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A Reading List
14 The Complete Works of Shakespeare
For two short not real rough holiday season reads not in red yet for you try-The Great Gatsby-the last ten pages are just totally beautiful-Brave New World-I still recall the book in detail after 40 plus years ago-ReplyDelete
I really loved the Great Gatsby when I read it earlier this year. I've read (or partically read)32 of that list which isn't too bad.ReplyDelete
@mel & @jessica - Looks like I'll have to pick up The Great Gatsby. I actually have a copy but I don't know why I've never read it. Funny because Tender is the Night by Fitzgerald is one of my favorite novels.ReplyDelete
You haven't read any of my favourites on the list! Anne of Green Gables! Emma! Vanity Fair!
As for my favourite books of the year, I loved: The Rehearsal by Eleanor Catton, Lunch in Paris by Elizabeth Bard, the Mrs Tim books by D.E. Stevenson, A Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True by Brigid Pasulka, and Greenery Street by Denis Mackail. It's been a good reading year!
I've made it through 49 - nearly half the list. I don't really understand the list at all, though... It's a weird mishmash of books, isn't it?ReplyDelete
I've read 50, a pleasingly round number, although a few of them I really wish I hadn't bothered with! You must read the Great Gatsby although I actually think Tender is the Night and the Beautiful and Damned are both better.
One Hundred Years of Solitude is a masterpiece, and I recently read A Tale of Two Cities and absolutely loved it. It is a fantastic story and the imagery it conjures up of the French revolution, of London, of Paris, of night-time carriage rides and bars in basements are almost unbeatable. I was surprised by how readable and gripping it was. Am now planning to read some more Dickens!
I think I only counted 23 so I can look forward to reading quite a few more. Guess I won't have any trouble thinking of what to read next!ReplyDelete
Read another Dickens!!!
ps. In my opinion don't bother with Cloud Atlas, unless others whose reading tastes you know you share rave about it.
Great Expectations is one of my favorites from the unreads on your list - love it, love it, love it. I've read 65 of them, but I'm never going to get 100% because Confederacy of Dunces and I just DON'T get along. :-)
Best book of the year so far: possibly the first volume of Simone de Beauvoir's memoirs (Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter in English).
I've read 32 from the list. So far this year, one of my favorite reads has been Michael Chabon's Wonder Boys.ReplyDelete
@Claire (The Captive Reader) Thanks! More books to add to my list.
@Steph - On second thought, it is a weird list...the Da Vinci Code, Bill Bryson??! I'll have to find another list online.
@Jane & @Joan Hunter Dunn - I'm going to try A Tale of Two Cities!
@Emily - I actually like A Confederacy of Dunces. Weird but fun in a way.
I've read a nice even number: 50 of them, and I find it so terribly sad that the BBC says people have only read 6. Poor illiterate world...
Don't you love the classics?! They're my favorite in all the world, and I'm so glad to see that you've read The Secret History. For some bizarre reason, that's I book I'm crazy about. Murder, go figure.
Mrs. B., I can recommend Middlemarch, A Town Like Alice, War and Peace, A Fine Balance, Gone with the Wind, and, definitely, before any of the others, Anne of Green Gables.
As for my favourite book of the year, that's a tough one. I think it's better to give a list of my favourites: A Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain, The Home-Maker by Dorothy Canfield Fisher, The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim, The Crowded Street by Winifred Holtby, A Town like Alice by Nevil Shute, Little Boy Lost by Marghanita Laski, I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith, Middlemarch by George Eliot, Good to a Fault by Marina Endicott, Illyrian Spring by Ann Bridge, The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith, Life and Death of Harriett Frean by May Sinclair, and The Rector's Daughter by F. M. Mayor. Plus, I would also add They Were Sisters by Dorothy Whipple; even though I've read most of her other novels this year except for High Wages and Every Good Deed, and they were all excellent, that one was my favourite. I feel like I've read many good books this year, and some of them have been because of your recommendations. :)
@Belleza - The Secret History is one of my favorite books of all time. Definitely top five.
@Virginia - You've indeed had a fabulous reading year which is much more than I can say for myself. Thanks so much for all your recommendations. There are many on that list that I haven't read. They Were Sisters is also my favorite Whipple and I'm happy to hear that I've recommended some good ones to you.
27. That's how many I read from that list. Why not try The Lord of the Rings and Dune.ReplyDelete
Wow that's some list! What suggestions do I have to offer? Hmmm...you could read some satirical work on the early twentieth century: cold comfort farm or maybe some Evelyn Waugh....if you haven't already :)ReplyDelete
Sorry to spam but I see that you have already read cold comfort farm, try Emma before the new year :)ReplyDelete
63? No wonder I have no life...
Try Middlemarch :)
When you're in the mood for a warm and wonderful book--perhaps while you are on summer vacation--try the phenomenal Swallows and Amazons series by Ransome. The first one (S&A) is a perfect place to start. Winter Holiday is my second favorite in the series. You can share with children if you like, too.ReplyDelete
I just can't wait to hear what you think of "Faithful Place!" I think Tana French is a goddess. Did you read "The Likeness?" I thought it had heavenly echoes of Du Maurier....ReplyDelete
I've got another one for you, Mrs. B -- I cannot recommend highly enough a memoir called "The Hare with Amber Eyes." Possibly the best book I read this year. Moving, thought-provoking, beautifully written.
Oh, and your NYRB challenge continues to influence: my husband just read "Indian Summer" and I just finished Stefan Zweig's "The Post Office Girl" which Danielle of A Work in Progress blogged about.
Thx for your comment on Book Group of One!


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Friday, 10 October 2014
Tachystola acroxantha
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Is this new to Ceredigion as per map in S&P? Are these moths breeding in UK and spreading from the original source or are they being imported in something Australian? If the latter which sort of Oz red am I to buy?!ReplyDelete
Hi Liz - see http://ceredigionmoths.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/tachystola-acroxantha.htmlReplyDelete
for an answer to your first question.
Have to confess don't always look up the micros, at least not in 2013 and you were very calm in announcing it!ReplyDelete
We had the first Tachystola for Carms and Mons last year; they've been in Glam a bit longer. Clearly a species on the up. I'm looking forward to seeing one eventually. The Carms one was caught by a visiting moth'er.ReplyDelete
and yes, it is spreading very rapidlyReplyDelete
- Anonymous3 January 2015 at 14:43
I have had it in Harlech. Helen BantockReplyDelete

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Trendy Tights or No Go Pantyhose?
You can visit the URB website here
Hm... looks a little bit too GaGa for me!ReplyDelete
Hi there! No, not my cup of tea at all, but I do agree they may well be a surprise fashion hit at the summer festivals!ReplyDelete
No Go Pantyhose for the first two pairs definitely but I quite like the 4th pair!
Eda ♥
Hmmmmm not sure, probably couldn't rock them myself but can imagine they would look pretty good on the right person!ReplyDelete
I like them! But er 30 pounds a pair?? I think not. Hopefully river island are better priced...though the primark idea isn't a bad one. Hope you will check out my blog and let me know what you think. Ive become a follower of yours :)
Hah, I saw an advert for these last night - I think they're pretty awful..who would want this as a look?!! >.<
Those are some of the most interesting tights I've ever seen. Thanks for telling me all about them!
I cant say i have ever seen anything like this before. they arent something id rush to go and purchase and i dont think i'll be changing my mind any time soon. great post! New follower xReplyDelete
Haha I was going to do a post on these too... I'm not even going to lie, they just look like someone's had a massive accident that just so happened to flow symmetrically down ones' leg... I have a feeling that the "copycat" versions, which I'm sure will be out soon, will be better than these
Lovely blog btw... you have a new follower :-)
Eeep no I don't think those are for me. I just don't get them.... maybe I'm too old! I guess I'll see lots of girls about 10 years younger than m e running around wearing these this summer.
Sara at Belfast Beauty Love
I don't think i'll be wearing those tights but they are pretty cool. I agree with Topshop and River Island following the trend though, maybe if they aren't too expensive i'll try them out.
moyespace.blogspot.co.uk xx
I like the silver glitter paint pair but I rip tights so easily there's no way I'd pay that much to only wear them once!
Wow these look well funky :0 want a pair!
Pipp xx
I am ridiculously in love with these URB tights. Have been mulling over whether to buy a pair for about a month now! Think I must!
