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At the 2018 Golden Globes, the vast majority of the people in attendance wore black in solidarity with all the victims of sexual harassment that have gone unnoticed over the years. We explore how this simple statement has ignited a fire that will not easily be extinguished.
Over the years the colour black has been worn for many reasons. People wear it as a sign of commiseration at funerals; Queen Victoria wore it for almost half a century in mourning for her beloved husband Albert. More recently it became synonymous with the 'Little Black Dress' as popularised by Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961). And on Sunday 7th January 2018, it became a symbol of resistance, of hope and of solidarity.
Almost all of Hollywood's female stars and a good portion of her male ones, wore the colour to show solidarity with and support for all those who have been the victims of sexual abuse from men over the years. 2017 was the great year of the truth, with figures such as Harvey Weinstein being exposed as sexual predators. However, as Oprah Winfrey so eloquently put it, "A new day is on the horizon… when no one ever has to say 'me too' again."
Eva Longoria said of the event, "This is a moment of solidarity, not a fashion moment." While her view is exceptionally valid, this moment was iconic and shows the power that fashion can have. By designing all those black gowns, the designers were showing their support; by publishing photographs, the news outlets were giving the movement a voice. That is how a global movement of change begins. It began with a lone voice speaking out and saying, "No, this is not acceptable." The voice grew to be many voices, which in turn grew to a roar. Now that women are fighting this they are unlikely ever to be silenced again.
Fashion does indeed play its part in this fight for equality. While there is still a problem in some sectors of the industry with weight and particular standards, fashion magazines provide a voice to many important causes. Michelle Obama featured on the cover of US Vogue no less than three times while her husband was in office. The Duchess of Cambridge was on British Vogue's 100th Anniversary edition in 2016 while the current US Vogue features Serena Williams and her baby. Fashion is not an unbiased medium, these three examples alone giving voice to politics, charitable works and athletics while at the same time promoting racial equality.
Hollywood's female stars are smart and they took their fight to the two places they knew would get the most notice: the Red Carpet and the stage. Photographs of them will continue to appear in magazines, online and on television for several weeks and will be in permanently available archives for years to come. Reese Witherspoon praised all those who had survived assault as "so brave." These actresses and all their supporters are indeed brave too. They have taken the fight to the media and to the world of fashion and this is one movement that is not going to die out in any hurry.


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This sleek faux leather handbag is lightweight and is resistant to dirt. It features an eye-catching colour contrast of black on the outside against pink on the inside. It has a convenient, large front pocket and three inside pockets with one boasting the daisy logo.
A4-sized papers can fit easily into this bag.
It comes with a detachable zipped pouch that is useful even on its own.
※Features bottom studs.
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Handles: 54cm
Detachable pouch dimensions: H12 x W19 x D1cm; and its strap: 23cm
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Employers in Texas and other states are at a crossroads.
Increases in health insurance premiums have eased somewhat over the past two years, but employers still face a staggering cost burden. This year, health insurance premiums average $12,535 per employee, according to a survey by Towers Watson and the National Business Group on Health. Employers are paying about $9,560 of the tab.
For a business with 100 employees, that's nearly $1 million – money that could be spent replacing aging equipment or hiring workers. Yet the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will impose penalties on companies that don't offer coverage.
As they come to terms with unsustainable cost increases and the provisions of the ACA, employers face possible four courses of action – and countless tough questions.
1. Maintain the Status Quo
Although health care costs remain steep, premiums rose just 4.1 percent in 2013 and 4.4 percent in 2014. For employers satisfied with the current benefits package, maintaining the status quo might be the best course of action, particularly if employees also are satisfied.
In a year or two, as the landscape continues to shift, change might be in order.
A risk associated with maintaining the status quo is that many employers soon will run into an excise tax that the federal government will impose on "Cadillac" health plans, or those plans that offer unusually rich benefits.
Beginning in 2018, a 40 percent tax will be levied on health plans that exceed annual cost limits of $10,200 for individual coverage and $27,500 for self and spouse or family coverage. Employers offering insured or self-funded group health plans will have to pay the tax on spending beyond those limits.
Employers may sidestep the excise tax by increasing employee copayments, deductibles and co-insurance and dropping some benefits. The tradeoff is that such changes will undermine employee satisfaction. Employers will need to decide what's worse: higher taxes or unhappier employees.
Employers also must decide whether to continue to offer other benefits they offer today, including life, vision, dental and disability, for example, and whether these should be single-sourced or obtained from multiple vendors. Making adjustments to these elements of the benefits package may enable employers to continue to offer rich health care benefits, at least for the time being.
2. Move to a High Deductible Health Plan
Approximately 20 percent of U.S. workers were enrolled in high-deductible health plans in 2013, up from just four percent in 2006, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation and Health Research & Educational Trust. That trend is likely to accelerate as employers continue to seek affordable coverage options.
A high-deductible plan is one with a minimum deductible of $1,250 for individuals and $2,500 for families. Maximum out-of-pocket spending for employees is $6,350 for individuals and $12,700 for families. This includes deductibles, copayments and other amounts, but not premiums.
As employers move to high-deductible coverage, many also establish tax-free health reimbursement arrangements (HRAs), which help employees meet the higher out-of-pocket costs associated with high-deductible plans. An employee undergoing an emergency appendectomy might be required to pay the full or remaining deductible amount for the year and then pay an agreed-upon percentage of the remaining cost of the procedure. The employee could withdraw funds from the HRA to cover those expenses.
Although high-deductible plans can save employers substantial money, a tradeoff is that employees need help understanding the costs of various treatment options. Many insurers offer online tools to help employees resolve such questions, but studies suggest that few people use these. The result: additional challenges for the human resources department.
3. Switch to a Defined Contribution Model
Forty-seven percent of employers have moved or are moving to a defined contribution model for health care benefits, according to a 2013 survey by Prudential. The main reasons cited for making the switch: the prospect of lower health care costs and increased employee choice.
In the defined contribution model, the employer offers a range of benefits and then contributes a set amount of money to each employee. The employee then selects benefits based on his or her needs. The arrangement is similar to a 401(k) plan to which the employer sends contributions but for which the employee selects the investments.
The obvious advantage of defined contribution is that employer spending is capped. Another is that the employee determines how much to allocate to health, dental and vision coverage and to voluntary coverage such as life, disability, accident and critical illness insurance.
That flexibility can help attract and retain employees, but it also can create an administrative challenge, as employees may need help deciding how to allocate the money.
One solution that many employers are adopting is to work through private health insurance exchanges. These are online marketplaces – separate from state and federal health insurance exchanges – that offer health insurance and related products. Private exchanges are rapidly gaining ground in the health care industry, especially among employers who offer defined contribution coverage. Accenture, a consulting firm, reported that three million people signed up for employer-sponsored health care coverage for 2014 through private exchanges. The number could reach 40 million by 2018, the firm estimated.
"So far, the (private) exchanges seem to appeal to companies that have a range of employees at varying pay levels – like retail and restaurant companies, which have hourly workers as well as salaried employees – because employers can offer more options in plan design," according to a recent article in The New York Times.
Private exchanges also can handle many administrative tasks and answer employee questions about benefits, reducing calls to the employer's human resources department.
4. Drop Coverage Altogether
In mid-2012, in view of high costs, nine percent of U.S. eemployers said they would drop health care coverage for employees over the next three years, according to the consulting firm Deloitte. Yet the ACA requires that businesses with 50 to 99 full-time equivalent employees (FTEs) provide affordable health care coverage to their workers by 2016. Those with 100 or more FTEs will need to provide coverage to at least 70 percent of their FTEs by 2015 and 95 percent by 2016. Employers who don't comply will face penalties.
Moreover, as the job market continues to recover, employers who don't offer coverage could find it more difficult to compete for qualified workers.
Still, the prospect of saving $9,500-plus per employee per year is enticing. The penalty, referred to as an "employer shared responsibility payment," is a relatively small $2,000 per FTE, and the first 30 FTEs are exempt.
Although the penalty is not tax-deductible, it could be cheaper to drop health care coverage, use the savings to pay the penalty and then raise wages so that employees could buy their own coverage. That may be an attractive option for employers with a lower-wage workforce, but it could hurt recruitment and retention of higher-wage workers.
Employers who might consider dropping coverage for most employees but keeping it for the executive team also face problems. Federal nondiscrimination rules now bar insured and self-funded plans from covering only highly compensated employees.
These considerations raise a number of questions not easily resolved: What is the proper role of the employer with respect to employee health and health benefits? Are health benefits merely another form of compensation? Or should they be viewed in a different light? Those are questions that growing numbers of employers are wrestling with as they look ahead.
Teri Mullaney is president and CEO of DST Health Solutions LLC, whose software and services improve health plan efficiency and cost-effectiveness.
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I have over 20 species. What do you got for trade!
Uncata smells like watermelons. Way cool. M densa is fragrant with many tiny little flowers. I also have pieces of elator and triloris and some true minis. One looks like tenufolia but shhrink it down to 2 to 3 in. Looks like grass.


