatoes roasted in rock salt which were succulent and hardly salty at all), the four-minute egg gribiche (the four minutes refers to the time the egg is cooked; the whisking of a cup of olive oil into the sauce took much longer), the cornmeal biscotti, the espresso granita with whipped cream - I was not disappointed. All the recipes were straightforward, easy to follow, and the aromas made me anticipate the outcomes, which were excellent. Every recipe, even the desserts, comes with wine recommendations by Gerald Asher.
This is not a book for folks with hypertension. Rodgers believes in salting food early in the cooking process for maximum flavor, and uses more sodium than many health-conscious folks would. The food, however, never tastes overly salty to the average palate.
"The Zuni Cafe Cookbook" is ambitious enough to thrill experienced cooks, but it would be a good first cookbook for anyone who appreciates fine food and wants to learn how to work it into one's life, since it focuses more on technique than following a recipe to the nth degree.
Rodgers covers the basics - what cookware to purchase, how to make various stocks, sauces, a discussion of what to look for in common ingredients such as garlic and tomatoes, and even how to hard-boil an egg. I couldn't find a recipe that required a food processor - rather a remarkable feat for a modern cookbook, but a welcome one for cooks who don't have that expensive appliance. It has 50 small black and white photographs to illustrate various techniques. But its directions are somewhat - and perhaps intentionally - sketchy. They may help a confident cook experiment and grow, but may be somewhat confusing to the novice.
The 24 color photographs by Gentl & Hyers/Edge are stunning and focus the attention on the food, not fancy designs on sauces or pretty graffiti on the edges of the plates. It may not be food for show, but it's certainly food you'll want to show your guests.


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Nauru said yesterday it would turn away two yachts carrying rights activists staging a World Refugee Day protest against Australia's detention of illegal immigrants on the South Pacific Island.
The "Flotilla of Hope" carried teddy bears for children in the island detention centre set up for the Australian government as part of its so-called Pacific solution to the problem of people-smuggling.
But Nauru government spokeswoman Helen Bogdan said yesterday that the Refugee Action Coalition's yachts Eureka and One Off, which left Brisbane on May 23 on the 4,000km voyage, would not be allowed to land.
Eureka was one nautical mile off the island and One Off was another nine miles away, Bogdan said.
"So far they have not been intercepted by the Nauran boats but I understand that the minister for justice this morning has said they will definitely not be allowed to go ashore," she said.
"So it is expected that the boats will go out and meet them at sea and take the presents and a representative or two from the asylum seekers will be on board those boats to greet them."
Hundreds of other sympathizers around Australia yesterday protested against their country's hardline policy of mandatory detention for all illegal immigrants.
Seven Iraqis who have been refused refugee status by Australia are understood to be on a hunger strike in the detention centre.
However, Immigration Minister Amanda Vanstone said the hunger strikers were all in good health and their protest would make no difference to the assessment of their asylum claims.
"We've been through this before with a hunger strike," she added.
Vanstone also issued a statement saying World Refugee Day provided an ideal opportunity to reiterate Australia's efforts in resettling more than 620,000 refugees and displaced people since World War Two.
"Australia has a long and proud history of resettling people who have genuine fear of persecution or discrimination in their homeland," she said.
"Our refugee program is one of the three largest dedicated resettlement programs in the world and in the past 10 years alone Australia has resettled more than 100,000 people under this program," Vanstone said.


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Tuesday, April 17, 2012
All Mets Fans Want is a Consistent Jason Bay
Bay has more ups and downs than Alec Baldwin. Against Philly he hits a home run in the first inning to give the Mets a 3-0 lead, but then a few innings later with the bases loaded he grounds into a double play. Last night, he looks like he can't get a hit in a backyard game of wiffle ball and then he pounds another home run just after he robs a home run.
We know what we get from David Wright. He'll be on a streak for 3 weeks and then won't get a hit for 2 weeks only to follow that with another hot streak. Why can't we get any consistency from Jason Bay? It's baffling.
Currently, he has more home runs than he had through the middle of May last year, but his hitting isn't exactly a strong point in the lineup. The only consistent element Bay brings is his defense. While the Mets have question marks throughout their defense, Bay is the one guy who you know will the ball correctly and give you a solid outing in the field.
However, I would gladly trade an error or two in the field for a few more RBI's from Bay in the middle of that Mets lineup. I don't think we'll see a consistent Bay, but there will be a consistent outcry from Mets fandom should we suffer through yet another torturous year of Bay's offensive ineptness.
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- bvcxfdzb said...
I hope he turns out consistent but who knows. I need him consistent too or these season tickets I got off FrontRowKing.com wont be worth much
- April 18, 2012 at 4:45 PM
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Yes, that's my seriously cute kid eating ribs. But first, let's get to the good stuff.
Here is David, riding a mechanical bull at the pork extravaganza known as "Rib Fest" held in New Paltz, New York.
He's somewhere on the ground under the bull.
Unfortunately for me, he looked great on the bull and didn't humiliate himself. Bummer. I was kind of counting on that.
I got all excited when he said he was going to ride the bull 'cause I was thinking in my head, "Oh man, I'm so gonna blog about this and he's gonna go flying off that thing and I'm gonna have this great shot of him screaming and ripping through the air and then the end shot will be like the gash on his leg where he careened into a clown making balloon animals for the kids."
That's right, that's what I was thinking. I'm a shitty wife.
But none of this happened. Turns out my man is a gifted mechanical bull rider. Not one audience member laughed at him or pointed or whispered something like "That poor girl, married to a boob like that," and I checked. I asked around. I got nothing.
The guy was cool looking even when he fell, but he stayed on the bull so long no one cared. Even the stupid hat looked good on him with his long hair. People clapped. And when he opened his mouth to speak and his Australian accent came out, he looked even cooler, more exotic, like he had grown up riding kangaroos or something in the bush.
By the time, he made it back over to me, he been elevated to national hero status. Someone started singing 'Danny Boy'. A group of drunk men wanted to carry him around the grounds on their shoulders. A woman flung her panties at him.
Okay, that panty part was a lie. But the rest?...on my podiatrist's eyes.
So, then we did what any self-respecting family of a national hero does when they go to Rib Fest - we went hunting for pork.
That's when we found Moe's from Boston. These guys are serious about their ribs. The line for their ribs, pulled pork and fixin's went so far back, we knew these guys had to be special.
This is Moe.
And the gang. Doin' their thing.
And then, we ate. A lot.
And then, Lucy showed me the ribs inside her mouth. Which is pleasant.
And then, we took our full bellies and went climbing in the nearby Shawanagunks. Let me re-phrase that. I sit around and drink Diet Pepsi, which David calls "The Black Cancer Juice" and flick ants off my legs, while the rest of the family dangles off the edges of cliffs.
My lot in life is to watch the people I love do death death-defying things. And then, feed them afterwards.
Sounds not so bad to me...
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Which Golf Course?
As I understand it....
Darwin himself proposed the following make or break test for his theory:
"If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. But I can find out no such case."
ID reads "complex multi-protein genetically defined structure with a novel function" for "complex organ" and proposes that the bacterial flagellum motor function is one such case. Not that it could not occur by numerous successive slight modifications BUT that the pathway to the final working structure is too improbable to allow us to accept chance mutation and natural selection as reasonable causes of the structure.
ID suggests that the pathway to a useful motor function does not have sufficient selectively advantageous "stopping places" along the way to allow an unintelligent process to reach it in the amount of time available.
Thus Darwin proposes that the "golf course" where the "hole" is the working motor performing a useful function is more like a cone with the hole at the tip….gradually the "golf ball" will move under the weight of selective advantage to the "hole" of molecular motor function.
ID proposes that the "golf course" is more like a real golfcourse where blind and deaf golfers are at a distinct disadvantage!
If ID is true then one would hope to find:
(a) there would be very few functional selectively advantageous structures as intermediate stopping places along the way to the motor function. (the golf course is not designed to make a 'hole in one' likely for any rolling golf ball)
(b) The number of possible structures with a motor function will be relatively few (the hole is small)
If Darwin's theory were the true explanation of the origin of the motor function of the bacterial flagellum then one would hope to find:
(a) there would be many functional selectively advantageous structures as intermediate "stopping places" along the way to motor function. (the golf course slopes down to the hole)
(b) The number of possible structures with a selectively advantageous motor function will be relatively large (the hole is large.)
...have I grasped the issue?


