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How to grow your Twitter followers
Your Follower and Following lists should always be
Managing your Twitter followers is an important aspect of using the site well. If you don't pay attention to it and learn some tips and tricks, your Following and Follower lists will become unbalanced and you will not be able to market yourself effectively.
Growing Your Followers
You can follow anyone on Twitter you want – famous people, businesses, or Jane next door. But will these people help you maximize the effectiveness of Twitter in your marketing strategy?
How do you find the right people, those people who will be interested in what you have to say? Who should you network with you increase your influence?
The 'easy' (slow) method is to let your followers list grow organically. You can read through your feed diligently. Look at the tweets and the topics. Look at who your connections are retweeting. But this is very, very, painstakingly slow when you have marketing goals in mind. To use Twitter well you need to branch out.
Think about what you want to promote. If it's a product, look for people who are talking about it or a competing product with followers you can reach. If it's a book, look to other writers, similar books, or even themes in your work like fashion or Los Angeles.
Twitter has a search feature but that's not going to be a huge help. You might pick up a couple of good connections this way but for the most part people are going to ignore you if they feel you are going after them solely to sell them something.
One tried and true method is to look for a person or business similar to you and follow their followers. With this method you know you are targeting people who are more likely to be interested in what you have to say. You don't have to go crazy here. Follow 10 or 20 and test the waters. See who expresses interest and who follows you back. Pick a few different profiles and see which one is most effective for you.
For the busy marketer, there are programs that will do this for you (Tweet Adder is one of many). They do have a cost investment but it may be worth it if your time is more valuable and other areas of your work and/or marketing need your attention more urgently.
Trimming Your Follow List
The main guideline here is that Twitter should be a communication tool and if people are only there to speak to you and not listen in return, you need to take action.
Take care of who you follow is just as necessary as growing your followers. Twitter has built in thresholds for your follow list. If you have less than 2,000 followers then you cannot follow more than 2,000 other users. Once you pass this limit a % limit kicks in, restricting your follows proportionally. In order to properly grow you base of followers you will need an effective strategy for trimming your Follow list and maintain it right from the start.
First of all, this doesn't mean you have to go out and unfollow everyone, or everyone who isn't following you. You will find lots of famous people who only follow a handful of other users, or a few hundred at most, but you are not there yet. These people you have chosen to follow are on your radar for a reason. You like them and you are interested in what they share. Don't drop them.
Most of your time on Twitter will be spent on trying to start conversations and in connecting with other users. You cannot do that well unless you have a lot of connections with other users who have the same idea and use Twitter as a two-way street.
What are you really looking at here? If you set the goal of following 100 people every week your return in follows may only be 50 or 60 people if you're lucky. A lot of factors can affect this, such as whether you targeted your following strategy on people who are most likely to be interested in what you have to say and therefore will follow you back. The number of followers you have also matters. When you start out with few followers it will be a little harder to get the follow back. Once you gain several hundred or thousand followers, however, users are more likely to see you as a valuable connection and follow you back. It gets easier to grow you base.
With this strategy you will take a few months to hit that first 2,000 follow limit but at the same time your followers will only number half that at best.
It is not feasible to manually go through and check whether your followers are following you back. You can easily handle the following aspect of this alone but when it comes to trimming you need help. If you are using an automated program like Tweet Adder it can handle this aspect as well.
But if you didn't pay for help on the first half of this and you don't want to fork over the cash, what do you do?
Go free or cheap! There are many sites that can help you with this and they each have their ups and downs. Some do charge a fee but it's generally reasonable at about $9.99/month. Each handles things differently and you should check out different options to see which method and interface best fits your style.
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Depending on how much time you have to devote to this process, you may go through these steps once a day, once a week, or once a month but is important to keep the cycle going. Keep finding new followers. Keep trimming those who need to go. This only becomes a one-time thing if you go with an automatic program and let it handle everything for you. But, even then, some oversight and changes over time is still going to be important to ensure you are keeping your Twitter lists in line with your overall strategy and marketing goals.
Remember that Twitter is a powerful tool but you have to keep it fresh, up to date, and functioning as an effective part of your toolbox. These simply strategies will keep it working and growing and help give you the best results!


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European Society of Cardiology
New recommendations1 on devices, drugs and diagnosis in heart failure were launched at the Heart Failure Congress 2012, held in Belgrade, Serbia, and published recently in the European Heart Journal.
An analysis of the clinical evidence on heart failure by the ESC Guidelines task force led to several major updates since the previous ESC Guidelines were published in 2008. The ESC Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Acute and Chronic Heart Failure 2012 were developed by the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) in collaboration with the Heart Failure Association (HFA) of the ESC.
A new indication for cardiac resynchronisation therapy (CRT) in patients with mild symptoms is given in the guidelines. More evidence from new trials and further analysis of existing trials also enabled the task force to provide more clarity about the effects of CRT. It is clear that patients with left bundle branch block QRS morphology and those who are in sinus rhythm have the greatest benefit from CRT, they say. Conversely, those who have a non-left bundle branch block QRS morphology and patients in atrial fibrillation have less certain benefit.
Also in the device arena, new transcatheter valve interventions are discussed. "These interventions offer the possibility of treating aortic stenosis in patients who are unsuitable for surgery," says Professor John McMurray (Glasgow, UK), chairperson of the ESC Clinical Practice Guidelines Task Force.
In pharmacological treatments, two new indications are highlighted. The guidelines stress that when attempting to reduce heart rate, the dose of beta blocker should be maximised before giving additional medications to reduce heart rate. "Beta blockers are more established, more effective and less expensive, and should be given first," says Professor McMurray.
New evidence has extended the indication for mineralocorticoid receptor antagonists (aldosterone antagonists). This means that for many patients, standard therapy should include three neurohumoral antagonists – an angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitor (or angiotensin receptor blocker), a beta blocker and, if symptoms persist, now a mineralocorticoid receptor antagonist as well.
In the area of diagnostics, a new biomarker called mid-regional pro-A-type natriuretic peptide is mentioned for the first time.
Professor McMurray concludes: "These guidelines make recommendations based upon evidence for established and new diagnostic tests and therapies for heart failure. If implemented, they offer a real opportunity to improve the outcome of patients with this condition."
1. The full guidelines are available at: http://www.escardio.org/guidelines-surveys/esc-guidelines/Pages/acute-chronic-heart-failure.aspx
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RECOGNIZATION is my portmanteu contstructed of RECONCILIATION and COGNITION.
In this instance inspired by the certain knowledge that G-d actively moves us towards brotherly unity, even overcoming past (and present!) differences.
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I'm angry. And I can't stop it.
I'm angry because I was tricked into believing that he was someone that he wasn't. I gave up everything, sold my house, packed up my shit and moved everything, and he didn't even try. I made a huge mistake and moved my daughter away from her school, her dance studio, her friends and her grandparents and put her into what turned out to be a bad situation. I'm angry at myself for believing that I was doing the right thing. I'm angry at myself for letting my guard down, even though it was only one time but of course, the wrong time. I'm angry that I can't trust my own instincts because I obviously make bad decisions. I'm angry because I tried so hard and gave up so much and he just didn't try at all.
I know that it's bad to hold onto anger. It's only hurting me. I know this. But getting it to stop just isn't that easy. I've tried meditating on it and that just leaves me all tensed up and not at all relaxed and centered. I find the past running through my mind, specific times that I was so frustrated, and I end up all tensed up again.
