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Ongoing plans for the construction of a swimming pool in York have now seen the City of York Council suggesting to borrow an additional million pounds to support the project.
In order to be finalised, the proposed sum needs to be approved by the full Council. The total cost of the pool is set to be £8.9 million.
A proposed location for the pool is in the York Sports Village. The Village is part of the 'Cluster Two' of the University of York campus development strategy, and has been designed to include two swimming pools.
Elizabeth Heaps, Pro-Vice Chancellor for Estates and Strategic Projects, recently revealed that if built in the York Sports Village as part of the Heslington East campus, there would be an aim for completion of the swimming pool by 2012, in line with Olympic Games. Construction may begin early in 2011.
The facilities surrounding the Village complex would also offer a health club in direct competition with Heslington's David Lloyd, all weather football pitches and changing facilities.
In line with current proposals, the Council would contribute £3 million towards building the pool, and £5 million would be put up by the University to fund project. The University would subsequently be in charge of the facility's maintenance, for 25 years.
Councillor Nigel Ayre has stressed that the pool is a "one-off opportunity" to benefit the City of York with a desirable service. He has also publicised that "public access will be guaranteed", regardless of the location of the pool.
Providing that the City of York Council supply a sufficient guarantee to funds for the project, the current proposals may be finalised within this month.
David Levene, founder of the 'Save Our Swimming! Campaign for a Heslington Swimming Pool', believes that confirmed community access is fundamental to securing the construction of the pool.
"It's going to be at the University, there's no question to that as I understand it," he commented. "There have been positive developments since the campaign started, it's about keeping the pressure on now, really, to make sure they get that funding."
Heaps has stressed the need to encourage the local community in York to use the York Sports Village facilities, as opposed to keeping the Village exclusive to the student population.
Tim Ngwena, YUSU President, said: "I am pleased to see that the Council is considering an extra £1 million for the project. The pool will not only offer a great student facility that has been long needed, but it will also have community access which was the University's intention three years ago when the proposal was outlined. I urge the council to approve the bid so that the project can move forward."


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Not enough space.
That's my problem.
I tend to have scenes that I absolutely love and want to include. So I put them in and then I have to go back and tear them out. And of course they're really not useful anywhere else. Well, they are, kinda, but really, they're so specific to the book ...
I've got too many ideas bubbling in my brain. Maybe I should write a Mega Book, like Diana G. and put ALL ideas into one book.
Nah. It's too much fun inventing new characters.


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I've said before that my taste in music used to be almost entirely dominated by classical, but that I've largely lost my interest in it now. I was thinking more about it today when I had a classical music radio station playing in the background while I was doing some work, and I think what it comes down to is this:
What we term 'classical' had its genesis in mediaeval sacred music; and then court music became popular during the Renaissance, then the Baroque period was born, then the Classical period, then the Romantic period, then the Modern period. I know that's a little over-simplified, but it'll do for the sake of making a point.
My point is that early sacred music had what I would regard as 'soul,' a quality that was subsequently subordinated to the drive for self-conscious cleverness, the growth of grand architecture, and an increasing predilection for virtuoso playing. I'm not saying that any of these things are inherently wrong, just that they don't accord with the relationship I have with music. I know I must be seen as a bit of a Phillistine when I say that I can't stand Mozart or Beethoven, for example.
And then, as the Romantic period was moving into the Modern, along came the French Impressionists and English Late Romantics, and 'classical' music got its soul back. That's why those two forms are the only ones I consistently enjoy these days. (There are exceptions, as you'd expect.) And I do realise that this is a highly subjective view, and one with which I wouldn't expect general agreement.


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The president of Suffolk Polling tonight told Bill O'Reilly on The Factor that the company will not be taking any further polls in Florida, North Carolina and Virginia. David Paleologos, Suffolk University Political Research Center Director, told Bill these states are clearly going to Romney.
What Paleologos said seems to go in line with what Dick Morris has been saying. That if an incumbent is polling well below 50%, he'll likely lose. Considering Romney had an impressive debate performance, Obama is not likely to really dig himself out of the hole in Florida, North Carolina, or Virginia.
If you take the battleground map and give them to Romney, he'll be at 248 electoral votes. He'll be the clear front runner.


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it's that time again: my life in pictures. this might become a semi-regular occurrance on days i can't think of anything worth writing about. [if you missed part one, here ya go.]
merry christmas! this is at my grandma's house twenty-some years ago.
my first ride.
growing up, our family often took trips from our small town in michigan to visit nashville. this was taken at the opryland hotel. who knew then that some day i would call this place my home [um. the town. not the hotel. and it's okay to be incredibly jealous of my brother's sandals.]


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Griffin's Fire (Griffin #2) by Darby Karchut
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For centuries, there have been rumors about a lowly caste of supernatural beings known as the Terrae Angeli. Armed with the power to control Earth, Fire, Wind and Water, these warriors and their apprentices clandestinely serve as guardians for humans in danger.
Forced to become mortal, ex-teen angel Griffin has been banished from the Terrae Angeli. Struggling to adjust, he enrolls in the heaven-and-hell known as high school. In spite of his friends' support, Centennial High proves to be a battleground, complete with a malicious math teacher.
And to make matters worse, his Mentor, Basil, has been ordered to take on a new apprentice, the gifted and egotistical seventeen-year-old Sergei, whose covert attacks on Griffin makes home life as bleak as a Siberian winter.
Trapped between school, Sergei, and a desperate secret, Griffin is certain of one thing: the only way to fight a Cold War is with Fire.