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As you can see, getting ready for your Mad Hatter's tea party is half the fun. Below are some ideas to get you started.
It is fun to have guests sit randomly around the table: it encourages people to make new friends. To achieve this, have guests as they arrive, pic a card. The cards should be arranged face down. I used cards from an incomplete deck. Creative reuse is better than buying new. The card they choose (B.) can either correspond to card (C.) that is already placed at each place setting. Or have the number on card B match the number on the chess piece.
Name Tags
Also, card B can be made into a name tag and pinned on guests using a safety pin. To make the name tag, use a self-adhesive sticker. Name tags are helpful when you have a lot of guests that don't know each other. Alternatively, guests can choose their own names such as Tweedle Dee, or Alice…
The number on "A" can also be used in a game. The chess pieces are arranged around the table in numerical order. During random times during the party, the Queen can announce "Switch" and all the guests that have an odd number must move over to the next odd number. Only the odd numbers will rotate. In the book, everyone leaves their dishes and gets new ones- in this version; guests carry their dishes with them. It's cumbersome, odd and delightfully fun. It also promotes mingling of guests.
This wooden chess set was given to me. It was missing one or two pieces but I kept it because I saw possibilities! I painted the pieces red and glued on a number.
Chairs need not match. Use a winged backed chair for the head of the table if you have one.
An antique key like this one is a nice touch. I painted this one gold. Miss-matched tea cups are easy to find at thrift stores. This one was a thrift store find.
Framed Card
The queen of hearts card can easily be framed with a thrifted frame. No mat required.
Painted Roses
Painted roses are easy to make if you are lucky enough to find some second-hand white roses.
Cake Stands
I made this cake stand from a thrift store glass and plate that I glued together. The cards were salvaged from an incomplete deck. Make several of different heights to make a stunning dessert table display.
Vintage Clock
Because you don't want to be late.
Drink Me
I found this bottle at a thrift store. I washed it carefully and added a label that said "Drink me." Add a sign near the food that says "Eat me."
Well that's all I'm going to post today.
Click here to see more of my tea party ideas such as this purple painted tea pot.


