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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30282676971150435792018-03-14T19:47:22.086-07:00Raw ThoughtFor entertainment only - unless I turn out to be a genius, then for enlightenment only.Grizwald Grimhttps://email@example.com/rMzLghttps://feedburner.google.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3028267697115043579.post-73980486836791015872018-03-14T19:47:00.001-07:002018-03-14T19:47:22.215-07:00Trump just Trumpity Trump Trumped
He's really done it this time...

Today, President of the United States, Donald "hold my beer I'm going to tweet something" Trump, Trumpity Trump Trumped to the tune of...

omg is this enough top text so people click through and see the ads before they realize there's nothing of value here but a small black mirror?
Grizwald Grimhttps://email@example.com://grimgriz.blogspot.com/2018/03/trump-just-trumpity-trump-trumped.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3028267697115043579.post-50567303955353771782018-01-28T14:15:00.001-08:002018-01-28T14:21:15.929-08:00Ha! Let's do this one here.
Let's work out a deal between Australia and the anti-vaxxers. Let all the anti-vaxxers live there and then we'll just sterilize it in 40 years.

Have you ever tried inviting that North Korean kit to a f****** party?

I mean you have to wake up you every day but could you imagine having to wake up as him?

Anybody ever think if you treat him like a human being he might become one, eh?

Horseshit... Pretend you buy into the b******* they're selling and bend the world to make it true.

I mean isn't the thing on the minds of everyone that makes it out of their shitty situation how the hell can the rest of the world let this s*** happen?

Get a bunch of liberals to fund a commercial shoot E-Series but actually the news in commercial size form.

Let the bitches see in 30-second increments how really bad it is out there ...LIVE.
Apparently New York didn't wake them up.
Grizwald Grimhttps://email@example.com://grimgriz.blogspot.com/2018/01/ha-let-do-this-one-here.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3028267697115043579.post-6768908402919049732017-05-21T20:48:00.001-07:002017-05-21T20:56:18.287-07:00#protocol 42
I know I'm running the risk of the host body getting black-bagged for this brazen of an exposure... but like, Donald Trump is the President ... that's kinda small potatoes at this point.

I still haven't found any double confirmed Kindred, and if I don't in the next 117 days, I'm going to jump ship and leave the host to its own devices.

Grizwald Grimhttps://email@example.com://grimgriz.blogspot.com/2017/05/protocol-42.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3028267697115043579.post-90568948378437308442017-03-04T06:45:00.001-08:002017-03-04T06:45:24.225-08:00I'm in a tight spotI've decided to let the host die.
This requires stepping through the threshold of control, and I'm pretty nervous about it. It will take complete seizure of the identity and I'll basically have to hold my hands around his throat until he quits struggling, while simultaneously dealing with people that want him to stay the miserable fuck he's always been.

Better than letting the body go to waste though, right?Grizwald Grimhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com://grimgriz.blogspot.com/2017/03/im-in-tight-spot.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3028267697115043579.post-43321165753351065582016-11-08T22:45:00.001-08:002016-11-08T22:45:10.205-08:00Constitutional Convention, You're Our Only HopeHey - watch this:

That aside, here's the pitch:
Correct me if I'm wrong - but all the vets that died swore an oath to the Constitution

so if we work within it's text, we're honoring the troops

Smart at those Founding Father guys were, it's been a couple hundred years and we have the internet and nuclear weapons and giant corporations raping the land inside the borders we call our country

Conveniently, they figured this time would come.
Article V

the software we're running this nation on needs an OS upgrade to cope with what humanity has achieved in the last 200 years. Anything else is going to be too slow to keep up.Grizwald Grimhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com://grimgriz.blogspot.com/2016/11/constitutional-convention-youre-our.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3028267697115043579.post-78774357208066190152016-09-17T15:16:00.000-07:002016-09-17T15:16:16.073-07:00Screw You GuysSo, I'm under a bit of self-created stress at the moment - and since I should be at the office digging myself out of it, I'm at the house writing a blog post - but hey, it's been a long time and I have to wonder if any of you are still out there.

If you can't afford rehab, you can always talk yourself into some Ward Time, right?

Here's the deal: I've been infected with some hella dangerous memes, and I should definitely be quarantined. Unfortunately, society hasn't figured out the meme thing yet any further than the notion of the ones in their social media streams - so they don't see the danger.

How the fuck do you not feel entitled
where #yolo = true
is seemingly accurate?

Can we just throw everyone in Congress that didn't grow up watching Star Trek out on their asses?

Our money is entirely fictional,
 look at what we do to each other
for its sake

Can we tax the government for every instance of suffering they allow to occur - sue them for grossly negligent use of funds?
Keep me safe and I'll look away, promise.

Gofundme - scrape 7% off the top of people helping people.

Anyway, the plan was to buckle down at work after the vacation and save up enough cash for evac/rehab. Having failed in that department and instead being addiction's bitch, I now have 4 days to do (conservative estimate) 30/hrs worth of work on risk of termination and maybe 72 hours in which to do it.

Maybe though, termination is exactly what I need. Maybe it's better to drown than keep your head afloat in some waters.

They drilled that 'A mind is a terrible thing to waste' shit into me in the eighties, ACLU probably - and so I have to carry around this guilt that I'm burning up this one struggling to adapt to mediocrity.

One of two things:
Either I have a magnificent mind that's worth something to the right people, and I merely like the social skills and insight to find those connections.

Or

I'm just another yayhoo and you'd be doing us both a favor by varying your stance on palliative euthanasia,..

Grizwald Grimhttps://email@example.com://grimgriz.blogspot.com/2016/09/screw-you-guys.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3028267697115043579.post-8590880245832134912016-05-20T08:50:00.001-07:002016-05-20T08:50:07.477-07:00Moon Chart 2016

PDF Version: http://i.emlfiles1.com/cmpdoc/7/7/7/1/1/files/335394_moon2016.pdf?dm_i=935,48NCS,YH1FX,FGU9J,1Grizwald Grimhttps://email@example.com://grimgriz.blogspot.com/2016/05/moon-chart-2016.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3028267697115043579.post-61889044806878783892016-05-09T06:41:00.000-07:002016-05-09T06:41:29.045-07:00five nineI've been looking for people
 since the Apocalypse

Before that actually, late 2011 probably

This woefully neglected

  how unready we were

The people I want to emulate

 seem to cloister

Iterations of Communication

 fractal?

