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Supporting clients'
Synergy Consulting Groups Mark Paul to participate in
Governor Kitzhaber's Trade Mission to the United Kingdom
Supporting clients'
Synergy Consulting Groups Mark Paul to participate in
Governor Kitzhaber's Trade Mission to the United Kingdom
Governor John Kitzhaber will lead a Business Development Mission to
Europe from November 8 to 17. The objective of the mission is to raise Oregon's profile in
the European market and encourage partnerships between Oregon and European companies. The
mission's itinerary includes stops in London, Cambridge (the UK's principal high tech
development region), Amsterdam and Leiden (The Netherlands), and Hanover (Germany).
Paul will join Jim Johnson, Oregon Site Manager of Intel, Larry Wade, Executive
Director of the Software Association of Oregon, and Jeff Pancottine, Vice President
at Sequent/IBM as representatives of the information technology industry. Their
unique knowledge of the industry will support the trade missions objectives.
Infotech industry organizations in all of these cities have indicated a strong interest
in arranging meetings between their companies and Oregon companies to discuss partnering
in product development, technology transfer, and licensing. Executives from the biotech
industry will also participate.
Meetings include sessions with the Cambridge University Computer Science
Department, 3i, a Venture Capital firm, and the Cambridge Network, an
umbrella high tech organization, the Computer Software and Services Association and
Synergy has clients who may benefit from developing European business relations in the
information technology industry and will perform fact-finding for these clients.
"I am excited to be a part of such an elite group of senior executives. As the
world wide web brings us all closer together, it is imperative that we understand the
strategic partnering that can catapult companies well into the next millennium,"
said Paul
Synergy Consulting Groups partners bring decades of operational experience to
support start-ups through Fortune 500 companies. The company provides strategic and
tactical consulting as well as training - bringing proven methods to overcome general
management, operational, financial and sales and marketing challenges. Synergys
partners and associates, Including Patrick Wheeler and Kathy Holmquist also provide
interim management services: They help their clients get to the next level.
Craig Burk at the International Division of the Oregon Economic Development Department
in Portland is coordinating the trade mission and can be reached at 503-229-5625 for
further information.

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Wind Advisory/Lakeshore Flood Warning cancelled for Chicago/Cook County – High Wind Warning/Lakeshore Flood Warning continue in Northwest Indiana
Update 2:45PM CDT…
The Wind Advisory and Lakefront Flood Warning have been cancelled for Chicago/Cook County. The Wind Advisory has been discontinued for Lake County, Illinois and Benton, Newton and Jasper Counties in Indiana, as winds have dropped from earlier level, now running north to northwest 15 to occasionally 30 miles per hour and expected to continue diminishing this evening. However winds are still expected to gust over 50 miles per hour along and inland of the lakefront in Lake and Porter Counties in Indiana and the High Wind Warning countinues there until 7PM, and the Lakefront Flood Warning is still due to expire around midnight tonight.
Update 11AM CDT…
The Lakeshore Flood Warning remains in effect for Chicago/Cook County until Midnight calling for 10 to 15-foot waves driving minor flooding and erosion along the lakeshore into the afternoon. The Lakeshore Flood Warning for flooding and erosion due to 15 to 20-foot waves remains in effect until around midnight tonight for the lakefront areas in Lake and Porter Counties in Indiana.
The High Wind Warning has been lowered to a Wind Advisory in effect until 7PM CDT this Thursday evening for Chicago and Cook County as winds have dropped off a bit – the forecast is for northerly winds 20 to 30 miles per hour with gusts to 45 or 50 miles per hour . The High Wind Warning for 30 to 40 mile per hour winds gusting to 50-60 miles per hour remains in effect for Lake and Porter Counties in Indiana until 7PM CDT. A Wind Advisory also remains in effect for Benton, Newton and Jasper Counties in Indiana until 7PM CDT.
Update 5:45AM CDT...
The High Wind Warning for winds 30 to 40 miles per hour gusting to 50-60 miles per hour and the Lakeshore Flood Warning for 15 to 20-foot waves and possible flooding right along the shoreline continues for Chicago and Cook County until 4PM CDT Thursday. The High Wind and Lakeshore Flood Warnings will extend a little longer until 7PM CDT along the Lake and Porter County, Indiana shoreline.
Farther north and east, a Wind Advisory for winds 20 to 30 miles per hour gusting to 40-45 miles per hour will continue for Lake County Illinois and Milwaukee, Racine and Kenosha Counties in Wisconisn until 4PM CDT and in Newton, Benton and Jasper Counties and farther east in Indiana until 7PM CDT.
Accumulating wet snow will primarily occur in Lower Michigan where a Winter Weather Advisory calls for 1 to 4-inches of snow today – greatest amounts of 5 to 7-inches in the east-central portion of the state – ending from west to east today/tonight.
As the center of a deepening low pressure system tracks through central Indiana, strengthening northeast to north winds will increase prompting a Wind Advisory for greater than 40 miles per hour into early Thursday morning along the Illinois Lake Michigan shoreline into northwest Indiana.
Strongest winds possibly gusting in excess of 60 miles per hour will occur Thursday over the lake and just inland, prompting a High Wind Warning (note gold-shaded area on highlighted map) beginning at 4AM CDT for the portion of Chicago and Cook County around the south end of the lake into Lake and Porter Counties Indiana immediately adjacent to the lake – coinciding with the High Wind Warning, a Lakeshore Flood Warning (initiating at 4AM CDT) calls for damaging 15 to 22-foot waves causing flooding and severe erosion along the lakefront into Thursday evening. Interests along the lakefront should take immediate precautions to protect property and individuals driving, especially west-east-traveling high-profile vehicles such as vans, buses, trucks should try to delay plans or drive very defensively for the next 24 hours or so.
As the storm system moves off to the east, winds will gradually diminish later Thursday night/early Friday.
Another aspect of the storm system is the possibility of cold rain changing over to wet snow as colder air entrains into the low pressure system tonight and Thursday. Indications are that this changeover may well take place with only minor accumulations, except from Chicago south into northwest Indiana where accumulations of a few inches could occur on grassy surfaces or make driving slippery in some areas.
For those planning travel into Lower Michigan the next 24 to 36-hours, it will be bad enough getting around the south end of the lake due to the strong winds and slushy wet snow, but be aware that Winter Storm Advisories and Warnings are in effect for 2 to 4-inches of snow over southern Lower Michigan and 6-9 inches farther north.


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Unpack This Heart: Synecdoche, New York (Review)
The following ideas may not enhance a viewing of or even appear relevant to the film. Taken together, the film appears to be not so much the struggles of a man who fears a meaningless death, but an examination of the startlingly fruitful work of a mind, working to create a society within itself.
Somewhere along the way for screenwriter and director Charley Kaufman, Shakespeare's couplet "the play's the thing/wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King" must have been on his mind.1 Hamlet's famous schematic may be the best log line possible for a film which, like its central character, is desperate to reflect as much as possible in a finite form. Be it the film, or the life of the main character, played with a startlingly transparency and articulation by Philip Seymour Hoffman, or most obviously the stage play that becomes his life's work, that is nothing less than the goal.