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Friday, 9 April 2010
Which party do you REALLY most agree with?
Vote Match is a quick and simple quiz that tests your views, and then works out which which political party most shares your views! I'm relieved to say that it confirms that I am a Liberal Democrat...As well as being fun, this is a good way of digging beneath the spin to find out which party's policies most closely match your own opinions. Why not have a go? And if you turn out to be closest to the Liberal Democrats, then why not vote for us? The biggest wasted vote is a vote cast for a party that you don't really believe in.
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and prepped them for Kaylee to eat during the week, vacuumed, cleaned, and headed out to get Kaylee. We used circles in our activities today. We made a circle penguin, read a book about Dorothy the penguin who wanted to be different, and even tried the cute penguin gummies that I found at Trader Joes last week.
She was not a fan of the gummies.
Morgan called Dad and was having troubles with his employment, so Dad headed out to pick up his eggshells from The Good Egg, his coffee grounds from Starbucks, and wired money to Tucson for Morgan.
If you wire money IN the United States, there is a ten percent charge. However, if you wire money to Mexico, OUT of the United States, there is only a one percent charge.
I doubt that Western Union is just nice and charges less, so I assume the productive working folk in the US are paying that difference.
Anyway, Dee went to meetings involving his new responsibility and Kaylee and I played, ate snowman sandwich, watched "Daniel", fed the chickens a collard leaf, watered my flowers, swang, rode the ducky and played in the sand.
I made taco soup during her nap.
After Cameo came and went, we took a WalMart trip to get Bondo for Dee's truck.
Tuesday - I slept poorly Monday night, so I slept later and had a quick run in the morning. The spire was not lit when I started.
Sad face. These neighbors find fault with EVERYTHING!
Kaylee and I had a good day. We counted...marbles, play dough snow balls, everything. Ethan came and they went to the fish store.
After I fed dinner and started to clean up, we decided Morgan was stranded in Tucson, so we headed down...after 7 pm...to pick him up.
Found him, and returned at nearly midnight...way after my bedtime.
Two nights with little sleep...fun!
Wednesday - I pulled myself out of bed, exercised, got the house running and madly did the chores I missed last night. I picked up Kaylee and we set out on our day of colors: playing with Lego-like blocks, doing a dot painting of a snowman - which she enlisted Morgan to assist her in. We had a fun story time at the library and then hand lunch, a good nap, lots of outdoor play and Mommy came.
Dad went to the temple in the evening and I did lots of missed chores: trash out from back yard, pureed the eggshells, vacuumed, laundered.
Blessed Bed at a decent time!
Thursday - It was a cold and windy morning (quit laughing, Nate and Jess) and so jogging was out. Plus, I still hadn't recovered from two nights of little sleep. I exercised, got Dad up and going, vacuumed and prepared for Kaylee and then went over to pick her up. We had a good morning, playing with magnetic letters, stamping a "k" and gluing candy hearts on a "k". (She tried a candy heart and promptly spit it out, so there was no difficulty gluing this time). We played mostly indoors till the end of the day.
Morgan and Dad decided to cut the rest of the mulberry tree in the playground down. I had requested it be done when Kaylee's week was over, but they were anxious, so they did it...and spent the rest of the afternoon cleaning out the playground so Kaylee could play. Kayty even joined Kaylee in some sand play.
Ethan came and they went on home, and after dinner, Dad went to the temple and I spent the evening mopping, doing laundry, vacuuming, and cleaning.
Friday- I picked up Kaylee and after she had some yogurt we went to the library for story time. Many many more kids today, so it wasn't as comfortable for her. She did like bubble time...though she didn't get to catch any...too many kids!
We played outdoors: sand, swing. Papa squeezed her some fresh orange juice which she loved.
Dee left for a daily meeting and dropped of Morgan to seek a job.
Kaylee took a good nap and loved it when Daddy came to pick her up.
Saturday - I hadn't been to the temple all week, so my day started with the 6 am session. It was so nice to start my day there! I even saw a friend from high school working in the temple.
Nothing nicer!
I came home to Dee trying to give Morgan a haircut. His hair is just doggone hard to cut.... I always had a hard time when he was a kid. At least it's Dad's fault this time. Dee had planned to paint truck fenders, but it was very very windy all day, so painting was cancelled.
Our ward friend, Julie B. came over to lend us a sprinkler that automatically turns on when a bird comes (motion sensor) to keep nasty critters from eating tomatoes. She also shared her grandmother's whale tooth collection with us. Her grandmother would carve images into the teeth and sell them. She lived on the east coast and they were easy to find. Now, it is illegal to trade in whale teeth (ivory) so she can't sell them to someone who really values such a treasure. She did give Dee one, which he was thrilled about.
Ethan and Kaylee came by to pick up Morgan. Ethan needed help getting some things to the dump.
We went to a few yard sales. Nothing interested me. Dad ended up with a new chainsaw blade and some free wood for future Christmas gifts for grandkids. Maple!
We also caught up on shopping: 99 cent store for radishes and cauliflower, Lowe's for drip system emitters, and he got some of his favorite fried chicken from Albertsons. I cleaned, dusted, laundered, vacuumed, and scrubbed a bathroom. I also picked a ton of garden lettuce. He has some red romaine lettuce that is starting to bolt (it grows tall to put out seeds...and changes the flavor of the lettuce to bitter...blech) I won't be touching that!
Kayty had a BAD day at work. Two hours trying to satisfy a customer, and she ended up loosing 180 dollars. She applied for some new jobs and spent the evening at karaoke with friends.
Morgan hadn't really stayed in contact, but seems to have ended up at an old friend's house. He got home, ate, and went to bed really early.
Sunday - I check Kayty all night...and Dee does too. I checked and it didn't seem right. I gave her a little soda, but she was awake enough to eat glucose tablets, so we talked and she chewed. I got her from a blood glucose of 49 (its amazing to me how well she can function at so low a glucose) to 96 and let her sleep.
Morning was spent reading scriptures and preparing for church. We had a good meeting, with the missionaries speaking. Our Young Women sang a beautiful song. We only have about a dozen young women, but they sounded great. I went to choir practice, and as soon as I got home and ate a few crackers, we headed out to Dee's Uncle Larry's visitation. We brought Grandma with us and we saw Uncle Tommy, Aunt Betty, lots of cousins and even Dee's prom date. ( I do, in fact, look MUCH younger that she does!!)
Here is Uncle Larry's Obituary
On January 15, 2015, Lawrence Michael Wetzel was called home to our Heavenly Father long before his family was ready for him to depart. He was born on December 19, 1925 in Helmetta, New Jersey to Lawrence and Jenny Marie Wetzel (Witkowski). Born into an era of hardship and unfaltering loyalty to family, Lawrence worked hard at everything he did from childhood on, always wanting to make his family proud of him. Working from the time he was 11 years old as a caddy for a dollar a day and getting up in the pitch-dark, cold of winter to ride his bicycle for a 5:00 am before-school bakery job made him determined to excel at everything in life…all for the betterment of his family. As a straight A student at Jamesburg High he was inducted into the National Honor Society. He moved to Arizona in 1943 with his parents and younger brother and sister. He graduated as valedictorian from Phoenix Union High School and enlisted just prior to graduation in the United States Army Air Force. He served honorably, attaining the rank of Sergeant and trained as a Radio Operator, Mechanic Gunner and B-17 Bomber Crew. These experiences fueled his lifelong love of airplanes, engines and all things mechanical. In 1947 he received his private pilot's license. He returned to civilian life while remaining in the Army Air Force Reserves. During this time he worked at Allison Steel as a Layout Man and Blueprint Reader and as an installer with Western Electric. His real dream was realized when he joined the Phoenix Police Department in July of 1948. His badge was #121. This was a time of immense growth and change in the Valley. His career mirrored this growth as he rose through the ranks even though he was called back to active duty briefly in 1950 when the Korean War broke out. Upon reinstatement to the Department as a Patrolman, he was in the Traffic Division, making Detective in 1955, Sergeant in 1956, first in the Traffic Division and later in the Patrol Division. While in the Patrol Division he was promoted to Lieutenant, spending years as Shift Commander prior to making Captain in 1961. He served as Assistant Police Chief for four years beginning in 1964 and making Chief of Police in 1968. Among notable and historical changes for the Department, as well as for the United States, was the Miranda Decision which was passed in 1966. This Supreme Court Decision dramatically impacted the manner in which arrests and investigations were conducted and Chief Wetzel's leadership was instrumental in adherence and implementation of policy and procedural changes. Chief Wetzel attained many academic and professional certifications, degrees, awards and leadership commendations. He was most proud of having completed the year-long Traffic Police Administration Training Program at Northwestern University Traffic Institute in Evanston, Illinois. He retired from the Phoenix Police Department in 1980 and joined the Arizona Corporation Commission as Director of Interstate Transportation. In 1985 he was appointed Chief of Security for the Arizona Republic. He left a legacy of leadership, loyalty, dedication to public service while always respecting the people he served. He was a man of highest integrity. However his greatest accomplishment in life was his family. If ever there were two hearts beating as one for nearly seven decades, it was with his beautiful, loving and caring wife, Betty Ann (Rice). Together they built another legacy of family always coming first and love being defined as loyalty, sacrifice and commitment. In addition to his wife, he is survived by son, Michael Thomas Wetzel; daughter, Laura Lou Wetzel Bessler. He is predeceased by his younger son, Stephen Lawrence Wetzel. He is "Papa" to 17 amazing grandchildren and 19 beautiful great-grandchildren. He was the heart of our family and we will miss his smile, his great big hugs, his incredibly funny one-liners, his sage advice, his patience, understanding and profound wisdom. He was an amazing man and we are all blessed to have had him for our community leader, husband, father, grandfather and friend. In lieu of flowers, donations made be made to Fallen Police Officers Memorial Fund, 100 Club of Arizona 5033 North 19th Avenue #123, Phoenix, AZ 85015. Family and Friends are invited to attend a Visitation from 6-8pm Sunday, January 25, 2015, with a Rosary at 7pm at Heritage Funeral Chapel, 6830 W Thunderbird Rd, Peoria. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 10 am Monday, January 26, 2015 at St Paul Roman Catholic Church, 330 West Coral Gables Dr, Phoenix. Committal to follow at Holy Redeemer Cemetery, 23015 N. Cave Creek Rd, Phoenix.


