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Through a combination of research and analysis, training and support, and active campaigning, the Democracy Center works internationally to strengthen struggles for social, economic and environmental justice.
25 Years of The Democracy Center
25th Anniversary
We turn 25 and celebrate with a new website! Explore our work through the sections, Build Real Democracy, Take Action on Climate Justice, and Challenge Corporate Power and have a look at the revised version of our vision and mission.
Climate: causes and consequences
Our reporting and analytical work on climate in Latin America and globally looks both at the structural drivers of the crisis, especially in relation to how corporate power operates, and the complex ways in which its impacts play out on the ground. What is the difference between what corporations say and do when it comes to climate change? What does climate resilience mean in the Bolivian context? How do existing social structures interact with climate impacts? The story of what these drivers and impacts mean for women in particular becomes a key aspect of our work on climate.
- Photo project: Climate Change is About... Women
- Report: Corporate Conquistadors
- Video: Seeds of Resilience
The Center in the climate movement
Our efforts to support climate-related activism include a wide range of articles and other resources, many with a specific focus on successful strategy-building. We have been a present but critical voice at Rio+20, COP20 in Lima and COP21 in Paris. We continue to highlight effective campaigning efforts and work directly with groups through workshops and other training methods.
New Forms
As our external focus shifts more towards climate as a key issue the organization also consolidates internally, establishing a more permanent team of people coming from Bolivia, Europe and the US. Over the coming years, and continuing to this day, our engagement with the complex social politics of climate change, decolonization, environmental impacts and activism leads to the development of internal reflections around the functions of power and privilege within the organization itself, and the establishment of new ways of working.
Around this time the Democracy Center also shifts its focus away from specifically Bolivian issues to take in a more regional focus on the key social and environmental justice issues of our era.
Network for Justice in Global Investment
Partnering with the Institute for Policy Studies, we launch the Network for Justice in Global Investment (NJGI), making the dangers of corporate power and global investment rules a core focus of our work. In the following years we publish two extensive reports as well as numerous articles, a news bulletin and more. We engage in the struggles against major trade agreements such as TTIP and TPP. From 2015 onwards, the NJGI project is only minimally maintained.
Climate change on the agenda
With the publication of Stories from Khapi, a video exploring the impacts of glacial melt in Bolivia, in the lead-up to the infamous COP15 in Copenhagen, we begin a major effort to document the impacts of climate change. In the following years we delve into the issues of lithium, REDD, water, the role of youth, and others and we report from the 2010 People's Climate Summit in Tiquipaya and Rio+20 in 2012.
- Video: Stories from Khapi
- Report: Bolivia and its Lithium
- Report: Off the Market
- Blog post: A Climate Change Summit Comes to Bolivia
Book: Dignity & Defiance
As a result of several years of research, field work and writing by a diverse team of interns and staff, the Center publishes Dignity & Defiance with University of California Press. The book presents a set of Stories from Bolivia's Challenge to Globalization. In 2009, we take the book on tour in 14 cities across the US.
Blog from Bolivia
The Blog from Bolivia is launched late in the year. Charting change in the shifting political landscape of Bolivia in the 2000s, the blog gains a wide readership and becomes a primary reference point for reporters and journalists worldwide. It runs until 2010.
Book: The Democracy Owner's Manual
The Center publishes The Democracy Owners Manual, a Practical Guide to Changing the World and goes on a book tour in the US.
Campaign against Bechtel
The Bechtel Corporation files a $50 million legal case against the people of Cochabamba as retaliation for the Water Revolt and the Center helps launch a global campaign to force the company to drop the case. In 2005, Bechtel ultimately drops its Bolivia case in response to global citizen pressure.
The Water War
The Center plays a major role in the Cochabamba Water Revolt, helping to turn it into an international story and uncovering the link to the US Bechtel Corporation behind the water privatization. Later, the Center receives the Project Census award for the reporting.
- Reporting: Dispatches from the Streets of Cochabamba (Feb-Apr 2000)
- Book chapter: The Cochabamba Water Revolt and its Aftermath (from Dignity & Defiance, 2008)
- Article: Bolivia, 15 Years on from the Water War (Apr 23, 2015)
- Article: 15 Years After the Cochabamba Water Revolt, Echoes in New Cases of Corporate Abuse (Apr 28, 2015)
Move to Bolivia
Democracy Center founder and executive director Jim Shultz returns to Cochabamba, Bolivia with his family and begins activity there - eventually, they end up staying for two decades.
Launch of newsletter
The first issue of our newsletter, Democracy Center Online, hits the inboxes of about 200 readers. Eventually, our readership grows to over 6000.
California Budget Project
The Democracy Center founds the California Budget Project following a year of taking leadership on California budget issues with the publication of State of Deadlock, a major report on the state of budget politics and a roadmap for a progressive way forward.
Working with immigrant communities
We orient our work toward supporting immigrant communities under political attack in California, by helping immigrants with advocacy workshops and taking a leadership role in efforts to stop the passage of California's Proposition 187 anti-immigrant initiative.
The foundation of the Democracy Center
The Democracy Center is founded as Advocacy Institute West and opens its first office in San Francisco.


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Sheila A. Behr – Age 69 of Waverly, Tennessee passed away February 21, 2016 at Horizon Medical Center in Dickson, Tennessee surrounded by her family after a short stint with cancer.
A Celebration of Life will be held at 12 noon, Saturday, February 27, 2016 at New Hope Presbyterian Church, 60 New Hope Road, Stewart, TN.
She was a much loved wife, mother, Grammy, sister, aunt and friend to all. She spent her entire life loving, supporting, nurturing and taking care of everyone around her. Her children think of her as the hardest working, strongest willed woman they know as so many others do. She was a mentor to so many. To know Sheila was to LOVE Sheila.
Mrs. Behr was preceded in death by her parents Ernest and Clister Allison Smith; brother, Rodney Smith (Beth) and great-grandchild, Jackson Cole Spears.
She is survived by her husband, Steven A. Behr; sons, Keith Basey (Abby) and Ryan Behr (Brandy); daughter, Tiffany Bagwell; brother, Charles "Mark" Smith; sisters, Beverly Smith (Larry), Debbie Dennison (Jerry), Robin Smith, Janice Smith and Beth Smith; grandchildren, Brittany McClain, Taylor Basey, Macy Frady (Matthew), Hunter Bagwell, Zachary Behr, Bryanna Smith, Trey Behr, Lauren Allison, Braxton Winters, Kenlee McClain and soon to arrive, Matsen Frady.
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Thursday, May 27, 2004
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Wednesday, May 26, 2004
I get the feeling that if a man threw a condom filled with flour at Bush, the fine would be a bit more than $1,000.
As it should be. That flour could have gone in his eyes! Or it could have been Ricin! Or Sarin! Or.. Why do I know the names of these things?
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Tuesday, May 25, 2004
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My God! In an overworked stupor I completely forgot to watch the GWB speech last night and chose to rent the last of the Matrix movies instead. The acting in both was probably about the same...
Oh well, the transcript might help, but it's never the same if I can't see that fantastic smile on his face. He's so folksy!
I'll have to find the video later.
I've decided that the video would make me too nauseous. Here's the audio, though.
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Wednesday, May 19, 2004
New blog Post - 04/24/2004 updated 05/21/2004
My PDA and other stuff.
