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Create a custom personalized calendar. Start your calendar on any date. Select a border style and theme, format your calendar layout and style. Craft a daily quote or passage for each day of the year. Give a unique gift that lasts for an entire year.
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- Custom tear-off calendar pages on black easel stand
- Each calendar page may have a unique text entry
- Yearly calendar may start on any date
- 313 pages, Monday-Friday plus Weekend
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What I Love About You
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Customer Reviews
12-29-2017: Cassie S. - San Lorenzo, California
The calendar came out exactly like I had hoped it would. It was perfect. This service was great. Pictures to add would be great, but I understand that sizing, color, positioning for every page would be way too difficult. There's too many aspects about a picture, so just words is simple and straightforward. Looking forward to creating more calendars in the future!
12-15-2017: Sarah C. - Everett, Washington
I was happy to find a company that provided this service since I could not find it anywhere else. Your service was prompt and I received the product I needed. But I do think the price is excessive especially for the amount of time it took for me to prepare the calendar. I also think additional services like providing some sort of colorful graphics would be a nice addition.
11-6-2017: Alex S. - Naples, Florida
I made a calendar of memories for my dad's 65th birthday. The tool was super easy to use and it was so easy to load my memories into the calendar using the excel upload. The the short printing and shipping time was a huge relief as I scrambled to get it done in time for his birthday. I also appreciated your responsiveness when I wrote to you to clarify exactly when I needed to finish my calendar to get it to Florida in time. He loooved it. My mom sent me pictures of him laughing and crying and it has been called the "best gift ever". My only feedback on the tool is that the cover art is a little dated (maybe some classier borders can be added). It would also be nice to add more text on the cover, and then in a different place select the "headers" to be put on each date page. But these are minor, my experience was great, and the simplicity of the tool is what makes it wonderful!
Thank you! Alex.
01-17-2017: Nolan D. - Martinsville, Virginia
Thank you so much! Your interface was easy to use. In particular, I liked the ability to upload an excel sheet. It's usually nice for payment confirmation emails to say how much the bill was.
You're great!
12-22-2016: Megan L. - Independence, Missouri
I love my new calendar! I got it as a gift for my sister to use as a work calendar. I put a different movie/inspirational/funny quote for everyday; it's great knowing that she can use and love this for an entire year!
Thank you Printed Owl!!
12-19-2016: Pat O. - Aurora, Colorada
First of all, I'm glad you offer this service. It's nice to be able to personalize one calendar at a relatively affordable price; and your delivery turn-around time is great.
In terms of suggestions - You need a higher-quality paper and glue. I was afraid to page through the calendar lest the pages started falling off which surprised me. Given all the work of putting a calendar together, it would be nice to have something more sturdy with higher-quality stock.
Also, it would have been nice to be able to vary the font size on each page and use italics. I wanted to include the author of each quote but at a much smaller font and in italics and there was no option for doing this.
Nice to have would have been the opportunity to upload photos or graphics. It would also be great if you could show different example calendars - with different colors, font size, types on your site.
12-11-2016: Joy S. - Garfield, Texas
I loved that I was able to create my own calendar. I wish I could have made one that wasn't specific to a year, but that was just one that could be used year after year just by the day and month. I also wish each page could have been customized a bit more (like adding a picture, or changing some font/color just on one page). I liked how the finished product look, but I was a bit disappointed in the quality of it for $60...the stand was plastic, and I wish it was a bit more durable. Overall, I am satisfied, as it was the only place I could create my own....just some recommendations to make it better for the customers.
Thank you
12-7-2016: Jana S. - Ontario, Canada
Recieved the package today, and I love it. It is exactly what I wanted, and I'm so thankful for your company being able to do this. Shipping was almost exact on timing (off by 1 day!) and the product is exactly what I hoped it would be.
Thank you! Will definitely be ordering more in the future!
11-23-2016: Christina P. - Alexandria, Virginia
I was thrilled with my calendar. I do wish there was an option to auto-format the size of the text. Some of my pages had a small amount of text and others had a large amount. If I chose the font to be small enough for the large volume pages, the text was teeny tiny for the smaller volume pages. Alternatively there could be an option to change the size for a given page. To really spice things up, it would be nice to add a background image!
Great product though. Used it to make a "year of advice" for a bridal shower gift and everyone loved it.
Thank you!
11-15-2016: Robert J. - Bryan, Texas
Easy to use interface - especially the Excel import; Great Quality-Calendar looks professionally printed and assembled; Quick Service-Less than a week turn-around; I will use your service again!
11-8-2016: Ryane E. - Peoria, Arizona
Thank you so much for the completed product, which I received on schedule as promised.
It is a Christmas gift for someone special in my life so I don't have his review to share with you yet.
But from the buyer's perspective - mine - I am truly impressed.
I've been trying to create something like this for a long time.
I was so excited when I stumbled across your webpage, to see that it was possible.
You made the process so easy.
The product looks VERY PROFESSIONALLY DONE and well-made.
Can't wait for the holiday season so that I can see his reaction!
10-19-2016: Cathy M. - Simsbury, Connecticut
This whole process could not have been easier-- from the template that I used for my calendar entries, to the communication to see if I had any questions, to the very quick turn around time from when I ordered the calendar to when I received it!
10-18-2016: Linda D. - Bellaire, Texas
This is my second year to create a personalized calendar. You are the only business that enables a daily personalized calendar and I am so grateful to find you. The calendar I create is a welcomed gift to my family at Christmas. The product is unique and your customer service is the cherry on top. Printed Owl calendar format is easy to work with and the service to the customer is great – quick and friendly.