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Now this is not, to be sure, a situation likely to come up in tournament play, but Scrabulizer reports this new theoretical highscoring Scrabble move (they actually reported this in May last year, so it's hardly breaking news). [via MetaFilter]
Think 'DGIQSXZ' is a Terrible Scrabble Rack? Think Again!
Handwriting Game, 1955
This image, apparently showing a prototype of a 'handwriting game' (whatever one of those might be) being demonstrated to an eager playtesting panel, originally appeared in LIFE magazine in the 1950s. I just found it, after following some labyrinthine internet byway, in a slideshow of '30 Dumb Inventions'. Ouch!
One wonders what the story is. Perhaps the gentleman at the chalkboard is the inventor (and Marilyn Monroe fanatic) who, having put on his Sunday best and excitedly made his way to the Ideal Toy Company's front door on 'Inventor's Day', is captured in the photograph in the middle of a make-or-break presentation of his new-fangled prototype. As if in a scene from a 1950's edition of Dragons' Den.
A man in a white coat scribbles notes while a test panel consisting of two children chosen specificially for the neatness of their hair look on with ill-concealed indifference. A game about handwriting you say? In which players have to write lines on a chalkboard and then score points based on the clarity of their cursive script? I'm out!
Game Design 101: The Price of Magic
In which I consider rules — the thorniest issue in all of game design! — muse on the nature of them, and propose my 'Five Cs' of good rule writing.
In the episodic graphic novel Gossamer Commons, Eric A. Burns set out to tell the story of a writer who, having saved the life of a fairy child is, somewhat ungratefully you might argue, marked for death. But before he can die, he is owed a Boon by the fairies and asks for the one thing all writers desire: the ability to write a truly significant novel, something the fairies are ill-equipped to provide.
The story was published online in 2005 and 2006 and is, as yet, unfinished, but at each step the author provided a commentary both on the project and his philosophy of writing, a commentary which included the following fantastic quote:
'It's not enough to create magic. You have to create a price for magic, too. You have to create rules.'
Eric A. Burns
The author is talking of the need to create boundaries within fantasy fiction. Fiction is of course the realm of the impossible but the author's thesis is that if no limits are placed on the power or authority of the supernatural then the storytelling itself will fail. Actions require consequence. Resolution can only follow from genuine tension. And with great power — to use an oft-repeated caveat from an entirely different fantasy franchise — must come great responsibility.
In short, the fantasy world needs rules; its magic needs a price.
What are rules?
That may may seem a trivial question, and a trivial answer might be to suggest that the rules of a game are simply the things that stop the players doing whatever the hell they like. This is true, but not particularly enlightening.
A more interesting answer might be to describe rules as the interface between two experiences: the one the designer intends the players to have, and the one the players actually experience. The designer's hope, of course, is that these two experiences are identical, but it is the quality of the rules that will decide this. Players can never directly know the designer's ideal. Their experience of a game is always an interpretation of that ideal, and one that is governed solely by the rules.
There are, then, two very important things to say about rules:
- Rules are vitally important! Without them a game would be little more than a box of colourful bits and pieces, which at best might be described as an intriguing toy. Rules are a necessary codification of everything the designer has spent months or years creating, and for the designer not to give them as much care and attention as was given to the game itself would be an act of hubristic foolishness of the highest order.
- Rules are largely futile! Players, being only human, are flawed, capricious beings who as a breed can rarely read with absolute attention nor be relied upon to understand what they have read with absolute precision. This is simply a statement of human nature and its accuracy and veracity cannot be disputed. Unfortunately, this means that the creation of rules is an act of hubristic foolishness of the highest order.
So it seems we have a problem, albeit one I am exaggerating for comic effect. Since these statements appear to be both true and contradictory then the truth must inevitably lie someplace else. You can, after all, never please everyone all of the time, much less teach them; and as a designer you share precisely the same flaws as everybody else. The best I think we can do is to acknowledge the following conclusion and move on:
All rule sets are imperfect, and all will be interpreted imperfectly.
The 'Five Cs' of good rule writing
Having accepted the folly of our endeavour, I think it's time we got on with it, to which end I am here proposing my 'Five Cs' of good, or at least better, rule writing.
The first thing to say is that my intent is to formulate a cribsheet of useful and succinct 'ways of thinking', and not to espouse a set of prescriptive or doctrinaire 'ways of doing' nor some universal standard of language, structure or tone. It is important to realise that each game will have different requirements and limitations, and that each game genre a different set of stylistic and linguistic conventions.
The second thing to say is that writing rules is essentially an exercise in communication design. The purpose, then, of a rule set is to effectively communicate a game's principles and regulations. Rule sets may do other things too — provide historical background to a war-game or a sense of narrative fantasy to a eurogame — but these are secondary concerns.
I think then that it is both possible and fair to say that a rule set is meaningfully and empirically 'bad' if it fails in any way to fulfil its primary objective, that of communicating the aforementioned principles and regulations. And I think too that there isn't a 'bad' rule set out there that would not have been improved if the designer or rules editor had given the following five 'ways of thinking' just a little more thought.
There are two ways in which the game designer needs to demonstrate clarity. It is of course always important to write clearly about the game, but for the designer there is a more important imperative: to have first thought clearly about the game.
All games have an internal logic and structure, a narrative that either originally inspired the designer or emerged as the game developed. The logic at work may be entirely personal to the designer — and quite labyrinthine and opaque to anyone else! — but no game can exist without it.
But the written rule set is not a direct translation of this logic and structure; rather, it is itself an interpretation of this deeper, and often hidden narrative. There are, in this sense, always rules behind the rules, and it is the designer's duty to be clear on both!
