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Stay at home parents (usually moms) have long been assigning a monetary value to the work they do. We live in an economy that values productivity, passion, and hard work. We also live in a time where the Mommy Wars continue. Those two factors fuel the urge to highlight and promote the value of a stay at home mothers.
The stay at home mom* statistics have been making the rounds on the Internet for awhile now. One chart in particular is fairly popular, yet it's quite misleading. The problem with this chart is that it inflates the value of a stay at home mother by putting her on par with professionals. Some hourly rates are accurate but others are not.
Facilities Manager — iffy. True, the stay at home mom does over see the general maintenance of the residence, but that doesn't take up as much time as a 50 story building or an entire campus. Also some of those duties overlap with janitorial services/housekeeping.
CEO — completely false. The average CEO has an MBA and/or other advanced degree. She also has extensive training in businesses practices, and she has most likely worked her way up the corporate food chain, which takes at least a decade if not more. The CEO is the public face of the company that has hundreds or thousands of employees. She is entirely accountable to a board of directors and investors. That means if shit goes down on her watch, whether she knew about it or not, she's responsible and she has to answer to her board, her staff, the press or law enforcement. The CEO's salary is supposed to reflect these duties and responsibilities. (Yes, I realize CEO salaries are inflated today.) The stay at home mom may oversee the household's finances and everyday operations, but those duties don't compare to what a CEO has to do every day.
Laundry operator — true.
Computer operator — iffy. I know plenty of IT people who would justify their awesomeness by telling you all their qualifications and years of experience. Although some may have an over-inflated ego, IT workers are right. You need training and maybe some education to do all the technical things beyond restarting a computer and re-installing an operating system. (That sums up my computer skills.) The stay at home mom is probably tech-savvy, but not so much that she could work full-time in an IT department and be paid as such.
Housekeeper — true.
Cook — iffy. This one is tricky because I've known some people who went to culinary school, and that was intense but worthwhile experience. I'm not sure what the definition of "cook" is in this case. If it's doing the basics, then I'd say that's accurate. But if this chart means cooking five star meals, then no.
Daycare teacher — iffy. Daycare means different things to different people, as I've learned from my mother, a former teacher. Some people think it's just babysitting while others want it to be an education and fulfilling experience for the child. Again, daycare teachers have specific training, licenses, and education experience. States vary on requirements. But parents play critical roles in their child's formative years too — reading, basic math, learning sounds and words, etc.
Van driver — true.
Janitor — true except that it duplicates the work of a housekeeper. Again, we're not talking maintaining and cleaning a typical office building.
Psychologist — false. Similar to the CEO, psychologists have PhDs, a license, highly supervised training, and serious legal and ethical liabilities. If they screw up, they could get charged with a crime, sued, or have their license revoked. Given these major responsibilities and background requirements, psychologists are paid accordingly. Again, a stay at home mom doesn't have to deal with those requirements or legal liabilities.
The comparison to what a stay at home mom does in this area is simply inaccurate and not fair. In other words, me putting a band-aid on an open cut doesn't made me a nurse. I can do some of the things she does (bandaging and cleaning wounds, taking temperatures), but I have neither the schooling, training or licensing to do the things that she is expected to know how to do (x-rays, triage).
To be sure, being a stay at home mom is a personal choice, and it is no doubt hard work. I will not argue either of those points. However inaccurately inflating the value of this work — whether intentional or not — still doesn't give a truthful picture.
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Biology is the scientific discipline that studies life processes or characteristics of living organisms, including their structure, function, growth, origin, distribution and evolution. The word Biology comes from the Greek word bios meaning "life", and logy which basically means "the study of".
Biological creationism is the doctrine or belief that various kinds of living beings were created and so are not the product of a naturalistic process. The creator is usually identified as God. It is, therefore, philosophically opposed to evolutionism. As the theory of evolution is found as an integral part of all secular biology, it is critical that creationists have a thorough understanding of this scientific discipline.
Creation biology is the study of biological processes and organisms, while operating under the assumption that God created life on Earth. The discipline is premised on the idea that God created a finite number of discrete created kinds or baramin. While these forms of life have the ability to vary and even undergo speciation, they cannot arise spontaneously from non-life, cannot interbreed outside of their kind, and cannot increase in genetic complexity.
Creation biology therefore differs from evolutionary biology primarily in its assertion that the cell is intelligently designed, and that other aspects of the theory of evolution regarding abiogenesis and common descent are false. Advocates of the creation accept all demonstrable facts in physiology, cell structure, the genomic basis of life, and speciation.
- Main Article: Biological scientist
Biological scientists study living organisms and their relationship to the environment. They investigate origins, developmental processes, anatomy, physiology, and other basic principles of plant and animal life. Occupations involve conducting research into the biological, chemical and physical reactions that occur in life processes. Scientists may be designated according to speciality as: Bioanalysts, Biochemists, Ecologists, Herpetologists, Ichthyologists, or Marine Biologists.[1]
Many biological scientists work in research and development. They perform research to gain a better understanding of fundamental life processes or apply that understanding to developing new products or processes. Some conduct basic research to advance our knowledge of living organisms, including bacteria and other infectious agents. Basic biological research enhances our understanding so that we can develop solutions to human health problems and improve the natural environment. These biological scientists mostly work in government, university, or private industry laboratories, often exploring new areas of research. Many expand on specialized research they started in graduate school.[2]
Most biologists specialize in one area of biology, such as zoology (the study of animals) or microbiology (the study of microscopic organisms).
- Botanists—-Study development and life processes, physiology, heredity, environment, distribution, anatomy, morphology (structure and form), and economic value of plants for application in such fields as agronomy, forestry, horticulture, and pharmacology.
- Geneticists—-Study inheritance and variation of characteristics in forms of life. Perform experiments to determine environmental factors in origin, transmission, and development of inherited traits.
- Zoologists—-Study origin, interrelationships, life histories, habits, life processes, diseases, relation to environment, growth, genetics, and distribution of animals.[1]
The above fundamental tenets of creation biology are often based upon or analyzed within the context of one of the following components of this discipline:
- Created kinds or Baraminology: the idea that life was originally created in a finite number of discrete "kinds" or "baramin", and that while these kinds had the ability to vary significantly within their kind, one kind cannot interbreed with another kind, and new kinds cannot arise spontaneously. This runs contrary to evolutionary biology's account of universal common ancestry and its phylogenetic tree, that is, that all life on the planet is related via macroevolution.
- Teleology: the idea that the universe and life has been designed for a purpose. This runs contrary to the view that there is no objective purpose in the universe.
- Biogenesis: the assertion that naturalistic speculations about the origin of life such as abiogenesis are false, because life was designed and created already fully formed. It is argued that no comprehensive explanation has emerged for life arising spontaneously from non-life. Since life has never been observed arising spontaneously from non-life, it is more reasonable to assert life was designed by an intelligent being. This challenges the view that life arose spontaneously from non-life.
- Irreducible complexity: the idea that some systems in life that could not have formed through gradual change, because they are composed of interdependent components where the absence of one would cause the entire system to fail, so that the entire system must have originated together. Advocates of irreducible complexity claim that it is therefore more reasonable to believe they were designed and assembled together for a purpose. This runs contrary to the views of evolutionary biologists who assert that life evolved and diversified step by step over millions of years.
- Specified complexity, that is, the claim made by William Dembski, a mathematician and senior fellow of the Discovery Institute, that genetic information is "complex specified information" (CSI), that natural processes can reduce and change CSI, but can never increase it, and that it is therefore more reasonable to infer that such information was created through the intervention of an intelligent designer rather than being the sole product of evolutionary processes.