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Winter Quotes and a Bible Verse
"It was You who set all the boundaries on the earth;
You made both summer and winter."
- Psalm 74:17
"Be like the sun and meadow, which are not in the least
concerned about the coming winter."
- George Bernard Shaw
"Winter, a lingering season, is a time to gather golden moments,
embark upon a sentimental journey, and enjoy every idle hour."
- John Boswell
"In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy."
- William Blake
"Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius."
- Pietro Aretino
"The bee, from her industry in the summer, eats honey
all the winter."
- A Proverb
"Winter comes fast on the lazy."
- An Irish Saying
"Winter must be cold for those with no warm memories."
- Terry McKay, 'An Affair to Remember'
"People don't notice if it's winter or summer when
they're happy."
- Anton Chekov
"Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow."
- Robert Lee Frost


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Wow. The New York Times finally noticed today that financial services CEOs are getting off without much in the way of consequences for messing everything up. Nice of them to catch up to, oh, 1997.
Molly Ivins liked to point out that modern capitalists wanted to "privatize profit and socialize risk". I'm not sure if she coined the phrase (which the NY Times Editorial Board sort of uses, but not quite) but she's the first person I first saw use it.
My Modest Proposal for fixing the insanely eff'd up incentives here ("let's take crazy risks with other people's money -- if we win, we're rich, if we lose, the Fed will bail us out" -- see also moral hazard) is this:
If the Federal Reserve or some Governmental Body bails out any company, then the CEO, President, CFO, Board of Directors, etc. (everyone who is listed in a 10-K filing) immediately forfeits all income, savings, property (which will be put toward paying off shareholders) and must file for personal bankruptcy. Without the help of any lawyers.
I think that'd be a strong dis-incentive to eff up the company and then beg for mercy at the public trough, don't you?


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|Why indeed, Mom?!
The Fine Print: Card base and parts by Basic Gray and dog stamp by Tim Holtz.
|Why indeed, Mom?!
Fun card . . . Great use of designer paper. Super dog image xxx
This is a fun tall card with those great colors and I love that little red fire hydrant - haha!!
i like how you used the patterned papers together. and yes, he is a cutie, and yes, that's how i like dogs best, even though we have two grand doggers.
And the best thing about doggy stamps is that they don't slobber! I just did a thank you card using this same pooch!
Fabulous! I sure do like that doggy stamp.
Absolutely fantastic! I love the different patterned papers in the background and the doggy stamp is just perfect with it! I prefer stamped dogs too. They are much easier to care for!
I really like long thin cards. That dog is a real cutie, my favourite in the set, and I love your paper choice. Barbxx
that dogy card is so sweet and why not send dogy cards!
Great papers to compliment your cute doggy stamp. It's a wonderful card, Judy, but I can see your kitty is not impressed! x


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Markets and Pie and Mash shops seem to go together, and it's not without reason that this is so.
The two pie and mash shops that predominated in Lambeth and Waterloo were Burroughs at 146 Lambeth Walk and R Cooke's at 84 The Cut, both, sadly now gone.
Previous to shops selling produce, pies and live eels were sold in the street to passers-by; the piemen were a regular site on London's streets, even being included in a nursery rhyme "Simple Simon".
Much of the meat and eels that were used was of dubious quality, the eels sometimes being dead a long time before being prepared and these were mixed in with live eel meat . In those days the resulting food poisoning could be fatal. In order to sometimes get rid of old stock, the piemen would indulge in the game of 'tossing the pieman' in which people, usually boys, would toss a coin and if the pieman won he took the money but if the person won he got a pie for free, if the piemen gave them dubious pies, it was a win/win situation for them.
The first recorded Eel and Pie shop was at 101 Union Street, Southwark, just a slip and a slither away from the New Cut Market; Henry Blanchard is listed in Kelly's street directories in 1844 as selling a variety of pies offering fillings such as Eels, meats or fruits, these were sold for a penny each. In addition to this, live Eels, pea soup and mashed potato were also sold.
Freshly prepared eels in a clean-looking environment (tiled walls and floors) meant many people gravitated to these places rather than run the risk of food poisoning with the pieman.
The rise of the Eel and pie shop heralded the end of the pieman and their counterparts in the Eel trade; the damage that was done to their trade was so dramatic that it was noted in Henry Mayhew's "London Labour and London Poor".
Thirty years after Blanchard opened his first shop, Kelly's Directory listed 33 eel and pie shops in London. This began the growth of what Londoners came to know as the "Pie and Mash shop".
Helped, in part, by immigrants from Italy and Ireland, many of the shops that opened are still around today.
Robert Cooke is first recorded as opening his shop on Bakers Row in Clerkenwell in 1889 with his second wife Martha and his children: Robert, Amy and Fred. The shop was situated near the market in Clerkenwell. The long term success of the firm is attributed to hard, work, sharp business accumen and the training of the family within the trade. Cooke's opened a shop in The Cut at number 84 in 1938.
Michaele Manze (Mike) was an Italian from Ravello, his Mother, father and three brothers came to England in 1878 after walking from Ravello to Naples to catch a boat. Primarily the family worked in the Ice business; Mike met and befriended Robert Cooke, who introduced him to his daughter from his first marriage: Ada. Mike and Ada married and opened up their first shop in Bermondsey.
The reason, apparently, for Pie and Mash shops having only a fork and a spoon comes from either of two origins: one being that during the First World War, there were a shortage of knives and the people going into the pie and mash shops would take the knives they had home with them; another story goes that the knives were withdrawn from being served after people used them as weapons when they fought.
The last forty plus years have seen a demise in the pie and mash shop owing to culinary cultural changes plus the migration of large numbers of the working class out of London to areas such as Kent and Essex. These movements can be traced as many of the known remaining names in pie and mash Such as Cooke and Manze (as well as newer names) have opened up shops to cater for them as this directory of the various shops on the website "Pie and Mash Club" shows.