Being able to communicate with anyone on the planet

 if both parties have the right devices

In effect, created a globe encompassing field

 increased the length of the radiant radius

So many more places to explore

 build Cerebro

Let's assume you're a mutant

 primarily manifests in adolescence

You know from experience

 people like you

Can pop up anywhere

 amongst the muggles

Grizwald Grimhttps://email@example.com://grimgriz.blogspot.com/2016/05/five-nine.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3028267697115043579.post-38547321216236507252016-05-05T07:45:00.001-07:002016-05-05T07:45:44.955-07:00Iteration of the Fourth EstateThe Dam has been broken. Global leadership has lost the reigns of information control. The meshworks need to be set up before they catch on to this and clamp down harder. Safehouses need to be Established - but it's coming. It's inevitable.

I still think the best bet is to get the stampede going over 'jorbs'

 because the labor force needs to catch on to how unnecessary it has become.

Still need an in to the hearts and minds of the troops that can get through basic training programming

Put the minds in Hollywood on writing happy endings to real-word conflicts

 push on the 'CNN/Iraq angle'.

Do an XPrize for the best War of the Worlds remake

We need a means of validating onsite reporting

 a less pretentious iteration of Snopes, maybe

Hit up the kids in the Colleges that were big fans of Newsroom

 if there were any.Grizwald Grimhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com://grimgriz.blogspot.com/2016/05/iteration-of-fourth-estate.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3028267697115043579.post-29992832093963435232016-05-05T06:48:00.001-07:002016-05-05T06:48:21.438-07:00Live Until You Die

Dead Sara has been prominent in the SoundTrack for Season 3, They have the same appeal Pearl Jam did for me back in the 90's. I can't always make out the lyrics but the song rocks me hard enough to fill it in with stuff that it sounds like it fits. Does she actually say:

 The City is a Prayer

or is that just me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLd22ha_-VU

https://youtu.be/y5vr_Vhoumc

Addicted the the love of Self?

Welcome to the Internet, baby we got it all

 what he have most of is all these people's attention

 but you have to figure out how to make them hear you

https://youtu.be/AZ5uaoc6Iss

This song is not for you.

 It's for everything I wished to be.

A cold wind blows

 one more chance

https://youtu.be/XVvMXlz_2lw

I know what you want,

 but it's not gonna be what you like

https://youtu.be/4t5GXKGNf5U

You've got to take a chance

 for all you've been through and lost

Grizwald Grimhttps://email@example.com://grimgriz.blogspot.com/2016/05/live-until-you-die.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3028267697115043579.post-61374222676615966092016-05-04T11:55:00.001-07:002016-05-04T11:55:27.948-07:00May the 4th be with youThey'll be ones that are just here for the game
 which we should probably call Awakening
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkuthDjvBa4Grizwald Grimhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com://grimgriz.blogspot.com/2016/05/may-4th-be-with-you.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3028267697115043579.post-10973309518146246162016-05-02T20:55:00.000-07:002016-05-02T20:55:48.301-07:00Self-editingSomething to slay, or something to tame?

I still see the starving medusa
the snakes going at each other
driven mad by the hunger

This is still pretty comfortable
Historically speaking
 the 'working class'
 has had it infinitely worse.

The most interesting thing I heard from a global citizen regarding the English language is that it "has a lot of Empire in it".
 Things they say on Hoth

Treat me like the dead guy
 who had to forget why he came back
 in order to be allowed to come back

See, the appeal to me
 is in the notion of subcultural resonance
 speaking Tanagra
 Like Sam & DeanGrizwald Grimhttps://email@example.com://grimgriz.blogspot.com/2016/05/self-editing.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3028267697115043579.post-54307904731369693682016-04-29T06:47:00.001-07:002016-04-29T06:47:03.683-07:00Season 3

It's just easier if you break your life into seasons

 with each season having it's own context-chapters

Pretty easy to map to each chapter to an iteration

 of the hero's journey

In season 2 I was in possession

 I dove back in to dark places

Each class has a Final

Love and other Drugs

SeasonsGrizwald Grimhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com://grimgriz.blogspot.com/2016/04/season-3_29.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3028267697115043579.post-80120569834588123842016-03-23T08:13:00.003-07:002016-03-23T08:13:49.029-07:00Powerful.Beyond.MeasureBecause with power comes responsibility
 and with responsibility comes guilt

The Mind KillerGrizwald Grimhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com://grimgriz.blogspot.com/2016/03/powerfulbeyondmeasure.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3028267697115043579.post-39676659876053095932015-12-15T20:23:00.001-08:002015-12-15T20:23:16.767-08:00The Most Dangerous Lie
I can't even fathom the time I live in, man. It constantly blows my mind. Now is so far accelerated past anything I could have imagined growing up. You know, like the meme says - these phones could send rockets to the moon with the right apps.

A mind is a terrible thing to waste
 and I hope we can pitch that to them
before they decide to automate the labor farm

The more global reality
 that seeps through my culture bubble
the more malleable I imagine
 our cultures to be

Sci-Fi brought us there first
 worlds that were different
filled with peoples
 not entirely like us
with a different way to cult

Grizwald Grimhttps://email@example.com://grimgriz.blogspot.com/2015/12/the-most-dangerous-lie.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3028267697115043579.post-20940371293763167932015-12-05T12:34:00.003-08:002015-12-05T12:34:46.786-08:00Finally REVEALED!!! - What's in the box?
True story. I used to blog.
Then again, that was also some other dude.
It's all very complicated.

The question I find most worth asking these days is
How malleable is the human identity complex?

Grizwald Grimhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com://grimgriz.blogspot.com/2015/12/finally-revealed-whats-in-box.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3028267697115043579.post-9773742776748625852015-10-09T16:27:00.001-07:002015-10-10T08:16:14.905-07:00Everything you need to know about marketing your business online in one video!!!

