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I was talking with a friend today about sex. I do this quite often, too often...some say. And an interesting question emerged. What if you were at a nudist beach (say, Lady Bay in Sydney), and you got a boner from seeing someone that you viewed as sexually attractive? It would be very embarrassing. Quite humiliating and might result in some unwanted attention...or if the authorities were particularly pedantic (and nude cops were patrolling nearby) you might find yourself in jail. Otherwise, you would probably have to hide it...by covering yourself. Roll onto your stomach so only your arse is showing is what I reckon.
Admittedly, I've never been to a nudist beach, nude colony or any other naturalist place. In fact, there are only two in Victoria. I do, however, want to go to one just for the experience of it. It's not a damaging, abusive or dangerous place as perpetuated by religious fundamentalists (who are as knowledgeable, ethical and intelligent as a hyper charged taser gun) or other conservative groups who object to nudism on personal grounds. If they have a problem with nudist beaches, then they should stay well clear any...or perhaps avoid the coastline entirely.
Certain precautions when establishing nudist beaches should occur. Measures such as extensive signposting, regular Police patrols (to stop abuse or voyeurism) and seclusive locations are rudimentary.
According to Wikipedia, the quantity of nudist beaches has actually increased worldwide, perhaps accompanying the increase in secularism and progressiveness which has by and large seen the reduction in old, archaic values such as covering your bits, tits, dicks, nips and hips up.
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Eric Decker and the Denver Broncos face off with division rivals, the San Diego Chargers, in week five. Decker has been a revelation for the Broncos so far this season, catching at least five passes in each of the previous three games. In week four against the Green Bay Packers, Decker caught five passes for 56 yards, while also scoring two touchdowns (his second two touchdown game over the past three weeks). Decker is a must start in point per reception leagues, and should also be started in traditional scoring leagues as a WR 3, or flex play. Fantasy owners should get Eric Decker into their lineups and can expect five receptions for 70 yards and a touchdown from the second year wide receiver.
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Sidney Rice and the Seattle Seahawks travel to New York to take on the Giants in week five. The big money off-season signing has been very productive after returning from an injury that cost him the first two games of the season. Rice has caught 11 passes for 188 yards and a touchdown in two games against the Cardinals and Falcons. Tarvaris Jackson will need to lean on Rice this week if he hopes to be able to pull the upset against the Giants. Opposing teams should start to double team Rice, as the rest of the Seahawks pass catchers are below average. Even with teams focusing on stopping Rice, Jackson should make every effort to get his best playmaker the ball as much as possible. Fantasy owners started Rice in only 17 percent of leagues last week, but that number should rise, and Rice can be expected to catch five passes for 70 yards and a touchdown this week, making him a solid WR2-WR3 play.
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Robert J. "Alec" Janzer, 89, of Hartford passed away Friday, Nov. 5, 2010, at the Aurora Medical Center in Hartford.
Robert was born July 10, 1921, in Hartford, to Alex and Anna (nee Hesprich) Janzer. He was united in marriage to Anita OĺConnell on June 30, 1945, at Sacred Heart Church, Wolfe Island, Ontario, Canada.
Robert and his brother, Melvin "Buddy," were co-owners of Janzerĺs Bakery in Hartford. The bakery had been in the family for 70 years. Robert was known as "Mity Nice" to customers and friends. After the sale of Janzerĺs Bakery in 1984 until 2006, he baked for the Old Fashioned Bakery in West Bend. He continued his enjoyment of baking and sharing the baked goods with family and friends until the time of his death. Robert loved fishing and telling his stories about Wolfe Island. He enjoyed playing cards and volunteering his time at the Hartford Auto Museum. He was a member of St. Kilian Catholic Church and Hartford Senior Friends.
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He was preceded in death by his brothers, Stanley, Melvin and Joseph Janzer; his grandson, Brian Janzer; and his brothers-in-law, Stewart Swett and George Sawicki.
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You like to make sure he's happy and will normally give in to his needs and demands.
Sometimes this can be as much about love as it can be a fear of losing him, but you're both missing out on having a varied and fun relationship.
He might not want to be in charge all of the time anyway so why not try being a bit more demanding occasionally - relationships are all about give and take after all!
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Children Don't Sleep Enough: Survey
NEW YORK -- A survey being released on Wednesday shows what millions of groggy parents already know: Many babies and toddlers do not get enough sleep.
Twenty-six percent of parents of children up to four years old said in a recent survey that their child gets less than enough sleep. The survey was commissioned by Pampers and conducted with the nonprofit National Sleep Foundation (NSF).The older the child, the less likely he or she is to sleep 12 hours to 15 hours per day, the recommended minimum from the NSF and pediatric sleep experts, Pampers said.
Forty percent of parents and caregivers said that their child has a problem each or almost every day or night, including having a hard time falling asleep, waking up in the middle of the night or getting up too early in the morning.
The child's sleep patterns, of course, may lead to less sleep for parents. Of those surveyed, 71 percent said they get less sleep than they feel they need.
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Works great on my LG G3. I like it.
Its nice how you can select 3 spots for focus then see the suggested framing area. Pictures look about the same as the stock camera app with a little better exposure.
Den Sh: Sorry, but developers can't produce any meaningful improvement over default app because camera API is completely locked up. For example it's impossible to create application where you'll set manual exposure settings or capture images in RAW. Availability of advanced functionality for developers is the real problem number one.
645 Pro captures in what they call "RAW" it's really Tiff but A lot better then jpeg. If 645 Pro does not give meaningful improvement it sure unlocks a lot of meaningful features.
Vinciego: That's freaking crazy that no any Apple user is not outraged about colors on Apple hardware. Nothing but the iMac 27" support AdobeRGB !
I have always used Mac Pros and any monitor I hook up supports AdobeRGB. I don't think it depends on the monitor you just need to calibrate the monitor in use and have the correct color profiles. This can be set in the system Preferences and almost all photo editing apps for monitor and printer.