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Questions & Answers
I was wondering the energy clearing and healing in the area of The Vortex. Is this more meditation, group or individual? Is this the area what you would recommend, for a person who wants to learn to be more mindful, present and move forward and forgive decisions and circumstances from negative issues from the past, that are holding them back?
At our Sanctuary we have enhanced an existing vortex of Earth energy, and we use it every time we gather in our circle.
Naturally, when we are feeling loving and aligned, we add our highest vibrations to this vortex area.
When we are feeling low, and sad, or angry or unwell, we can access the healing energies of this Vortex and use them to help us move back towards wholeness.
During all of our meditations, [Wed am 10 - 11:30, Thursday 7:30 - 9:30 pm, Sunday 1:30 - 3:00 pm], we sit around the vortex or centre of our circle/oval, and our energies connect with each other. Those who have higher vibrations will boost up the others. Those with lower vibrations will drag down the others a bit, until we all come together in acceptance and in love.
Any kind of meditation will help you to become more mindful, and then that becomes a way you learn to live all the hours of your day - in mindful awareness.
Being mindful is a good way to keep being present in the moment.
Being in the moment keeps you from fretting over events of the past; they are finished, completed, and all the worrying or replaying of them will not change a thing for the better. In this moment, those negative things do not matter. They have not happened IN THIS MOMENT, so if you remain present, then they did not happen. So one need not waste time and energy on things that did not happen. To fret and stew over stuff is a choice; it is not mandatory.
We are always held back if we decide we must hang onto situations and feelings from the past - especially if they are ones that made us feel hurt or betrayed or taken advantage of.
If you are asking these questions, Vicky, then you sound ready to deal with issues which have been blocking your spiritual growth, and which may have been hampering you in relationship building and clearing.
Why not invest a Thursday evening for 2 hours, and come join our group for a Sound meditation? That means we will have a period of drumming, then of aumming, then we play the crystal bowls before we sit in silence. Following the silence, we have a healing session for 6 people - whoever gets into the chairs first. Then we have sharing and announcements. It goes by quickly, and it is an opportunity to really let a lot of junk go by releasing it into the vortex.
If you want to chat with me a bit, call me at 204-897-7183.


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In addition to this, I will be appearing at the Newburyport Literary Festival in Newburyport, Massachusetts on April 25-27. What exactly this will involve, I don't know yet. I assume that I will be giving a reading or appearing on a panel or something, but details are sketchy as yet. Stay tuned. In the meantime, here's a link:
Watch this space as I will be adding a proper schedule as I get more details. For Feb through April I will be focusing on the northeast, but in May-June I hope to spend some time out west.


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Cindy Crawford is Linked Against Leukemia
Cindy Crawford attends the 2nd Annual Linked Against Leukemia Gala at Capitale in New York City on Wednesday.
The event is a benefit to raise money and awareness for DKMS, the world's largest marrow donor center.
Cindy, 42, was honored at the event and said, "I am thrilled to be a part of this evening. This is a cause that is very close to my heart and I hope we are able to raise awareness and funds for DKMS."
Last year, Rihanna performed at the gala.


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March 20, 2010
YCL Ontario supports Sudbury strike
This Monday there is a large rally in Sudbury taking place to support the 3 000 Vale Inco workers who have been on strike for the past 8 months. This is a huge strike and it has great political significance that reaches beyond the economic demands of the workers.
For more info check out the ry blog: http://rebelyouth-magazine.blogspot.com/2010/03/build-solidarity-with-striking-sudbury.html
CUPE, the Steelworkers and the OFL are organizing buses across the province to be in Sudbury on Monday. We are encouraging all progressive youth to mobilize and contact local labour councils, CUPE and Steelworker locals to see if there are buses leaving from your area on Monday morning.
"Bridging the Gap"
A Solidarity Rally for Vale Inco Strikers
Monday, March 22 @ 4:30 p.m.
USW Union Hall,
66 Brady St. | SUDBURY
Over 3,000 steelworkers in Sudbury have been holding the line for 8 months in the Vale Inco strike. They are in a battle against one of the most profitable corporations in the world who want to take away workers' pensions and seniority rights.
This strike is having a devastating impact on these workers, their families and the community. Something has to give and it's not the workers.
The time for solidarity is now!
CUPE National and CUPE Ontario are joining with the CLC and the OFL in the Bridging the Gap Solidarity Rally planned for Monday, March 22nd at 4:30 pm in Sudbury. We are organizing buses to get our members and staff there. Can we count on you.
For information on location and departure time for buses leaving for Sudbury, please call Meaghan Dixon at CUPE Ontario at, e-mail email@example.com or call: 416-299-9739 or 416-902-4916.
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Losing Weight The Effective Way With Proof
At times, it is hard to stay motivated. Most of the time, your weight loss goals begin with a bang, but as time goes on, you will notice your motivation wane. It's important to learn how others who have succeeded before you have done it. What are they doing to stay on top of things?
The first thing you need to do is decide what goals are attainable and important for you in your weight loss journey. Do you have an upcoming social function for which you want to look your best? Is there a certain number of pounds you want to lose? Is it energy that you need, or do you have a medical condition that requires you to lose weight? Your answers to these questions are important.
Stay on top of all of your progress. Make sure you check your weight only once a week. Weighing yourself more often than that can cause stress. Also make a diary of all of the foods you eat daily and an estimate of the calories you take in. Write about the things you drink and include snacks as well. Many times, the very act of putting it down on paper can keep you from making poor dietary choices.
Usually, poor food decisions are due to extreme hunger. It is not a good idea to wait until you are very hungry to eat. Create your menus in advance, and never be without healthy snack foods. Bring your own lunch instead of going to a restaurant. Doing this can help you save both money and calories! When you are very hungry, you tend to make poor, unhealthy choices about the food you eat. Eat before you're extremely hungry to avoid the trap of overeating. You should try to keep healthy snacks available and have all of your meals planned out. Instead of eating out, take your lunch with you. This will help you watch how many calories you consume and save you money at the same time.
The best way to lose weight is by incorporating a healthy diet along with regular exercise. It is not necessary to exercise 7 days a week, but you should do so at least 3 or 4. Do not let boredom get a hold of you, take every opportunity to make having fun your primary goal. Join a dance club or class, for example, if you already enjoy dancing.
If your home is full of bad food options, it can be difficult to cease consuming them. If your pantry is stocked well, with foods that are healthy and nourishing, you are well on your way to readjusting your eating habits in a positive manner. When you have healthy food around you will make better choices. Keep your kitchen filled with healthy foods, like fruits, vegetables, and low-fat proteins. Stop buying junk food! This is the simplest way to make sure you won't eat it, which is especially helpful when you can't resist it. Once you replace the junk food with healthier options, then you'll be more likely to make healthy food choices.
Get a buddy to workout with. If we are on our own, we often make excuses to relieve ourselves of more difficult responsibilities. A great way to stay motivated when you are working out is to have a buddy do the exercise routine with you. By encouraging one another, you'll increase both of your chances for success.