I will be back next year. Thank you!
8-25-2016: Caleb S. - Martinsville, West Virgina
I ordered my calendar as a gift, and it could not have turned out better. The interface used to make it was spectacular, and the final product was amazing. It may seem a bit pricey, but I really think I got my money's worth. It's definitely a service I would recommend and would use again in the future.
8-13-2016: I.H. - Charlottesville, Virgina
We were delighted with this product, which allowed us to truly personalize a "page-a-day" calendar. The interface was easy to use. The finished product looks great and, more importantly, makes SUCH a meaningful gift for our son, who is heading off for his first year of college.
11-1-2015: Linda D. - Bellaire, Texas
I just received my completed calendar in the mail today.
I am delighted. Your customer service to assistance through the process was excellent and my calendar turned out better than I could have hoped. It was fun to create my own daily calendar. Thank you so much.
3-14-2015: Stacy J. - Fargo, North Dakota
Printed Owl is the neatest company I've come across. What great service and product!
The process was quick, easy to work with, and easy to proof. The product was exactly what I expected. I will use Printed Owl in the future and recommend them to anyone.
1-2-2015: Patti H. - Glenwood Springs, Colorado
I am very happy with the calendar that I created with the help of Printed Owl. I had a few glitches in the beginning, but once I emailed my problem, they quickly solved my problem.
The process was quick, easy to work with, and easy to proof. The product was exactly what I expected. I will use Printed Owl in the future and recommend them to anyone.
12-8-2014: Kara H. - Springfield, Illinois
Excellent product! So happy with the results! Looks very nice and is so worth the price.
Also very impressed with the time it took to ship. Ordered it Monday, got an email saying it shipped Wednesday, and received the finished product Friday! Very nice way to personalize your own calendar.
Definitely will be back!!
Thanks Printed Owl!
3-12-2014: Kristy C. - Kileen, Texas
It would have been nice to have had the option of adjusting font size of individual pages when necessary. Some of my pages had a lot of text and others not so much but I had to make the font small across the board (unless I could have just had to ask you to adjust particular pages -- in which case, that info should be available).
It would have also been convenient to have the option of uploading each day's text from an excel sheet.
Functionalities like spell and grammar check would be useful. It'd be cool if I could have uploaded pictures for background behind the text. I guess, just more freedom to customize.
As far as customer service, you guys were great. I like the final product I received. And you guys responded quickly any time I emailed with a question or request.
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More specifically, 110.3(A) states: "In judging equipment, considerations such as the following shall be evaluated:
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At our country place in New Paltz, New York we've surrendered.
David and I cannot be weekenders, inhabiting the house only sometimes, and keep legions of wildlife, raccoons, mice, moles, weasels, and assorted birds and rodents out of our vegetables anymore. And the deer - the nearly domesticated beasts that think they might be dogs who hover in our backyard waiting for the slightest whiff of something cooking, and will eat anything with any kind of green on it - will climb fences, leap through the air, practically walk in the house to get at whatever we are growing or making.
I hate those deer.
When we first moved in, we used to gaze out the window and look lovingly at the deer grazing in our front yard. This was nature right up close. It was amazing. The kids ran to the window, pressed their faces up against it, and took turns pointing out various attributes - antlers, hooves, flicking tails. And one of them would become convinced one of the deer was looking right at them. There was real excitement. Deer rocked.
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Now, we talk about picking off the deer one by one with a rifle out the back window.
It's funny how I like nature but don't actually like when it gets out of my control. I like nature when she sits in a corner and quietly reads a book. It's nice to have her around then. She's pretty. She makes a great backdrop to my life. And when she occasionally looks up from her pages and smiles at me, I'm elated. I might even go over and give her a quick hug or a wink. I often appreciate her when she turns her face back to the words on the page, when she's there, but not looking directly at me.
But the minute she gets up and starts dancing around, or singing a loud song off-key, or telling salty jokes when she hasn't been asked, or - as in the case of the deer - rudely eating all the Hostas out of pots on my deck two feet from my back door, well, then I don't love her so much. Then, I just want to jump in our Jeep and head back to the city where it feels like nature is something invisible, removed, and controlled, where it is manufactured in the form of parks and playgrounds, with safe walls and clear paths, and where I can choose to accept it or ignore it. Where I can get the best of the trees and the flowers and let go of all that messy unpredictability.
This is the delusion of civilization, isn't it? That we have some control. And then, of course, I remember Japan...and that we have no control. We are specs. And nature is our master.
But sometimes I feel a need to assert our independence under the master. In that spirit, David and I decided we should grow vegetables and herbs indoors in our green house, which is a window-paneled sun room we are converting to a working greenhouse.
David suggested we do this hydroponically, so that we weekenders had a shot at proper watering. My old strategy was to drown the plants on Sunday and then, find them shriveled and gulping for air on Friday night, where I would dump a lot more water on them and shock them back to life with a rip tide of water.
My tomato plants hated me.
Still, despite my inadvertent attempts at killing them, my tomatoes thrived. They've bore crops January, February and into March.
Now by "crops" I mean every weekend we get 6 -15 cherry tomatoes. Meager, I know. This without grow lights or any fancy strategies or techniques. They have given us fruit despite me.
We get tomatoes in our Saturday morning omelets and a salad or two. If we were depending on tomatoes to actually eat, well, we'd be screwed. But the upside to growing in our greenhouse is that the deer can do nothing, but press their desperate, wet noses against the glass and be tortured by our amazing little red jewels. Ha!