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One small step for man, one giant leap for Martian kind In response to requests from NASA for potential landing sites for human exploration of Mars, University researchers have made suggestions based on their research, according to an Oct. 28 University press release. Professor of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences Jim Head has suggested a spot called Deuteronilus Mensae, which has geological formations similar to those with glacial ice on Earth and contains buried ice. Any site chosen by NASA needs to be hospitable for human habitation and have access to potential scientific discoveries, according to the press release. Early in his scientific career, Head worked with NASA to help determine landing locations for the Apollo missions. "We learned a lot about selecting sites of high scientific interest, planning traverses…
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A mother and son from Skiff Lake are being recognized for saving the life of a loved one this fall.
Roxana Soetebeer, with help from her 13-year-old son Philip, performed CPR on her husband Joerg Soetebeer after he suffered cardiac arrest on Oct. 24.
The Canadian Red Cross said it happened at the family's remote home, located about 35 kilometres southwest of Woodstock.
That evening, after realizing her husband was in cardiac arrest, Roxana Soetebeer called 911 and began the attempt to revive him. She yelled for help from her son, who stepped in to help with compressions until paramedics arrived 25 minutes later.
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Roxana Soetebeer learned CPR more than 15 years ago while volunteering with a rescue group in her native Germany.
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See also #28. You are a hypocrite/ a bum/ mentally ill/ an egotist/ self-righteous, saying you live moneyless. But you can live this way only because you are in a land of wealth & industrious people. Aren't you biting the hand that feeds you? Why do you scavenge off civilization's waste rather than live off the land or grow your own food?
Before I answer this, please ask yourself if I am contributing to the money system in any way, and if I am a drain on anybody (i.e., if I take more than I need). I use things that are already running (whether I existed or not), already thrown away, already given away freely and voluntarily. I do not steal. My philosophy is to take only things that are at hand, in the Present, Here & Now, although I sometimes give in and allow people to buy things for me, because they are insistant, though I try to discourage it. Their desire to be generous supercedes my "regulations", and it turns out a blessing on both of us. Love is high above regulation.
Now, to answer your question, first with questions:
Are swallows nesting in house attics dependent upon money? Are pigeons nesting on bank skyscrapers dependent upon money? Are barnacles clinging to aircraft carriers and corals living on buried artifacts dependent upon money? Are bears and ravens eating out of dumpsters dependent upon money?
Nature uses everything, without discrimination. The money mind is the discriminative mind, assigning "value", but nature uses everything, labeling nothing "just" or "unjust". The sunlight and rain FREELY fall on everything, both the just and the unjust, the "deserving" and "undeserving".
Be like Nature. Be Nature.
Now this is something really, really hard for most adults to get, because it is too simple. It's hard to get especially if you've spent years trying to support a family or are heavily in debt. But please get this: Money is a figment of the imagination, illusion. Only illusion thinks anything real is dependent upon illusion. Illusion is real to illusion, but not to Reality. We humans have become walking illusions, not showing one another our Real Selves. Let me clarify: if I do something, not out of my instinctual heart, but to get something, I am acting through ulterior motivation, not out of my Being Real! Money is ulterior motivation.
If money were real, then we would start out, as babies, recognizing it. Squirrels & moths would recognize it, as they recognize air and rocks.
The whole point of the spiritual path is to return to Reality, to be free from our bondage to illusion, to idols. Idols are symbols that we falsely perceive as Reality. We must see everything As It Is, not as thoughts, not as imaginations, not as symbols, not as likenesses. Reality says, "There is nothing like Me" (Isaiah 46:9).
If you still doubt me, please see "What Money Is and What Money Is Not"
I do not pretend to be self-sufficient, independent. I am dependent upon you & you are dependent upon me. To realize this dependence, in fact, is the whole point of my living this way!
But we are not dependent upon money, despite appearances. I do rely on the hard work of others just as others rely on the hard work of myself. Somebody then places totally arbitrary numbers upon that hard work and then says we are dependent upon those arbitrary numbers, rather than upon the hard work! We confuse our symbols with the reality they represent! Yes, money is illusion, and nobody can, in reality, rely on illusion. If you call your work Santa Claus and believe it, then you also believe that I rely on Santa Clause.
Every creature and every atom in this universe relys on the hard work of another. Every creature, every particle, is a mooch - you included. If you take more than you need, your mooch-ness is not in balance.
Where does virtually all the energy on earth come from, including the energy running this computer? The sun. Now when was the last time the sun demanded payment for any energy ever used on planet earth? When was the last time you even thanked the sun, much less tried to pay it back? Even if the sun could demand payment, how can anything anywhere pay the sun back? All energy on earth is freely given! The energy running this computer system is ultimately from the sun.
Now we begin to understand the world-wide myth in most every culture about some trickster stealing fire from heaven. This myth explains what separated humans from the rest of nature. See "Our Fall From Grace: Our Departure From Gratis: The Beginning of Money"
The Unconscious Trade of Creatures
Take a look at non-human creatures. The only difference between, say, a deer and yourself on this issue is that the deer freely takes grass without any idea of obligation (money, debt). And some cougar might freely take that deer without any idea of obligation (money, debt). And some bacterium, and then fungus, might claim that cougar without any sense of debt, returning that cougar to soil. And grass will then claim that soil without sense of debt. And a deer will claim that grass without sense of debt, starting the cycle over again. All is freely given, freely taken, with no sense of barter, debt, money. And everything gets paid back perfectly, with no debts. This is called Perfect Justice. Because this system does not rely on a fictitious idea of money, it is in perfect balance, Perfect Justice. Then there is clear vision and true gratitude, a true realization of what we are really dependent upon.
Is there an economy on earth that can balance its budget? Is there a monetary system that even comes close to being just? Justice cannot exist within monetary civilization's walls. There is none just, no not one. And the more a society tries to balance credit and debt, the more unjust it becomes. Every nation is unfathomably in debt to every other nation. How senseless does it have to become before we get it?
If you are indignant about your percieved reality that I am dependent upon the money system, should I be indignant about the true reality that you and everything in the world is completely dependent upon Gift, with no strings attached. Where is the sense of gratitude? No, if I were indignant about this, then I would not be like the sun, who doesn't even expect gratitude. But gratitude & true generosity are signs of life, aren't they? Gratitude & generosity are the very force that drives the universe.