I think the reason that I am having so much trouble getting past the anger is because I'm still struggling to get back on my feet. I sold my house to move and now there are fewer and fewer houses on the market that I can afford because the housing market is getting better and pushing more and more houses out of my price range.
I was happy in my life. I had everything that I needed and had made a pretty good life for my daughter and I. I thought he would add to that happiness. I had everything and I gave it up to start a new life with him. And now I'm left trying to pick up the pieces and let go of the anger.


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Tuesday, October 6, 2009
The Sheltering Sky...Some Comments by E
Kit is portrayed as rather manipulative; She becomes guilt-ridden after almost responding to the romantic attentions of their friend, Tunner. Her relationship with Porter is noticeably lacking in both romance and genuine affection. Tunner apparently has amorous feelings for Kit, which are never fully explored or explained by the author.
Another hallmark of these characters is that none of them seem aware of the myriad dangers present around them---from disease and bad food to political unrest. There is also the matter of an over-bearing, extremely racist, anti-Semitic English woman and her thieving son, who attempt to befriend the trio. Aside from feeling superior to Jews, the French and Africans, which the reader learns about via increasingly jarring commentary, her character and that of her son, appear to exemplify the worst of English classicism and racism, while Americans are portrayed as ignorant, adventure-seeking fools. Arabs are seen in a somewhat more sympathetic light.
When Porter dies after an unnamed illness, Kit wastes no time in fleeing, leaving Porter's corpse to be discovered by Tunner and the police. Leaving her old life behind, Kit determines to have an adventure of her own, paying no heed to the possible dangers, cultural differences or vagaries of politics that darken the road ahead.
Eventually becoming the concubine of an Arab, Kit also realises she too is ill, a situation that escalates as the last part of the story unfolds. When she is escapes and is at last located by the police and consulate, the woman sent to organise Kit's return to the United States is genuinely shocked at her appearance and attitude and wonders whether Kit has gone mad.
The reader, at least this one, is left with that unanswered question as well as others. and struck by Bowles apparent dislike of his characters.
As an expatriate himself for over fifty years, Bowles may have seen adventurers of every stripe; he is certainly unstinting in his portrayals. An interesting contrast in his own life is that Paul Bowles writing is characterized by dark elements while his musical compositions, for which he is also well known, are of much lighter tone. For more information about the author, visit the official Bowles website at http://www.PaulBowles.org.
The Sheltering Sky is a provacative read.
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Hey E, thanks for the commentary. I was waiting for someone to be the first.ReplyDelete
Well, my understanding of the book suggests that Port and Kit both feel that everything is changed by the war, Europe definitely, but Africa also.
All the major characters I think were manipulative to a certain degree, but what I felt most was their respective profoundly self-centered and selfish behaviors. Kit is so fearful, she's practically frozen with paranoia. Port seems indecisive, so much so that the decisions he does makes inevitably turn out for the worst. Tunner is somewhat shallow, out for his own pleasure.
I felt that Kit's ultimate (mis)adventures are just a continuation of her time on the train with Tunner--attempting to run from something she's trying to avoid only to find herself in a dangerous situation where she's also forced to witness the darker side of life. Her initial infidelity is just a prelude to her later sexual encounters. Her weak character leads her to become the sexual plaything of many men.
Porter's bout with typhoid I though was an interesting way to depict his unwillingness to face reality. he chose to put both himself and his wife in greater peril instead of reuniting with his friend whom he had asked to them in Africa in the first place. Kit's inability to cope with his illness and subsequent death was just a manifestation of her weak character, her fear and egocentric view of the world. I believe she has gone mad, perhaps PTSD, as her last disappearance seems to suggest.
Tunner I felt was not really well fleshed out. But I thought it somewhat telling that he felt Port to be his only best friend after he had died, a man who ultimately ran away from the opportunity of reunion even in the face of not getting his passport back.
The two Brits, I still don't know if they're truly mother and son or cougar and paramour, were interesting counterpoints to the three Americans. Their antisemitism, racism, et al., I think were possibly written close representation, not about Brits, but about narrow-minded and close-minded people.
As a whole, all the characters irritated me somewhat--never sharing their respective thoughts but wanting so desperately to be understood, making decisions based on personal gain, regardless of how it could affect others in the party. I just wanted to slap them. And I wouldn't have put up with the Lyles even for a comfortable car ride.
Anyway, just my thoughts. Anyone else?
Thanks Jo, for taking the time to share your comments. I hope others will do the same. As I have already finished Hideous Kinky, I'll see if anyone wants to post on that.ReplyDelete
Interesting from both of you. I found it a surprising book...I've got lots to say- but I have to dash to work now. I will be back in about 12 hours!ReplyDelete
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Thanks for starting us off here e. You write a very good review. Thanks for the link too- sounds like the character of Port was somewhat autobiographical.
I was surprised by The Sheltering Sky. It did not start off as a promising read- did I really want to read about the disintegration of a marriage in a Saharan theatre- with its unforgiving sun, scrubby grey landscape (mostly), foul smells, fouler diseaes, cockroaches, bedbugs? No, I was with Kit on this one- they should have gone to Italy! Like the hapless consulate official at the end, who buys her clothes in Paris, I was on the ouside- uncomprehending.
Then I started to get sucked into the story and as the pace quickened I found myself drawn to that Saharan landscape as if, like a black hole, it had its own gravitational pull. No-one goes into that landscape untouched, unaffected. Even Tunner is changed from a flippant flirt into someone who is able to acknowledge truths about himself. I agree with both e and Jo that Tunner's character was not developed. At the end of the day, poor chap, he was an irrelevance.
I was interested in the desciption of typhoid fever. I carry out immunisations with typhoid vaccine as part of my job, but I have never met someone who had it! I first I assumed that typhoid vaccine was not available at that time- but then Bowles tells us explicitily that Port had refused to have any vaccines- why? was he on some death-wish mission? If only Kit had taken him back towards 'civilisation' instead of travelling deeper into the desert-maybe he could have been treated- it is treatable with antibiotics. I suppode she was scared by the meningitis scare.
Kit and Port's relationship is very sad. They seem so suited in many ways; seem to know each other so well; seem to be so interdependent. They own each other in marriage- it is if they are conjoined. Yet neither is satisfied and as e says Kit feels little real love or affection for Port- I thought her abandonment of him as a dying man quite gross. Maybe she was scared, I don't know. Definitely weak as Jo has said.
They both pay the price for dabbling in an environment which fascinates them but to which they cannot belong until it claimes each of them in different ways. There was a nice contrast between the ease with which the camel-train drivers lived in that landscape, and the struggles of the westerners trying to explore it. Kit's sexual adventures with her new Arab 'husband' were interesting- she was envigorated by great sex she was having, but her lust even then was not satiated.
The themes of ownership and journeying were strongest for me. The awful Lyles (yes, Jo, I think cougar and paramour) behaved in the worst of colonial ways, thinking they owned Africa. Kit and Port owned each other. The Camel-drivers owned slaves and owned the women in their harems. We may feel we have ownership of the planet, but ultimately Kit and Port become enslaved at the mercy of their environment. You realise slavery exists in many forms- and many women today are enslaved in various societies.
The sense of journeying is strong- the characters are always moving on, leaving places behind. At the end, after her escape, you know that Kit's journey has not ended. She can never go back; she cannot slip back easily into NY society; she is forever changed; her journey continues. The reader is not left with any confidence that her life will be changed for the better though!
ps- e- I havn't finished Hideous Kinky yet :)ReplyDelete
You make some interesting points regarding journeying and what I call enslavement; one can be enslaved mentally, physically, emotionally or be a slave to perceptions or ideas. I don't know if Kit was weak or simply manipulative and secretive about her own feelings. She may not even have understood her own feelings or ideas clearly until things were beyond her control...
