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John Updike and Jonathan Franzen are two literary lions with one thing in common: the way they describe their female characters often leaves a lot to be desired.
Women's breasts are either "pendulous" or "plum-sized," but readers never have to wait around very long to find out about their shape and magnitude. This little quirk isn't just limited to these particular body parts, though, or these particular authors. In general, when male writers describe men, they aim to create a vivid image of who this character is, and when they describe women, they aim to convey that woman's precise level of fuckability. That's the literary male gaze in a nutshell, readily observable in endless globs of overheated prose and every Margot Robbie profile. A recent Twitter experiment eviscerated this epidemic quite impressively.
It began with an observation culled from the hashtag #ownvoices, where Twitterers recommend novels with diverse characters that were written by someone in the same ethnic group as those characters. (The hashtag also encompasses books written about women, by women.) On March 30, YA author Gwen C. Katz tweeted about a male author using the hashtag to offer himself as proof that male authors are capable of writing authentic female protagonists. Katz included in her tweet a screenshot of some prose from the unnamed male author's book:
"I sauntered over, certain he'd notice me. I'm hard to miss, I like to think — a little tall (but not too tall), a nice set of curves if I do say so myself, pants so impossibly tight that if I had had a credit card in my back pocket you could read the expiration date. The rest of my outfit wasn't that remarkable, just a few old things I had lying around. You know how it is."
Lo and behold, every woman in a three-tweet radius immediately felt seen. Well, not exactly. Instead, writer Kate Leth responded with a tweet parodying this familiar flavor of male-penned descriptive language:
I liked to think of myself as busty, but not impure. I had hair so long you'd think it was extensions, but I didn't need earthly enhancements. My cleavage, to be sure,
— Kate Leth ????✨???? (@kateleth) April 1, 2018
The tweet struck a chord with many of Kath's female followers, inspiring podcaster Whitney Arner to throw down the gauntlet for all of Twitter:
new twitter challenge: describe yourself like a male author would
— Jonathan Franzia (@whitneyarner) April 1, 2018
Seemingly every book-loving, female-identifying Twitter user accepted the challenge in kind, setting the stage for an entire day's worth of spot-on send-ups of the literary male gaze.
Some of the responses highlight the tortured language often used to describe the female anatomy. Others focus on the leering tone that tends to creep in on such descriptions. A few highlighted the disturbingly common trend of using culinary words to describe the skin of women of color. Nearly all of them highlight the male writerly obsession with breasts. Have a look below at some of our favorite responses–a solid argument for why men should be forced to vet their descriptions of women with an actual woman going forward.
As round as she was loud, she immediately filled the room. My first thought was that I didnt want to fuck her. My second thought was even more disturbing, she didnt seem to care. She contemplated the roundness of her own boobs and contributed something to the meeting. I missed it https://t.co/1uTe0cKCaE
— Ashley Nicole Black Panther (@ashleyn1cole) April 2, 2018
I had big honking teeters, just enormous bosoms, and I thought about them constantly as I walked down the street, using my legs (thick, with big shapely calves), but never not thinking about my enormo honkers, https://t.co/UaCQBchchL
— Talia Lavin (@chick_in_kiev) April 1, 2018
basically, pic.twitter.com/io8s3Y14UF
— Amanda Wong (@amandawtwong) April 1, 2018
She was forty but could have passed for a year younger with soft lipstick and some gentle mascara. Her dress clung to the curves of her bosom which was cupped by her bra that was under it, but over the breasts that were naked inside her clothes. She had a personality and eyes. https://t.co/o9UJ5QcrQM
— Jane Casey (@JaneCaseyAuthor) April 1, 2018
She had a butt like two buttery brioche rolls and presumably an inner world and job of some kind. https://t.co/kvipWdTRhg
— Jennifer Wright (@JenAshleyWright) April 2, 2018
She might have been tall or very petite, but I honestly just remember large breasts on her dark chocolate, chocolatey-chocolate mousse brownie batter skin. Good lord she was brown. Did she speak? It doesn't matter. https://t.co/yQ15ccdl6O
— Akilah Hughes (@AkilahObviously) April 3, 2018
her small breasts bounced under her joy division t-shirt. i didn't know she was gay, just thought she was a cool girl, the kind you can eat wings with & talk about girls who have hot sisters. turns out, she was lesbaen https://t.co/c4opSklg98
— Jill Gutowitz (@jillboard) April 3, 2018


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And all this insanity was created by 7 hard-working organizers helped by 10 local sponsors and 7 volunteers.
As for the the first 3 editions, SWTimisoara was pleased to have 194 attendees. A total of 80 ideas were pitched from which 26 were presented at the final pitch. Mentors were from all around the world starting with USA and ending Turkey. We had Andrew Hyde as a facilitator, the founder of Startup Weekend. Magic tricks were performed by making 450 pizzas and 10 L of coffee disappear. 883 breakfasts and lunches fed our hungry participants in their time of need.
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Net Metering is a service to an electric consumer under which electric energy generated by that electric consumer from an eligible on-site generating facility and delivered to the local distribution facilities may be used to offset electric energy provided by the electric utility to the electric consumer.