David McGyvered together a hydroponic system with some storage bins and an aqaurium filter. He went to the local hydroponics store - we're a college town, there is a BIG interest in hydroponics here, if you know what I mean - spent the children's inheritance on clay balls from Germany.
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We mocked the deer while we planted.
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And still more love in the form of obsession.
I love you hydroponically, baby spinach and baby arugula. Mwah. Mwah.
Tell me the deer aren't screaming with envy. All that bark they're eating must be tasting like a cardboard box right about now. Bwah ha ha ha! And yet a few feet away some of the most succulent baby leaves ever grown by complete bumbling amateurs.
We enjoyed tormenting the deer so much we are planning on going to six hydroponic boxes. We'll grow leafy greens in the cool months, tomatoes and herbs in the summer. David dreams of setting up a year-round hydroponic farm in our basement.
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Siri Bliesner, President
Director, District Five
First Elected: 11/2011
Term Ends: 11/2023
Siri Bliesner Biography
Siri Bliesner was elected to the school board in November 2011. Bliesner works in public health. She graduated from Stanford with a degree in human biology. Bliesner received a Master's in public health from the University of Washington. She speaks Spanish and currently works for Hopelink as the outcome and evaluation coordinator.
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Mark Stuart, Vice PresidentDirector, District Four
First Elected: 11/2013
Term Ends: 11/2021
Mark Stuart Biography
Mark Stuart was elected to the school board in November 2013. He graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a BA in Journalism. His career in Public Relations has afforded him the opportunity to work with local, national, and international media, as well as elected and non-elected government officials and their staffs on issues vital to the well being of our nation. He has facilitated collaboration between business, professional organizations, and community groups for the common good. Stuart, a life loyal Sigma Chi, currently works as an issue management and media relations consultant.
As the father of two sons who have attended four different LWSD schools, Mr. Stuart has taken the time to volunteer within those schools. He enjoys getting to know district personnel and seeing them in action. Mark and his wife are respected as strong advocates for inclusion, multi-modal strategies, and providing students with the tools necessary to benefit from their instruction. The Stuart family appreciates the benefits of diversity in education as veterans of both public and private preschools and charter schools serving students of all abilities.
Chris Carlson
Director, District Two
First elected: 11/2007
Term Ends: 11/2023
Chris Carlson biography
Christopher Carlson, Ph.D., was elected to the school board in November 2007. He is a faculty member in the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center's Division of Public Health Sciences. His lab focuses on identifying correlations between genetic variation and disease risk for cancer, diabetes, and other common diseases, then identifying the biological mechanism responsible. Carlson is also an affiliate assistant professor with the University of Washington School of Public Health in the Department of Epidemiology. He holds a B.A. in molecular biology from Pomona College. His Ph.D. is in genetics from Stanford University.
Carlson has been an active member of the Lakeview Elementary School PTSA. He has been a participant in state PTA efforts for math and science education reform. He is also a member of the Washington State Board of Education K-12 Mathematics Standards Advisory Panel. He serves on the SBE K-12 Science Standards Advisory Panel. He coaches soccer in the Lake Washington Youth Soccer Association and is an avid skier / snowboarder. He lives in Kirkland with his wife and three sons.
Eric Laliberte
Director, District One
First Elected: 11/2015
Term Ends: 11/2023
Eric Laliberte Biography
Eric Laliberte was elected to the school board in November 2015. He is an attorney practicing business and real estate litigation at Keller Rohrback L.L.P. in Seattle. Laliberte is a graduate of the University of Washington School of Law. He also earned a Bachelors in Economics and a Master of Business Administration from Chapman University. In addition to his work on the school board, he also serves as Chair of the Kirkland Planning Commission and as a member of Leadership Eastside. He and his wife married in 2014. They live in the Juanita neighborhood of Kirkland.
Cassandra SageDirector, District Three
First elected 11/2017
Term ends 11/2021
Cassandra Sage Biography
Cassandra Sage was elected to the board in 2017. She holds a degree in Early Childhood Education and a certificate in Montessori studies. For more than two decades, Ms. Sage has been a PTA leader in LWSD. She has served on the PTSA Executive Boards of Robert Frost Elementary, Kamiakin Middle School and Juanita High School. She also spent more than a decade as an art docent at Robert Frost Elementary and Rose Hill Elementary. Ms. Sage currently volunteers with the Kirkland Arts Center, helping to develop after school programs that incorporate social-emotional learning. Additionally, she is a Family Centered Care Specialist at Seattle Children's Hospital, and has served on their Neo-Natal Intensive Care Unit Advisory Board, their Pain Medicine Board and their Serious Event Review Team. Her work at Children's involves strengthening the partnership between medical providers, patients and families in order to achieve best possible outcomes for kids.
Ms. Sage has two children who are LWSD graduates (2008 and 2015), as well as two children who are still in school. She has extensive experience working with children who have developmental delays as well as with highly capable students. She and her husband live in Kirkland and are deeply invested in their community.


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- Connecticut should feel right at home in Madison Square Garden tomorrow night. Having played in the Big East for three decades, the Husky program has all kinds of history in the building. Under Jim Calhoun, Connecticut cut down the nets in the Garden a total of seven times after winning the Big East Championship. Calhoun's squad also won an NIT title in the building in 1988. Perhaps most improbably, MSG was the start of its incredible NCAA Championship run in 2011. Throw in the 2009 six-overtime game, and you get the point. But even more recently than that, UConn secured two victories at the Garden in November versus Boston College and Indiana. With all of this history and recent familiarity, the advantage for UConn will extend well beyond having the most fans in the stands tomorrow night.
