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It is not often that a fifteen year old article addressing future technological impacts is as prescient as David Noble's 1998 article "Digital diploma mills: The automation of higher education." It presents a clear example of why we need to approach and implement digital "solutions" with our eyes wide open to costs as well as benefits.
Whatever one thinks of Noble's cynical views towards the encroachment of online education into traditional higher education institutions and its effect on pedagogical practices, it is clear, Sandra Ceraulo was correct to state way back in 2002 that "online learning is here to stay." Both Noble and Ceraulo are commenting on the remarkably speedy uptake of online education by higher education institutions. It would seem that the natural next step is to see online education become inextricably entwined in secondary education delivery. The process is already under way, but what can be learned from the tertiary experience to guide how this proceeds?
I finished my graduate teaching diploma in the same year Noble published his cautionary and cynical response to the initial inroads of online education in the tertiary realm. At that time, there online education was barley creating a ripple in the relative sleepy city of Perth, Western Australia. In the years since, I have been a teacher who enthusiastically embraced new technologies when I could see potential for improved educational experiences and outcomes for students. I am an advocate for flipped learning, which would see students viewing instructional videos for their homework tasks, thereby freeing class time for active practice and application of skills. Third-party platforms like TED-ed have been developed to take advantage of the enormous resource base that is Youtube and TED.com, assisting teachers to package up videos to suit flipped learning contexts and curriculum objectives. While I still see enormous opportunities that come from harnessing video content, Noble's article does make me pause to consider the nature of the progress being made.
Noble talks about the commoditisation of higher education, with universities being both producers and consumers of education resources. Technology, in the form of ubiquitous connectivity, enabled a new business model for tertiary institutions, whereby course materials were digitised and made available over the world wide web. Thus, the stark financial windfalls gained from reaching more students less expensively, while still charging full fees, motivated universities to plunge headlong into online education delivery.
[A]t the very outset of this new age of higher education, the lines have already been drawn in the struggle which will ultimately determine its shape. On the one side university administrators and their myriad commercial partners, on the other those who constitute the core relation of education: students and teachers. (Noble, 1998)
For institutions often seen as bastions of tradition and conservatism, the speed of uptake is nothing short of stunning. So, Noble identified top-down forces that promoted online education delivery, while noting strong resistance came from academics (the producers) and students (the consumers).
I see the rise of online learning in a secondary context developing in a different direction; that is, from the bottom-up. The relatively easy, cheap and engaging forms of online learning tools and platforms are being willingly adopted by tech-savvy teachers. The student body in the current secondary context also differs significantly from the student population Noble wrote about. Tertiary students in 1998 will have been just dipping their toes in the internet and maintained a certain set of expectations about what quality lesson delivery entailed and may have felt short-changed if not going to a live
performance lecture. Of course, the current crop of secondary students, often recognised as digital natives because they have grown up with the World Wide Web, have far less resistance to online teaching and learning methods. In fact, in my experience they prefer them.
Meanwhile, the top end of primary and secondary education bureaucracies appear much more reluctant to "open the floodgates" to online tools. Much of this reluctance has to do with fear. Fear of students being exposed to "predators" on school time. Fear of losing control of curriculum priorities. Fear of what unvetted material might find its way into the classroom. Fear of losing power and control. To illustrate these concerns, I can refer to the Western Australian Department of Education's efforts to build, at significant cost, an online platform called Connect. By the time the development and trials were over, it was already made obsolete by freely available and superior third party options like Edmodo.com and Schoology.com. Despite the superiority of these platforms, and their minimal costs, the Department is still reluctant to endorse them for classroom use. That hasn't stopped many teachers, like me, working with them with great results.
Furthermore. unlike higher education where cost reductions acted as a propelling force behind online education, cost concerns in public schools tends to slow it down. The reliance of video content for online education means that schools face increasing costs to access bandwidth, as well as the need to pay for rapidly increasing data storage demands, which needs to come from each school's operating budget (even today, the education department that employed me for several years still limits their employee's email account to only 100MB of storage. Plenty, if it was 1998).
That said, I can imagine a future government with tight budgetary pressures seeing the cost savings possible by centralising lessons and disseminating them digitally (especially as bandwidth increases and data storage comes down in price). While this is unlikely in the near future due to probable resistance by parents, teachers, unions and the wider community, it is still imaginable.
If there is to be a parallel adoption of online learning in secondary schools as seen in higher education, it is likely to be witnessed in the private school sector. Here, some of the same dynamics described by Noble can be imagined, (developing new income streams, leveraging the intellectual property produced by teachers, forces of competition, raising a school's profile and prestige) all the while presenting the strategy as "reaching out" and making "quality" education more accessible.
It is interesting to note that Noble saw the shift to online education as bringing to an end "our great democratic higher education" system when, today, with the rise of MOOCs, the democratisation of education is exactly the mantra being used. Of course, MOOCs were not on Noble's radar in 1998, but many of his concerns can be applied to them. Likewise, the principles of MOOCs will find a secondary school equivalent, eventually. Part of being digitally literate includes understanding the forces that shape the way technology intrudes upon pedagogy and to be mindful of the real costs (including non-financial costs) and benefits.
The articles by David Noble and Sandra Ceraulo were brought to my attention via a MOOC I'm enrolled in called E-Learning and Digital Cultures, being offered by the University of Edinburgh. The first week of this MOOC explored dystopian and utopian perspectives of technology's impact on society and culture.


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The Dust Roads of Monferrato
1990 · New York
by LOY, Rosetta
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Tuesday, 6 January 2015
Vintage Birthday
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just popping by to wish you a happy new year, looking forward to seeing lots of crafty inspirational projects again this yearReplyDelete
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Pretty card Linda love the lady xReplyDelete
Happy new year LindaReplyDelete
Oh how I love vintage ,and you have done vintage so well ,enjoy your day
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Wonderful layering, Linda. Beautiful vintage card!!ReplyDelete
This is just gorgeous,love the fab image.xxxReplyDelete
I love vintage, great image. Enjoy your day xReplyDelete
Beautiful design and layout. Hugs xxReplyDelete
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Happy New Year to you.