I started thinking that I could work on writing something magnficent. Something that wouldn't take up too much time; allow me to be lazy, but be a story nonetheless. I've never been asked to write a story with no topic. Actually, that's not true. I haven't been asked to do something like it since highschool. I feel like if I actually have a topic, I can really come up with some quality writing, but that if there's nothing there to begin with, I can make it more trouble than it should be. There's definitely plenty for me to talk about, but it always sounds like needless complainig if no one ever asked you to speak in the first place. Maybe that's the trouble with writing like this: there's no audience. There's a lesson in there somewhere about not taking the advice of idiots spouting about "knowing your audience" for granted. I think I got a really weird sunburn today at the track meet. Some splotches under my right eye and a spot on my neck too. Sometimes I think I should be sued for overuse of commas and not having known what the word "trite" meant, despite having used it in sentences for years. Everyone does it, but catching yourself feels pulcritudinous. (Exactly.) So, either way, there's some neat stuff for me to expore here with this portable palm thing and the keyboard. Romantically, I think that it will lead to me writing in public. I picture myself on a bench in the center of Dupont Circle watching couples and bike messengers share seats with hobos. I know that this will never happen, but it's nice to imagine it. I wonder what business people imagine when they get their first PDAs. Do they ponder all of the useless jargon that they have and try to make up new ones by stringing different phrases from different memos together? What else can they leverage independantly of ongoing market variance? Do they know what half of those ten words really mean?
I learned what proactive meant today and was sorely dissappointed. I thought that it just meant being in favor of doing things. I turns out that it means the same thing as "predicting problems or scenarios and acting to prevent or prepare for them." I liked it better before and now recognize how poorly used it is that I could never figure out what it really meant from the context that it was in.
Back to the PDA. I really am fooling the hell out of myself that I'll ever use this in public and the reasons for it rattle off in my brain like pictures out of Abu Grahib:
(1) It's loud and annoying when I type. I hit the keys too hard, especiallythe space bar. I slam it, and only with my right thumb. I think I might even annoy myself with my typing. That's a lie. I revel in it because it makes me sound faster when I'm slamming on the spacebar somwhere along the line I was taught that typing fast is cool.
(2) I don't want people to think I'm some yuppie ass rich kid with a PDA that his mom gave him. Self-loathing must be the most pathetic and epidemic quality of middle class offspring. Kids who moved up from the working class to become our parents were allowed to say that they had made something of themselves. Whereas their offspring will forever doubt if they made themselves what they are or had success based on their parents' ability to support them. Would I be sitting here typng on a collapsable keyboard into a PDA if it weren't for them? What a stupid, trite question. Shoulder, Chip, blah, blah, blah.
(3) I know I'm just going to use this stupid thing to write hai-kus while I'm in the bathroom at work.
So yeah, that's the new PDA. It's a hand-me-down, it's not color, but I'm done fulfilling my subconscious need to defend anything good that happens to me as someting earned or pure luck. It's a great little device that my shoulder-chip will shame me into detesting. Perhaps I'll throw caution to the wind and there'll be more to come.
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New blog - 05/21/2004
What an effort it could take to actually think of something intelligent to write. Something that's not trite or boring... why bother?
So I got a PDA. I still have trouble remembering what it stands for... personal digital assistant? portable? eh, doesn't matter. My mom got a new one from her work and I scored her old one with no whining or anything. Good stuff. It's a Handsprig "Visor, ," which, from what I've read online, is a good pda to start out with. I've actually surprised myself by using it every day. I thought I'd be using it to blog stuff that I think of on the spur of the moment when I'm not close to a computer... but that hasn't really worked out. I've been so swamped with stuff to do that I use it for, you guessed it, the To Do list function. This function is amazing... when you check things off, they disappear. It's so satisfying to watch a little line scratch through them that I've started writing in little things that I forgot just so that I can tap the check box to watch them go away. My nerdiness knows no bounds.
Just like a nerd, after I got the thing I started searching around for different little applicatios to download onto it. I've gotta say that there really aren't enough free games out there. Either that, or I haven't spent enough time looking.
Another excellent thing on the PDA is that you can convert large textfiles into a .doc format and then read them all over the place. It's a bit ridiculous to think that I'll actually find time to read some book that's so old that no one owns the copyrght material while I'm waiting for a bus, but it's nice to think it could happen.
Another good feature is this whole Avantgo.com business, which lets you download news, weather, and other info every time you connect the PDA to the internet. I've been happily reading my news on a smaller screen for several weeks and I can't say it's all bad. We'll see if THIS THING ever gets posted.
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Monday, May 17, 2004
This is only here to remind me to read this blog.
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Saturday, May 15, 2004
This latest polling is almost encouraging for November's election debauchery.
Big day around the homestead. Went to ikea and bought a couch. We were going to go to home depo but didn't have time.
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Wednesday, May 12, 2004
It's been a while! New trick: when looking at a web page hold down the Ctrl key on your keyboard and scroll back and forth with the mouse. If nothing happens, then you won't see the trick.
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Thursday, May 06, 2004
I wonder if there's some way have something dead made into jewelry... Hmmm...
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Monday, May 03, 2004
Take some time to read this article in the New Yorker relating to the naked prisoner pyramids that you get when you hire an army of mercenaries to go to war for no particular reason.
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This is just so painful, but I made these for Bella's teachers based on a pin from Pintrest.
The tags are from Anders Ruff and can be found here I added some text if you would like to use it. I'm sure her teachers will like it based on the gingerbread tree craziness though! Pretty simple process. Buy a whisk, mine was $2 from Target, stuff it full of Hershey's kisses, slip into cellophane bag, attach a tag and ribbon and you are done! So "punny" it's painful! It will be redeemed by the beautiful scarves they are getting too.


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You've read several interviews about our graphic novel on the Carter Family... now you can hear we two chat with Fretboard Journal's delightful Michael John Simmons about Don't Forget This Song.
Just click on the graphic below and you'll go to the webpage pictured! If you're a guitar or stringed instrument enthusiast, FJ's website (and their print magazine) are a must!
Monday, December 3, 2012
Hear David and Frank Talk About "Don't Forget This Song" with Fretboard Journal's Michael John Simmons!
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Children play a critical role in the resettlement process of immigrant families, particularly in the role of language broker, which has them translating between the heritage language and English for their immigrant parents, whose English is limited. Although close to 90% of children function in a language brokering role in immigrant families, the ways in which language brokering experiences affect developmental outcomes has received limited attention from immigration scholars. The proposed project will conduct qualitative interviews with forty Mexican American mother-daughter pairs. These families will be selected from a larger study of language brokers and divided into three theoretically meaning groups based on the children's high or low scores on school GPA and depressive symptoms: those showing positive adjustment, those showing negative adjustment, and those showing mixed adjustment. The proposed project uses case analyses to treat each mother-daughter pair as a single unit of analysis, and uses cross-case analysis to organize and merge common themes across cases. Using this methodology, the project will pursue three aims. First, we will examine how feelings about language brokering influence the quality of the mother-daughter relationship and adolescent adjustment. We expect that positive, negative, or mixed feelings about language brokering will parallel the positive, negative, or mixed quality of the parent-child relationship and adolescent adjustment. Second, we will explore how feelings about language brokering in public influence the themes derived in Aim 1. As language brokering in adult-centric public spaces is considered more stressful than translating for a parent at home, we will address separately the issue of how feelings about language brokering in public relate to the quality of the parent-child relationship and adolescent adjustment. Third, we will explore how convergence/divergence in feelings about language brokering in mother-daughter dyads influences the themes derived in Aim 1. We expect that convergence of positive feelings about language brokering will coincide with a positive parent-child relationship and a high level of adolescent adjustment. We also expect that convergence of negative feelings about language brokering will coincide with a negative quality to the parent-child relationship and poor adolescent adjustment. We will explore whether divergence between mothers and daughters in their feelings about language brokering relates to the quality of the parent-child relationship and adolescent adjustment. This project can inform future large-scale research efforts by illuminating how language brokering impacts parent-child relationships, and, more importantly, children's adjustment in terms of both academic and socio-emotional outcomes. This project has the potential to inform population science about the differential processes, practices, and experiences of language brokering and the potential impact on the adjustment of Mexican children, the largest and fastest growing minority group in the U.S.