- While the Huskies may have the fan advantage at the East Regional at Madison Square Garden, attendees will have to pay a pretty penny to see the first NCAA tournament game in the Garden in 53 years. Nosebleed section tickets were going for around $435, while front row seats reached a total of between $3,000-$5,000. One site offered eight club sideline tickets in Section 6 for $12,500. That's per ticket, not total. The average price for a ticket for tomorrow night's double-header, according to Tiqiq.com, is $1,753. A ticket to Suite 11 on www.greatseats.com had an asking price of $61,600. "The Final Four is less expensive right now," Jay Mullarkey, vice president at TicketNetwork, said. "This is really big."
- Last year at this time Louisville's Kevin Ware was preparing for what turned out to be one of his best games in the Sweet Sixteen in Indianapolis. We all know the story of the devastating injury that came next for him in the regional final two days later. One year removed from that emotionally draining day, the Cardinals are returning to Indianapolis for the Sweet Sixteen but Ware is nowhere to be found. According to his mother, Ware has trouble watching his teammates play as he sits out the rest of the season with a medical redshirt. But since the coaching staff and Ware himself have made few comments on the matter, it's led to speculation that there's more to the story and some fans question whether he, like his best pal Chane Behanan, has worn a Louisville uniform for the last time.
- Louisville may be the team better equipped to win a national title, but Tim Sullivan said Kentucky's size will make a victory on Friday night a tall task for the Cardinals. In the first meeting, Kentucky hauled in eight more rebounds, scored 11 more second chance points, and drew 25 fouls on the Cardinals. And if anything, the Cardinals have gotten smaller since that game with the departure of Chane Behanan occurring after that game. Of the 16 teams remaining, UK ranks first in rebounding percentage and drawing fouls. The Wildcats left an impression on Wichita State coach Gregg Marshall. "These guys are like a total eclipse when you go in there," he said. If it's worth anything, at least Louisville won't be surprised by anything they see.
- The key for a Louisville victory rests with Montrezl Harrell, who would be playing for Virginia Tech (or not playing, as it were) if it weren't for the firing of former coach Seth Greenburg. His development in the wake of Chane Behanan's departure has morphed the Cardinals from a nice team with limited potential into the second betting favorite to win the national championship. Harrell (along with many of the Louisville players) struggled in the team's first two NCAA tournament games, but Louisville fans hope he will reawaken in a big way to hold serve against the massive Kentucky front line.


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I've been getting into a routine of blogging every Thursday, but I'll be pounding the keyboard more often when I can. I absolutely had to pass on the words about a few great Internet places I've been appeasing my gardening jones, especially my kitchen gardening jones. That particular obsession waxes and wanes, but is held in check mainly by the planned move of my main vegetable bed and a limited amount of square footage…. (of course, I could tear up the front yard … and grow quinoa… and melons… see? Obsession is not an overstatement.)
One of my fave places has a split personality. It's two blogs from a farmer in rural Missouri; they're called Farmgirl Fare and In My Kitchen Garden. Farmgirl raises sheep, chickens, lettuce, raspberries, is working on an artisan bread bakery and has the one of the cutest (and surely smartest) stock dogs in the whole universe.
Click here to look in on Farmgirl during lambing season, and here to enjoy her kitchen gardening blog and recipes.
And if you, like me, are convinced that gardening will save the planet and that growing at least some of your own food is a sacred enterprise, but you sometimes worry that this is craziness, not mere obsession, look no further than Michael Pollan ("In Defense of Food: An Omnivore's Manifesto" and "The Botany of Desire,") writing in last Sunday's New York Times an essay called "Why Bother?"
The internet trail that led me to Pollan's Times piece began with Farmgirl, which also led me to Kitchen Gardeners International, a fabulous resource for foodies and gardeners alike. KGI boasts kitchen gardener members from the U.S. to Uzbekistan. Now that's called reach! Its most recent post is also packed with links to other locavore/slow food/GYO sites.
Finally, Farmgirl also led me down the garden path to Pinetree Garden Seeds, a marvelous little seed company in Maine (with a book sale going on, no less!)
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12 things you should never post on Facebook
Consult this list before you post your next Facebook update.
Editor's note: This story first appeared on PR Daily in July.
A lot of people have written about annoying social media habits, but evidently not enough.
In case you're still unsure about what to post to Facebook, consult this list:
1. Disturbing photos: Pictures of starving babies, burned dogs, and people with horrible disfigurements are in poor taste, and very upsetting to some people. We know a good cause is usually involved, but use some discretion.
2. Hard sales: Not everyone is in the market for expensive makeup or real estate. Share something the whole class can enjoy.
3. Guilt trips: Posting things like, "Make this your status for an hour or else you were not raised right or don't care about babies with cancer" just makes people feel bad. This modern version of a chain letter doesn't help the cause.
4. Games: This is like forcing people to play charades when they hate parlor games. Ask people first if they like games, and whether they will mind the hacks, spams and viruses that come with some of them.
5. Urban myths: Before you post that eating pomegranate seeds will cause your kneecaps to burst, run it through Snopes.
6. Religion: Don't assume everyone shares your faith. There are places people can go for fellowship and like-minded praise and worship: actual buildings and private Facebook groups.
7. Confessions: Too much information is, well, too much. If you wouldn't tell your spouse, mother, or shrink something, why would you tell me?
8. Profanity: A well-placed expletive for real outrage or disappointment is justifiable. A post with 10 F-bombs about a funny YouTube video shows a lack of vocabulary.