Really love this vintage style.
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lovely vintage project, Ive liked vintage for years and still really love itReplyDelete
Fabulous vintage card Linda, lovely added goodies and design.xxx{The Journey is the Start – my personal blog}ReplyDelete
Lovely elegant card xx JanReplyDelete
You do vintage so well Linda, this one is so pretty. Carol xReplyDelete
She is soooo gorgeous love this, you know I love my vintage though :) Elizabeth xxxReplyDelete
She is beautiful Linda. Stunning creation.ReplyDelete
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Gorgeous vintage card. Love the velvet ribbon.ReplyDelete
Lovely vintage card. Thanks for joining us at Mema's Crafts.ReplyDelete
wow ! what a beautiful vintage work :)ReplyDelete
hi Linda, beautiful image..colours and layout..ReplyDelete
A lovely vintage creation Linda.ReplyDelete
Vintage is defiantly a style for you, you really do get it down to a tea. Hugs Jennifer xxReplyDelete
How did I get 3 posts behind again? Have you been posting behind my back? :-D Doesn't matter since this one was definitely worth seeing. I love that background with those gorgeous papers!ReplyDelete
Nice job, that velvet ribbon with those buttons is very eye catchingReplyDelete
Beautiful vintage image and design. We at Mema's Crafts appreciate you taking time to visit and share with us. Good luck in the challenge.ReplyDelete
Lovely card. Thanks for sharing with us at ABC Challenges.ReplyDelete
Such a lovely card, just loving the Metallic Corner. Thank-you for joining us this week at Glitter 'N' Sparkle. Good luck and all the best.ReplyDelete
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I love this Linda , I love all things vintage. Thanks for joining in with the crafting cafe challenge this month. Janna DTReplyDelete
Gorgeous card, love the image & the pretty papers!ReplyDelete
Thanks for playing in the Lot's of Layers Challenge at The Crafting Cafe this month!
Good Luck & hope to see you next month too!
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Lovely layering, perfectly vintage :)ReplyDelete
Thanks for joining us at the Crafting Cafe for January's Lots of Layers Challenge, and good luck!
Thank you very much for your comments. I really do appreciate them all and I do read them. I hope you have enjoyed your visit and come back again soon. Linda xxxx


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I have Vitiligo, but Vitiligo does not have me. What does that mean? I do not let the fact that I have Vitiligo interfere with my personal or professional goals, nor do I let it interfere with my ambitions. Vitiligo does not rule my life; I refuse to allow it.
Early on in my life, I used to worry about what people would think when they saw the discoloration of my skin. This was only fueled by the constant questions from strangers, such as, "What is that? Does it hurt? Is it contagious?" I began to grow self-conscious and even tried to cover up my Vitiligo. I became deeply depressed. I felt like an outcast, a stranger in my own body. It seems that the more I tried to hide it, the more questions I received, the more I became self-conscious.
I had what I can only call an epiphany. I have come to embrace my Vitiligo. It is a part of who I am, but it does not define who I am. My lovely wife summed it up best when she said, "It is part of what I love about you; you are my kaleidoscope of color!" The support that I have received from my friends and family has given me the strength to accept that I have Vitiligo, and not to let it limit my hopes or dreams.
Since then, I could not be happier or more pleasantly surprised with my life. I attended graduate school and received an MBA. I am a senior financial analyst working with well-known international corporations. I am an adjunct instructor and was elected to the Alumni Board of Directors at my alma mater. In addition, I have become the "face" of my alma mater and have been featured in a marketing campaign having appeared on various fliers, posters, newspaper ads, e-mails, and even multiple billboards posted around the city of Milwaukee! Imagine, ME, a person with Vitiligo on BILLBOARDS! Sometimes when I drive past one of my billboards, I think back to when I wanted to buy a pair of gloves to hide the Vitiligo my hands. . .
I am also an active member of the National Vitiligo Foundation and am doing everything in my power to be an inspiration and an activist for the Foundation and an educator for the masses. The more we educate others about Vitiligo, the more others will understand our plight.
I have grown to embrace my Vitiligo; it is a part of who I am and what makes me unique!
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Part 2: Mago, Mago Clan, and Old Korea
"Mago Stronghold" is a magical (read gynocentric) word that engenders the power of the Great Goddess. Survived in written and oral texts as well as geographies, it, while disclosing the plot of magna-matricide[1] (killing of the Great Mother) in patriarchal mytho-historiographies, re-enthrones the Great Goddess. The Mago Stronghold talk is an outcome of a deep listening to the Story of Mago, the Mago Clan, and Old Korea. Referring to the Primordial Land of the Great Goddess, Mago Stronghold stands as a time-proven locus wherein the cosmogonic myth of the Great Goddess is spun to the history of HER descendants. It is meant to answer our ultimate questions, who I am and why we are here. It summons the S/HE reality in which all is found.
"Mago" is the East Asian word for the Great Goddess and HER Clan. Mago was brought into existence through the work of cosmic music, Palryeo (Eight Tones).[2] S/HE is the Creatrix and the Primordial Mother. S/HE is the Cause of Life. As the head of Nine Magos (the Mago Triad and their eight daughters), the pantheon of the Primordial Divine, S/HE has laid the foundation of the solar system and has HER descendants cultivate Earth (Mago Stronghold). S/HE, the First Being, bore two daughters parthenogenetically. HER two daughters gave birth to eight daughters in all parthenogenetically. Thus comes the name, the Triad Deity (Samsin), referring to Mago and HER two daughters, Gunghui and Sohui. S/HE (and HER two daughters) is the First Sex, prior to the diversification of sexes.
The Mago Triad and their eight daughters comprise the Nine Magos (Gurang), the Primordial Divine. Nine Magos are distinguished from HER forthcoming descendants (demi-gods and humans) in the sense that they are the Cosmic Goddesses prior to the establishment of the Earth. Mago sends HER eight daughters to other planets in the solar system to oversee the cosmic music. Eight Magos gave birth to twenty-four Goddesses and Gods in all, demi-gods or human ancestors. The male enters the Scene. Mago assigns demi-gods and humans to the task of generating acoustic resonance of the Earth in harmony with the cosmic music.