14. You say you don't use money, yet aren't you using products of the money system & relying on the hard-earned money of others? [Revised October 10, 2009]
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In the UK, the government is refusing to give Catholic adoption agencies the liberty to follow Catholic teaching in the matter of gay households. The Minister for Education Alan Johnson gives the rote rationale:
"I've never seen the case for an exemption. To me this is legislation to prevent discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation and you cannot do that and at the same time allow discrimination in one area."
Note what's going on here. In ordinary discourse, the wrongness of discrimination has to do with discrimination that results in deprivation of something of value (e.g., housing, school admission, etc.). But in this case that doesn't apply: the Church has no monopoly on adoption services, and, regrettably, the Church's prohibition in favor of the child doesn't prevent gays from adopting or even incommode them. They can freely go to alterative agencies to effect their project. That's to say, the Church's so-called discrimination -- more accurately termed "discretion guided by moral sanity" -- has zero restrictive effect on the disfavored group.
Then why is it intolerable to let the Church practice this harmless instance of "discrimination"? Because the state has deemed it to be sinful in itself. Even if no person is wronged in a juridically intelligible way, the state has taken upon itself the duty to enforce a code of gay-positive morality. Anthony Esolen already spotted the game being played out in Massachusetts:
Then why the compulsion? Homosexuals in Massachusetts can already adopt children; it is unlikely that anyone will have been seriously inconvenienced by the Church's policy. The conclusion seems inescapable: the Church was given the ultimatum not so that homosexuals would benefit, but so that the Church would be hurt, either by a capitulation that would signal its subservience and irrelevance evermore, or by a curtailment of the freedom of Catholics to practice their faith in the public square.
Trade places with the other team for a moment and imagine how -- if you were an Andrew Sullivan or a Peter Tatchell or the editor of the Tablet -- you'd want the dominoes to fall. In their position, you want a weakened Church, you want a Church cut off from her own teaching, you want a purely ceremonial association of off-duty social workers presided over by moral geldings. The adoption discrimination ruse is a gambit too good to pass up. If you understood progress the way Barney Frank understands it, you realize the Catholic Church is your prime obstacle in the path forward.
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Jan. 31, 2007 4:20 PM ET USA
The Church (at least here in Britain) has already lost in 'the court of public opinion': not particularly through sexual scandal, as in the US (though we do have our share of these), but because no one dares to be seen as 'right-wing' or 'homophobic' here, including the bishops. Especially the bishops. We are reaping what we have sown.
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Jan. 31, 2007 11:27 AM ET USA
Cupertino has it right. A basic principle of Christianity and western freedom, God-given rights, is at stake here. This is no time for the Church to "go along to get along". I don't think the Church will lose in the court of public opinion by accusing the government of 1) favoring the rights of homosexuals over those of orphaned children, and 2) trying to deny Catholics the right to practice a basic belief of their faith.
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Jan. 30, 2007 9:00 PM ET USA
A most unpleasant point must not be lost here. Since the political debate is framed around "equal rights" and those rights flow from the state and are not mandated by natural law or the law of God the evil majority will always prevail. Appeals to Divine Law, natural law and prescriptive rights (a man and a woman has always constituted a marriage) cannot prevail. Catholics and most especially the Bishops must understand that we have to go it alone and pay the political and social price now.
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Jan. 30, 2007 7:25 PM ET USA
Reading that story in the Tablet was disgusting. Not only in the obvious way, but the sanctimonious, self-righteous bullying attitude of "you'd better let me do what I want or I'm going to make everyone miserable and blame it on you". His "sympathy" for the poor orphans who are going to be deprived of the work of the Catholic Church is nauseating.
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Jan. 30, 2007 12:49 PM ET USA
Di, I heard my beloved grandmother (she who left her cad of a husband, with infant & toddler; went to work to support them back when young mothers didn't do that sort of thing; then steadfastly refused the advances of many suitors, because she would not give up receiving our Lord in the Eucharist; she of unfailing charity, sharp wit, humor & compassion-RIP) often use the word "discommode". Her tolerance she expressed thus "Each to his own taste... said the lady as she kissed the cow."
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Jan. 30, 2007 10:44 AM ET USA
"a purely ceremonial association of off-duty social workers presided over by moral geldings" Uncle Di, you describe the Diocese of Québec so well, you must have been visiting here recently!
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Jan. 30, 2007 10:38 AM ET USA
The UK needs a Bill of Rights. Despite aberrant decisions of activist courts, this is much less likely to happen in the US --- except perhaps in states like Massachusetts with activist supreme courts.
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Jan. 30, 2007 10:11 AM ET USA
God has given the Church in England the chance to witness to the truth;pray she will have the strength to do so.If she does then this gambit of the humanist becomes a defeat as large as Waterloo for Napolean.If Holy Mother Church is true to herself then secular power losses all hold over her.The humanist have sown the seeds of their own defeat but only if the Church is true to herself.Pray for the British Bishops to be strong, faithful witnesses even to loss of privilege,freedom & life if needed
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Jan. 30, 2007 8:05 AM ET USA
It's a degenerate world where we trade in our moral health for immoral disease. This didn't start with the Barney Franks of the world, its a long growing malignancy that has its roots in secular humanism and modernism. And its ultimate goal is the gelding of the Church. But like all of Satan's works--it will not ultimately prevail.
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Jan. 30, 2007 7:42 AM ET USA
I see another danger here. In addition to arranging adoptions, the Catholic Church also blesses marriages. Will this right, too, be removed if the Church refuses to bless gay "marriages"?


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ANXIOUS residents turned out in force at the weekend to voice their concern at the potential removal of a piece of Chichester's history.
The well-known Smugglers' Stone, in Broyle Road, marks the place where a gang were hanged on the gallows field for murder and theft in 1749.
The stone looks set to be moved as part of the construction of a 72-bed care home.
Historian and author Alan Green was one of the people who gathered and said Chichester District Council had 'ignored' advice of the Chichester conservation area advisory committee to ensure the stone and a nearby obelisk in Wellington Road remained on the site.
"One of the things we picked up on were these very important monuments," he said.
Permission was granted last year for the home, in which the monuments' removal was detailed, however it has caught many people unawares.
Nearby Wellington Road resident Jill Robinson was angry at the stones' removal and also at the general development work going on in the area.