In Indonesia Net Metering has been mandated by PLN in Regulation 0733.K/DIR/2013 (December 2013), which obliges PLN to 'credit' energy produced by solar to a customer's account. To apply Net Metering, customer simply applies for installation of a 2-way meter.(source: Wikipedia)
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- DRY-2-DRY: Do droughts self-propagate and self-intensify? (read more)
- HYDRAS+: Improving drought monitoring through assimilating multi-source remote sensing observations in hydrologic models (read more)
- SAT-EX: Global impacts of hydrological and climatic extremes on vegetation (read more)
- STR3S: Stress on TRanspiration Sensed from Satellite Systems (read more)
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- SMOS+ET2: On the value of SMOS data to derive global evaporation (read more)
- LandFlux: The GEWEX LandFlux Project (read more)
- Optimized discharge assessment based on hydrodynamic simulation results (read more)
- Use of in situ soil moisture observations for data assimilation in distributed hydrological modelling (read more)
Finished research projects
- SMOS+ET1: On the value of SMOS data to derive evaporation over Australia (read more)
- SMOS+Hydrology (read more)
- Integrating Radar Remote Sensing, Hydrologic and Hydraulic Modelling for Surface Water Management (read more)
- Epidemoist: Improving epidemiological modelling using satellite derived soil moisture proxies (read more)
- Copula-based models for generating design rainfall (read more)
- Assessment of the use of rainfall generators for the development of flood risk maps (read more)
- Assessment of land surface characterization and implications for distributed hydrological modelling (read more)
- Hydrologic modeling for surface water management – estimation of the catchment averaged evapotranspiration (read more)
- Stochastic rainfall generation accounting for climate changes (read more)
- Floodmoist: Flood mapping and soil moisture retrieval for improved water management (read more)
- Spatial scaling uncertainty in hydrological variables based on remote sensing (read more)
- Water and sediment budgets of Lake Tana for optimisation of land management and water allocation (Ethiopia) (read more)
DRY-2-DRY: Do droughts self-propagate and self-intensify?
Droughts cause agricultural loss, forest mortality and drinking water scarcity. Still today, our knowledge of how meteorological droughts start and evolve remains limited. Yet land feedbacks have been suggested as a key reason for their occurrence. Climate and forecast models seem immature when it comes to representing these feedbacks. Do climate models underestimate the feedback from land on climate? If so, future drought aggravation may be greater than expected. DRY–2–DRY uses novel satellite observations in combination with new mechanistic models. We aim to uncover the triggers of meteorological droughts and the potential of land management to dampen them. This will enable progress towards accurate short-term and long-term meteorological drought forecasts.
website: http://www.dry2dry.org/
HYDRAS+: Improving drought monitoring through assimilating multi-source remote sensing observations in hydrologic models
Motivated by climate change and its impact on the availability or excess of water in several parts of the world, several agencies and research institutions have taken initiatives in the monitoring of the hydrologic cycle at global scale. Monitoring systems are often based on a combination of land surface modelling and remote sensing, where satellite data are assimilated into the model. The main objective of HYDRAS+ is to develop and improve techniques for the processing and assimilation of multi-source remote sensing products into large-scale hydrologic models with the aim to improve current worldwide early-warning systems for droughts. This will be based on an intelligent use of complementary remote sensing data and innovative modelling techniques. Existing algorithms will be further evaluated and adapted to the current needs and supplemented with new techniques to optimally use the available remote sensing data sets.
website: http://www.hydrasplus.ugent.be/
SAT-EX: Global impacts of hydrological and climatic extremes on vegetation
Recent advances in satellite Earth observation – with the development of consistent global historical records of crucial environmental and climatic variables – provide new means to start unravelling the processes driving long-term changes in climate extremes, and understanding the impact of these changes on terrestrial ecosystems. In addition, these datasets offer an observational benchmark to evaluate the skill of climate models at representing climatic extremes and vegetation dynamics. SAT–EX raises with the goals of revealing how droughts, heatwaves and extreme rain events have changed in frequency and intensity over the past three decades, to uncover the causes behind these changes and the consequences for terrestrial vegetation. The ability of our current IPCC climate models to estimate these processes will be evaluated by comparison to novel satellite-based data records.
website: http://www.sat-ex.ugent.be
STR3S: Stress on TRanspiration Sensed from Satellite Systems
Accurate, large-scale observations of plant stress are needed to improve modelling of global ecosystem transpiration and the implications of vegetation stress for the global carbon and water cycles. These observations may already be available. The GOME-2 and OCO-2 instruments can sense chlorophyll fluorescence, emitted by the chemical reactions that occur during photosynthesis, and is thus (a priori) sensitive to plant stress. Recent studies have concentrated on using GOME-2 data to investigate forest primary production. Here, we propose a different use: to uncover how vegetation stress impacts ecosystem transpiration. Finally, STR3S goals are in line with the European Space Agency (ESA) top priorities, in anticipation of the launch of the fluorescence-dedicated FLEX mission.
website: http://www.str3s.org/
SMOS+ET2: On the value of SMOS data to derive global evaporation
SMOS+ET2 is a continuation of SMOS+ET1 in which the emphasis is placed on the global scales. Results from SMOS+ET2 will enable us to (a) assess the quality of SMOS-derived geophysical variables at large spatial scales using an alternative to more traditional approaches (i.e. validation of model performance after assimilation of SMOS data, as opposed to standard comparisons to in situ soil moisture data), (b) show the value of SMOS data for the estimation of global-scale terrestrial evaporation, and consequently contribute to a better understanding of the global water and energy budgets, and (c) increase the awareness for the value of SMOS data for global-scale hydrological applications through the dissemination of the results of this study. As a result, SMOS+ET2 will highlight the value of SMOS for an application that was not explicitly defined in the main mission objectives, thus it will help expand the SMOS scientific community.