The Great Goddess is at the center of the Magoist cosmology. S/HE is the marker of the three cosmic periods, Former Heaven, Mago's World, and Latter Heaven. S/HE was born in Former Heaven and established the primordial pantheon of Nine Magos in the cosmic period of Mago's World, which is the realm of the Mago Divine. S/HE reads the movement of cosmic music and initiates HER cosmogonic work accordingly, which opens the cosmic period of Latter Heaven.
Latter Heaven marks the time for the self-evolution of the Earth (Mago Stronghold). Mago pulls one of the two moons into the region of Heavenly Water, which causes land and water to intermingle and establish a balance between them. That is how lands and seas are created. As the movement of the Earth is stabilized, the auto-genesis of animals, plants and all beings takes place. There is much to be attended to on Earth. Mago commends HER eight (grand)daughters to reproduce progeny and delegates them to oversee the terrestrial sonic resonance in accordance with the cosmic music. And the Mago Clan makes Mago Stronghold the paradise of the Great Goddess. Living on earth-milk, they live without end. Physical death does not demarcate the end of living. They are the ancestor of Sinseons (the Paradisiacal Magoists).
In time, the paradisiacal land of the Great Goddess came under threat caused by a group of members who ate grapes first and took living beings for food. People changed not only in their physical condition but also in their composition. Those who took living beings for food became turbid in their body and mind, which abolished the condition of eternal living. Lifespan was cut short by death. Consequently, the clan community issued the law that averted the innate power of self-prohibition. The Original Mind/Body was lost. Mago closed the gate of Mago Stronghold and took away the energy that surrounded the land. That is called the first archetypal catastrophe that caused an irreversible change in the evolution of humanity.[3] People who were incapable of restoring the Original Mind/Body in them grew violent. Tragedies and miseries were introduced on the Earth for the first time.
In an effort to save the endangered Mago Stronghold from destruction, the elders of the four primordial clan communities decided to live in Diaspora and left the primordial home of the Great Goddess for the four corners of the world. Hwanggung (Yellow Gung), the eldest of the Mago Clan, made an oath to the Great Goddess to restore the Origin Story of the Great Goddess in all people in Diaspora. The Magoist mandate, to return to the Origin of the Great Goddess (麻姑複本, Mago bokbon), was at the foundation of the forthcoming Magoist customs, polities, and religions, known as the tradition of Eastern Sinseons or Korean Daoism.
The Magoist Cosmogony is indispensable in understanding the forthcoming human history. From the Magoist Cosmogony was issued the history of Magoist Koreans. And the latter was to revive the former. In this way, the origin story of the Great Goddess, being at the center of the forthcoming history, spirals the cyclic time and unfolds future. The mytho-history of Old Magoist Korea follows the lineage of Hwanggung, the first shaman queen leader. Hwangung's leadership was passed down to Yuin. Then, Hanguk, the oldest polity as twelve-state confederacy was established. Hanguk was succeeded by Danguk, nine-state confederacy founded by Goddess Goma (Bear/Sovereign Queen), which was succeeded by the first Joseon, three-state confederacy. The three founders of Hanguk, Danguk, and Joseon are called the Three Sages (Samseong). The decline of Joseon whose civilization is known as Budo (Emblem City) meant the demise of Old Magoism, the gynocratic rule represented by Magoist shaman queens. Without the central governing state, post-Budo states of ancient Korea were left vulnerable in their effort to defend the Magoist legacy of forming confederacy in the time of (proto-)patriarchal times.
The mytho-history of Magoist Korea stands as the grand epic of ancient Magoists and their descendants.[4] Written out of patriarchal mytho-historiography, it tells the story of pride, resistance, and endurance by the People of the Great Goddess. The following is the chronological chart of the mytho-history of Magoism that I have constructed based upon the Magoist data that I have documented.
|Heroines and/or states
|Major Events
|-Mago Samsin (Triad Deity)
|-The Paradise of Mago
-The First Diaspora northward and farther migration
|Golden or Archaic
|-Hanguk (Hanin) ca. 7199 BCE?-ca. 3898 BCE
-Danguk (Hanung) ca. 3898 BCE-ca. 2333 BCE
|-First Magocratic Confederacy
-Second Magocratic Confederacy
|-First Joseon (Dangun) ca. 2333 BCE-ca. 232 BCE
|-Third Magocratic Confederacy
-The Second Diaspora
|– Silla (57 BCE-935 CE), Goguryeo (37 BCE-668 CE), Baekje (18 BCE-660 CE), Gaya (42 CE-532 CE), and other states
-Goryeo (918-1392)
|-The Third Diaspora
-Old Korean States gradually lost the confederate system; Magocracy no longer in power
|-Second Joseon (1392-1897)
-Korean Empire (1897-1910)
-Republic of Korea (South Korea) and Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea)
|-The Fourth Diaspora
-Magoism underwent political and cultural suppression in Korea; Second Joseon lost the major territory of East Asian subcontinent
|-After 1986
|-Magoism partially revives in Korea
(Read Part 1 here. To be continued)
See Meet Mago Contributor Helen Hye-Sook Hwang, Ph.D.
[1] The neologism, magna-matricide, owes to Patricia 'Iolana from conversation in The Mago Circle, Facebook group, July 25, 2016.
[2] Primordial matters including Mago, Mago Stronghold, and two moons within the solar system are self-emerged through the work of Eight Pitches, according to the Magoist Cosmogony. For more details, see Helen Hye-Sook Hwang, Ibid., 127-136.
[3] The mytho-history of Magoism demonstrates the degenerative nature of human history. The first archetypal catastrophe fallen upon the Mago Clan is distinguished from the second one in the sense that the former is sex-unspecific, applied to all people, women and men. Although the two are not unrelated, the latter is caused by the rise of the patriarchal rule, a male revolt. For more details, see Helen Hye-Sook Hwang, Ibid., 110-112.
[4] For more on each period, see Helen Hye-Sook Hwang, Ibid., 68-83.