Like other scripts by the same author, a substantial and conventional acts early in the film fall away like so many rocket stages as the payload achieves some intended orbit, however erratically. Similarly to Adaptation, once this translation is achieved the viewer is largely without assistant in understanding. This ambiguousness is unavoidable, and that's what makes the film watchable. It certainly would not qualify as enjoyable and at times it turns cold and uneven, nearly repellant. There are a number of discreet ways of interpreting the strange events of the film, which, depending on one's intepretation, takes place over forty or more years of a life in nearly continual desperation and existential stress.
The existential mile markers are easy to find. Caden has his gums surveyed like so many collectable stamps and suffers the meeting of head and scalpel that is oral surgery. He is obsessed with the quality and color of his bowel movements—it's easy to see this, along with dramaturgy as the only products of his life, a means of measure. He suffers mysterious gastrointestinal problems which further force Caden to view himself as a flawed system of pipes. The whole thing underlines the apparently fragility of the human experience and brings into question free will and art in the face of decay. How to take arms against this? Caden enjoys the abstract relaxation in cleaning his house. But all of this is mere primer.
The heart of the film is the stage play he mounts after accepting, at least for a time, his fragility, the loss of his wife and daughter, and the idea that nothing can be rationally planned or even enjoyed in the face of inevitable annihilation. Again, the film is open to interpretation. I take this idea, in conjunction with the obvious fantastic scope of his play reproduction—the number of players, costs, time, staging, and location are all dreamlike in their scope and mutability—as indicators that everything the proceeds following his abandonment is a view not of Caden in the real world, but of of his own mind's efforts to organize itself.
In this sense the bulk of the film is a diorama, to be viewed metaphorically, for Caden's mind and it's indomitable will to interpret the world and organize itself in that world. The end of the film especially validates this analysis. The following is exclusively a discussion of this metaphor and the film's closing events.
A Mind Makes A Mind
The construction of the locations of Caden's life within the massive Brooklyn warehouse can be seen as the construction of memory. We can take this further by seeing the many players as agents, each one bringing one or two iotas of meaning into focus.
Eckhart Tolle succinctly links 2 the Cartesian mentalism of "I think therefore I am" with the materialist nausea of Sartre through the recognition of the discrete relationship between the "I am" and the "I think". Caden embodies this idea fully, both in his inital warehouse production, and the prismatic, looping referential versions contained therein, like so many chambers in the nautilus. This approach can also be seen though a cognitive lens. Marvin Minsky's Society of Mind posits the mind as a sum of mechanical mindlessness:
I'll call "Society of Mind" this scheme in which each mind is made of many smaller processes. These we'll call agents. Each mental agent by itself can only do some simple thing that needs no mind or thought at all. Yet when we join these agents in societies—in certain very special ways—this leads to intelligence. 3
When "directing" he works to reproduce events shortly after they occur. Once satisfied with the actors portrayal—blocking, conflict, motivation, language—he has the elevated stage walled over, placing Caden at a safe distance, insulated from what we assume continues within: a mutating, recycling decay; a variation upon a variation. These actors, unseen are not living parts of Caden. They are agents. But the word Caden has created goes beyond himself.
Caden's first few scenes are peppered with flickering appearances by his future-Caden, (Tom Noonan) who we later meet as an amateur actor, obessed with Caden's work, who serves for a time as the actor portraying Caden as director of the play within the play. It may or may not be fair to call Tom Noonan Caden's dopplganger. The very early appearance of Noonan in the film can probably support other interpretations, but here I suggest these early appearances are crucial to the idea that Noonan represents Caden's early, perhaps even adolescent sense of self.
There is another line from Shakespeare's same speech for Hamlet that offers even better context: "[I] Must like a whore, unpack my heart with words." Harold Bloom's analysis of these words is fitting: Hamlet touches on the unsettling quality to the act of acting. (Hamlet is discussing the quality of the lead actor from the troupe visiting his Uncle's court.) Beyond this he identifies the tenuous relationship between words and the heart. Bloom cites Nietzsche's reflections on Hamlet, that the character suffers the loss of speech, that once words have formed around a feeling that the feeling has already passed, "so a kind of contempt enters the act of speaking."4
Caden appears to suffer from this very concern. At least the Caden we see staging the play, which I interpret as an arbitrary Caden-agent, so burdened with the task of sense-making of the outside world. He is able to name, to cast, to costume. These are physical, sensual activities, drawing on photography, drawing, shapes, and primitives. This is plywood and paint. Establishing who is in a scene and blocking it. These are the tasks that so preoccupy the Caden-agent. None of them is directing. We wouldn't call them writing either. That is the major split between creating a basic memory and making meaning of it. The Caden-agents desire to make meaning forces him into a prism of self-reference.
So what of the ending? The third act, startling in its clarity and emotional currency, begins when Tom Noonan, as Caden's first-but-not-only stand-in actor-as-director kills himself.5 The vacuum left in his departure is filled with the Broadway actress portrayed by Dianne Wiest. Initally cast as a supernumerary cleaning woman, she takes over the entire production. She consigns Caden to her previous role: working in the highest set—the most pristine memory—cleaning the fantastical apartment of his eternally missing wife, an immortality project6 Caden cannot seem to cope without.
Indeed, here Wiest uses projection, rhetoric, and external direction to close itself—to as Caden puts it "direct the play." He discovers only how to "direct the play" when someone else is doing it for him. The funeral scene—one that's been portrayed many times over for different people—has rear projection, a rain machine, a thunderous actor with overripe lines to speak. The work stands in start contrast to discretion and equivocation of Caden's "self-direction" which was evasive, distant.
In the film's final moments, Wiest's direction of Caden is complete. The woman in the hallway7 gives Caden an in-ear transmitter so he may be constantly directed, even in the most mundane and personal activities. Here time shifts most violently. Caden ages quickly.8 He leaves his tiny bedroom in his absent wife's apartment and, finding the streets of his once bustling warehouse set empty, he heads for the simulacra of the warehouse, wherein he finds the once-bustling warehouse set empty, wherein he heads again for the warehouse, each time being established as a planned, organized and rational cartesian stand against the chaos and decay outside.
It is easy to see this as the mind, perhaps even in its last few moments of thinking, excersizing a strange will-to-power, to make sense of the outside world. Here the outside world might be a plagued city. It might also be a plagued body. Most importantly, it might be the previous plans plagued, the previous attempts falling down, decaying, but always containing a fresh seed of self-knowledge, or at least a script, and players, and director.
Wiest can be read as powerful self-knowledge. Or bad faith9. Or the outside agency, graceful or otherwise of God, or organized religion, with a dogma, or of a kind woman's voice, with instructions to the consiouness of the King.
1. Hamlet on the act of acting:
O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I! Is it not monstrous that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, Could force his soul so to his own conceit That from her working all his visage wann'd, Tears in his eyes, distraction in's aspect, A broken voice, and his whole function suiting With forms to his conceit? and all for nothing!
2. Eckhart Tolle, "A New Earth"
3. Marvin Minsky, "Society of Mind" p. 17.
4. Harold Bloom, "Genius" p. 194. Warner Books, 2003 ISBN 0446691291
5. Curiously, despite that fact that Noonan's death appears to happen "in the real world" (as if the distinction really matters), the conditions of his body and the pavement onto which he falls have all the reality of a Road Runner cartoon, the pavent is unpainted, splintered wood: a diorama of a fall from a great height.