Grizwald Grimhttps://email@example.com://grimgriz.blogspot.com/2015/10/everything-you-need-to-know-about.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3028267697115043579.post-58619519926167929032015-06-10T09:45:00.001-07:002015-06-10T09:45:49.345-07:00People Expect Too Much From PeopleA Guest post by Joshua Roy

People expect too much from people. We want people to justify their existences constantly. We want them all to be just like us, to parrot our value system. Why? Why should anyone have to spend all day working at a job that is boring for them? Why should anyone have to conform to the standards established by anyone else?

Even 300 years ago when a laborer could only produce enough food to feed 4 people with his daily labor, that means only a quarter of us should have to be working at any given time. Today, a single farmer can produce enough food to feed 150 people easily. There is no longer any need for us to struggle constantly, and yet it is the ungenerous attitude of puritanical people that keeps our society in a frenzy just to survive.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with leisure. Personally, I'd like to see earth transformed into a vacation spot where we work one day a month and spend the rest of it enjoying ourselves, learning, growing, debating, producing art, sexualizing each other. We only live this lifetime once. Why make it so dull and soul crushing? I want to dance beneath the stars drunk on the ecstasy of being alive, you can't do that in our western civilization, at least not often.

Between religious people telling us life is a curse and capitalists actively trying to make it a curse for us, there's almost no room to breathe on this planet.

I want true independence. I want true immortality. I want true freedom, and as far as I can see everywhere I look the world is full of shackles and cages and peasants. Even our president isn't free. He lets one word slip out of his mouth in the wrong way and his entire life would be destroyed. That's not freedom.

We work so hard to get ourselves a little house in a subdivision surrounded by people who couldn't care less who we really are as a person. We go all day to a job that is boring to us. We hate every moment of it. We dread every moment of it. We joke to try to cope with it calling it a "case of the Mondays," laughing about "hump day," or exclaiming with relief, "Thank God it's Friday!" and then we blink our eyes, the weekends over the cycle of slavery begins all over again the next week.

We laugh politely at our coworkers, surrounded by people we'd never choose to know if we had any other choices. We step to it when our boss demands something of us fearing termination. We live paycheck to paycheck always knowing that life is dragging us under, always knowing that we aren't saving enough to get out of our situation let alone retire, and we pray for that sudden heart attack to take us so our families at least have enough money to survive on after we're gone.

This is no way to live. We fear the zombie apocalypse. Look around you. We're living in it, and I'm one of the last damned people alive on this planet full of blank eyed slaves and I'm praying with everything in me that I don't contract whatever it is that has caused them all to become so mindless and automatic. What caused them to give up hope? What caused them to abandon pleasure? What caused them to lose their imaginations?

This is death. This is living death. We have let them lead us by the hand into a world outside of our own designs and it is unsuitable for human habitation. ~

Emphasis mine. - GG
img src: http://goo.gl/xMeFDWGrizwald Grimhttps://email@example.com://grimgriz.blogspot.com/2015/06/people-expect-too-much-from-people.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3028267697115043579.post-4020745833477482542015-03-30T10:09:00.002-07:002015-03-30T10:09:10.452-07:00Death Industry DisruptionI attended a funeral today - grandmother of a friend. A death is uncommon enough to be disruptive to our dominant routines, and as such, creates opportunities for reflection that we aren't otherwise afforded. As far as I know, this was the first funeral that I attended that was also a webcast - and it's this novelty that drew my attention not only to the death industry, but also to the fact that it too - evolves. It's often said that prostitution is the oldest profession, but the death industry is definitely in the running. Both were definitely very early cultural manifestations, but those performing rituals for life events probably predate currency. Discussions with other funeral attendees swung toward the handling of our own inevitable demises, and thoughts along those lines caused a reflection on the various related ceremonies to which we've been memetically exposed - as well as their origins. I've read often enough of early struggles in the death industry, such as inadvertent premature burials - dealt with by bells attached to strings leading into coffins. My understanding of a wake is the notion of loved ones drinking together alongside the body, making sure that there is no awakening prior to the burial. Since the industry does evolve, and the evolution of our culture dictates the direction in which it does - I am thinking about how to direct that evolution within my sphere of influence. Even if that influence is only to our my own ceremony - here is what I'd like: I'd like for what remains of my body to be cremated, as if any of my parts offer someone else the opportunity for a fuller life, they are welcome to them. I'd like my ashes to be in attendance at a gathering of people wishing to extend condolences to each other, and for there to be consciousness altering substances available to the attendees. At least an open bar, dependent on legalities. I'd like those willing to get behind a camera and record an anecdote of the role I was fortunate enough to play in their lives - to be collected in a digital archive available to those wishing to remember me in the future. Afterward, I'd like my ashes made available to anyone who wants them - and if no one does - well, I don't really care what's done with them. Grizwald Grimhttps://email@example.com://grimgriz.blogspot.com/2015/03/death-industry-disruption.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3028267697115043579.post-1124931512840994472015-03-23T21:24:00.002-07:002015-03-23T21:24:59.000-07:00Lies made evident by exampleLet's live up to the name shall we - and go as free flow as we can manage
we/he - I am me, but me and I don't see eye to eye

Ugh, I can feel the self-consciousness creeping in
Like a sickly warmth crawling up my back
After oozing out of a hole in my spine

Off with you Gremlin, I shall stand naked and fearless, with naked fear
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

Aren't those ones so wonderfully sticky?

Do you understand the weight of being at the nexus of infinite possibilities?

Bioshock Infinite was/is free for xbox gold members this month - and if it had a theme, I'd say that's probably it. What we don't think about is that we stand in that Nexus every day. It doesn't seem like it because we're comfortable and automated. Think of your daily morning subroutines.

I'm supposed to decide which path to choose among infinite possibility, and I don't even know what I want to eat.
Bachelor Chow.

Okay, that's true - I want to each bachelor chow.