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NASCO Holds Successful Contract Security Washington Summit
On June 6-7 in Washington D.C. the National Association of Security Companies (NASCO) held its Seventh Annual Contract Security Summit. Attended by executives from over 25 contract security companies, the Summit provided a unique opportunity for these executives to hear from and interact with members of Congress, congressional staff, federal officials, legal and policy experts, and other subject matter experts on issues and activities affecting the private security industry.
The Thursday of the Summit was devoted to an detailed examination of two major federal programs that utilize private security contractors – the Federal Protective Service's Protective Security Officer Program and the Transportation Security Administration's Screening Partnership Program. Officials from both these programs spoke and took questions, as did senior staff from the House Homeland Security and Transportation and Infrastructure Committees which have legislative and oversight authority over these programs. In addition, also addressing the Thursday session and soliciting information from attendees were officials from the Government Accountability Office who for the last several years have been examining various aspects of the FPS Protective Security Officer Program. Much of the interaction between Summit attendees and the federal, congressional, and GAO representatives was an extension of previous contacts and meetings between industry and government/Congress facilitated through the NASCO Government Security Contractors Caucus. The NASCO Government Security Contractors Caucus is made up of over a dozen government security contractors, most of whom are current FPS and SPP contractors, and membership in the Caucus is open to all interested security companies. The Caucus is currently establishing several working groups with FPS officials (led by FPS Deputy Director for Training Rick Swengros) to address FPS PSO training and certification issues.
The highlight of Thursday session was an address by Rep. Dan Lungren (R-CA), a senior member of the House Homeland Security Committee and Judiciary Committee who chairs the Homeland Subcommittee with oversight over FPS. Congressman Lungren is a strong believer in the private sector's ability to provide effective and efficient security services to the federal government and he has been a leader in Congress against proposals to "federalize " FPS contract security officers while at the same time a leader in efforts to "privatize" airport screening. During his address, Congressman Lungren also announced that he would co-sponsor and work with his fellow Judiciary Committee members in passing the Private Security Officer Screening Improvement Act (H.R. 4112) which would make it easier for employers of private security officers to obtain FBI checks on their officers. The government security contractor community has no better friend in Congress than Dan Lungren. However, as a result of redistricting, Congressman Lungren faces a very serious election challenge this November, and his re-election and keeping him in Congress (overseeing and writing legislation related to FPS and other DHS agencies) should be a priority for all government security contractors.
On the Wednesday of the Summit, a variety of topics both industry specific and of interest to all employers were discussed, including an discussion led by G4S' General Counsel on wage and hour and other legal/class action assaults against security companies. Related to this discussion was a comprehensive presentation by the head of the U.S. Chamber's Workforce Freedom Initiative on current labor and employment issues and activities impacting (or soon to impact) employers. Much of the presentation focused on a host of NLRB rulings, rules and other actions meant to make it easier and faster for unions to organize employees while at the same time restricting employer rights to communicate with employees on unionization. Also addressed by a leading employment lawyer were the implications for employers of the recently released Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Guidance for Employers on the Use of Criminal Background Checks. NASCO is part of a coalition of employer groups that has been working to temper (and now "repeal"/"revise") the new Guidance, and for security companies that do conduct criminal background checks, they would be advised to review the new Guidance. Finally, the head of the U.S. Chamber's political operations gave a great "insider" presentation on the 2012 Federal election landscape.
More industry specific topics at the Wednesday session included a presentation by the Department of Justice on the new training (video) for private security officers on the detection and reporting of suspicious activities. The development of the Suspicious Activity Reporting (SAR) training for private security was a collaborative effort between DHS/DOJ, NASCO, ASIS and other private sector security representatives. Another issue which NASCO has been involved with on behalf of its members through the DHS Emergency Services Sector Coordinating Council (ESSCC) are efforts at the federal level, and more so at state level, to standardize emergency access procedures/credentialing for first responders (including private security). Officials from the NSA Pegasus/FBI Infraguard program gave a briefing and update on the adoption by several states of a joint standard operating procedure for credentialing and providing access to first responders. The formulation of industry/non-governmental standards for private security (both officers and companies) was also addressed Wednesday. While most states do regulate private security, there are still some that do not, and with some states the requirements are still relatively low. ASIS International recently developed and had approved an American National Standard (ANSI) Standard for Private Security Contractors (ASIS/ANSI PSC .1) that is a management system based standard for the operation of a private security company that includes elements related to private security officer vetting, training, conduct etc. While the Standard is geared to private security contractors operating in areas where the rule of law is not entrenched (Afghanistan), ASIS officials presented on how the Standard could be modified as a domestic U.S. standard, and they also discussed the ASIS Guideline for the Selection and Training of private security officers.
The Summit was a major success with attendees unanimous in their appreciation for the content of the program and the quality of the speakers. Also, the ability of company officials to interface directly with congressional staff, the GAO, and FPS officials about issues their companies' may be having with their contracts (or problems that were systemic) was a real benefit for attendees. The Summit also provided great networking opportunities. For $450, which included two cocktail receptions and four meals, it was quite a value! The next NASCO event will be the annual NASCO breakfast at the ASIS Seminar in Philadelphia on September 11th.


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Very nice way of doing it. Can I show it off to my guild members at an upcoming meeting? I'm always looking for things to demo at the meetings...
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Very nice way of doing it. Can I show it off to my guild members at an upcoming meeting? I'm always looking for things to demo at the meetings...
oh my! and any other shapes too??!! going to try it..
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Thanks Diane, have a try, it really isn't that difficult to get good looking circles this way!
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Just found your tutorial Izy! You do an excellent job of showing the steps. I've always basted the edges but never tried using freezer paper. I might have to try this. It looks a bit easier. I don't much care for needle turn tho I can do it but this is much faster too than needle turn.
This looks wonderful and very doable! Thank you!
Thanks, Deb, Rhonda and Quilting D, hoping to see results of you all trying this method out soon!
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Love your tute. It's easy enough to understand even for a beginner. That would be me!
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Thanks Izy! Great tutorial!
I'm a beginner and I love the possibilities of applique but was scared off because it looked so hard to do. Your way looks like something I should be able to handle with some practice.