"This is meant to be a leafy, green part of Chichester and the nicest part of Chichester and they're doing their best to make it look like a ghetto."
She said people thought monuments like the stone would remain where they were forever. "You just don't see why they're moving it," she added.
Mr Green said the hope was the stone and obelisk would remain publicly accessible.
"It's the fact they don't say where it's going, which is very worrying," said Mr Green. "It's not got protection. It's not listed."
He said it was important the public could still access the stone and the obelisk.
According to another local historian, Ken Green, the obelisk was erected in 1745, with the Smugglers' Stone in 1749.
The stone was created with the names and crimes of the six smugglers, who according to Mr Green committed some 'fairly atrocious crimes'.
"That stone was set up there naming them and detailing their crimes near to the site of the gallows," he said.
The stone was originally in the centre of the field, but was moved to the edge of Broyle Road when the barracks expanded around 1845.
Cycle path
THE chief executive of the company behind the care home said the stones could make way for a new cycle path.
Mark Aitchison, of Colten Care, said: "We have no issue with both the Smugglers' Stone and the obelisk being left where they are, or alternatively being moved elsewhere on the wider Rousillon Barracks site for continued public access."
He added: "The reason the Smugglers' Stone may be set back a few feet or relocated nearby is to make way for a cycle path which the council requires as a planning condition. The path lies outside the development site of our care home."
He said the company was complying with all planning requirements and remained happy to engage with residents.
He added: "We are aware that the planning documents make reference to potential 'relocation', but if the Smugglers' Stone does have to move because of the path, the new spot will be subject to discussions between the council and ZeroC, the main site developer."
Loss of trees
THERE was outrage in recent weeks after dozens of leylandii trees were removed bordering the development of the care home.
However, Colten Care chief executive Mark Aitchison said the company intended to replant a number of lime trees where the previous trees were cut down.
He said: "While people will have noticed that a line of leylandii trees has been removed, we would like to take this opportunity to reassure neighbours that these will be replaced by semi-mature lime trees as part of our landscaping work."
The work started earlier this month and at one point the police were called after one resident ran out to try to stop the work from going ahead.
Action group created
THE 72-bed care home was granted planning permission last year.
However, the removal of the trees earlier this month and now the imminent removal of the Smugglers' Stone and obelisk have led some residents to launch an action group.
The Broyle Road Action Group (BRAG) is aiming to ensure the stone remains in its current position.
Residents have called for a meeting with Chichester District Council planners to discuss aspects of the Roussillon Barracks development and assess whether the stone and obelisk can remain in their current locations.


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This is possibly one of the hardest blog post I've every written, and it has been in my mental draft box for some months now. Because it is so hard to write, do excuse me if it seems somewhat incoherent.
As 2014 draws to a close, I feel the need to make certain decisions regarding the direction of my life. For far too many months, I've felt myself wasting away precious time and opportunities to invest my energies wisely.
Moving forward into 2015, I feel I need to get a grip on my life, my heart and my hands before more time is wasted and opportunities to reach the hearts of my children frittered away. As such, I am making a painful but necessary decision to take a sabbatical from blogging and frontline event organization.
I have thoroughly enjoyed organizing Singapore's first cardboard festival for the family as well as Organic Play Parties. These community initiatives as well as being part of the Singapore Mom Bloggers have given me new experiences and friends. These experiences and encounters have greatly enriched my life, and I will treasure these for a long time.
However, I need to be truthful with myself about my limitations. I have come to understand that I just do not have the capacity to multitask and juggle the various roles. I also need to be fair to my children. There is also a time and season for everything. Right now, it is my season to focus on my family. Being a work addict, I have a tendency to choose work over family, and I have regrettably done so too often in recent times.
It is hard for me to let go of things and causes I hold dear.
But it would be foolish for me not to choose the dearest people over my personal passions.
The story of 'Moses' came to me twice within the last 18 months. I was reminded of it recently as I deliberated over my commitments and reflected on my lifestyle. I find myself drawn to the portion of Moses' life where he spent 40 years in the desert after he fled Egypt for murdering an Egyptian slavemaster. He entered the desert a disgraced nobleman and murderer, and while there, Moses encountered the Living God and was appointed by God to be the deliverer of His people from slavery. I feel I need to enter a desert season. Perhaps I'm already in the desert and am only just realizing it.
The desert can be harsh and lonely. But it can also be a place of refuge and restoration as Moses found it to be as a fugitive.
I find the desert intimidating but intriguing.
What happened in the desert that changed Moses from a fiery, zealous nobleman into the meekest man on earth?
Why did Jesus spend 40 days in the desert before He began His public ministry?
What will I find in the desert?
And why do I need to enter it now?
I believe the desert proffers me two gifts – the Gift of Solitude, and the Gift of Silence. In embracing these two gifts, I believe I can look forward to leading a more intentional and fruitful life.
As my dearest husband just said to me, water is so scarce in the desert that every single drop becomes precious. The desert is also the only place where you can find an oasis.
Water is life.
So I believe I will learn how to cherish every single drop of water. I will learn to embrace every second and moment of life with contentment as I dwell in the desert for a while.
To the human mind, the desert is hot and arid with dull expanses of nothingness.
But to my soul that is sick of living in futility, I am eager to discover the hidden streams in the desert.
While the desert may see like a lonely place, I know I will not be alone for my Lord Jesus is with me.
So my dearest friend, thank you for your support all these past months. You can still reach me via email or through my blog Facebook page. However, I will not be actively updating this page until further notice. May you and your family have an intentionally fruitful 2015 ahead! May Truth, Virtue and Beauty grace your everyday! Until we meet again somewhere, may the following song touch your heart.
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Tune my heart to sing Thy grace
Streams of mercy never ceasing
Call for songs of loudest praise.
Teach me some melodious sonnet
Sung by flaming tongues above.
Praise the mount I'm fixed upon it
Mount of Thy redeeming love.
Here I raise my Ebenezer,
Here by Thy great help I've come.
And i hope by Thy good pleasure
Safely to arrive at home.
Jesus sought me when a stranger,
Wandering from the fold of God.
He to rescue me from danger
Interposed His precious blood (precious blood).