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Guildburys were delighted to join forces with the Rotary club of Guildford District to raise money for Disability challengers. The Wednesday performance of The Ghost Train was a special one, organised by the club in aid of this fantastic local charity. A capacity audience enjoyed a spookily entertaining evening that raised a wonderful £1675!
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|Foo Fighters, Hyde Park London!
Just over a week ago [17th June] myself [maz] and ben [jammin] went to the biggest EVER Foo Fighters concert!
Well i set off with my mate Howard at about 3am, having only slept one hour! [You're stupid and crazy - Ben]
The M1 was clear all the way down and we arrived at ten past eight, in london.
Well the concert wasnt untill 4pm and the gates didnt open untill 2pm, so after a fairly extended visit to camden town and various other places, myself and howard decided to head into hyde park and sun it up and watch the chicks.
Jammin of course arrived at around 2 O'clock, and Howard and me walked past him and his ex-gf about five times before we caught sight of them. [ haha, that was funny, I saw you running past loads of times, was in stitches – ben )
After much waiting for Amanda (short lass short blonde hair + all black).
We waited in the queue, bag checks, stealing bottle caps (BASTARDS TOOK 6Bottle caps and my St. Georges flag off me >.<
We got in and proceeded directly to the beer tent and to meet with some dude Jammin and Scott knew. [He tried to get us gold circle tickets! What a legend - ben]
Bens Ex ****ed off at this point, and we chilled waiting for the bands to start.
Josie and the licks, was just shit and we sat down for the duration of her act.
Then came Angels and Airways, and not being much of a fan we sat down for most of the act. until The lead singer decided to start some stupid anti war singing (moaning about his brother, who's in the armybeing sent out to Iraq -he's a soldier its his ****ing job!), at which point we creativly started a corus with some lyrics along the lines of "War is my Adrenaline" rather than "war is our destruction" we accually had about 30 or 40 people singing with us =D [They were a bag of wank if u ask me – ben]
Well enough of that next up was Queens Of the Stone Age. Before i go into any detail I must say THEY WERE AWESOME! (although Dave Ghrol didn't play drums L ).
They started up with some of their more chilled songs from "songs for the deaf" and most people used the time to move around to better positions in the crowd (we moved to the front centre of General Admission which was where the mosh pit kept breaking out as we were to discover!).
After they had the crowd going for a while they broke out their better stuff like, Go With The Flow, and Little Sister. Then all hell broke loose around us!
needless to say we spent the remainder of Q.O.T.S.A. moshing it out. [QOTSA played a better set than foo's in my opinion – ben]
Well during the resbite between Q.O.T.S.A. and Motorhead, i was stuck on Howards shoulders, and it only took some daring young gubbins to start hurling bottles at me!!! (luckly NONE of them had piss in them), i begged howard to let me down but i was stuck blocking bottles for close too five minutes before he finally let me down >.< (the fact i got bombarded was noted on the Foo Fighters forums =D)
"We are motorhead, and we play rock and ****ing roll"
Bottles were still flying when motorhead took the stage and after the funniest band introduction ive ever heard they struck up some of their old skool rock and more frenzied moshing carried on for about an hour, and then the almighty ACE OF SPADES, began to blast out from the speakers and anyone who was unfortunate enough to be in the mosh area without meaning too was simple flattened or bounced out into the too and frows of the crowd.
Already exhausted from the effort of staying in the mosh pit we decided it was best to wait out for the foo fighters rather than move and loose our prime spot!
Finally the time arrived!!! yes the Foo Fighters Introduction video was played and once again all eyes were focused on the stage, where the band was making their way on.
They started as always with some mellow songs to chill the crowd and the sounds of voices blew away all but the loudest of words blasting out from the speakers. They must have turned the volume up because after the first song even with the whole crowd singing along i could hear them fine
But I'm ahead of myself again, They of course thanked the crowd etc. and dave ghrol made his little speech about how the concert came to be. and the show went on!!
After an hour of hard rocking and moshpitting, exhaustion was starting to take people and quite a few people bailed (crowd surfed to the walkway and got taken to one side by the officials).
Never the less even with exhaution taking hold of people left right and center, it couldent stop 85,000 people from having one hell of a night to remember, the atmospher when songs like Learn To Fly, and Times like these were being played [and sung by the whole crowd]
And as the night was drawing to a close, Brian May and Lemmie both came out to perform with the foo fighters. sufficed to say most of the crowd wouldent know who Brian may was if they'd been smacked round the face with a Queen album. [ I think you're wrong there mate. The drummer from queen came on as well, I noticed. Oh and it wasn't Lemmie and them at the same time…that's just ker-azy! – Ben]
Well Dave gehr did one last song, "hero" and too the dismay of the crowd that was the end, and i myself felt that the concert had been cut slightly short being that it was only 10:45, and we'd yet to hear some of the all time best foo's songs performed.
Well all in all it was an AWESOME concert, and im sure ben will agree that its one of the best concerts he's ever been too.
Ben: Twas a good concert, I was a bit annoyed they didn't play a few more album songs, but what can you do…gotta keep the crowd happy. Motorhead played too long and it meant that foo's had a shorter set. Still im not complaining! QOTSA Highlight of the evening for me J
[ben caught the tube and transfered to the train to his home] – its good living near London J
[me and howard ran to the green hill tube station (2miles) then caught the tube to kings cross, transfered, transfered again, and made our way back to the car in highgate, drove to the m25, and then down to gatwick, we were both falling asleep on the motorway and we made it safely to howards dad's and drove home on sunday afternoon]
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Automakers are using this month's Consumer Electronics Show and North American International Auto Show to unveil their latest green car concepts.
At the 2008 North American International Auto Show in Detroit, GM is expected to introduce the Chevrolet Volt, a zero-carbon emitting electric compact car with a range of about 30 miles, and Ford will reveal its EcoBoost engine, which the company says can provide a 20 percent improvement in fuel economy with reduced emissions.
GM has already unveiled a Cadillac hydrogen/battery-powered concept at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The Cadillac Provoq would utilize GM's E-Flex propulsion system, which combines the company's fifth-generation fuel cell with a lithium-ion battery, producing no carbon emissions.
The luxury sedan's other features include grille vent flaps that close at high speeds to enhance aerodynamics and open at slower speed to cool the fuel cells, braking and shifting technologies that minimize mechanical systems, and a roof solar panel that can power interior lights, audio system and other equipment.
Coinciding with the events, MyRide.com has released the results of online consumer polls, finding car-buyers are looking for improved miles per gallon and eco-friendliness instead of power and performance.
Almost 40 percent of respondents said gas mileage and environmental-friendliness would matter most when buying a new car, and 52 percent said they would look for the best combination of efficiency and power.
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 "CONTINUE TO REMEMBER THOSE IN PRISON AS IF YOU WERE TOGETHER WITH THEM IN PRISON, AND THOSE WHO ARE MISTREATED AS IF YOU YOURSELVES WERE SUFFERING.â€Hebrews 13:3
Valentine's Day is upon us again. It's a time of heart-shaped candy boxes from the drugstore, and cheap small cards people exchange with requests such as "be mine" or declarations of "I love you's.  St. Valentine's Day is the world's "holiday of love,†however, it is a substitute for the one true love we should have, and that is with God himself. 'Jesus said: "'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'
The students of Kimber Academy are learning about true worship, and true celebrations that are not rooted in pagan history, but centered in Christ as their rock. Today, instead of celebrating as the world is,  we took the opportunity to truly love as God asked us and serve others with our Christian beliefs. We learned about the many thousands of Christians in other countries who are killed, tortured, imprisoned or harassed for their beliefs. Instead of exchanging valentines with each other as we usually do on the 14th of February, the students of Kimber Academy wrote letters to these Christians and wrote words of encouragement.  We learned our words are never wasted when it comes to writing a letter to serve someone else. Our mail can have a profound impact on those who are suffering and even on those who are inflicting suffering upon others.
We learned our letters to these prisoners can do five things:
- Indicate to authorities that we are aware of a Christian's situation, and we care!
2. Testify of the love and unity found among followers of Jesus Christ worldwide. This is especially true when letters are opened and censored. God can use your letter to work in the lives of those in authority.
3. Prove our persecuted family is not forgotten. Through isolation and loneliness, the devil can prey on imprisoned Christians' faith. When a prisoner receives a letter, whether they can read it or not, they know someone cares.
4. Lead to better treatment of Christian prisoners.
5. Provide tremendous encouragement.
Students at Kimber this year learned that love for God and for others should be our "walk and our talk." Our lives take on new meaning. Our relationship with our Heavenly Father becomes more profound. Obedience becomes a joy rather than a burden.
Elder Uchtorf in the 2009 conference asked each of us to learn how to be a disciples
"Let us be known as a people who love God with all our heart, soul, and mind and who love our neighbor as ourselves. When we understand and practice these two great commandments in our families, in our wards and branches, in our nations, and in our daily lives, we will begin to understand what it means to be a true disciple of Jesus the Christ."
In more than 40 nations around the world today Christians are being persecuted for their faith. In some of these nations it is illegal to own a Bible, to share your faith Christ, change your faith or teach your children about Jesus. Those who boldly follow Christ—in spite of government edict or radical opposition—can face harassment, arrest, torture and even death. Yet Christians continue to meet for worship and to witness for Christ, and the church in restricted nations is growing.
If you would like to learn more about serving others who are being persecuted for their faith and how you can learn to serve them visit http://www.persecution.com/.
Areas of the world where Christians face persecution include:
- Afghanistan
- Algeria
- Azerbaijan
- Bangladesh
- Belarus
- Bhutan
- Brunei
- Burma (Myanmar)
- Chiapas, Mexico
- China
- Colombia
- Comoros
- Cuba
- Egypt
- Eritrea
- Ethiopia
- Gaza and the West Bank
- India
- Indonesia
- Iran
- Iraq
- Jordan
- Kuwait
- Kyrgyzstan
- Laos
- Lebanon
- Libya
- Malaysia
- Maldives
- Mindanao, Philippines
- Mauritania
- Morocco
- Nepal
- Nigeria
- North Korea
- Oman
- Pakistan
- Qatar
- Saudi Arabia
- Somalia
- Sri Lanka
- Sudan
- Syria
- Tajikistan
- Tibet (China)
- Tunisia
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- A Christmas candle is a lovely thing
It makes no noise at all,But softly
gives itself away While quite unselfish
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- It is the Holiday season
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- I sure hope you like ur Christmas gift
It's a year's supply of me!
- Santa is very cheerful because he knows where all the bad girls live.
- If one night a big fat man jumps in at your window grabs you
puts you in a sack don't worry …
I told Santa I wanted u for CHRISTMAS
- The best of all gifts around any Christmas tree, the presence of a happy family all wrapped up in each other.
- You know you are going to be old,
when Santa starts looking younger.
- Santa is very funny
because he knows where all the bad girls live.
- Merry Christmas May God bless you richly throughout this seasonal time.
- I know its not Christmas, but Santa lap is always ready.
- Here's hoping Santa doesn't get killed using Apple Maps this Christmas.
- I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included.
- Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.
- The one thing women don't want to find in their stockings on Christmas morning is their husband.