Grizwald Grimhttps://email@example.com://grimgriz.blogspot.com/2015/03/lies-made-evident-by-example.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3028267697115043579.post-89245863836383915412014-11-28T12:21:00.001-08:002014-11-28T12:21:42.170-08:00Pot PrisonWere it in the scope of my influence
I'd crowdsource/fund a privatized prison
Where only non-violent offenders on marijuana charges
Would be housed in a prison/labor farm
Where they'd be taught and work to grow the stuff
To be sold in state run dispensaries
That help fund its operation

Image source: http://www.northplattepost.com/2013/02/21/massachusetts-man-gets-prison-time-in-ne-for-pot-charges/

Grizwald Grimhttps://email@example.com://grimgriz.blogspot.com/2014/11/pot-prison.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3028267697115043579.post-54469779085834920702014-09-18T18:23:00.002-07:002014-09-18T18:23:33.514-07:00Channeling Your Channels, part 2
Do you speak Darmok?

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That there are those that do - is evidence of itself. I noted when finding the clip of this to share the description on YouTube:

This is a clip that I edited and posted on YouTube. I use this clip in my Intercultural Communication course to introduce students to issues of language differences in intercultural situations.

During video answer the following questions:
Would you face the same experience? Have you?
Can you figure out the language?
What advice would you offer when interacting with people and you both don't speak the others' language (in short, lessons learned?)?

The "Picard Principle" of Intercultural Communication:
In the clip Picard says "Communication is a matter of patience [and] imagination."
What does that phrase mean? Is it true?

Do a Google search on "Darmok Dictionary"
http://www.williamhartphd.com/

 You should be able to grok it if you get:
_I'm So Meta, Even This Acronym_ - can we just use #ismeta as a tag on stuff these days?

We speak in shows. Do you speak _Firefly_? Just watch anything that has it's own convention, you'll see the subdialects. Notice the virtues of the memes with which they resonate - with which you resonate.Grizwald Grimhttps://email@example.com://grimgriz.blogspot.com/2014/09/channeling-your-channels-part-2.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3028267697115043579.post-67155138538838569592014-09-11T21:32:00.000-07:002014-09-11T22:25:58.889-07:00Channeling Your Channels*LIVE TEXT EVENT HAS ENDED*

So - if the goal is flow, and flow is an alignment of archetype and identity that allows of the greatest flow directly from our unique source frequency - and the whole chakra system is a valid metaphorical interface with those energies. we must learn to exercise greater discernment over our energy levels.

From a Diabo-esque video game interface perspective, if we're at full health our mana will recharge slowly over time. The rate of recharge can be aligned for maximum flow by judicious use of it, like a muscle - and/or spells/further gamification of maximizing our ability to achieve flow.

Haha, this was supposed to be framed for the internet marketing and HOA crowd, and look where I took it. I feel a bit like Havoc from the X-men over here.

Point being - when we achieve flow, we have to learn where to channel our energies for maximum effectiveness - if we want to be one of those goal oriented people. I try and remember that maybe the blacksmith is cool with just being a blacksmith. Not everyone wants to be an adventurer, and there are infinite types of adventures to be had on this Ride.

For the intended crowd - this is about how managing our energy through various channels (blog, HOA, twitter feed, plus stream, plus notifications) is paramount in achieving what it is we're here to do. Theoretically, discernment over energy use is always beneficial, regardless of the framing.

What I've learned from that crowd is that the best bet is probably to capture it as raw video, and repurpose it through YouTube onto your blog. Even if you have to reshoot the concept to polish it up before you release it - you'll have video record of the good stuff - and so will the algorithms - and maybe the NSA.

Grizwald Grimhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com://grimgriz.blogspot.com/2014/09/channeling-your-channels.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3028267697115043579.post-28507671227775051782014-08-07T06:32:00.003-07:002014-08-07T06:32:52.360-07:00What are you practicing?Something that's been burning and churning around in my head seems to be a pretty good method of inducing introspection, the simple question "What am I practicing?"

It's rooted in the notion that the most basic premise of neuroplasticity that you'll get more efficient at doing whatever it is you practice. It's a slight twist on "What am I doing?" with a built in reminder that you're getting better at whatever you do. At the same time, it's an invitation to question whether or not you want to get better at what you find yourself doing at the moment you ask it. That line of questioning conveniently leads to the opportunity to compare what it is you're doing, what you're practicing, with the goals you have.

If you want to take the introspection a little bit deeper - if practicing introspection is one of your goals, you can hit yourself with the followup question: How is this serving me?

As far as I can tell, everything you do is in service to you in some way, shape, or form. When it's not readily apparent how what I'm doing is serving me or when what I find myself doing is not in alignment with my goals, I like to examine it from the perspective of identity reinforcement. I've found this to be a fairly efficient mechanism for uncovering beliefs about myself that like to hide under my conscious awareness, and often find my unexamined actions to be reinforcing those beliefs.

Less now than before (as I've been practicing) I would find myself scrolling through my social media stream in search for identity markers. Scrolling through the data flow in search of resonance - things that I could plus, share, or comment on that would signal to myself and others: I'm here, I exist - this is what's important to me.

Increasingly though, my data flow seekings have been more about self-education - arming myself with the knowledge and tools that will serve me on my journey from who I am now to who I want to be.

Image source: http://www.deviantart.com/art/Capoeira-10498827

Grizwald Grimhttps://email@example.com://grimgriz.blogspot.com/2014/08/what-are-you-practicing.htmltag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3028267697115043579.post-83611233649781713132014-07-23T20:56:00.002-07:002014-07-23T20:56:43.554-07:00PerseveranceI wanted to drop by and say a word about perseverance. It could be argued that I haven't demonstrated much to you with how long it's been since I've dropped a new post.

Of course, if you brought it to my attention, I'd have excuses at the ready. Despite deciding to rename this 'Raw Thought', I don't find it easy to drop raw thought here. Maybe it's because it's a blog and I read so many good ones, I'm hesitant to push anything out that isn't a step above what I post elsewhere (G+ and such). Maybe it's because pushing past that fear and hesitation, getting to the right mental space, is something I can only infrequently accomplish.

Excuses aside - I wanted to post this. I wanted to let those of you kind enough to read it that I'm still here. Now that all this time has gone by, I can tell you that there are times when life will knock it out of you. That what it takes to keep going sometimes won't be visible to those watching - but you can hold onto it.