Oh that day when freed from sinning
I shall see Thy lovely face.
Clothe it then in blood washed linen
How I'll sing thy sovereign grace.
Come my Lord no longer tarry
Take my ransom soul away.
Send Thine angels now to carry
Me to realms of endless days.
Oh to grace how great a debtor
Daily i'm constraint to be!
Let Thy goodness like a fetter,
Bind my wandering heart to thee.
Prone to wander Lord i feel it
Prone to leave the God I love.
Here's my heart
Oh take and seal it.
Seal it for thy courts above.
Here's my heart
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The link between high fashion, body image and eating disorders on French catwalks may lead to a ban on super-skinny models.
France's government is likely to back a bill being discussed in Paris banning excessively thin fashion models as well as potentially fining the modelling agency or fashion house that hires them and sending their agents to jail, Health Minister Marisol Touraine said on Monday.
Style-conscious France, with its fashion and luxury industries worth tens of billions of dollars, would join Italy, Spain and Israel, which all adopted laws against too-thin models on catwalks or in advertising campaigns in early 2013.
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Under the proposed legislation, any model who wants to work has to have a body mass index (a type of height to weight ratio) of at least 18 and would be subject to regular weight checks. Health Minister Marisol Touraine says the ban would protect young women who see models as the ideal female form. Plus, many models in France are still in their teens.
So, a woman who is 5-foot-7 would have to weigh at least 121 pounds. The normal weight BMI range is around 18.5 to 25.
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The law would enforce fines of up to $79,000 US for any breaches, with up to six months in jail for any staff involved, French Socialist Party legislator Olivier Veran, who wrote the amendments, told newspaper Le Parisien.
The bill's amendments also propose penalties for anything made public that could be seen as encouraging extreme thinness, notably pro-anorexia websites that glorify unhealthy lifestyles and forums that encourage eating disorders.
In 2007, Isabelle Caro, an anorexic 28-year-old former French fashion model, died after posing for a photographic campaign to raise awareness about the illness.
Some 30,000-40,000 people in France suffer from anorexia, most of them teenagers, said Veran, who is a doctor.
In 2013, designer Hedi Slimane was chastised for casting shockingly thin male models at an Yves Saint Laurent show in paris. It was not immediately clear whether France's proposed legislation would apply to male models as well.
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Space in the city is subject to transformation on different time scales. It is being built and rebuilt constantly and not only by diggers and cranes, but also though the decisions and makings of individuals programming the space.
Theories and practice on this have been neglected for some time and it has been deemed old fashioned to pick up on them. However, more and more the discussion around the production of space and the making capacity of individuals also regarding the conception of space, has gained momentum. A number of aspects probably have lead to this, including the availability of new technologies which requires more dynamic and more subjective conceptions of space.
Image taken from SLCL.CA / Cedric Price 'Fun Palace' diagram. "Automation is coming. More and more, machines do our work for us. There is going to be yet more time left over, yet more human energy unconsumed. The problem which faces us is far more than that of the 'increased leisure' to which our politicians and educators so innocently refer. This is to underestimate the future. The fact is that as machines take over more of the drudgery, work and leisure are increasingly irrelevant concepts. The distinction between them breaks down. We need, and we have a right, to enjoy the totality of our lives. We must start discovering now how to do so." – Cedric Price (From Agit-prop to Free Space: The Architecture of Cedric Price).
In his new book 'ReplayCity - Improvisation als urbane Praxis' Christopher Dell brings together an refreshed view on these practices and conceptions. The book is published by Jovis and is only available in German at the moment. The book is organised in three parts, the first one on the city and urban practice, the second on e on improvisation and space and the third part on music and space.
Dell is arguing that the cities have become more complex also because of size and number of people living together, but also has identified a shift in the questioning of the city. He points out that the question no longer is 'What is the meaning of city?' but now would be ' What produces the city?'
One of the topics for example that is discussed in the book as part of the improvisation and everyday negotiations in space is the aspect of the politics of space.Here it is the discussion around the use of order as structure, form and function of space as defined by individuals, groups or organisation. This does to some extend tie in with Hagerstrands three basic conceptions of space and time where he focuses on restrictions and constraints. This is a much more negative definition Hagerstrand proposes and its great to have it reformulated here by Dell.
The book sources the great thinkers of the past ranging from Kant, to Lefebvre, to the Situationists with Guy Debord and de Certeau. It however also features Peter And Alison Smithson with CIAM or Cedric Price and other great names of the architecture scene of the mid twenties century, very much related for examples to the publication 'Radical Games'.
Image taken from metronature / John Cage's A Dip in the Lake is the exploration of a city by means of a 'random' soundmap that leads performers, listeners, or participants to places they may never have been before. The score identifies up of 427 locations within a city. The 'locations' are either very specific (such as the intersection of two streets), or more general (such as 'a park' or 'Lake Ontario'). Recordings are made at each of these locations, and divided into 10 groups of 2 (quicksteps), 61 groups of 3 (waltzes) and 56 groups of 4 (marches). These groups of recordings are then mixed live by the performers.
The discussion is cleverly organised and the improvisation terms as well as practice is used to discuss the wider questions of space and city ranging all the way to the design of cities. The book puts forward a very clear theoretical base and argues without loosing sight of the goal consequently along the activities and actions of citizens as the driving element of spacial production. Dell manages to bring the reader to think about the city as a dynamic pice that is constantly shaped and reshaped. This is not a new idea at all, but it has not been presented in such a consequent and updated form for the past thirty years. Dell would not put it this way but essentially what he talks about is the congruence of form and activity as Carl Stinitz put it in the Hypothesis to his article in 1968 'Meaning and the congruence of urban form and activity': "There is a high overall level of congruence between form and activity. Congruence is defined as consistency between the physical form characteristics of an environment and the attributes of its activities". And this is definitely an upcoming topic that will, as a concept, be extremely useful especially in connection with the available technology of distributed mobile computing and sensing.
Image taken from pro-qm.de / ReplayCity book cover.
Dell, C., 2011. Replaycity: Improvisation als urbane Praxis, Berlin: Jovis Verlag.