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For the past 13 years, I have loved working in HR. When I first started out as an HR trainee, I felt there could be no greater job than to work with Human Resource Management. I was passionate about recruiting great candidates for exiting opportunities. I was excited about influencing company policies; setting new standards for paid parental leave, flexible working hours and working from home. I was passionate about developing leadership training sessions and offering employee development workshops.
I know that many (most) of you don't think highly of HR. And I am not going to blame you for that. Management's expectations for performance, results and service levels of the HR function rarely match the allocated headcount or salary budget. When managers play the blame game, the finger usually points to HR. "HR said I had to cut my team by ten percent" … "HR didn't approve your pay raise" … "HR says we're not allowed to hire more people at this point" … "HR said we couldn't support your request for that training".
The truth is, we don't actually make policies in HR. We don't decide pay grades or salary regulations. We don't make up headcount or training budgets. We don't decide performance ratings. And of course we shouldn't. When HR is a valued support function, we influence managers' decisions. We are the leaders' sparring partner, who can provide perspective (industry benchmarks, current trends, cross-organizational overview and coach effective leadership approaches).
When the leaders we work with are great functional managers with decent people skills, (I believe) we have the greatest job in the world. When managers respect HR as an equal sparring partner, we get to plan, systematize and execute on management processes that hopefully move our organization towards becoming a great place to work and consequently, a successful business in our market.
Unfortunately that is not always the case. Most HR people I know, are passionate, fiery souls, who really want to make a difference. They work ridiculous hours at an outrageously low salary. (More often than not, HR is a one (wo)man show running recruitment, training, payroll, leadership coaching, management sparring, performance management, on-boarding, off-boarding and what not.) They are driven by a higher purpose to make a difference for the employees, who wants to move to the next pay grade, become a team leader, become a better manager, get the time off, get their desired training approved, or travel expenses reimbursed. I passionately call them "buffers of bad management".
From dawn till dusk (weekends and holidays), HR people are trying to make it okay for all the employees, who are losing faith in their organization, becoming disengaged, are frustrated with unfair, discriminating, unreasonable policies, or are just ramming into a wall because nobody is really listening to them. I respectfully tip my hat to all of the hard-working HR people out there.
On a positive note, I have a feeling that the workplace is changing. Many organizations are starting to prioritize leadership development and employee engagement activities, dedicating a larger budget for training, benefits and work environment. However, I have to be honest and say, I do not have the patience to wait for the change to truly come through for HR.
I want to feel like I am making a difference in my work today. I want to add value and help businesses succeed in both the short and long term. Over the past ten years, I know that my teams and I have achieved great results and truly made a difference to the organizations, we have been a part of. But we have paid a very high price sacrificing personal time and family life. So I am declining offers to join a new HR team. I love HR – but I have decided that my time is up, I have paid my dues.
Good luck, guys!
(This post was originally posted on LinkedIn)


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Today I met some of my favourite people,
Someone said Hi to me in the middle of this fcking jam which led for about 20 metres, I'm sorry I don't recognise you honestly. If you see this, let me know who you are!
This sums it up: Walking & walking & walking, getting into stupid jam which almost left me out of breath (Picture above), stupid shoes from Topshop made my feet hurt very bad, Baybeats which really isn't me at all hate crowds h8h8h8, expensive cabfare = Exhausted + Broke
Am having the worst headache, 2 horrid ulcers at each side of my mouth,bad tummy, bad cold, I need more panadols more more more :(