LandFlux: The GEWEX LandFlux Project
The World Climate Research Programmes (WCRP) Global Energy and Water Exchanges (GEWEX) Data and Assessments Panel (GDAP) is currently running the LandFlux initiative, aiming at deriving global land surface heat flux products that can be used together with other GEWEX endorsed satellite products to allow a comprehensive observation-based analysis of the water and energy cycles. LandFlux is coordinating two interrelated research efforts that seek to: (i) intercompare long-term gridded surface flux data sets and identify their skill and reliability (i.e. product-benchmarking), and (ii) simulate and intercompare evaporation models to identify algorithms appropriate for developing a global flux product (i.e. model-benchmarking). Intercomparison efforts have resulted in some published product evaluations and the generation of a multi-year global merged benchmark synthesis product based on the analyses of existing land evaporation datasets. This monthly product covers the periods 1989-1995 and 1989-2005; work is ongoing to produce a similar product at daily resolution and covering 1980-2010.
website: http://hydrology.kaust.edu.sa/Pages/GEWEX_Landflux.aspx
Optimized discharge assessment based on hydrodynamic simulation results
Discharge assessment through rating curves is a widespread technique in the field of hydrologic monitoring. A rating curve combines simultaneous discharge and height information in a measurement point and describes a relationship between both. Thus, high frequency water level records can be transformed into discharge information based on only a limited number of flow measurements. This is an effective method to avoid the installation of expensive discharge measurement stations needing an intensive maintenance. However, a few limitations occur when applying this technique. First, most of the frequently used rating curve equations presume a steady state situation with uniform flow. Second, a well scattered availability of calibration measurements is essential to establish a convenient curve for the whole discharge reach. This is particularly a problem when focusing on flood applications where extreme, often unmeasured situations are point of interest and extrapolation is hence necessary. In practical applications, all three assumptions are regularly violated, inducing important uncertainties in the calculated discharges.
Use of in situ soil moisture observations for data assimilation in distributed hydrological modelling
Modelled soil moisture state estimates can be improved by incorporating soil moisture observations. A so called 'data assimilation' algorithm calculates a weighted average of the modelled and observed state while accounting for both the model and observation uncertainty. Most often remote sensing products are used as observations because of their ability to catch the horizontal variability of soil moisture patterns. However, some limitations exist. Long return periods and limited vertical extents hinder a full spatio-temporal characterisation. Another important issue is the potential large biases induced by vegetated landcover. In certain cases it could therefore be worthwhile to replace/combine the remote sensing products with in situ observations which address the abovementioned issues more properly. First of all it is examined whether a 'smart' configuration of the in situ network can compensate for the poor horizontal extent of this type of measurements. Furthermore the optimal integration of in situ observations and remote sensing products in the data assimilation framework is a subject of research.
SMOS+ET1: On the value of SMOS data to derive evaporation over Australia
Terrestrial evaporation is an essential component of the climate system that links water, energy and carbon cycles. Evaporation regulates the interaction between land and atmosphere through multiple feedbacks on climate, shaping local precipitation and temperature. Despite this crucial importance, evaporation remains one of the most uncertain components of the global hydrological cycle. The main objective of SMOS+ET1 is to investigate the potential of the Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) observations to improve satellite-based evaporation estimates. The study considers the entire continental Australia and focuses on the period from 2010 to 2013. The GLEAM (www.GLEAM.eu) evaporation model is used as core method. SMOS soil moisture observations are assimilated in GLEAM (www.GLEAM.eu), whereas retrievals of the vegetation optical depth are used in the forcing dataset. In addition, in-situ eddy-covariance measurements of evaporation from FLUXNET and soil moisture measurements at different soil depths from the International Soil Moisture Network (ISMN) are used for independent validation of the simulations.
The Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) satellite mission, launched in November 2009, is routinely providing novel accurate data at the global scale. However, the integration of low resolution SMOS observations into finer resolution land surface models poses significant challenges, through which its potential for operational hydrology is at present poorly understood. Therefore, the SMOS+Hydrology project, funded by the European Space Agency (ESA) support to science program, aims at developing a robust end-to-end method for the integration of SMOS data into land surface models, in order to assess the usefulness of SMOS with respect to flood forecast in two large river basins, the Upper Mississippi Basin in central USA, and the Murray Darling Basin in Eastern Australia. This project is in collaboration with Centre d'Etudes Spatiales de la Biosphère, France, Princeton University, USA, and Monash University, Australia.