Love this way of doing it--thank you !
Probably a stupid question, but would it work to just make a slit in the backing to remove the paper then add more batting inside the applique? I'm wondering if it would give the applique a more 3-dimensional effect.
Thanks Izy. It's going to be a while. I have at least two other quilts I need to finish in front of my ideas for applique. There are a couple kid's quilts I want to make where raised applique might be a nice detail.
That's one thing I really like about quilting. If you can imagine it, you can probably do it.
You're very welcome Rodney, I look forward to seeing where your imagination leads you soon!
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Thank you Izy. Your tute inspired me to use this method on a Happy Daisy quilt I'm making for my friend! It is coming along beautifully. I just didn't have the patience to do needle turn this time and since it will be for her couch I knew it would get alot of use and washings so your method is perfect.
I did a couple of things differently that I want to share. I did it this way because I am kind of lazy and didn't want to cut templates over and over again. So far I have done six blocks and the templates are in perfect condition for reuse.
- I ironed two freezer paper sheets together so that the template is a bit stiffer.
- Once the ironing has produced a beautiful curve I remove the freezer paper and use a pin drop of Elmer's School Glue on the petal points so that they stay crisp.
- I used Elmer's School Glue to attach the pieces on my background fabric. That resulted in zero shifting as I did the top stitching.
I am loving the results. Thank you so much for sharing.
Thanks Judy for your comments above, I didn't get a notification so sorry for the delay in replying! I will try your adaptations next time as it sounds fantastic! The only benefit from cutting out the backing is it keeps the quilt softer, but it could also be said that it is making the quilt stronger for all the washing I suppose!
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It happens far too often now. A child — sometimes a baby, often an adolescent — suddenly disappears. It hits the local news. Then goes national. Then Nancy Grace is spouting theories and pointing fingers. Overnight, everyone knows the child's name. They see the same family-selected photo printed in their newspapers and flashed on their TV screens. Time passes — be it days, weeks or months — and the child is found. Sometimes the news is happy. Usually, it isn't. And then the names, the photographs, the incident itself fade from memory.
Some of these missing children, though, stay lodged in our collective memories, for one reason or another. We remember their names, if not their pictures. Adam Walsh, for spurring his father's continuing crusade for justice. Caylee Anthony, for the questions that still surround her death. Elizabeth Smart and Jaycee Dugard, for being two rare happy endings.
A select few end up making history. The kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby — Charles Jr., although he hasn't been called that since 1932 — riveted the nation and set the gold standard for media circuses. The case fascinates still today. I should know. I live a mere eight miles from where Charles Jr. was abducted. Until recently, the courthouse where the trial was held did annual reenactments.
And then there's Etan Patz.
On May 25, 1979, he walked the two blocks from his family's Manhattan apartment to his school bus stop. It was the first time his parents allowed him to walk the route alone. He was six years old. He was never seen again.
The 30th anniversary of Etan's disappearance happened at the same time I was doing research for what would become my second mystery, BAD MOON. My book is also about a missing child, one who, like Etan, vanished not far from home and was never seen again.
Because of this, I devoured information about Etan's disappearance. I read about how the case — both heartbreaking and terrifying — stayed in the public consciousness for years. I saw a picture of Etan's parents on their fire escape, calling his name. I stumbled upon rumors that, several years later after he vanished, Etan, then a teenager, was spotted with Jose Antonio Ramos, the man eventually suspected of snatching him. I read AFTER ETAN, Lisa Cohen's book about the case, in which a former downstairs neighbor of Ramos recalled the man dangling toy soldiers and a Barbie doll outside his window, trying to lure him upstairs the same way a fisherman baits a hook. That particular detail actually gave me nightmares.
There was a reason I studied the Patz case, and it's not because BAD MOON is a fictionalized version of his story. Yes, the missing boy from my book and Etan were both blonde and both disappeared close to home, but that's where the similarities end.
Instead, I was fascinated by Etan's story because of how it changed the country. The nation lost a little of its innocence that long-ago Friday in May. It's not an exaggeration to say that the American mindset can be divided into two parts: Before Etan Patz and After Etan Patz.
Before Etan, people trusted their neighbors. They let their children walk to school unattended. When a child didn't show up for class, parents didn't get a phone call from the principal. The sides of milk cartons bore logos, not pictures. And on the rare occasion when someone took a child, there was — just like in the Lindbergh case — a motive, a cause, a reason.
After Etan, parents kept a closer watch on their kids. If they walked to school, it was in groups, usually supervised by an adult. Every school in the country now has a policy in place to notify parents immediately about absences. Milk cartons contained images of the missing. (Etan is cited as being the first child to appear on one.) And Americans everywhere suddenly realized that monsters were real. Ones who preyed on children for no good reason.
Despite a world of ever-escalating danger, children are safer because of what happened to Etan Patz. Much credit goes to his parents, Stan and Julie, who fought hard so that other parents don't have to experience what they went through.
The other fascinating aspect of the Patz story is that, unlike other missing-child cases, no one really knows what happened to him. Etan's remains were never found. Jose Antonio Ramos is in jail, but for another crime. The Patzes won a civil case against him — a hollow, purely symbolic victory.
As a writer, I was curious about how families continued after such a tragedy, especially as years, even decades, passed. Did they band together or fall apart? What did a mother do with all that love? How did a father cope with knowing he couldn't keep his child safe? And what about the siblings — those innocent bystanders who are either neglected or smothered by their grieving parents? To the general public, a missing boy is a name and a face mentioned on the news. To family members, he becomes a ghost, forever doomed to haunt them.
In BAD MOON, the family gets answers. For those related to Etan Patz, there is not closure. Twice a year, Stan Patz sends a message to Ramos. "What did you do to my little boy?" He has yet to receive an answer. It's possible he never will.
Without that answer, Etan's name will still be remembered. His picture will still be circulated. And he will remain an eternal lost boy, always waiting to be found.


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By: Bonnie Walker and John Griffin.
If you've read the two bestsellers, "Fast Food Nation" by Eric Schlosser and Michael Pollan's "The Omnivore's Dilemma," you'll be familiar with much of the information presented in the new documentary, "Food, Inc."