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Our Parish Mission starts THIS Sunday, November 5th! Come and join us as we gather prayerfully as a parish to attend international speaker, author, and radio host, Jon Leonetti's "Surge of the Heart" Parish Mission. Leonetti will use the Bible, stories, and experiences to guide us through this three part series on how to better live God's will for our lives. The Mission will be held from 6:30pm-7:30pm in the Church, with refreshments to follow in the Parish Hall on Sunday November 5th, Monday November 6th, and Tuesday November 7th. Don't miss out on this amazing opportunity to grow together as a parish, and individually as a Catholic.
Sunday November 5th: Who Is God And Why Love Him
Monday November 6th: God's Dream For Your Life
Tuesday November 7th: Living God's Dream
"For me, prayer is a surge of the heart; it is a simple look turned toward heaven, it is a cry of recognition and of love, embracing both trial and joy."
― Thérèse of Lisieux


text: Share: Comments Print January 19, 2009 at 4:17 PM State budget cuts Posted by Seattle Times staff A strange idea of compassion Sorry, but I really can't buy it when Gov. Christine Gregoire says her recent cuts to social services and education were "compassionate" and that she did it because she "had to." If that is her idea of compassion, I would hate to see what her idea of cruelty is. Does she "have to" spend billions on projects that serve to line only the pockets of the corporations, who throw dollars at her and our lawmakers? Are tunnels and cars and public works more important than people's lives? Than our children's education? Although it was privately funded, did Gregoire "have to" hold an inaugural ball and spend a quarter-million dollars on it? I read the governor's inauguration speech, in which she urges each of us to give of ourselves in these troubled times. Wouldn't it have been a good idea to take the money for the inaugural ball and put it back into society? Why doesn't Gregoire cut her own pay like the management of the organization I work for, so that us ordinary people won't lose our jobs? Put your money where your mouth is, governor. — Jim Wikel, Everett Comments | More in Washington Legislature


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Be not the slave of your own past. –Ralph Waldo Emerson
Foresight is the ability to envision the inner journey from possibility to positive outcome. It is through this process of reflection that Visionmakers are able to see long-term possibilities, opportunities and consequences of action taken and not taken.
As mentioned in my previous post, in dark times such as these, vision is at a premium. Those that can discern a path forward despite difficult and volatile circumstances make the future that they want rather than the one they are dealt by Chance.
It is incumbent on Visionmakers to maintain the efficacy of vision. They guard against anything that restricts or restrains the power to see the future. The power to see the future is available to everyone and anyone. But it takes hard work and training to pierce the veil of the status quo and view the multiple worlds of possibility that exist beyond conventional viewpoints.
The first obstruction of foresight is unfinished business. Unfinished business is anything that has happened to us that we cannot reconcile or get over. This includes unhappy relationships, personal failures, loss that we cannot accept, and other experiences that have inflicted pain and produced despondency.
Of course, it is normal to grieve when such events visit us. But even grieving must come to an end. After a period of time, we must return to life and leave these brushes with Death behind us– more discerning, experienced, and mature as a result of our experience.
Unfinished business also includes the places where we did not have the courage to face experience. At the time, we were unwilling or unable to meet these events. Instead, we avoided the situation, the experience, or the people that frightened or challenged us, rather than meet them with the strong-heartedness and self-assurance that we could hold our own and resolve whatever problems may have been present.
This avoidance pattern always carries a gravity field. Vision becomes arrested by the past, which dramatically reduces our ability to see beyond our victimization. We cannot see our future through anything but the filter of our past mistakes.
Visionmakers see the past as a road of initiation rather than a road of victimization. With this perspective, the past is viewed as the perfect preparation for things yet to come. Despite failures, a Visionmaker forgives mistakes, missed opportunities, and failures. He or she recognizes that this is how learning happens. The past must be reviewed from a place of compassion and responsibility.
Compassion recognizes that even though we missed the mark, the journey is judged by its totality, not its episodes. Therefore, we take a long view of our progress, embrace our imperfections, learn from what happened, and seek to do it differently going forward.
Responsibility reminds us to clean up our mess, even if it occurred many years ago. It is always possible to repair or rectify the injuries that we may have committed or address the injuries done to us with the spirit of reconciliation. Those things that we cannot forgive, we continue to learn from but do not allow them to dictate our choices.
Unfinished business – the baggage of the past – is best left at the side of the path of meaning. It weighs too much, and requires too much attention and energy to drag forward.
Best to keep our eyes on the horizon rather than the rear-view mirror.
© Patrick O'Neill 2009. All rights reserved.


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AMD introduced today the high performance platform AMD Spider. Hothardware already took the latest series of chips and CPUs from AMD dubbed AMD Spider Platform to the test.
Quote from the review: "AMD has taken the wraps of their platform for the Phenom series of quad-core processors. Put together the AMD Phenom quad-core processor, along with the new 790FX chipset and RV670 aka Radeon HD 3800 series graphics cards and you have what AMD affectionately calls "Spider". The Phenom 9600 and 9500 make their debut today, dressed up in an entirely new platform of technology and we have all the numbers; yes all the numbers, even an unreleased Phenom 9700."
Read the full AMD Spider review on Hothardware.


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Newseum > Events > Newseum Nights > Newseum Nights Loves the '60s
Here's the skinny. Newseum Nights is rewinding the clocks once again. On October 27, we will be throwing this season's most psychedelic party, taking you back to the decade of hippies, madmen and social activism. It's gonna be a gas.
Décor for this event is graciously being provided by AFR Event Furnishings.
And, don't miss out on choice giveaways from &pizza and Oyamel.
Show us how much you <3 the '60s! Come in costume – anything from your best hippie wear to a Don Draper doppelganger suit or '60s mod fashion will be perfect. We'll be giving out prizes for the most outta-sight costumes of the night. Be there or be square.
The Newseum's costume policy prohibits the use of realistic or non-realistic prop weapons.
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You must be 21 years or older to attend Newseum Nights <3s the '60s. Final ticket price includes tax. Limit of 2 tickets per transaction at the discounted member rate. Tickets are nonrefundable.
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text: National Quality Construction is a single-source solution for contracting and managing the specific details in rehabilitating distressed properties. We are experts at contracting with the proper craftsmen, and at managing construction through to successful completion. Our clients are large capital investment funds, asset management groups, and small pools of smaller investors. Our clients benefit from NQC's highly professional standards and vast experience in the REO sector. Clients can expect direct, prompt, and consistent communication from our team because we understand and value profitable goals, budgets, and timelines. We make concrete commitments and deliver results as promised.