Allie xo
Ignoring The Changing Room Mirror


text: On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 21:10 +0200, Mathieu Bridon (bochecha) wrote: > > Even though olpc-update isn't great for doing big distro updates > > (because of storing 2 copies of changed files, in this case almost all > > of them), it worked in those situations. I've never attempted an > > RPM-based update from e.g. Fedora 10 to Fedora 11. How well does that > > work out for regular Fedora users? > > Lot's of people will tell you that it works fine. However, this is not > a supported path for upgrade. Users should use Pre-Upgrade instead. > See: > => http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:PreUpgrade > => http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Interviews/PreUpgrade Interesting. So "yum update" does not sound like an advisable method for making large changes. I don't know enough about anaconda to say whether preupgrade would fit into our design. It's not something we're using in our builds at the moment. > You can configure yum to not update its cache that often with the « > metadata_expire » directive in /etc/yum.conf So, if the cache has not expired, yum will not even go online and check for new packages? > RPM has seen a lot of improvements in speed and memory consumption > lately. My XO (a build from the latest G1G1 in Europe that I never > updated yet) has RPM 4.4.2. Panu Matilain has just posted about that, > comparing the performances of RPM from 4.4.2 (Fedora 9) to 4.7 (Fedora > 11). Perfect timing :) > => http://laiskiainen.org/blog/?p=19 > > Yum has also been improved. Not sure those improvements would be > enough, but I bet the situation in Fedora 11 is already much better > than it was in the previous OLPC builds from Fedora 9. Good to hear, I hope you're right :) > > We would have to tweak yum's behaviour quite heavily.. I don't think we > > want an rpm cache, or for it to keep the .rpm files at all. > > You can use the « keepcache » directive in /etc/yum.conf which AFAIU > aims exactly at that. From « man yum.conf » : > keepcache > Either '1' or '0'. Determines whether or not yum keeps the cache > of headers and packages after successful installation. Default > is '1' (keep files) Great, thanks for the pointer. > What other customizations are you expecting ? I'm not really sure. > Yum will ask the user if he wants to import the key and trust it on > first use. Wouldn't that be enough for signing keys ? Couldn't Quanta > manufacture the laptops with those GPG keys bundled too ? >From my experience in the field, it's totally inappropriate to present those kinds of questions to our users (young children). The child's response will be random. We'd have to make that "yes" response for that particular key be part of the build. As for Quanta, they can tweak the manufacturing data very heavily but they don't customise the image -- they need it provided as-is. In the past, OLPC has made software images for deployments. Now we're moving towards a model where the deployments build them using OLPC's tools, or at least they customise "base" images that OLPC have made. But it's tricky as the tools are young, the processes are a bit tricky, and deployments don't usually have a huge amount of technical resources. It's possible, but is an additional complication that needs consideration. > > For the XO-1 possibility it raises the question of how existing laptops > > could be migrated to this new system, without losing their user data. > > Backup with a School Server ? It's a possibility, but also leaves a lot of work to be done. Neither XS or sugar has a full-journal restore interface. Not all deployments have XSes either. It seems like that we should be able to do the upgrade entirely locally if enough disk space is available. Daniel


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Haiti Rebuild: The Last Responders
Written by Cameron Sinclair, Co-founder of Architecture for Humanity and the Open Architecture Network
Live from Port au Prince
Tonight you'll see every journalist report 'live from Port-au-Prince'. They will review the devastation, highlight the heroes and question the rebuilding process, all in a six minute segment. Then we will be onto the oil spill, the terrorist attacks in Uganda, the last minute goal in the World Cup and other issues facing of the world. A number of reporters have been on the ground every day since the quake, they aren't going anywhere. Truly dedicated individuals that continue to file reports, interview families and chase up government officials and aid agencies despite the appetite for this story growing weak. We will get a blip during the elections, especially if their is violence, but this may be it for major reporting. Remember Katrina? That was on US soil and how often we hear about that after the first year. Like Katrina, this is a five year process, one rife with hurdles and tough choices.
It's time for the last responders
Six months ago this week I wrote an internal plan for long-term reconstruction for Haiti and, after some discussion, decided to make it public. Within days of posting it [on The Huffington Post] it was tweeted hundreds of times. This is the eighth time my organization has been a part of a post-disaster reconstruction program and, given that we had spent time in Haiti pre-quake, I felt it was important to set expectations. As we raised funds and began to initiate projects, I wanted donors, partners and community stakeholders to understand that we were not in for the "quick fix" or a "number of people served" response, we're in for the long term. We are the last responders.
In the plan I noted six months as the transition point from recovery to reconstruction. This is the time of the last responders, the motley crew of hundreds of building and water/sanitation professionals who work for years after the last major news outlet has left. As the thousands of NGOs will be whittled down to a few hundred, hopefully local groups, including social entrepreneurs, NGOs and small businesses, should feature as the predominant player in the reconstruction process. They don't just need to, they have to. While the international community can add capacity and play an important support role to truly move out of the "aid culture" the ownership needs to be Haitian led. The fourth phase, economic development, will only work if the foundation of reconstruction is regionally based.
They were the first, they will also be the last
In the moments after the quake, long before the first convoy crossed the border of the Dominican Republic, the true first responders were the Haitian people. Those lucky enough to escape injury did not run to the hills, they ran to the screaming. They went into fallen structures and clawed out those trapped underneath the rubble, they consoled those who had lost their loved ones. Never, ever underestimate the resilience of a people struck by monumental disaster. The despair in their eyes was for the collective, not the individual.
As the world's community responded, those affected were incredibly grateful. As shock gave way to need and need gave way to a a desire to return to normalcy, anger crept into the voices of those looking a way to get out of the tent cities. This anger is understandable. Imagine being a carpenter now living in a tent by the airport. Every day you sit with your family watching SUVs snarled in a traffic jam outside. Fumes from the idling cars fill the air. You keep hearing false expectations that everything will be back to normal in less than a year and all the solutions will be imported, from shipping container housing to modular solutions – no need for lots of carpenters or masons.
This carpenter is the key to rebuilding Haiti. We need to push, demand and fight to move into this last responder phase. One in which equal partnerships are formed with local architects, engineers and builders. One where we think pragmatically about what gets built, homes that are not only safe but support LOCAL jobs. We should be building vocational training facilities that utilize the reconstruction as a mechanism for sustainability. [in partnership with AIDG we assessed thousands of homes and trained hundreds of local masons] The underlying point here is jobs, jobs, jobs. Let's put the work into working it out.
Next Generation Leadership
Beyond economic stability and safe housing, the most important structures that needs to be built are schools. This will be a sector that Architecture for Humanity, my organization, will focus on. I believe our greatest impact will come from building not only a school of the future but for the future of Haiti. Not only incorporating digital inclusion, off the grid technologies and new teaching methodologies but empowering and supporting existing vocations. Every school must be led by Haitian organizations and built in a sustainable manner (financially and architecturally). These schools are dawn to dusk buildings and will become centers in revitalized communities.
Over the last few months teams of probono designers on the ground have developed and revised prototypes and we've formed relationships with a number of existing schools and made dozens of site visits. However we may have funds available to build a few more of these community anchors. Primarily funded via Students Rebuild, a $500,000 match for schools that are fundraising for Haiti around the world, we've developed a Request for Proposal (rfp) process to ensure the building and rebuilding of Haitian led schools. (if you are looking to have your school funded, you can log onto our site. We have an open process)
No Ego, No Logo
One last point. In the last ten years we've never put our name on a building, we've never put one of our donors either. No, it's not because we are cheap (fiscally responsible), it is much more important reason.
Working in community led reconstruction you rip away any local ownership by sticking a fancy logo on the building. As if you to say "This building is yours but just remember, we built it – and please remember it every day." I know the reason why people do it but the community knows who donated it and the builders know who funded the building. If you'd like to donate, please don't expect to see your name on the building. See your compassion in those who the building will serve.
To donate to Architecture for Humanity, click here.
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This article first appeared in The Huffington Post. Thank you to Architecture for Humanity for allowing us to share it on SHELTER.
Architecture for Humanity – Earthquake Resistant Schools
The SHELTER blog has started a partnership with Architecture for Humanity. We'll have the opportunity to update you on the great work AFH is doing here and abroad. Look for Q&A's with project managers, notes about design contests and news from AFH. Here's an article to start us off. You can find the original post by Karl Johnson at the Architecture for Humanity website.
Members of Architecture for Humanity found themselves in the East Bay late last week, holding a structures workshop for Earth Day. The beneficiaries of this exercise: a dozen middle school students. The AfH team presented principles of earthquake-resistant design and distributed kits of parts (cardboard sites, sized applicator sticks and jujubes) and programs for a school.