We read both books. Yet we found the film thought-provoking because of the range of voices heard, from those who have considered the subject extensively and those who are practical, everyday people.
The power of the spoken word mated to the images of sweeping cornfields owned by mega-corporations, not to mention the footage of the stark and troubling condition of animals sent to slaughter, are emotional, to be sure. Emotion, however, means connection — to our senses and other people, animals and our environment.
The introduction to "Food, Inc." immediately points out that we are disconnected from our food sources. It went on to point out how fewer and fewer companies (growing ever larger) are producing the extensive variety we think we see when we walk down the grocery store aisles.
Yet many of those foods are out of reach for the nation's poorer folks. The film shows a lower-income Hispanic family going to a grocery to try to buy healthful foods. They know they should eat better, but the produce is too expensive, especially when compared with the volume of food they can get from a fast-food establishment's dollar menu. Why pay $1.29 for a bunch of broccoli when a burger is only $1?
The mother tells director Robert Kenner she thought her family had been eating healthfully on a diet of burgers and soda, but her husband developed Type 2 diabetes. Now, she says, one of her daughters is showing signs of the disease as well. As the film points out, one out of every two persons born into a minority group after the year 2000 will contract the disease.
According to the film, the dangers have gone beyond the omnipresence of corn-based products, from syrups to preservatives. Huge conglomerates growing massive amounts of corn and soybeans at very low prices are shown as hounding independent farmers out of business. One company is depicted as a sort of modern-day Big Brother, protecting its patented seeds by going after farmers who try to adhere to the ancient practice of saving seeds from one harvest to plant at the next.
None of the mega-agribusinesses mentioned agreed to appear in the film, though some have since used their own media to dispute its contentions. The corporate entities, with names like Monsanto and Perdue, are also depicted as having strong ties with highly placed decision makers ranging from a Supreme Court justice to those in the upper echelons of the Federal Department of Agriculture.
"It seemed to me industry was more protected than my son," says the mother of one boy who died from an E. coli infection.
The action in "Food, Inc." is certainly not as scintillating as the latest "Transformers" movie, but a mid-afternoon matinee at the Bijou attracted several dozen viewers who remained throughout the film.
One of them, who asked to be identified only as Christine, was taken with "how powerful these people (running the country's food industry) are."
The intermingling of agribusiness and lawmakers in Washington came as a surprise to her. It reminded her of the modern-day Golden Rule: "Whoever makes the gold has the rule."
After one showing, a customer at the theater's snack bar was overheard ordering a hamburger, claming it would be the last he would ever eat. That says as much as the movie.


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Colorado Meetings and Events
2014 Lifetime Achievement
After working as an events coordinator for a show productions company and in sales and marketing for a printing company, Scott Friedman found his calling as a professional speaker 28 years ago. Along the way, he has served as president of the National Speakers Association and helped create meaningful organizations such as the Meetings Industry Council of Colorado, International Association of Speakers Bureaus/National Speakers Association Council, Global Speakers Summit and Together We Can Change the World.
"The work he is now doing in Asia is very impressive and is recognized by industry leaders as an incredible bridging of cultures," says Gary Schirmacher, who nominated Friedman. "Scott is an accomplished author and has written books that help readers to bring humor into their professional and personal lives."
As a motivational humorist, Friedman speaks more than 80 times a year, with 30 percent of his time spent in Asia and other global locations. Just back from a trip to Singapore, we caught him in Golden for a brief Q&A.
CO M+E: What motivates you to get up and do your job every day?
SF: Life is one long holiday for those who love their work. I love my work. I wake up every day with gratitude and passion to learn more. I love the opportunity to make a difference and collaborate with good people. Loving what you do makes all the difference in the world.
CO M+E: How did you get into the meetings and events industry?
SF: Cavett Robert, the founder of the National Speakers Association, encouraged me to become a speaker. Being a collaborator and connector, it seemed natural for me to plan events and meetings and bring like-minded people together.
CO M+E: What advice do you have for up-and-comers in the industry?
SF: Collaboration is the new competition. Look for ways to leverage your relationships. Always come from a place of what can I give not what I can get and your life will be filled with abundance.
Colorado Meetings & Events Magazine Spring 2014
The Cavett Award is NSA's most cherished award. It is presented annually to the member whose accomplishments over the years have reflected outstanding credit, respect, honor and admiration in the Association and the speaking profession, and whose actions (in terms of sharing, guiding and inspiring other members) most closely parallel the illustrious career of our Founder Cavett Robert, CSP, CPAE. Recipients of the Cavett Award are:
Scott Friedman, CSP
2013 Cavett Award Recipient
1980 William H. Gove, CSP, CPAE*
1981 Dave Yoho, CPAE
1982 Ty Boyd, CSP, CPAE
1983 Joe Larson, CSP, CPAE*
1984 Ira M. Hayes, CPAE*
1985 Nido R. Qubein, CSP, CPAE
1986 Don Hutson, CSP, CPAE
1987 Doc Blakely, CSP, CPAE
1988 Robert H. Henry, CSP, CPAE*
1989 Jeanne Robertson, CSP, CPAE
1990 D. Michael Frank, CSP, CPAE
1991 Rosita Perez, CPAE*
1992 D. John Hammond
1993 Jim Cathcart, CSP, CPAE
1994 George Morrisey, CSP, CPAE
1995 Thomas J. Winninger, CSP, CPAE
1996 Patricia Fripp, CSP, CPAE
1997 Naomi R. Rhode, CSP, CPAE
1998 Al Walker, CSP, CPAE
1999 Edward E. Scannell, CSP, CMP
2000 Jim Tunney, EdD, CSP, CPAE
2001 Zig Ziglar, CPAE
2002 Bob Murphey, CPAE*
2003 Pat Vivo, CSP, CPAE*
2004 Terry Paulson, CSP, CPAE
2005 Glenna Salsbury, CSP, CPAE
2006 Charles E. "Tremendous" Jones, CPAE*
2007 Mark H. Sanborn, CSP, CPAE
2008 Michael McKinley, CSP, CPAE
2009 Louis Heckler, CSP, CPAE
2010 Jim Rhode, CSP, CPAE
2011 W Mitchell, CSP, CPAE
2012 Stephen Tweed, CSP


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Learn all the techniques that got Matt Simmonds of team Chain Reaction Cycles a 15th place world cup ranking in 2010. What you do now matters, for the 2011 season.