- Genetic recombination: growing evidence that the bulk of variation is not due to random mutation of genetic material, but recombination events which are not random, but instead managed and controlled by cellular mechanisms.
- Genetic drift: Genetic drift reduces diversity in populations more quickly than mutation can introduce it. This results in a net decrease in genetic diversity over time, a fact inconsistent with evolution but consistent with creation.
- Fossil record: The fossil record shows inadequate transitional forms to support belief in the common descent of all life on Earth.
- Paleobotany: Sedimentary rocks show pollen in very deep, "Precambrian" strata. This fact is inconsistent with mainstream uniformitarian geology, which holds that flowering plants had not yet evolved when the precambrian strata were being laid down. It is consistent with flood geology, however, which holds that the strata are the result of rapid catastrophe during the Great flood, and thus predicts fully developed flowering plants appearing at many places in the fossil record.
- Paleozoology: Paleozoology (from Greek: paleon--old, zoon--animal) is the study of creatures found within the fossil record.
- Animal husbandry
- Anatomy
- Bacteriology (Bacterial biology)
- Baraminology (Creation taxonomy)
- Biotechnology
- Botany (Plant biology)
- Cell biology
- Embryology
- Entomology (Insect biology)
- Epidemiology
- Genetics
- Herpetology (Reptilian/Amphibian biology)
- Human biology
- Invertebrate zoology
- Marine biology
- Medical science
- Microbiology
- Molecular biology
- Ornithology (Bird biology)
- Physiology
- Taxonomy
- Vertebrate biology
- Zoology (Animal biology)
- Rapid Evolution in Real Time On islands off the coast of Florida, scientists uncover swift adaptive changes among Carolina anole populations, whose habitats were disturbed by the introduction of another lizard species. The Scientist, October 23, 2014.
- Evolution Is Not Random (At Least, Not Totally) Mutation hotspots and preserved regions of DNA reveal that changes are not the nonrandom processes that were originally assumed. Live Science, October 02, 2014.
- Two Genetic Codes Are Better Than One An "overlapping language" has been found in the genetic code. Creation Evolution Headlines, December 30, 2013.
- The Venus Flytrap, an Improbable Wonder that Baffled Darwin Venus flytrap challenges the ability of blind, unguided natural processes to design optimized, efficient, coordinated, elegant systems as seen in the carnivorous plant. Evolution News & Views, October 14, 2013.
- Scientists Explore The Pure Geometry Inside Our Cells A new study has mapped the geometry of one of the cell's key components: the endoplasmic reticulum. Forbes, July 24, 2013.
- Secret of the intricate pattern of cauliflowers unlocked and described with maths Scientists hope the insight will help them learn about the biological and physical mechanisms involved in the growth of the vegetables. Daily Mail, October 23, 2012.
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Biological and Life Scientists by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
- ↑ Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2008-09: Biological Scientists by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
External links
- Biology Text Addenda Evolution supplements for popular Biology textbooks.
- Biology versus Evolution resource site by Joseph Mastropaolo and Karl Priest
- More Creationist Research Part II: Biological Research by Duane T. Gish, Creation Research Society Quarterly 26(1):5 June 1989


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TALLAHASSEE — The state's mortgage foreclosure process would be speeded up and streamlined under a new proposal cleared by a Senate panel on Monday.
Critics say a faster process will infringe on the rights of homeowners who already are abused by banks and attorneys gaming the system with questionable — and sometimes outright phony — paperwork.
Mortgages are hard to verify when "they've been sold around the world multiple times," said Deb Lilley of Port Charlotte, who married her husband while he was in the middle of a foreclosure. "That's why they keep having to manufacture documents."
The Senate Judiciary Committee cleared the bill (SB 1890) by a 5-2 party line vote. Similar bills are pending in the House.
Sen. Jack Latvala, a Clearwater Republican, said foreclosure was a "dark cloud" hanging over the Sunshine State. He mentioned a backlog of 368,000 foreclosure cases in the state's courts.
The collapsed real estate market resulted in millions of foreclosures across the country that hit courts like a rogue wave. One recent survey showed Florida has about a quarter of the nation's foreclosures.
But attorney general's offices and other authorities have discovered many instances of erroneous and fraudulent filings.
A $26 billion settlement between the states and the nation's five biggest banks was made final about two weeks ago.
Paperwork in many foreclosures was the product of "robo-signers," people hired to sign documents in assembly-line fashion, often without knowing what's in them. Such documents included affidavits that a bank actually owns the mortgage on a property being foreclosed when the original paperwork can't be found.
Other civil and criminal investigations have resulted in the collapse of two major foreclosure law firms and the temporary stoppage of many lenders' foreclosure filings.
Lynn Drysdale, a Jacksonville Area Legal Aid attorney who represents foreclosure clients, said the problem isn't with the process, but with the practitioners.
"There are law firms handling tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of (foreclosure) cases, and they don't have their documents in a row," said Drysdale, who also chairs the Florida Bar's Consumer Protection Law Committee.
Among other things, Latvala's bill:
— Heightens requirements of proof that a party trying to foreclose on a property actually owns the mortgage. Banks or other finance companies would have to clearly show how a mortgage was bought and sold, or explain precisely why original documents were lost or destroyed.
— Requires that when a mortgage is fully paid off, a written acknowledgement has to be filed in the official county records.
— Allows a borrower or other interest-holder in a property to make a written request for the actual payoff amount of a mortgage and be told that amount in 15 days.
— Shortens to one year the time for a bank to go after the balance owed after the foreclosure sale of an owner-occupied, one-family to four-family dwelling.
Consumer advocates, however, were alarmed over other provisions, including ones aimed at condominium and homeowner associations. Those who are owed dues can file requests for a final foreclosure judgment to get what's owed without an initial hearing.
Another term provides a speedy process for a final foreclosure judgment if the homeowner does not participate in the legal process and the home was abandoned. There's a list of requirements to be met for a home to be classified as abandoned.
There are concerns that homes of people on long vacations or work assignments, or especially those on military duty, would be accidentally found to be abandoned.
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The two events that MIT took first, second and third place in were the 200-yard medley relay and the 500-yard freestyle relay, the first two events of the meet. In the medley relay, sophomore Bo Mattix (La Canada, Calif.), seniors Michael Liao (Newport Beach, Calif.) and Remy Mock (Victoria, British Columbia), and junior Austin Fathman (Hamilton, Mich.) touched in first place with a time of 1:36.25 and were followed by the MIT B relay in second with its time of 1:37.58 and the C relay in third in 1:38.77.
In the 500 free relay, Fathman, sophomores Daryl Neubieser (Saratoga, Calif.) and Thomas Norris(Cincinnati, Ohio), and Mock were part of the A relay that came in first in 4:14.64. The B relay touched a few seconds later in 4:20.10 and the C relay rounded out the top three with its time of 4:20.66.
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Free Tarek Shams
One year later, my good friend Tarek Shams is being detained for political reasons, while the officers who killed, threw molotoves and rocks in the same events are not even questioned by the investigation judge. Its been alleged that there were instructions to renew his detention for another 30 days, till Feb 12th. Independent judiciary indeed! The military junta is controlling everything and pushing us over a steep ramp to hell. While they might've prevented him from participating in the anticipated revolutionary events of next Jan 25, they have guaranteed that the revolution has gained more than 2000 new activists, evident in his Facebook page #freeTarekShams.