This pilot exercise might find extended life as part of a school-design curriculum being developed by Architecture for Humanity and StudentsRebuild.org. StudentsRebuild is an international program facilitating middle and high school student teams raising money for permanent school construction in Haiti. The curriculum will teach the teams the process of designing and building a school in Haiti, including a unit on structural design for earthquakes and hurricanes. The lessons will be accompanied by interactive conferencing with building professionals supported by Global Nomads Group.
Thanks to Diana Bianchini at Di Moda Public Relations for facilitating this. Follow her on Twitter at dimodapr.
War and Homelessness
Written by Bob Ballard of the Hearts of Fire Project
I am attending the LA Rally To End The Wars tomorrow. To me, if you are interested in the homeless and want to help them, you should also be interested in ending our wars. Why?
1) the huge amount of money expended on Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere would be available to house people and provide desperately needed services. With just a fraction of the money we spend on these wars, everyone in the U.S. could be housed and fed.
2) many of the people on our streets are veterans of wars who come back to this country mentally, emotionally and physically damaged. About 20% of the homeless are veterans.
3) fear and separation between people is fortified and promoted by war. This fear and separation in our hearts allows us to ignore our fellow men and women in need and avoid acknowledging that we are all one human family.
If you are in or near Los Angeles, San Francisco or Washington, D.C. this Saturday, March 20, please come out and join us.
Fade to black – Is government leveraging homeless agencies out of business?
Written by Joel John Roberts
I sometimes long for the heydays when nonprofit homeless agencies flourished. It was in the 1980s; I was just becoming an adult.
Most of the homeless organizations in the Los Angeles region were created in that decade when compassionate and generous people—many from faith groups—created shelters, food banks, and transitional housing programs in response to the growing homeless population.
If you're familiar with nonprofits in Los Angeles, you've certainly heard of Chrysalis, Beyond Shelter, PATH, and LA Family Housing. All agencies that started in the 1980s. Those were the days when hearts were moved, and purse strings opened. When even the federal government began to invest significant resources into addressing homelessness.
Those were the days… But reminiscing will get us nowhere.
A few decades later, during the worst economy since the Great Depression, and oh how times have changed. We are entrenched in an environment of scarcity that sometimes pits typically good-hearted people and groups against each other. Competing for dwindling funds is becoming as harsh as the Coca Cola and Pepsi rivalry.
But hawking cans of carbonized sugar water is so much more insignificant than promoting programs that save people's lives.
The days of free flowing government funding for homeless programs are over. Even when the latest federal stimulus program pumped in $1.5 billion into homeless prevention programs. Why? Because there is a catch.
Let me explain.
In most of today's government funding programs, there is a quiet policy of "serve now, pay later." Basically, private homeless agencies that win a contract to house or serve homeless people have to perform their services first, then bill for those services a month later. That means an agency pays salaries and operating expenses for a month, then waits a month or two to get paid.
Let me explain this in basic terms—nonprofit organizations have become the "line of credit" for government funding. For some agencies it could run as much as $50,000 to $300,000, plus interest if the agency is borrowing the funds.
Here's another catch. Contract execution means payment delays. Every year, a contract has to be renewed and executed. It doesn't happen overnight. Sometimes it takes months for renewed contracts to be executed, while agencies are not allowed to receive payments during that time. Can't get paid if there's no signed contract. But housing and services have to continue. You don't shut down your shelter or housing program for a few months until a contract is signed. No one with any moral character is going to put homeless people back on the streets while they wait for a contract to be executed.
And then there's this. Many, if not all government homeless programs now require a cash match. If you receive $100 dollars of government funds, you have to match that with $10 to $25 of private funding. It makes sense in a perfect world. Leverage public funds with private dollars.
But when every level of government funding requires this, many agencies just can't afford to receive such funding. Especially when separate government agencies won't allow an agency to use other government sources as leverage.
Let me put it this way. You have public funding to support 80 beds, only if you can find private support for 20 beds. But if you cannot fund 20 beds, then all 100 beds go away.
Cash match, is more like game, set, and match. Where government wins, and private agencies lose. And most importantly, there are less resources for hurting people on our streets.
Many organizations in Los Angeles, like GLASS and Women's Care Cottage, have shut down their operations because of this.
You could say this is just the result of the survival of the fittest agency, but let's get real. This is not about how many nonprofit agencies can survive. This is about how many people we can save from the streets.
This is not a debate on whether government funding should help hurting people, or whether the private community should. This is about people suffering on our streets.
And while there are still people languishing in alleys, parks, and along our freeways… then our society should do everything it can to help them off.
That means dispelling ideals, and just allow the funds that are already approved, to house and serve homeless people. Whether a nonprofit agency can leverage those funds or not.
Otherwise, more and more organizations created by compassionate community members will just fade to black.
(Pic from www.madsenlawoffice.com)
Fewer homeless people in Santa Monica, according to homeless count
Good numbers on the homeless population are hard to come by. But a recent count of the homeless in Santa Monica found that, for the second year running, there are fewer persons on the streets. Many thanks to editor Jorge Casuso for allowing us to post a link to the article below.
By Jonathan Friedman
Lookout News
February 23, 2010 –For the second consecutive year, the number of homeless in Santa Monica has gone down. That is according to a Homeless Count conducted last month. The results were presented at last night's Social Services Commission meeting.
Motor Home Housing Launch Huge Success
Written by Bob Ballard of the Hearts Of Fire Project
Wow! What an amazing day we had at the launch of our new Motor Home Housing Program. This past Saturday, January 30 we awarded a motor home to Maria Pollack and her son Mikey at a ceremony hosted by Regalo Virgin Olive Oil. Representatives from three local newspapers covered the event as well as the local access TV station. More links to those stories at the end of this article.
Maria and her son were overjoyed when they saw the motor home; tears rolled down her face as she expressed her gratitude to everyone involved. Ed and Connie Bermudez donated the RV a few weeks ago. Ed wanted it to go to a homeless family. It was his generosity that started the program.
Victoria Stratton is Maria's friend and sponsor. Victoria volunteers with Casa Esperanza homeless shelter in Santa Barbara where she heard about our program. She contacted me and told me about Maria and her son Mikey. Like many homeless people, Maria is employed but doesn't earn enough money to rent an apartment or even buy a car. Maria met Victoria at church a year or so ago and they became friends. In addition to connecting Maria with our program, Victoria is providing a private parking place for the motor home on her property.
More families have contacted us who want to participate in this program. We are looking for more late model motor homes in good shape and people to help us give them a second life. We are also need places to store the RV's temporarily while we get them ready to distribute to homeless families. If you can help, please call our toll free message line at 877-827-2012 or email us at email@example.com.
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38 Years. Tired. Ready. Don't Say He Doesn't Want To Be Housed.
Written by Joel John Roberts, CEO of PATH Partners.
I spend most of my days sitting in meetings. Talking on the phone. Sorting through emails. Conversing with people. Planning. Designing. Managing. Hoping.
It's my job. Helping people.
Some people think it's just busy work. Other people think it's inspirational. God's work, they say.
What do I think? It's the reason for my being. My calling. My destiny. I don't see it as a choice. It's my mandate. It doesn't matter what other people think.
So I walk into another meeting today. Not expecting much. Just another exercise of checking off items on an agenda. Introductions. Done. Preview of agenda. Done. First item…
…but this is a different gathering. The table is surrounded by outreach workers. Their purpose is to convince people living on the streets that they need help. They need to overcome their barriers. They need housing.
Wait. That's my job too. Take off the tie and oxford shoes. And I look like an educated social worker.
It's my job. Helping people.
The list on the table is filled with people we surveyed on the streets of Long Beach back in July. It's a laundry list of hurting people. One has a terminal illness. Another fights demons in his soul. A few are drowning their existence with liquid poison. One is a product of a broken foster care system.
The facilitator of the meeting swipes a yellow highlighter over the name of one gentleman on the list. He has been living on the streets for 38 years. Yes, 38 years. He has cancer, and a few other stereotypical struggles that many visible homeless people encounter.
But this conversation is different. The police officer has convinced a landlord to allow this man to rent an apartment. The social worker has found subsidized rent. They go down a verbal list of other assistance.
"He's tired," says the social worker. "He's ready. He wants a home. A roof over his head." 38 years on the streets. And he's ready. It's practically a miracle. Even this jaded nonprofit executive is impressed.
The conversation turns to a discussion on how to get the furniture. The dishes. The linens. All the things that make a house a home. 38 years on the streets, and a group of people are planning what will be in the kitchen cabinets. Amazing.
No celebrations. No congratulations at the table. There are a few hundred other people we are also trying to reach. Too much work. Almost overwhelming.
But today was a good day. At least a hopeful day. Take away the tie and the oxford shoes, and I'm basically a social worker, a social engineer. Not an executive.