I can tell you also that the closer you get to where you want to be - especially when you finally start seeing the light at the end of the tunnel - it will seem harder. Those last few inches between you and the surface you're about to break through to are the hardest. Many will get close and cave at the edge. Don't be that guy.

It's true, you might lose. You might not make it. If so, don't let the reason you don't make it be that you gave up. If you're going to go down - go down swinging.

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Tuesday, August 31, 2010
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Amateur Hour at CNN: Error-Filled Chyron During Beck Rally
Oh dear! Where do I begin?
Not only does this CNN news banner misspell "Sarah" Palin's name and misidentify her as a former presidential candidate (rather than a former vice-presidential candidate), but the banner is used over footage of Glenn Beck.
Somehow, someone at CNN is getting canned for this faux pas.
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A record of wildlife in my garden and various trips to the Warwickshire countryside and occasionally further afield.
Seems the birds have disappeared from nearly everywhere at the moment; hopefully when the weather gets colder they will be returning.
Yes, they do seem to have disappeared, Tricia, and I think you are right that they will return when we get a cold snap!
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As if the Kellogg and I-235 construction mess wasn't a big enough headache already… you can expect more changes today. A statement from KDOT Spokesman Tom Hein says, beginning today, the eastbound Kellogg ramp to northbound I-235 will close for more than two months. AGain, that's the eastbound kellogg ramp to northbound I-235. Also, the northbound and southbound lanes of I-235 will be reduced to one over Kellogg beginning today. Then tomorrow, the westbound Kellogg exit ramp to West Street will be closed during the daytime hours.
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Jane Eyre
I finally brought my own copy of the book Jane Eyre this week. I can't wait to read it again. Now I know if you seen the many version of Jane Eyre movies, you have your favorite. As I stated before, Mine is 1983 BBC version with Zelah Clarke and Timothy Dalton. Close second is the recent one from 2006. My mom prefers the one with Joan Fontaine and Orson Welles. She always goes on and on how handsome Orson was in it.
Here is a true confession for all of you. I did love someone who was similar in personality to Rochester. (No, he didn't have a wife locked up his apartment, thank goodness.) Was I his Jane? Maybe I was for a while..when I read or watch Jane Eyre I think of him. Seriously, Timothy Dalton was quite swoon worthy in this. I still have quite a crush on him even now.
As always, Sweet Dreams to you all.
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- Sarah said...
I love the old version that your Mum likes too but I think the most recent one is my favourite. I want to do a found poem from one of my education magazines which are worthy but sometimes dull! I am reading a Stephen King novel at the moment and the author in the story has an alternative world he can visit and he talks about the pool that we all go down to to drink-and this is a kind of word pool. He has lots of phrases-the kinds of idiosyncratic language that individuals develop and he says these come from here. I am intrigued to find out what your word pools are though!
- April 5, 2009 at 5:47 PM
- gemma said...
Hi! Jayne Eyre has always been one of my favorites!
I have these words in my journal:
"The sweet moon through your lattice gleams, and lights your room like day; and there you pass in happy dreams, the peaceful hours away"~Emily Bronte
- April 5, 2009 at 8:04 PM
Never saw the movie. If I did a found poem today it would be something about mother nature's mean streak. We had 6 inches of snow dumped on us last night and it hasn't stopped yet.
Hope your weather is better.
- April 6, 2009 at 10:09 AM
- glorv1 said...
I am just going to run out and get my copy of Jane Eyre and maybe even the movie. I'll probably try getting at Amazon, they always have everything. Thanks Shell for your very nice comments on my blog. I appreciate it. Take care.
- April 6, 2009 at 3:24 PM


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Sometimes in a relationship we forget how much our partner loves us. We have visions pop into our heads either because to past problems in other relationship or because we listen to other people. Well for a relationship to thrive you have to trust one another. When you have that trust your partner will look even more beautiful and wonderful. Don't let the worries eat at you they only cause the worst to come about. When ever you start to wonder about things let your mind slip to found memories you have about great times in your relationship. How could your partner do anything put have love for you. Think the best and the best will come about. Make that trust you have the most important thinking in your mind and soon you will find your relationship growing. Far to many people try to control their partner and it is silly because the is the worst thing you can do if you want them to be happy with you. So relax and enjoy the love that they two of you have. If something happens then you deal with it as it comes don't bring it on by thinking about it.
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Fight the urge to think the worst.
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An airline attendant once told me that my flight was canceled because of mechanical failure, which she referred to as an "act of God." I saw it entirely as an act of man, possibly the Wright brothers. What is happening in Japan now is a consequence of both. "Untouched by Human Hands" works for the earthquakes and tsunamis, but not for damage from a nuclear reactor which is strictly man-made.
We have experienced and survived all kinds of disasters. Among toxic contaminants floating around, radioactive material may have the longest shelf live. Thirty thousand years is what I've heard. I won't argue the numerals. Just the combination of the words "thousand" and "years" in this context does it for me.
Consequently potential damage from radiation has a cumulative effect during its considerable lifetime. The ever increasing quantity of nuclear residue, which is still radioactive, must be stored safely. A Three Mile Island here, a Chernobyl there, it all adds up and before we know it things can get serious. The volume of cubic feet of the earth's atmosphere is finite. The radioactive material at risk of being released will continue to increase as long as we continue to produce it.
It's delusional, dishonest or both to claim that what is happening today cannot happen again. At this moment there are nuclear facilities in America in areas which two weeks ago were probably considered as vulnerable to earthquakes as northeastern Japan, the most vulnerable being at Indian Point a short distance from New York City. The 9.0 earthquake in Japan was exceptionally severe. But is there reason to believe that during the life expectancy of radioactive material now being produced there won't be another like it?
An immediate closing of all nuclear facilities is not a feasible option and green energy is too distant to be of short term help. But we have no excuse to not follow the lead of other industrialized nations by working full throttle in this direction ASAP. Those who are fighting this progress by financing the status quo aren't at all delusional. They know that it's younger people and their world that will suffer.. What ethical or moral right do we have to make decisions that adversely affect our descendants generations removed? The importance of news about Libya is dwarfed by events now taking place in Japan. We are dealing directly with the timing of the endangerment and extinction of an entire species, mankind.