Interesting discussion.
Cool- a bookworm! I can imagine you have a library at your home - my hubby's dream! Fascinating thoughts here... I guess if I want to skim through a book, I'll check your blog first. You might have a summary. :)ReplyDelete
Keep reading and writing! :)
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Hi Lancelonie!ReplyDelete
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What, in your opinion, is the point of the parable that Smail relates to Port?ReplyDelete


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Inez Martin, abt. 1909
My great-great aunt on my father's mother's side. Sister to my paternal grandmother's mother, Bessie Mae.
You know, I DO love to read and review books, but that isn't nearly all of me. Even of my "librarian-ish" side. One of my main hobbies/interests over the past couple years has been genealogy. Yes, research.
For the record, I've always been fascinated by our family history. I can remember having such fun as a kid looking through old family photos and hearing stories from the past. I decided last year to finally get serious about tracking information down and joined ancestry.com.
Now, here's the thing about ancestry.com and many other sharing genealogy sites---just like wikis there can be a lot of flawed information running amok out there. So, this is my starting point, and I get tons of great info there, all of which I either currently am, or have plans to verify through documentation found outside the site.
This is also my "storage area" for my family tree. I really love this site, and I've learned a TON about my extended family.
The images from those who came before me speak to me. I wonder who they were (beyond just names and dates) and what they dreamed. Were they satisfied with their lives? What was it like to live through the various wars and depressions and immigrating to the United States leaving all you knew behind? What was it like for the Native American sides ? I'll never know all the answers to my questions, but I am beginning to learn a bit about some of these great-greats of mine.
And as I learn about them, I learn about me. It sounds a bit crazy, but it's true. For example, I've learned I'm made of strong and sturdy stuff. These family members of mine lived through difficulties I can't even imagine. This helps me when I'm exhausted and cross and feel like throwing in the towel. (I have found it especially helpful this summer to think of them---- living with no air conditioning and no running water while wearing those impossibly hot layers of clothing and tending to a dozen children---I quit whining pretty fast when I ponder this image!)
Virtually everything I "know" about my relatives in this image I've had to make up in my own head by reading what little information I do know. My great-grandmother on this side died way before I ever came along---my great-grandfather, too. My grandmother told lots of stories about her growing up years, but not much about her folks details. I think it was hard for her to talk about her mother---she loved her immensely and Bessie's death of cancer was difficult. Inexplicably, I feel the loss of these members of my very own family. We share bloodlines and yet I know only names and dates, really.
Thank goodness for the photos. I am so grateful for them--and there's no way I would have access to them without ancestry.com.
If you are interested in genealogy I suggest you give it a whirl! Be warned--you might, like me, find that it's addictive!
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Bear bile: dilemma of traditional medicinal use and animal protection
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Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine
, 5:2
First Online: 12 January 2009Received: 22 September 2008Accepted: 12 January 2009
Bear bile has been used in Traditional Chinese Medicine TCM for thousands of years. Modern investigations showed that it has a wide range of pharmacological actions with little toxicological side effect and the pure compounds have been used for curing hepatic and biliary disorders for decades. However, extensive consumption of bear bile made bears endangered species. In the 1980-s, bear farming was established in China to extract bear bile from living bears with -Free-dripping Fistula Technique-. Bear farming is extremely inhumane and many bears died of illness such as chronic infections and liver cancer. Efforts are now given by non-governmental organizations, mass media and Chinese government to end bear farming ultimately. At the same time, systematic research has to be done to find an alternative for bear bile. In this review, we focused on the literature, laboratory and clinical results related to bear bile and its substitutes or alternative in English and Chinese databases. We examined the substitutes or alternative of bear bile from three aspects: pure compounds derived from bear bile, biles from other animals and herbs from TCM. We then discussed the strategy for stopping the trading of bear bile and issues of bear bile related to potential alternative candidates, existing problems in alternative research and work to be done in the future.
AbbreviationsTCMTraditional Chinese Medicine
UDCAursodeoxycholic acid
CDCAchenodeoxycholic acid
TCAtauro-cholic acid
TUDCAtauro-ursodeoxycholic acid
TCDCAtauro-chenodeoxycholic acid
CAcholic acid
DCADeoxycholic acid
HDCAhyodeoxycholic acid
LCAlithocholic acid
WSPAWorld Society for the Protection of Animals
AAFAnimals Asia Foundation
CITESConvention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Fauna
NGOsnon-governmental organizations.
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Autor: Yibin Feng - Kayu Siu - Ning Wang - Kwan-Ming Ng - Sai-Wah Tsao - Tadashi Nagamatsu - Yao Tong
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Nargis Fakhri at the launch of her own mobile app with New York-based startup EscapeX in Mumbai, April 11. (Press Trust of India)
@Siliconeer #Siliconeer #Bollywood #NargisFakhri #EscapeX @EscapeX @NargisFakhri –Nargis Fakhri says being in films is not her only aim in life and she wants to pursue other things as well. The 37-year-old actress says she wants to meet new people and learn new things.
"Acting is not the only thing…I want to do a lot in life. When you are on sets you are always acting you are not interacting with people in life and not learning anything new.
There is so much more to learn and do different things in life. I want to balance things by doing acting and other things," Nargis told PTI.
The actress says she enjoys being a public figure but traveling and exploring different places is her passion.
"I am a different person. I like to cook, plant flowers and travel. I like to live life. I want to explore other things but not related to cinema as such. I would want to be a public personality on television or do something different," she adds.
After doing back to back films like "Azhar," "Housefull 3" and "Banjo" last year, the actress has now decided to go slow.
"Last year I did four films and it's damn tiring. I will never do that again. I will go slow now on. One film a year will be amazing."
Nargis, who launched her own app, says there are both pros and cons of being on various social media platforms.
"The positive side is you see you are so popular. I did not know I was so popular. I felt I am like a regular person and nobody likes me. But when I see social media and the good comments and when I go out and people talk sweet things to me, I feel overwhelmed. There is a negative side as well."


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Piedmont Regional Dental Clinic Board of Directors
Board of Directors
Kim Isringhausen, RDH, MPH: Ms. Isringhausen is Chair of Oral Health Promotion and Community Outreach, School of Dentistry, Virginia Commonwealth University. President of the Piedmont Regional Dental Clinic Board of Directors. Isringhausen serves on numerous committees in the School of Dentistry and the University. In addition, she holds membership in professional organizations including the American Dental Hygienists' Association, Virginia Dental Hygienists' Association, and American Public Health Association. Isringhausen is the board director for Allied Dental Program Directors for the American Dental Education Association (ADEA), is the representative for the allied dental community on ADEA's Commission on Change and Innovation (CCI) in Dental Education Oversight Committee, and chairs the ADEA CCI workgroup with the American Dental Hygienists' Association.
André Hintermann: Past-President. Mr. Hintermann is a retired banker. He became a full-time resident of the United States in 2001 and became a US citizen in 2012. He was a longtime financial supporter of the Madison Free Clinic, the initial financial sponsor of and served as a director of the Orange County Free Clinic from 2007 to 2012. He founded and was the initial financial sponsor of the Piedmont Regional Dental Clinic and served as President of the Board for five years. He purchased the building that houses the Dental Clinic and has put this asset in a charitable family foundation to benefit the community in perpetuity. Affiliation: retired.