6. Here immortality project means anything that occupies the mind and allows one to project one's self beyond death. Immortality projects are often children, artistic works, or business enterprises. We can see all three pretty strongly in Caden's suffering. Perhaps most acutely his daughter, a topic that wasn't really convenient for my thesis but was clearly central to the character.
7. It was a welcome bit of surly unintentional relief at this point in the picture to recognize the librarian from Ghostbusters as the replacement woman-in-the-hall.
8. At times the changes age appear at once willful occlusions and continuity errata that would seem unavoidable in a film as self-obsessed. The matter of what's happening in the "real world", wherein it appears Zepplins cross the East River and clowns are relocating neighbors is hard to read. Within my thesis all of these apocalypse are the real or imagined—it actually doesn't matter which—decay of the abstract layer above whichever Caden/Warehouse we might be dealing with at the moment. At one point, outsiders petition Caden the busy director for entry. But the play isn't done yet—he has no box office—and he cannot allow it. Again this can be seen as a cognitive retreat, keeping irrational radical elements out of the ordered thing, however chaotic it may feel, it is an achieved chaos.
9. At the risk of reckless summary, the existential condition of bad faith is one where the realities of being are not directly confronted, but are packed away somehow. Not that this is a necessarily an unhealthy way to live.
Posted November 20, 2008.


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Kids love dinosaurs yet it's not often they can get their hands on the real thing.
But that's exactly what visitors can expect from this weekend's Paleo Explorers Dinosaur Festival at the Chautauqua Community House in Boulder.
Designed as a temporary "pop-up museum," this two-day event promotes interactive, hands-on learning.
"Kids can actually build a life-sized, duck- billed dinosaur," says Kristi Dahl, director of the University of Colorado Science Explorers program, which hosts the festival.
The 8-foot-tall hadrosaur, or duck-billed dinosaur, is a $60,000 replica of a skeleton that belongs to the Hankla Collection of bones and fossils unearthed at a dig site in eastern Wyoming. "As far as we know, this is the only buildable dinosaur in the world that is used this way," Dahl says of the hadrosaur replica.
During the two-day festival, the buildable dinosaur can be taken apart and rebuilt over and over again, sometimes in as little as 20 minutes if a large group works together.
John Hankla, whose family owns the collection, is a CU alum and the featured scientist during this year's Paleo Explorers workshop series.
Today and Sunday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Hankla and other CU scientists will mingle with festival visitors and offer insight into the various dinosaur exhibits.
A juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex from the Hankla site also is part of the festival display. Measuring more than 14 feet high, even a juvenile T. Rex dwarfs the crowd and gives kids an appreciation of the scale of one of the most famous predators of all time.
Elsewhere, at the festival's soap-mold station, parents and children can learn about the process of making molds from real fossils, and kids can create their own fossil replicas. Using fossil molds from T. Rex teeth, mastodon bones or hadrosaur toes, participants create brightly colored, fossil-shaped glycerin soaps to take home. "Kids can get creative, and make bright green vertebrae or hot pink T. Rex teeth," Dahl says.
One display illustrates the process of discovering microfossils, often found near anthills. Western harvester ants, found throughout the American West, tend to hoard rocks and bones to insulate their large anthills. The ants rebuild their nests annually, so scientists can sift through the old anthills to find small teeth, bone chips and other interesting microfossils.
Rounding out the exhibits is a 30-foot-long piece of sandstone that contains actual dinosaur footprints. Visitors can view the prints and learn how fossilized tracks offer valuable insight into the dinosaurs' speed, weight and movement.
Children are encouraged to look, touch and ask questions.
"In general, museums are not very kid-friendly," Dahl says. "So we really want people to get hands-on and become truly engaged."


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Best Baby Bubble Hairdo Competition!
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June 08, 2012 16:55 ET
Ad Agency Grupo Gallegos Teams Up With Radio Disney Stars Bella Thorne and Zendaya to Create a 5K Event
Ad Agency Grupo Gallegos Teams Up With Radio Disney Stars Bella Thorne and Zendaya to Create a 5K Event
HUNTINGTON BEACH, CA--(Marketwire - Jun 8, 2012) - Grupo Gallegos, an independent, creatively-driven marketing solutions advertising agency, has partnered with Radio Disney to present "Walkathon Positivo," a 5K walk that celebrates all things positive.
This walk was inspired by El Maestro del Vaso Medio Lleno (The Master of the Glass Half-Full), a character who teaches the many benefits of milk. One of these benefits is viewing life from a "glass half-full" perspective.
To help promote this message, the stars of the Disney Channel original series Shake it Up, Bella Thorne and Zendaya, will be attending and meeting walkathon participants, along with performing the "Positivity Dance" with other Radio Disney crew members.
In addition to the walk, this free family event will feature games, plenty of cold milk to go around, experiential booths, and more. These experiential booths are tied directly to enjoying the many benefits of milk and will be distributing a variety of coinciding giveaway items.
Participants will also receive a passport, which will be given out at the registration booth. This passport will allow them to enter for a chance to win prizes such as iPads, iPods, and Disneyland family pack tickets.
The walkathon will be held this Saturday, June 9, at Wilmington Waterfront Park in Long Beach. Check-in starts at 8:00am and the walk begins at 9:30am. To register, please go to: http://walkathonpositivo.com/.
About Grupo Gallegos:
Grupo Gallegos was founded in 2001 by California born John Gallegos, who was inspired to start the agency with the idea of integrated marketing strategies for a multicultural audience. Grupo Gallegos leads the Hispanic market with campaigns for Comcast, Target, California Milk Processor Board (GOT MILK?), Denny's, Valvoline, and Foster Farms, to name a few. The agency's success in revolutionizing how brands communicate with the growing Hispanic market is due, in part, to John Gallegos' mantra: "Look for courageous clients who are willing to challenge convention." Gallegos believes in connecting with Hispanic consumers in consistently new ways. The agency's mountain of awards and rapid expansion attest to the effectiveness of their campaigns.
About California Milk Processor Board:
The California Milk Processor Board was established in 1993 to make milk more competitive and increase milk consumption in California. Awareness of GOT MILK? is over 90% nationally and it is considered one of the most important and successful campaigns in history. GOT MILK? is a federally registered trademark that has been licensed by the national dairy boards since 1995. The CMPB's Spanish-language campaign began in 1994 using the tagline "Familia, Amor y Leche" (Family, Love and Milk). The TOMA LECHE (Drink Milk) campaign replaced it in 2006, following a growing trend in Hispanic food advertising that uses wit and humor to reach audiences. GOT MILK? gifts and recipes can be viewed at www.gotmilk.com and www.tomaleche.com. The CMPB is funded by all California milk processors and administered by the California Department of Food and Agriculture.