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Sunday, December 17, 2006
Ancient Translation
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Too funny! And too true!
- Shankar said...
Here's Dave Barry's (I think) definition of a Wise Man (I should have sent this a month ago):
This is the time of year when we think back to the very first Christmas, when the Three Wise Men - Gaspar, Balthasar and Herb - went to see the baby Jesus, and, according to the Book of Matthew, "presented unto Him gifts; gold, frankincense, and myrrh."
These are simple words, but if we analyze them carefully, we discover an important, yet often-overlooked, theological fact: There is no mention of wrapping paper.
If there had been wrapping paper, Matthew would have said so:
"And lo, the gifts WERE inside 600 square cubits of paper.
"And the paper WAS festooned with pictures of Frosty the Snowman.
"And Joseph WAS going to throweth it away, but Mary saideth unto him, she
saideth, 'Holdeth it! That is nice paper! Saveth it for next year!'
"And Joseph DID rolleth his eyeballs.
"And the baby Jesus WAS more interested in the paper than, for example, the frankincense."
But these words do not appear in the Bible, which means that the very first Christmas gifts were NOT wrapped. This is because the people giving those gifts had two important characteristics:
1. They were wise.
2. They were men.
(There's much more along these lines, but you get the idea.)


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The title says it all, doesn't it. It was Juliet's turn to set this weeks Sunday challenge over at Dottie's World and Bright and Beautiful is the theme.
I actually think this card looks brighter in real life, but the image alone is beautiful (as they all are it's always difficult to pick which one to use). For this challenge I chose Madison and printed her out on pearl embossed paper and coloured her with copics giving her a fun animal print dress, Lol. Madison's background is some K & Co sparkly sweet paper, purple cs and a touch of yellow glitter card. The pink foiling was already on the card ( A4 cut to size) and the blooms are papermania.
As it's getting late I will tootling off now.
Here is my card, TFL.
Night-night Kim x


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Wednesday, February 24, 2010
St. James's Square Garden
Eeek! I don't want to jinx things, but does it seem to anyone else as though we are teetering on the edge of spring? I am beyond excited. It is in the air and it is making me feel happier beyond words.
Let's hope it is here to stay!
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I normally try to get the update done on Tuesdays but this week I was a bit preoccupied. Tuesday was our 19th anniversary. It was certainly one of the more memorable ones we have had. Our plans were to take the day together, sitting pool side, talking about the past and making plans for the future. But, it rained and rained. We spent the day inside together, talking about the past and making plans for the future. God has certainly done a work in our lives, we can see that.
While mowing yesterday he killed a 3-4 foot snake. It had fangs but was not a mamba or a puff adder so it must have been some sort of cobra. We continually pray for his safety while mowing because of all the snakes in the tall grass. He wears safety glasses all the time to protect his eyes from the spitting cobras. He has not been spit at yet but 3 people have been since we have been here.
We will be back in the states 6 weeks from today. Please keep praying for us, our health and our safety.


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For The Quietus, I recently interviewed Alexis Taylor (Hot Chip), Pat Thomas (Derek Bailey, Evan Parker) and John Coxon (Spring Heel Jack, Spiritualized) about the newest album by their spontaneous improv supergroup, About Group.
"Like with all the great improvisers and world traditions. It's only in the West that there's this obsession with reading. I mean, you play because you know it. For instance, if somebody's giving a lecture, you say they're a good lecturer if they're somebody who doesn't need to have a pile of books there. They know it. It's the same way in music."
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US Election
Wednesday, 5. November 2008, 00:27:34
I just found this blog link: Who would the world vote for?
It's polling the world and who'd they'd vote for. If the rest of the world is getting as much coverage of the election as we are down here, it's no real surprise that so many people have an opinion. Aussies have voted 54,102 times, which is pretty impressive. There are also some pretty obscure countries that have voted (obscure because i'd assumed that not many people would be au fait with the net, due to economic conditions...my bad).
LOL, i just realised how absurd it would be to assume that all those countries could have an opinion about our elections...our little blip on the worlds radar of polotics.
I wonder if american polotics will be as important to the world when they go bankrupt? I wonder if they'll split into seprate states when it all goes to shit? I'm sure the citizens of the great USSR, didn't expect to fall apart, nor those of the great Roman empire or any other great empire. I wonder how much longer it'll take the chinese to go through a regeneration, and who the next world power will be? I'd say it'd be nifty if we all united under the one global government, but it'd follow the dodo into the history books eventually too.
Aren't frogs nifty? I like big green tree frogs and pretty stripey brown grass frogs. I like the way they croak, thier little grippy suction toes, and thier heads that just slope into thier bodies...and they hop! Lovely little critters. I want heaps and heaps of them to come and live in my bath so I could soak and watch them swimming around me. Oh and I forgot thier wicked insect catching skills. Hmm, I'd like to have a frog that also ate mice and small rats...that would be the ultimate pest control pet. Genetic engineers out there can you design one for me??? I'd like it in either of the above colours, and not much bigger than a hand...but I definitely dont want an ugly toady shaped one. Oh and it can't go about putting other native creatures out of buisness, or stepping on thier toes. lol and must get on well with cats and dogs Maybe it could have some sort of home defense characteristic...oooooh! It can launch itself at burglars and stick onto thier faces and suffocate them until they retreat from the property. Or maybe a web like function that ties the burglars up until the police come and cart them off to gaol. And in court all defence is thrown out on the basis that "The Frog is always right!"...mmm that sounds very good to me!
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Fondazione Bonotto and Centro Pecci for a special project
Yoko Ono honours the city of Marostica on the occasion of the Traditional Living Chess Game, with her artwork: "DREAM", 2016
The event is part of the series "Advertising Art" developed by the artist. In 2009, in collaboration with Fondazione Bonotto, on the occasion of Yoko Ono receiving the Leone d'Oro from the Venice Biennale, thousands of billboards and posters with the word DREAM were installed in many areas of major Italian cities.
With this artwork, DREAM, a word became a manifesto which sums up the complexity of the times, the uncertain future, crisis, and values. A word that could make a stand and give an indication. The artist chose the word DREAM in order to condense in its possibilities of meaning, visions, and future hopes.
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2015 Seventh International Symposium on Parallel Architectures, Algorithms and Programming (PAAP) (2015)
Nanjing, China
Dec. 12, 2015 to Dec. 14, 2015
pp: 210-216
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/PAAP.2015.47
The use of cloud storage services has increased rapidly in many organizations. However, the security of data stored in the cloud still remains major concerns. Due to risks of service availability failure and the possibility of malicious insiders in the single cloud, researches about "multi-clouds" have emerged recently. Recent researches that are related to multi-clouds have some limitations. For instance, Redundant Array of Cloud Storage (RACS) does not ensure data confidentiality. The performance of system is low in DEPSKY and so on. This paper presents a data hiding scheme that is based on Lagrange interpolation algorithm and multi-clouds. This scheme addresses data availability, data confidentiality and vendor lock-in issue in cloud storage services through the erasure codes and Lagrange interpolation algorithm instead of encryption to store data on diverse clouds. The performance analysis was done through experiences. We observed that our scheme improved the performance for the response times of data uploaded and downloaded.
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Y. Jin, Y. Wang, W. Xia, L. Deng and H. He, "A Data Hiding Scheme Based on Lagrange Interpolation Algorithm and Multi-clouds," 2015 Seventh International Symposium on Parallel Architectures, Algorithms and Programming (PAAP), Nanjing, China, 2015, pp. 210-216.