Matt Simmonds Mountain Bike Training Days are for people of all riding levels that are interested in gaining one-on-one or group training and advice. Surely riding a bike is as easy as… well – riding a bike? It is but, if you want to enjoy riding, ride new terrain, a different discipline or generally ride better. Matt can help!
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Butyrate is a short chain fatty acid produced by microbial fermentation in the large intestine. Sodium butyrate is proved to benefit nursery piglet performance, intestinal development, immune function, and potentially, prevent infection by E. Coli, Enterococcus and Salmonella. However, any beneficial or carry over effect by supplementing sows is not clear in the literature. Three experiments were conducted to evaluate the effect of coated sodium butyrate (CSB) supplementation to peripartal and lactating sows and nursery pigs on lactation performance and nursery growth performance.
In Exp. 1, a total of 43 gestating sows (d 81–92 of gestation) were allotted to 0 (n=15), 500 (n=16), or 1000 (n=12) ppm of CSB supplementation based on breed, parity and body weight (BW), and then fed treatment diets until weaning. In Exp. 2 and 3, a total of 144 weanling pigs (72 pigs for Exp. 2 and 3, respectively) from 0 or 1000 ppm CSB sow treatments in Exp. 1 were allotted within the sow treatment to 0, 500, or 1000 ppm of CSB supplementation in nursery diets based on breed and BW in a multifactorial design for a 35-d growth study. All pigs in Exp. 2 were injected with ovalbumin at weaning and d 14 postweaning as an immune challenge.
In Exp. 1, there were no differences in sow BW, litter size, litter weight, lactation feed intake or milk composition among treatments. However, colostral IgG and IgA concentrations tended to increase quadratically as CSB supplementation levels increased. In Exp. 2, pigs from the 1000 ppm CSB sow treatment had greater BW at d 35, average daily gain (ADG), average daily feed intake (ADFI) and feed to gain ratio (F:G, tendency) than those from the 0 ppm CSB sow treatment. For the nursery treatments, ADG and ADFI (tendency) during the 35-d period increased linearly as CSB supplementation levels increased whereas F:G had a negative quadratic response (tendency). In Exp. 3, F:G for d 0-14 post-weaning tended to be lower (tendency) in pigs from the 1000 ppm CSB sow treatment compared with those from the 0 ppm CSB sow treatment whereas BW, ADG, and ADFI during the 35-d period decreased linearly as CSB supplementation levels increased in the diets.
In conclusion, CSB supplementation tended to increase colostral IgG and IgA concentrations in sows and improved growth performance of nursery pigs under an immune challenge when supplemented in the nursery diet.
Jang, Y. D., Lindemann, M. D., Monegue, H. J., and Monegue, J.S. (2017). The effect of coated sodium butyrate supplementation in sow and nursery diets on lactation performance and nursery pig growth performance. Livestock Science, 195, 13-20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.livsci.2016.11.005


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BioCurate is owned jointly by Monash University and the University of Melbourne, but is independently governed by a highly skilled Board. It brings the advanced commercialisation skills and funding needed to address successfully the early stage "valley of death" that faces new discoveries. By doing so it unlocks the combined exceptional biomedical research strengths in Melbourne, enabling significant new discoveries to be translated more rapidly into new medicines; with potentially huge health and economic benefits to Victoria and Australia.
A wide range of drug candidates are currently at preclinical or early clinical stages at both Universities. The targeted diseases range from preeclampsia, a potentially fatal condition in pregnancy, to various forms of epilepsy and other devastating neurological diseases, severe kidney, lung and cardiovascular disorders as well as a range of cancers and infectious diseases. BioCurate will enable some of these and other transformational drug candidates to become a medical and commercial reality, by combining expertise and scale of both partners.
"People talk about multiple valleys of death in our biotech industry and the venture between Monash and Melbourne squarely addresses the first of these which is really to try to identify that handful of potentially valuable product candidates from the sea of basic science discoveries."


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Sigh, yep. Poor BG3 is suffering through her first bout of sickness right now. I'm so sad! The poor girl is all congested, red-eyed, sniffly, and cranky. I just hate it when my kids are sick, and it's even worse when it's your baby, especially when they're so young. Breaks my heart! As much as I was hoping she would avoid the sickness this winter, everyone has just been getting sick this season, especially with the drastic weather changes, and since she's being watched at a sitter's house with other kids, it was inevitable, I suppose. So yes, she's been extra cranky, and rightfully so. I'm hoping she'll get over this quickly.
Anyways, I love that she's paying more attention to things lately. She manages to focus on certain things for several minutes, so we've brought out the rattles and other baby toys for her amusement. She also loves looking at faces, warming your heart with that adorable smile of hers.
We're going to the Peds later this week, so fingers crossed she gained some weight. We also switched her formula again from Similac Advance to Similac Sensitive, because for the past month or so I've noticed she's had borderline diarrhea-like poop. It's not watery, but very wet and green, which has me thinking that she's not digesting the regular formula well. Here's hoping this changes things. I'm wary of trying soy with all the controversy, but if this doesn't work, we'll look towards trying other things.


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* Many on Wall Street see volatility from budget squabbles
* Applied Materials shares rise on merger with Tokyo Electron
* Facebook leads Nasdaq on report it could be allowed in China
* Dow, S&P up 0.1 pct; Nasdaq up 0.3 pct
By Rodrigo Campos
NEW YORK, Sept 24 (Reuters) - U.S. stocks were little changed in choppy trading on Tuesday after data failed to ease investor concerns about the impact on the economy of stalled budget negotiations in Washington.
The S&P 500 faced a possible fourth straight day of decline, but a gain of nearly 5 percent in Facebook shares led the Nasdaq composite index higher.