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Do you enjoy starting your morning with a mocha and later mellowing out with a merlot? Greet the dawn with a cappuccino and finish the day with a cabernet? Get the best of both worlds at a new coffee and artisan wine bar set to open in Downtown Arlington later this summer.Urban Alchemy Coffee + Wine Bar is the dream of Arlington couple Tony and Nicole Rutigliano. The bar will eventually open in the former Lester's automotive shop at 403 E. Main St. near Mavericks Bar & Grill and Division Brewing. Until then, residents can stop by Sugar Bee Sweets Bakery at Urban Union, 201 N. East St., and grab a freshly brewed cup of Urban Alchemy coffee or a bag of house blend.Both Nicole and Tony, who will soon step down as Downtown Arlington Management Corporation CEO and President, are actively chronicling their journey as fledgling entrepreneurs and providing regular updates about the status of Urban Alchemy's future opening on social media."There are several aspects of this endeavor that really excite me. My passion for the community, the opportunity to foster stronger connections, and the physical contribution to creating a sense of place are very important to me," Tony Rutigliano wrote in a recent blog post. "Most of all, I want to build something that will sustain my family and team members we'll hire, and something that gives back to the community that his given so much to me."Tony recently shared his vision for the new venture with MyArlingtonTX.com.How did the idea for Urban Alchemy Coffee + Wine Bar come about?The idea of the wine bar developed over a period of several years, but really came together in late 2015. I spent a lot of time that year thinking about the future of my family and pondering opportunities for me to build something for them. Downtown Arlington was growing, and I believed there was an opportunity to create a unique community gathering place. So, I concluded that it there could be nothing better than to bring the Arlington community together around coffee and wine.Why do you feel this business is a good fit for Downtown Arlington?I believe that Urban Alchemy will be a great fit for Arlington because the idea was conceived and crafted with Arlington in mind. I hope it will become Arlington's living room!How did your role with the Downtown Arlington Management Corporation play a part, if any, in your decision to start up your own Downtown business? My role with the DAMC gave me the inspiration and confidence that I could be successful as an entrepreneur.You're promoting the future Urban Alchemy Coffee + Wine Bar as part cozy chair, part meeting space and part place to celebrate. How will the wine bar's look and setup reflect this? The bar will look and feel like a living room. We'll have comfortable sofas and arm chairs with interesting seating vignettes to accommodate small or large groups. We want you to be able to find a comfortable space whether your meeting a friend for drinks or celebrating with a group of friends. We'll also have space to host a business meeting.What kinds of wine and coffee do you plan to offer? Any foods?We plan to offer wine from about 50 different labels, and premium coffee from a local roaster. As far as food, our current plan is to offer small plate items such as sandwiches, appetizers and locally sourced baked goods. We also plan to offer signature charcuterie boards and chef-inspired deserts.When will the bar open?We are hoping to open the bar in late August or early September, and we expect our hours to be from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday through Thursday, and 7 a.m. to midnight on Friday and Saturday.Is there anything else you'd like to tell us about the business?Urban Alchemy will be much more than a bar. We plan to host wine tastings and dinners, art exhibits and live music, and other unique special events.Click here to visit the Urban Alchemy Facebook page.
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We were watching Dance Party last night, rocking out to the best (or worst) of the 80's, when the song, I'm gonna be (500 miles) came on. To which I replied, "This is NOT an 80's song." That song came out in 1993.
Khary said no. 1994.
Tomato, toe-mah-toe.
But I knew I was right. That song was in the movie Benny & Joon, which was played on the lawn outside of my dorm, the first week we arrived at school. Fall of 1993.
He said summer 1994 because…I stopped listening to his reasoning, since I knew I was right.
Turns out, we were both wrong, but I was right-er. The song was originally released in the late 80's, when no one knew there was a band called The Proclaimers. It wasn't until Benny & Joon that the song took off like a rocket, to be played on the radio ten times a day for two years.
Did I mention that Benny & Joon came out in 1993?
Jocelyn paid little attention to our back-and-forth because she was transfixed. The song has a beat that gets stuck in your head, and she likes a good beat. Or a bad beat. We seem to be venturing (already?) into the land of bad music. I blame myself for using the SEARCH button on the radio in the car. She hears a dance beat and immediately screams if you change it. Sometimes I let her scream.
It started last year with Lady Gaga's Bad Romance.
Then it was Jennifer Lopez's new song. I have no idea what it's called, but Jocelyn calls it the La La La song.
Gaga I like. JLo I can deal with. But there are others that I cringe at, which just makes me old.
She's not even three, so I can't imagine the crap we're going to hear blasting from her room in ten years.
We may have a chance with Aja. She's currently a huge fan of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, or anything that involves clapping. Of course, Khary and I don't always agree with what constitutes good music either, so we'll see who can sway her first.
We have quarter bets on everything and according to my math, I'm winning.
Speaking of winning. Yesterday I was surprised to discover that I was nominated as one of the Top 25 Best SF Bay Area Mom Blogs. So if you like what you read here, please vote for papoe, once a day until July 29th. I'm going to let Jocelyn pick my winning outfit.
P.S. There is not actually a ceremony, or a prize. But I think this sort of thing just screams Dress Up.
The internets are ripe with stories and half-truths and things that make me laugh, or get me really pissed off. Now that I'm working full-time (have I adjusted yet? I'm not sure...) I don't have as much time to blog but in between projects I still like to take the time to stretch my brain. Here's a few of my favorites this week:
The Bloggess reminded me that other people's marriages are also funny (not just mine).Victor ruins everything and also probably hates America. If you haven't visited The Bloggess before, let me just say this: you're welcome.
Christine of Pop Discourse just had her second child. That Kind of Sister is a short, sweet snippet of sisterly love.
Speaking of baby's, Oana Befort's blog is just plain pretty, and she takes even prettier pictures. Today's post, Kissable little thing, is mommy/baby pretty.
I just found Diga(Mama) recently and the other day she made me mad. Not at her. At Satoshi Kanazawa and Psychology Today. In Apparently, I'm Significantly Less Attractive Than A White Woman, she writes about Kanazawa's highly offensive article called Why Are Black Women Rated Less Physically Attractive Than Other Women But Black Men Are Rated Better Looking Than Other Men? The author apparantly uses scientific data to back up his argument that black women are less attractive. I am offended. I'm offended as a women, as a mother of two biracial girls, and as a human being. Why is it important to research attractiveness? How is that helping the world? And the petty side of me wants to say this: Satoshi Kanazawa and Psychology Today, you are ugly.
And for your laughing pleasure: models falling.
I woke up feeling a little under the weather this morning. The Sickness is making it's way through the house, and I was dreading raising my head from the pillow. But two things changed my mind.
1. I realized that the SITS Spotlight was shining on me today.
2. There's a Glee marathon on television.
Maybe I should say add a third thing. My husband is golfing this morning, which means I can enjoy the marathon, sip my coffee, and the girls can spread their blocks and toys all over the floor to their hearts content.
If you're new here, welcome! Visit my first post and find out how this all started. An addendum to that is Aja's birth story. Some of my favorite posts are here, here, and here. But peek here and there, all around, and find your own favorite.
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"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go." -Dr. Seuss
In the many months that I've been doing this little thing called blogging, I've gotten to know a few other blogs, and bloggers, and bloggers who blog about blogging or not blogging. Through it all, I've been encouraged and supported, and so now it's my turn to say, hey, these (five) chicks are awesome.
Andy from Crazy with a side of Awesome Sauce writes about her life, sex, two crazy furry felines, and music, among other things. She also is an amazing photographer, and she claims she has talent behind the mic. Her love of karaoke is one of the things that made me take notice, so much so that I even gave her a shout out on her birthday. I won't put my Thirty is Dirty picture up for just anyone, but Andy deserves it. She's crazy, and awesome, and saucy.