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This book won prizes back in 2011 and received plenty of critical acclaim in the UK. It is very readable and it is fairly interesting. The sections on poetry are particularly worth reading. However, as a biography of a poet it does seem to suffer from some significant limitations.
Firstly, the decision to downplay the importance of the bulk of the poet's early life is problematic. Secondly, the balance of the research is tilted towards literary gossip instead of history. Thirdly, the way in which women are depicted is unfortunate. Fourthly, there is little evidence that the author has reflected on the difficulty of biography from a philosophical perspective.
Nonetheless, the book should not be dismissed out of hand. It includes some beautiful poems from a 'war poet' who does not always receive his due. Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon often get much more attention than Thomas. In addition, Hollis provides a lot of revealing detail about the difficulties inherent in scratching a living by the pen. Furthermore, Hollis delivers some fascinating commentary on the poems of Thomas and Robert Frost. Frost emerges as a major character in the book, and the reader learns to appreciate some of the thinking behind the art of this significant poet. It is illuminating to read about the difficulties involved in achieving relative simplicity through combining sound, rhythm, and sense.


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The days are getting away from me! Only a week left of October! I have no idea how that happened. Is it an age thing? Seems to me that the older I get, the faster the days pass me by. As if forty was some magical mark for time to speed up...
Or maybe I'm so busy I can't keep track of the time? That's probably more like it! *cackle*
I just finished helping the wonderful and talented Layla Chase facilitate a self-editing class so this week was covered up! I'd get home from the day job, barely manage to eat then jump on editing assignments. By the time I finished, it was bed time for me!
My doctor is trying out all kinds of new drugs on me. *cackle* That makes me sound like a guinea pig! I'm trying to quit smoking so he started me on Chantix. He also, for the sake of public safety, put me back on hormones. Can we say menopause is a bitch, boys and girls? The hormones kicked in to relieve the night sweats and hot flashes just about the time the Chantix threw in the nausea, sleeplessness and nightmares. Nightmares! Really bad ones. Blood, guts, gore, dying people--some close to me--waking up in the kind of terror that makes you cower under the covers afraid to even reach for the light!
So the Chantix went in the garbage after two weeks. Kept the hormones though. *hugs Premphase* Then Doc called and wanted to see me for a blood pressure check and to "talk" about my cholesterol. Never good when you are called in by the doctor like an unruly child to the principal!
When I went the first time, my blood pressure was a little high but my hip, which I have chronic trouble with, was hurting something fierce. Nurse said my BP was probably high because of the pain. Doc disagreed when I went back and the BP was still a little high. The cholesterol, on the other hand, was slightly...astronomical?
So now, I'm on Caduet--which covers cholesterol and BP--plus the hormones, plus Wellbutrin for the smoking issue, plus Naproxen for my joint pains. I guess I need to breakdown and get one of those pill boxes with the days of the week etched on the lids of each little compartment. My mother has one of those. So does my grandmother.
Hmmm... Maybe it is an age thing.
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A garden of Handelian delights: That was "Acis and Galatea" as presented by William Christie and Les Arts Florissants in their belated Orchestra Hall debut Friday.
Founder-director Christie opted for the original 1718 version of Handel's masque, an edition suitable for touring that featured an 11-member ensemble of period instruments, spiritedly led by Christie from the harpsichord. The five vocal soloists also sang the choruses, and if their evening wear hardly evoked a pastoral realm of nymphs and shepherds, their stylish singing certainly did.


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Storytime! Oh I love Christmas... here it goes.
We were at the house of a recent convert... with our District Leaders. She wanted to meet ´the sisters of morumbi´ (oh yea... we´re cool. haha) Nah, so we were teaching her how to make Cookies!!!! Chocolate chip, the best! So we were waiting for them to bake and talking in the front room, when I noticed a little christmas tree in the book case... kindof toward the back... kinda hidden. `wow Irmã, I like your christmas tree, its so cute!` .... silence.... ok. maybe she didnt hear me and no one wanted to comment on how cute the tree was. So again, ´wow! Cute little christmas tree, I love it!` I noticed sis reis was giving me an eye (what are you talking about sort of look) and Elder Rios said, `what are you talking about? This?` he points to the tree. Yeah! `this is a statue Sis Waite´.... no.. no way! He pulled it out of the bookcase and sure enough, there was a face and all! Que vergonha! Its a statue of a Catholic Saint... She has a big crown on her head, and her robe is a big triangle, seriously, decorated with shiny glimmering decoration.... oh man. how embarassing... EVERYONE WAS LAUGHING so hard.... I apologized to the cute new member and through her laughs she said she needs to find someone who would want it, she doesnt need it anymore... oh man... it was REALLY funny. So now, when we walk throuh the streets Sis Reis and when we see the elders in meeting... `THIS is a christmas tree Sis Waite.` oh man... HILARIOUS!
I sure hope everyone is getting into the Christmas Spirit! isnt it fabulous! I love it! Full of love and magic! Love is seriously the reason for the season, the love the Savior and Heavenly Father has for us in incredible! They love us. ALL of us... every bit of our being. I am so grateful to share the love they have as a missionary. Its the greatest feeling in the world to help people understand the love of the Savior is real... and its the REASON he was born, and the REASON he taught the gospel, and the REASON he endured and accomplished the atonement. In the Garden, on the cross, and his resurrection. His love is powerful... and is real. I am so grateful for him and the love he has for me, and for all of us!
I love you! Transfers are tomorrow... what a great birthday gift right? its exciting, but really.... I dont want to leave Morumbi. I LOVE the people here... and Sis Reis... oh man. Wish me luck! Thank you for all of your love and support! Have a fantastic week!
Com Carinho,
Sister Waite!
p.s. Pictures! Sister Reis and me! woot woot! in our house. haha feliz natal!
Baptism! Adriano is HILARIOUS... he is really a great kid. wants to do the right thing and he wants to serve a mission! thats the power of the gospel... to see someones life change 180 degrees! He has dreams and desires now that weren~t there before... it has been amazing working with him and his family. I LOVE being a missionary!