It's my job. Helping people.
Can't forget that.
Joel John Roberts is the CEO of PATH Partners, a nonprofit organization which helps communities integrate services with housing. He blogs regularly on inforUm, an online journal dedicated to housing, poverty and homelessness.
Out of sight jigsaws, and sushi…
Here is a new guest post from a contributor from the UK who publishes her blog under the name WanderingScribe. Her post tells of some interesting connections she's made. For those who missed our earlier re-post of her blog, she's described her situation this way:
For the past five months I have been living alone in a car at the edge of the woods — jobless and homeless and totally unable to find a way out. I can't sing, I can't dance, I can't scream loudly enough, alI I can do is write. So here I am laying down tracks…hopefully the start of an online paper trail out of here.
Her blog was 'discovered' and, as she writes,"I eventually got a publishing deal and made it out of my car to write a book about it… Miracles do happen." Her book is titled Abandoned and can be purchased at Doubleday and Amazon.
Written by WanderingScribe
Wednesday, March 04, 2009
It seems only yesterday that I wrote in here that I had given up chocolate for Lent…Well, I've done it again…Chocolate AND coffee this year, so my nerves are on fire — constant red alert. Only another 35 days to go though (apparently Sundays don't count as Lenten days!).
Anyway, I really can't believe that it has rolled around again, and that Lent is here. Time has just slipped away.
I should be keeping an eye on time…making sure it doesn't just pass me by. It is not just me saying that, apparently it was a direct message from angels for me. So I was told anyway…
When I got back in touch with my dad (Brendan) again, the time just before I ended up living in my car, he heard about a woman in Ireland who was a mystic and received messages from angels. He got in touch with her. I don't know to this day what he said to her, but he had her telephone number and urged me to call her, saying she would be expecting my call. I didn't know what to say, and wasn't going to, but one day, feeling very foolish, I found myself dialing her number.
A softly spoken Irish lady answered, but it clearly wasn't a good time for her — I think she was in a hurry to pick one of her children up from somewhere (yes, she also has children and lives in a modern house in a modern part of Ireland). She said she had received a message for me though — that the angels had given her a message saying that I had many talents (haven't we all!) that I was in danger of wasting, and that time was running out. She said she was very busy and couldn't talk but that I should give her my address and that she would write to me with the message.
I thought she was fobbing me off, but I gave her my address in Newcastle anyway and a few weeks later a letter did arrive. It took up only one side of paper and repeated the message from the angels: saying that they stressed that I needed to be particularly careful about time, and not to let it slip past. Which at the time I thought was a very strange message, even though that is what I have always tended to do in my life. I was a bit disappointed in a way, of all the things that angels could tell you…especially me in the lost and fragile state I was in at the time. She also gave me the name of my two guardian angels. Names which weren't in English, but which, even though I was skeptical of the whole thing, I still found a bit disturbing seeing written down in the letter.She said all I needed to do was call the name and ask them to come down and they would. I remember rolling the sounds around my tongue and for a few days finding myself silently saying them. But then I got frightened of what I was doing and tried to forget them — which, unfortunately, I have now succeeded in doing. (Though I think I still have the letter somewhere.)
I'd never met this woman myself. All I knew was her name, and her voice…
Then yesterday, in a local bookshop, I squeezed past a couple pushing a toddler in a buggy, and as I did so knocked up against one of the bookcases. A display book, standing face-out on the edge of one of the shelves, threatened to topple. It was a new hardback book with a very nice light cover. As I reached up to straighten it, I instinctively read the title and then my eyes shot up to the author – because suddenly I knew who it was. It was her. The woman with the message for me from the angels. She has a book out, an autobiography called Angels In My Hair. Her name is Lorna Bryne, and she is apparently Kosher — for those who believe.
Brendan still has her telephone number and gave it to me again yesterday when I told him. Though I wouldn't dare call her again. But how odd…Time did run out for me in the end and I ended up in my car. So in a way the message was right. And then I wrote an autobiography. An autobiography which was there right at the right time in publishing in a way. And now the person who gave me that message has written her autobiography too – with many more books to come it seems. It gave me shivers standing there in the bookshop holding it in my hands. Kind of…sort of…in a way…mysterious…
You can get yourself in a state of mind where things start to feel like proof. As if someone is laying a trail… constantly saying: Now do you believe? Now do you …? Now…? How about this time..?
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Friday, December 2, 2011
Friday Five
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I'm not a big movie person, but I like The Name of the Rose and The Lion in Winter.ReplyDelete
Oooh, some great choices here, particularly A Room with a View and Silence of the Lambs, although they couldn't be more different! I know what you mean about your favorites changing with your mood or your writing project. Right now I'd say Amelie, It's a Wonderful Life, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Before Sunrise, and Moonstruck. I'm obviously in a romantic, sentimental mood.ReplyDelete
You know, Jillian, I've never seen The Name of the Rose! Need to put that on my list. Love Lion in Winter.ReplyDelete
And Eve, those would all make my top 100 list, too! Time to watch It's a Wonderful Life again, certainly.
Princess Bride (My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, Prepare to die!), When Harry Met Sally (classic restaurant scene!!), Gorillas In the Mist, Despicable Me (love the Minions!)ReplyDelete
Oh, yes, Kristin! Princess Bride, both book and movie. And I definitely need to re-watch Gorillas in the Mist....ReplyDelete


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Tuesday, January 7, 2014
Available Now - Mastering Windows Server 2012 R2
This delivery was none other than the 'dead tree' format of my new book...
Late last year and not too long after our 'Mastering System Center 2012 - Operations Manager' book hit the shelves, I was given the opportunity to head up an excellent team of authors to work on a book that would cover the original release of Windows Server 2012. The book was essentially an update to the excellent 'Mastering Windows Server 2008 R2' book that was led by well known author and speaker Mark Minasi with co-authors like Aidan Finn working their magic throughout. (No pressure on us then!)
This updated Windows Server 2012 book was due to hit the shelves by March/April but when Microsoft announced the upcoming Windows Server 2012 R2 release (codenamed Windows Blue), we just knew we had to re-do our work on the book to keep it consistent and current. What we didn't realise is the sheer volume of extra work that the new R2 release had landed us with and suckers like me who had 8 chapters to work on pretty much had to do a re-write of everything - not to mention labs being rebuilt/upgraded too!
Reading through the full book now though, I can see that all the effort was worth it and I want to say a big thanks to all involved in bringing this to market. There's a great team of authors and editors behind it and if you want to ramp up on your Windows Server 2012 R2 knowledge, then this is a great place to start.
Depending on your country and preference, you can get your hands on a paperback copy of it from the links below:
Hope you enjoy it!
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Great news, I've been waiting for this for SOOOO long! I'm sure it's been worth the wait, been on back order for.....forever!ReplyDeleteReplies
Hope you enjoy it Hamish, please add your comments and feedback on it as a review on Amazon :)Delete
Dear Kevin, this is a great book. I read the most part of it and it is very useful. I'm working on the remote desktop services to replace our Citrix implementation for remote app and in this case I think something is missing or is not well detailed. I'm talking about redundancy and deployment scenarios. Probably I need a book more focused on RDS matter because this is too generic on Windows 2012 for my purposes. Can you suggest something I can read on Windows 2012 R2 Remote Desktop Services? Thank you very much,ReplyDelete
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Glad you like the book, but I can appreciate that it isn't going to be a deep-dive into every piece of functionality that you get with Server 2012 R2 (otherwise we'd be writing a 5000 page book instead of a 1700 page one!).
I'm not aware of any new books available just yet for RDS 2012 R2 but I think that Microsoft Press might have one coming soon.
- AnonymousJanuary 23, 2014 at 2:15 PM
Well done that man! Now all I need is my birthday to hurry up so I can buy it as a pressie for myself. I am sure it will be like your technical assistance, esdy to understand but complex in its intent.ReplyDelete
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|Tom Denari
Surely, you've said this right before you've been presented a campaign -- at least once. Your intent is pure, knowing that consumers have short attention spans and make quick, emotional decisions. You simply want to be able react in the same way. Sounds reasonable.
Unfortunately, you're subject to the malady that often prevents all of us from being objective.
Simply stated, bias is a particular inclination that prevents unprejudiced consideration of information. Typically, you might think of bias related to skewed or tainted journalism, but it actually seeps into everything humans think about and do. Biases are natural, normal and are formed by past experiences. We all carry them around and can't help but let them influence the decisions we make on a daily basis.