Jack Thompson, Jr., DDS: Vice President and Director of Dental Services, PRDC. He graduated from MCV School of Dentistry in 1968. Dr. Thompson completed a general dentistry residency with the USAF and served in the USAF Dental Corps on active duty. He has practiced dentistry in Gordonsville for almost 40 years and maintains his license. He is a life member of the American Dental Association and the Virginia Dental Association and past member of the Charlottesville Albemarle Dental Society and Academy of General Dentistry. Dr. Thompson served as Dental Director for the first Piedmont Regional Mission of Mercy project. He is responsible for all dental operations of the PRDC and represents Orange County on PRDC Board of Directors. Affiliation: Semi-retired from private practice.
Richard Powers, CPA:Board Treasurer. C. Richard Powers has practiced public accounting in Culpeper since 1990 as a sole practitioner. His practice consists primarily of providing bookkeeping, payroll tax, and income tax services to small local business, and income tax return preparation services to individuals in the Culpeper, Orange and Madison area. Prior to 1990 Richard worked for several years as the controller for a local Culpeper construction firm, and prior to that was employed as a staff accountant with a regional accounting firm in Richmond. Mr. Powers has served on the Board of Directors of the Full Circle Thrift Store and of the Culpeper Music Society, both located in Culpeper, for several years. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Virginia Tech in 1971.
Shannon Butler, DDS: Dr. Butler is a 1995 graduate of the Medical College of Virginia's School of Dentistry. She has worked as a dentist in Culpeper for 14 years. Dr. Butler is a member of the Culpeper Rotary Club, the Farmington Elementary School Parent-Teacher Organization, and Culpeper Presbyterian Church. She and her husband Tripp reside in Culpeper with their two children. Dr. Butler volunteered for the MOM project and represents Culpeper interests on the Board of Directors.
Mitchell H. Bernstein: Mitch Bernstein retired from the practice of law in 2014, following a 40-year career spent primarily in Washington, DC. Mr. Bernstein graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, summa cum laude, in 1970 and from Yale Law School in 1973. Mr. Bernstein served in the Office of General Counsel of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from 1977-1981, after which he went into private practice advising clients regarding their compliance obligations under various federal and state environmental statutes, and representing them in cleanup negotiations under the federal Superfund law at numerous hazardous waste disposal sites across the country. Mr. Bernstein and his wife Barbara have owned their home in the community of Graves Mill (Madison County) since 1986, and are now full-time residents.
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Thomas Reynolds, MD: Dr. Reynolds is Chief Medical Officer of UVA Culpeper Hospital. Dr. Reynolds has worked as a family medicine provider with UVA Primary Care Culpeper Family Practice for 34 years. He stepped down from his role as associate medical director for the University of Virginia Physicians Group in Culpeper to take this role. He was voted Doctor of the Year in 2010 at Culpeper Regional Hospital.
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Joee,I enjoyed walking through your work~week so much!I keep trying to do this myself,ration out my time between creating,and family,and housework.I'm still trying to make it work,and become successful at balancing my time.My favorite time to create is early in the morning,up until around 1 O'clock.There's nothing like working in that peaceful bliss of morning time.ReplyDelete
I create when ever the children are sleeping, which none of them having been doing as of lately. It's hard when you have little ones. I just keep on trying anyhow. My favorite time to create in a perfect world would be as much as possible. I would have my own studio with three little tables set up for my girls so they could work or play while I painted or created.ReplyDelete
I used to be like Summer, creating from 9pm to ahem, 2am, because the rest of the time was either office work or children. Now that I don't have a regular job, I start every week with a " this week I'll start on this and that" and nothing gets done apart from whatever has a deadline, even though I have more time than ever at home!ReplyDelete
Thanks, Joee, for sharing this. :-) I keep trying to come up with a routine, but I haven't been very good at it. I will get better, though!ReplyDelete
No set time, but I LOVE creating in the wee hours of the morning when it seems that everyone else in the world is asleep! (smiles)ReplyDelete
PS I'm having a Give-Away on my blog if you are interested
Right now I'm creating/working 7 days a week, and can sooooooooo relate to being thrown off schedule! I always seem to be underestimating how long it will take me to finish a piece, so I'm constantly behind....If only someone would figure a way to fit another ten hours into a day, or a couple extra days in a week, lol!ReplyDelete
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Joee ~ What a FUN read & thanks for sharing it with us.ReplyDelete
Have a great & creative week! :)
I want to come spend the week with you and share coffee, cookies and some dolly making!!! Sounds like you have more of a routine that is scheduled and organized, unlike myself.
Your newest creations as always are perfection!
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Wow, Joee, you're way more organized than me! I get up at 9 a.m. (except when I have insomnia, like now, when I'm posting at 5 in the morning!), check my email and do any "real" work that's on my plate. In my "other" life, I'm a consultant, but I only have a couple of clients and they've been slow getting the contracts signed, so I haven't had much work the past few months. If there's nothing going on workwise, I head down to the studio and work on dolls. I just do whatever I feel like ... start something new, rework a doll I'm not quite happy with, whatever. Right now, I've got three founding fathers in process: Washington for Colonial Williamsburg, a Jefferson for my mantel for the approaching "patriotic season" (what better to celebrate the Fourth than Jefferson with a flag and a copy of the Declaration, eh?), and I've just started a resculpt of my Hamilton. I've never been one to leave well enough alone.ReplyDelete
Anyway, your work is amazing. I admired it on Ebay long before I met ya at CWT.
Oh my goodness - you have a 'plan'....I'm sooo very impressed. Maybe that's what I need..... A PLAN. You've thought it through and make it happen - even if it goes wonky somewhere in there...you know where you are 'suppose' to be and can still head in that direction - so fantastic! I think after having this baby...I've been 'plan-less'...I'm feeling a little glimmer of hope return, in putting pen to paper and finding 'my plan' again!!!ReplyDelete
Thanks for the inspiration.....
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I met you at the AIA conference in Denver, CO 4 years ago.
I follow your blog and have subscribed to your posts and comments. You are such a wealth of knowledge and I love the way to combine research and common sense.
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This product has traveled world wide and I have lots of questions from folks about bedbugs these days, especially with the latest news that they may carry MRSA.
I have also read that cedarwood is contraindicated in pregnancy.
I am wondering what your thoughts/opinion of this may be since I have found little to really substantiate this.
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Injecting Testosterone
What you should know getting started
What should I expect?
A "typical" dose is 100-200 milligrams injected every two weeks, and the cost will vary depending on insurance. In 2-10 weeks, you should start to see the effects of the testosterone: development of facial hair, deepening of the voice, changes in body mass, decreased glandular tissue in the breasts and clitoral enlargement.
Each person is different, so it may take more or less time to see changes, and it may take several months to a few years to achieve the full effect of the testosterone.
What about side effects?
While using testosterone, the most common side effect is acne, which up to half of patients experience. Your doctor will also monitor your liver function, especially if you have risk factors for liver disease. In some high risk patients, testosterone can worsen liver function or existing liver damage. Many patients also experience some soreness at or around the injection site for a few days after their injection. You may also experience a change in sense of smell.
Before you inject
Make sure your testosterone vial is free of any crystals, discoloration, or other contamination.
Prepare the area: make sure you are in a safe, clean environment. Wash your hands and make sure you swab the vial and the area you are injecting with alcohol to get rid of any unwelcome bacteria. Breathe! The first few injections can be nerve-wracking while you get used to the process. Try to keep yourself calm – sometimes the support of a close friend or family member helps.