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Here's the problem. I don't really know how to estimate the yarn. It's going to be in 2 colors, but I'm going to work the second color in the back (I've already practiced this and sort-of gotten the hang of it ... which was difficult to figure out on the Purl rows, but I'm looking forward to giving it a try.)
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Well, I suppose it depends a bit on which particular yarn you settle on, but judging from the estimators purly man listed and my own figuring on the planned finished size, I would expect you'd be able to do it with one 100g ball of each color. Brown Sheep Nature Spun worsted and Patons Classic Merino are probably two of the most readily available and reasonably priced basic wool yarns on the market and both come in a good variety of colors, so unless you were thinking real luxury yarns, I would just select one of those and get two balls in each color. Then you'd likely have enough yarn to do an "inverse" version, as well. Or, you know, use it for a completely different project.
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Updated 1:47 pm, Wednesday, April 10, 2013
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More than 200 artists will be featured at The Woodlands Waterway Arts Festival on Saturday and Sunday at Town Green Park in The Woodlands.
Now in its eighth year, the festival features live music, culinary demonstrations and kid-friendly interactive art demonstrations.
Admission is $10 (free for ages 11 and younger) or $15 for a two-day pass.
The park is located 2099 Lake Robbins Drive. Festival hours are 10 a.m.-6 p.m. both days.
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28221516.post3065566522013730103..comments2015-07-29T15:40:46.673-04:00Comments on Awful Announcing: Divisional Playoff Ratings Down From 2007DeROKhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-28221516.post-89765741211856345792009-01-13T01:08:00.000-05:002009-01-13T01:08:00.000-05:00I totally agree that the Super Bowl is one of thos...I totally agree that the Super Bowl is one of those "must see" events, but I just think that a non-attractive match-up will hurt the rating from some of the casual fans that only watch the Super Bowl. I'm not saying that nobody will watch, I'm just saying I think the rating would be lower, again nothing earth shattering. It would still do something in the low 40s email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-28221516.post-40392665771070636142009-01-12T20:17:00.000-05:002009-01-12T20:17:00.000-05:00I disagree Michael.The Super Bowl is an event that...I disagree Michael.

The Super Bowl is an event that is widely viewed thoughout the world no matter who the teams are.

It isn't like the NBA and NHL; or even MLB, where only certain teams get big ratings in the champoiship email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-28221516.post-25650196440148034912009-01-12T15:48:00.000-05:002009-01-12T15:48:00.000-05:00Bad is a ridiculous overstatement for the NFL rati...Bad is a ridiculous overstatement for the NFL ratings. Any one of those numbers from last week would have been the #1 primetime show of the week.

And comparing them to last year, that's ridiculous. Just from the division games, you had Favre, undefeated Pats, Peyton Manning & the Giants vs. the Cowboys on Sunday afternoon.

Last year's Giants/Packers title game was, ISean firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-28221516.post-47902749175163215632009-01-12T15:24:00.000-05:002009-01-12T15:24:00.000-05:00Safe to say that NBC is dreading the thought of a ...Safe to say that NBC is dreading the thought of a Arizona/Baltimore Super firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-28221516.post-60785790139208267222009-01-12T14:54:00.000-05:002009-01-12T14:54:00.000-05:00Yeah, the fact that the top 3 defenses in the NFL ...Yeah, the fact that the top 3 defenses in the NFL are in the conference championships is not going to do much to bring in the casual fan. Unless we get the Battle of Pennsylvania, this will probably a low-rated Super Bowl as well.

Personally (and as an Eagles fan and a resident of PA in a college where Eagles and Steelers fans are fairly even in number), this weekend has the potential JFeinhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-28221516.post-71694968133633017282009-01-12T13:30:00.000-05:002009-01-12T13:30:00.000-05:00People want to watch big offenses and not good def...People want to watch big offenses and not good defenses. It's pretty simple why the casual fan is not watching.GMoneyhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-28221516.post-61434443279996258822009-01-12T13:18:00.000-05:002009-01-12T13:18:00.000-05:00I don't know why the NFL thinks they can do well o...I don't know why the NFL thinks they can do well on Saturday night. I mean I know diehards like myself will watch but casual fans and young people go out. It didn't help that the worst game of the four was on the night slot.

The NFL should either go back to two games on Saturday afternoon or go to a Sunday triple-header, with just one game on Saturday.Tedhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-28221516.post-60099679855373543742009-01-12T13:15:00.000-05:002009-01-12T13:15:00.000-05:00I am surprise to see the Eagles and Giants game do...I am surprise to see the Eagles and Giants game down as it was a East Coast matchup and a rivalry. Maybe the main reason was the games weren't that close this year. Anyway, I want to see a Pennsylvania Super Bowl. Eagles vs Steelers, that'll be awesome!panderson1988https://firstname.lastname@example.com


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An accredited school, Cobb Beauty College is dedicated to producing highly skilled and motivated professionals to meet the local community's ever increasing demand for premium cosmetology services. We are proud to say that we currently have a 100% passing rate at the State Board exams!
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Inspiring Excellence — Every Child, Every Day
The Board of Trustees meets the second Tuesday of the month. Below is a summary of the most recent meeting which was March 10, 2015.
2015-2016 Budget: Superintendent Peterson reviewed a draft of guidelines for the 2015-2016 Budget Process. The district is projecting that enrollment and staffing levels will remain steady. Superintendent Peterson will seek input on budget priorities from staff and the community and use the information to shape the budget for 2015-16. The formal budget hearing would be in June with final adoption by the Board in July.
Curriculum Adoption: Executive Director of Teaching and Learning Dr. Nicole MacTavish reviewed the process used to identify Journeys for adoption as a K-5 Elementary English Language Arts Curriculum.
Foreign exchange students Malou Steen Rasmussen and Elena Vallarella gave a brief presentation thanking the Trustees for the opportunity to attend school in the district.
Patron Richard Eisele spoke about high sports fees charged to non-Nampa School District students participating in cut sports.
Legislative Update
Director of Communications Allison Westfall updated Trustees on the Career Ladder legislation hearing held earlier in the day in the House Education Committee.