Integrating Radar Remote Sensing, Hydrologic and Hydraulic Modelling for Surface Water Management
The main aim of this project is to investigate how radar remote sensing of soil moisture and flood extents can be used to improve predictions of hydrologic and hydraulic models through data assimilation. This project is performed at 4 different laboratories (Ghent University, Université catholique de Louvain and Centre de Recherche Public-Gabriel Lippmann). (read more)
Epidemoist: Improving epidemiological modelling usisatellite derived soil moisture proxies
Bluetongue is an arboviral disease that causes high mortality, mainly in certain breeds of sheep but also in other domestic and wild ruminants. It is caused by the bluetongue virus that is transmitted between ruminant hosts almost entirely by the bites of Culicoides biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae). (read more)
Copula-based models for design rainfall
For the dimensioning of hydraulic structures one often uses design storms, with a certain return period, or long timeseries of simulated rainfall to make sure the design satisfies all risk-related norms. Until recently, this exercise was usually carried out using extreme value distribution functions (e.g. Gumbel) for the estimation of intensity-duration-frequency (IDF) relations and stochastic rainfall models. (read more)
Assessment of the use of rainfall generators for the development of flood risk maps
In order to make reliable flood risk maps, coupled hydrologic-hydraulic models are used to predict the chance of flooding at different locations on and along a river system. However, such modelling requires long time series of rainfall and corresponding evapotranspiration rates (>500 year) which are not available from measurements. In this project, rainfall generators are tested and improved for their use in developing flood risk maps. (read more)
Assessment of land surface characterization and implications for distributed hydrological modelling
The research aims at developing new insights with respect to uncertainty assessment and uncertainty analysis related to distributed hydrological model predictions. The general objective of this study is to integrate uncertainty into a distributed hydrological model with a focus on soil and vegetation related inputs and parameters. The designed uncertainty model should allow for the quantification of the impact of the input errors on hydrologic model predictions. In particular, the study wants to gain insight into the uncertainty associated with some 'standard' information, as often used in hydrologic modelling if simulations in ungauged basins are to be made. (read more)
Hydrologic modeling for surface water management – estimation of the catchment averaged evapotranspiration
An accurate understanding of the behavior of the different water and energy balance terms at the catchment scale is of interest for hydrologic modeling and operational flood forecasting. Flood forecast models are usually based on two different kinds of meteorological inputs, more specifically the catchment averaged precipitation and evapotranspiration rates. (read more)
Stochastic rainfall generation accounting for climate changes
Rainfall is an essential variable of the hydrological cycle, which in turn is an indispensable part of many of the environmental sciences. Therefore, it is to everyone's best interest to have decent rainfall records at one's disposal. In some cases, the mere use of historical rainfall records can be justified. For certain other applications (e.g. hydrological design studies), a more extensive dataset will be required to obtain satisfactory results. In such cases, stochastic rainfall models can be regarded as valuable alternatives to using observed rainfall time series. (read more)
Floodmoist: Flood mapping and soil moisture retrieval for improved water management
The objective of the FLOODMOIST project is to investigate the benefits of jointly assimilating remotely sensed observations of soil moisture and flood extent into coupled hydrologic-hydraulic models. The research will mainly focus on the improvement of soil moisture estimations from remotely sensed microwave observations, the estimation of the uncertainty in flood maps derived from remote sensing data and the joint assimilation of both products into coupled hydrologic-hydraulic models.
Spatial scaling uncertainty in hydrological variables based on remote sensing
The objective of this project is to investigate the spatial scaling of remotely sensed soil moisture and rainfall based on different remote sensing products. The project aims at developing a methodology which allows for up- and downscaling of remotely sensed observations, and to assess the uncertainty in the obtained products. Deriving scaling laws and modelling the uncertainty on scaled products are both of uttermost importance when such data are applied in hydrological model studies. (read more)
Water and sediment budgets of Lake Tana for optimisation of land management and water allocation (Ethiopia)
The overall developmental objective of the project is to contribute to sustainable management of land and water resources in Lake Tana basin. The project will provide scientific evidence and raise awareness about water and sediment problems associated to the lake and show alternative options to minimize these problems and bring sustained use of the land resources and lake. Academically, this project will strengthen the capacity of BDU, BWR and EPLAUA staff.


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This advisory is relevant to ALL Home (IdP) service organisations participating in eduroam in the UK. It describes the use of RadSec at national proxy level, how this can benefit the individual user and what eduroam organisations must do in order to gain these benefits.
Originator: Alan Buxey
This advisory is relevant to all participating organisations
New Name and URL for eduroam(UK) Support Server
The eduroam(UK) support server has got a new DNS name - support.eduroam.uk. It can now be reached at https://support.eduroam.uk (nb. the IP address is the same as before, it hasn't changed).
September 2012 (11/9/12)
This advisory applies to all FreeRADIUS based participants. Microsoft IAS, NPS, Cisco Secure ACS and other RADIUS server based participants are not affected.
More information presented on the Nagios LG service status page
In response to popular demand we've made a change to what eduroam technical administrators see on the Nagios partipants service monitor web page (and to the URL).
Rather than just seeing the service status and service issues for your own site, you can now see the status of all participating organisations' eduroam services. This should help problem investigations.
eduroam participants running Cisco ACS as their organisational RADIUS proxy servers will be pleased to hear news that ACS 5.4 has been released.
The release notes document all the new features and bug fixes; however, of major interest to eduroam administrators is the feature that it can now add Operator-Name to requests bring sent upstream to the NRPS.
Many thanks to Cisco for their cooperation in listening to the needs of the eduroam community and for providing debug/beta copies to the eduroam(UK) support team.
Sorry to report there was an unscheduled national proxy service outage on Friday 26/10/2012 between 1:02 AM until 9:48. All three NRPS were affected. This meant that no inter-organisation or UK-international roaming would have been possible. Intra-organisation eduroam authentication of course was not affected.


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Asanas and Animals - My Dogs Spend the Entire Day Meditating
One of my first yoga teachers told me that dogs spend the entire day meditating. That seemed like a strange comment at the time, and I didn't really understand it. But I wanted to seem like an enlightened yoga student, so I gave him my most contemplative look and nodded my head in agreement, utterly dumbfounded. I forgot about that comment for a long time, until recently, during a discussion on meditation practices at YogaLife. That seemingly indecipherable comment took on an entirely different meaning.
I am the proud pet-parent of three rescue dogs. I consider my stewardship of their lives to be a great privilege. And as I watch my husky mix, Little Luna, stare out the window, completely immersed in her surroundings and entirely in the present moment, I must acknowledge - dogs spend the entire day meditating.
Each of my dogs has a unique back story on how they ended in the tutelage of my husband and I. Most aspects of those back stories are quite sad - part and parcel of being a rescue dog, I suppose. But they don't let their back stories define their present moment. They don't ask for my pity, but rather, for my love, not to mention a good bowl of food, a warm bed, and a scratch behind the ear. I happily oblige them.
I learn so much from my dogs every day about love, patience, and living in the present moment. They've taught me about forgiveness and letting go of grudges. They remind me to be grateful for the here and now, and not worry so much about what's to come. By being dogs, they make me a better human.