text: SYNOPSIS dvilj [--Dnumber] [-ccopies] [-dmode] [-D] [-E] [-eoutputfile] [-ffrompage] [-g] [-hheaderfile] [-l] [-Mflag] [-mmag] [-ppages] [-q] [-r] [-ttopage] [-spagesize] [-v] [-Vmode] [-w] [-xxoff(mm)] [-yyoff(mm)] [-Xxoff(dots)] [-Yyoff(dots)] [-z] [filename] DESCRIPTION dvilj and siblings convert TeX-output ".dvi" files into PCL (the Hewlett-Packard Printer Control Language) commands suitable for printing on a HP LaserJet+, HP LaserJet IIP (using dvilj2p), HP LaserJet 4 (using dvilj4), and fully compatible printers. dvilj4 also provides support for the builtin Intellifont and TrueType fonts; TFM and VF files are provided in the distribution. Virtual fonts are not supported directly by dvilj, so you must run dvicopy(1) first, or otherwise expand the virtual fonts All programs are generated from one source file dvi2xx.c. They are usually called via a shell script or as a line printer filter. One such script, dvihp(1), is included in the distribution. It provides command- line options similar to those of dvips(1). OPTIONS --Dnumber Debug according to the bits of number; see the kpathsea(3) manual for values. Also turns on general verbosity. -cnumber Print each page number times (including original) -dnumber print in duplex mode. The option -d1 means long edge binding, -d2 stands for short edge binding. This option is only selectable in dvilj4 and dvilj2p. -D[-12] Double-sided printing - see below; -D1 prints odd sides only, -D2 is for even pages, a trailing - suppresses printing of empty padding pages. -E Switch printer into econo mode (dvilj4 only). -eoutfile Send output to outfile instead of the basename of dvi file extended with ".lj". If outfile is - (as in "-e-") the output is directed to standard output and can be directly piped into a spooler. -fpagenum Print pages with TeX page numbers greater than or equal to pagenum. -g Go mode: do not reset printer at start of job. -hheaderfile Copy headerfile to output before translation of the DVI file. Used -mmagnification Specify the magnification to use. The following are available: -m#usermag e.g., #900 -m0 equivalent to -m#1000 -mh equivalent to -m#1095 -m1 equivalent to -m#1200 -mq equivalent to -m#1250 -m2 equivalent to -m#1440 -m3 equivalent to -m#1728 -m4 equivalent to -m#2074 -m5 equivalent to -m#2488 -ppagecount Print pagecount pages after the starting page. -q Quiet operation: omit final statistics, etc. -r Toggle page reversal. -spagesize Specify the page size: -s1: Executive (7.25" x 10.5") -s2: Letter (8.5" x 11") -s3: Legal (8.5" x 14") -s6: Ledger (11" x 17") -s25: A5 paper (148mm x 210mm) -s26: A4 paper (210mm x 297mm) -s27: A3 (297mm x 420mm) -s45: JIS B5 paper (182mm x 257mm) -s46: JIS B4 paper (250mm x 354mm) -s71: Hagaki postcard (100mm x 148mm) -s72: Oufuku-Hagaki postcard (200mm x 148mm) -s80: Monarch Envelope (3 7/8" x 7 1/2") -s81: Commercial Envelope 10 (4 1/8" x 9 1/2") -s90: International DL (110mm x 220mm) -s91: International C5 (162mm x 229mm) -s100: International B5 (176mm x 250mm) These values are from the PCL 5 technical reference manual. If the -s commandline option is omitted, no clipping is performed at the bottom of the page. (But printing below the paper bottom should not disturb any correctly behaving PCL printer.) Please remember that the correct paper tray must be installed for selected paper size, so use this option only if you have full control over your print destination. -tpagenum Print pages with TeX page numbers less than or equal to pagenum. -v Verbose mode: list fonts used, etc. -Vmode -Xoffset Global x-offset in dots on output page (overrides 1 inch/1 inch origin). -Yoffset Global y-offset in dots on output page (overrides 1 inch/1 inch origin). -z Print a test page with the page counter at end of job. OPERANDS If no operands are specified a brief usage message is displayed. filename The DVI file name that shall be converted by dvilj. It must always be seekable. The output file name is constructed from filename. Either an extension ".dvi" is replaced by ".lj", or the extension ".lj" is appended. If filename is -, the DVI file is read from standard input and the resulting PCL document is written to standard output. (Please remember that thhe DVI file must be seekable, even if it's stdin.) SUPPORTED TeX \special COMMANDS "\special" commands supported by dvilj have the generic syntax \special{key1=value key1="value with space"} \special{key3 = value key4 = 'note optional spaces around equal sign'} I.e., specials are a sequence of key/value pairs, separated by an equal sign. Spaces around the equal sign are ignored. The value is either a space separated word, or a quoted string. Both double and single quotes can be used, alternatively. There is no support for quoting quote characters in values; if you want both double and single quotes in one value, you're out of luck. The following key/value combinations are valid: hpfile=file Insert file at the current position. file is searched with kpathsea(3), see below. The file content must be valid for this printer, i.e., it should contain PCL escape sequences or HP-GL/2 commands. If the file is a graphics file, this typically means that the upper left corner of the graphics is placed at the current position. PCL absolute positioning escape sequences in file are rewritten to be relative positioning commands; the lowest appearing coordinate is used as reference. The accompanying key/value pairs are mandatory, they can be specified in an arbitrary order. Values x0, x1, y0, y1, and s are integers. (x0,y0) is the lower left corner, (x1,y1) the upper right corner of the image. Please note: The specific semantics of this special is not known. In particular, the rwi parameter is some scale factor; but even looking at the source code it is not quite clear what the special's author intended to implement here. In addition, it is unclear what dimensions are used to specify the corners, Postscript points or PCL dots. If you happen to know the psfile semantics, or if you spent the work analyzing them, please inform us at firstname.lastname@example.com, so that we can update this man page with the relevant information. dvilj-psfile-syntax=syntax where syntax is either "dvilj" or "ignore". This is a very crude way to tell the driver what to do with psfile specials. If the value is "ignore", all psfile specials that are processed afterwards are ignored, until the next dvilj-psfile-syntax special is processed. If the value is "dvilj", psfiles specials are processed as explained above, until the next dvilj-psfile-syntax special is processed. An obvious, planned, extension is the value "dvips", but this has not been implemented yet. That special is not as simple as it sounds at first. Since its semantics is defined by processing order, it is only of use if it is placed on the same page as the psfile special. Having it once in a file (e.g., on the first page) does not help if you print just one page of the document -- dvilj does not do prescanning of first- page specials like some other drivers do. (Patches would be welcome, of course.) comment=arbitrary text comment arbitrary text This causes the rest of the special to be ignored; it may be used to add meta-information to a DVI file. With the first form, the comment may appear anywhere in the special. When it appears first, the processing of this special is terminated and all other text behind is ignored. The second form is a speciality that has been introduced for compatibility with other drivers. If the first keyword of the special is comment and has no value, it is taken as a valid comment syntax, too; the rest of the special is ignored. orientation=po x and y are the position of that point and have the form "?pt" where "?" is a floating point number. The positions are relative to the DVI page origin; i.e., coordinates increase moving right and down, the point of origin is (1in,1in) in the upper left corner, altered by options -x, -y, -X, and -Y, but not by \hoffset and \voffset. x and y can be omitted, i.e., the values 3 or "4(,)" are valid. Then the current page position is used as position for point n. resetpoints="all" This undefines all points again. gray=gray_scale grey=gray_scale This sets the fill mode for the next fill special, the area will be filled with gray color. (grey is an alias for gray.) Any pattern specification is reset. gray_scale is the percentage of gray that shall be used here; with 0 meaning white and 100 meaning black. Caveat: That special is actually a misnomer. PCL names these gray scales shading patterns and they are created by placing dots in the area. The gray scale selects how far spread the dots are. In the lower ranges, this doesn't look very gray on close sight, but more like a dotted background. Furthermore, the gray scales are not as fine-grained as the value range 0..100 might make you believe. In reality, there are only 8 different gray patterns available: 1 - 2% 3 - 10% 11 - 20% 21 - 35% 36 - 55% 56 - 80% 81 - 99% 100% One of these patterns is selected according to the gray_scale value. pattern=pat This sets the fill mode for the next fill special, the area will be filled with a pattern. Any gray color specification is reset. pat is one of the following values: 1 horizontal lines 2 vertical lines 3 diagonal lines, from lower left corner to upper right corner 4 diagonal lines, from upper right corner to lower left corner 5 crossed lines, vertically This is a legacy special, its use is depreciated. If the special is just one word that names an existing file, that file is verbatim included. Contrary to other file inclusion means, the file is not searched with kpathsea(3). You are not supposed to use this special and we won't fix any problems with it. It should be noted that the special parser does sometimes accept constructs that are not valid as in the documentation above. Then, the output is most often damaged in some way. Searching for Included Files Proper file include specials search the file with kpathsea(3). The search path is configured by variable "DVILJINPUTS" and, if the file is not found in that search