Bias makes it difficult for you to separate yourself from the natural, mostly unconscious tendencies that influence your own decision-making when presented a campaign. Unchecked, bias makes it difficult to be objective, and often causes marketers to prefer messages that are more relevant to them rather than to the people they are trying to influence. It's likely the reason why so much advertising misses the mark, as it appears that it doesn't understand who it's talking to.
While you want to react like your consumer, you have to remember that you don't have the same detachment or perspective that your consumer has. Instead, you're being influenced by the vast, intimate knowledge about your own product, as well as the various politics and pressures that come with making important decisions.
Bias often causes marketers to rely on conventional wisdom -- the way they think the world works. Instead of approaching a problem in a new way, they too often rely on past experience or previous familiarity. Sometimes, even experiencing prior success can hold them back from trying something new.
This is not an indictment of marketers. They aren't uniquely subject to bias. Agency types are, too. We all have a tendency to cling to what we know, and reject what we don't. In fact, the closer we are to a situation -- the more personal experience we have in it -- the more likely we are to be less objective, and therefore, biased about it. Whenever my agency is in the process of marketing ourselves, those discussions are infinitely more challenging than those on behalf of our clients, because we don't have the appropriate perspective or detachment.
So then, if experience is actually the primary cause of bias and a giant hurdle to effective, persuasive communication, how do you get over it? How do you eliminate bias?
Unlearn what you know. Then replace it with new, more objective knowledge and experience.
Your experience is best replaced through an immersion process with a more reliable source that has a more realistic perspective: your target audience. While this should be of no real surprise to you, it's remarkable how your personal perspective will change once you really get to know the people you're trying to influence. That engagement -- more like anthropology than research -- can take a number of forms, but it should skew toward getting to know the target audience as people first, and buyers second. It should begin away from the product you're selling so that the perspective is closer to the target's and further from your own.
It's a humbling experience as you begin to realize what's really important to them and what's not, especially when it's your product. You will come to realize, the more time you spend with the target, the less bias you'll experience, making your decision-making more objective -- and more valid. Instead of your own internal perspective, you will begin to see the world through the eyes of the people you're attempting to influence, without bias.
If you've gone through this process, then you can experience the campaign more like a consumer would. Otherwise, you'd better hear the set up.
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Discussion > What is the correct way to behave towards someone who has behaved as badly as Jones and whose wrongdoing has been condoned and covered up by those in authority?
To put the record straight; I have never and would never engage in writing hate mail, neither do I condone it or seek to justify it. However if the hate mail is the result of helpless rage over the ability of people like Phil Jones and the team to change our way of life and remove our freedoms then I believe I can understand it.
Many people have politely enquired after details of work done by Phil and the team and been turned down, sometimes not politely. In an attempt to get at truth Doug Keenan accused Phil of fraud and invited him to sue; no response.
I have accused Bob Watson of Lying about CO2 and its effects, I copied that accusation to his boss (Chris Huhne or Ed..cant remember) and invited him to sue; no response. These people do not wish to engage in reasoned argument, they have to be dragged kicking and screaming to the discussion table.
How should they be regarded?
Are they genuine scientists who have worked tirelessly for the public good, have got it wrong but do not realise it?
Are they genuine scientists who have worked tirelessly for the public good but have got it wrong and do realise their error but are too proud to admit it?
Is it we who are wrong?
Are they seeking to pursue an agenda and simply using science or pseudo science as an aid in pursuing that agenda?
This question is well worth discussing at length. The discussion on the "death threat" thread is worth putting alongside the later one on Worstall's toilet talk.
I've been banned from CiF from being rude, deliberately so, out of frustration at the Graun journalist's stupidity, or his sheer power, the fact that he can talk nonsense and get away with it. Then I've been banned again for being mildly ironic. So you think "might as well be hung for a sheep as for a lamb" and go overboard into extreme threats or extreme vulgarity. It's human, but not very effective.
There's no point, I think, in thinking in terms of "what Phil deserves".
I've been trying to drop the tough talk and face the fact that turning other the cheek, though it isn't much fun, is the only way to avoid timewasting. Here's part of a comment I left at
Tony Newbery at Harmless Sky has long proposed a judicial review as the only way to get an honest assessment of the global warming saga, and at his instigation I read Judge Burton's review of Dimmock v the Crown over the showing of the Gore film in schools. I was really impressed by the tenor of the thing, the whole judicial mindset which seemed to speak from centuries of listening to bickering plaintiffs. It's probably just me, but behind the dry legal analysis there seemed to be a message: "Nobody's at fault, nobody's going to win or lose anything worth worrying about. We're not put on earth for these brief years in order to waste our time squabbling. Let's pick the truth out of this mess and forget the rest".In other words, I don't know the answer to your question.
it's a very humanist message. (Unfortunately it'll set you back £50,000 minimum to hear it)...
On the other hand, idiots need naming and blaming, and once you set out on that route, why stop short of the truth?
Thanks Geoff
Until recently I considered the most important issue on my political radar was the fact that here in the UK we no longer live in a democracy. The only people able to table new laws in most policy areas are the unelected EU Commissioners and we are not able to vote about whether they should be removed from office. We live in a dictatorship and it is not benign. With the three major parties all in favour of remaining in the EU then unless UKIP can make a breakthrough (I am a card carrying member) we are totally disenfranchised. People around the world have been in the past and are today still willing to put their lives on the line to protect or regain freedom and democracy.
However I believe that Sustainability of which CAGW is just a part, is now the greater threat.
The UN already talks internally about reducing population, taking emphasis away from GDP and placing it on an environmental audit of a country's activities, forcing us to change our lifestyles shrink our economies. These aims are not the result of demands from the population, they are the views of a small group of environmental activists who have seen the opportunity to impose their will on every one of us, particularly in Europe.
I place Phil and the team in the vanguard of this movement and they proved something very important.
Prior to the publication of the first MBH Hockey Stick, not a single nation had ratified the Kyoto Protocol (some had signed it but not ratified it). Within months of the Hockey Stick publication almost all nations had ratified it. Talk to politicians and mention Environment and Crisis, offer some bodged scientific proof and government policy could be changed and huge funding released.
Time now to exume Malthus and go the whole hog folks! Our politicians will take this NeoMalthusian claptrap hook line and sinker and then we really will be in the proverbial. They will be told that to continue as we are at the moment is to condemn our children and our children's children to starvation, poverty, resource and fuel scarcity, etc etc.
Phil and the team are responsible for this (almost alone and entirely IMHO), no Hockey Stick; no Kyoto Protocol and no problem.
Most of the regulars on BH have read the brilliant book he wrote and know beyond a shadow of a doubt that the Hockey Stick is bogus science. That means that in your heart of hearts you also believe that these people are dishonest, manipulative frauds yet there they sit in their ivory towers, untouchable, well paid, famous and powerful. While we discuss whether or not we should be polite to our Phil, some people even in the UK are thrown into fuel poverty and elsewhere people are thrown off their land so that biofuels can be produced.
Should we really be polite to these people?
I suggest you address them with the same respect with which you would expect them to address you. If your arguments have weight, they will speak louder than any insults you might throw.
With each IPCC 'assessment', there was a step wise increase in confidence of attribution.
The first one was circumspect and offered no attribution.
The second one upped the ante. But this clearly was done in an underhanded backdoor fashion - the Santer fiasco - that it became clear the attribution was not the opinion of the scientists who wrote the report. Santer, to date, doesn't have a clear answer.
The third one made a clear attribution. It was based on the hockey stick. Enough said.
The fourth one stuck to the same line. It was again, based on the circular reasoning using computer models present in the third report.
*No* scientific breakthrough in understaning, technique, measurement, experimentation or theoretical prediction occurred during the entire period. The advances during the entire period were those that can simply be chalked down to increase in data collection and scholarly activity that naturally accompanies any (vast) increase in funding.
Yet, the confidence in attribution just keep increasing. What is more, it was precisely those bits of evidence the confidence in attribution was based on, turned out the dodgiest of the whole lot.
As far as I know I have not insulted them. However I think that Steve McIntyre would tell you that reasoned argument does not speak loudly to them. I simply ask how we should regard them.
I want to add that for me they are people whose respect I neither need nor desire.
Hi Dung, your question was on the correct way to behave towards people, not how to regard them. The two are not necessarily connected. You might regard climate scientists as liars and cheats, but if I want their attention you would be best advised to behave towards them with respect.
On the other hand, Dung, who has not done a thing to Phil Jones has gotten a series of misbegotten lies from a man of position such as Phil Jones.
It seems your advice applies only to Dung and not to Jones?