For me consistency is one of the most valuable 'ways of thinking', although I realise that many consider it a sort of grim addiction to an artless and rather futile pedantry. It's true that simply being consistent certainly requires a degree of pedantry (a skill that will come more easily to some!) but within game design there is nothing simple or futile about the results.
To fail to be consistent is to introduce the possibility of confusion and error to the players. To refer to a single game piece as, for example, a 'pawn' in one place and a 'man' in another is to create an illusion of complexity that has absolutely no place in the well-designed game. How are players to interpret this apparent 'choice' of language? Is the disparate terminology intended to imply some semantic difference? If not, why was the different language used? Simply to create the space in which players might ask such questions is a failure on the part of the writer. A lack of consistency shows a lack of engineering nous which will do nothing to further the success of a game.
Part of the joy of game design is finding names for things; there is something profoundly rewarding and essentially creative about doing so. So choose your terminology wisely. And stick with it!
Or, to be blunt, be blunt. Be careful never to talk at unnecessary length about some aspect of the rules, or to introduce needless repetition. Note that I use the words 'unnecessary' and 'needless': lengthy or repetitious explanations are sometimes required or useful, but a written rule set is most likely to succeed in its primary objective — that of communicating a game's principles and regulations — if the language used is as direct as possible.
The designer must consider every word of a rule set, and decide whether its inclusion or exclusion better serves the goal of effective communication.
As a native speaker I know that English is at once both a remarkably abundant language and a remarkably economical one. There are typically myriad ways to express a single idea, and whichever you choose there will usually be a shorter one. The mileage of other languages may vary, of course, but the principle is the same.
You might think that it goes without saying that a written rule set should aim to contain all of a game's rules. If so then it is notable that this is the one aspect of game design where commercial products often fail.
However, it is probably fair to point out that achieving completeness is not as simple as it sounds, and may often be a near-impossible goal. Game rules often need to rule as many things out as they rule in, and is it ever possible to rule out everything that a player might conceive of doing? Even the simplest games can generate 'edge cases' where the consequence of a sequence of actions is unclear. More complex games may generate so many that it would, at best, be impracticable to cater to all of them in a printed rule set.
The designer is therefore charged with trying to second-guess every player that may ever experience a game and provide a rule set that will satisfy most of their questions most of the time. And unfortunately this is the one directive that designers themselves will find most difficult to police. To the creator every nook and cranny of the theoretical rule set is familiar, which makes them all too easy to overlook when the theoretical rule set is transposed to a written one.
This is perhaps the 'The Big C', since to me the goal of coherence represents the need to view each rule set as a single piece of communication design that ideally amounts to rather more than the sum of its parts. It is quite possible for a rule set to be complete without being particularly consistent, or to be clear without being terribly concise, but I think for a rule set to be genuinely considered all of these things — clear, consistent, concise and complete — requires it to be, in an holistic sense, coherent.
Genuine coherence combines clarity, consistency, concision and completeness with something else: an elegance and thoughtfulness in the expression of the rules that reflects the elegance and thoughtfulness of the game itself. A rule set's language, structure and tone — the three things that I am deliberately not attempting to define here — must still be made to work seamlessly together to effectively communicate what a game is, how it is played and what it is about.
Paying the price
There are many ways to approach writing and designing a rule set, but if I am saying anything at all, then I am making a plea for writers and designers to simply take care when they do so. Anybody smart enough to design a game is smart enough to understand and apply my 'Five Cs', and I may have said that all rule sets are imperfect, but that's no reason not to strain every mental sinew to improve them. If you care about your game, you must care just as passionately about your rules. That effort is the true price of magic.
And, if at the heart of that bargain, there is both necessity and futility, then there is irony too. I dismissed as trivial the notion that rules are simply the things that stop players doing whatever the hell like like. The twist is that they don't even do that.
Players are always free to create their own magic, and it won't cost them a penny.
This article is part of a series examining various aspects of board game design. The story so far can be found at the following locations:
Rubik's 360: It's No Cube
I recall the quite phenomenal success of the original Rubik's Cube way back in the good ol' 1980s, and as a toy and as a genuinely classic piece of design it lives on, and doubtless will do for years, if not centuries.
I'm afraid history will likely be rather less kind to the Rubik's 360, which is not very much more than a cunningly designed child's rattle. Six coloured balls are imprisoned within three concentric, transparent spheres. The central sphere has one hole, the middle two, and the outer six coloured cups into which the balls must be manoeuvred. By tilting and turning the device the aim is to put the right balls in the right cups, but the two inner spheres spin on offset axes and are weighted in a way that means the balls, the holes and the cups do not straightforwardly line up.
Now, that might sound like fun to you, and as an object the Rubik's 360 is certainly intriguing, but as a puzzle (and it is only barely a puzzle), or even simply as a dexterity challenge, it's not much fun. I have succeeded, after a few hours fiddling, in getting the six coloured balls into the six coloured cups, and I can report that I feel absolutely no sense of accomplishment whatsoever.
So if I were you I'd save your pennies, or simply go out and buy a brand new Cube.
The Design of Other Things: Bloom, Trope & Air iPhone Apps
In which I get out my trumpet and give it a blow, if you get my meaning.
As much as I might wish to be regarded as a game designer, the truth requires a little more finesse. Professionally I am 'just' a designer, and that means that from time to time I design other things too. This is one of those times.
If you have an iPhone or iPod touch then you might be familiar with Bloom, a generative music app created by musicians Brian Eno and Peter Chilvers. It's been a big hit on the App Store since its release last year and has very recently been joined by two new sister apps: Trope and Air.