NOTE: Crystals can form in cold environments – dissolve them in warm bath water. Also, make sure you have an appropriate container close by, such as a sharps container, to dispose of the used needle. Safety is a top priority!
Injecting – a step-by-step guide
After you have prepared the area, you can follow these basic steps for the injection:
1. Draw up your dose – it may help to use a larger needle for this step. Inject air equal to the amount of liquid you will draw up and tip the vial upside down while you draw up your dose. Try to get rid of any air bubbles in the syringe by flicking them to the top and pushing the air out.
2. Change to a smaller needle if you used a larger one to draw up the medication.
3. Insert the needle into your muscle at a 90 degree angle. Most people use their upper, outer thigh. When inserting the needle, there will be more resistance through the skin, then less as you move through the subcutaneous fatty layer, then more again when you hit the muscle. Most people use a needle length which allows the entire needle to be inserted.
4. Inject the testosterone. A slower injection can help reduce soreness.
5. Remove the needle and toss the syringe in a sharps container. Use a cotton swab or bandage if some bleeding is present.
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If you don't find the answers to your questions, please feel free to give us a call or stop in. We want to help you feel comfortable and safe with your medications and are happy to talk with you in more detail.
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In November Lenny Weaver competed for Worthing College in the South East AOC Cross Country Competition at Aldershot Garrison Sports Centre finishing 6th in that event which was a great achievement.
On 20th January Lenny then took part in the Sussex Schools Cross Country competition at Waterhall, Brighton again representing Worthing College. He finished 4th in the U18 boys section which has resulted in him being selected to represent Sussex Schools at the English Schools Cross Country Championships in Nottingham this coming weekend.
We wish Lenny all the best of luck this weekend from everyone at the College.


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The University Consortium for Catholic Education (UCCE): A Response to Sustain and Strengthen Catholic Education
Smith, Paige A., Catholic Education
This article examines the current and potential contributions of the University Consortium for Catholic Education (UCCE) to both K-12 and higher Catholic education. In order to situate the development of alternative teacher preparation programs, a history of Catholic teacher formation is addressed followed by a brief summary of the existing programs that comprise the UCCE. Attention is given to the essential nature of a Catholic educator's responsibility to deepen Catholic identity through authentic education in collaboration with the family and how recent college graduates who matriculate in UCCE programs are formed to respond to this task.
The Second Vatican Council exhorts the faithful "to assist to their utmost in finding suitable methods of education and programs of study and in forming teachers who can give youth a true education" (Vatican Council II, 1965, [section] 6). One manifestation of this exhortation has been the University Consortium for Catholic Education, a collaboration of 13 programs at colleges and universities across the country which receive and form recent college graduates to teach and serve in K-12 Catholic and parochial schools (see Figure 1; Tables 1 and 2). Since its beginnings in the late 1990s, the consortium supports primarily Catholic colleges and universities as they design and implement graduate level teaching service programs for the purpose of service to Catholic and parochial schools in the United States.
To explore the contributions of the UCCE, we begin by reflecting briefly on the history of Catholic teacher preparation, particularly in the context of religious communities. We then explore the shift that took place in the latter part of the 20th century from a teaching population in Catholic schools of predominantly vowed religious to laity and how this transformation has contributed to the rise of alternative teacher preparation programs. Such a historical discussion enables a deeper probing into the essential task of Catholic education and the spiritual role of those involved at every level to create communities "animated by the Gospel ... and illumined by faith" (Vatican Council II, 1965, [section] 8). In short, an understanding of what it means to be an educator imbued with an authentic Catholic identity will be posited. Finally, we will touch upon the mutual gift of Catholic schools and the family and what this suggests about the manner in which we should engage in future research and responsible stewardship of the Church and her resources.
Like the core of the Catholic faith, the origins of the American Catholic school system can be attributed to sacrifice; most notably, the sacrifice of vowed women religious who faced the challenges of serving in parish schools throughout the 19th and first half of the 20th century (Jacobs, 2000; Walch, 1996). Hostility toward Catholics began to breathe forth from Protestant pulpits beginning in the 1830s; however, concurrently the Holy Spirit was preparing new vessels to imbue with its grace: the Catholic school (Walch, 1996).
Between 1820 and 1870 the wave of European immigrants to the United States numbered over 5 million. The children of these immigrants were being schooled in anti-Catholic environments; Catholic schools began to combat the dangers of public schools which Americanized children through Protestant ideals. This gave rise to Catholic communities that banded together in ethnic neighborhoods to preserve their Catholic identity and protect their children's faith development, a dynamic that supported the building of Catholic parochial schools (Walch, 1996). These communities were strengthened by their common adversary--publicly funded Protestant schools which aggressively formed children contrary to the culture of their heritage.
At the Third Plenary Council of Baltimore in 1884, the bishops, responding to the ardent desire for Catholic schools, commanded that a Catholic school be founded at every parish in the United States (Gibbons, 1884/1954). …


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Toad-ally Cute Halloween with Viva Las Vegastamps!
Woohoo it's day 6!
Your challenge for today is to
and email DeeDee and tell her the word that the letters spell.
My letter is
Isn't that fun!! :)
I have a cute card to share with you today.
It uses this stamp.
It's called Frog O'Lantern.
It's so cute!!!
And the tombstone stamp from plate 1433
To do the sky background,
I punched a paper cloud using the Fiskars cloud punch,
and inked around is using Distress Ink.
The ground is also Distress Ink.
The tombstones were stamped with Archival Ink.
Stamped once, then stamped again WITHOUT re-inking,
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Askellonin Synnit
Garak Horst
Warrior, mutant, a man in search of salvation and lost honor.
A tall and sturdily built feudal world man, Garak Horst looks to be in his 30s, though the wear and tear of rough living probably adds an additional ten to the total. For someone who grew up on an arid and hot planet like Hrax, his choice of attire seems perhaps a bit counter intuitive, because he constantly covers himself with loose and heavy robes or cloaks. The main reason is to hide the mutations that ruined his life in the first place, and which would be very obvious otherwise. Underneath the layers of clothing, much of his torso, arms and legs have become fused with the clan armor he once carried with pride. Scar tissue marks spots where the combination of flesh and metal has been removed, either through self applied surgery, or in combat. Places where the skin is not yet corrupted are filled with the faded remnants of tribal tattoos that tell the stories of glory and victory, now long gone.
"When you've hit rock bottom, the only way is up… Not that I would know anything about that though, because if there's a rock bottom, I hit it hard enough I went straight through to only Emperor knows where."
To fall is a terrible thing, and Garak has fallen from higher than most. Once a respectable warrior of clan Horst under the command of Warlord Tarvalk, he was one of many similar young men, eager to prove their worth in a fight. It's possible that had he not been unfortunate enough to turn into a mutant, Horst would most likely have eventually joined the ranks of the Hraxian Bloodknives, to be shipped off to fight the Imperium's wars. But such was not his luck.
Instead, his lot in life was to be among those that had to fight the heresy that had found its way to Hrax. Though only a minor problem at first, the cults somehow managed to gather enough strength to pose a credible threat to even the biggest Warlords on Hrax, Tarvalk among them. And not too long after this, a major outpost between two major Bastion's fell silent. Fearing a hostile takeover, Warlord Tarvalk was quick to mobilize a strike force of several dozen soldiers, Horst among their ranks.