Thanks for the stupid moral science class.
sorry posted to wrong thread, then removed it
Did I say it went just one way? If prof Jones wants to be well regarded by sceptics he would be best advised to treat them with respect. But possibly he doesn't want such regard. Now why might that be? Perhaps because he is constantly depicted as dishonest or worse; that would engender contempt for adversaries in most of us.
Perhaps because he is constantly depicted as dishonest or worse; that would engender contempt for adversaries in most of us.
Jun 16, 2012 at 6:37 PM BitBucket
Jones's contempt for sceptics goes back years.
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In an odd way this is cheering news !
Steve McIntyre is scrupulously correct and courteous. "The Team" invariably referred to his website as "Climate Fraudit".
Dear Mr Bucket
As far as I know there no "deniers" who are being paid out of public taxation either for their opinions or because of their opinions, this puts Prof Jones in a different category. Prof Jones should realise that he has an obligation to explain and justify his opinions but sadly he does not.
To get back to my point:
Most long term posters on this blog are in the mould of Steve McIntyre and The Bish; polite, honourable and honest (sadly I have tantrums and can not include myself in that hehe). Steve McIntyre has torn apart the statistical analysis done in the Hockey Stick and demolished tree rings as an acceptable temperature proxy. However papers are still published using tree ring proxies and "the establishment" still believes the Hockey Stick is a true paleo-climate record.
What is more important, remaining honourable or reversing this crazy CAGW and SUSTAINABILITY hogwash? Within that question I include being polite to people that are responsible for foisting this upon us.
Hey Martin: "The Team" invariably referred to his website as "Climate Fraudit"
Do you mean between themselves or to him? Makes a difference...
Jun 16, 2012 at 12:02 PM | Dung
The UN already talks internally about reducing population, taking emphasis away from GDP and placing it on an environmental audit of a country's activities, forcing us to change our lifestyles shrink our economies. These aims are not the result of demands from the population, they are the views of a small group of environmental activists who have seen the opportunity to impose their will on every one of us.
And in the many pronouncements from the UN - and its circus of myriad committees, "High Level" panels, Working Groups and Gaia knows what else - in the run-up to Rio+20 the UN has finally come out of the "scaremongers 'r us" closet to reveal the true meaning of Agenda 21 ... not to mention the true purpose of the IPCC and its highly over-rated (and over relied upon) assessment reports.
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Perhaps because he is constantly depicted as dishonest or worse; that would engender contempt for adversaries in most of us.Jun 16, 2012 at 6:37 PM BitBucket
Do you mean between themselves or to him? Makes a difference...Jun 16, 2012 at 11:25 PM BitBucket
Where does this new "Makes a difference" come from?
You had said "Perhaps because he is constantly depicted as dishonest or worse;that would engender contempt for adversaries in most of us", without qualification.
I produced evidence that Jones was contemptuous of McIntyre and Daly despite neither of them having accused Jones of being "dishonest or worse", refuting your excuse for Jones's despicable behaviour.
Their contempt for people they saw as "adversaries" (I would deny that the term was applicable) remains contempt, irrespective of to whom their contempt was expressed.
[ McIntyre immediately deletes any comments on CA that suggest dishonesty or indeed that suggest any motive. I have never noticed any suggestion of dishonesty or worse by the late John Daly http://www.john-daly.com/ ]
Martin, you are using private emails to condemn. Are you telling me that given access to McIntyre's private emails we would find no exchanges that questioned the honesty, motives etc of Prof. Jones et al?
Regarding this 'bad behaviour', what is Prof. Jones accused of doing that was evident before the theft of his emails? (I ask because I don't know, not as wind-up).
Regards, BB
Mr Bucket
You can read about the accusation of fraud here:
Oh I love this!
Quoting Rajendra Pachauri from Hilary's blog:
I am not going to rest easy until I have articulated in every possible forum the need to bring about major structural changes in economic growth and development. That's the real issue. Climate change is just a part of it. [bold added]
So Catastrophic Global Warming is actually less important than restructuring our economies? Now I am really worried.
Mr Bucket this is a more detailed account of the fraud:
Thanks Dung. I hadn't come across that. Are there more or is that it (not implying any judgement on the case provided, I just want to know the extent of accusations)?
Regards, BB
BB - If you have evidence that CRU emails were stolen, you should pass it to the Norfolk Police.
However, if the emails were released by someone who had a legitimate logon giving them access to the emails then no law would have been broken. That seems an immensely more likely explanation for how the emails were released, for a number of reasons that anyone with even slight familiarity with IT administration and security could spell out, especially in view of the chaos of the CRU's IT practices.
In any case, Jones's bad behavior is bad behaviour whatever source of data is used to confirm it.
"Are you telling me that given access to McIntyre's private emails we would find no exchanges that questioned the honesty, motives etc of Prof. Jones et al?"
I am obviously not telling you anything about what McIntyre's private emails contain as I have no way of knowing for certain what his emails might contain. However, I have observed in life that people generally behave consistently, especiqlly principled people such as McIntyre, and I would therefore be astonished if McIntyre's emails contained such speculations - it would simply be out of character.
In any case, this seems to have no relevance to your excuse for Jones's contempt for people who had asked him for data. Any more than what your or my private emails might contain would be relevant.
There is no shortage of evidence for Jones's and the rest of the Team's contempt for people who asked for access to the data. Sorry, I am not going to look it up for you but it's there.
You could start by searching on ""Why should I make the data available to you, when your aim is to try and find something wrong with it."
Hi Martin, did I say they were stolen? ("If you have evidence that CRU emails were stolen, you should pass it to the Norfolk Police") I know I thought of saying that, but I don't recall actually posting it (maybe in another thread?). Perhaps you are a mind reader :-)
I agree with you that the data should be openly available, but opinions on that have changed over the last decade or so. Back in the 90s I expect not so many people thought that way. And as someone said on another thread, when you have spent a lot of time and effort compiling a dataset, giving it away might not be the first thing on your mind (look at Watts' tantrum over Muller and his data) especially when you consider those who want it to have 'bad' intentions (from your perspective).
Regards, BB
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Hi Martin, did I say they were stolen?I think so.
Jun 17, 2012 at 2:02 PM BitBucket
.... what is Prof. Jones accused of doing that was evident before the theft of his emails?


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Myers once again proves that a steady diet of bullsh!t won't kill him July 30, 2007Posted by Administrator in Blogging, Cultural Pessimism, Idiots, Liberal Hypocrisy, Liberal self-loathing, Pharyngulism.
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He eats crap all day long and calls it filet mignon.
I've seen a lot of referrals from Myers' banned list. I am a member of that list. I take no pride in it, nor is there any shame. There are some places that it is good to be banned from, like the Playboy Club. Pharyngula is like that.
But the brute gets it wrong again:
It isn't quite so easy to get banned at Pharyngula,
Like hell. All you have to do is consistently go against the Party Line. His comboxes are utterly suffused with fawning sycophants who echo every word he says. If anyone dares challenge the Entrenched Idiocy long enough. . .well, you get sh!tcanned.
Bummer, I guess. But I see that his foolishness has changed neither in substance or in tempo.
Mark III Updated July 24, 2007Posted by Administrator in Creepiness, Cultural Pessimism, Idiots, Liberal Hypocrisy, Liberal self-loathing, Sports.
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Before I delve still further into the twisted, upside-down idiocy that is our culture as illustrated by the Michael Vick Fever Swamp, let's be clear on a few things:
- The man has been indicted for dogfighting.
- Dogfighting is a cruel, vicious bloodsport and people that participate in it are simple thugs who deserve ostracism from our society.
- If Vick is guilty, I have no problem at all with the idea of him serving jail time, being booted from the NFL, and generally put in public stocks and pelted with rotten vegetables.
OK? We clear? I am not endorsing dogfighting.
What I am saying is that there is a vast gulf in justice here, when we see how Vick is being treated for dogfighting while a few years ago Kobe Bryant -by comparison- got a free pass while he was on trial for rape charges in Colorado.
Let's do some comparisons, shall we?
- Vick is being expected to sit out the season.
- Bryant was allowed to play; in fact, on numerous occasions, he would have a court appearance during the day, then would fly to an NBA city that night to participate in a Laker game
- Falcon headquarters is being besieged by PETA marchers.
- Laker headquarters made no report of picketing by NOW members.
- There is now speculation that the Falcons will never play Vick again
- At no time was there ever any discussion of Bryant ending his playing relationship with the Lakers.
WORST of all,
- Vick is now being compared to OJ Simpson:
Even if Vick finds a way to make puppies fly by joining the five percent of those who ever have beaten the feds, he'd become the Falcons' O.J. Simpson in the eyes of thousands or millions — an African-American with lots of money who had the audacity to get away with something.