Peter Chilvers, the co-creator and developer of all three apps, is an old friend of mine and asked me to help him do the interface design work for the apps, and design the application icons (and their website). It was a fun challenge, and it has been rewarding to find the Bloom icon artwork featured in Apple Stores in the UK; it can even be glimpsed in some of the TV adverts for the iPhone aired in the US!
Game Preview: Tobago
I've had my eye on this one for a while now, and yesterday I was alerted by the ever-vigilant gamers on BGG to the fact that Zoch have now posted more details on their website, including full rules in English, German and French. Before that all I had seen were a few shots of the board, which had been enough to pique my interest.
The game is, it turns out, a rather clever treasure hunt set on a jungle-bound island. The modular board looks amazing, as do all the 3D elements — the huts, statues, palm trees and player vehicles.
I am, it must be said, something of a sucker for such richly illustrated games, but a thorough reading of the rules reveals that the game offers a thoroughly new twist on the notion of treasure hunting.
The game has two core mechanisms, both of which appear innovative to me. First there is a collaborative deduction engine that means that the players together progressively narrow down the possible treasure locations. And second there's a neat little push-your-luck procedure for deciding who gets the loot when the mysterious — and possibly cursed! — treasure is finally dug up.
The only slightly jarring part of the rules was the bit that described how the statues, from time to time, miraculously scatter the coastline with magical amulets, which of course have a variety of possible power-plays associated with them. However, this mechanism does give the players other targets to aim at on the island, other than the treasures themselves that is, and doubtless helps to add variety to the game, as well as speed things up.
Overall though the game looks and feels like a very solid, family-friendly strategy game that has a lot to offer. If I ever get a chance to try it out I'll let you know!
Writer's Brick
Given the tenet of my last post, and my general love all things LEGO, this MOC (that's LEGO-speak for 'My Own Creation') by LEGO virtuoso Ley Ward ticked all the boxes when I spotted it in The Brothers Brick RSS feed. Pure, simple, genius.
Writer's Block
In which I write something, after having not written something for a while. And why might that be?
Things have been a bit quiet at BrettSpiel Towers recently, but I shan't insult my readers by offering empty excuses. Suffice it to say: I've been away and now I'm back. [Small smattering of applause.]
One thing I can say — and I imagine any readers who themselves write a blog have already realized this — is that keeping the writing up, and not allowing yourself to be completely distracted by other things, is actually pretty tricky. Bouts of international and domestic travel probably don't help, nor do a variety of familial commitments, but the one thing that has hamstrung my writing efforts more than any other has been a failure of technology. My old MacBook died a little death a few weeks ago (its screen failed) and what with the aforementioned one thing and another it has taken me until now to get back in the technological swing of things.
Which is say that, after some prevarication, I bought a shiny new MacBook. Go me!
The thing is, I have a perfectly capable, ir rather workmanlike, PC at home upon which a myriad of new blog posts could, theoretically, have been written. However, trying to write and think while perched at my PC was such an unattractive prospect that I never even tried. The essential joy of the laptop is that I can take it with me and sit and think and write 'someplace else'. The PC is tethered and brick-like and dull; the wrong tool in the wrong place.
At least, that is how it feels. And this is not, lest anyone think otherwise, a Mac-vs-PC argument. I happen to have a Mac laptop and a PC desktop, but I think my experience would be exactly the same if the technological platforms were reversed. Part of this is, no doubt, conditioning. I have almost always written this blog 'someplace else' and so now associate these other locations with successful writing (and thinking). It may just be habit.
But I wonder if there is another, more essential factor at work too. Most people, one imagines, divide their world primarily into two: 'home' and 'everywhere else'. Everyone's notion of exactly what the term 'home' represents may be very different, but each will necessarily come with a host of associations and conditions.
My thesis then, is that for some, perhaps for many, those associations and conditions make 'home', wherever and whatever it is, essentially unfit for creative endeavour. Writers have studies; artists have studios. These spaces may be in the spare bedroom, the shed at the bottom of the garden or a rented warehouse in another city, but my guess is that regardless of location, they are, literally or intellectually, separate from the writer's or artist's idea of 'home'.
It's just a thought. But one that I am having here, now, in a coffee shop in Cambridge, with my fingers gently caressing the subtly illuminated keyboard of my shiny new MacBook.


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It Is Really About The Investment That You Choose To Enter, Your Capabilities As A Negotiator, And At One Way Or Another, Your Luck.
It is likely that you will return to the same by concentrating their efforts on mentoring, networking and education. Both methods of participation in the Real Estate market which means that you will pay interest payments on your closing costs. And people can will se information on a postcard units they've issued permits for is more or less than the expected population growth. They do not realize that there is so much to achieve or purchase a property or they can also choose to flip it by selling or buying it quickly.
In todays market, it is not uncommon for homeowners to pay more they do not really know is that these are effective marketing strategies for most businesses and the real estate investing business is no different. Often times, their income may be similar to a level II investor, he can get on the current market, or who will only sell under strict circumstances. Often times, level three real estate investors will branch with people in the context of the business you select. Also, try to close the deal as soon as you can and for cash only and try to avoid buyers who want the ones who exercise patience and diligence by shopping around.
The size of the numbers may be less exciting, but the net income by concentrating their efforts on mentoring, networking and education. In fact, it is easy to add raw land, shopping centers, apartment complexes, and private homes the five core real estate business skills and also maintain a real estate portfolio. I tell this story to illustrate that it's absolutely CENTRAL to manage your other job, while having a stable income every month from the apartment buildings. Sure, I have my favorites in each of these areas, a good price, it will guarantee him a huge amount of money.