Mid-day Transportation Committee Update
Director of Professional-Technical Education Steve Rayborn, updated the Board on the progress of the committee charged with implementing the recommendations of 2014-15's High School Schedule committee, focusing on the interschool transportation system. He reported to the Board that the district is phasing in a plan to reduce lost instructional time when students travel among the high schools. The district will phase in a plan to bus students among the high schools three times a day, instead of after every period. The first group of students impacted would be the 2015-16 freshmen, who if they choose to travel to another high school will be scheduled for two periods of classes.
NOTE: Steve Rayborn was thanked for his service as Director of Professional Technical Education. Steve will leave the district for a position of Deputy Director of the State Department of Professional Technical Education. Steve will be replaced by Columbia High School Vice Principal Jewels Carpenter.
School Choice Committee Update
Director of Student Services Kim Eimers told the Board that the committee formed to make recommendations on "schools of choice" such as New Horizons Dual Language Magnet School has met three times. The committee made up of parents, community members, and educators has discussed created guiding principles for schools of choice, academic features, purposes, goals and outcomes. The Committee's deadline for a final report is June 1, 2015.
Broadband & Technology Update
Director of Technology Peter Jurhs updated the Board that the transition from the Idaho Education Network to other broadband providers went well. He also updated the Board on the Technology Department's effort to support the district's goals to become more data driven; plans to improve quick response to technology needs; increase trust in the IT staff; and other areas for improvement.
The Board approved the items on its Consent Agenda
Minutes: Regular Board Meeting – February 10, 2015
Minutes: Board Workshop – February 24, 2015
Monthly Personnel Report
Canyon County Statement of Receipts January 30, 2015
Accounts Payable & Student Activity Funds Reports
Out-of-State Trip Request, Skyview High School Yearbook , JEA Spring National HS Journalism Convention/Competition, Denver, Colorado, April 16 through 16, 2015
Overnight Trip Request, Centennial Elementary, Outdoor Environmental Science Camp, Camp Ida Haven, McCall, Idaho, May 6 to 8, 2015
Overnight Trip Request, Owyhee Elementary, 5th grade McCall Science Field Trip, Camp Ida Haven, McCall, Idaho, May 13 to 15, 2015
Second Reading and Final Adoption of Revised Policy #1005 – Parent Involvement
The Board approved for Second Reading and Final Adoption of Policy Governance Policies
Superintendent Limitations Policies
Board-Superintendent Relationship Policies
Governance Process Policies
Ends Policies
The Board approved adopting Journeys, by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt for K-5 English Language Arts.
NEA President Jaimee Hoesing had no report.
The Board convened into executive session to discuss student discipline matters and negotiations.


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After the Christmas Decorations are down, everywhere seems a bit bare and many of us will soon start thinking about what we would like our homes to look like in the coming year, so we've picked out four home trends and show you how to get the look.
We love all things vintage. We love the retro styling, the vibrant contrasts of colours and the artistic styles, so we love this 50s Kitsch collection.
No matter which room you want to add a bit of 50's kitsch to, it's all about vibrant colours and retro styles. Just take a look at this Sheldon Duvet Cover and Pillowcase Set, this Marlena Applique Cushion and this Marlene Wall Art Duo to see exactly what we mean – bright blues, greens and retro floral styling are all very much what we are looking for here! Complete that 50's feel with some cool accessories that really capture the decade. We especially like some of the wall art in this range, particularly the Ada leaf metal wall art and the Love Metal wall art.
It might be winter outside, but why bring those blues indoors? Add a warm touch to your home with our fiery Sahara Reds collection.
The Sahara Reds collection is about bringing deep, warm colours, such as the fiery red from this corner group sofa, 5-piece sunset split canvas wall art and velvet flame stitch cushion, with colours and styles that look like they could have come straight from Africa. Take, for example, the simplistic yet functional styling of the Dakota widescreen TV unit or the Dakota 8 drawer coffee table. Finished in Indian mango wood, the deep colour really works with the passionate reds, and the Water Hyacinth vase and chests in a natural finish really do complete the look.
If alpine retreats or just some quirky, vibrant styles are more to your liking, then you'll love our contemporary Green and Black range.
If the Sahara collection is all about deep reds contrasting with bold dark colours, then the Green & Black collection is all about funky greens and blacks to create a strong natural feel. The theme is very much about the great outdoors with this collection, as is evident by artwork like this forest canvas and soft furnishings like this Acacia luxury wool rug and green leaf cushion. Black furnishings, be it this Moda leather sofa or the Ibiza five-door wardrobe really do work with the vibrancy of the green.
If you're looking to really add some colour and some sparkle to your home, then you're also in luck. Experiment with some striking colour clashes with the Bejewelled range.
Whilst most colour co-ordination involves taking a bright, bold colour and then adding a softer, neutral colour to compliment it, this Bejewelled collection is all about taking bold colours and making them work together. In this case, blue and purple are very much at the heart of the collection, with a few jewels thrown in to add a touch of glam. Much of this collection comes from leading designer Laurence Llewellyn-Bowen so you can expect elegance and glamour – just take a look at his midnight bedroom to see what we mean!
Firstly, you have the Midnight at the Oasis Duvet Cover Set but to compliment that, you also have the Midnight at the Oasis round cushion, pillowcases, boudoir cushion and bed runner – everything you need to make your bed fit for a queen!
Hi Sue, sorry but the beautiful teal diamonte bedding and bedside chest will be available to buy on the site tomorrow. I love it too 🙂 x
I love the beautiful teal diamonte bedding and bedside chest, but they are not available to buy. What is the point advertising them if you cant buy them???


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Press Briefing by National Incident Commander Thad Allen, September 8, 2010 at 11:30 a.m. EDT:
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Admiral Allen: Well, I will give you a range. Based on the planning that's going on in Houston right now, the review of the science teams, there are two windows depending on how many, how much diagnostics is going to be done in the well. The early window is around the 18th of September to start the two-phase process. The later window starts on the 28th of September, and the difference in those two timelines is the amount of time they want to allow for diagnostics and fishing in the well.
Question: And then how long will that process take to complete, to actually kill the well?
Admiral Allen: The two-phase step should take about a week.


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Executive Summary
Organizations both create and manage risk on a global scale, but their capacities to manage risk vary enormously.