- While I find comparisons with OJ much more fitting in Bryant's case, no such commentary was ever made that I am aware of.
So, dogfighting is comparable to the brutal knife-murder of one's wife, but not as bad as rape.
I'll say it again:
Is wrong with our culture????
The apparent code of criminal conduct for athletes rates as follows, ranked from mildest infraction to worst:
- Rape
- Assault with a deadly weapon
- Use of steroids
- Betting on ballgames
- Dogfighting
- Murder of spouse
I think murder is placed correctly. But otherwise this list looks like it was put together by a badly confused five year old. Yet, in practical treatment of America's athletes (our de facto royalty), that's the line-up.
New Zealand, anyone?
UPDATE: Don Banks has it nailed. The NFL and the Falcons are in damage control because the public is in an uproar over this.
And it should be.
But it should ALSO have been in an uproar over Bryant, and abortion, and a host of more immediate idiocies.
But instead, we focus on the poor little doggies.
Blabbering, Sanctimonious hypocrisy, Mark II July 23, 2007Posted by Administrator in Cultural Pessimism, Idiots, Liberal Hypocrisy, Liberal self-loathing, Sports.
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Peter King of cnnsi.com is sounding off, and the idiocy continues:
I know the Falcons are deeply worried about the circus that training camp would be if Vick were on the field. There is concern over security at the 50-acre training-camp site and training complex in Flowery Branch, 40 minutes north of Atlanta. Would metal detectors be needed? Would critical signs be allowed? If Vick were scheduled to take the field on Friday, it's conceivable the Falcons would have to spend thousands — and work nearly round the clock before then — to ensure the security and safety of players and fans at camp, and to make sure the team could do its job in some sort of productive and harmonious way. "The work would get done, but I can't imagine getting booed at your own training camp," one longtime Falcon told me Saturday. "I guess you'd get used to it, but I don't know."
I am sure that the Falcons have every right to be worried in this bass-ackwards, PZ Myers-inspired idiot culture we live in. Arthur Blank is going to have to penalize Vick for a) making Blank look like an idiot, and b) putting the Falcons in an untenable position.
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the Falcons would have to spend thousands — and work nearly round the clock before then — to ensure the security and safety of players and fans at camp, and to make sure the team could do its job in some sort of productive and harmonious way.
In the name of heaven, what in our culture has rendered this over dogfights when helpless children are murdered every day???? When women are abused, objectified and raped by these very same players. . .yet no one, not even Amanda Marcotte and NOW, march at training camps over this issue.
Sanctimonious, blithering hypocrisy. Almost all of it.
"In light of the seriousness of the charges, I believe that Mr. Vick should be suspended from the league, effective immediately."
— Former Democratic presidential nominee and current Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, in a letter to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell.
I have one thing to say about this idiot sounding off:
Then there's this:
"I am confident that the hottest places in hell are reserved for the souls of sick and brutal people who hold God's creatures in such cruel and brutal contempt."
— West Virginia Sen. Robert Byrd, on those who participate in dogfighting and raise dogs for dogfighting.
God help us all. THIS idiot deserves not only,
But also deserves a fine does of:
This clown used to belong to the KKK. He held up Congress for days on end so that the Civil Rights Bill would not get passed back in the '60s. He is four-square, as a good Demobat, in favor of abortion. And he has the gall to say this? About dogfighting?
Give me a break.
Micheal Vick and the mind-bending hypocrisy of accusation UPDATED July 18, 2007Posted by Administrator in Cultural Pessimism, Idiots, Liberal Hypocrisy, Sports.
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For those of you unaware, Micheal Vick, the electrifying QB for the Atlanta Falcons has been indicted in federal court for crimes related to dogfighting. ESPN and others are up in arms over this; the usual talking heads are claiming the man is guilty before the trial has even started.
I'm not going to weigh in on the likely guilt or innocence of Vick. I will state that I find dogfighting, like any other blood sport -including boxing and UFC- to be in the end degrading and appeals to the lowest common denominator of human vicarious entertainment. It renders people down to animals. If the Feds have their facts in order, then someone was surely acting like an animal in the case Vick is implicated in.
That said, this is nothing compared to say, rape, or abortion, or even sexual harassment, not to mention the more conventional felonies like hit and run, manslaughter, assault and felony theft. Sorry, but dogfighting pales in comparison to all these violations. If Vick isn't guilty, should he be punished any worse than say, Kobe Bryant, who was accused and ultimately acquitted of rape charges a few years ago? (I will go on record as believing that Bryant intimidated his victim into silence, thereby rendering a criminal conviction impossible to obtain when his victim refused to testify in open court. Not that any of that matters. . .) I would say not. Dogfighting ain't rape.
Wayne Drehs asks the same question:
The last high-profile American athlete to go through the public ringer like this was Lakers guard Kobe Bryant, who faced accusations of sexual assault from a Colorado woman in 2003. The criminal case against Bryant was dropped after the accuser decided not to testify, and the civil case was later settled out of court for an undisclosed amount. But in the aftermath, Bryant lost national endorsement contracts with McDonald's and Nutella.
Four years later, Bryant has yet to return to his one-time perch atop the sports marketing world, although his image has improved dramatically since 2003.
Vick's situation, sports business experts universally seem to believe, is more precarious than Bryant's ever was.
"In a perverse sort of way, we're almost more outraged as a society by dogfighting than we are sexual assault," said Fred Schreyer . . ."We somehow question the details of what went on in a sexual assault case, while there is very little of that going on here. It's more difficult to defend this sort of charge. And in that way, it could be much more damaging."
God, what Schreyer says here is so depressing. Bryant is a fool, a selfish little brat who also happens to be a thug when it comes to the treatment of women. Vick may well be an insensitive idiot when it comes to the treatment of animals, but that does not render him to the level of beast that Bryant is. Yet our twisted society is more willing to forgive Bryant than it is Vick.
In other words, it's less OK to abuse dogs than it is to rape women.
That's just FUBAR.
I suspect even the foaming Amanda Marcotte would agree with me on this one.
Drehs also has a really rich level of liberal hypocrisy listed in his article:
On Wednesday morning, (Nike), along with Falcons CEO Arthur Blank and NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, received a joint letter from hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons, civil rights leader Reverend Al Sharpton and PETA president Ingrid E. Newkirk, condemning Vick's alleged involvement in the dogfighting ring and asking all parties involved to distance themselves from Vick.
God help us all. I expect this sort of stuff from Newkirk. PETA simply must respond in their classic, knee-jerk fashion. But for Russell Simmons and, Lord and saints preserve us all, Al (Tawana Brawley? Who dat?) Sharpton to suggest that Vick is somehow unclean. . .well, that there is a PRIMO sample of liberal hypocrisy Gone Wild. It is all the more sadly ironic that those two thugs are turning on a fellow brother.
I'm not going to say much more about the Vick episode. But it is a damned sorry commentary on our culture that such profound and unrelenting idiocy is becoming so clear in the wake of this sorry situation.
UPDATE:The march of babbling, sanctimonious idiocy continues.
When Washington Redskins running back Clinton Portis was asked about dogfighting this spring, he said: "It can't be too bad of a crime."
Portis later conceded that his comments were insensitive, but Goodwin said it "shows the mentality that some people have."
"Even guys like LaDainian Tomlinson, who's opposed to dogfighting, when he was a young man he went to dogfights," Goodwin said. "It's out there.
"I hope that really what this does is send a message that deters people from being involved in this in the first place. I hope that the people involved are investigated and caught and sentenced," he said.
I have nothing against the idea of prosecuting and sentencing these people who engage in such barbaric behavior, and pro athletes need to know that such behavior is unacceptable.
But Clinton Portis is correct. This is not much of a crime, not when stacked up against rape. And the entire tenor of this hunt continues to be one where Vick is the ultimate villain.
No he isn't. Thugs like Kobe Bryant and Mike Tyson are the ultimate villains. Purveyors of abortion are the ultimate villains. Ted Bundy is an ultimate villain.
C'mon peoples. Get some perspective, already.
UPDATE II: Don Banks at cnnsi.com has a long, sanctimonious harangue about how Falcon owner Arthur Blank should sit Vick until the wheels of justice grind to a conclusion.
Banks, the statute claims that we are innocent until proven guilty. Are you prepared to vilify Jerry Buss for allowing Bryant to continue playing after he had been indicted and put on trial for rape? If not, then cut Vick some slack.
Mariners' Semester Report Card July 8, 2007Posted by Administrator in Sports.
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(1st Quarter report card here).