The proposed study is relevant to public health because it focuses on the developmental outcomes of children of Mexican immigrants, a high risk population with high rates of poverty and low levels of educational attainment. It also focuses on the developmental period of early adolescence, a period of transition in which children are susceptible to increases in socio-emotional problems that can compromise school performance. The results of this project should inform researchers and interventionists regarding ways in which to support adolescents who function as translators for their parents, by identifying ways to mitigate the most damaging effects and enhance the payoffs.
|Kim, Su Yeong; Hou, Yang; Gonzalez, Yolanda (2017) Language Brokering and Depressive Symptoms in Mexican-American Adolescents: Parent-Child Alienation and Resilience as Moderators. Child Dev 88:867-881
|Kim, Su Yeong; Hou, Yang; Shen, Yishan et al. (2017) Longitudinal measurement equivalence of subjective language brokering experiences scale in Mexican American adolescents. Cultur Divers Ethnic Minor Psychol 23:230-243
|Kim, Su Yeong; Wang, Yijie; Chen, Qi et al. (2015) Parent-child acculturation profiles as predictors of Chinese American adolescents' academic trajectories. J Youth Adolesc 44:1263-74


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Had so much fun at Kim's Valentines tea on Thursday. I went with Katie and Sherri and ran into my friend Christine!
Here I am with the supreme high Queen of Hearts -hostess! We call her Kim for short.
Her holiday Decor is always stunning. This is the cute pink cupboard she bought at my last Fleaology sale!!
So many sweet things, I love this glittered tag board basket!
And how sweet are these chairs .,.
I want to sit here and giggle and gossip with Kim for hours!! She so makes me feel a fraction of my actual age.
And going to her house...
Is like a trip to wonderland! Or is it Oz?
Should I have worn ruby slippers?
Thanks so much for the invite Kim! I had soooo much fun!


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1976 Chevrolet
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Affordable fun and Corvette don't always go together, but this 1976 Corvette is a reasonably-priced icon. Everyone knows it when they see it, and in beautiful dark green, nobody's going to miss you coming or going. With a rare 4-speed manual gearbox, this one delivers solid V8 performance and a '70s cool factor that just can't be found anywhere else.
It's OK, you can admit it, I know you turn to look every time one of these rolls past. Sure, they have an unmistakable '70s groove going on, and with all the images that it conjures up of disco music, bell bottoms, and big hair, there's also the fact that in 1976, if you owned a Corvette, you were The Man. Code 33 Dark Green wasn't as popular as silver and white in 1976, which should tell you something about what was going on back then, but today seeing one of these is like greeting an old friend. Good fiberglass suggests a clean, original car, and the paint, while professionally applied a few years ago, has a fantastic shine that is just fine for a car you're going to love driving. No cracks in the usual places, bumper caps that match the bodywork (the rear is a fiberglass replacement), and, well, it's hard to go wrong with a swoopy Corvette, I don't care which color's you favorite. Lift-off T-tops give it a great open-air experience, and the headlights work properly with fresh vacuum lines feeding the motors, curing one of the biggest complaints C3 owners have about their rides.
Code 192 black leather is this car's original choice, and the interior looks awesome against the green paint, a combination that probably wasn't popular in the '70s but looks surprisingly contemporary today. Replacement seat covers are correct in their pattern, plus matching door panels, and a console that just looks too nice to be original all give it a very fresh look inside. Subtle woodgraining suggests that the Corvette was softening along with its buyers, but the classic gauges, 4-spoke steering wheel, and snug-fitting seats tell another story. A/C was not standard, but enough people added it to the options list that it may as well have been, and this car's system has been upgraded to R134a refrigerant and a recharge should bring it back to life. A modern AM/FM/cassette stereo was neatly integrated into the dash and feeds speakers behind the seats that sound great, even over the rumble of the exhaust.
Big news in 1976 was that horsepower was going back up, with the base 350 cubic inch V8 finding another 15 horsepower for a total of 180. However, this one is a big upgrade, with a 4-bolt main block filled with a bigger cam, Mallory ignition system, and a big 4-barrel carburetor. It was installed about 10,000 miles ago and it certainly runs well enough to be a worthy long-distance cruiser. The engine bay is clean, with recent additions that include a chrome alternator and master cylinder, as well as the finned valve covers and open-element air cleaner. The 4-speed snaps through the gears with authority and spins the stock rear end, so it's still a great highway cruiser. A newer Flowmaster exhaust system sounds right, and the clean undercarriage should relieve you of any worries you had about rot or damage. Original Corvette aluminum wheels have been polished to a high shine and wrapped in 255/60/15 Goodyear radials.
For big fun on a small budget, you can't get more car for less money than a C3 Corvette. Call today and own an icon!
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Tuesday, March 27, 2012
A Preview of the End: California
Sounds positively like we are entering the anteapocalyptic period, eh? If I'm lucky the geologic catastrophes thought to associated with our inevitable destruction will move California under water and severely shorten my walk. The new Lake Tahoe, now with beach lots. I know this sounds callus, but look at it from my point of view. This country is really large. I thought every state would be the size of Delaware. What could a little trim off the sides hurt? So we would have to miss out on "Transformers 6."
On a serious note (momentum I am unlikely to maintain) the state of California at least has the decency to sport the least amount of ADT mileage of the five I will pass through this summer, a mere 376. Within those miles lies one of the most infamous sites in our nation, Donner Pass. Most people I have talked to ask whether I shall visit the dreaded place, home to the famous party which included some menu items not yet sampled by even Andrew Zimmern (to my knowledge). Those I have talked to have frequently placed the Pass within the Rockies, but the Sierra Nevadas, an almost equally daunting range, is the home of Donner Pass.
I don't want to venture into such a region unprepared. Therefore, I am currently taking applications to join me for this portion of the hike. Applicants should have a little extra junk in the trunk and must smell like bacon when cooked.
Assuming I am able to clear this last obstacle the rest should be easy going. Fortunately, my ability to fail in spectacular fashion even the simplest task will prevent such a mundane finish. Perhaps I'll challenge mayor Kevin Johnson of Sacramento to a game of basketball. Maybe I will swim across the San Francisco Bay to Alcatraz, while reenacting the script from "Escape from Alcatraz" backwards. More likely I will get lost and wander in circles for days, perhaps running into one of those vile marijuana farms I will hurry away from with haste.
As I have subtly alluded to, San Francisco is amongst my destinations. Included is a trip past Fisherman's Wharf shortly followed by one across the Golden Gate Bridge. That should be the finish line right? The ocean is right there. Not so fast. My good friends at the American Discovery Trail decided to place the end forty miles up the coast at Point Reyes National Seashore. I suppose I could just stop at the bay and call it a country crossed, but darn it, I've sort of vaguely occasionally followed this trail at times all the way across our nation. Why quit just before the end?
On that note we will end our preview of part two. Mapping and talking about the walk have been quite a lot of fun, but as a wise man once said, pornography is great but it just ain't the same as sex. In less than one month I will finally get it on.
Thanks to our recent contributors:
Joey Espinosa
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Mark and Melissa Normington
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Thursday, March 15, 2012
Wounded Warrior Donation Forms
It has been brought to my attention that some people are having trouble with the link to my donations page. If you are in this category or would simply prefer to make an offline donation you may request a form from me at firstname.lastname@example.com. I'll mail one your way as soon as possible*. Thanks so much for your help with the charity!
*Once I've restarted the hike in late April it may take me as much as a couple weeks to respond.
*Once I've restarted the hike in late April it may take me as much as a couple weeks to respond.