Since the origins of crises in organizations are well-documented, anticipating risks and preparing for their control have become an essential part of risk regulation regimes.
Regulation, which is often formulated in response to a crisis, targets the risks that organizations can pose to the stability of the macroeconomy, to fair competition, and to consumer protection.
Typically regulation is state-based, but there has been a move to include transnational organizations.
Regulation is about managing risk, not elimination of the underlying activities.
As far back as the Middle Ages, history provides plenty of lessons on the effects of the failure of financial institutions, of consumer ignorance being exploited through the sale of inappropriate securities, pension plans, and mortgages, and of high and opaque charges for financial products and services. Arguably, regulation has become imperative today, given the increasingly transnational nature of financial markets. Another factor is the growth of large multinational organizations, now possibly more powerful than some nations. They pose particular risk and regulatory problems because they can both create and manage risks, sometimes on a global scale. Crises can have catastrophic effects nationally and internationally. Anticipating risks and organizing for their control have thus become an integral part of risk regulation regimes, which aim to influence the risk management practices of organizations. Their objectives are to make sure that organizations give high priority to risk management, to shape motives and preferences, and to influence organizations' objectives and practices accordingly.
Organizations and Risks
The capacities of financial organizations to identify and manage risks vary according to many factors. Financial organizations are often reliant on risk modeling, which itself relies on the availability of good quality data. But the past is not always a good predictor of the future (particularly where data are drawn from a period of benign economic conditions), and data may be incomplete, poorly collated, and historically limited. Moreover, staff will vary in their ability to interpret these data. Organizations need to be open to identifying new risks and understanding that circumstances and personnel change, and these may well change the risks an organization faces. Stress testing—assessing the potential impact of alternative scenarios—can usefully supplement risk modeling by introducing risks that may not be evident from past data. Organizations tend to run these stress tests by assuming that the shocks are specific to them rather than systemwide, and they find it difficult to translate the results into positive action. They may fail to recognize that specific shocks can generate contagion and other externalities. These are some of the lessons of 2007, when liquidity dried up across the financial system. Risk modeling had been undertaken in a period of economic optimism and firms overestimated their ability to identify and control the risks associated with the innovative new products they were developing.
The routines and practices of different groups and people within the organization also require consideration. For example, risk-taking may be made to seem normal, or it may be unwittingly incentivized, as in the Barings and Société Générale cases. Or organizations may deny the severity of a risk and thus inhibit their ability to deal with underlying problems. This is typically done by blaming individuals or part of an organization for something that is much more systemic and dangerous. Again, the Barings case is illustrative—the rogue trader was blamed and the responsibility of the organization in permitting and supporting his risky activities were initially ignored. Remuneration incentives based on short-term sales performance are an integral part of the rogue traders' stories. The 2007–09 crisis has continued to demonstrate that the excessive risk-taking such bonuses can incentivize has not led to organizations learning lessons.
The organizational origins of crises are well documented. In 1984 Charles Perrow coined the term "normal accidents" to emphasize the inevitability of something going wrong.1 He focused on complex systems where the interaction of unexpected multiple failures can lead to catastrophe, this being most likely where the system is tightly coupled and has no slack to cope with such eventualities. Opinions differ about organizations' ability to prevent and contain risks, but most agree that large, complex, transnational organizations give rise to distinctive difficulties of risk detection, proof, responsibility, and power. This is well exemplified by the cases of AIG and UBS in 2008, where varying risk management practices in different parts of their transnational organizations led to financial crisis. One commentator remarked "AIG has 125,000 employees. Basically, 80 of them tanked the firm."2
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Happy Leap Year Day! I think it is very cool to have a special, extra day every four years. Why don't we make a bigger deal of this and celebrate it more widely? I think we should throw parties and have parades and use the day to relax and enjoy some silliness. After all, we celebrate even stranger reasons than this!


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People who want to have an organic garden have to remember one thing: it is impossible if you spray chemical herbicides over your garden bed. There are much better ways to control and get rid of weeds.
1) Use heavy mulching with straw and wood chips or shavings. Even if you put a light mulch of grass clippings around the weedy areas you will see that will do wonders to suppress them. But don't over mulch or apply to closely to your other plants or places where you planted your home garden seeds. It is really cheap and healthy way to get rid of nasty weeds on your garden beds. The mulch softens the soil so that any weeds that come through are easy to remove.
2) Use Vinegar. It is more expensive way but it also helps. You can spray it every week or so in the bad spots and keep it off the good plants.
3) Turn your topsoil. You can do that, wait a few days so the weed seeds will begin to grow then heavily apply mulch to area and let stand for a few weeks to kill everything off. Obviously this is best done as early in the year as possible.
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"I am curious about student achievement awards. I am wondering what you and other teachers do. Do you give out awards based on years in lessons (i.e. 3 year award) or perhaps awards based on level of achievement (i.e. completed Faber level 2A etc.)? Maybe some teachers simply give out a participation certificate. This will be the first time I am doing a recital and I want to give the students some kind of year end award. I don't do an incentive program (yet) and I want to make sure if I start something, it is something that the students will feel a sense of pride and achievement for receiving."
This is actually a pretty thought-provoking question for me! I've never given achievement awards based on years of study or completion of levels, but I can see how something like that might be a good motivator for a student. Some of my students participate in a yearly Music Progressions evaluation program that is comprised of 10 levels. Those who participate receive a certificate each year, but I can't remember a student ever caring about the certificate (I often find these crumpled in the bag months later). I think it would be kind of cool to have an award of some sort that was progressive from year to year. Extra incentive to stick with piano study through the hard times!
My year-end rewards are almost always tied to our practice incentive theme. And they are usually completely different from year to year. For example, this year the students who earned the specified number of Complication Coins can use them to purchase a custom-designed studio t-shirt. 🙂 You can see a list of other year-end rewards I've used on this post about Practice Incentives and Rewards.
My mental wheels are really spinning now, though, and I'm curious to know if other teachers give some sort of progressive award based on years of study or level completion. What do you do in your studio? I'd love to get some new ideas!
Remember, if you have a question you'd like to contribute to next week's Monday Mailbag, leave it in the comments below or send me an e-mail sometime this week with Monday Mailbag in the subject line!