path, by variable "TEXINPUTS". Search via "DVILJINPUTS" covers the use case that one has common site- wide graphics that shall be included in documents, e.g., scanned signatures. Search via "TEXINPUTS" covers the use case that one has graphics as part of ones current document. "dvilj" is used as the ".PROGRAM" name in texmf.cnf, for all driver variants, independent of the actual program name. Unknown Specials and "TEX_HUSH" configuration Kpathsea(3) has the concept of warning suppression with the configuration variable "TEX_HUSH", please refer to its Info node TeX support / Suppressing warnings. That variable holds a colon-separated identifiers that specifies the to-be-suppressed warnings. If "special" is among the listed values, dvilj does not output warnings any more about specials that it doesn't know about. But if there is a recognized special and if that special has an invalid parameter, then a warning is output nevertheless, independent of the content of "TEX_HUSH". DOUBLE PAGE PRINTING If the printer has a duplex unit installed, duplex printing can be demanded with the -d option. Otherwise, the command line option -D causes the printer to print in doublepage mode, that is, roughly speaking, printing first the even pages and then the odd pages of a document. If -D is used to print both even and odd pages (-D is used without the optional 1 or 2) the following will happen after half of the pages is printed: LJ: the printer stops, shows message "FEED" and switches on manual feed led. The printer continues when either the printed pages are fed into the manual page feeder, or the operator pushes the continue button (after placing first the printed pages into the paper tray). If -D1 was specified only odd pages will be printed, -D2 can be used for even pages. A trailing "-" (as in -D-, -D1- or -D2-) supresses printing of empty pages which are generated for padding otherwise. The driver allows the -D option for both print-directions (front-to- Caveat on the doubleside-option: When it is used frequently or on very large files, it might become necessary to clean the printer much more frequently. The command line option -pX can be used to abort printing after the output of X pages (can lead to strange results together with -D). I personally dislike this option. The secure way of printing a part of a document is using -f (from) and -t (to). ENVIRONMENT dvilj uses the same environment variables and algorithms for finding font files as TeX and its friends do. See the documentation for the kpathsea(3) library for details. (Repeating it here is too cumbersome.) "DVILJFONTS" If set, overrides all other font paths. "DVILJMAKEPK" If set, overrides mktexpk(1) as the name of the command to execute to create a PK file if one isn't found. "DVILJSIZES" May be set to indicate which sizes of fonts are available. It should consist of a list of numbers separated by colons. If the list begins with a colon, the system default sizes are used, as well. Sizes are expressed in dots per inch; decimals may be used for "pxl" files: for example, a 300 dots per inch file magnified by half a step comes out to 1643 dots per five inches, which should be encoded as 328.6. dvilj tries the actual size of the font before trying any of the given sizes. "DVILJINPUTS" Primary search path for include files. "TEXINPUTS" Secondary search path for include files. "TEX_HUSH" Colon separated list of identifiers that name situations where no warning shall be output. The following identifiers are used: checksum suppress mismatched font checksum warnings readable suppress warnings about unreadable files special suppress warnings about unknown specials all suppress all warning classes above none suppress no warnings "KPATHSEA_DEBUG" Trace kpathsea(3) lookups; set to -1 for complete tracing. "GS_PATH" On Windows, this may be the path to Ghostscript; there the default is gswin32c.exe. As of July 2007, PCL reference documentation is found at HP's Web site at <http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=bpl04568>. At the end of that page are links to reference manuals for PCL and PJL. In case that page is changed, here are the URLs of these documents. All have the form <http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/bpl<ID>/bpl<ID>.pdf>, where "<ID>" is the following document ID: 13205 PCL 5 Technical Quick Reference Guide. This is the 1st thing to look up if you have questions about PCL escape sequences. 13210 and 13211 PCL 5 Technical Reference Manual (part I and II). This is the full- detailled explanation that you need to look up if you don't understand how the printer works. Part I is the actual manual, part II explains HP-GL/2 and has overall tips. 13208 and 13207 PJL Technical Reference Manual (and addendum) 13212 PCL 5 Color Manual. This explains color specials for the newer HP printers. (Not of much use today; for practical purposes we would need to add color specials to dvilj first.) 13206 and 13209 Comparison Guide (and addendum) that documents which PCL escape sequences are supported on which HP printers. AUTHOR dvi2xx by Gustaf Neumann, Wirtschaftsuniversitaet Wien. dviljk fork by Karl Berry. Joachim Schrod <firstname.lastname@example.com> supplied security fixes and updated this man page. LICENSE dvi2xx is public domain software. dviljk changes are covered by the GNU General Public License. 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Sen. Tommie Williams (R – Lyons) announced his retirement from the Georgia State Senate earlier today. Sen. Williams will not qualify to run for re-election for the Senate District 19 seat but will serve out the rest of his term. District 19 includes Appling, Jeff Davis, Long, Montgomery, Telfair, Toombs, Treutlen, Wayne, and Wheeler counties and parts of Liberty and Tattnall counties
In 1998, as a 42 year old business owner, Sen. Williams felt a strong calling to seek election for the Georgia State Senate. Though the odds seemed stacked against him at the time, he soon became one of the first Republican senators from southeast Georgia. During his 18 years of service, Sen. Williams has had the great honor of serving thousands of constituents in 19 counties around South Georgia. Moving through the ranks from Majority Leader to President Pro Temp, he served alongside and befriended some incredible people on both sides of the aisle.
Through the years Sen. Williams has had the great privilege of shaping much of the agenda and legislation that passed the general assembly. "We have a very well-run state and I am happy to have been a part of that," said Sen. Williams. "Georgia is a low tax, low debt state, with the best credit rating in the nation. It has been rated as the number one state to do business."
Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle commended Sen. Williams' work in the Senate and offered the following remarks: "Senator Tommie Williams has distinguished himself as an outstanding public servant, someone who has remained steadfast in advocating for his constituency and the people of Georgia. He has served the people of the 19th District with honor and dignity, leaving a lasting impact on this great state. While we will miss his presence in the Senate, I know his wife Stephanie and children Emma, Jack and Madison will surely enjoy having him back home full time."
Senate President Pro Tempore David Shafer (R – Duluth) released the following statement regarding the retirement of Sen. Tommie Williams (R – Lyons):
"Sen. Tommie Williams is one of the pioneering leaders of the Georgia Republican Party. His election to the State Senate was history making. He has served with distinction in every one of his leadership capacities, including as our President Pro Tempore. We wish him all the best as he continues his lifetime of service outside of the State Senate."
Congressman Tom Price, M.D. (GA-06) issued the following statement commending Sen. Williams for his 18 years of service to the people of Georgia:
"Tommie is a friend and someone with whom I am grateful to have had the opportunity to work alongside in the Georgia Senate. A quality, respected leader, he has given so much back to his community over his many years of distinguished public service. I wish Tommie and his family all the best in the days to come and thank them for all they have done on behalf of the citizens of our great state."
Sen. Williams released an additional statement:
"I've said before that I do not believe one's time in elected office should be ongoing and I've probably even stayed too long myself. This state is full of bright, talented people, many of whom will hear the same strong calling that I did and many of whom should have the opportunity to represent and serve."
"As I leave this chamber I first want to thank my constituents for the support and prayers they have offered me over the years. While I've seen significant changes made through politics, I am more impressed by the everyday constituent who makes his or her mark by helping others: teachers who encourage our youth, pastors who help develop the spiritual lives of people, social workers that deal with broken homes and volunteers that serve so many of our civic organizations. These people get little recognition, but they are the real backbone of our greatness."
"I also want to thank those who've served on my staff. I have been blessed to have had some really hard working staff members through the years. Mostly I'm thankful for the men and women of the senate. It is not easy to do what you do, and it can be a thankless job. You come here each year inspired to give your best and you leave your families at home. Sometimes you struggle to manage a business while you are away and trying to make a difference often comes with a price. We have crafted some incredible legislation together and some even greater friendships. While we have experienced miracles and disappointments, at the end of the day, I'm proud to say that I have been a part of your lives and the lives of the great people of Georgia. Thanks for the friendships, the memories, the prayers and the support."