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Thursday, March 1, 2012
I Prefer Dessert : A Preview of Nevada
Many travelers have entered Nevada in the past only to leave with their dignity stripped and their wallets empty. Gambling, whores, alcohol, and other vices too vile to mention (meet me in the secret blog chamber for further discussion) are the norm in America's modern version of Sodom and Gomorrah. Somehow many visitors leave satisfied and come back time and again. For these degenerates, swilling a beer while spinning the roulette wheel at 8:30 in the morning is an acceptable way of life. There's just no accounting for taste.
I'll be skipping these questionable activities for the most part, as my hike through Nevada does not include the flashy lights and gauche architecture of Las Vegas or the tacky charm of Reno, the biggest little city hosting a show about ineffective law enforcement.
Instead, my highlights will include the bustling berg of Ely, desert, some infinitesimal towns, desert, more desert, and finally Virginia City, Carson City, and Lake Tahoe. I imagine I'll be ducking my head in the cold waters of Tahoe for some time if fate allows me so far down the trail. I do plan on visiting a little place in Virginia City called the Bucket of Blood so don't bet on me.
Without question, as with Utah, attaining water is the greatest difficulty I should face in Nevada. No state has less rainfall, so natural sources are rare to non-existent. People are even rarer in this section, so there won't be a lot of houses where I can beg for liquid refreshment. Did I mention the temperatures can reach the 120s? A dry heat, so I'm sure that won't be any problem. My mother has promised to help through part of this stretch and God bless her for doing so, Nevada during high summer is not exactly a prime vacation destination.
There are fourteen different mountain ranges in Nevada, so I can hope the increased altitude will ease the heat in some spots. Hopefully I can finish the five hundred miles of trail without mimicking the Wicked Witch's last line in "The Wizard of Oz."
Next time we'll theoretically finish this thing in California.
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We have not managed to get our pumpkins carved by Halloween for the past 2 years! This year, the kids' persistence paid off. And Will and I learned it wasn't bad as we remembered it being! We had these 2 pumpkins carved lickety-split!
Getting all the yuck out!
Will hard at work carving Claire's pumpkin.
A rare picture of me hard at work on David's pumpkin.
All done!
Sweet kids with their pumpkins. (Luke's pumpkin was too small to carve so we did this little activity after he went to bed. He didn't seem to mind.)
Here they are all lit up on Halloween night.


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Washington: A new technique can successfully put a date on an Earth rock that is similar to the lunar rocks on the moon's surface, shows research.
The results show that events from solar system history that are recorded on much of the visible face of the Moon can one day be dated directly by instruments aboard a lunar lander.
"We can see cratered terrains on the Moon whose ages, we do not know within a billion years," said F. Scott Anderson from the department of astronomy at University of Washington.
Ages of lunar terrains are the linchpin for understanding the sequence of planetary-scale events from Mercury to Mars.
"So filling this gap in our understanding of the Moon will help us correct or re-write the history of volcanism, planetary evolution, water and life in the solar system," he said.
The new technique called laser ablation resonance ionization mass spectrometry successfully dated an Earth rock named the Duluth Gabbro that is analogous to the rocks that cover one-third of the lunar nearside.
"Dating the Duluth Gabbro was approximately 30 times more analytically challenging than our previous experiment, dating the Martian meteorite Zagami," said co-author Jonathan Levine.
"We are now continuing to analyse planetary samples of increasing complexity," he said in a paper appeared in the journal Wiley.
The researchers have proposed to NASA to send a dating mission to the Moon called "MARE: Moon Age and Regolith Explorer".
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I've been wondering about this ever since I was a little kid and I used to ride in the back of the car and my mom would speed like hell towards a green light, only to slam on the brakes when she realized she wasn't going to make it.
Here is my question, loosely phrased: Given that we want to make it across the intersection before the light is up, what should be our position function? To make things precise, we could specify some initial conditions, put a cap on the car's acceleration/deceleration (or its speed or its jerk or whatever), fix a probability distribution on when the light will change, and assign some point values to our happiness if we make the light vs. don't make the light vs. end up entering the intersection after the light has changed and get a ticket for it. And then of course we could throw in the extra curveball of a yellow light warning you that it's about to turn red...
A similar question arises if you're approaching a red light but you think it might turn green soon. Ideally you'd like to enter the intersection at the highest possible speed just after the light has turned green, but then again you don't want to enter when it's still red.
I'm sure a computer could solve such problems easily, but it seems like there should be some better way to think about this than just asking a machine to do it for me. For the first question, it seems like the answer will just be either "hit the gas and go for it" or "cruise to a stop and don't plan on going through", depending on the parameters. (Of course, there might be something in the "go just fast enough that you can slow down and not enter on a red" plan if the cost of a ticket is high enough.) On the other hand, the second question seems to admit much more interplay between probability and differential equations. The real issue here is that I know almost nothing about either of these two fields. Any ideas?


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The day has come, and I'm off to Colorado at last. I could have illustrated this first tour update with a distant post-take-off shot of Queen Mary Reservoir (long time no visit), but somehow thought that a view of the south-west tip of Greenland from 36,000 feet had the edge. I imagine that this is a lot like how the Rockies will look, only without the water and icebergs. The other shot is the frozen wastes of Hudson Bay, close to an area I visited back in June 1997.
On touchdown in Denver after nine hours in the air, I had to fill in the Department of Homeland Security's visa waiver and give the usual assurances that I haven't been a terrorist or involved in genocide (has anyone ever ticked that 'Yes' box?), been a pimp or abducted children. Having reclaimed my luggage, cleared customs and found the hotel shuttle bus, there was just enough time for a wander in the middle of nowhere before sundown.
The airport hotel is on an unattractive development stuck out on the prairie near the airport. Having already seen prairie dogs scuttling about as we neared the site, I decided to give the more weedy areas in the vicinity a grilling, and saw more than I bargained for. At 18 species the overall list was short, but quality species included Swainson's Hawk, a pair of Great Horned Owls (bottom) in a scrubby gully, four Short-eared Owls at dusk and a nice Grey-headed Junco (below).


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CBS All Access has found the captain for its upcoming "Star Trek: Discovery" television series, the first "Star Trek" TV series in 11 years, the streaming service announced on Tuesday.
"Harry Potter" star Jason Isaacs has been cast to play Captain Lorca of the Starship Discovery.
Fans of the "Harry Potter" film franchise will recognize Isaacs as the conniving Voldemort devotee Lucius Malfoy. Isaacs most recently starred on Netflix's "The OA."


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Former SAM VP Robert Haskell on 1950's TV show "You Asked For it"
Cheating at the card table. (Including a Deland Deck!)
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Exhibit highlights a history of medical coexistence in fractious Jerusalem
'Jerusalem: A Medical Diagnosis' opens at the Tower of David Museum
It's often been said that Jerusalem's hospitals and clinics are a bastion of coexistence and cooperation in this otherwise fractious city.
Now a new exhibit, "Jerusalem: A Medical Diagnosis," at the Tower of David Museum takes a look back at that history of healing.
"When you walk into a clinic, you're just a person," said Eilat Lieber, the museum's director. "These are the places where all the conflicts and tensions are null and void."
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Muslims, Christians and Jews were all patients at the Hansen Hospital, a sprawling villa that once housed the city's lepers (and was recently restored as a media center). Hadassah Hospital, the sprawling medical center that's run into tough financial times, was an early savior for the city's sick, founded by American Henrietta Szold, who first set up a visiting nurse rotation.
Likewise, it was the Franciscan monks, based in the Old City, who had the largest pharmacy in Ottoman Jerusalem; their balsam-based remedy saved many of the city's residents during an 1860s plague of smallpox. And just up the road, the Spafford Children's Center at the American Colony helped the people of Jerusalem regardless of religious affiliation.