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Baked Lemon-Curry Rice with Onions and Pine Nuts
I think it's entirely possible that I'll grab on to any excuse to use pine nuts, because I love them so much I can hardly be objective about whether a dish really needs them or not. This rice dish that starts on the stove and then finishes cooking in the oven already had lots of flavor from the onions, curry powder, and lemon juice, but I loved the way pine nuts added that extra something. Of course, as I already mentioned, I'm not objective about it so you may not feel the need to add pine nuts for your version.
Add 1 tsp. of your favorite curry powder, and saute about 2 minutes more, stirring several times so the onions don't get too brown.
Put the onions into the casserole dish, then saute the rice in olive oil for 5-7 minutes, or until the rice grains are starting to brown. While the rice is browning, bring 4 cups chicken stock to a boil.
Baked Lemon-Curry Rice with Onions and Pine Nuts
(Makes about 6 servings, recipe created by Kalyn just as an excuse to eat pine nuts.)
2 onions, chopped in 1/2 inch pieces
1 T + 1 T olive oil
1 tsp. curry powder (I used Penzeys Sweet Curry Powder)
4 cups chicken stock (I used my homemade chicken stock)
2 cups Uncle Ben's converted rice (original variety, not instant or quick rice)
1/2 tsp. salt
1 tsp. Spike Seasoning (optional but recommended)
3 T fresh squeezed lemon juice
1/4 cup pine nuts
Pour rice into casserole dish with the onions, stir, cover dish and bake 25 minutes. After 20 minutes, add pine nuts to a dry pan and cook, shaking the pan constantly, until pine nuts have turned slightly brown. (Be careful, they will be bitter if they get too brown.)
When pine nuts are toasted and rice has cooked 25 minutes, stir the rice and taste to be sure it is nearly done. When rice is just barely chewy in the middle, sprinkle pine nuts over rice, keep lid off, and bake 5 minutes more. Serve hot.
South Beach Suggestions:
More Good Reasons to Eat Pine Nuts with Your Rice
(Recipes from other blogs may not always be South Beach Diet friendly; check ingredients.)
Basil and Parmesan Rice with Pine Nuts from Kalyn's Kitchen
Brown and Wild Rice with Pine Nuts and Thyme from Kalyn's Kitchen
Rice Pilaf with Raisins and Pine Nuts from PInch My Salt
Zucchini Stuffed with Pine Nuts and Herbed Basmati Rice from Fat Free Vegan Kitchen
Salad with Rice, Fresh Herbs, Tuna, Olives, and Pine Nuts from Lucullian Delights
Brown Rice with Toasted Pine Nuts, Carmelized Shallots, and Lemon Zest from For the Love of Cooking
Pinon Rice Bake from Karina's Kitchen
(Want even more recipes with pine nuts? I find these recipes from other blogs using Food Blog Search.)


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Guest artist pianist Rob Auler will perform at Hope College on Saturday, April 9, at 7:30 p.m. in Dimnent Memorial Chapel.
The public is invited. Admission is free.
The program will include "Variations Serieuses, Op. 54," by Felix Mendelsshon; "Spiral for Solo Piano" and "Shards for Solo Piano," by Jonathan Pieslak; "Upstate: A Slow Drag," by Carter Pann; "Turning for Solo Piano," by Derek Bermel; and "Mephisto Waltz, No. 1," by Franz Liszt.
Robert Auler, who is a piano professor at SUNY Oswego, is an award-winning American concert pianist who maintains a national and international performing career. Auler has won numerous competitions, including the Society of American Musicians First Prize.
Following his success in the Young Keyboard Artists' Association Piano Competition, Auler was invited to perform throughout Germany, France, the Netherlands and Denmark. He has also presented concerts throughout Venezuela, most notably at Caracas' "Festival A Tiempo."
In April 2008, Auler presented concerts throughout Austria, including an appearance on the "Alte-Shmeide Gallery Series" in Vienna, as well as a concert at the international "Ignaz Pleyel Musuem" in Ruppersthal. Auler has also appeared in concert throughout the United States, including on the "Xavier Piano and Guitar Series," at City College of New York, as a featured artist on the MTNA Convention's "Rising Star Series," and on the "Dame Myra Hess" series in Chicago with a live simulcast on Chicago's WFMT-FM Radio. He made his Carnegie Hall debut in June 2004.
As a chamber musician he has recently appeared with the Ying Quartet, the MIRO Quartet, cellist Julie Albers and violinist Irina Muresanu, and has been the resident pianist for the Michigan City Chamber Music Festival for the past eight years. As a concerto soloist, Rob has appeared with the Northwest Florida Symphony, the Arc Ensemble, the Champaign-Urbana Symphony, the Illinois Valley Symphony Orchestra, the Simon Bolivar Orchestra, the Blue Lake Festival Orchestra and the LaPorte Symphony.
Auler is an advocate of new music, having worked with William Bolcom, Steve Reich, Leslie Bassett, Martin Bresnick, Rudolf Haken, Frederic Rzewski, Jonathan Pieslak and Carter Pann.
His festival performances have included appearances at the Aspen Music Festival, Music Academy of the West, Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp, the MUSIC 200x Series in Cincinnati and Brave New Works-Ann Arbor. His recent compact disc release, "American Century," features music of the last 100 years influenced by the American vernacular.
Dimnent Memorial Chapel is located at 277 College Ave., on College Avenue at 12th Street.


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Gov. Rick Perry, speaking to a crowd of transportation officials from across the state, proposed Friday to dedicate a portion of future vehicle sales tax revenue to help fund the state's road projects.
Perry also said he's "open" to a proposal being floated in the Senate to tap up to $6 billion to help fund water and transportation projects.
"We need to find a big solution to our transportation challenges, and I happen to think now is the time," Perry said at a Texas Lyceum conference in downtown Austin.
Perry's sales tax plan calls for leveraging Texas' population boom to tap future revenue stemming from growth in the state's 6.25 percent sales tax levied on all vehicles purchases for transportation infrastructure.
"I would suggest to you I like it because it's not a new tax. It's not a new fee," he said. "We'd be taking a portion of future sales tax and dedicate it to a more efficient and productive experience for the people buying the cars in the first place.
Perry did not put a dollar figure on how much could be generated by dedicating a portion of auto sales tax dollars. But he said by "using strategic debt management, enhancing the existing infrastructure fund, ending Highway Fund diversions, investing Rainy Day Funds and future sales tax collections," the state could come up with $41 billion in road projects over the next two decades.
Speaking to reporters after his speech, Perry also weighed in on the Senate's plan to dip into the Rainy Day fund to take $6 billion from the Rainy Day Fund for water and highway projects, saying "I'm open to their ideas."


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Tuesday, April 3, 2012
* Spring Break and Peep Dioramas
The girls and I are on Spring Break this week.
I'm taking the week off of blogging to hang out with my girls -
so today I'll post my old Peep Dioramas to celebrate Easter.
In 2008, I entered my first Peep Diorama,
"Sesame Peep"
In 2010, I made my favorite
"Goodnight Peep" Diorama.
I donated my dioramas to my daughter's elementary school library.
Last year, in 2011, I made this
"Vincent Van Peep's Starry Night" Diorama
No, I didn't have time to make a diorama this year,
there were too many family obligations and birthday parties
but yes, there will be Peeps in the girls' easter baskets this year!
I'll be back next week...
Happy Spring!