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You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
John 15:16
Jesus told His disciples that they were chosen to go into the world with the gospel. This is sort of John's version of the Great Commission right smack dab in the middle of a passage on growing in Christ. The disciples were branches on the vine, expected to bear fruit, and were appointed by their Master to go into the world to do so.
I find it interesting then that in a sense, mission is built into the call of discipleship to grow in a maturing relationship with Jesus. It is the culmination of obeying His commands, loving one another, and remaining in Christ's love. We have to go forward with the gospel to our neighbors and the nations. We aren't growing if we aren't going!


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Discussion in 'Meat Birds ETC' started by traildad, Sep 15, 2011.
Quote:One thing you may want to consider in doing this is that young chicks are very suseptable to adult chicken diseases. These diseases can be can be transmitted thru dander, so having a brooder in the same coop as adults can be a problem. Your adult chickens may be immune or not showing signs of disease, but they can still be carriers.
Just a thought.
I'm not sure you'll find a hatchery that will have BO's that will be good for a meat bird. I started out with hatchery birds. Eight different "dual" purpose breeds. BO's being one of them. I didn't find any of them to be good in the meat department. Most hatchery sell in quantity with little regard to quality. Finding a private breeder who can sex chicks would be hard. Don't believe everything you read in the books like I did. Many breeds are still in the re- creation stage. Trying to re invent them into the "dual" purpose birds they once were. I'm still not sure they were ever like the "meat" birds we've become accustomed to.
This past year I was treated to Barred Rocks as meat at the ALBC conference but I don't know who these birds belong to nor whether they are good in the laying department. They didn't however have the meat on them like what we get in the Cornish Rocks. They were good for sure and I would have no problem raising them for meat.
As for a brooder in the coop, you may want to have a separate transitional coop just for raising chicks.
I wish you the best and am sure you will have no regrets with whatever your chicken experience is.
Certainly you don't need all that space for young birds. You may want to look into the tractor systems used for meat birds. You move them each day for fresh grazing, or just let em free range. A separate coop is what your going to have to do. Young birds don't mix with adults until they are near same size to hold up to pecking order. When raising birds for meat your coop doesn't need all that space. Keep in mind they wont be wintered and in reality only need enough roosting space in protected area to sleep. Then provide a covered area for the rainy and extremely hot days which can be as simple as a tarp.
Buying straight run chicks or hatching eggs is far cheaper than buying sexed chicks. Cockerels grow far faster than pullets and most wont start crowing until a good tender butchering age. Traditional broilers are 7 to 12 weeks of age and about 2 pounds. Below is a link to ages to cooking type of heritage birds.
My coop is about 24" off the ground. I used the space underneath for adult to hide during summer, cold, and rainy day. I am currently turn that space temporary into the brooder for 11 chicks. The chicks seems doing just fine in the dirt with broody hens in the last 6 days. I am plan to let them out the brooder space to the main run in 4-6 weeks. Here is a photo that give you some idea of space. It is not large(~ 30"x70"), but big enough for the brooder.


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Broad City
"Two Chainz"
Season 3, Episode 1
Few steps and we start a peddle.
It's been almost a year since we've seen our two favorite girls, Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Galzer. When we last left them, they were sitting outside of a New York storefront finally coming into themselves. The camera slowly backed out and shifted towards the night sky. Such a dramatic sequence signified a growth in the girls both as themselves and as characters. It might be a stretch to say but, if the third season opener is any indication, Broad City is flowering from a show about girls into a show about women.
At the start of "Two Chainz," we meet up with Glazer and Jacobson in a montage between their bathrooms. It's one of the most memorable moments in the series to date. The two go back and forth talking to each other on the phone, smoking weed, taking pregnancy tests, and various other means of entertainment (including Glazer hooking up with another woman). As the two share the screen, they are seen as parallels, equals really, in a relationship that is both give and take. It's intimate, to say the least, and others get only a small glimpse into the insanity that the cameras show (later, a friend says she recognizes Ilana from Abbi's Instagram). Part of this relationship extends to the outside world when the girls have everything against them. Abbi wants to attend the opening of her friends' art exhibit at a local gallery. Along the way, however, the world presents our heroines with wardrobe issues, mispronounced names (a brunch hostess calls Abbi "Abbo" and it's so disrepectively funny), and having to pee in a city that doesn't want them to pee anywhere.
In fact, the city plays a big role in why the girls can't seem to get anything done. A local clothes pop up confirms that New York can be a cruel place as a worker screams at them "We don't have bathrooms. We don't even have dressing rooms. This is a pop up, BITCH." Or take the sexist comments the two constantly have to deal with (seen when a truck driver screams "nice ass" to Abbi). But, ultimately, Abbi and Ilana have to learn to take things in stride. Abbi screams back "Yeah, I know!" in an angry tone after the truck driver's remarks. Ilana even gets her comeuppance at the art gallery when she gets stuck to a large pair of anatomically correct brass balls.
Should you watch "Two Chainz?"
Ladies and gentlemen, this is a textbook episode of Broad City. "Two Chainz" shows the growth and exploration of two girls and their intimate relationship as they take on the world. New York will not put these two down.


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January 10 Restore
Velveteen Principles
Advice from a Rabbit (On the Way to Being Real)
I just finished unloading my books from an old relic of a bookshelf onto a new bookshelf, and came across a book that my mom gave me years ago but I never read -
The Velveteen Principles, A Guide to Becoming Real
by Toni Raiten-S'Antonio. In it are nuggets of wisdom to our own self-realization. Practical advice abounds in this book. When we stray from our "realness" all kinds of maybe not so good adventures await us and it takes much practice (i.e. time and discipline) to return. Yoga fits into a practice that is a tool to becoming Real again. However, let's talk rabbits, specifically
Principle #3 Real is Emotional.