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Friday, June 29, 2012
Fun in the Sun!!!
Reed and Anna Grace have had a really fun start to their Summer so far! We have played outside in the sprinkler, had yummy popsicles at least every afternoon....especially during these HOT days, play dates in our neighborhood.....which involves water slide fun, pushing babies down the sidewalk, riding the JEEP, riding bikes, and coloring with colored chalk! These kiddos LOVE each other and have the BEST time!!! I feel SO blessed to have such great friends with young kids SO close to us;)
Bathtime FUN!
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|Nightsweats; I'm anxious about another relapse
Jan 29, 2002
Since last week I started having night sweats, and then I developed 103 fever. My lungs have been a problem for months due to chemotherapy for lymphoma. They started to wean my prednisone from 40 down to 30mgs. I started dapsone for anticipated stem cell transplant. I am 5 weeks out of last chemo and anxious could this be the start to yet another 4th relapse? VL undectable and CD4 Upper 200's. It's so hard not to get so anxious.What do you think?Thanks
Response from Dr. Dezube
I feel for you. It's not easy having had lymphoma in the past, having nightsweats in the present, and have a stem cell transplant to look forward to in the future. Your anxiety is completely understandable. It sounds like the transplant is the best option. Although nightsweats can be a sign of lymphoma, they can also be due to an infection. You are certainly at risk for an infection given your HIV and the prednisone. There's obviously no way I can tell what you have over the internet. It's clear to me that you need your care providers to evaluate the situation and I imagine that by the time you get this response, that you will have already been evaluated. An evaluation will probably consist of taking a detailed history, performing a thorough physical examination, and obtaining blood work and scans. Good luck with your transplant. Although, I imagine, at times you may and will get discouraged, the best advice I can give you is take each day at a time, keep an eye on the future, call in your support troops (friends, partner, relatives, co-workers) and don't give up.
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"In this al fresco gallery of Sheelers –
Replete with stack and tipples, ramps and hoppers,
Vents, derricks, ducts, louvers, and intercooler –
I wander lonely as a cloud. Here is the beauty
Of this ridiculous, gas-smelling city.
Not those gilt towers stuck up so proudly
To spell a skyline, not those too loudly
Dulcet and unobtrusively huge houses
Dotting the northern suburbs. No, the heart
Of it is where its masters' love is:
In the cold-rolling mills, annealing rooms,
Pickling and plating vats, blast furnaces,
Drop-forging shops, final assembly lines:
Wherever angular, ideal machines,
Formed seamlessly of unalloyed desire,
Strike worthless stereotypes out of the fire."
The reference in the first line is to painter-photographer Charles Sheeler (1883-1965), a first-generation American Modernist. He was associated with Charles Demuth, Paul Strand and other Precisionists, artists who dovetailed devotion to abstract forms with an eye for the new American industrial/architectural landscape. Critics have called his work "stark" and "ascetic." I see it rather as clean and free of embellishment.
Consider Sheeler's American Landscape, an oil painting from 1930. From the title you might expect amber waves of grain. In 1927-28, Sheeler spent six weeks photographing the Ford Motor Company's plant in River Rouge, Mich., for a promotional campaign devoted to the Model A. Here's a photo Sheeler took of the Ford plant in Dearborn during the same visit. (Sissman, incidentally, was born Jan. 1, 1928, in Detroit, while Sheeler was in the city. Sissman's father was a designer for the automotive industry, working for Studebaker and Packard.) Constance Rourke, Cleveland-born author of American Humor: a Study of the National Character (1931), also wrote Charles Sheeler: Artist in the American Tradition (1938), the first biography of the painter. She writes of American Landscape:
"[It] contains an immense elaboration: note for example the doweled ends of the rungs in the ladder at the bottom of the picture to the right, and the tiny shadows which the rungs cast upon one side of the frame, and the subtle changes in line and tonal values within these forms by which the ladder is realized. Passage after small passage in this picture may be scrutinized for such yields…"
The painting, like much of Sheeler's best work, mingles minute attention to detail (note the lone human figure moving along the tracks between the two sections of train cars) with a celebration of pure geometry. Like some of the best American painters (Porter, Diebenkorn), he seems to have absorbed the lessons of abstraction in order to do something else. American Landscape and other paintings and photos by Sheeler remind me of a passing Midwestern industrial scene in The Adventures of Augie March:
"We went through Gary and Hammond that day, on a trailer from Flint, by docks and dumps of sulphur and coal, and flames seen by their heat, not light, in the space of noon air among the black, huge Pasiphae cows and other columnar animals, headless, rolling a rust of smoke and connected in an enormous statuary of hearths and mills--here and there an old boiler or a hill of cinders in the bulrush spawning-holes of frogs."
One of Sissman's rare gifts as a poet was the pleasure he took in artful arrangements of detail. Rourke's observation about Sheeler – "Passage after small passage in this picture may be scrutinized for such yields…" – holds true for the poet. Peter Davison, Sissman's editor and literary executor, described him as a "master of every curiosity." Among the abiding pleasures of reading Sissman is the generous attention he pays to the world. He sees things and knows how things work. Count the loving specificities in this "small passage" from earlier in "Going Home, 1945":
"There still remain these nights
Of close restraint in heat, a camisole
Of dampness wired for the amazingly
Loud sound of streetcars roller-skating; for
The shocking sight of the electric-blue
Stars overhead; for their galvanic smell
Of ozone; and the unforgettable scent
Of air-conditioned drugstores, where the pure
Acid of citrus cuts across the fat
Riches of chocolate, subjugates perfume
(Evening in Paris), soap, iodoform."


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**No, I'm not pregnant. Not even close.**
I rediscovered a favorite song of mine today:
"The State That I'm In" by Belle and Sebastian
More particularly, I'm in love with a line in the song.
"And so I gave myself to GodWhat makes this most interesting to me, is the lead sings "before he said okay" and the backup singer sings "before I said okay." They all take a pregnant pause.
There was a pregnant pause before He said okay"
Here are my thoughts on that.
I frequently find myself questioning the idiosyncrasies (dogmas) of the Church. The culture is overwhelmingly oppressive at times, and also a little antiquated...at least in certain strongholds. This leads me to question whether I fit in.
Further complicating this, I am what you would call a "Believing Agnostic*." Meaning, I can't prove God is there, and I can't prove They aren't. I hope God is real. I hope They are there. Otherwise, this whole thing is for naught. And that's where the believing comes in. I won't go so far as to say faith**, since many in the LDS community equate "faith" with "know."
I believe because I want there to be a reason for all this.
Back to the lyrics.
Over the last several years, I have started on the path away. Slowly, I have felt myself turn from it and look out with hope that somewhere away from all this, there is something better. Somewhere where my doubts and questions are not so pronounced.
However, I always find myself looking back over my shoulder at God and Their church and think "There is beauty there. There is truth there. I don't want to lose that. I don't want to stop being a part of this. I just want the hurt to stop." Then I say "Fine, I'll stay a bit longer. I will try to help make it better.....okay?" Then I feel myself take that deep breath, and say "okay" one more time. Truly committing with that second okay.
God doesn't say "okay" back without hesitation, They could, They want us with Them. But They take a breath, and wait for us to make sure we're ready, and then they say with us "okay."
God is all about choice. Our Heavenly Parents will never force us back. They will never coerce us into making that step to them. They will wait with us, as we take our deep breath, examine our true feelings, and step back to them.
They are always there with open arms, waiting.
Always patient.
Never forceful.
And that's why I keep choosing to believe. Because They have never made me. They have always just let me choose for myself.
And that's what I need.
* I've had a friend (rather successfully) argue, that we are all believing agnostics because none of us can prove God's existence, and we all take it on faith. She may be right, but I like this label. It helps me know how I fit in.
** "faith is a thing hoped for, but not seen."