9. Fire alarms: You should thoroughly vet "Danger! Danger, Will Robinson!" posts about foods that will give you cancer or a Neti-Pot worm that will eat your brain before you post them. (See the Snopes reference above.)
10. Crypticisms: "I'm so mad!" doesn't give us a lot of information to go on, or any way to help.
11. Information without links: It's fine to tell us about a cool website, but include the link, OK? Also, don't use a link with 417 characters. Use a shortened one, please.
12. Wrong tech advice: If you run a tech-support company, we'd love to have your advice on the best anti-virus software or the right way to partition a hard drive.
In short, behave online like you would at a social event. No one suspended the rules of polite society for Internet interaction.
What's your least favorite type of Facebook post?
Kim Phillips is the founder of Lucid Marketing and author of the Lucid at Random blog. A version of this article originally appeared on 12 Most.
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Amanda Rishworth moves Notice of Motion in House of Representatives
Earlier this month Federal Member for Kingston (S.A), Amanda Rishworth, moved a Private Members Motion acknowledging the findings of the UK Government's review Letting the Children be Children on the commercialisation and sexualisation of childhood.
It is heartening for those of us involved in this issue to see MPs like Rishworth take the lead on speaking out in Parliament and recognising the harm of sexualizing children. Rishworth urged governments, industries, regulators and the wider community to act.
Supporting Rishworth's motion were: Jill Hall, Shortland NSW; Kirsten Livermore, Capricornia Qld; Sophie Mirabella, Indi Vic, Lib; Kelly O'Dwyer, Higgins Vic, Lib; Laura Smyth, Latrobe Vic; Luke Simpkins, Cowan, WA, Lib; Deborah O'Neill, Robertson, NSW, ALP; Jane Prentice, Ryan, Qld Lib.
I am pleased to rise to move this motion, because the increasing sexualisation of our children is a trend that concerns me greatly, as it does you, Madam Deputy Speaker Burke.
I have raised this issue publicly before, both in national debates and in this House, and I have received extensive support from people in the Australian community who share my deep concern about this important issue. One mother from Brisbane, Bridgette, was among many parents and teachers who contacted me to express their
support for action on this matter. In expressing her concern about driving past inappropriate billboard advertising with her children in the car, Bridgette said, 'I feel powerless to control these kinds of images.' It was a common theme in the correspondence I received on this matter. While many parents want to be the ones who control their children's exposure to adult content, they feel it is almost impossible to do so. While I understand that this is a complex and difficult issue to address, I believe it is high time that we as a society start to take stock of these significant concerns and work together as a group to ensure that our children can grow and develop in a positive and healthy way.
The motion before us today acknowledges the findings of the Letting children be children: the report of an independent review of the commercialisation and sexualisation of childhood commissioned by the government of the United Kingdom and released in June last year. This review draws on evidence collected from the survey of a sample group of 1,198 parents as part of a wider evidence-gathering process. It revealed significant public concern about the sexualisation of young girls and boys through the media and the commercial world.
The American Psychological Association Task Force on the Sexualisation of Girls defines the process of sexualisation as one where a person's value comes only from his or her sexual appeal to the exclusion of all other characteristics; a person is held to a standard that equates physical attractiveness with being sexy; a person is sexually objectified or sexuality is inappropriately imposed upon a person. The Letting children be children review found that children are growing up against the backdrop of a culture that is increasingly commercialised and sexualised.
The evidence pointed to widespread public concern in the United Kingdom about children's almost constant exposure to sexualised imagery through billboards, magazines, pre-watershed television programs containing adult themes, music videos depicting sexually explicit dance routines or provocative lyrics, and adult material available on demand through the internet and through the commercial world in the form of advertising and marketing. Images of this kind convey to children a clear message that suggests that women and girls are nothing more than sexual objects.
The report found that many parents felt that these images were becoming increasingly sexualised and gendered and they expressed concern about the influence from exposure to these images on the development and attitudes of their children. As this motion states, the review also found that parents are very concerned about the clothing, services and products being specifically marketed to children, which often reinforce gender stereotypes and portray children as being more sexually mature than their age would suggest. Parents were particularly concerned about the sexualisation of clothes designed for young girls, listing items like padded bras, bikini swimwear, clothing made from fabrics like animal prints and black lace, high-heeled shoes and clothing incorporating suggestive slogans.
Lastly, the review noted that parents often feel their concerns are not taken into account and that little effort is made to assist parents to control what their children are exposed to, despite the fact that they feel they are in the best position to say what is or is not appropriate for their child. As I stated earlier, many parents want to take charge and limit their children's exposure to what they see as adult content but feel powerless to do so.
As stated in the motion, I believe, along with many Australian parents, that the sexualisation of children is a growing issue not just in the United Kingdom but also here, in Australia. A number of reports into this issue conducted by both the Australia Institute and the Senate Standing Committee on the Environment, Communications and the Arts found a high level of public concern about the premature advancement of the sexuality of children caused by their frequent exposure to highly sexualised images of adults as well as pressure to consume products designed to directly sexualise them.
The motion recognises that the sexualisation of children and, in particular, of girls has been associated with a wide range of negative consequences, including body image issues, eating disorders, low self-esteem and mental illness. We all know that viewing images that depict an unrealistic standard of beauty can make us all feel bad. I often feel bad when I open up a magazine and see unrealistic images of women. However, the important point is this: unlike adults, children have not yet developed the cognitive ability to objectively analyse these kinds of images, and so they are particularly vulnerable to this kind of content. While adults are able to determine whether something has been airbrushed or is unrealistic or a person has had their body altered, children are unable to do this.