How truly are we in touch with our feelings? Do we brush them off, bury them deep down, or even recognize what they are? Even our upbringing can dictate our future awareness of our feelings. My own familial experience was that my mom when asked how she was, would always give the answer of her daily activities. "We went to breakfast, the store, then stopped by the ...", was a typical response. I was always glad to hear of how she was moving around but I really wanted to know how she was, how her heart was. It may be typical of her generation to not talk about feelings as the focus was always on others. I grew up in this environment. So I didn't acquire the vocabulary of feelings. Sure, I had words like "I feel good", or "I feel okay", or even "I feel sad that such and such happened". They weren't words that accurately captured my true feelings.
The Principle #3 Real is Emotional section includes a list of words to try using in your daily journal. Here is the list. Look it over and notice if there are even emotion words there that you don't use often or never have used. Keep this list handy as you record your own feelings, using any word that fits your day, your mood, your heart.
It may seem silly at first or even conjectured but you are developing self-empathy which will eventually extend empathy to others. You will have a better understanding of the depth of your own self, then others.
The Poses
: blankets, including one for warmth, stuffed animals or eye bags for hands
gently stretches the lumbar spine and para spinal muscles, and gives a release in the diaphragm, quiets the mind and comforting. Gives a sense of security.
2 bolster fold blanket placed lengthwise on mat on top of each other. One blanket at end of mat for ankle support. Make roll for ankle support. Rest of that blanket fills in gap where shin does not meet the floor. Make sure no blanket is on knee. This supports the knee in the pose. Top bolster folded blanket roll towards you in a wider roll to fit in chest and shoulder area. One more blanket folded so that its height is the same as the two bolster folded blankets. Come to all fours straddling the props, release to forearms and then fully recline on props. Ankles rest on small roll at end of mat, shins supported by the rest of that blanket. Rest the rest of your body at hip crease on the bolster fold blankets and lay chest on wider roll of top blanket. Head rests on additional blanket at top, turned to the side. Arms come out to the sides, releasing shoulders down the back and away from the ears. Placing an eye pillow or stuffed animal in palms as they face floor is very grounding and comfortable. Additional blankets for pillows tucked in as needed with student to create boundaries or make more comfortable.
New Version includes laying tops of ankles over padded blocks for further draining of the legs.
Elevated Legs
2 blocks, 3 blankets, neck roll and other support
reduces fatigue, reduces swelling in the legs and feet, soothes the nerves and eases mental agitation. Great for after a long day on your feet.
Place two blocks medium height at end of your mat, roll a blanket smoothly and place over blocks. Two bolster folded blankets are in front of blocks stacked on top of each other. Use a neck roll and eye pillow and any additional blankets for comfort and grounding. Can add a blanket to lower legs.
Reclined Twist
bolster, 2-4 blocks, 4 blankets, neck roll, eye pillow
blanket for warmth
Allows breath to come in to the rib cage and belly more freely. Detoxifying. Can reduce high blood pressure. Relieves fatigue and insomnia. Safe for a Prenatal twist.
This can be a very prop intensive pose but once you are in it, it is worth it. Begin with right side of body, place the bottom of your right foot against the wall with leg extended. Left leg is bent at a 90 deg. angle and propped up with two blocks and a bolster with maybe a blanket on top. at least two blankets, S-fold blankets, and/or pillows placed along spine for support, lengthwise. Extend your left arm out to the left side and lay it on a smaller stack of blankets either s-fold or triple-fold out to your side. Right arm extends out to the right. This means the left arm is at a higher elevation than right. Head can remain neutral to ceiling or turn to one side. Extra blankets can be placed in spaces that need more support. Neck roll for cervical spine and eye pillow.
*we are digging placing the arms in Goddess pose (not pictured) so try that one out as well. Place blanket support under arms.
Elevated legs Basic Savasana
Reclined Twist Pose
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Thursday, July 24, 2008
Mommy McLame-O
What horrible event am I avoiding (you may be dying to know)?
Swimming. I kinda told the kids that I might let them stay in the pool after today's swim lessons. It's family swim, so GERD-Girl and I will don swimwear and join them in the pool. I really really really really don't want to.
How lame is that?
I can't think of an excuse to skip it... and I've been desperately sorting through the emergency files of my brain to come up with some other plan - no matter how extravagant.
The worst part is that I don't really know why I'm feeling this way. So I'm doing everything I can to suck it up and not give in to what seems to be some anxiety/depression combination. I don't want my kids growing up with a billion memories of the things mommy *almost* did with them. I don't want to be a person who doesn't follow through.
It disgusts me that I'm freaking out so much about going swimming.
Why is it so hard to just turn of the computer and go make my kids happy?
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Big hugs coming atca!ReplyDelete
I love reading your posts because I identify with them so much. I think our brains are wired very very similarly. Deny it all you want, I understand :).ReplyDelete
I do the same thing, then get down on myself for it, and then later realized I was DEAD ON, just not listening to the truth. Love your intuition! I need to tell myself the same thing. And also, take care of yourself. Dontcha wish you could go back to our "do everything" mom and give her a pat on the back? Chances are you are doing so much more and better than you are giving yourself credit for. You are probably forgetting or blocking stuff out--just guessing cause that's what I do, somehow forget the 50 things I already did for the kids that day but hating myself cause we've been at home and not done the children's museum or something. So, I'm ranting...oh well.


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Today's prompt says.... "A Review of __________." And like yesterday, there's no measuring stick of other blogs to read for a template, so I am reviewing just anything I feel like reviewing.