What exactly took place in the cult compound is unclear even to Garak, though from time to time ragged memories of death, warp shadows and madness swim to the surface of his mind. But whether these are his actual memories or something else entirely, he can't say. The aftermath was crystal clear, however: reinforcements arrived to find the compound in ruins, both cultists and Hraxian troops slain to the last man. A more extensive search turned up one survivor, however: Garak Horst, heavily mutated and lying confused in a pool of blood among the countless bodies.
Now, men who normally would have congratulated him on a job well done, refused to even look him in the eye, as though they feared that doing so would make them share his fate. Still, perhaps some little speck of respect remained among those that had found him, because he was not executed on the spot. Instead, he was dragged back to the Bastia of Golden Light in chains.
Though now an abhorred mutant, he was granted the final honor of dying with a blade in his hand. Thrown into the gladiator arena of the Bastia of Golden Light, he was made to fight both men and beasts for the amusement of his betters, which at that point included everyone he'd ever known. Though obviously intended to meet his end in the arena, Horst was determined to last and win back his honor and position, one fight at a time, no matter how long it took.
And somehow he survived, though not in a way he could ever have expected.
On that fateful day, instead of walking into the arena like he'd done on countless days before, Horst was instead chained again, and led upstairs by people he had never seen before, though he did recognize the I-shaped emblem they carried on their robes and armor. Tossed into the cramped hold of a shuttle headed into orbit, he was told that he had a new master now: the Inquisition.
Getting turned into an Acolyte of the Inquisitor certainly wasn't what Garak had expected, or even wanted to happen in the first place. Still, that very decision was responsible for saving his life from the certain death of Hrax's gladiator arenas, and extending it into the unforeseeable future. If nothing else, his loyalty towards his new masters stems from that debt, a leash as good as any to a man brought up on the absolute hierarchy and honor of a feudal society.


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Wednesday, March 31, 2010
The Rods of Destiny
So what am I on ... about? Why, the rods, of course, the rods! I've been predicting the future with the aid of my trusty cuisenaire rods for a good ten years now, and I have to 'fess up that I'm a convinced (but perhaps not convincing) Cuisenairomancer. And that's nothing to do with shagging in the kitchen, by the way.
In fact, although the noble art of Cuisenairomancy is not recognised by the NHS (or anybody else), I firmly believe that every teacher who has a few of these magic rods in his/her box of tricks possesses the ability to divine the future. Let me give you an example or two, and see if you're with me or not, eh?
Firstly, it's important to use just seven long rods, and take them out of the bag one by one, as you softly intone a Nepalese mantra. The pale colours should emerge first - yellow, light green - leading up to the darker ones, such as dark red, blue, and black. Place them gently and randomly on the desk in front of you, then stand up and turn round twice.
Are all the rods in the same place? They should be! Have you fallen over? If so, you're probably pissed or still hung over, and the whole exercise will be futile. Go back to bed and try again tomorrow.
Now, take all of the rods in your left hand and throw them gently into the air. Remember to stop singing the mantra and keep your mouth closed as you do this, otherwise the consequences could be fatal. As the rods lie resting on the floor, recite the names of Liverpool's greatest goalscorers. Close your eyes and inhale deeply for one minute exactly.
Now, the position the rods have assumed upon landing on the floor is the most important thing in the art of Cuisenairomancy, so pay careful attention to the following details. Get this wrong and you might be assigning yourself a place in hell, or end up committing yourself to a British Council contract in North Korea for two years.
Closely study the patterns that the rods have made on the floor. Two dark rods pointing away from you mean that you will have to work hard for anything useful in your life - but as an EFL teacher you probably know that already. If you can decipher the shape of the number four made by any of the rods, that means trouble at the workplace - so you might want to go and pick a fight with the DoS, just to gain the advantage of surprise.
However, the most important sign is an unbroken circle or square (OK, perhaps even a triangle). If the rods make such a shape or pattern on the floor, you can make a prediction - which will definitely come true! This is what happened to me that fateful day at the LSE back in 1999, and I correctly predicted that I would get the sack by the end of the week. Amazing!
To date I have also predicted England beating Germany 5-1 away, the winners of the past three Grand Nationals, and Alex Case getting married. Of course, there have been a few 'near-misses', too, notably my prediction that I would be chosen to represent the Science Fiction Loony Party in the last UK elections. Unfortunately, I was arrested for thieving a couple of Robert Rankin books instead, and was doing a small spot of porridge at the time the rest of the nation were choosing their political masters. But the odd bum prediction should be seen as casting no shadow over the entire science of Cuisenairomancy, I believe.
Of course, it takes a good while to understand every secret message behind the manifold permutations of the seven magic rods, but have no fear; my book "Cuisenairomancy for Teflers" will be appearing soon, and the discerning EFL teacher can add these rare and exotic skills to his/her ever-expanding range of off-the-wall teaching techniques and quirky classroom tricks.
As for my forthcoming predictions, let me see ... Yes, Scott Thornbury will marry Pete Sharma, and Brighton and Hove Albion will avoid relegation. There will also be a severe earthquake in Harrogate during next month's IATEFL conference, and every Tefl guru you can name will be swept out to sea in the ensuing tsunami.
Don't believe me? Just come back here in a year's time, and we'll see who's got it right or not, mate!
PS: If you don't have any rods at hand, frozen chipolatas might just do the trick instead.
24 comments:
- vilges suola said...
Now, the cuisenary rodders are things of deepest joy, as pointed out by Caleb Gattegnole with the dangly ogden and the total physical repose and the reverend Curran, one arrangey for the Present Perfy, two more for the Simply Continual, and huffalo-dowder for the three and sixpenny conditional. Every conscientious teacher can and should trittly-how in the early mordy and follolop the rodders at the foreigners, any time of the month or half past throom in the afterlubrious, here's a joy for the contactimode of the inner whatsit. Oh yes indeed. This encapsulodes my thinky on the rodders, the silent way, suggestopedial, community language learny and all the rest of the garbage patch and Mario Rinvolucrious. Goodleybyeload.
- Wed Mar 31, 06:32:00 PM GMT+1
Just tried it - I see Paul Lowe is up for the Booker Prize next year, and the decathlon gold medal in the Olympics after that.
- Wed Mar 31, 09:34:00 PM GMT+1
- Sarah in deepest, darkest Lomellina said...
You should include a ***warning*** at the top of the post for those of us with C. Roditus.
An allergy severe enough to hack off the standby teacher, who thought they had a nice three hour run of sitting on their arse and instead has to take over for the fainting form reliving the excruciating memory of not just the whole class looking blank, but the rod operator ending up in such a confused state that there was no face saving exit strategy.
Loathsome things. Having watched my small son be tortured with them in primary maths, don't think they are much cop even in their natural habitat.
Another one to add to my Top Ten TEFL Tirades.
PS Ask them what the winning numbers for SuperEnoLotto are going to be this weekend.
- Thu Apr 01, 07:58:00 AM GMT+1
I've always been convinced that Cuisenaire rods were just another instrument of terror used by the TEFL snobs to make other teachers feel bad about themselves, a bit like the so-called 'language lab.'
The main thing about cuisenaire
rods is that they are very fiddly, very easy to lose and rather expensive, thus resulting in endless teacher anxiety about whether their class has
returned them all to the box.
But they do make very good projectiles for directing at students who wander 'off-target' during a lesson - just like board markers, in fact, but an upmarket version of them.
- Thu Apr 01, 03:15:00 PM GMT+1
- Lizzie Love said...
This all sounds fascinating. You Teflers are a wonderfully eccentric bunch! I'm going to google Cuisenaire rods right now!