The report of the American Psychological Association Task Force on the Sexualisation of Girls presents a summary of the significant body of evidence linking exposure to highly sexualised content with a process of selfobjectification, whereby young girls internalise the sexualising images of the culture in which they are developing and start to criticise their own physical selves for failing to conform—which is often impossible—with what is a narrow concept of attractiveness. The report notes that constant attention to one's physical appearance caused by self-objectification can often have a disruptive effect on performance in a range of areas, including schooling, because less time and energy is available for these other tasks. I saw some reports that showed that young girls were unable to attend to their school work because they were obsessing about their bodies.
The report highlights studies showing that young girls exposed to sexualised and gender stereotyped content in magazines and through television can experience low self-esteem and become extremely dissatisfied with and anxious about their bodies. These feelings of inadequacy can then lead to serious health concerns, such as disordered eating.
In addition, research shows that the sexualisation and objectification of girls in society can have significant adverse effects on the attitudes that boys have and on the ways that they perceive and interact with females throughout their lives. Not only can this lead to men struggling to maintain intimate relationships because they have unrealistic expectations of women but it can also teach young boys negative messages about how it is appropriate to treat and interact with girls. Worst of all, it can cause young boys treat women purely as sexual objects. There is little doubt that the frequent exposure of young children to sexualised content leads to a whole
range of negative consequences.
The motion before us today urges governments, industries, regulators and the wider community in Australia to take note of this report. But it is also time for action. I believe that as a community, we in Australia, including industry and government, need to work together to address the commercialisation and sexualisation of childhood in Australia. We are living in an increasingly sexualised and commercial world. While adults have developed the skills to navigate this—not always successfully, but a lot of the time we are able to navigate, analyse and critically evaluate this material—children can be extremely vulnerable to these influences. As a result, these influences can affect how they develop and determine what kinds of adults they grow up to be. I do not think that it is any one group's responsibility, and that has been the trouble—one group of people has
not been responsible, because it is complex issue. But I believe that we need to raise awareness of this issue.
We need to work together. Industry, government, parents and the community need to work together to ensure that as a society we deal effectively with this important issue so that future generations of Australian boys and girls can grow and develop in an environment that promotes positive and healthy messages. Unfortunately, I feel
that we are going the other way. I strongly believe that we need to prevent the increased sexualisation and commercialisation of our children.
That is why I am moving this important motion. I notice that there are quite a few speakers on the list. I hope for their support on this motion. I commend the motion to the House.
Deb O'Neill, Member for Robertson (NSW), also recognised the importance of corporate social responsibility, making these comments:
I really do want to speak about the importance of the industry coming to some sort of understanding of their responsibility as important corporate and social citizens. Businesses do not exist outside and beyond the ethical practices; businesses sit within communities and they rely on communities to succeed. We need an ethical response to what we can see is an increase in eating disorders, an increase in challenges to a sense of body image, increases in students' and young people's sense of identity, at a particular time they are growing in their understanding of sexualisation. These are pressures that should not be brought to bear on young people unnecessarily. Some businesses are very much responsible for pushing the envelope way too far.
Still waiting
Of course, we are still waiting for the review of the Senate inquiry into the sexualisation of children in the contemporary media environment, which was meant to have happened by December 2009. It seems to have disappeared.
Dr Emma Rush summed up the issues in an earlier piece I published here, titled 'The market is eating our children'. It's a must read for anyone interested in understanding and advancing this issue. Dr Rush writes:
But what can government do?
• It could start by conducting the now overdue December 2009 review of industry's response to the Senate Inquiry recommendations, which would put clearly on the public record the failure of industry self-regulation to promote children's interests.
• It needs to recognise that what is happening today is sexualisation 'by a thousand cuts'. One sexualised billboard, one television show or advertisement, one internet site, one toy, one child's magazine: none of these alone cause the problem of child sexualisation. It is the combination of many sexualised billboards, television shows, advertisements, internet sites, toys, magazines, and so on that cause child sexualisation.
The 'case-by-case' approach to regulation which is currently used by both government regulation and industry self-regulation will not work for this issue. We need an integrated regulatory approach covering all relevant industries, with the expertise of child health and welfare professionals structured into the regulation process, and regulation enforceable by law. Read full article here
See also: 'UK takes action to address sexualisation of children – what is Australia doing?', MTR blog


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Silas Young claims to be the "Last Real Man in Professional Wrestling." That boast could be challenged by any of the ROH locker room, but no one fits the bill quite like Mark Briscoe. The road from Sandy Fork has been filled with blood and broken bodies – just the missing teeth alone prove Mark Biscoe ain't no pretty boy! So it comes as no surprise that these two athletes have their sights set on each other as Final Battle looms.
It all started back at A New Dawn in Hopkins, MN when Briscoe took on Young in singles competition. Mark was the victor via Sunset Flip, but rather than admit defeat and shake hands (like a man…?), Silas Young attacked his opponent until referees and security dragged him away. Any other night, both men would have been kept separated by ROH officials until they cooled off and went home…but Hopkins happened to host the Honor Rumble with both Mark Briscoe and Silas Young officially entered! Tempers were still boiling as the match began, and once again it seemed Mark had the upper hand as he eliminated Silas and cost him an ROH World Championship opportunity. Furious, Young dragged Briscoe out of the ring – with the Honor Rumble still in progress! – and pummeled him, smashing him into the guardrails and leaving the scraps. Somehow, Mark Briscoe managed to WIN the Honor Rumble and received an ROH world title shot that same night. Briscoe would succumb to Adam Cole…but who can say how much the earlier attacks from Silas Young played into that defeat?