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Connecticut and UNC Just Might Be NIT Bound
Tuesday, February 02, 2010
In 2009 UConn and UNC battled for the #1 rank in the country. They battled for the nation's collective spot as NCAA Tournament Favorite. They eventually both found their way into the Final Four and North Carolina eventually took home the crown. In 2009 these two Elite NCAA Programs were the cream of the crop. In 2010, however, things are quite different.
With just over a month before we start sorting out the bubble teams to NCAA Tournament fringe members to NIT favorites, both North Carolina and UConn find themselves squarely on this bubble with momentum pulling them towards the NIT.
North Carolina started off the season strong. In their out of conference play they knocked off both Michigan St. and Ohio State while they were highly ranked. Sure they lost to Texas, Kentucky and Syracuse but those are all Top 5 teams and they all were on the road. No big deal right? Well then they lost to the College of Charleston. Just a bump in the road something easily moved on from. Since that College of Charleston loss the Tarheels have lost 4 of their their next 6 games (all ACC games) and sit just 1/2 game out of the ACC basement.
To UConn's credit this year they scheduled some big heavy hitters. The Huskies played Duke, Kentucky, Michigan and Texas this season. The problem? They lost to Michigan (whose terrible), Duke and Kentucky and while the win against Texas was huge, it isn't making up for their conference woes. The Huskies are 3-6 in Big East play (good for 13th in the conference) with several close losses and a few unacceptable ones. This poor conference record could get significantly worse as the Huskies are still slated to play # Nova, #3 Cuse and #6 WVU. And with the illness of Coach Calhoun this ship isn't showing any sign of turning around.
So here we sit just one year removed from UConn and UNC being #1 seeds and tournament favorites and both may not be present in your Bracket. Quite an amazing regression from two of the most storied universities in College Basketball.
Labels: College Hoop, UConn
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North Carolina deserved the crown last year. They played really well. I think this year the result will change as they have some good hitters. As a basketball handicappers I am keeping eyes on them.


text: Can someone who has a successful adult tube site give me the jist on them? I was curious as to how they work. 1) Do you host all the videos on your server or do you simply embed other tube sites videos? 2) Do you just go to the top sites and rip every video and manually add them one at a time to your site? 3) Is the best earnings for these tube sites from some kind of adult google adsense pay per click type ads? 4) Whats SEO like for these sites? Just go title longtail happy on pornstar name + description of the sexing?


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I am so excited about this season, and the way they are picking the top 12 contestants. The three that made it this week were Alexis Grace, Michael, and Danny. I think these were definitely the best of this group. I was not sure Michael would make it, but I am glad he did. I was so happy Tatiana did not go through, I just do not care for her, plus her song and outfit was very boring for her. I am going to try on Saturdays, to do an American Idol post. If you follow, let me know what you think. My 8 yr old was very upset when Stevie the 17 yr old girl, did not make it. I think he has a crush.
Tons of homeschool info, tips, and links. Homeschooling in Florida, plus lots of other great info. Join me on our Homeschool journey. I have been adding to this blog for almost our whole time as homeschoolers, eight years. There is an abundance of info at your fingertips.
Saturday, February 21, 2009
I Love American Idol
Labels: Alexis Grace, American Idol, Danny, Michael, top 12
2 comments:
- betchai said...
Hi Melissa, thanks for posting the video, I forgot to follow the earlier parts, but I hope to remind myself every tuesday and wednesday starting this week. that was funny your 8 yr old has a crush on one of the singers, i know my friend's 13 year old daughter last year also had a crush on the two david's :)
- February 21, 2009 at 10:38 PM
- Melissa said...
Then we can discuss it on Saturdays. Have a great day.
- February 22, 2009 at 9:22 AM
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I tried to lean down to look at his dog tag so I could figure out where he lives and try to help him find his way home. But every time I'd reach down to him, he'd run a circle around us, the dog leashes would get tangled, and everyone was just getting way too excited.
I decided to walk Ricky Ricardo home, hoping the cute little dog would follow and then I could focus all my attention on getting him back to his home.
But then, finally, I saw a woman who seemed to be the dog's guardian. She was yelling in a very stern voice to us, "KETCHUM!! KETCHUM!! KETCHUM!!" And I was thinking to myself, " That is the wrong kind of tone to use with your dog if you're trying to get him to run to you!" She continued yelling to her dog, who at this point, I figured was named Ketchum. She didn't, however walk towards us. I thought it was so odd.
Ricky and I turned the other way so she could deal with her dog without the distraction of us. But little Ketchum continued bouncing along beside Ricky and me. Eventually, the woman walked towards us. But the dog didn't move towards her. She looked at me and said, "Pick him up! Pick him up! Can't you catch him?"
I told her that, no, I couldn't KETCHUM because every time I tried, he just sort of ran in circles around me and my pup. And then I added, "Since he's your dog, it's probably easier for you to get him." Her dog just kept running away from her, like it was a game. And it was really funny, and looked like a pretty cool game!
I gave her some treats intended for Ricky and told her to call him with the treats in her hand. She did, and finally he went close enough to her that she could finally ketch Ketchum!