Tea Party-backed U.S. senators threatening to stall a bill to fund the U.S. government ran into a wall of resistance late Monday from top Senate Republicans, including Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
The move, however, did not eliminate the possibility of a shutdown, and signs still pointed to a frantic last-minute showdown that will determine whether the U.S. government stays open next week. Republicans want to cancel funding for "Obamacare," President Barack Obama's healthcare law.
While many on Wall Street expected an eventual government shutdown to be short and not affect markets deeply, volatility was expected.
"Investors have a legitimate cause for near term concern," said Jack Ablin, chief investment officer at BMO Private Bank in Chicago.
U.S. consumer confidence fell in September, dragged down by consumers' outlook. U.S. single-family home prices rose in July at a slightly slower pace than forecast, though the gain from a year ago was the strongest in more than seven years, separate reports showed.
The data also failed to remove investor uncertainty about the Fed's intentions about a pullback from its stimulus efforts. The Fed cited the budget and debt ceiling negotiations in Washington as a reason to keep its current stimulus intact.
"The stoppage on the fiscal side is going to keep the monetary flood gates open," said Ablin about the Fed's quantitative easing. "Investors are looking past the taper."
The Dow Jones industrial average rose 17.4 points or 0.11 percent, to 15,418.78, the S&P 500 gained 1.48 points or 0.09 percent, to 1,703.32 and the Nasdaq Composite added 12.475 points or 0.33 percent, to 3,777.762.
Facebook shares jumped 4.9 percent to $49.50 after the South China Morning Post reported the online social media giant and other websites deemed sensitive and blocked by the Chinese government will be accessible in a planned free-trade zone in Shanghai.
Lennar shares led discretionary stocks higher with a 3.7 percent rise to $35.77 after the No. 3 U.S. homebuilder reported a better-than-expected quarterly profit.
Shares of Applied Materials rose 6.9 percent to $17.09 after the chipmaker and Tokyo Electron Ltd said they will merge in an all-stock deal, creating a $29 billion company.
Red Hat, the world's largest commercial distributor of the Linux operating system, reported late on Monday a slower growth in billings than analysts had expected and its shares fell 11.7 percent to $46.76.


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A quick little dashboard of various projects and ideas.
Ocean – Scheme for .NET: a work in progress. I would not yet call it alpha. The idea is to build an R6RS Scheme on top of the .NET framework, extending the language as conservatively as possible (which, in Scheme, is pretty conservative) to interact with the .NET framework. These extensions will be turn-offable so that the user can use any predefined versions of his own. Currently being worked on: implementing macros. Web page: http://oceanscm.sourceforge.net/
Latrunculi : Beta, on hold. Latrunculi provided the motivation for Ocean. As a result, it is being put on hold until Ocean is mature enough to compile it using .NET libraries (as opposed to the bindings being used currently). Graphics, particularly the board, are pretty slick if I do say so myself.
Lambda Overlay: Gentoo is a wonderful system. Really. I am a tinkerer by nature and I love to play with new languages. Just for kicks. So, it would be nice if Gentoo could handle these toys. Fortunately, it can through the use of overlays. I have begun work on an overlay to hold various exotic languages for experimentation. Source for ebuilds so far will be forthcoming.
Emu: an idea for a database access language (DAL). I find SQL very unsatisfactory. It is, essentially, BASIC crossed with some set theory. It works and it is as old as the hills–but there's got to be a better way. As ideas come to me I have been jotting them down. Once I have enough I will start writing something of an unofficial spec. It will probably start appearing here more often as I get closer to fleshing it out.
Swearinary: a simple program written in C# (using SQLite and GTK#) to find and remove offensive language from text. Should work for HTML as well, if you are willing to endure seeing the tags in the text area. Both source and a binary are included. If you want to build, you will need a C# 2.0
compiler (I developed with Mono's), GTK# 2.4, SQLite 3 (the version that came with Mono), and nant 0.85. Current version 0.1.


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Zavan (Jazz night) & Valentine weekend
Late one evening on a dark night in the middle of winter, three northern musicians decided to play music together. Soon they were swingin' on the tunes of Django Reinhardt, Jelly Roll Morton, Fats Waller and Cole Porter. And they're still at it. Close your eyes and transport yourself back to a cafe in Paris during the 1930s.
Zonnis @Shiraz (Valentine weekend)
Inspired by roots, blues, rock, funk, musical comedy and country to name a few, the music of Zonnis is an eclectic collection of musical stories.
Susan Philips & Trina Chivilo @Shiraz
Trina had an excellent first show at Shiraz a couple of months ago. At this show, newcomer Susan Philips will also be doing a set.
Dawn Boudreau anmd Lydia Desrochers live @Shiraz
Dawn will be joined by her daughter Lydia and it will be an excellent show! Reservations are suggested!
Carly Dow live @Shiraz
Carly Dow is Manitoban songwriter/performer. She will be touring the release of a new album this summer.
"Dow's songwriting is poetry brought to life with an incomparable voice that is raw, alluring and unique....Ingrained will leave a mark on the heart and soul of its listeners with its pretty grittiness and authentic voice. It is Canadian music at its finest and Dow is sure to make her mark."
- VIES Magazine
WEBSITE >> http://www.carlydowmusic.com/
Reservation is recommended 250-596-7397


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by Angela N. Marshall, Esq., Ogletree Deakins, Austin
The Supreme Court of Texas has decided a case brought under Texas law that will help employers defend themselves against retaliation claims.
In San Antonio Water System v. Nicholas (No. 13-0966, Supreme Court of Texas, 2015) the court held that the law does not protect a plaintiff from retaliation for opposing a colleague's unwelcome lunch invitations made to other employees because, the court found, extending a limited number of lunch invitations could not reasonably be considered unlawful harassment.
Awkward invitations
The plaintiff in the case was a chief of staff at the San Antonio Water System. During her tenure there, she became aware of complaints by two employees that a newly hired vice president had made them feel uncomfortable by repeatedly inviting them to lunch.
One of the two employees claimed that she was uncomfortable with the invitations, that she felt ha...(register to read more)
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