Pink and Green Mama
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Senshi wrote:You can also add this line:
"game.setMinNrOfPlayers 0" to a basic common file that gets called for every map. Like the soldier.inc. That goes for every SSM modding/setting you want to apply for ALL maps.
Thanks for the additional info. I looked for soldier.inc and wasn't able to find it. Were you referring to the files in "bf1942/game/common"? They are "AmericanNames.con", etc. If so, presumably I would have to add the setting to all five of those files.
Would the server executable need to be patched to allow this? I'm referring to the patch tuia found for freddy that eliminates restrictions on otherwise restricted commands like "game.killPlayer" (see above).


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Family Speaks Out On Symptoms Of The Swine Flu Outbreak!
CBS reports "Harry Smith spoke with a Texas family who contracted Swine flu but are recovering without difficulty. Dr. Jennifer Ashton outlined the symptoms of swine flu. "
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"...come out of nowhere and just ream right into the side of the twin tower, exploding through the other side...and then I
witnessed both towers collapse, one first then the second. Mostly due to structural failure because the fire was just too intense."
Mark Adrian Humphrey successfully claimed copyright infringement on the FOX news footage in which he denies playing any role! How is that possible? Why would he now want this clip to vanish?
"I'm the one that came up with the plan to go undercover as a phony witness so that I could get rid of the real witnesses."
C-list actor Mark Adrian Humphrey was serendipitously ID'ed on December 28, 2008 during an investigation into the background of the questionable person of Ace Baker and his affiliates by myself and more particularly due to the heroic and laudable efforts of 'Fred' aka BSregistration of 911 Octopus fame. Within days shills were suddenly activated, countering this important revelation by proposing instead newsman Bob Woodruff, Rob Riggle...even dragging Jimmy Fallon into the mix. Which, if it wasn't so pathetic, so criminal, might be laughable.
The comparison images have been relentlessly deleted at the source, the youtube videos censored, whole threads disappeared at http://911movement.org by the InvisionsFree management and ongoing slander campaigns initiated. The perps are definitely becoming desperate and running scared. It's certain that this happenstance recognition was never anticipated.
The fake Harley Guy witness is, I assert, actor Mark Humphrey.
Humphrey has updated his original demo reel, removing the portion from which the first comparison stills were taken. Harley's profile in the original comparison is somewhat distorted by the two unfortunate light points washing into it. But most people can figure that out.
[*For key background information see: Who's Behind The 'KSA' Stalker Blog? Genghis & Col Jenny Sparks, that's who]
Iris Concealment?
As Simon Shack has shown, nothing unusual for 911 actors
Here we also see Harley morphing into a figure reminiscent of a certain familiar pointy-eared devil known for being logical.
Also notice the hand...
Or perhaps he better resembles that dubious character of myth so infamous for his damnable deceptions?
Sporting at various moments a long, sharp, pixel-smeared nose or with it squashed flat against his face...only those elven ears are relatively constant throughout the first portion of the scene.
Why does the brim of his hat retains its integrity while his face is a gelatin storm below?
How is it that FOX's Rick Leventhal remains unaffected by such distortions?
Or does he?
Are they even originally present together sharing the same video moment? Does the lighting seem discrepant? Does the background cohere?
Is this whole mess just a green screened collage? Just a digital construct?
So is it even "real time"?
Iron Eagle 2: A study in Mark Humphrey's eyebrows and simulated explosions
Don't get it twisted fucker...this shit is fake.
[Just like director Chuck Bowman and psyop songbird Dennis Madalone did, as shall be seen.]
"We're still investigating that possibility..."
- Roger Cross as the U.S. President in Polar Storm [2009]
* Here's the node connecting Mark Humphrey with Ace Baker, Scientology, Elie Samaha's Phoenician Entertainment subsidiary Franchise Pictures, and the charges which the FBI brought against that company for defrauding investors of over $75 million in a single count.
Hereafter to be known as the 'Franchise Film Flop Fraud' (FFFF)
"Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones have pulled out of the planned production of Monkeyface, a decision that has doomed the project, FoxNews.com's Roger Friedman reported Tuesday...Friedman quoted director Stephen Frears as saying that the project simply "fell apart" last Friday. He suggested that the collapse may have been triggered by producer Elie Samaha's 'mysterious ways of financing a film.' Samaha, head of Franchise Pictures, is a nightclub owner who uses unconventional methods -- principally personal connections -- to finance films, which include the Bruce Willis hit The Whole Nine Yards and the John Travolta flop Battlefield Earth."
"Intertainment's story is simple, said its attorney Scott Edelman. Intertainment chief Barry Baeres was "ripped off" by Franchise's Elie Samaha, 'a wily street-smart salesman from the world of dry cleaners, celebrities and clubs.'"
Prosecutors play Pellicano wiretaps
"...The government kicked off Wednesday's sesh in its wiretapping trial against the P.I. by playing an extended conversation between Lisa Gores and her former brother-in-law Tom after an aborted assignation at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
...During one call played early in the day, for example, Pellicano ranted to Giuseppe Corsaro, the owner of Giuseppe Franco salon in BevHills, about sworn declarations by two of his stylists that were causing problems in his case against late producer Aaron Russo ["drive him off the road and bury his body in the desert"].
'I was told a long time ago I should protect you and look out for you," Pellicano said, adding, "I respect you as a member of the Family.'
And during a recording with producer Andrew Stevens played at the end of the day, Pellicano turned on full smarm, pressing Stevens about a VIP card to a club he owned with Elie Samaha in between trash talking Intertainment execs he had wiretapped to aid Stevens' aborted defamation suit against Intertainment USA prexy Stephen Brown.
'Is this guy a player? Is Stephen Brown someone we should pay attention to?' he quizzed before digressing to discuss his VIP request.
Being on the list at the door simply wasn't good enough for the P.I., and Stevens, a self-described hothead, apologized if he had offended the private eye. This prompted Pellicano to affirm his loyalty, something he tended to do often, based on the recorded calls.
'I'm Sicilian,' Pellicano said. 'If you're with me, you're with me. I'm going to take care of you.'"
Mark Humphrey is the child of the late Jack Humphrey [born John R. Humphrey in St. Boniface, Manitoba], a producer of the long-running Canadian television series The King of Kensington and later Silver Spoons and The Facts of Life.
Director John Putch, son of actress Jean Stapleton.
Director Rob Bowman, son of director Chuck Bowman.
Operation Snow White was the Church of Scientology's name for a project during the 1970s to purge unfavorable records about Scientology and its founder L. Ron Hubbard. This project included a series of infiltrations and thefts from 136 government agencies, foreign embassies and consulates, as well as private organizations critical of Scientology, carried out by Church members, in more than 30 countries; the single largest infiltration of the United States government in history...Under this program, Scientology operatives committed infiltration, wiretapping, and theft of documents in government offices, most notably those of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service.
Let's pick up the shill thread...
Meet Weezula aka Darren McNulty of Barrie, Ontario who is manifestly acting as Mark Humphrey's representative.
Weezula clarifies:
Here's Weezula (while denying any affiliation) defending Scientology in 2007 using a Scientology front site for reference and specifically selecting one particular professor, a public opponent of Scientology, for condemnation. The exchange was apparently initiated with the hope of associating the professor, who taught at Carnegie Mellon, with Weezula' thread antagonist, who was a student there. Such is the logic of the Scientologist.
Weezula Shocker!
Curiously, weezula aka Darren McNulty initially offered up Bryan's brother when he commented during the the first days up of the first ever video exposing Mark Humphrey as the Harley Shirt Guy.
Indeed. Small world. One wonders at the source of Darren's sudden insight.