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Hello Everyone
My how the time flies. I can't believe it's the 1st of May! Here in France it's a holiday, and there's a tradition of selling Lily of the Valley (muguet in French) at roadside stalls. I've got some in my garden and I'm looking forward to seeing it shortly.
I'll be at Helsby Library in Cheshire next Tuesday the 7th for a reading and Q&A session from 5.30 p.m. to 6.45 p.m. Do drop in if you are in the area - the event is free.


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Some of the drawers were so full that I couldn't open them without fighting the paper inside, so it was easier to get a new piece of paper to cut something out. The results -- more scraps to put in my drawers. Something had to be done!!!
So I began by sorting cardstock from patterned paper. All the cardstock went back in the drawers. The patterned paper got cut up into card making supplies. When I make cards I use a nice quality linen cardstock with matching envelopes that I buy at XPEDEX. I get two cards out of 1 piece of 8.5x11 cardstock. I make the card fronts out of scrap paper and embellish them with machine stitching or doodling, ribbon, flowers, brads stamping, bling ... whatever I can find to match my paper scraps.
Next the patterned paper. I began by sorting the paper into 2 piles.
- Paper I liked and saw some potential for cardmaking
- Paper that all I could think was "why did you buy that???" I must have liked it at one time because I created the scraps with it.
The scraps I no longer liked went into the trash or a give away pile for the bigger pieces.
The scraps I liked got cut up into smaller pieces and put into 4 labeled ziploc bags
- Card Fronts - I cut my card fronts 3.75 inches x 5 inches
- 5 inch pieces - These are scraps that are at least 5 inches in one direction, but not big enough for a Card Front
- 3.75 inch pieces - scraps that are at least 3.75 inches but not big enough for a card front.
- All other scraps that will make small tags or diecuts.
Today I had a chance to go to an all day crop at my church. I didn't stay all day, but in a couple of hours I made 9 cards. The nice thing was that all I had to take to the crop was my Tote-ally Cool Tote and a small case of Embellishments. It was nice to be able to travel light.
It was fun hanging out with some good friends that I haven't seen for awhile. It was fun to have some girl time. And it was fun to be focused on my creativity without having to stop to take care of the daily chores.
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. Scott Adams
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. Scott Adams


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It is no lie that teens now are not happy or joyful as they used to be. They are lacking some type of spirit. Has it came to the "solution" that smartphones are the reason to the depression in teenagers.
Phones have been a big impact to teens in the past 7 years, but it started to hit teens even more. About 78 percent of teenagers have a smartphone from ages 12-17. Before not many had phones, and could not access the internet on their phones. Times have changed, and has caused an epidemic of data usage in teens.
Teens have been 'addicted' to smartphones having their eyes glued on the screen for hours. Depression has spiked up ever since smartphones were invented making scientist think this is the cause for the boost in depression.
Depression has other factors. Social media on phones is not the big issue. Scientists should research more on how teen are acting from school to their homes. Not just the time spent on phones, and somehow concluding that phones are the cause.
New generations are coming with new technology. Teens are just interested in it. Adults need to stop blaming everything on technology.
From 2010 to 2015 adults have noticed that teens from the United States started to feel unhappy. Teens classic depression symptoms have increased about 33 percent. As well the suicide rate of teens has increased by 28 percent. No matter what background the teen had they all had a chance to be in a spiral of depression.
Phones let us see the world. Browsing for hours looking at everything that can be searched up.
In late 2012 owning smartphones escalated which meant that teen depression was rising. In 2015 about 73 percent of teens were having access to a smartphone.
For some teen that could be the cause. If one is being bullied it can be a big factor to depression for them. While others it could be other things. Not all teens are depressed for being on their electronics.
The solution to finding out the true cause to teen depression is by having more research on how a teen is living an everyday life. Looking how the actions of their environment are affecting them.


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Ulun Danu or Lake Beratan temple, is a holly place for Balinese Hindu religion, to worship God. This place located at Candi Kuning country side, Baturiti sub district and Tabanan regency. From Denpasar the distance is 50 Km. By car at least two hours need it to get to this amazing site. On this place, the possibility of rain it's quite high, because located on the high ground. If you look for hot temperature and full sun shine, you wont get it on this site.
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One of the best locations for outdoor photo shoot in Bali. Many people look for their pre wedding pictures capture on this beautiful natural site.
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With spectacular flowers and tasty fruit, you gotta try growing this passion fruit. This variety is named after Nancy Garrison, a Master Gardener in Santa Clara County. The vine was found in front of an old farm house and handles the cooler winters of our region. Passion fruit is widely grown and valued throughout the tropics and subtropics. Most Passifloras …Read More »
Bumper Crop of Santa Rosa plums in 2018
2018 was a year for a bumper crop of Santa Rosa plums from our 4-in-1 grafted dwarf plum tree. Each plum is small so there is not much fruit pulp. So I decided to make a plum compote. it is a simple recipe. Ingredients: 1 pound of plums (quartered; include the pits) 1 cup sugar / honey half cup water …Read More »
Dried Hachiya Persimmons
During our Thanksgiving dinner at Shauna's home, Linda and Brad mentioned that they had a lot of persimmons. I joked that they would ring our doorbell and leave a box of fruit. Linda corrected me: She wouldn't ring the doorbell. They left us a box with 36 large Hachiya persimmons. Dehydrating persimmons is simple. Wash the fruit. Core the top …Read More »
Panache Fig
In spring 2016 my brother Adam came up from southern California with a 30-inch tall Panache Fig tree from his garden that he transplanted into a 10-gallon pot. The Panache Fig (aka Tiger Fig) has a yellow and green-striped skin with a strawberry-colored flesh. Unlike our Black Mission Fig, the Panache Fig does not have a spring crop. Because it …Read More »
Pineapple 2016
In March 2016, on a whim, I bought a pineapple plant for my Sunnyvale garden. I know. I transplanted it to a larger pot but made the mistake of a too shallow pot. It grew a little and eventually in July we harvested our pineapple. If I was thinking of serving drinks in it, I would only need a shot …Read More »
Pomegranate Harvest 2016
"The sweet fruition of an earthly crown" – Christopher Marlowe Here it is mid-October and the first rains of winter are falling. The pomegranates split open very quickly when wet. For tips on growing: See PomegranatesRead More »
Mission Figs – Fall 2016
In 2016, our Black Mission fig tree is having a bumper fall crop. Here is the first partial harvest. I am not sure the reason why. About ten years ago I planting a young tree in a tall ceramic pot (about 20 gallons). I have been watering the fig tree more regularly (using drip irrigation). It has also received more …Read More »
Black Persian Dwarf Mulberry
This bush form of mulberry continuously produces sweet blackberry-like fruit throughout the season. A great choice for container gardening; minor pruning will keep the plant compact. Mature height is 6 to 8 feet if grown in the ground. I grow it in a 20 inch wide and deep ceramic pot. It is about 6-7 feet tall from the soil. The …Read More »
Citrus 2016
Our Sunnyvale garden in 2016 has a lot of citrus: Grapefruit, orange, lemon, lime, tangerine, and the newest attraction: Australian Finger limes.Read More »
The Red Spot
The Oro Blanco grapefruit are really large this year.Read More »


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Open the yellow icon "Vpecker" at the desktop, register and login.
Click "Online Store", select "DSS" firstly, then click the downward arrow to download the car software until all update successfully, then select "ESS" to download and update car software.
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Get message at the right corner of the desktop "Troubleshoot problems - Open Network and sharing center", then open "Network and Internet> Network Connections > wirless network connection", click "Connect" to able network connection.
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For as long as I can remember I've had problems with my back - probably genetic! Through-out my younger years I sought treatment from chiropractors, which seemed to work well for me then.
During my pregnancy with my second child I developed intense hip pain, to the point where at the end I could barely walk. I certainly could not walk straight - more like the old wicked witch from Snow White! My chiropractor recommended a walking frame, as he was worried I could fall. It was not fun! I was hoping that it was the result of this precious child just pressing on the wrong spot and that it would all disappear once she was born.
Well, for about 2 months after the birth the pain did decline. But, unfortunately, it was not to be permanent. Some days are good, some days are not :( Living with constant pain does take its toll, on your health, on your emotions - it is exhausting!
The chiropractor helped as much as he could, but it did not relieve any of my pain, so I decided to seek alternative treatment. Yoga was first, and it has been awesome. But I also did extra research and found this awesome site - Aligned and Well.
Aligned and Well concentrates on proper alignment and how to achieve it. Analyzing human movement
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Aligned and Well is also on Facebook and Katy has a great blog - Katy Says Alignment Matters with a lot of information on there too. Very worth checking out, even if you do not have any pain. Good alignment is important to your health :)
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Access to the beach his off the North Shore Road and then down the Francis Bay Trail to a small parking area.