I've mentioned Erin from Mixed Mama Project before, and one of the reasons that I'm writing about her now is that I hope she'll keep blogging. We met when I was new to this world and she was growing a mixed baby in her belly. We commiserated over what it's going to mean to be a white mom of a mixed baby girl, and what the hell we're going to do about that curly hair. Yes, she is an official mama now, and little baby A is giving her a run for her money. She hasn't had much time to blog, but I'm begging her to come back....
Cheryl from Mommypants is someone that I have looked up to for awhile now, and only partly because she's a recovering sports writer (yes, I'm jealous). She's also damn funny. Recently, she started a weekly feature called Mommypants Moment, where she invites other bloggers to write about their "moments" as mothers. Fun, real, heartbreaking, or just plain hilarious moments in parenting. She's proof that it's cool to be a mom, and a mom that blogs, and to have a blog that honors other moms.
Dana is The Kitchen Witch, one of my favorite food blogs. But she's not all about food. She's a mom, a former teacher, writer, and personal chef. So yeah, she's a lot about food, but she also writes about her family, and she's snarky and funny, and she makes me want to eat and drink. You know, more than I already do.
I discovered Kelly from Naked Girl in a Dress after she discovered me and decided to review papoe on her blog. I knew that she obviously had great taste because she seemed to like me and my blog, but she also is someone that is searching for ways to be happy. Intentionally happy. And while I might not always be warm and fuzzy on the outside, I have a little of it inside, and I look forward to her posts. She's insightful and honest and real. But no, she's not naked.
If you have a moment or two, check out these fabulous ladies. They make me smile even when life makes me want to scream.
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I had an idea this year.
Perhaps it was the wine or a fuzzy-sleep-deprived-mom-moment but an imaginary light bulb clicked on and I reveled in my brilliance. For that one moment, I was brilliant. When the haze lifted, I had two screaming children and too much laundry and a dirty sink full of dishes and I had a sad realization: I didn't write my idea down, and it was nowhere to be found.
I will forget to buy milk at the store if I don't write it down. And unfortunately you can't find ideas in the frozen section, even with a map and compass.
So I soldiered on. And I came up with a new idea. And then realized it was a shitty idea. This went on for months.
In the meantime, I mothered. I played. I worked. I loved.
Late in the summer I realized that I had, in fact, done something amazing this year: I blogged. I threw aside any preconceived notions about what I thought blogging was or should be about, and I just wrote down my life. In doing so, I put an idea to action, and I found a way to make the nuances of parenthood funny (I think) and interesting and, on the days when it counted, tolerable.
So I can commit to keep it going. To making this idea, that never was a concrete idea, into something tangible. There will be changes in design in the near future, and changes in day-to-day life. Hair is longer, steps are being taken, words will be said. I can claim victory in the fact that Aja's first word was Mama. However, I would not be surprised if Khary claims victory some day in the future when she calls a classmate "motherfucker" at daycare and we get the call. Don't worry, I'll surely write about it.
This post was written as part of the Reverb10 event. "Reflect on this year and manifest what's next." A little bit touchy-feely, a little bit awesome. [My own interpretation of the event] Today's prompt: Action. When it comes to aspirations, its not about ideas. It's about making ideas happen. What's your next step?


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- 2 pounds ground beef (90% lean)
- 1 medium onion, chopped
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 2 large eggs
- 1/2 cup crushed buttery crackers
- 3/4 cup barbecue sauce, divided
- 1/4 cup milk
- 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon ground black pepper
- 1 package (16 ounces) Velveeta® cheese
- 4 slices cooked bacon, crumbled
- 6 slices cooked bacon
- 1 cup French fried onions, crushed
- Line the slow cooker crock with heavy duty aluminum foil; set aside.
- In a large bowl, combine ground beef, onion, garlic, eggs, cracker crumbs, 1/4 cup barbecue sauce, milk, Worcestershire sauce, salt and pepper.
- On a large cutting board, shape the meat mixture into a rectangle about 1-inch thick. Slice the cheese in half lengthwise and place one half in center of meatloaf mixture. Reserve remaining half of cheese for another use. Sprinkle cheese with crumbled bacon. Form meatloaf mixture around cheese to seal cheese inside.
- Spread remaining 1/2 cup barbecue sauce over top of meatloaf.
- Cover slow cooker and cook on HIGH for 2 1/2 to 3 hours or LOW for 4 to 5 hours. If using a slow cooker with a probe, cook until meatloaf reaches 160°F.
- Heat oven to 450°F. Pour off any juices that have accumulated in crock. Using aluminum foil, remove meatloaf mixture from crock and place in baking pan. Top meatloaf with slices of bacon. Bake in oven for 5 minutes. Add French fried onions and bake for another 5 minutes. Remove from oven and let stand 10 minutes before slicing to serve.
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Garment production is a very promising industry, but the competition has been gradually moving day, how out of the market, and the first in front of the competitors, quality, costs and benefits of cost control system; these factors have become extremely important, in the aspect of work cut out, the use of automatic spreading machine will generally ensure quality, reduce the cost, improve the efficiency advantage.
Efficiency: cloth automatic cutting machine will not tired not emotional, can long time high-speed operation, the production efficiency is high and the quality is very stable.
Cost cutting: people need more task operation, the high cost of wages, automatic cloth cutting machine needs only one person, a person can complete the cutting auxiliary work, the remaining staff to cope with the other process, save the cost but also can increase the efficiency of.
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Now enter the era of science and technology, the computer technology applied in cutting technology has played most incisive, when breaking the limit of old mechanical control, automatic cloth cutting machine is a new generation of 50mm-70mm after adsorption, can cut (cutting speed according to the thickness of different materials have different). The cutting function also can achieve It's perfection itself. realm, as long as the careful reference material automatic cutting machine, how many really controlled by computer, it is easy to distinguish the edge cutting machine.
Sewing machine assembly or repair after the assembly for the first time, a huge impact on the performance of the equipment. The poor quality of the sewing machine assembly, low accuracy, poor performance, noise, torque, short life; on the contrary, the precision is not very high in some parts of the assembly, after careful and precise adjustment, is still able to assemble the better performance of the equipment.
Sewing machine assembly process, some of the easily overlooked, often cause significant impact on the quality of assembly, which need to be paid attention to.
One, according to operating procedures
Where a sewing machine parts surface paint, electroplating and other surface treatment, assembly joints (including the hole, slot and hole, plane etc.) are sticky, so in the assembly of the parts, must be according to the technological requirements, the finish machining, and then to enter the assembly of the state.
If the assembly does not meet the technical requirements, the sewing machine can not work normally. The relative position between the components, mechanism is not correct, also affect the performance of sewing machine.
Two, to protect the parts cleaning
Through careful cleaning and cleaning, ensure clean sewing machine parts, is the basis of ensuring the assembly quality and prolong the service life of the sewing machine. Especially for the shaft, bearing, oil pump, and contains the rotation and swing fitting parts, should be carefully cleaned.
If the assembly of various shaft parts is not clean, it will cause overheating and excessive shaft transmission torque, serious when will accelerate the wear debris, "serious fault occlusion" etc.