- Thu Apr 01, 06:40:00 PM GMT+1
that disgusting puff is talking shit again. Why do they think endless innuendos pass for humour?
- Thu Apr 01, 06:45:00 PM GMT+1
I don't belong. I don't even begin to belong. Get yer fat lawyers onto this, and hand back yer gongs, ladzzzz!
I have the mark of genius upon me.
20 miles to do a private lesson. pure genius.
- Thu Apr 01, 08:29:00 PM GMT+1
- vilges suola said...
nmjag, if I am the 'disgusting puff'you allude to, you shit-headed cunt, let me point out that there's no innuendo there, it's just pure nonsense, like The Silent Way, Suggestopedia, Total Physical Response and the rest of the 'humanistic' rubbish.
- Thu Apr 01, 09:28:00 PM GMT+1
- Sarah in deepest, darkest Lomellina said...
Can you stick The Natural Way up at the top of that list.
Bloody school (AUA I think) sold my ex FIL that one in his attempts to get me to speak Thai. Bad enough being on the whiteboard end of trumped up, overstated, evidence free, emperor's new clothes methodology. Being on the student side is about 1000 times worse.
And Mr. Hit The Keyboard Randomly To Find User Name Cos Have So Many in My Sock Puppet Collection That Limited Imagination All Dried Up.......
A little cloze exercise for you.
_______ off.
- Thu Apr 01, 10:14:00 PM GMT+1
as an innovater of langauge acquisition methdology, I do accept that some learners like those above have no hope of learning language. It's a wonder that they acquired they're first language any way.
- Fri Apr 02, 12:23:00 PM GMT+1
- Sarah in deepest, darkest Lomellina said...
"It's a wonder that they acquired they're first language any way."
Dear Mr. Pot yelling black at the rest of the kitchen, I think you mean their, not they're.
If you are referring to me, I learned both Thai and Italian as second languages just fine, once free of "innovaters" (sic).
- Fri Apr 02, 03:23:00 PM GMT+1
Dear Kitchen,
I am not only person thinks that you PhD need to understand. Until time, you are learning with no real thesis question.
Oh the waist. Oh the masses...
- Fri Apr 02, 05:15:00 PM GMT+1
- The TEFL Tradesman said...
Oh dear, I see that this post about 'the rods' has attracted an unexpectedly rare quality of weird and quirky comments. Well done, chaps!
BTW, I would hold back on the nasty comments about our Lathaphobic friend, as he's built like the proverbial prick shithouse. Oops, a Freudian slip, I guess... But the advice remains, matey.
- Fri Apr 02, 05:36:00 PM GMT+1
You are the only puff so obviously, it is you. I am a human being unlike you who have inappropriate fetishistic compulsions. Is a shit headed cunt one of your weird fantasies - eew.
You are so up your own ass you can't even recognise your own innuendos - oh dear
Nasty non human. You should all be shot. Aren't you embarrassed to be such a ridiculous pervert? A human being would but not you you filth wallower
- Fri Apr 02, 08:28:00 PM GMT+1
Ah, yes - the dreaded 'filth wallowers'. Y'know, there used to be a good number of them on this blog, and they were, in general, of the courteous and enlightened type of dung-heap inhabitant.
But things have gotten a lot worse over the years, Janey, and I'm afraid that this blog is now attracting the rather baser elements of the filth wallowing community. I can't think why, not at all...
- Sat Apr 03, 08:34:00 AM GMT+1
- vilges suola said...
Janey darling, I accept that you might possibly be a human being, albeit a silly, stunted and sad example of one. Since you appear to be about fifteen, I hold out hope that you might become something finer in time.
Sandy, I don't ordinarily approve of censorship, but for Christ's sake, need these daft, illiterate, know-nothing twinks be allowed to pester the grown-ups?
- Sat Apr 03, 08:13:00 PM GMT+1
- vilges suola said...
Or are they all your own creations?
- Sat Apr 03, 08:25:00 PM GMT+1
- The TEFL Tradesman said...
Not my creations, mate - mine are much more sophisticated, as I'm sure you're aware(!)
I'm a bit reluctant to pull comments, but I'll bear your words and feelings in mind in future. After all, I wouldn't want anybody to feel offended on this blog, would I?!
Except the cunts who deserve it, of course...
- Sun Apr 04, 08:31:00 AM GMT+1
Thus spake the fascist. As Churchill said the new fascists will be the anti-fascists. Well they are here amongst us human beings now. "But I believe in free speech I hear you cry, but only if you agree with me".
Poor old bugger, if he finds it offensive, he can turn away but no – it must be banned.
Not being a frequenter of paedophile homo websites I have no reason to say they should be banned, but the new liberal fascists will not rest until all real people have been wiped out.
You heard it here first. If you are homosexual you are officially more mature than human beings. Really? I would have thought unresolved inappropriate sexual focus was the epitome of lack of wisdom.
- Tue Apr 06, 09:08:00 PM GMT+1
- vilges suola said...
I am offended only by moronic arguments such as'the new liberal fascists will not rest until all real people have been wiped out' not by ideas I disagree with. Nothing unresolved about my sexual focus, mate: I like men. If you think that's inappropriate it's your unresolved problem, not mine.
- Wed Apr 07, 10:08:00 PM GMT+1
Vilges, if you feel like fighting them, go for it, but I'd suggest you get on with your life rather than waste your time bothering with the half-witted, ignorant shite in the comments on this blog.
The last time I visited this site it was amusing, but I'm going to unsubscribe, it's just dull and many comments are unreasonably obnoxious.
I'm not gay, but for fuck's sake. Are these comments from real people? Are they people in the efl teaching community? I thought teflers were some of the most liberal around, I suppose I was wrong. I feel like I've stumbled upon a Daily Mail blog.
- Thu Apr 08, 12:08:00 AM GMT+1
- The TEFL Tradesman said...
Fair comment, and I must say this is the first time I've had any openly anti-gay and hostile remarks on this blog. I think in future (i.e., as from now) I'll have to tell certain people to hold off on the reactionary stuff - or else.
Look, if you really want to insult a true weirdo, just hop over to the Windsor Swindler blog, where you can throw brickbats at Paul Lowe all day long. He's well used to that sort of treatment now, I can assure you, and won't take offence. Well, not too much.
- Thu Apr 08, 08:10:00 AM GMT+1
- vilges suola said...
I don't mind 'reactionary' if it's intelligently expressed. It's the brainlessness we needn't put up with.
- Thu Apr 08, 10:31:00 AM GMT+1
Clarence Rhodes said earlier:
'I see Paul Lowe is up for...and the decathlon medal in the 2012 Olympics afterr that.'
Clarence,you aren't dispeptic...dishcle...fugging hell...dyslexic are you? Did you misread 'defecation' as 'decathlon?'I for one wouldn't put it past the Olympics governing body to include defecation as a spectator sport...I mean ,the buggers included beach volleyball played by nubile girlies almost in their bare skuddies recently! Are there a lot of Germans on the Olympics board of judges or summat?And do the competitors have to bring their own glass-toppedcoffee tables or is Coca-Cola sponsoring this new event?
- Sun Apr 11, 11:14:00 AM GMT+1


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Back in the day I, like many teenagers, was writing a fantasy novel. Here's a chapter of said juvenelia:
Sick of sorrow, Reilly went into another picture: a vista of what might have been the central street of Flint. He saw the Genesee Towers Bank, the calcified limestone of the Mott Foundation Building and Waterstreet Pavilion with its ridged roof too blue to be the aged bronzed it imitated.