*Both Mark W. Hindle and Karl Pruner worked on the Canadian series E.N.G which was Mark Humphrey's breakout role [playing Jake the cameraman] and directed by Art Hindle.
Offspring - an Art Hindle production starring Art Hindle as George
This is Darren with his wife, Amanda Stevens McNulty, who seems like a very nice woman...but who clearly is handicapped by the blind spot in her judgment of men. It's like that Mark Humphrey movie: Living with the Enemy
"I have my own thing that I like to do on computers...My circle is full of relatives."
And while I would never make any accusations, I can't help but wondering about Weezula aka Darren McNulty's familial relationship to actor Kevin McNulty of the infamous Lone Gunmen "9-11 prediction" X-Files spinoff...
I would be very surprised to find out that the same group of actors, scriptwriters, and directors that worked with Ace Baker were also involved in the production of this infamous video...
And I would be downright shocked if I found out that not only was the director involved with Ace Baker but that he also produced a notorious psyop "music video" with the very same crew and featuring some of the same fake-firemen/actors from the Naudet psyop!
And I'd even be more shocked if I learned that the McNulty gang were tied by marriage to the Aspen Institute and a bogus scholarship grant set up for some phony 9-11 victims (along with Dick Cheney and Henry Kissinger).
But then again, these days nothing surprises me, Darren., er.. I mean "Tex."
Let me ask you, do you like where this is going?
Because it gets better! Could it turn out that the direct financial beneficiaries of the 9-11 attacks are also behind KSA Scott Vincent, Ace Baker, the fake "truth movement", and various financial scams related to the fake 9-11 victims?
Would it be surprising if the same group has been convicted in US courts and already fined $75 million for a fraud linked to Scientology and that some of the principals are living in Israel to avoid extradition to the USA?
Some background on Ace and doppelganger looping
Ken Stacey cover
With Kevin McNulty [1995]
Kevin McNulty appearances on 21 Jump Street (with Peter DeLuise)
Feast of San Gennaro
Dom Deluise and family at Jimmy Kimmel's Feast of San Gennaro, L.A.
Dom Deluise on a Hellbound Plane
John P McNulty Award Ceremony
Laughing leadership leader John Mcnulty's tributes fashioned like
Vicsim Script
Kevin McNulty is the sherrif in The Uninvited (2009)
Chuck Madalone and 'Wild Bill' Mock worked together on The Secret Agent Club just after they did Direct Hit together with Chuck's son (and 9/11 psyop songbird) Dennis Madalone


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Godiva's Cup of Joe and Winners of the Food Gal Contest
You can nibble a chocolate truffle with your coffee. Or you can sip a cup of Joe that tastes like a heavenly chocolate truffle.
You can now that Godiva Chocolatier has introduced a line of coffees inspired by their chocolate bonbons.
The flavored coffees come ground in these varieties: French Vanilla, Hazelnut Creme, Chocolate Truffle, and Caramel. Available at Safeway, SaveMart, Lucky and Raley's, a 12-ounce bag is $8.99.
I had a chance to try samples of the Chocolate Truffle and Hazelnut Creme. I'm not always a fan of flavored coffees because some of them taste so artificial or overpowering.
The Godiva ones, though, were quite balanced. You could still taste the roasty, smooth Arabica beans that had just a twinge of that wonderful coffee bitterness even with the added chocolate or hazelnut flavorings. Indeed, the Chocolate Truffle coffee flavor is like a coffee candy that has a little rounded chocolate flavor added, as opposed to a full-on chocolate bonbon with a tiny espresso bean on top. As much of a chocoholic as I am, I think I liked the hazelnut one even more because of its nutty, almost creamy nature.
The steamy aromas are so seductive, too.
And now, for the winners of the "Spread It On" contest:
I say "winners" because I decided not only to award a grand prize of three Laxmi's Delights flaxseed spreads, but two runners-up awards who will each receive a cookbook from my collection.
This contest asked you to "spread the word" about one to three things about yourself that you are proud of.
Unlike other contests in the past, this one didn't attract quite as many entries, possibly because we still are so reluctant to boast about ourselves in public even if egged on to do so. To the brave few who did enter, I thank you for your inspiring and touching responses. You absolutely deserve to be proud about each and every one of your achievements.
Here are the winners:
First runner-up: Mardi, who wrote, "1. I moved to Paris at the age of 24 on my own. No friends, no job, no course enrolled on and no place to live. I stayed 6 years and climbed to the top of my career ladder there. Proud of that.
2. I am currently undertaking my (6 year, part-time) PhD as well as working full time and working my way through a Food and the Media Certificate. I am nothing, if not busy! As I am about to turn 40 this year, I think it's quite the accomplishment to be starting new things..
3. After having really gotten into yoga in the past 4 years, I am really starting to learn to 'let go' of the little things and try to look at the big picture. Not easy, getting there!"
Second runner-up: Lisa, who wrote, "1) give people the benefit of doubt. For instance, if another driver cuts my husband off in traffic, I make excuses for that driver. 'Maybe they have children in the backseat who are distracting her/him!' I suggest.
2) No matter what life throws my way (and my life wasn't always easy, for instance my father left us when I was
was 13), I vow not to become bitter and hardened to life.
3) I'm very sensitive and empathetic. I'm usually the first to notice when someone is upset or needs help."
Grand prize winner: Tana Butler, who wrote, "1) Though I applied for a food-related fellowship which I did not win, the application process validated that my collective experiences and talents (photography, writing, graphic design) are worth at least one college degree, if not a Masters as well. I overcame 30 years of self-recrimination for not having finished college at Prestigious University. I am at peace with myself about something that was once a horrible scar.
2) My passion and skill for networking (good people with other good people, good things, etc.) is a constant gift that supports my community, especially as it centers around sustainable food systems.
3) The commitment to raising our grandson has deprived us financially in the extreme, but the rewards are infinite…from his lilting voice to his velcro-hugs, to the praise we get from everyone in the family services system here in Santa Cruz county. We have not only saved a life, we have planted love in a superstar who clearly gives it back to his own friends and family on a daily basis. (Secret side effect? I'm younger than I was five years ago!)"
To claim your prize: Send an email to me (you can use the link on the right-hand rail of the homepage) with the words "Spread It On Contest Winner" in the guide. Include your full name and mailing address.


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Google Is Ready to Go 'Gangnam' in Asia
New Regional Chief, Karim Temsamani, Details Plans to Monetize Mobile Growth and the Role of Google+
Google Inc. had a big year in Asia, with "Gangnam Style," the boisterous viral tune by South Korean rapper Psy, breaking records for its YouTube subsidiary—a phenomenon that illustrated the potential for growth across the region, both in terms of users and content.
But the road for Google in Asia hasn't always been smooth. Three years ago, the Mountain View, Calif., company defied the government of China—home to more than 500 million Internet users—when it pulled its Web search engine from the mainland and redirected it to Hong Kong after a confrontation over censorship. And challenges remain. In early March, a Chinese government research institute criticized the company's Android operating system, accusing the search giant of using its dominance to discriminate against local companies. Google has declined to comment on the allegations.
Education: European Business School, 1995.
Career: Became Google's new head of Asia-Pacific operations in January. Mr. Temsamani was most recently the vice president of products and solutions for the Americas region. Between 2010 and 2012, he was Google's head of global mobile operations, overseeing the expansion of the company's mobile advertising business.
Extracurricular: Skiing and golf, as regularly as possible.