I invite you to join me at YogaLife for a Power Yoga practice on July 21st to support the efforts of S&L Animal Rescue, an amazing organization that rescues dogs from high-kill shelters and brings them to New Jersey, where they find their forever homes. I adopted my beagle-mix, Mercy Lou (see photo), from S&L, and for that I am forever in their debt.
I look forward to seeing you on the mat.
Marissa McAleer, RYT


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LONDON (MarketWatch) -- USA Truck, Inc. USAK, +2.07% said second-quarter net income more than doubled to $4.3 million, or 45 cents a share, from $1.3 million, or 14 cents a share, in the year-earlier quarter. The results beat the forecast for net profit of 36 cents a share of analysts polled by Thomson First Call. Total revenue for the period climbed to $107 million from $92 million a year ago on strong freight demand.
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ROCHESTER, Minn. – With three weeks until Election Day, we at KIMT are working hard to be your election resource this year — not just for the presidential race, but for state and local races as well.
As part of that commitment, we are bringing you profiles of different local races right up through Election Day 2016.
We begin with the race for Minnesota House District 25B, which is currently held by Kim Norton (DFL), who decided not to run for re-election. On the ballot Nov. 8 will be Duane Sauke (DFL) and Fran Bradley (R).
Bradley served in the legislature from 1995-2006 and says he is answering the call to service once again. One of the issues he says is important to him is health care.
"It really distresses me and I think even now our governor has recognized that, as he says, the Affordable Care Act to be not affordable, so that's shameful really. We've spent multiple billions of dollars, we have a front end system in Minnesota called MNsure — that's still after almost $400 million of expenditure doesn't work," Bradley explains.
Duane Sauke comes from careers in education and real estate. One of the reason he decided to run was because he says Norton asked him to.
"I think there is good reason to seek out people that may not be bound to political processes and may be actually coming from a different point of view and they will, as myself, I won't be bound to the old fights. You know, the old fights are old fights they're really not pertinent today," Sauke says.
Both candidates seem to agree about the importance of both sides of the aisle working together to get things done in St. Paul.
"I served as the chairman of a big committee, a farm kid from southwest Minnesota handling a big committee that spent $8 billion of state money, that's a big deal," Bradley adds. "I think every person in the committee would say that if there was anything about Fran Bradley, you could expect honesty and respect — if we have those qualities, we can work together."
"The issue of how people are getting along, that's really important and it's part of what my background would lead me toward is a solutions-oriented process or participation," Sauke adds. "There are many good ideas — it isn't like one person, one party, or one group has the right ideas — the best ideas are those that have gone through the deliberative process of how legislature is supposed to be."
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Despite the increase, there has been no decline in applications. The waiting period for approval is approximately 12 months. Australia's Department of Immigration and Border Protection aims to finalise 75% of visas within one year of application, the strong demand for partner visas means this is not always possible. Applications often exceed the number of places allocated for that year.
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Sunday, December 31, 2006
I always feel like, somebody's watching me
I had my first run-in with a SNAFU or the Arbeitsagentur (I wasn't surprised - are you?). The letter requesting that I show up on the 27th turned out to be, as I suspected, a mistake and since I knew that I let the matter drop after two unsuccessful attempts to get a hold of the woman who had sent it. (I am not drawing benefits; I only came in to get my resume reviewed and ask a few questions only to have a letter arrive two days later asking me to return for "a discussion of my employment situation" - could they be vaguer?)
My in-law's house, where we are staying is a disaster area (our fault), but we are feeding the cat and keeping the "rolladen" rolling shutters in the appropriate up or down position. Check this out - Years ago, D. was house-sitting for his parents and neglected the rolladen in a half-bath on the first floor. The room is not used and I, personally, feel that it is the height of silliness to raise and lower the blind in a room which no one enters. Well, apparantly, when his parents returned from vacation, the neighbors informed them about the blind which had not been raised and lowered. D. no longer remembers whether his parents were annoyed.
I refuse, on principle to mess with this blind. It is bad enough that we are fooling around with the blinds in unused bedrooms upstairs, in some cases wasting electricity to accomplish this. Is this to American, too practical? That's not me in the photo, btw. I am not blond, nor are there palm trees here near the Black Forest.
We were running out to work the other morning when two neighbors way-laid us and made sure we put out the trash cans. I think one of the cans was actually empty - but I didn't want to argue. I am grateful; we hadn't looked at the schedule, but one definitely does have the impression that one is being watched. The grape-vine among employees of a federal agency where I worked and where we all lived together is small potatoes compared to small-town Germany.
Wednesday, December 27, 2006
so today I will just pass on to the 5 people who still haven't heard about it, a blog I got from Papa Scott's link blog yesterday.
I am tempted to complain that I wasn't warned, but being that he did write about the blog back in February when its author began writing, I wouldn't have a foot to stand on.
However, I am warning you. You may want to read it where you have some privacy and perhaps some kleenex. It might make sense to read chronologically starting in February, but I didn't. It's been a long time since I read something that really shook me as deeply as Dear Elena.
Tuesday, December 26, 2006
We have no tree; we didn't cook - how can we be stressed?
Friday evening, it was off to write a cover leter (Anschreiben), so that I could send out a copy of my resume to someone who was expecting it. Really, (*joking*) my faith in eternal punishment/reward helps me deal with the fact that I can't actually do bodily harm to the person who invented the cover letter (*joking*).
Letter written and printed, we to our photographer to pick up wedding photos and then to the post office of last refuge (still open at 19:00). Then, like all other Germans we bought enough food for a week, what with not being able to go food shopping for 4 days and headed to the appartment - 20:15.
Then we packed up our lives to head off to the far-(20 km)-away countryside for 2 weeks of cat sitting. Arrival ca. 23:00.