Silas Young and Mark Briscoe would get another opportunity to face each other at Glory by Honor XII in Chicago Ridge, IL. This time, the ROH record books will show Silas Young as the victor, but anyone who watched the match could clearly see that Young's winning roll-up had an assist in the form of feet on the ropes for added leverage. Incensed, Mark Briscoe jumped on his opponent after the three count registered. The two brawled until Young deployed a tactic that would derail any real man – a low blow. As Briscoe staggered, Young grabbed ROH senior official Todd Sinclair and removed the referee's belt. Using the belt, Silas whipped and battered Mark until officials and security were able to stop the attack, but the message was clear. After several heated matches and locker room attacks, Silas Young and Mark Briscoe must challenge each other once more in the ultimate battle of real men.
At Final Battle 2014, it will be Mark Briscoe vs. Silas Young in a STRAP MATCH. Nigel McGuinness has decided the only way to settle this grudge is to yoke these men together with a leather strap and let them whip, choke, and beat themselves until one is able to drag the other around the ring and touch all four corner-posts. On December 14, there will finally be something Mark Briscoe and Silas Young agree on: nothing makes you a man quicker than getting beaten with a strap! Don't wait, get your tickets now by clicking here!!


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Friday, April 21, 2006
Grow Your Own Tea Plants
Back in December I wrote about my experiment with growing a tea plant. It was not a whopping success. Nor was it even a moderate or slight success.
To recap, I attempted to grow tea plants from seed, starting them indoors in little ceramic containers. About a month later I finally gave it up and pitched everything - ungerminated seeds and dirt and, well, I kept the containers. So much for my green thumb. Though I still have a few seeds and I haven't completely given up hope yet.
What caused me to revisit all these traumatic memories was a Web site I ran across the other day - GreenTeaPlants.com. It's run by a Florida family - the Behnckes - who speculate that it might be the only tea nursery in the United States.
If you're going to dabble in growing your own tea and your thumb's anywhere near as brown as mine you might want to let the Behnckes give you a leg up on the process. Just a thought.
tea, food, food and drink, tea plants, Camellia Sinensis
2 comments:
- Katie said...
The only diffence between what you did and what I did, I took the coffee cans out of the greenhouse, meaning to recycle the potting soil. Seems that it takes about 3 months for a tea seed to germinate, and mine did, cuz they were still sitting behind the greenhouse. :)
I ordered 10 seeds, and two of ten came up, but thats ok, cuz I believe I can root cuttings of them now.
- Michael in Maine said...
William, I went to the GreenTeaPlants.com site and they are out of tea plants and I could not find anything about "How to Grow from Seeds."
I have six seeds and I suspect, from my past experience with growning plants from seeds, these need to be "scarified" with a file or gently cracked, allowing their dry outer casing to let moisture in. So, I'm going to try it. Then soak the scarified seeds overnight in warm water (just like fixing dried beans!). Tomorrow, I'll plant them in moist seed-starting material under a grow light. I'll let you all know how if fare.
Michael in Maine


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Merck: Stop prescribing cholesterol drug
Drugmaker Merck & Co. is suspending its sale of the cholesterol drug Tredaptive after initial results from a study showed that it wasn't effective and could raise the risk of some serious side effects.
The Whitehouse Station, N.J., company said Friday it is telling doctors to quit prescribing the tablets, which are not approved in the United States, and it is advising patients to stop taking the medication only after talking to a physician.
The drug is sold in about 40 countries, including Europe. A company spokeswoman said Friday it will take a few months to implement the suspension worldwide.
Merck said last month initial results from a big, late-stage study showed that adding Tredaptive to traditional statin therapy failed to lower the risk of heart attack, stroke and related problems. The drugmaker said then that doctors should stop prescribing Tredaptive to new patients.
Results also showed that patients taking the cholesterol combination pill were more likely to suffer some serious, non-fatal adverse events that fall into several broad categories: blood and lymphatic, gastrointestinal, infections, metabolism, musculoskeletal, respiratory and skin. The company said researchers are still analyzing the adverse events, and it offered no additional details.
Merck said it made its decision based in part on a European Medicine Agency committee recommendation.
Statins are a class of drugs that have long been used to lower levels of LDL, or "bad," cholesterol and slightly raise levels of HDL, or "good," cholesterol in the blood. Tredaptive is a combination pill made up of niacin, which boosts good cholesterol, and laropiprant, which reduces the facial flushing caused by niacin.
The drug isn't a major product for Merck. It posted only $13 million in sales during the first three quarters of 2012.
Shares of Merck rose 32 cents to $43.10 in late morning trading Friday. They have traded in a 52-week range of $36.91 to $48.


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It has been more than fifteen years since companies like Monsanto began intense efforts to export agricultural biotechnology from the United States to the fields of Europe and the United Kingdom. The battle continues to this day. Few opponents have been more militant or effective than Mark Lynas, one of the first people to break into fields that scientists had planted with genetically modified test crops—and then rip them out of the ground.
In 1999, shortly after a London protest against poverty turned into a riot, Lynas published an article for the journal of the radical environmental group, EarthFirst!, in which he wrote that, as we entered a new millennium, two forces—a powerful coalition of multinationals and "strong social movements across the Third World''—were on a "global collision course.'' The agendas "of these two competing forces,'' he wrote, ''were utterly irreconcilable." The title of his article was "Savages Strike a Blow Against Capitalism," and he was proud to count himself among the savages.