A student of Jerusalem history, it was Lieber who first considered the idea of an exhibit about Israel's medical history, while still working at her previous position at the Agnon House. At the time, she was engrossed in studying Agnon's posthumous novel, Shira.
The book tells the story of a middle-aged Hebrew University professor who is bored with his wife — the ironically named Henrietta — and spends his days and nights searching for Shira, a nurse he met at a hospital years ago. There are two different endings to the novel, one of which has the professor spending the rest of his days at the Hansen Hospital, with Shira, who has contracted leprosy, like the rest of Hansen's patients.
The story, by one of the city's premier storytellers, offers the perfect backdrop for a portion of the exhibit, offering details about the city and the development of its medical establishments during the British Mandate period.
In its entirety, the exhibit, which is curated by historian Nirit Shalev-Khalifa, takes a longer, nonchronological look at the history of medicine in Jerusalem, touching on moments of sickness and health, healing and miracles over the course of thousands of years in the Holy City.
Unusually for the museum, which normally stays away from artifacts in its exhibits, this one includes objects gathered from near and far, including remedies and early pharmaceutical herbs and more modern prescriptions like Optalgin (created by Teva, Israel's generic pharmaceutical maker, which was founded in Jerusalem and helped fund the exhibit) to camel-stenciled hospital bed rails from the 1920s and record books from Shaare Zedek Hospital.
It's also larger than most of the recent exhibits, spread throughout the Citadel, from the interior rooms down to an outdoor medicinal herb garden. The exhibit runs through April 2015 and will be accompanied by ongoing events, including guided tours through the Old City based on the communities who brought their medical expertise to the people of Jerusalem.
"Medical establishments are islands of mercy," said Shalev-Khalifa, "and no more so than in Jerusalem. We had someone here from the Health Ministry, and do you know what he said? Jerusalem has the longest life expectancy of all the cities in Israel, probably because of its strong communal life. It keeps people healthy."


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Flags of "TrolleyWorld"
Austrian Empire
Empire of Brazil
German Empire
Republic of France
Gran Columbia
United Kingdom
British Protectorate of Russia
Italian Republic
Imperial Commonwealth of Nations
Flags of some major "TrolleyWorld" Nations
Austrian Empire:
Based on the pre-Duel Monarchy "Merchant Ensign" and (oddly) post 1880 "War Ensign" (and it's just a crown and shield away from being OTL's current Austrian flag).
Empire of Brazil:
Pretty much the same as OTL's except for the Imperial Arms in the center rather than the celestial sphere.
German Empire:
Our world's German Empire flag with the addition of a double-headed eagle shield. I'll be honest and say I have no idea why I picked that shield, but it seems to work.
The classic "Green Flag" that was used by Irish republican/seperation movements from the late 1700's on. More or less the "national flag" before Ireland was officially a nation. On TrolleyWorld, it never got replaced by OTL's tricolor.
The old (on OTL) Ethiopian flag. The Emperor still "rules" in Ethiopia on TrolleyWorld, though his power is only slightly less muted than the Queen's is in Britain, so the Lion still remains on the tricolor.
Republic of France:
Classic French tricolor.
Gran Colombia:
Based on the "Great Colombian Army Hussars Flag" of the 1820's, on TrolleyWorld's Gran Columbia, it became the national flag in 1934.
United Kingdom:
I shouldn't have to say this, but this is the same UK flag as on OTL. My POD pretty much postdates this flag's existence and I can't see anything in my TrolleyWorld history changing it.
British Protectorate of Russia:
Pretty standard British blue ensign flag with the Arms of the old Russian Empire on the right. It's used primarilly for administrative purposes.
Italian Republic:
OTL's flag of the "Kingdom of Italy." The torn/missing upper right corner symbolizes
"Venezia Persa"
(lost Venice), which on TrolleyWorld still belongs to Austria and which Italy still claims.
Imperial Commonwealth of Nations:
The British Union Jack with a crown symbolizing the Queen-Empress of the Commonwealth and a linked chain surrounding symbolizing the individual Commonwealth nations joined together for strength.
In creating these, I was wildly helped by the
"Flags of The World"
website, which is an astoundingly deep resource for current and historical flags.
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WebNMS, a division of ZOHO Corp and provider of network and element management solutions, has announced it will offer a preview of its machine-to-machine (M2M) power grid monitoring solutions at Middle East Electricity 2013
The firm is set to participate in the exhibition, taking place from 17-19 February 2013, at the Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre.
Prabhu Ramachandran, director at WebNMS, said, "The Middle East is a very important market for us and the Middle East Electricity 2013 exhibition is an ideal platform for us to showcase our power grid monitoring solutions and M2M technologies to a niche focused audience.
"The exhibition attracts visitors from across the Middle East and Africa region that are scouting for the latest technologies and solutions catering to the energy and power sector and these are target customers for our solutions," he added.
Through M2M technologies, machines can be connected through the internet and can actively communicate with each other, transmitting vital data to a central location. Each device must be equipped with a communication module or a sensor for data collection.
The data generated from this communication allows enterprises to gain information and the two-way communication between machines eliminates the need for human intervention in many routine service operations.
According to a research report from the analyst firm, Berg Insight, the global number of wireless M2M connections is forecast to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 27.2 per cent to reach 359.3mn customers in 2016.
With an effective remote monitoring system, operators could take centralised control of complex electrical grids and improve operational efficiency through proactive diagnosis of power leakage or breakage.
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Today I am doing a book review on the book - Ripples on a Pond by author Joy Dettman. This is the 5th novel in the Woody Creek series and portrays Australian life.
The book is about the characters of Woody Creek and the adventures of the past and present, that have you wandering what will happen next. At the start, the book takes you back in time and relives the lives of the characters so that you know the history and then seamlessly goes forward into the story.
I really enjoyed reading this book, as it is written in a way that is easy to follow the story and the adventures that it goes through, are so real.
Synopsis: Woody Creek is preparing for its centenary celebrations - bur for many of its townspeople it's just another reminder of the old days, before so-called progress roared through the town, altering everything in its wake.
Not for Georgie though. As the clock ticks over to 1970's, she's determined that the new decade will be the one that sees her finally break free.
For Cara, Woody Creek will forever be tied to a devastating mistake that cannot be undone. She's vowed never to set foot in the place again.
Meanwhile, Jenny's estranged son, Jim, has inherited an estate in the United Kingdom and is trying to make a new life for himself. If only he could shake off his one terrible attachment to Australia.
As Woody Creek draws Joy Dettman's much loved cast of characters back into its grip, confessions, discoveries and truths seem certain to explode in the most shocking of showdowns......
I love that the book is based on events in Australia and interwines so well with the events that happened decades ago and are challenging the characters in the story as they encounter love, jealousy and deception. The book keeps the reader encapulated in the story - that you won't want to put it down, until you have read the whole book!
Have you read any of Joy Dettman's books?


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Saturday, June 27, 2009
Marfy 1949 Skirt Progress & Thank You
Now on to current projects. I thought you might be interested in seeing the layout for the Marfy skirt I'm working on.
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This is the main skirt piece, and as you can see it's on the bias. Yes, I did iron the pattern before I laid it out, but I thread traced it and was ready to cut and had folded the pattern back up, then decided to take a photo. You can sort of see where I altered it, just at the CB top, tapering to nothing at the hem. I have a very high hip, and the draping didn't fall nicely until I got a little extra room where I need it instead of the usual 7"-9" below the waist. The only other changes I'm making is doing the waistband about half as wide as the original. I just don't have room for a wide waistband, and truth to tell, this one at half-width looks pretty wide on me.