Can also be called a jumper jumper. The sewing sewing stitch on the surface line and the bottom line, there is the phenomenon of. The main reason is because the needle and hook tip clearance height, distance, do not meet the requirements due to tolerances; in addition, due to the loose parts, wear, or position is not accurate positioning can also cause. Jumping phenomenon can be divided into: accidental jumper, intermittent and continuous jumper jumper.
Accidental jumper
1. in the sewing of uneven thickness of the material, the use of the machine needle thin thick seam material, in part, the needle is easy to shift, and replace the corresponding jumper fault; needle sewing sewing thick, uneven thickness, may be appropriate to slow down the sewing speed.
2. the machine needle and hook into the wall of skew orthogonal rotating hook line, resulting in ineffective; adjust the orthogonal position the needle and hook, hook line needle in the hook point is located in the upper edge of the pinhole 1.55MM, away from the needle groove 0.05MM.
3. the quality is not good, the suture twist uneven, resulting in the formation of the stability of the coil is not enough; to solve through the reasonable selection of suture, twist to the right, the left twisting noodles.
4. due to sewing thin material, mistook the fine suture with needle thick sewing thread take-up spring elastic large; by replacing the needle, the thread take-up spring elasticity decreased.
5. the machine needle hair, not sharp or bending; replace the needle.
6. the hook tip for some reason, the tip becomes convex; through reasonable grinding and polishing of the hook tip.
7. the machine used for a long time, the volume wear large needle plate pinhole, the tolerance range over the original design; the replacement of the needle plate qualified.
8. the presser foot is too weak; should increase the foot pressure.
Usually after a period of time, the occurrence of some common "fault" needle detector machine will, so we used in the normal and regular cleaning of conveyor belt and other parts easy to be contaminated site.
The cleaning method and the matters needing attention are as follows:
1 cleaning: find a clean towel wet with water, wring wring out until not until.
2 conveyor belt surface cleaning: clean before, we should first needle detector sensitivity adjustment to the lowest level. Such as needle machine level 1 to level 10, please put the needle machine is adjusted to the lowest level 1 mode, clean to avoid high sensitivity affects the next.
Then, we will straighten and appropriate towel tightly pressed on the surface of the conveyer belt, and switch on the machine, the machine operates more than five laps (whose purpose is to clean the surface of the conveyer belt of pollutants, the methods can be flexibly used), and then clean towels twist dry, repeat steps to wipe clean the conveyor belt conveyor belt, until surface without obvious contaminants so far.
3 conveyor belt on the back: we can clean the metal shell conveying needle detector with a head of the left and right sides of the removed, then wash and wring dry towel, and towel through the conveyor belt at the bottom, to straighten out the towel towel, take two, start the machine to make the machine working weeks. The conveyor belt is arranged at the bottom of the dirty place, needs to be repeated many times to wipe, so every time a few weeks after the operation, will wash towels out, and then repeat the steps above clean again.
If the above steps after cleaning, we still find the needle machine boot and probe lights stop flashing, and the clothes can not pass, should repeat the cleaning steps.
At the same time, it is worth noting that, we test the needle detector machine for cleaning, need to pay special attention to avoid the interference of environmental factors, such as: people walking around, the machine is too close and other factors need to be taken into account.
1.electric sewing machine bobbin winding is too full, too loose, too messy, so that the bottom line in the sewing process line is not smooth, easily broken; can be fixed bobbin winder, the winding bobbin of uniform, compact, neat.
2.electric sewing machine bobbin is too large or the shuttle core concentricity is good, operation is not flexible; with the appropriate improvement and the Suoke bobbin.
3.electric sewing machine cloth feeding teeth position is too low, cloth feeding teeth at the mouth and the bottom line at the bottom of the fast line distance is too small, so that the bottom line and the bottom teeth fast mouth contact friction; adjust the feed dog height, fast opening or remove the cloth feeding teeth with fine rubber teeth at the bottom of the light.
4.electric sewing machine shuttle skin bottom line port due to wear and tear caused by fast mouth; the replacement of the new shuttle skin.
5.the electric sewing machine rotating shuttle skin hair clean off the bottom line; edge, edge grinding of rotary shuttle skin is light.
6.electric sewing machine shuttle skin and Suoke shell with good, with a gap, line tension composition; clearance adjusting Suoke shuttle skin and shell, the bottom line of wire tension change.


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Parent Teacher Association (PTA)
Tandem IMS PTA Mission Statement
The Tandem Parent-Teacher Association (PTA) is an active link between teachers and parents in order to support the school in a wide variety of ways. It supports, and is supported by the Tandem teaching staff and Headteacher, directly linked via the Zürich Deputy Head, in positively promoting school life.
What is NOT the role of the Parents Association?
The PTA group is solely responsible for the PTA funds and we endeavor to be efficient and effective when investing in school projects. We provide 'extras', often 'fun things' that make learning and life at Tandem IMS more interesting and exciting for the children, parents and staff.
Please visit your school location's PTA page in the parents' section for information on PTA sponsored events and activities or contact your PTA directly.
There are many different ways you can help with the PTA. You can be sure of a warm welcome and appreciation whether you have lots of time to offer or not. Some roles are time-consuming, although also rewarding, but certainly not all. If you can't commit to a big job, look out for things you can get involved with less frequently. You can always support PTA events by simply turning up and having fun with us! If you wish to volunteer for school events, or if you have suggestions or comments on the working of the PTA, please feel free to contact any PTA member. For administrative simplicity in a multi-lingual school such as ours, our working language is English.


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Transfer is a propaganda technique. An advertiser uses this technique when he tries to transfer our good feelings about one thing, to his product:
There is no real connection between smoking cigarettes and a cowboy, but Marlboro wants you to associate the two.
Mastercard wants us to transfer our good feelings about The Three Stooges to their credit card.
Transfer can be used in a humorous way . . .
Here the advertiser wants us to transfer our happy feelings after laughing at the advertisment, to their language school.
Can you find an example of transfer? Give us a link to a video, graphic, or article that uses transfer. Post the link in the comments section below. The best example will win a copy of Secret Code Breaker, Volume I.
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Children's NHS funded short breaks
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We are looking to make changes to children's NHS short breaks services (also known as respite care) for children with complex health needs.
We want to make sure that these NHS–funded short breaks are:
- Fair for families
- Easy to access for families
- Flexible for families
What we want to change
We would like to hear your views about our plans to:
Introduce a single assessment process
We are proposing to create a single assessment process for NHS short breaks services that links with Children's Continuing Care and the city council's assessment processes for short breaks.
Introduce a new system for allocating short breaks
We are proposing to introduce a banding system so that there is a clear and fair approach for allocating short breaks services. This would provide a framework for different levels of care according to the different health needs of each child and the needs of their families or carers.
Change the way short breaks are provided in the future
To make sure families have a more personalised and flexible service, we have looked at a number of different ways we could provide short breaks services. These included:
- Model 1: Continuing with the bed-based and home-based services we have now
- Model 2: All short breaks provided through Personal Health Budgets
- Model 3: Developing a new bed-based service with Sheffield Council
- Model 4: A mixed model with a range of provision including bed-based, home-based and Personal Health Budgets
We assessed these models against a set of important principles for improving short breaks and as a result we have recommended model 4 – but we need to hear your views about this and all the other models, as well as any other questions, concerns or suggestions you might have.