Only the hush of the river and a few flitting birds broke the pall of quiet. The air was warm and breezeless, not unpleasant. The ground, though still encrusted with chunks of asphalt and concrete, was broken and buckled by new mild grass and spindly, pale shrubs. If I walk just up Saginaw Street then I'll come to Northbank Center and my dad's office and maybe I'll find something with his name on it.
But Saginaw Street was reverting to crumbling cobbles and asphalt stubbled with grass gone to seed. The bridge had melted into the river like a slab of ice cream. The Flint River flowed brown and unknowing, around the mildewed bridge pillars, filling Saginaw Bay as it had since the glaciers dug Lake Huron. As it would until the glaciers returned.
Lining Saginaw Street were crumples of cars, slowly becoming mounds of lacy rust packed with mulching leaves. Breaking through the accumulation of weather and seasons flashed incongruous reminders of the cars' past identity: shreds of white-walled rubber among the strawberry creepers, blunt iceberg-colored squares of safety glass littering the richer blue of forget-me-nots.
When he looked up, Reilly would always see the same level sun, as if it had been suspended at five o'clock on an August evening, glinting off exposed girders in the upper spikes of the Mott Foundation Building. On the twelfth floor of Genesee Towers, the University Club had lost its flat facing of windows and was a dark hole instead of a reflective surface.
He tried to catch a glimpse of the light globes attached to the ceiling. If there was a party at night you could see them glowing a dim, weary sophistication of yellow that he had always classified in his mind-files as the apogee of worldly glamour. Their light was the color of tired ivory.
He associated the twilit, aged lights with cigars and snifters and furtive too fervent sippers of Glenlivet and Balmoral, whose beredded faces belied their eloquent, apparent sobriety. Also the muted glinting of gowns sequined and beglittered to maximize the paltry mist of light. But he couldn't see the lights. He couldn't even see the wires hanging from what had once been globes, twelve stories above him.
It was always the same as he walked down the uneven plain that had been the parking lot, through the wrack of Buicks and Chevys and Cadillacs and Pontiacs and Oldsmobiles and Lincolns and GMC trucks –and Dodges and Fords and probably a few beige Honda Accords or russet Mercedes Benz, deep within enemy territory: LeSabres, Rivieras, ParkAvenues, Regals, Cavaliers, Corsicas, Impalas, Bonnevilles, Sevilles, Eldorados, S-10s, F-150s, Rams, Intrepids, Stealths, Escorts, Mustangs, Explorers: a civilization's worth of evocative names, carefully chosen and reminiscent of ships or war or wealth or chivalry. Silver bits and tatters of their names still littered the parking lot, winking in the weary sun. A fractured Cen crackled beneath his toe.
Even the memory of war had been greened and rounded by the seasons' unfailing insentience. The skeletons of the buildings held themselves above forest that was not second-growth but now third-growth and would grow undisturbed until Flint and Michigan were once more cathedralled by white pine. The bears would find their halting fumbling way through the regreening north and the wolves maybe from Isle Royale or Canada, maybe now gathering in their reflective-eyed packs by Poe Lock, while the dormant caliginous refineries sat darkening the runoff rain.
Maybe a thousand-foot ore ship rusted listing in the locks, and the wolves' feet tracked coal dust and copper crumbs across its eroding deck. Above their sempiternal lonely voices the constellations wheeled in patterns altering only at their imperceptible pace, until after wordless ages had passed, even the stars would be alien to the moments when Flint and Michigan and America and Earth had been named.
Vast and implacable silence suffused the ruined city, more absolute and impersonal than any man-made destruction. The impartial ruin of time weighed upon Reilly. It was over. He and Lowan had died, and the moss covered up the names cut into their gravestones. Even Alkarrik had grown ugly and frail and white-haired, and now was dust. Even Chamkin with her fiery hair. Sorrow like he had never known welled up in him.
It's over and it didn't matter, what we did, what we wanted. It's all over. No one is around to remember that Lowan was my friend when there used to be Flint, when we used to go downtown to my dad's office and hang out in Riverbank Park. When there used to be a park and the bridge and the dam up by U of M Flint. When there used to be cars. Brought to completion. Finished. Here it is.
No more bright cars roaring and clattering past Citizens' Bank and Waterstreet Pavilion. It had all gone under the wave as irrevocably as Atlantis, and Reilly was alone upon the glittering, silent waters. Never again, never again.
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Victoria's trots industry is mourning the loss of a gentleman of the sport after Bob Conroy died on Tuesday at age 88.
The Daylesford trainer and brilliant horseman enjoyed a life dedicated to harness racing, which he shared with his wife Pat and their five children, including Glenn, Anne-Maree and Peter, who themselves have combined to drive more than 800 winners.
Renowned as an outstanding trainer of trotters, Mr Conroy spent a life training from Daylesford, having been raised in nearby Korweinguboora before occupying the former Daylesford Trotting Club track, from where he would often venture into neighbouring Hepburn Regional Park to educate his horses.
A trots trainer, driver and breeder, Mr Conroy's training successes include Mary Beverley's win in the 1973 V. L. Dullard Cup, Lincoln Star's win in the 1978 Bendigo Pacing Cup and 1978 Italian Cup, and the Lightfoot Laurels on four occasions (Lucy Lastic 1997, Miss Universe 1999 and 2001 and False Gem on 2008).
His greatest stakes win came when Amazon captured the $30,000 Australasian Trotters Championship final in 1984 and then the same year the E B Cochran Memorial Trotters Cup, while notable triumphs also include Mister Everest in the 1990 Chris E Howe Trotters Cup, two Central Victorian Trotting Championships in 1991 (Omaorio) and 2005 (Sutters Glory), the 1996 Coulter Crown with Lucy Lastic, First Signal's win in the 1999 Cranbourne Trotters Cup and then the R C Freestone Trotters Cup with Miss Universe.
Other notable performers he trained throughout his distinguished career included multiple metropolitan winners King's Pride, Eden's Return, Magic Madge, Minnesota Fats, Hot And Dry, Kyvalley Duke, Speeding Fine, Baltic Prince and Looks Like Me.
Mr Conroy's trotters Bootleg Bert and Margaret Ruth delivered his last trotting wins.
Bootleg Bert won the Decron Trot at Melton on December 4 while driven by Glenn and Margaret Ruth won at Geelong on Saturday night, when Anne-Maree drove her to victory in a heat of the Vicbred Platinum Mares Sprint Championship.
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This video definitely goes. I don't think I have ever met these guys but Bjarki Hardarson, John Patterson, and Jack Oleary went in for their entry for the Florida Gold video contest hosted by Profile. These guys hit everything in sight and did some amazing tricks all for their VX and the result is super sick. Loved the ice hard and crank to pegs on the red rail as well as the amazing railride to 180 on that wooden handrail! Love the vibes from this one!
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Hello and welcome to Our Own Journey. My name is Orla also affectionately known as Mummy to three little boys. I am married to Shane and together we have carried each other along a journey we had not packed for. The unexpected part of our journey began in November 2014. Our third perfect baby boy, Eoghan, was born profoundly Deaf. He has brought us on Our Own Journey where he has inspired us to see, hear and feel life in an amazing new way.
I am always so conscious that my view of life is not a reflection of everyone else's but it might shimmer some light . Even when we walk in the shadows of each others similar path; our tales can be so polar opposite. From every perspective we tell a different story. But we can all find comfort and inspiration from a connection we make with each others voices and experiences. I never ask "why" but rather "why not." I hope Our Own Journey will inspire yours. xx