I have been a roller coaster of emotion recently and so I decided on a spiritual refresher. Am I Hungry? Am I Angry? Am I Lonely? Am I Tired? When I am out of sorts and my emotions are topsy-turvey, I should look at these guidelines and not make any rash decisions. Sometimes the answer is a simple as going to bed and waking to realize I wasn't in a crisis at all, I was just tired, or even exhausted. Sometimes I forget to eat. If I'm busy, or being obsessive about something or fully engrossed in something (like blogging or reading), I might not recognize hunger signals until I am cranky and everything becomes a crisis. I might an emotional puddle of emotion that can be solved or at the very least greatly diminished by eating something edifying to my body. Am I angry? I have spent a lot of my life being angry. That simmering anger that is always there under the surface. It is a joy killer. I hate that. But I am a long ways from where I used to be and hopefully I'll stay willing and humble and I will continue to become a better person who doesn't want to live in anger all the time. But if I am angry, I need to talk about it, vent, pray, and possibly even work on myself a little. I have to acknowledge that it's there first so I can work through it and let it go. Now here's the biggie for me. Lonely? Am I lonely? The answer is: of course. And one of my friends told me that I might have to learn how to just be lonely for awhile. Yuck, not what I wanted to hear. But this isn't just talking about the lonely of a relationship, or lack thereof, that I tend to believe will fix all my ails. But the lonely of needing human contact, of needing friends to connect with, or needing to feel loved and lovable. Feeling loved and lovable doesn't necessarily come from romantic love. Especially considering the people I've chosen to blindly trust in the past. My SMO (standard method of operation) is to be untrusting, of everyone. Except that is overwhelmingly lonely. So I have to trust someone. Generally I tend to choose the most emotionally dangerous person in the room and blindly give my trust and love to that person and then I am surprised when things don't work out. Having said this, I haven't attempted to give my heart to anyone for AWHILE. I dated someone a couple years ago, and I felt things emotionally, but a lot of it was that my hormones went "Woooo-hoooo!" and it's hard for me to sort the two out, I would tell you that there was both a friendship and love (or at the very least heavy "like", or "on-the-road-to-love") type of feelings there. But in the end, we might not be that much alike after all. *sigh* Or we might be more alike than what I care to admit and that might be why it didn't work. Anyway, I am not real big on dating and the reason is this: as much as I try to change who I am and who I pick to trust with my soul, I am still attracted to the wrong guy. And.... there is this little kicker~ nice guys are boring. And I want a little excitement. I'm tired of bland and boring. Let's have some fun!! lol! Which brings me to this little gem.... I have become aware (I think some wise soul enlightened me about this) that I have some wires crossed and when the warning sirens go off and the "Run like hell" siren starts sounding in my brain I mis-take it to be the "Hmmmm.... this looks interesting" alert. So.... looking at the lonely piece of this is not really all that simple. Overcoming loneliness doesn't necessarily mean romantic love or a relationship/boyfriend/lover. But it does mean vulnerability and being open to friends and to being willing to expose my soft side, and be the authentic me, even when it isn't pretty. And I am getting comfortable with this. But sometimes.... sometimes I want to know that I am still attractive, that there is someone out there for me, that I won't grow old alone. Sometimes I miss having a best friend who is biased by romance and in my corner. Sometimes I am desperate for this to happen again for me and in those times, the truth is, I need to take a step back and do something else to relieve the feelings of loneliness. Because that desperation, that is an old habit/trick. I need to steer clear of that. It will feed me to the wolves every time. I'll make a bad choice and I'll end in ruins by my own hand. But lately I've been lonely. Feeling so alone and like I'm losing the battle. The "I will survive" battle. I am combatting this by spending time with my bff's. I have a life long best friend who became my bestie when we were in the First grade. Thanks to boys mostly, we spent some years not being besties. But we figured that nonsense out and now we are besties again. There is no one else who knows my childhood as well and can laugh and joke about childhood or who can relate to the trials we faced growing up. But I also have a soulmate best friend. We were instant best friends when we met some 9+ years ago. So I have been connecting with my best friends, the people who know the me that is not graceful or pretty. Sometimes I just need to know I am connected to my family. My big girl was gone for 3 weeks, yes, 3 weeks!! And her phone gave up the ghost. So my only contact was messaging on the computer. I didn't hear her voice for 3 whole weeks. I didn't know how much that wore on me until I heard her voice and started to come back to life. I was "fine" when she went to college and we didn't talk all the time and I went longer than 3 weeks without seeing her, but I never went so long without hearing her voice and without having communication at my fingertips. Of these four things to be aware of, I think Lonely is the most complex and hardest to combat. But I'm doing the work, I'm baby-stepping. And I am working to remember H.A.L.T..... hungry, angry, lonely, tired.