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Google is expanding Android for smartphones and other mobile-computing devices throughout Asia, and vital to that push will be its new Asia-Pacific chief, Karim Temsamani, who ran the company's mobile operations between 2010 and 2012.
Mr. Temsamani, a 39-year-old Australian who hails from France, recently spoke with The Wall Street Journal about how the company plans to monetize mobile growth and why it is standing by its fledgling social-networking site Google+. Edited excerpts:
WSJ: What opportunities do you see in the Asian-Pacific region?
Mr. Temsamani: What excites me the most about Asia-Pacific is that Internet users in this region are in many ways ahead of other regions in the world, especially in terms of mobile and video, which are our two key priorities. In markets like Japan, people have been using their mobile phones to access information for years, but we've also seen other countries in the region catch up. On the video front, YouTube has grown tremendously in Asia. Businesses and artists, from K-pop musicians in Korea to makeup artists in Australia, are using it in many different ways.
People in this region are moving ahead with mobile payments, and they are also creating information, like they did with maps during crisis situations in Japan. What we learn from users in the Asia-Pacific region can be applied to other parts of the world to improve our services and products.
WSJ: What are the challenges for Google in the region?
Mr. Temsamani: If I see one challenge for mobile businesses, it is that, even in Asia-Pacific, more than half of the companies in the region don't even have mobile-optimized sites. The experience of users visiting a business website on their mobile devices can be a very underwhelming experience. They go to a desktop site and they have to play with the device trying to enlarge the page. Some of the content may not be viewable, or it may not be possible to complete a purchase because the site is not mobile-optimized.
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Given the opportunities that will arise in the next couple of years for companies following users on mobile devices, the current state of many businesses that are not waking up to the challenge is actually quite alarming.
WSJ: How do you monetize the mobile growth in Asia?
Mr. Temsamani: The first way is through search advertising. We continue to invest heavily in products that make it easier for people to get to the answers they want on their devices, even before they ask questions.
For example, we offer Click-to-Call, which, alongside search results for businesses like hotels and restaurants, displays links that people can click to make phone calls to those businesses. Our location extensions make it easier for people to find shops or restaurants on maps.
The second aspect of monetization on mobile devices is through display ads, both on mobile websites or mobile apps. We have display ads that users either view or click on. On YouTube we also have a similar product that charges the advertiser only when viewers click on the ad.
WSJ: We are seeing many software companies moving into the hardware space. Does Google plan to compete more aggressively in this space?
Mr. Temsamani: We are not fully becoming a hardware company per se.
We work with a number of [hardware] partners through Android and Chrome. From time to time, we work with some partners to produce a device that really pushes the boundary with regard to what it can offer to users.
We have the ability to think through how users want to use their devices, and what properties and technical abilities those devices should have to provide the best-possible experience. That's one of the reasons we need to have those Google co-branded devices. It helps lift the overall ecosystem.
WSJ: Your social-networking site Google+ hasn't really taken off in Asia. Why is that?
Mr. Temsamani: I challenge that view. We are actually seeing great progress across the region. Japan, for example, is growing very fast for Google+. We are satisfied with the advances we are making.
For us, it's not really about making Google+ the ultimate destination. We want to assure that, when people are on YouTube, for example, they also have an engagement with Google+ to share their experiences with the people they care about.
WSJ: How is your business in China doing?
Mr. Temsamani: There is a lot of opportunity and room for us to make an impact in China, and we are in regular contact with the government.
The rise of smartphones has made China a top-five market for ad requests for our mobile-advertising network, AdMob, which works across Apple's iOS and Android. Beijing-based mobile game developer Chukong, for example, used click-to-download AdMob ads to promote game downloads.
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More than $600,000 has been raised for Karen Klein - a 68-year-old bus monitor who was verbally abused by a group of middle school students.
Video of students taunting and insulting Klein was uploaded onto YouTube last Tuesday. A day later, an online campaign was started with the intention of raising at least $5,000 for Klein to be able to take a nice vacation.
Through the power of the Internet, the campaign has well exceeded its fundraising goal. At the time of this posting, donations to Klein have risen over $635,000.
The campaign for Klein doesn't end until July 20th, meaning donations to the bullied bus monitor will continue to rise.
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — After two lean years caused by summer drought and winter cold, it looks as if there will be plenty of crawfish for Super Bowl Sunday — one of the biggest days of the year for Louisiana's crawfish dealers.
Last year's wetter summer and a relatively warm and wet winter are boosting the early crop for a season that peaks in April and May. January downpours that flooded crawfish ponds will dent the total, but it's still the best early season in years, say people in the business.
"I'm buying 150 to 200 sacks a day," said Ricky Phillips, owner of Phillips Seafood in the Iberville Parish community of Bayou Pigeon. "This time last year and the year before I was buying 30 or 40."
He said he's paying farmers and fishers $1.50 to $1.75 a pound, compared with $3.50 to $4 a year ago. Sacks usually run 30-40 pounds.
Prices generally drop as the season progresses. But most say it's too early to predict how prices will fare over the course of the harvest season.
The lower January prices won't necessarily show up as big savings in restaurants and stores, but consumers can expect to find crawfish more easily. Some sellers said they held prices down last year even thought they were paying more for crawfish.
"Even if we're paying $4 for them, we can't go over $4.99 a pound for boiled crawfish," said Kenan Buchert, owner of KJean Seafood in New Orleans. He said that's his price now, and it was the same this time last year, when the crustaceans were all but impossible to get. He's charging $2.95 a pound for live crawfish, also the same as last year.
The previous year's weather plays a big part in every crawfish season. Females seal themselves into underground burrows in May and early June and stay there, eating nothing, until the first heavy rain after their eggs hatch in the fall. Because they breathe through gills, they'll die if their burrows dry out entirely.
"As long as their gills are moist, they can breathe," said Greg Lutz, aquaculture specialist and professor at the Louisiana State University AgCenter in Baton Rouge.
A dry burrow in autumn means the eggs, which are carried in a mass under the tail, won't set properly, Lutz said. The number of eggs varies with the mother's size. The average is about 150, and a large female can have more than 500.
If there's enough water for a successful hatch, the babies stay under the mother's tail until she removes the clay seal she created and comes out of her hole. "She will not come out of her burrow until she senses there's been a heavy rainfall," Lutz said. "We don't understand whether they hear it or sense the humidity in the soil around them."
However she knows, lack of a downpour could keep a female that laid eggs in September underground until November, Lutz said. "By then, maybe only one-fourth of her babies are still alive."
For two years, there were fewer babies than usual and they didn't show up in ponds until late fall. Cold winters kept the cold-blooded critters from doing much of anything, including eating and growing.
"This past summer, nature was a little kinder to the crawfish farmers," Lutz said.
Last year's totals for farm-raised crawfish aren't in, and wild harvest figures run a year behind those. But the 2011 farm crop was the biggest and most lucrative in a decade, at 111.9 million pounds and $195.8 million dollars, according to the AgCenter's annual reports. However, the harvest per acre was the sixth-lowest from 2002 to 2011 .
And the farmers worked longer to get it, said Stephen Minvielle, director of the state Crawfish Research and Promotion Board. They usually stop producing in May, when the wild harvest ramps up in the Atchafalaya Spillway. The water there was so low for the past two years that buyers asked farmers to keep harvesting, he said.
The increased early harvest comes in a year of high demand. There's need throughout the Carnival parade season leading up to Mardi Gras.
And the biggest single days for crawfish boils are always the Super Bowl, Easter and Mother's Day, Phillips said.