I'm underlining with silk organza, and it's been a challenge to get it together smoothly when it's all on the bias. Hand sewing and a lot of pins have been the only thing that works. I've got everything cut out except the bias strips I'm going to use to make piping.
You can also get a pretty good look at the fabric I'm using for this. It's Pendleton wool in a very light weight. I think it has a butterscotch color to it, and I think the fabric is going to be great for this draped skirt.
Just to end on a weird note, I've been missing about 8 or 9 everyday teaspoons for a while now. I could not imagine where they went, as no one's been here, I haven't taken any silverware out of the house, and while I suppose I might possibly throw away a spoon accidentally, nine of them at once seemed unlikely. I didn't really dig through things hunting, as I was sure they'd show up fairly soon. After all, how far could they have gone? I finally found them the other day when I looked in the china closet and there they were in the spoon holder for my silver tea service. I had used them when I had club last, and then stuck the holder with the spoons still in it, into the china closet. I usually use the silver spoons with the tea set, and I don't know why I didn't this time, but I made myself a lot of trouble. Anyway, I was really pleased to find them.
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- McVal said...
I just got the magazine yesterday in the mail and found your article! I showed it off to my hubby... "Look - I kind of know the person behind this article!"
Great article, btw. I'm going to have to try that!
- 7:08 AM, June 28, 2009
- Claudine said...
Next time you do underlining, you might consider putting your underlining fabric down on the cutting table, then putting the fashion fabric on top, right side up. Lay your pattern piece on top of that, then thread-trace the seam lines through both thicknesses. Then you can cut around your seam lines, catching both the underlining and the fabric.
This method won't work in every situation, but it tends to make life easier if it does work.
I'm glad you found your spoons.
- 7:28 AM, June 28, 2009
- Lisa said...
Congrats on the article in Threads! I can't wait to get the magazine in the mail.
don't you hate when you lose things like that? I was ready to divorce my DH over my garden hoe. He swore he put it back where it should be. He & I both looked over the garage. Lo & behold it WAS hanging on the tool rack!
- 9:04 AM, June 28, 2009
- Mardel said...
The skirt is going to be gorgeous and I can't wait to see the finished version!
I have used that trick of laying the organza underneath the fashion fabric and basting them together (Claudine's suggestion). It usually works quite nicely, but it is a little tricky getting everything laid out nice and square.
I am glad you found your spoons. I find it very annoying when I do something like that. Now if I could only find my smallest metal mixing bowl. I use it all the time and it has been missing since Owen was here. I am sure it was used as a toy, I just can't figure out where it went.
- 9:46 AM, June 28, 2009
- Mary Beth said...
LOL, I'm currently on a "patient hunt" for a certain pattern that came in last month...it seems to do no good to tear through everything. Someday the paths just seem to cross and pop! the mystery is solved.
Boy, I've tried the bias organza underlining torture and I think I'll just use a very lightweight fusible from now on. You'll git 'er done, though, I'm sure.
- 9:58 AM, June 28, 2009
- gwensews said...
The drape on that skirt is very pretty. It will be beautiful made in the plaid. Good luck. Are you making matching shoes?
- 4:55 PM, June 28, 2009
- LeeAnn said...
Congrats on the magazine article! I got my copy in the mail and was thrilled to read it. I have a question about this post though. What do you mean when you say "thread trace"?
- 7:39 PM, June 28, 2009
LOL, I once thought I had lost my entire set of sterling flatware! Couldn't find it for the longest time and then one day I noticed it sitting on a basement shelf. I think I had put it there when we went on vacation. (This is when I had a basement - oh, I miss having a basement!)
- 9:18 PM, June 28, 2009
- Vicki said...
Oh dear, the pressure is on!! I remember years ago when I first saw your covered shoes I went looking for "blank" shoes but couldn't find any ;(. Better look again..lol. BTW, glad you found the spoons!
- 6:07 AM, June 29, 2009
- Connie b said...
Adding my (as my daughter says) CongratuFreakinglations! It must feel wonderful to be published and especiallly in a magazine that so many of your peers read regularly!
- 10:16 AM, July 01, 2009
- katherine h said...
Hello Liana,
I don't think that I have left a comment on your blog before, but I wanted to say that I recognised you in Threads and that I loved your article. I only wish that I had shoes that were suitable for covering. Fab article. Katherien
- 11:58 PM, July 10, 2009


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Topsy was smart and energetic in all manual operations, learning everything that was taught her with surprising quickness. With a few lessons, she had learned to do the proprieties of Miss Ophelia's chamber in a way with which even that particular lady could find no fault. Mortal hands could not lay spread smoother, adjust pillows more accurately, sweep and dust and arrange more perfectly, than Topsy, when she chose, — but she didn't very often choose. If Miss Ophelia, after three or four days of careful patient supervision, was so sanguine as to suppose that Topsy had at last fallen into her way, could do without over-looking, and so go off and busy herself about something else, Topsy would hold a perfect carnival of confusion, for some one or two hours. Instead of making the bed, she would amuse herself with pulling off the pillowcases, butting her woolly head among the pillows, till it would sometimes be grotesquely ornamented with feathers sticking out in various directions; she would climb the posts, and hang head downward from the tops; flourish the sheets and spreads all over the apartment; dress the bolster up in Miss Ophelia's night-clothes, and enact various performances with that, — singing and whistling, and making grimaces at herself in the looking-glass; in short, as Miss Ophelia phrased it, "raising Cain" generally.
On one occasion, Miss Ophelia found Topsy with her very best scarlet India Canton crape shawl wound round her head for a turban, going on with her rehearsals before the glass in great style, — Miss Ophelia having, with carelessness most unheard-of in her, left the key for once in her drawer.
"Topsy!" she would say, when at the end of all patience, "what does make you act so?"
"Dunno, Missis, — I spects cause I 's so wicked!"
"I don't know anything what I shall do with you, Topsy."
"Law, Missis, you must whip me; my old Missis allers whipped me. I an't used to workin' unless I gets whipped."
"Why, Topsy, I don't want to whip you. You can do well, if you've a mind to; what is the reason you won't?"
"Laws, Missis, I 's used to whippin'; I spects it's good for me."
Miss Ophelia tried the recipe, and Topsy invariably made a terrible commotion, screaming, groaning and imploring, though half an hour afterwards, when roosted on some projection of the balcony, and surrounded by a flock of admiring "young uns," she would express the utmost contempt of the whole affair.
"Law, Miss Feely whip! — wouldn't kill a skeeter, her whippins. Oughter see how old Mas'r made the flesh fly; old Mas'r know'd how!"
Topsy always made great capital of her own sins and enormities, evidently considering them as something peculiarly distinguishing.
"Law, you niggers," she would say to some of her auditors, "does you know you 's all sinners? Well, you is — everybody is. White folks is sinners too, — Miss Feely says so; but I spects niggers is the biggest ones; but lor! ye an't any on ye up to me. I 's so awful wicked there can't nobody do nothin' with me. I used to keep old Missis a swarin' at me half de time. I spects I 's the wickedest critter in the world;" and Topsy would cut a summerset, and come up brisk and shining on to a higher perch, and evidently plume herself on the distinction.
Miss Ophelia busied herself very earnestly on Sundays, teaching Topsy the catechism. Topsy had an uncommon verbal memory, and committed with a fluency that greatly encouraged her instructress.
"What good do you expect it is going to do her?" said St. Clare.
"Why, it always has done children good. It's what children always have to learn, you know," said Miss Ophelia.
"Understand it or not," said St. Clare.
"O, children never understand it at the time; but, after they are grown up, it'll come to them."
"Mine hasn't come to me yet," said St. Clare, "though I'll bear testimony that you put it into me pretty thoroughly when I was a boy."'