At the All-Star Break, the Mariners after 85 games are 49-36. Amazingly, despite falling flat on their faces against the Pirates and Kansas City earlier in June (and against those two, that was a prime time for them to make up ground), they are only 2.5 games behind the Angels in the AL West, and 1.5 games behind Cleveland for the wild card spot.
Before issuing positional reports, comment must be made on the resignation of Mike Hargrove. There has been widespread speculation about why the man quit; pressure from the front office, friction with Ichiro, problems with his contract. Frankly, reasons need to start and end with what the man said; while that in itself is also problematic, if you factor in the smiling face of his wife when he quit, I think we can rest easy knowing that the man was sick of managing, even if the M's were the hottest team in baseball. It does throw a serious wrench into predicting future Mariner success. I mean, this sort of stuff only happens once every century; a skipper quitting a red-hot ballclub. How will Seattle react? Still too soon to tell. McLaren is 4-3 going into the break, but that can hardly be a measure of prediction for future events.
A: Ichiro. The man is a machine at the plate, and more than holding his own in center.
Bs: Johjima. Adrian Beltre is finally doing fairly well, .276/13/42. Jose Lopez holds his own in the field and has contributed greatly at the plate as well.
Cs: Guillen, Ibanez (dropping WAY OFF from last year) and Vidro. Betancourt has dropped off as well.
D. Sexson. Batting .206, for God's sake. . .
JJ Putz: A. The man is an automatic in the saves department.
B's: Felix Hernandez iced the A's in his last start and may be finally coming around. Washburn is a solid starter. The rest of the bullpen deserves this grade as well.
C's: Batista, and much as I have to admit it, Jeff Weaver. The man has a 1.67 ERA in six starts since coming back from a one month absence. Maybe the guy can pitch after all, even if he does look like a serious drug addict in his team picture.
Overall, B+ This team is proclaimed to be overachieving, but with the starting pitching apparently settling down, the bullpen and line-up solid, there is a real chance that they can compete for a post-season slot. The wild-card in all of this is how the team shakes off Grover's sudden and rather wild departure and how they respond to McLaren as something more than a bench coach. The final challenge is the fact that the M's face a savage and brutal road schedule in the 2nd half.
More Clinton hypocrisy July 4, 2007Posted by Administrator in Cultural Pessimism, Idiots, Liberal Hypocrisy, Politics.
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I know I haven't written much lately. I've been doing other things. . .like building a treehouse for my kids and biking all over the region. It's been refreshing to avoid the Idiot Left. Haven't even looked at Myers in over a month, and it's done wonders for my sanity.
Then Bush commuted Libby's sentence. This is NOT the same as a pardon. Libby is still a convicted felon, he is disbarred and branded. But Bush's right to commute sentences is CLEARLY outlined in his executive powers. Nevertheless, MoonBat John Conyers is going to convene hearings on this abuse of privilege.
Good luck with that.
I was going to comment that what Bush has done is little to no different than what Governor Swilly did right before he left office in 2001. But, I thought it best not to comment, let the blog continue to simmer over the summer.
But then Swilly put his foot in his mouth. Time to tear the covers off.
Former President Bill Clinton blasted his successor's decision to spare former White House aide Lewis "Scooter" Libby from prison. . .
Mm hm. Here we have a list of the pardons he gave on January 20, 2001. 131 pardons, not commutations. So, Clinton can wipe out the criminal convictions of 131 of his cronies, but Bush simply eliminates the jail sentence for one of his own, and he is then branded a swine by Governor Bill.
Hypocrisy, thy name is Clinton.


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The other day I was looking through past blog posts and came across these pictures from a little over a year ago. I was very proud of our living room. It's a mix of mid-century modern pieces with my more eclectic tastes of decorating with party supplies like banners, poms and balloons. The TV was put in a back room because I wanted this room to be where we sat and enjoyed life beyond TV. Ha!
And now?
A toy store came to our house, drank too much, and threw up all over and left without offering to clean up.
Maybellene is in a phase right now where she gets bored pretty quickly with each plaything so I feel like we are on a constant circuit of finding something to do. The couch is the nursing/reading books station, we have a play mat for tummy time and back time activities, she can sit in a frog's mouth (you heard me, a frog's mouth) when she wants to be more upright but that gets old pretty quickly, a swing for... swinging... I carry her around and do little dances, there are stuffed animals to hug and chew on and there is pandora on the TV for plenty of music (yeah, the TV is definitely back). Did you know there is a station called Indie Kids? It's pretty much adult music that may appeal to children and it's kind of depressing. So we listen to silly songs and when we can... some rap.
I wonder when I will have a nice, clean living room again. Given my bad housekeeping skills my guess is never.
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My friends from work and church often asked me where I find the time to sew. They were amazed when they saw my kids in church wearing matchy matchy dress or skirts and asked me how I did it?
I'm not sure it has to do with time cause I really find it lacking oftentimes. Between fetching my kids to school, work, fetching them back home, coaching them on school work etc, I've very little time. It's a choice of either resting infront of TV or chatting with husband who most of the time worked late and didn't have much time to chat during weekdays. Instead of letting my brain rot infront of the TV and sometimes I get so hocked up on the Korean Drama series that I was out of sync from the routine boring life I'm living...The guys in those shows are so dreamy, charming, understanding and romantic...do they appear in reallife? I've digressed..
Back to sewing...I get lots of satisfaction when I made beautiful wearable clothes for my kids. Not that they need it. They have so many clothes that I don't think they will need any homemade ones from me. I mean, my friends, sister and all hand me down many 2nd hand clothes that their children outgrown and their wardrobes are stuffed with them. But, I can't help sewing for them everytime I see those pretty designs from the Japanese sewing book like these..
Are you tempted yet? So, I get myself into the KCWC to sew up, more systematically, more clothes for my kids. Sewing is very theraputic too. I'm stressed out at work, with kids and their grades etc, so sewing is an outlet for me to do something creative. I'm not so good at sewing yet so I've lot to learn and sewing regularly help me to hone my skills and hopefully one day, I'll be able to sew up clothes that fits for me!
What's the reason for sewing? Do you sew when you are upset or you sew because it's a creative outlet for you? For me, it's both but I've got to remind myself not to be so caught up in sewing that it becomes an alterative avenue for me instead of Praying to God. I thank God for His grace and faithfulness in my life that enable me to pursue my interest while juggling the demands of work and family. I have to be careful to balance the time for family, work, God and personal hobby like sewing. Hopefully one day, my sewing will help to bring smiles to someone in need or it can be use for the work of God, maybe : )


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This is my 2nd post for today, please scroll down for the Christmas Challenges {with sketches} Challengepost. Thanks!
It's the 1st of the month, so time for another ABC-Challenge and it's called "U for Under the weather". Really, we shouldn't have named it like this as I've been under the weather for almost 2 weeks now. Not going into details, but it's not good :(
So that's why I haven't posted that much and what I've posted was sceduled (love it!).
Email isn't working as well, so when you mailed me...sorry... but can't access my outlookprogramm. It's also under the weather :(
But well... I tried to come up with an "Under the weather"-card, and this is it...
Simple, yet very effective and by just changing the sentiment, you can have loads of cards for different occasions.
Please check out the ABC-Challengeblog for more inspiration from the DT.
Thanks so much for coming over and hope to see you around later. I'm off to bed.
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ABC Challenge: U for Under the weather
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Jamie Oliver 'pimps' wife!
JOKER Jamie Oliver cooked up some festive fun when he pimped his wife's banger.
Yeah man we're talking silver to black paint, roaring flames to go with the 950cc hair dryer engine
The telly chef secretly had ex-model Jool's third-hand runaround turned into a car a boy racer would be proud of.
He got mechanics to add a back box to the exhaust so the tiny 950cc engine would "rumble down the high street" like a Ferrari.
Jamie, 37, tweeted: "For jools xmas present I took her 3rd hand super Awful run around car (she loves it with a passion?) and i gave it the pimp your ride treatment !!!!"
He had the silver bodywork painted black and then tinted the windows before attaching some flaming stickers down the sides.
A set of black alloy wheels, orange seat covers and fluffy dice completed the look.
Proud Jamie claimed mum-of-four Jools, 37, was thrilled when he handed back her motor on Christmas Day.
He added: "Yeah man we're talking silver to black paint, roaring flames to go with the 950cc hair dryer engine, beefy exhaust box to make it rumble down the high street and bad boy black alloys, fluffy dice, ribbed orange seat covers, that is class.....
"And weirdly enough she just loves it!!!!really loves it !????
"Very Strange but all true love to you all jamie xxxx".


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