Saturday morning was a flurry of baking and cooking and getting out to pick up the last presents and baking again for Monday.
Sunday morning was relaxed and Sunday evening was a delight - although I could have done without the drive home through some of the worst fog I have ever experienced -
German factoid - the Germans have, in addition to their hazards a special extra bright tail-light that should be used (and only may be used) when fog has reduced visibility to 50 m.
Not being at home, I have to work out how I am going to get some pictures of Strasbourg up - but
let at least lead you to Te Deum laudemus! for some beatiful pictures of a Rorate Mass and an explanation of this German Catholic tradition of candlelit Masses in Advent. I experienced this for the first time, quite accidentally, Saturday night. I am so sorry that I missed the other ones in Advent - It was soooo lovely.
Thursday, December 21, 2006
Tidings of Comfort and Joy
Well, I have one more reason to be thankful this Christmas. I sent out one "initiativbewerbung" and I received an invitation to an interview. They aren't sure if they are looking to hire someone in the short or mid-term, but I am tremendously grateful for the opportunity to interview and the office location and their project focus are a good match for me. And one more treat - the interview is to be in 5 weeks, which means that I a) have time to prepare b) have 5 weeks of hope c) have to do my darndest to get my other inquiry emails out pronto for more local companies.
Plus I am still working on the dissertation editing project and I have to bake something to take on Monday to D.'s godparents. (We were invited to dinner - and there will be small children, so Christmas won't be such a wash after all.)
Busy, busy. Which is very good (and apparently catching these days).
Three more qick notes before I am outta here for today (have to get a throw-away application into the mail).
Tomorrow is my mom's birthday. My sisters and I got her a digital camera (that D. and I love - his mom has the same one.) I don't know if I have ever given such a big present before. I paid all kinds of extra postage so it would get there on time. That whole kerfuffle was another reason I was up half the night on Sunday.) It arrived Tues! so I could definitely have spent less. I am just so excited and I can't wait til tomorrow for her to open her present. yey.
Today is the shortest day in the year. If that is not a reason for the heart of an expat to swell with joy, I do not know what is. It's all downhill from here to June -ahhhh.
Thankyou, Thank you, Thank you to Megan at "Still here, still foreign" for her link to a collection of Christmas classics on-line. If I were home, I would rent them and all the right people would get their money, but I am far from the mothership and watching the Grinch movie with D. last night, letting him know their was a grinch world before Jim Carey, that was a special treat.
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
Attention, Attention
I watched the Hape Kerkeling live special on the weekend. Perhaps best known for his "Hurz" sketch ages ago in which he and a colleague try to pass off a bit of silliness as serious music, he has a full show, much of which is now on Youtube. So illegal, but yet, so useful.
You don't have to understand German to get this clip because I am about to fill you in on everything he says to set up this sketch.
Part I
Germans aren't necessarily well received in foreign countries. He attended an intensive communication course in the States last year and there the instructor greeted the course participants and then asked each of them to introduce themselves. . . .
Part II
There is now an announcement each evening in St. Peter's square in Rome in every language (No, there isn't; this is made up.) asking visitors to remain in the square to offer Vespers (Evening Prayer) together with the pope.
and now, without any further ado, I give you Hape Kerkeling
Monday, December 18, 2006
The moose that saved the Christmas cards
1. determination
2. reading through the want-ads and not finding anything appropriate
3. depression
4. renewed determination
5. reading the "How to Apply for a Job" books
6. depression
7. renewed determination
8. advice from all fronts in direct contradiction of advice from books and in some cases my own good sense
9. depression
all in all not leading to much progress whatso ever
I am editing the dissertation of a friend who is writing in English and that has put a lot on my plate. There are sections of it which are related to my field of interest, so the editing bears no resemblence to the process of correcting a materials sciences dissertation- I did that two years ago. There, all you can do is pleaed for a reduction in the number of times "thus" is used and make sure that the subjects and verbs agree and that tenses are uniform.
We were supposed to meet again this morning, and for that reason, I was up until 3:30 in the morning trying to work through more of her text. It should never have gotten that late, but our visit to my in-laws, a painful thing these days, dragged out much later than I had hoped and my anticipated brief call to my parents turned into a major production.
#1 daughter to the rescue. (If there is one thing I can do, it is beating files into submission. Maybe that should be on my resume. One learns doing groundwater modeling or GIS work, that data is a many-formated thing. And then there is Germany with ,'s for .'s Very bad things happen to comma delimited text files. )
In this case, it was getting my parents' Christmas card address list from MS Works database format onto another computer and into Excel. Not difficult, you say, and I agree, but talk a 76 year-old through the process some time soon and you will know that it is not an affair of two minutes. (Granted, this is a 76 year-old who addresses his Christmas cards using a mail merge and has for years, but still, I cannot get him to leave unused windows open on the desktop.) This never would have happened if evil Dell had properly installed the software that my parents paid for! Word 2002 is part of the Works 2004 Suite, but Dell installs a demo version of Office XP and didn't install the registerd version of Word 2002. The demo version of Word can only be opened 50x, which leaves them completely without word processing software. We don't know what installing a second version of Word on the computer would do and it's not the thing you clear up a week before Christmas as you are fighting to get you Christmas cards out.
Wednesday, December 13, 2006
Which Christmas Meme are You?
1. Eggnog, Cider or Hot Chocolate?
Eggnog. Cider is for October.
2. Does Santa wrap presents or just set them under the tree?
Wrap - he has his own paper that doesn't get used for any other presents.
3. Colored lights on tree/house or white?
Colored at home with my parents. I prefer white lights outdoors. I have never had my very own tree.