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How bad is your commute to work or school?
Chances are, your daily traffic woes are no match to what the teachers and students of Trangka Elementary School in Maasin, Iloilo have to go through.
To get to the mountain school, some students have to walk four hours up a steep path. On rainy days, some of them would trudge muddy trails wearing nothing on their feet but plastic. They would arrive in school drenched, shaking, sleepy, and hungry.
Teachers, meanwhile, have to take on a two-hour hike while carrying a week's worth of water and food, as most of them sleep in the school on week nights.
"Even though it's difficult, we want to give the children here a good education," said kindergarten teacher Gemaima Matrido. "It's hard to teach them when they're tired and hungry. You have to energize them by doing action songs."
Matrido is thus thankful that she and her fellow teachers now have additional tools for heightening students' interest in lessons despite the hardships they face every day.
Digital learning up in the mountains
Employees of PLDT wireless unit Smart Communications recently donated a School-in-a-Bag to Trangka Elementary School. This is a big backpack containing a laptop, tablets, TV, a solar panel with battery, pocket Wi-Fi, and various digital and printed educational content aligned with the official curriculum. The learning modules include a video series teaching preparedness for disasters like landslides – information that is highly relevant to the students.
The donation package also includes teacher training and yearlong monitoring.
Smart employees and their families sponsored the P100,000 kit by participating in a program called Smart Saturdays. For three Saturdays last year, employees were invited to watch blockbuster movies with their loved ones and buy special event shirts for a certain amount. The collected amount was enough to put together seven School-in-a-Bag kits for underserved schools.
The Smart Saturdays program is ongoing and is expected to raise more funds to benefit more far-flung schools.
"The students will definitely be more interested to go to school now. They have not yet been introduced to 21st century tools like tablets, laptop, and the internet," said teacher Dexter Masiado.
Previous school-recipients of the Smart School-in-a-Bag have reported enhanced literacy and heightened interest in learning among their students.
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"On behalf of the people of Maasin and Trangka Elementary School, taos puso po kaming nagpapasalamat sa mga empleyado ng Smart. Malaking bagay po ito sa mga bata. We hope some of them would become professionals in the future," Maasin Councilor John Mondejar said. Mondejar was the one who got in touch with Smart to ask for a School-in-a-Bag donation for Trangka Elementary School.
"We are overwhelmed by our guests' dedication to bring the School-in-a-Bag to our school. They went all the way from Metro Manila and Cebu to deliver this blessing. Indeed, nothing is impossible for people who really want to help," said head teacher Edgardo Fruto.
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I'd like to congratulate my two Giveaway Day winners! Lee won first place, and plans to make a Tetris quilt, which I would LOVE to see! Second place went to Linda from the blog The ReMissionary. She had a list of ideas for the fabric, and I can't wait to see what she does with it! Are you ready? You know what I'm talking about. Shopping finished? Cookies made? Yeah, I'm not quite there yet either. I actually still have a gift I plan to make. It's not the holidays if my sewing machine isn't smoking on Christmas eve!
These little pretzel trees from Cue the Confetti would be easy to make and add that homemade touch to cupcakes or brownies (even if you make them from a mix).
A few of these mug cake mixes from My Little Me and a cute mug would make a quick, fun gift.
Ugly Christmas sweaters don't seem to be going anywhere, so why not commemorate the trend with these ornaments from Aunt Peaches. Perfect hostess gift or party activity!
Many of you would have no problem making this Sewing Room Busy Basket from Indigo Stitches without ever leaving the craft room.
An impressive wool throw doesn't have to be difficult to make. Check out this quick version from Sadie Seasongoods.
Loose tea, coffee filters and some basic office supplies are all you need to make these Christmas Tea Bags from Let's Do Something Crafty.
How adorable is this Mini Spa Tin from Upcycled Design Lab?
This Get the Kids Moving Game from I Heart Naptime is an easy, but thoughtful, gift for parents of little ones.
I love how this Hot Chocolate Fudge from Wonky Wonderful really looks like a cup of cocoa in a fudgy square. I wonder if you could melt one (or two) of these in a cup of hot milk?
So, admittedly, there's not a lot of time left for making. But you could print out these lovely gift tags from Lia Griffith and they'll make any gift look special.
I love curating my Friday Favorites each week, and I want to make sure that the talented people who have created these projects are fully acknowledged for their work. Before you pin or share, please click through the link or photo to the originating website. You can also find all the projects each week on my Friday Favorites Pinterest board. Thank you!


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I didn't want to say anything until it was official because I'm superstitious about some things, but I've booked my ticket and hotel room so I think I can announce it. I'll be presenting a paper in March at the Global Arc of Justice: Sexual Orientation Law Around the World conference, hosted by the Williams Institute of UCLA law school and the International Lesbian and Gay Law Association, in Los Angeles! I've known that I was probably going for a month, but now that funding for 3/4 of the trip came through and I was able to book the flight, I have an ear-splitting grin on my face. It will be amazing academically, with several of my favorite scholars, and professionally, with several people from the NGOs at which I'd most like to work in attendance, and also I have to admit that it's pretty cool to be in West Hollywood for three nights. I've never been a big LA person, though I went to San Francisco once when I was 14 and loved it, but I keep thinking about the L-Word and laughing to myself. It's like a fantasy trip. If anyone reading has academic experience, I would love some advice. I know nothing about presenting a paper: for example, do you tend to stick with laying out the paper's argument or do you extrapolate and give interesting facts with just your core argument as a teaser for people to read the paper? I don't know if/when this will be published, so a teaser seems a bit silly, though maybe this will be a jumping-off point to publication. Also, PowerPoint or index cards? Any other tips? I'd love to hear them.
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Same here – sorry for the lack of advice, but congratulations!
- 18 12 2008
I'd suggest using powerpoint. If nothing else, making slides is a good exercise for organizing your thoughts. (I actually love them because it's like make a collage; the closest thing to art I'll ever be able to do!!)
In my genre, the standard talk outline is:
-motivation: why is this problem important/interesting
-background (if needed) and/or previous work in the area
-conclusions/future work
I tend to do a practice talk like only once or twice. Friends who are less experience practice a lot. It's good if you can give the talk to your friends and they will give you feedback, like what's unclear on the slides. Their questions will help you to anticipate audience questions.
Finally, the best advice I ever got about nerves: make sure you know the first two sentences you are going to say and don't worry about the rest!
best of luck!
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Contemplating Light, Water & Sky with Luke Elwes
Luke created a pair of paintings for a private collector. Designed to look at the attraction of light, water and sky, he captures the serpentine flow of air and sky as it comes down and meets the ground and becomes water, flowing over pebbles and rocks as they emerge from the stream.
Luke Elwes was born in 1961 in London, where he now lives and works. His early years were spent in Iran, where the light and space of the mountains and desert were a formative influence. The idea of a journey is central to his painting, both its physical and temporal unfolding and its recollection in memory. The surfaces recall maps, tracing the marks of history and the fragile signs of belief, and moving between what is revealed and concealed of these often empty and distant terrains.
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