"Most everybody wants to boil crawfish on Super Bowl Sunday," he said.
Even when the game isn't in town.
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When it comes to household and family to-dos, I love to see what I can accomplish in the shortest possible time. It's so much easier to dive right in when you're only committing to a few minutes, agrees Ellen Kosloff, a time-management expert at Task Masters in New York City. "Besides, when we try to do too much at once we can feel paralyzed and overwhelmed." Her solution? Shrink big, tedious chores to a manageable size. What works best for me is spending minutes—and in some cases mere seconds—doing at least a portion of those chores. See for yourself. Try tackling any of the following tasks—each one takes less than seven minutes. You just might find you'll get lots done—and wonder how you did so much in so little time!
Pare Down Paper
- Keep documents orderly. Don't just drop papers relating to insurance, renovations and your home business onto a common stack. File them in separate labeled folders, and you'll know just where to find the specific policy or bill of sale you need.
- Stand next to a recycling container while opening mail. Toss in the junk items, then open everything else, chucking envelopes and the flyers inserted with bills into the bin.
- Consolidate bill paying. If you pay each bill when it's due, you'll be handling bills several times each month. Instead, pay all bills at the same time for efficiency.
- Organize your memories. Date-label packets of freshly processed photos. Writing, "June 15, 2005, family trip to Disney World," on the packet will make tracking easier when you're looking for the perfect photo for your family Christmas card.
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When guests come over, what's your "trouble spot" that you most want to fix up or hide in a hurry?
Clean Routine
- Vacuum high-traffic carpet areas twice per week—even if they appear spotless. It's a slam-dunk time-wise compared to vacuuming a truly grubby carpet.
- Use a treated cloth (such as a Swiffer) on your hardwood floors and stairs in between regular vacuuming or wet-mopping. "The cloths get rid of all those dust bunnies, as well as cat hair and dander," says Miyo Amaral Bonvolanta of Chicago.
- Do a "good enough" job now. Many chores aren't worth doing perfectly every time. If the shower stall or tub needs cleaning, do a quick-scrub or use a shower spray that cuts soap scum. Save surrounding tile and floors for a big cleaning day.
- Use disposable moist cloths for fast bathroom wipe-downs. Hit the sink first, then the toilet tank lid, seat and base.
- Before leaving the house in the morning, scatter Tang crystals in your toilet bowl and swish it around with a brush. "When you return home, swish again and flush for sparkling results," advises Maia Gibb of dustingdivas.com, a site that promotes nontoxic cleaners.
- Start clearing out the junk drawer. The entire job could take hours, but removing items such as loose string or small papers will chip away at the mess a little at a time.
- Jane Boursaw of Traverse City, Michigan, lets laundry build up in one huge basket. But on wash day, she saves time by sorting everything into separate piles—light and dark clothes, towels, sheets—before starting the first load. "That way I can just grab a pile and toss it in the washer without having to stop and sort between each load," she says.
- Cultivate cleaning rituals. Amaral Bonvolanta runs her dishwasher at night before bed and unloads it every morning while making toast for the family.
- Do a quick tidy-up last thing at night. Re-shelve books, stack magazines and put hobby-related materials back in their proper places. Drop clothing from the day in the hamper, and make sure your keys are where you'll expect to find them in the morning.
What Do You Most Want to Hide?
When guests come over, what's your "trouble spot" that you most want to fix up or hide in a hurry?
Fast Kitchen Tips
- Cluster cooking chores. When making a casserole that includes three chopped garlic cloves and a salad dressing that calls for two, chop three cloves, set them aside, and immediately chop the other two. Do the same with other ingredients such as onions. That way you're only cleaning the knife and chopping board once.
- Look for ways to double-task. Making tea? Put water on to boil and take a few minutes to wipe the kitchen counter, or check the fridge for old condiments or no-longer-fresh produce you can toss. While talking on the phone, bake cookies. My friend Linda clips her portable phone to the pocket of her jeans, dons her headset, and makes her soccer-mom calls as she mixes and bakes. Be sure to set the kitchen timer so you don't burn the cookies!
- Sort and stash just-bought grocery items in their proper places. I used to stuff plastic bags full of produce on the bottom shelf of the fridge to deal with later. But I ended up wasting time rummaging through those bags to find the right veggies for dinner. Now I unwrap everything and put it in the crisper right away, where I can easily find what I need.
What Do You Most Want to Hide?
When guests come over, what's your "trouble spot" that you most want to fix up or hide in a hurry?
Kidding Around
- Make tidying fun. When the toy-strewn living room has you near meltdown, clap your hands and say, "Let's see who can get 10 items back in the toy box first. I'm timing you—Ready, Set, Go!" If even half the mess is cleared up, you're ahead of the game!
- Be playful. When Kia, a friend's 2-year-old, balks at brushing her teeth, she can drag the whole thing out for half an hour. So her mom sings the request: "Now it's time to brush your teeth, brush your teeth, brush your teeth." This makes Kia laugh—and eager to brush.
- Stockpile gifts for other children. "I buy when I see great gifts for kids the same age as our daughters, who are 6 and 11," says Jeffrey Lee of Seattle, author of Catch a Fish, Throw a Ball, Fly a Kite: 21 Timeless Skills Every Child Should Know and Any Parent Can Teach (Crown). "Now we don't face frantic, last-minute buying on the day of a birthday party."
- Review and update your calendar with each child's activities. (You won't show up for a school swim meet on the wrong day!) Boursaw recommends writing directly on your calendar rather than on sticky notes. "Otherwise you spend extra minutes transferring the notes later," she says.
- Encourage kids to load their backpacks when their homework is done. "This will save you battling sleepy kids in the morning when they're getting ready for school," says Lee.
- Give help now, not later. If your 6-year-old needs a little help with his homework, take time out from whatever you're doing. You'll not only save him some frustration, but helping your child is always time well spent—no matter how long it takes!
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It's not really a call from beyond the grave, but it kinda feels like it. I gave up being sad about my stolen iPhone (happened in Grenoble, France this past July) and assumed it had long-since been wiped clean and passed on to someone new in a flea market in eastern europe. But then I get this odd email, from an obscure application I had been testing that emails your location at a regular interval (when activated) so you can have someone track you.
My iPhone had been quiet for 4 months. And then today I get two emails from the app (iPhoneLocUpdater), telling me it's having a great time in Algeria. I've moved on; I have my iPhone4S now, which works even better, in addition to my fake iPhone5. But that phone and its apps reflect who I am, so it's personal to me and if I could push a button and remotely vaporize it, I'd gladly do so.


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The invention of the career ladder
The dreary, hunched Victorian office clerk, with his ink-stained fingers and pale skin, is a classic figure. They were magically motivated by the invention of the "career ladder", explains Lucy Kellaway.
Charles Dickens loved them.
There are 104 in his collected works - though in my head they've merged into a single downtrodden, skeletal figure, dressed always in dusty black.
Describing running into a fellow clerk in St James Park in April 1835, Dickens writes: "He was a tall, thin, pale person, in a black coat. He had an umbrella in his hand - not for use, for the day was fine - but, evidently, because he always carried one to the office in the morning."
In 1851, there were 140,000 office workers - making up just 2.5% of the workforce. But by 1911 the number had grown to almost a million.
In London, the rise was fastest of all - the need for pen-pushers to track the explosion in trade was making it into the black-coated capital of the world.
But was it really the inky drudgery that Dickens described?