5. When do you put your decorations up?
My parents put everything up very late. The tree goes up a few days before Christmas. We are big Advent people.
6. What is your favorite Christmas dish?
7. Favorite Christmas memory as a child?
Getting a three speed bike as a child. I was so excited because I initially thought it must be fore my mom. Two of my later favorite memories involve Midnight Mass in Denver - one year I went with my then boyfriend and it snowed and the next year I went with a buch of exchange students. Both incredible experiences.
8. When and how did you learn the truth about Santa?
I don't remember, but when my sister and I went around finger printing all the adults (graphite powder and scotch tape) and getting handwriting samples, my parents figured that the jig was up. This all decades before the advent of CSI.
9. Do you open a gift on Christmas Eve?
No. Where I come from, you don't do that unless your family is Italian, which mine isn't.
10. What kind of cookies does Santa get set out for him?
Whatever we've baked. We were always very good about the carrots for the reindeer as well.
11. Snow! Love it or hate it?
Love it.
12. Can you ice skate?
Yes. My parents brought my skates over with them when they cam or the wedding.
13. Do you remember your favorite gift?bike - see above
14. What's the most important thing about Christmas to you?
15. What is your favorite Christmas dessert?
Pumpkin chiffon pie - Christmas is a great excuse to do Thanksgiving all over again.
16. Favorite Christmas tradition?
I already wrote about lovign the BBC broadcast of "A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols" and I enjoy Midnight Mass. In some years, I have called around to my friends, and I will be able to that again this year.
17. What tops your tree?
18. Which do you prefer--GIVING OR RECEIVING?
Receiving - let's face facts here.
19. What is your favorite Christmas Carol?
I'll be Home for Christmas always makes me cry
Religious English- O Holy Night, Religious German - Stille Nacht, O Du Fröhliche
20. Candy Canes?
There are people who say "no"?
Monday, December 11, 2006
What we are doing for Christmas
I've been meaning to share what we are actually going to be doing for Christmas for a while . . .so I'm rushing to get it down with the intent to edit later (yeah right)
Two incredibly kind, attractive and intelligent folks I met while studying in Germany are having their religious wedding in the RB Venezuela very soon. We wanted to go, but in the summer we were completely overcome with wedding planning, and when we came up for air -
- None of the bride's closest friends from Germany were able to go. (I belong more to the aquaintance circle.)
- My Spanish speaking friends weren't going
- D. and I don't speak Spanish
- Caracas has not magically morphed into Zürich and you have to fly there to get anywhere else - and unlike the rest of the world, the airport is also a dangerous place to be. (I have heard nothing but good things about the city where the wedding is taking place. The residents are said to be very friendly, and to speak lovely Spanish. The region is said to be particularly beautiful. We had a friend just come back from that city and he has just raved about it. He, on the other hand, knows someone who was robbed at the airport and was able to arrange for a private person to pick him up .)
- We didn't have tickets yet.
Then there was talk of going to visit D.'s brother in Africa with the rest of the family. I had minor misgivings that it might be a wee bit too much togetherness, but it never became an issue because D. doesn't have vacation at Christmas. He was visiting said brother last year, and he and co-worker with children trade off, it's only fair that we are here this year.
That practical aspect (and ticket prices) also meant that any last minute trip to CR where we have a very gracious invitation and I have more confidence that we could get by with English was also not an option. A quick trip to the States was also out.
So then I planned a trip to the Alsace. I slogged through incredible webpages, in French, mind you. With many pages, the info is considerably more detailed in French than in any other language (quelle surprise!). I wanted to spend 3 or 4 days and go to Colmar, and perhaps pop back over the Rhein to Freiburg before spending Christmas Eve and Christmas in Strasbourg.
Well, we are not doing that either because there is a cat, with no one to keep him company. So that's what we are doing - watching the cat. We are still going to Strasbourg for one incredibly long and in all likelihood exhausting Christmas Eve, because I do not want to miss this (see right), and because the Christmas markets are open in Strasbourg on the 24th after everything in Germany is shut down.
And I find it strangely comforting to be needed, if only by a cat.
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- Had a really nice time at my husband's office Christmas party. I used to work there, too and it was good to see my former co-workers again. I miss them!
- Drank way too much Glühwein.
- Have been a bit under the weather.
- Slept til 1300 on Sunday.
- Chatted with my neice. Sending the jumbo Adventkalendar wins you bigtime points.
- Watched the paint bubble and peel in one part of the bath - on to plan B (as yet unknown)
- Watched a Swiss version of Heidi. It was unspeakably darling.
I have not lived in Germany long enough . . .
Friday, December 08, 2006
Then all the reindeer LOVED him . . .
|You Are Rudolph
Sweet and shy, you tend to be happiest when you're making someone else happy.
Why You're Naughty: You sometimes stick that nose where it doesn't belong
Why You're Nice: Christmas would be a sad affair without you!
No one seems to think the results are all that accurate - and I could just as easily have answered chocolate as beer. But it would have to be good beer, and I like even bad chocolate.
Thursday, December 07, 2006
Congratulations to Natalia
Newspaper Article 1
Newspaper Article 2
Newspaper Article 3
Natalia earned a perfect score and the highest score in this year's admission exam to the university in Costa Rica.
Laura (sister #1) sent me the links last night. How cool is that!
I have become accustomed to this. The places I have lived and visited in Austria had bathtubs like this and I have been in homes in Germany with this arrangement as did my first German WG. When in Rome. . . right? I sit myself down - one small step for integration.
Not D. The German claims that all this is new and exciting for him, that this is in no way the norm in Germany (It's not like they are constantly yelling at you to sit down for other things or anything). When he moved into his apartment, he proceded to bore holes in the wall above the bath and hang a shower head. He also installed a shower curtain with a telescoping rod. (Hint 1 - if there wasn't a curtain before, the bath might not be intended for standing showers.)