"Ah, you were always good at learning, Augustine. I used to have great hopes of you," said Miss Ophelia.
"Well, haven't you now?" said St. Clare.
"I wish you were as good as you were when you were a boy, Augustine."
"So do I, that's a fact, Cousin," said St. Clare. "Well, go ahead and catechize Topsy; may be you'll make out something yet."
Topsy, who had stood like a black statue during this discussion, with hands decently folded, now, at a signal from Miss Ophelia, went on:
"Our first parents, being left to the freedom of their own will, fell from the state wherein they were created."
Topsy's eyes twinkled, and she looked inquiringly.
"What is it, Topsy?" said Miss Ophelia.
"Please, Missis, was dat ar state Kintuck?"
"What state, Topsy?"
"Dat state dey fell out of. I used to hear Mas'r tell how we came down from Kintuck."
St. Clare laughed.
"You'll have to give her a meaning, or she'll make one," said he. "There seems to be a theory of emigration suggested there."
"O! Augustine, be still," said Miss Ophelia; "how can I do anything, if you will be laughing?"
"Well, I won't disturb the exercises again, on my honor;" and St. Clare took his paper into the parlor, and sat down, till Topsy had finished her recitations. They were all very well, only that now and then she would oddly transpose some important words, and persist in the mistake, in spite of every effort to the contrary; and St. Clare, after all his promises of goodness, took a wicked pleasure in these mistakes, calling Topsy to him whenever he had a mind to amuse himself, and getting her to repeat the offending passages, in spite of Miss Ophelia's remonstrances.
"How do you think I can do anything with the child, if you will go on so, Augustine?" she would say.
"Well, it is too bad, — I won't again; but I do like to hear the droll little image stumble over those big words!"
"But you confirm her in the wrong way."
"What's the odds? One word is as good as another to her."
"You wanted me to bring her up right; and you ought to remember she is a reasonable creature, and be careful of your influence over her."
"O, dismal! so I ought; but, as Topsy herself says, 'I 's so wicked!'"
In very much this way Topsy's training proceeded, for a year or two, — Miss Ophelia worrying herself, from day to day, with her, as a kind of chronic plague, to whose inflictions she became, in time, as accustomed, as persons sometimes do to the neuralgia or sick headache.
St. Clare took the same kind of amusement in the child that a man might in the tricks of a parrot or a pointer. Topsy, whenever her sins brought her into disgrace in other quarters, always took refuge behind his chair; and St. Clare, in one way or other, would make peace for her. From him she got many a stray picayune, which she laid out in nuts and candies, and distributed, with careless generosity, to all the children in the family; for Topsy, to do her justice, was good-natured and liberal, and only spiteful in self-defence. She is fairly introduced into our corps be ballet, and will figure, from time to time, in her turn, with other performers.
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Overview of ASB Polyfest 2012
Press Release – ASB Polyfest
The ASB Polyfest is the largest Maori & Pacific Island's cultural festival in the world. In 2011 the festival attracted 95,000 spectators, and 9000 students competing in 192 groups from 65 schools.Overview of ASB Polyfest 2012
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Event: ASB Polyfest
Dates: 14 – 17 March 2012
Place: Manukau Sports Bowl, Te Irirangi Drive, Manukau
Entry: $5. Preschool children are free
Website: www.asbpolyfest.co.nz
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The ASB Polyfest is the largest Maori & Pacific Island's cultural festival in the world. In 2011 the festival attracted 95,000 spectators, and 9000 students competing in 192 groups from 65 schools.
The festival is an iconic event that celebrates the cultural diversity of the Auckland region through song, dance and speech. It is a celebration of colour, music and dance promoting cultural awareness and understanding.
The 2012 ASB Polyfest takes place from the 14th – 17th of March at the Manukau Sports Bowl, Te Irirangi Drive, Manukau City. It will feature traditional music, dance, costume and speech and will bring the pride and passion of Auckland's Maori and Pacific Island communities to life.
Students will compete on five stages – Cook Islands, Maori, Niue, Samoan and Tongan. There is also be a Diversity stage featuring performances from a range of cultural groups including Chinese, Korean and Indian.
One major change for this year's festival is the school hosting model. In the past one host school has worked with all the stage co-ordinators to run the event. This year, five Mana Kura (host schools) will assist and support a Pacific stage, and a Kura Matua (caretakers of the Mauri – sacred stone) will lead and run the Maori stage in conjunction with the Maori Stage Komiti – Ohu Tautoko.
The Kura Matua for 2012 is Kia Aroha College and the theme they have selected for this year's festival is –
"My culture defines me"
"Ko au te ahurea Ko te ahurea ko au"
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This week we are sharing a Card Sketch. Although I create a large number of cards, you rarely see me share a sketch for one here at S:CY. For some reason, I keep those in a little collection all by its' lonesome! LOL! Anyway, here's one from me. Hope you like it!
| Card Sketch #6 created by
S:CY Team Leader Ali MacDonald
|"Let it Snow" card created by
S:CY Design Team Member Lindy Rabenstine
|"Sending you Happy Thoughts" card created by
S:CY Senior Designer Ann Seleshanko
|"Thank You" card created by
S:CY Team Leader Ali MacDonald
[Note: Sketch was flipped one quarter turn counter-clockwise for this card and the position and shape of the greeting was changed.]
|"Thinking of you" card created by
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[Note: Sketch was flipped 1/4 turn counter-clockwise for this card, and positioning of pp strip for the greeting was reversed.]
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Why pirating music is old-school
Yesterday, my wife asked me if I could get some songs of this new upcoming band
boyce avenue
. I first checked their website to see what they had to offer and wanted to listen to some samples of their songs. The first link there lead me to the iTunes store and all the albums where available there of course. I listened to a few of the samples and I have to admit that I love accustic guitars so I wanted to download some of the songs. I was just about to open another tab in firefox to see if I could get the mp3s for free somewhere when I saw the prices for the samplers in the iTunes store.
In the past (the good ol' times) I used Napster and stuff like that (like everyone else) to download music from the internet, but not because I did not want to pay for it, but because everything was readily available there, you got everything almost instantly and you didn't have to order a CD somewhere or drive to the local shop to get a copy of that - in this case, I'm not even sure if I could get CDs from them somewhere down here. I'm this kind of a person who wants to have things _IMMEDIATELY_ and don't want to wait a single day to get them, so downloading music off the internet is exactly my style.
Anyhow, after having purchased all their CDs on the iTunes store, I realized that the iTunes store is much cheaper than pirating the music off the internet. Imagine you're trying to get a full album of some band for free on the internet, what do you have to do? First, you need to know the name of the album, there's no real search function on most of these sites or P2P portals, you cannot really listen to the music _BEFORE_ you actually download it, most of the time, you don't get the covers, etc. So even if you are able to find the album immediately, download speed often varies and downloading a full album with about 20 tracks can take up to a few days if the album isn't popular enough. Then, when you finally have it, you need to verify that the tracks are all normalized or at least all have the same main volume, otherwise having them all in one playlist can easily hurt your ears. Out of my experiences, most of these downloaded songs don't have proper ID3 tags and I _LOVE_ ID3 tags, because they are so great to organize your music and all my CD and MP3 players support ID3 tags, so no more "Track 01", "Track 02" and shit like this. Converting ID3 tags to CD text is also especially important when you want to listen to this music in your car and don't have a MP3 player in it (yah, my BMW is a bit old school, I'm happy that I have a working CD changer now).
Anyhow, usually you end up spending quite some time fiddling around with getting an album downloaded for free and have it available in the quality I'm used to out of the iTunes store (including ID3 tags, normalizing them, having proper file names and directory structures, CD covers, etc.), so I think I'm not exaggerating when I say that you probably need to spend about 2 hours for downloading one or two albums off the internet.