A Manchester magazine described how clerks in the 1860s would "disappear mysteriously down passages or into doorways that lead to narrow staircases, some doubtless to little tanks like that in which poor Bob Cratchit toiled under Scrooge's uncharitable eye while others are absorbed into dingy warehouses that look as dreary as prisons".
In these wretched counting houses boredom ruled. The work was repetitive and mind-bendingly dull, leaving clerks exhausted by the end of the day.
An article in Liverpool's Daily Post from 1877 noted: "The clerk returns home tired, certainly, but there is this difference between his and the mechanic's fatigue, he is tired of, not with his work."
It wasn't just the boredom. The status wasn't what it had been 50 years earlier and the money had got worse too. Much of the wage had to go on keeping up appearances - the absolute necessity of the black suit, and the need to rent a house in the terraces of Clapham and elsewhere.
Often, to make ends meet, clerks would sublet rooms to manual workers, who were almost certainly earning more than they were. Worse still, the manual workers, far from respecting the better educated clerks, actually looked down on them.
One clerk, Benjamin Orchard, wrote the following bitter account of his existence in 1871:
"We aren't real men. We don't do men's work. Pen-drivers - miserable little pen-drivers - fellows in black coats, with inky fingers and shiny seats on their trousers - that's what we are. Think of crossing T's and dotting I's all day long. No wonder bricklayers and omnibus drivers have contempt for us. We haven't even health."
But it's possible that some of the gloom and doom may have been overdone.
Being a clerk was a good job for the time. This was a group of middle or lower middle class workers with relatively comfortable lives.
In the Museum of London is a clerk's desk taken from Barings Bank in 1890. It is a high desk with a high chair, and on it ledger and quills. It actually looks quite nice. Nothing like as grim as Dickens would have us believe.
"The physical environment was pretty good," says Alex Werner, head of collections at the museum.
"It's quite a different picture to the image we have of Christmas Carol and Bob Cratchit sitting by the fire trying to keep warm. This clerk would have been quite comfortable."
One book that captures the clerk's suburban lifestyle is the Grossmiths' Diary of a Nobody, in which the hero is the buffoonish petty-snob Charles Pooter (who specialises in domestic escapades such as managing to paint himself red in his bath).
If Pooter's account is to be believed, clerical work in the 1880s was stress-free and even borderline-agreeable.
I'm inclined to think the Grossmiths knew what they were talking about because in Pooter they created a character who reminds me of at least half the middle managers I've ever met - he's got that wildly inflated idea of his own importance and a sublime ignorance of how others see him.
"April 28 - At the office, the new and very young clerk Pitt, who was very impudent to me a week or so ago, was late again. I told him it would be my duty to inform Mr Perkupp, the principal. To my surprise, Pitt apologised most humbly and in a most gentlemanly fashion. I was unfeignedly pleased to notice this improvement in his manner towards me, and told him I would look over his unpunctuality. Passing down the room an hour later, I received a smart smack in the face from a rolled-up ball of hard foolscap. I turned round sharply, but all the clerks were apparently riveted to their work. I am not a rich man, but I would give half-a-sovereign to know whether that was thrown by accident or design."
But even Pooter doesn't pretend the work is interesting. So how did the million-strong army of clerks cope with such tedium?
Partly, their lives were becoming easier, thanks to pensions and laws of employment. But more important still was the invention in the late 19th Century of the career ladder.
This idea - stolen from the military - was sheer genius when applied to office work. Promotion made the workers happier, giving them status - of the sort that pathetic Pooter craved - and some sort of emotional boost.
More important still, the ladder was a crafty way of exerting control. If you are hoping for promotion, you behave. Which means your managers don't have to keep such a close eye on you.
In the Lloyds Bank archive, far underground, is a big ledger of names of clerks who worked there in the 19th Century. There are also the workers' reports, which certainly didn't pull any punches.
"There were scathing judgments about individuals," says Alan McKinlay from Newcastle University.
"Didn't grow into manhood. Too small a juvenile appearance, hunched shoulders. Voice a little peculiar. Also somebody who was too short sighted. Redhead or jug ear." The practice seems to have been particularly cruel in Scotland.
There were no euphemisms about opportunities for improvement, no 360-degree appraisals. If they were marked down for having red hair, well that was just tough.
Conformity was rewarded, then as now. Modern corporations still prefer people who toe the corporate line, even if they pretend to value those who think outside the box.
In the 19th Century, there was no such nonsense. The Bank of Scotland was specific about wanting courtesy, patience and self-effacement and workers were warned that "cranks - artistic, scientific, religious or political - never succeed".
Back then, bankers were seen as the aristocracy of clerks. They were paid more and had better conditions. Sound familiar?
But what doesn't sound familiar at all was that a banking career was then seen as a moral duty.
In 1912, AW Kerr, a senior figure in Scottish banking, gave an address to a packed meeting of the Institute of Bankers in Edinburgh.
"The banker engages in capitalistic economising not purely as a matter of expediency, of constrained adaptation to the mundane necessity of making a living, but in the expectation that such activity would test his inner resources as a person in charge of his own existence, and affirm his human worth," he said.
Those were different times. Though, curiously, since the financial crisis top bankers are once again banging on about human worth.
Just a couple of months ago the new head of Barclays gave a speech in which he told staff that if they didn't hold values such as respect, integrity and stewardship dear, they should quit.
Kerr, I think, would have approved.
Then, as now, the rank and file may have seen it rather differently.
A sketch by Robert Shirlaw, who worked at the bank in 1900, shows a clerk who has climbed a stair of ledgers and is waving a victory flag. He looks pretty pleased with himself there at the top, yet trapped below him are squashed clerical workers.
The caption reads: "We climb upwards on the stepping stones of our own dead selves."
This piece is based on an edited transcript of Lucy Kellaway's History of Office Life, produced by Russell Finch, of Somethin' Else, for Radio 4. Episode four, The Arrival of Women in the Office, is broadcast at 13:45 BST on 25 July


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Ali Farag (left) and Brandon McLaughlin (right) were named All-Americans by the CSA (photos Gil Talbot).
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Ali Farag and Brandon McLaughlin, both sophomores on the Harvard men's squash team, have been named All-Americans by the College Squash Association. Farag was a first-team selection, while McLaughlin earned second-team honors.
The CSA All-America teams are selected by the CSA executive committee and consist of 10 members on each the first and second teams. To be eligible for the award, players must compete in at least 50% of their team's matches and also play in the CSA Individual Championships.
Farag finished the season with an undefeated 16-0 record during his first season in Cambridge. The Cairo, Egypt native captured the 2012 CSA individual national championship with five consecutive sweeps, including a win over Ramit Tandon of Columbia, 3-0 (12-10, 11-8, 11-4) in the championship match March 4. He went 11-0 during the team's dual season at the No. 1 position to earn Ivy League Player of the Year, Rookie of the Year and first team All-Ivy League honors.
McLaughlin was 10-8 overall, including a 3-3 mark in Ivy League contests in 2011-12. The Villanova, Pa., native played the majority of matches at No. 2 for Harvard, posting a 4-6 record in the second spot, while also contributing four wins at No. 1. He helped Harvard to a third-place finish at the CSA Men's Team Championships with a 3-2 (7-11, 6-11, 11-4, 11-7, 11-4) victory over Cornell's Alex Domenick in the No. 2 position. McLaughlin went 2-2 at the individual championships.
Harvard will return both of its All-Americans to the 2012-13 squad, which looks to improve on the Crimson's 5-2 Ivy League record and first CSA Men's Team Championship third-place finish since 2007.


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