One of the aspects of the bathtub for seated showers is that the tiling ends somewhere before the height of what I will call the "standing shower splatter zone". (Hint 2 - If the wall is gettng wet above the tiling, the bath might not be intended for standing showers.) There was not only not enough tiling on the wall, but also, no caulking between the wall and the tiling at the top. The seam was only closed by the tiling adhesive.
So all hints to the contrary, D proceeded to use the shower as a standing shower for 5 years before I came on the scene. He also doesn't wear his glasses in the shower (smart lad), so he never really noticed the water problem at the tiling/wall interface. When it got really out of hand, I finally said something to him about it and he investigated, with glasses on. We have now cleared the seam of whatever material was wet or crumbly and put in a line of caulk. We are disgustingly proud of ourselves, even though it is far from perfect, and we are sanding and repainting the back wall. We are Bob Villa. (Wow, he is getting old.)
Tuesday, December 05, 2006
Raindrops on roses. . . Favorite things about Germany
I love Bernd das Brot, just as I have a thing for Smokey the Bear and Kermit the Frog
(maybe it's the middle name) so when I came across this image, I had to have it.
There is a whole series of parodies of the "Du bist Deutschland" advertising at this flickr site.
One upon a time, Kika showed Berndt all night long and there are some truly classic clips, but I think you have to catch him at a regular broadcast time, or there is always Youtube.
Monday, December 04, 2006
Whiskers on kittens . . .
J over a Germany Doesn't Suck decided that today would be the day, so here is my, to date, only Christmas Market picture, taken last Thursday night once we got back out of the horrible crush at our local market's opening night.
A subsequent visit proved significantly less traumatic, but the lines for langos were no shorter.
Unfortunately, the start of advent meant that the church I was planning to go to had changed the Mass time to accommodate a concert. ggrrr.
Painting in Germany
It has taken me quite a bit of time to wrap my head around some aspects of German living and the painting of walls is one of them.
Germans routinely commit the cardinal sin of painting, or at least, what I was always led to believe was the cardinal sin of painting. Thou shalt not paint over wallpaper. "Not so!", says the average German, well, actually, he would display his disagreement in German, but you get the point. The wallpaper must first be hung and then painted! And not any old wallpaper, but Raufasertapete (left). The image comes from a lovely web page on raufasertapeten from the Sendung mit der Maus, a highly informative kids show. (Wow - there is tons of material on that Maus site! After my sister returned from Germany bearing chocolate, my neices have decided that there is something to this whole German thing after all, so I will have to forward her the link.)
I have tried to explain to D. that we don't do this in the States, that we paint directly on the wall, and on Saturday, in Hornbach (yippee-yai-yai. . .) I learned yet another tidbit. The whole point of the raufasertapete is the structure of the paper. You repaper when enough paint has been applied to the paper over time that the structure of the paper is no longer visible - in other words, when you wall would start looking too American :).
My thoughts on the process.
- It appears that raufasertapete is generally easier to remove than American wallpaper - that you can pull it down instead of always needing to rent a steamer.
- The raufasertapete covers cracks in the wall pretty well. (We live next to a major construction site and there has been damage to our building as a result of the rather significant vibration.)
- I haven't seen paint peel from raufasertapete (yet) whereas, I have seen it come loose from a wall with time.
Here, there appear to be primarily huge buckets of white paint, into which one doses desired colors in desired amounts to acheive a certain color and mixes the entire thing one's self - well, one does if one is looking to save some money. Thank God, our little project of the moment only requires us to use white paint. It is more than enough for a start.
Here is a link to very basic information about painting in German. I just picked up a new vocabulary word or two - roller = walze.
Friday, December 01, 2006
Uncle Fritz wants YOU! "Draft", German Style
Every beginning German student thinks they have this situation under control, and yet German life throws a wrench in the works. Zugluft is not
Zugluft is a draft, of which Germans live in deadly fear. This position is bearable in all seasons except late Spring, Summer and Early Fall -the seasons in which the North American perceives a warm breeze as pleasant and in point of fact, preferable to non-moving air in the absence of any means of air refrigeration, i.e. air conditioning. For about half the year, the German and the Ex-pat can tolerate one another's mistaken views and live together in harmony.
Well sortof, in Winter, we encounter the whole Thou shalt not leave the house with wet hair. A professor was lecturing me about this in front of a classroom of students. A science professor! It is not a situation in which one can say, "Excuse me, honerable Mr. Prof. Dr.-Ing. H., but would you perhaps be open to having a quiet word about germ theory after lecture? I hear it is all the rage in scientific circles these days".
Then staying in the home of a friend of my mother's - Thou shalt not go to bed with wet hair. (I don't blow dry my hair so my only alternative would appear to be refraining from washing between Sept. and May, yech!) Aparantly one is also to wear t-shirts under one's sweater. I am usually cold and I don't like paying for dry-cleaning, so I do this anyway.
I have also been lucky enough to find and marry a completely a-typical German who bikes to work with his wet hair freezing about his little kraut head and who enjoys (Deo gratias) excellent health. He does have kidney issues, though - no one is perfect!
So thanks to PapaScott for getting me started and I will have to leave the Hörstürz for another day- I read this article and had a strong reaction to it. Yes, Yes I have experienced this, too! What is wrong with these people?! On the other hand, I don't deny that stress can cause a host of ills, so I guess I should be asking, why is it that people are suffering psychologically to such a degree that it manifests itself so markedly. Rather sad, actually.


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Friday, October 17, 2008
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