For years, Lynas clung to what can only be described as a religious conviction that g.m. foods were unnatural. It never mattered to him that dozens of scientific organizations, including the British Royal Academy and the National Academy of Sciences in the U.S., had studied the issue and had come to the opposite conclusion. "In my view, the technology moves entirely in the wrong direction," he wrote in the Guardian, in 2008, "intensifying human technological manipulation of nature when we should be aiming at a more holistic ecological approach instead."
But Lynas has written widely, and thoughtfully, about climate change, and he came to realize that he would need to rely on science to bolster his positions in a world filled with skeptics. As it turns out, it's hard to limit a firm belief in science to one discipline. So he began to look at the science of agriculture, too. What he found changed his position and his life; and if a sufficient number of environmentalists listen to him, it may help change the lives of millions of others.
Last week, at the Oxford Farming Conference, Lynas described how he reversed himself. Read his speech or watch the video. Better yet, do both, because his urgent statement of support for genetically engineered products was about as likely as the National Rifle Association announcing that it would help the Obama Administration limit access to guns. The speech was exhaustive and heartfelt. "I want to start with some apologies," he said. "For the record, here and upfront, I apologize for having spent several years ripping up g.m. crops. I am also sorry that I helped to start the anti-g.m. movement back in the mid-nineties, and that I thereby assisted in demonizing an important technological option which can be used to benefit the environment. As an environmentalist, and someone who believes that everyone in this world has a right to a healthy and nutritious diet of their choosing, I could not have chosen a more counter-productive path. I now regret it completely."
He added that the opposition to g.m. was explicitly an anti-science movement. "What really threw me were some of the comments underneath my final anti-g.m. Guardian article. In particular one critic said to me: so you're opposed to g.m. on the basis that it is marketed by big corporations. Are you also opposed to the wheel because it is marketed by the big auto companies? So I did some reading. And I discovered that one by one my cherished beliefs about g.m. turned out to be little more than green urban myths."
He addresses those myths in the speech:
• I'd assumed that it would increase the use of chemicals. It turned out that pest-resistant cotton and maize needed less insecticide.
• I'd assumed that g.m. benefited only the big companies. It turned out that billions of dollars of benefits were accruing to farmers needing fewer inputs.
• I'd assumed that Terminator Technology was robbing farmers of the right to save seed. It turned out that hybrids did that long ago, and that Terminator never happened.
It would not have been hard to discover some of these facts earlier. Many people have written about them. The "Terminator," for example, was a a set of molecular switches with the ability to turn a plant's genes on and off. The final switch would release a toxic protein that would sterilize the genes and prevent that plant from reproducing. In 2000, in a Profile of Robert Shapiro, then the chairman of Monsanto and the most vocal, eloquent, and detested advocate of g.m. technology, I wrote that "though the technology does not yet exist, and nobody can say for sure whether it would even work, or when, Shapiro announced that Monsanto would not pursue, develop, or ever use the Terminator." That was more than a decade ago, yet I am still asked constantly how I can support a technology that is essentially devoted to allowing large corporations to make Terminator seeds.
Lynas began his conversion two years ago and he stressed issues that have been written about often. Within the next thirty years we will need to feed at least nine billion people and we will have fewer resources—almost no new arable land, less potable water per person—than we do today. That will require growing more food than has been grown in all of human history. And it will have to be done in a climate that is changing rapidly—and not for the better.
Lynas now refers to the argument that we can only save the earth and feed its people by using organic food as "simplistic nonsense."
If you think about it, the organic movement is at its heart a rejectionist one," he continued. "It doesn't accept many modern technologies on principle. Like the Amish in Pennsylvania, who froze their technology with the horse and cart in 1850, the organic movement essentially freezes its technology in somewhere around 1950, and for no better reason.
Lynas is wrong, I am convinced, about something else he wrote: that the interests of the rich and developing parts of this planet can never be reconciled. They will have to be. Technology alone won't do it; technology has never solved a problem—people solve problems. And we have always done that with the tools we have made. Agricultural biotechnology is one of those tools, one of many. It is essential, but it is not enough. We will need it all, and that includes the optimism to sustain humanity's undeniable history of progress.
But there are plenty of optimists among us. Robert Shapiro, who was essentially deposed from Monsanto for arguing exactly what Lynas did at Oxford last week, is among them. "I remain an unrepentant techno-optimist," he wrote to me yesterday. "I believe that on the whole, over large numbers and long times, truth has a better than random chance of prevailing—and I think that is our only hope."
Lynas has already been attacked for his new views, and I can promise him that the hail has just begun to fall. It's not easy to change your mind fundamentally; it's harder still to do it so publicly. Who is willing to go next?
Illustration by Joost Swarte


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The battle lines are drawn.
The California Citizens Redistricting Commission released a proposed redistricting map Friday that outlines suggested changes in the boundaries of Congressional districts.
"We really had a lot of gerrymandered districts that did not follow geographic boundaries and had nothing to do with community interests, and that is what we got rid of," said Maria Blanco, commission member.
"Our mandate was really to draw districts that made geographic sense," Blanco said. "We didn't cross mountains like previous districts did. We didn't have districts connected by a strand of sand like previous districts had."
Some Republicans say the proposed changes would make it harder to compete in a state already controlled by Democrats because some districts currently held by Republicans would be redrawn to include parts of districts held by Democrats.
"Our mandate was not to draw competitive seats," Blanco said. "I know a lot of voters that put this on the ballot and voted for it had that in mind, but we were specifically forbidden during the process of drawing the lines of looking at the political registration of a particular district."
Watch the full intervierw on News Conference on NBC4LA on Sunday at 9 a.m. and 11:35 p.m.


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