Consultation document
For more information you can read the consultation document here.
Tell us what you think
It is really important that we hear from people, particularly those who use the service now and who might use the service in the future. So please let us know your experiences, concerns and ideas.
Thank you to everybody who had their say.
The consultation ran from 14 February - 28 March 2018


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GSetttings is the standard way how Gnome 3 applications store their configuration. GSettings is the front-end interface for application, actual values are stored by back-end – standard one is called dconf. We can then use the tool dconf-editor to easily browse all stored configurations for all applications. Thanks to GObject introspection we can also work easily with GSettings from python. Continue reading GSettings – Flexible Configuration System
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Nice Solution for Recording Screencasts on Linux
Recently I needed to record some screen-cast from Linux desktop. In past I was using gtk-recordmydesktop, which basically worked well, but I thought maybe there is something better. And I have found this combination of two tools very useful – Kazam (screencaster) and OpenShot (video editing) . Kazam is easy to use with all basic functions that are needed (screen area definition, multi-display support, audio source selection) and it supports output into two common formats (MP4, WebM). When screen-cast is finished Kazam gives you opportunity to open it directly with a video editor – here OpenShot can be used to cut your screen-cast video, add titles etc. and finalize screen-cast video. Continue reading Nice Solution for Recording Screencasts on Linux
Bash Autocompletion for Root
Debian/Ubuntu do not have bash autocompletion enabled for root account by default. When working under root account, this is quite missed feature, but luckily it can be enabled very easily:
cd ~
apt-get install bash-completion # if not installed - like in minimal Debian install
nano .bashrc
add folowing to the file:
if [ -f /etc/bash_completion ]; then
. /etc/bash_completion
Sudo without password
I need to use superuser privileges quite often and not so particular about security, but still want to work mainly under my own user. The solution is to set sudo not to require password for my user:
sudoedit /etc/sudoers
add following line to the end:
your_user_name ALL=NOPASSWD:ALL
As noted this is basically a security risk, so apply only if you are sure what you are doing.
Partly Cloudy – Openstack in VM
Having heard so much about clouds and 'Infrastructure as A Service' recently I decided to try Openstack – complete open source solution for cloud computing. Openstack is actually a set of softwares, that together provide necessary services for a cloud infrastructure. Openstack (Essex release) can be installed in virtual machine, Virtual Box in my case, so I gave it a try and here are some of my observations: Continue reading Partly Cloudy – Openstack in VM
The Taming of The Mouse – Details of Mouse Setup in X
After upgrade to the new version of Linux (Mint 13, which is based on Ubuntu Precise) I'd found that my trackpoint is not working right (on Dell E6410), it was bit unresponsive and movement was not smooth. Touchpad was generally OK, but trackpoint really sucked. So I had to look into details of mouse setup in X and I was really surprised how many various parameters are there and how many aspects of mouse behaviour could be modified. So I'd like to share few tips how to set pointing device – apart of those obvious settings, which are available in desktop settings (Acceleration and Sensitivity).
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Having 3D fun with Visual Python
Visual Python or vpython is python library for simple 3D animation, especially useful for animation of simple physical scenes – like pendulum, ball on a spring, movement in gravitational field etc. It is fairly simple to use and gives quite nice animations, which can demonstrate some laws of physics. I actually spot this package, when I saw an article about physics in popular mobile game "Angry Birds – Space". In that article they had been arguing about physics laws in the game and also referred to vpython, where they made some experiments. I told myself I have to try it myself, so I've created small program using vpython. Continue reading Having 3D fun with Visual Python


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Wednesday, June 25, 2008
4 comments:
- friend S said...
Oh my gosh!!! ME TOOO. I am trying so hard and with low levels of motivation to get the house in order, keep the kitchen clean enough to dine in and the living room and den clean enough to walk through. I have gotten into taking picture again which I would love to crop with you. Let's make a date. I'll ask husband to watch the kids. It even motivates me to work more at this treadmill in the house!!!!
- June 26, 2008 at 5:24 AM
- rosegirl said...
I am ready!!!
- June 26, 2008 at 5:57 AM
- scraphappy said...
I am ready too! I haven't been able to scrap for over a month and I feel so behind! People keep visiting so I have to keep the house up but I am so tired of kids not wanting to do anything!!!!
- June 29, 2008 at 7:17 PM
- friend S said...
I cleaned the playroom today!! Yea. I feel like I pulled a train through the city.. so tired.
N's bike is in and ready to pick up this Saturday! Can you imagine N riding a bike? I'm so excited! (I wrote that so your blog readers wouldn't think all I do is clean house.) Happy Fourth!! Looking forward to the crop!!!
- July 3, 2008 at 5:17 PM


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Once in a blue moon we see a nice Cardigan Welsh Corgi like this in rescue. Last year this handsome teenage boy found his forever home, just in time for the holidays. Ruben found the home that every dog dreams about.
While these folks had had corgis previously, this is the first Cardigan and they're thrilled with his happy, sweet, energetic temperament. There could be some performance awards in Ruben's future, based on the nice update we just got from his mom (below). HUGE thanks to Ruben's new family for giving him such a wonderful home!
Ruben's mom said:
I hope this little note finds you both well. Just wanted to give you the latest update on Reuben. He is a STAR** pupil and graduated from beginner training class with flying colors! He can now sit, stay, leave it, roll over, shake and come when asked. We are working on heel at the moment and he is doing extremely well. I also took him to a local dog training and day care facility where they offer agility training. When the weather cooperates (spring) we will be embarking on some fun things.
He is just such a wonderful and SMART dog and I just love him to pieces!!! Its off to Pet Smart today…..Reuben just loves the "TREAT" isle!!! Thank you both again so much!!!
Give all the dogs big hugs and kisses from me and Reuben. I have also attached one of my favorite pictures of him.


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In this post I'm going to discuss some new and unique features of New Facebook News Feed. The social networking arena has been vibrant in growth and expansion, the number of social media platforms is on the rise same to the number of accounts in those media platforms. With numbers come competition and a redefinition of features and emphasis on USP (Unique Selling Point) is necessary to remain afloat.
Also See– How to Get More Facebook Likes and Twitter Followers
Facebook is one of the most prominent and extensive social networking sites linking millions of people across the globe. While redesigning its features, Facebook has introduced some New Facebook News Feed Features. Though these New Facebook News Feed features are still evolving even today, it is not too early to get used to them and how we can maneuver our way round.
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Facebook to bolster its viewership and membership has come up with the new Facebook News Feed. The accessibility, the bigger size of photos and the flexibility with both web and mobile platforms is one of the merits of this new product.
Also See– Best 5 Social Media Predictions to Look Forward In 2013
To access new Facebook News Feed, it is simple and it involves the Signing up to Facebook and visiting the link www.facebook.com/newsfeed. This will put you in a waiting list awaiting the process of getting Facebook News Feed which takes a few days.
Features of New Facebook News Feed
The focal point of this new product is to increase the rate of social interactivity with friends, professionals and brands. The implementation of this product however will be done gradually with the main aim of fixing teething errors and bugs while making necessary improvements before an official release to the public. Some of the captivating features of this new Facebook News Feed product are –
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1) All Friends
This section gives the user the opportunity to see everything that they are sharing. Should there be any status update, music shared amongst friends and check-ins these will be shown in this section.