Comparing my usual hourly rates against the price of all 5 albums on the iTunes store, I actually won money by purchasing them there, because buying all the 5 albums, downloading them and spreading them over wireless LAN to all my home computers and my two iPhones consumed about 10 minutes of my precious time, no hassles included, perfect quality, wife is happy (<= priceless!).
To all the students and nonworkers out there: Please disregard this blog entry, you probably won't understand the moral of it. When time is the most important thing in your life, you will start thinking differently and probably understand a bit of what I wrote here.
To everyone interested, here's the iTunes store link for boyce avenue:
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on 2009-12-29 13:59:26 wrote:
hi alex,
Sure it's easier to buy music in online store like iTunes store, but think of the prices of some albums, most albums costs at least up to 20 Euro thats a high price for someone who hasn't got any or less money.
So i understand why most of the people pirate music =)
Maybe also some or let's say most of the people pirate music because the don't know how much work it is to produce an album... and sure they want to save money :)
But i could fully agree with you I also like the ID3 Tags and my well sorted music collection. I also buy my music in online store or in the good old cd shop around the corner... (after listening to a free internet trail version *g*) :)
on 2010-12-01 12:39:59 wrote:
I illegally download songs at a faster or at least equal speed than/to the Itunes store transfers. I have access to a greater selection, with BETTER search features, and standardized rip requirements. Tracks are properly named as they are on the CD, CD covers too. Not only that but I can get FLAC copies as well. So far it has never taken me longer than 5mintues from determining I want an album, to finding it in my desired format, to having it downloaded and playing through my speakers. AND THE BEST PART IS I DONT NEED TO USE ITUNES!
PS just checked out Boyce Avenue and they are so so so terrible
on 2010-12-01 13:18:15 wrote:
Boyce Avenue isn't available on iTunes in the US store...
on 2010-12-01 13:20:28 wrote:
oops, actually BA IS available, just not via the link in the post. My bad, never mind.
on 2010-12-01 14:34:01 wrote:
You actually lost money not spending a few hours doing research on what the fastest and easiest way to illegally download music is.
From time to time I see myself buying stuff because it's too tedious to go through the effort of downloading, unrarring, cracking and all that. ( Some games are difficult to crack ) But honestly most of the times warez still win over buying this legally because it's just faster and easier to do so.
So while I see your point, I don't think you're right.
on 2010-12-01 14:46:13 wrote:
"opportunity cost"
on 2010-12-01 15:16:16 wrote:
looks like someone doesnt know how to use usenet.
on 2010-12-01 15:23:55 wrote:
I´m using Ubuntu, so I don´t have itunes. And I couldn´t agree more with the comment #2.
on 2010-12-01 16:50:31 wrote:
I think this is only a problem with you are downloading obscure music.
Also, maybe your time is worth money, but mine is not (I am a salaried worker and do not make any money on side projects). So if I spend an extra 20 minutes to download music, that is not time I would have spent actually making money. So if I spend money to do something I could have done for free but with more time/effort, I am just spending money and saving time (NOT money).
I will agree there is often a difference in the quality of the music though.
on 2010-12-01 17:47:01 wrote:
uh... yeah.
kickbacks much?
on 2010-12-01 21:36:24 wrote:
why search the web, when you can just search youtube and use a youtube 2 mp3 converter site.
youtube is the new pitstop for audio pirating.
on 2010-12-01 22:52:39 wrote:
"When time is the most important thing in your life, you will start thinking differently and probably understand a bit of what I wrote here."
The arrogance. So I take it you're earning your hourly rate every waking hour? If so, I hope you enjoy your adult responsibility. Otherwise, this supposed analysis of opportunity cost is terribly misguided.
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I went to the Mexican food section of Wal-Mart and bought a bigger bag of the brownest looking beans. I wish they were a smudge darker yet, but life goes on I suppose! Add a few white pom-poms for marshmallows, half of our Melissa + Doug tea set, a few toy cookies, and you've got yourself a sensory, kit people.
I've seen other mamas use brown rice instead, and have also seen additions of chocolate tea bags and/or chocolate extract to make it actually smell like chocolate too. While this would be delightful, it's best for us when things do not smell edible. My little ones are still a little tempted to put things in their mouths.
If you've never done a sensory kit before, this is a great one to start with. You can't mess this one up, folks!
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hello peeps? maybe its late to update about the niece weddings ceremony on the school holidays last month.. quite tired.. i had three nieces wedding to attend..fuuuhhhhh! fun huh? there's a lot of things change.. peeps goes peeps comes.. there is happiness there is sadness.. its my new experiences i guess.. twice its happen to my family.. i know there is a way behind all the things that Allah give to us.
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Here are some more great espadrilles I have seen for this summer.
Zebra print espadrilles, Jimmy Choo.
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Pink rimmed espadrilles, Aldo.
Beige leather espadrilles, Mango.
Aztec print espadrilles, Tory Burch.
Red Patent espadrilles, YSL at Net-A-Porter.
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In June of 2015, the West Virginia legislature amended 17C-5-2 of the WV Code (a.k.a. the DUI statute) to separate the charge of WV DUI With Injury into DUI with minor bodily injury (substantial physical pain, illness or any impairment of physical condition), and DUI with serious bodily injury (substantial risk of death, serious or prolonged disfigurement, prolonged impairment of health or prolonged loss or impairment of the function of any bodily organ).
The WV DUI statute defines bodily injury and serious bodily injury as:
"Bodily Injury" means injury that causes substantial physical pain, illness or any impairment of physical condition.
"Serious Bodily Injury" means bodily injury that creates a substantial risk of death, that causes serious or prolonged disfigurement, prolonged impairment of health or prolonged loss or impairment of the function of any bodily organ.
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"Our essential mistrust of the dreamer leads us to cripple him or her with restrictions of all sorts. We seem not to understand that the basic wealth of our country - wealth and emotional health - comes from our creative spirit. Even [...] with statistics that prove that our movies, music, television shows, and inventions are our biggest exports in real dollar terms, we still honor the money-counters and money-changers above the inventors and dreamers, who give them something to count and change."
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May Flowers Are Here!
For those of us in British Columbia, we have been extremely fortunate to have enjoyed some early summerlike weather. We hope that everyone has been able to get outside to enjoy the sunshine as the days continue to get longer. The investment landscape has not shown its sunny disposition so far in 2016, but we are optimistic that our focus on proper diversification and quality companies will start to produce results in the coming months.
It was Sir Isaac Newton who said, "We can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people". Indeed it has been the human element that has driven stock markets so far this year in our opinion. The stock market is the product of thousands of people making independent decisions every day. These decisions are based on their beliefs, in this case on the value of a business. There's incentive for being right and punishment for being wrong. On any given day as an investor, it can feel like you can do no wrong while at other times it feels like you can do no right.
This is why we focus on the long term appreciation of quality businesses. Businesses with a sustainable competitive advantage, strong cash flows and proven management teams. While we may miss out over the short term by not participating in the flavor of the day or the next app to be sold for a fortune, we benefit from the long term growth of these quality companies.
Looking ahead we are very encouraged by Chinese economic activity which has strengthened due to stimulus and credit. We are also very much aware of the political situation in the US and are working hard to figure out the implications of the possible outcomes. Never a dull moment.
On the lighter side…
This is definitely something you need to know as we head in to the summer. Here is proof that eating ice cream is a smart thing to do. Contrary to popular belief, those who do not pass by the ice cream parlor score higher in educational performance. Perhaps if we all concentrate on consuming a bit more of this cool summer treat we can move Canada up in the rankings?
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Enjoy your ice cream!