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Thursday, 5 September 2013
Tips for Love & Anarchy Festival
The most important time of the year is nigh, and the Helsinki International Film Festival is almost upon us. There are more than 300 films on display there, so many readers might have a hard time choosing what to see. I did a short list on Twitter, but since Tweets tend to get lost in the waves of the sea of information, I got requests to do more. So, blogging is a bit more substantial. Here's my top 10 tips.
1. The Life of Adélé, parts 1 & 2 (a.k.a. Blue Is The Warmest Color)
Dir. Abdellatif Kechiche
Ever since this film debuted in Cannes to the ecstatic reactions of French film aficionados, there's been little doubt that this comic book adaptation about a girl's first love (that happens to be another woman) would be perhaps THE biggest event movie of the year. The fact that this 3-hour mammoth was chosen as the opening film of the festival seems to confirm this notion. I simply cannot wait.
At the moment, the official Finnish premiere date of the film is 13th December.
2. Nebraska
Dir. Alexander Payne
Payne is back to doing what he does best, so this is another tragi-comical road trip through America, starring a curmudgeonly old man (Bruce Dern), and his estranged, clueless middle-aged son (Will Forte). Maybe this is Payne going through the motions, but he hasn't failed me yet, so I won't miss this.
3. Stories We Tell
Dir. Sarah Polley
After seeing the brilliant Take This Waltz last year, I became convinced that the future belongs to Sarah Polley. The biggest young hope American cinema has, has directed a documentary about her own family, about her actress mother who died at an early age, and her foster parents. Reports have so far said the film is sufficiently warm without being schmaltzy, so I'm in.
4. No
Dir. Pablo Larraín
Mark Kermode has been raving about this story, based on true facts, about an ad executive running a campaign against the Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. An exciting political thriller, with a story almost too weird to be true. Yes.
5. Stoker
Dir. Park Chan-Wook
This was almost a DVD premiere here, but luckily we also get a cinema screening or few of the Korean mastermind Park's first English language film. And a good thing too, since Park's slow-moving films are always best screened at a theatre, not at home. This twisted, dry horror-comedy seems very intriguing, but I've been avoiding reading too much about the plot.
6. Sightseers / A Field In England
Dir. Ben Wheatley
Two new films from the genre-bashing English director have generated plenty of positive buzz. I liked Kill List plenty, although did not hail it as good as many others. But from what I've heard, the director has just gotten more unpredictable, twisted and skillful since. These are also films I figure it's best not to know too much beforehand.
7. The Act Of Killing - Director's Cut
Dirs. Joshua Oppenheimer, Christine Cynn, Anonymous
In what's surely to be the most talked-about documentary of the year, we get a chance to look the closest appromination of human evil straight in the eye. Indonesian death squad leaders talk about their past homicides and cruelties open, as if there was nothing wrong with it.
The TV version of the film will be shown in Finland in YLE TV2's Docventures series on 6th of November. The version at Love & Anarchy is the longer Director's Cut, and director Joshua Oppenheimer will also be present at several screenings.
8. Monsoon Shootout
Dir. Amit Kumar
HIFF doesn't really offer as many groovy exotic action movies these days as it did in its heyday. But from this year's crop, it's easy to pick this Indian cop thriller as the most promising one. This is no Bollywood song-and-dance number. It's based on true brutal police shootings, but doesn't spare on the guns, bullets and chase scenes. Yeah!
9. Bastards (Les salauds)
Dir. Claire Denis
This French movie won the audience award at Midnight Sun Film Festival this year. This is another depressing crime flick, but those thrillers seem to be the most interesting when all of its main characters are several levels of assholes. Morally grey is the way to go, and I trust Denis's experience as a director.
10. The Past / The Future
Dir. Asghar Farhadi / Alicia Scherson
Here's a bit of a cheat, but considering the names of these two films, I couldn't resist putting them to the same slot. The Past is A Separation's director Farhadi's latest film. It's a Mystery film about a runaway Iranian man to return home after a long absence to find his wife remarried. It seems Farhadi has another story of the difficulty of maintaining a nuclear family, even in a state that officially warrants it. If you liked Farhadi's previous film, it seems you can't go wrong with this one.
The Future is the story of two idling teenagers, off to a criminal path, until they come across the former muscle movie hero Maciste. The latter is played by Rutger Hauer himself. It seems the film has plenty of Neo Noir influences, but it appears to be hard to grasp, which always makes for an intriguing experience.
So are you Traditional or a Futurist? Never mind, I'm sure you'll find plenty to see at Love & Anarchy. The entire programme is now open at the official web site.
Monday, 2 September 2013
Hey, Cartoonist!
Last week saw the 70th birthday of Underground Comix legend Robert Crumb, master of hilarious, perverted, crazy, borderline insane, subtle, life-like and musical comics - using often many of these stylistic choices in the same strip. That's why I thought it would be kind of cool to pay tribute by taking a look at two comic book movies about underground artists - one a documentary, one fictional, that's still a part documentary. Crumb is of course featured in both of them.
I got to say, I'd like to see more underground comic book movies. Let's hope someday the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers stop motion animation movie Grass Roots will be completed.
Dir. Terry Zwigoff
Terry Zwigoff's extensive R. Crumb doc is held in high esteem, and for a good reason. Not only does it provide insight on the mind of an artist, it also features characters colorful enough that the feel like they would've jumped out of Crumb's own comix. The most interesting ones are Robert's two eccentric brothers, Charles and Maxon, reclusive and tragic figures who resemble some aspects of their brother and his neuroses, but whose life took to entirely different paths. The film is called Crumb and it certainly doesn't just refer to the famous one, but the whole family.
The movie is dedicated to the memory of Charles Crumb, who died prior the release, but is interviewed here. He had immense artistic talent as a young boy, maybe even moreso than his brother. His odd obsessions with Treasure Island are dealt with, as well as his more and more obsessive behavior, which results to his art getting too experimental for its own good. Interviewed here, Charles is a husk of a man, a mama's boy who never managed to become his own man. It's tragic that a promising artist never takes off, and doubly so if it results in bitterness and melancholy for the rest of his life.
The film was not an easy shoot, and took six years to make. Zwigoff had stress about funding, but his friendship with the main character helped to pull him through. It also shows on the screen. R. Crumb himself is also a bit of an introvert, and probably wouldn't have been as open with another director. But here he is frank and honest about his work, process and life in general.
|And also that time he posed with women for a porn magazine shoot.
American Splendor
Dirs. Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini
Crumb also does collaborations from time to time, and the most famous of these is illustrating the scripts written by his friend, the bitter file clerk Harvey Pekar. His comics always tell about one thing and one thing only: Harvey Pekar. Pekar is a complete contrast to your superheroes or high adventurers of typical comics, as he lives a somewhat mundane life and just does observations and musings on that. He does manage to make good humor out of that, and make his ordeals feel identifiable. The title American Splendor may be ironic, but in some ways, it is also perfectly apt.
Pekar is the furthest from being a sell-out cartoonist this side of Bill Watterson. The film feels like his story, in that it's your regular A-B-C life story. The basics are there, but in addition to that, there are small skits from the pages of the comic, animated sequences, the viewpoint goes over to his nerdy friend Toby for a while, and most confusingly, there are documentary bits with the real-life Harvey Pekar and his wife. These scenes have some retrospective views on the things just shown in the main storyline. Most of the movie Harvey's being played by Paul Giamatti.
The comics in this film are an outlet for the neurotic Giamatti to let off some steam and come to terms with things. A key scene features Harvey and Toby (Judah Friedlander) arguing over the merits of the college comedy Revenge of the Nerds. Do the downtrodden need a story which allows them to be the heroes for one day, even if the movie is by-the-numbers lint? Is the need to identify oneself so strong? (For the record, I like Revenge of the Nerds)
This gives an idea of a chaotic film, but there is weird synchronicity here. The grumpy Pekar just does his thing, bit by bit. That's why he wouldn't want to have a moral on his story, but the film does make one. Even though life may seem boring, chaotic, unobtainable and hard, looking at the long run, all the various patches and places do form some sort of a story. It may not be a grand, adventurous story of making a change or doing something spectacular, but then most of us are everymen. It is interesting to hear about another one once in a while. Particularly if the movie is funny to boot. Which this is.
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I`m getting dreams without tax. The tensed surrounding giving me ideas.
Try to step over . But,it is hard. Just,can not mix the watermelon with cheese-
/the whole of the cheese are swallowing the sweet part of the melon./
No points or questions…Just, keep the strictly accurate line of art.
No money, no politics ..not even necessary to talk about the weather changes.
Not demonstrate against the Nature World.
Just, work and live a creative life.