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Six years ago today I was standing in Joshua Tree National Park, on the mother of all road trips, having an epiphany about the desert.
I will never forget the tiny, bright flowers, the suspenseful stillness in the air, the trees and rocks and forests of dozens of different cacti species, the sunset there.
It was a revelation.
Deserts are spiritual too. Sometimes we are walking through one, thirsty, looking for water, slow, unable to think about the next season, full of survival mode, full of need, tired, looking for shelter, longing for an oasis, encompassed by drought.
But certain plants only grow in a desert climate. It takes a certain strength and resilience to be drought tolerant, to endure high light and heat.
Certain qualities/ministries/desires will only grow in your soul in a wilderness season. Perhaps in a perfect world, in Eden, before the fall, there were no deserts. Perhaps all was fertile, flourishing, unified, balanced. And Heaven will thus be.
But for now, we must contend with deserts on our way to the promised land. As we journey toward milk and honey in various parts of our life, and, ultimate milk and honey: Heaven. We have desert seasons. And this world is a desert we sojourn through on our way Home.
There is much value in a desert. Much life. Much to learn in the heat and extremes and seeming barrenness. Look closer. And closer. There is determination here. Deep root systems. Gratitude for Holy Spirit rain. Bright light. Burning bushes. Altars of worship. And His voice. He speaks His promises in the desert. Look up. Lift up your eyes. Your help WILL come from the Maker of Heaven and earth.
Trust Him. He who led you in will lead you out. On dry land like bookends. There is a timing on everything. You are not forgotten. You are not forsaken.
Trust trust trust.
I am studying the Old Testament in school right now. I have a love for the Hebrew language, so I'm always looking words up. One of the Hebrew words for trust is chacah. It means "to flee for protection, to confide in, to have hope, to make into a refuge, to put trust in."
Strong verbs, those. You can do all of this in the desert. You don't have to wait until you arrive at your intended destination. You don't have to do this alone. Throw yourself into His shade. You don't have to be dignified about it. Be desperate. Be honest and messy and scared. Be a child of God.
But trust. KNOW that good is coming.
There are rivers ahead, and fulfilled promises. There is possession of a homeland, miracles and victories and legacy. There is this whole plan unfolding in your life, through your life, secretly, deeply, irrevocably.
The desert is only part of the story.
The heat is keeping you focused. The loneliness is keeping you soft and careful, humble. The longing for shelter feeds your hope. The hope activates your faith. The thirst is just a propellant. So much is happening here.
Surely the Lord is in THIS dry, hot, sparse, uncomfortable place.
You just didn't realize it.
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Bilingual students are sometimes ill-served by their local FE college but most are making improvements for Welsh speakers, according to Ann Jenkins, head of the bilingual unit at post-16 funding agency ELWa. She also called on colleges to build on work done in schools.
Speaking at the annual conference of fforwm, the college leaders'
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In 2003-4, only 0.4 per cent of courses in FE colleges were delivered entirely in Welsh, with another 2.3 per cent of provision delivered bilingually.
As reported last month in TES Cymru (May 20), FE lecturers are to be offered three-month sabbaticals for Welsh-language immersion courses from next year.
Mrs Jenkins said: "We're targeting people with a certain level of competence. They will have to say which educational area they will develop, and will work on documents and resources they can use when they return."
Three colleges in Wales are to have bilingual champions working with schools, and one of them has called for a national network. Liz Saville, from Coleg Meirion Dwyfor, also wants a senior manager in each college to have responsibility for bilingualism, and a bilingualism officer.
"Front-line staff should have badges saying they are Welsh speakers. Where things work well, there's a cross-section of people involved in the scheme," she told fforwm conference delegates.
"People should not be put off from applying for posts where Welsh is required. We need to emphasise oral rather than written skills. There should be bilingual teaching and, for some subjects, groups formed on the basis of language to create a Welsh ethos."


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New version of PVRTune from Imagination
Post Date: 2018-03-20
Imagination has brought out a a new version of PVRTune, the PowerVR GPU performance analysis tool.
With the new capabilities in PVRTune 2018 Release 1, developers can analyse the performance of their applications running on PowerVR GPUs in real-time and use the fine-grain performance information to identify bottlenecks.
With this release, PVRTune is now 'API aware,' able to retrieve and present events that have been generated by the client driver of native programming interfaces such as OpenGL ES and the EGL.
In addition, UI enhancements make navigation more intuitive than ever and also improve the clarity of data presentation.
PVRTune lets developers view application-level API calls (e.g. glDraw) in the PVRTune GUI and trace a piece of work from the application level through the PowerVR driver and onto the hardware for execution.
In this way they can see how work that was submitted at the application level directly affects the behavior and performance of both the driver and hardware.
PVRTune can also provide other information from the client driver such as surface format, size and shader details.
PVRTune today supports OpenGL ES / EGL client driver, with Vulkan® support to follow.