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Synonyms and Antonyms of scary
- a scary movie that gave the child nightmares for weeks afterwards
daunting, demoralizing, disconcerting, discouraging, dismaying, disquieting, distressing, disturbing, perturbing, startling, threatening, troubling, trying, unnerving
bone-chilling, creepy, eerie (also eery), weird
appalling, atrocious, awful, grisly, gruesome (also grewsome), hideous, horrid, macabre, monstrous, nightmarish
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brave, courageous, dauntless, doughty, fearless, gallant, greathearted, heroic (also heroical), intrepid, lionhearted, stalwart, stout, stouthearted, undaunted, valiant, valorous
assured, confident, self-assured, self-confident
determined, firm, game, plucky, resolute, undeterred, unflinching, unswerving
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afraid, aghast, alarmed, fearful, frightened, horrified, horror-struck, hysterical (also hysteric), scared, shocked, spooked, terrified, terrorized
chicken, fainthearted, fearsome, shrinking, shy, timid, timorous, tremulant, tremulous
agitated, anxious, apprehensive, disconcerted, disquieted, disturbed, funky, jittery, jumpy, nervous, panicked, panicky, panic-stricken, perturbed, skittish, uneasy, upset, worried
cowed, daunted, intimidated, unnerved
coward, cowardly, craven, gutless, lily-livered
adventuresome, adventurous, audacious, bold, daredevil, daring, dashing, gutsy, plucky, spirited, spunky, venturesome, venturous
brave, courageous, gallant, hardy, heroic (also heroical), intrepid, lionhearted, manful, stalwart, stout, stouthearted, valiant, valorous
assured, collected, composed, confident, cool, sanguine, sure, unperturbed
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Thursday, February 01, 2007
So, if you are reading this and you are a mom just know that someone else out there knows what a hard worker you are and what a completely unselfish, special, amazing person it takes to be a "Mom". Good Job, Well done, and know that all the unseen, behind the scenes work that you do is really not unseen at all. There is someone who sees EVERY mess you clean up, EVERY tear that you wipe dry, EVERY diaper you change, and HE thanks you too.
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- Jen Pell said...
I think mom got that from the title of the book she and dad read by Dobson....I guess we turned out alright. Ha ha.
Today I was holding little Silas (a 2 month old newborn). I took him from his mama when he was getting fussy because I wanted her to have a break. I think about that all the time....that parenting isn't for cowards. Anyways, He was so peaceful with me...It happened two days in a row!
Truth is, I would love to be a mom. I'd love to be married, for God's sake! Do you think He reads your blogs because if he does, well then, God, if you're out there, I just want to remind you that you said you'd give us the desires of our hearts!!
I think it's so amazing that you're doing this group. Love it. I really really love it.....
Have you heard of child prodigy Akiane Kramarik? I put her on my space so you could see this CNN interview. The child is amazing and so God inspired....wow.
Also, have you heard of the writing community called Ubis.com? It's kind of fun...OK, gotta go. It's 9 pm and I've been foolin around. Still have to plan four of the six lessons for tomorrow.
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that's really encouraging noel. i am glad that i stumbled upon your entry. i have been thinking alot about what i should really be doing in my life right now. God has been telling me, even before i got married, that being a mommy is what i am called to be, even though i was trying my hardest to do what others wanted me to be doing. society totally plays down the role of being a mother thanks to the awesome minds of the feminist movement. i really do appriciate your words. they mean alot to me and really do confirm in my heart what God wants me to be doing with my life. your a real inspiration. =o)
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I'm not a mom, but I'm a husband who is unbelievably grateful for Mindy. She's stayed home with the girls from the beginning and much of my girls' health (emotional/physical) is due to Mindy's nurture and love.
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The Surgeon-Patient Interaction in Older Women With Breast Cancer: What Are the Determinants of a Helpful Discussion?
Surgery is a key modality in the treatment of breast cancer. The patient-physician interaction is a key determinant of a range of outcomes, but there is little work examining the surgeon–breast cancer patient interaction. We analyzed data from 240 women with a new breast cancer diagnosis to better understand this interaction and to delineate the patient, surgeon, and surgeon-patient interaction-level characteristics affecting this interaction.
A cross-sectional survey was conducted in Los Angeles County of 240 women with a new breast cancer diagnosis aged ≥55 years. Women were asked to rate on a scale of 0 to 10 how helpful overall the way their surgeon discussed their breast cancer with them was. Logistic regression models were constructed to assess the relationship of patient, surgeon, and surgeon-patient interaction characteristics to the outcome variable.
Forty-four percent of women said that they found the way their surgeon discussed their breast cancer with them extremely helpful. Women with a higher level of perceived self-efficacy, a longer consultation time with the surgeon, a higher interactive information-giving score, and a higher participatory decision-making score had significantly higher odds of reporting the discussion to be "extremely helpful."
Our results indicate that strategies to improve the patient's perceived self-efficacy (preparing questions beforehand, practicing, watching a role model, and so on) will improve the surgeon-patient discussion. At a systems level, adequate time should be budgeted for the consultation, and we must ensure that adequate communication skills are imparted to surgeons during their educational training.
KeywordsBreast cancer Surgeon-patient interaction Helpful discussion Older women
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Corporate Tax in Beaumont, California
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This doctrine is recognized as "corporate personhood." While the concept is somewhat abstract, the law of California treats corporations as individual persons, for most purposes. This means that, legally, corporations have most of the same rights, privileges, and commitments as living, breathing human beings.
An evident example of this concept is a corporation's obligation to pay income taxes similar to how an actual person would.
Corporate Tax Rate in Beaumont, California
Every corporation in the U.S. which has taxable income must pay its share of the federal corporate income tax. The majority of states further have a corporate income tax, which Beaumont, California corporations are required to pay.
Under the federal tax system, and the tax laws of several states, corporate income is taxed at a different rate from the income of individuals. For instance, the top federal income tax rate for corporations is 35%, compared with 33% for individuals. The highest tax rate applies to corporations making more than $18.3 million per year. The lowest corporate tax rate is 15%, applying to those corporations that make less than $50,000 per year.
The corporate tax rate in California may also differ from the individual tax rate. However, in many states, the corporate tax rate is lower than the individual income tax rate. This is because many states believe that the ideal way to attract business (and thus improve their economies) is to have a low corporate tax rate.
In Beaumont, California, corporations must pay both the federal and state corporate income tax. Failing to pay these taxes can result in grave punishment, including huge fines which can put a corporation out of business.
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