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This feature of new Facebook News Feed will give you the opportunity to see posts of people and any brands that you are following. This feed does not allow you to see what your friends are up to and their updates.
Also See– Top 5 ways to Increase Facebook Fans of Your Page
3) Photos
The photos shared by fan pages that you like and friends are featured in the new Facebook News Feed. If any of your friend updates their profiles and cover photos, a sidebar exists which includes search stories.
This new Facebook News Feed feature will also prompt you to include additional details in photos and albums that you previously uploaded. Under photos, no links will exist and neither will any status displayed.
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Posts from your favorite artists and any music that your friends may be listening to, form the posts in this section. Facebook will identify your favorite music by the pages that you have liked.
Also See– New Facebook Privacy Shortcut added to Users Home Page
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The old version has all the unclassified posts, music and photos in one place. The new Facebook News Feed is organized and has collapsed so many posts shared by many people into one called the friends list.
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New Facebook News Feed brings into the fore the number of friends who are in excess in Facebook. The Photos Feed and All Friends display updates from all your friends as opposed to the top news feed which was the characteristic of the previous Facebook design. In case you want to reduce the number of posts displayed on your News Feed, you can go to the friend's name and make use of the friend's button to uncheck.
Also See– How to Deactivate Facebook Timeline & Get old Facebook Profile Back
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New Facebook News Feed gives the user an opportunity to return to his old design should he feel that the new design is not customer friendly or not as expected. According to experts, the options of switching will continue until the new design has reached the beta stages.
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The privacy settings for those familiar with the old version have not changed as yet. The only difference is that they can be accessed from a side bar next to your name. This prevents cluttering and ensures organization.
New Facebook News Feedback therefore seeks to bring a new dimension in the appearance and presentation of the Facebook interface. Whether this is going to go well with people or not is yet to be seen but from the onset, the rate at which people are appreciating it is amazing.
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Sergio Perez*
WHO/PAHO Temporal Advisor for Suicide Prevention in the Americas, Cuba
Received Date: May 07, 2016; Accepted Date: May 09, 2016; Published Date: May 12, 2016
Citation: Perez S. Suicidal Communications in Adolescents. Acta Psychopathol. 2016, 2:3 doi:10.4172/2469-6676.100047
In one way or another, everything around us has to do with communication. Human beings have the capacity to communicate not only by means of what they say and do, but also by means of what they do not say and do not do. Not always what people say is what they really mean, and not always what they do is what they really want to do. Sometimes what people say is denied by their behavior. So, the first topic to be dealt with in this book is related to the ways used by adolescents to express their suicidal purposes, that is, the different manifestations of suicidal communications at different stages of life.
Adolescents express their suicidal intentions through changes in their behavior. They may appear isolated, despaired, irritable, or they may complain of loss of appetite or insomnia. They may show interest in the topic of death or dying, or express overtly their intentions to kill themselves: "I want to kill myself"; "I will hang myself".
Suicidal threats, which are verbal expressions of a wish to die by the individual's own hand, are chosen very often by adolescents to communicate their suicidal intentions, and that something is about to happen (a suicidal act) to people who are attached to them affectively.
A suicidal gesture is another way adolescents use to communicate their self-destructive intentions. Suicidal gestures consist on threats to commit suicide using any available means but not actually taking action, or simply carrying out an attempt without any serious physical harm, as for instance, superficial wounds on the forearm which do not require medical or surgical care (suture or blood transfusion, etc.)
Suicidal threats and gestures are usually underestimated, devalued, and even ignored by significant others who are supposed to be the addressees of the subject's message communicating his psychic pain. So significant others do not realize that these are manifestations of suicidal communications which, very often, are prodromic clues announcing a completed suicide.
Suicide attempts are very often an expression of suicidal communication in adolescence. It is considered that the suicide attempt-completed suicide rate can be up to 300 attempts per completed suicide, taking into account that, as an average, there are from 15 to 20 suicide attempts per completed suicide.
Repeaters, that is, individuals who have made two suicide attempts, abound among adolescents; as well as great repeaters, that is, subjects who have tried to take their lives three or more times. Some adolescents continue with their reiterative suicidal behavior during their adulthood and it becomes part of an unhealthy life style. This kind of life style is carried on in their old age—when it tends to become less intensive—if they do not die as a result of one of the earlier attempts.
As it has been said before, accidental suicides are common among adolescents. An accidental suicide can be defined as the suicide of a subject who did not want to die, but dies accidentally due to the high lethality or a complication of the method used. As a rule, the victims of an accidental suicide never have in mind to die, instead their suicide attempt is aimed at causing distress, frightening, or showing the magnitude of their problems to attract the attention of their dear ones or manipulate them.
Farewell notes or suicidal notes are frequently used by adolescents and they often express the circumstances that impelled them to make such a decision.
Other times adolescents show their suicidal intentions in cartoon stories and drawings that they create as part of their school assignments in which the main character ends his life by suicide. For that reason, teachers should be on the alert for these tragic stories that may be omens of what is going to happen. Some therapists consider that these are real projective tests that reflect the adolescent's suicidal intentions in disguise.
Using the Internet to make suicidal pacts is a new type of suicidal communication frequently used by adolescents and young people familiarized with this technology.
Adolescents can also make videos of their own death in which they often tell part of their personal history, their mood at the moment, and the reasons that led them to make the decision of taking their own lives. Sometimes these videos are not only an evidence of an individual's suicidal intentions, but also a warning about his homicidal intentions against his schoolmates before taking his life.
Some other times adolescents express their suicidal thoughts via Internet chat. This provides an opportunity for other cybernauts either to try to neutralize these thoughts, to encourage the suicidal adolescent to commit suicide, or to join a suicidal pact which involves other adolescents who share similar ideas.
The electronic mail can be a suitable means for adolescents who have access to technology to communicate their suicidal intentions. They can contact sites or professionals concerned with mental health services, and they can even have a virtual consultation, which has several advantages over a real consultation: it is less expensive; it is easier to discuss personal problems with a computer than with a human being; the family is kept out of the virtual therapeutic relationship. And above all, they engage in the virtual relationship on voluntary basis, they are not forced to get involved against their will, as often happens with most real therapeutic relationships.
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Singapore 2015 budget will focus on building the nation's future according to governmental officials. The budget aims to strengthen social welfare, especially for the elderly.
CCTV's Miro Lu filed this report from Singapore.
Singapore aims to strengthen social welfare for the elderlySingapore 2015 budget will focus on building the nation's future according to governmental officials. The budget aims to strengthen social welfare, especially for the elderly. CCTV's Miro Lu filed this report from Singapore.
Uncle Pang Thim Fatt is 64 years old. He has lost his job in the shipping industry and then as an electrician to foreign and younger workers over the years. Now he cleans dishes in a Japanese restaurant. He works 10 hours a day and six days a week. He makes 2100 Singapore dollars, or $1,500, per month. He says he is considered poor in Southeast Asia's wealthiest country.
"Actually it (my income) is below the average income of Singaporean, 2000 dollars. The average is 3000 something," said Pang Thim Fatt.
The budget Singapore government announced earlier this week aims to help elderly workers like Uncle Pang. Key measures include increasing contribution and paying more interest to old workers' pension savings, locally known as CPF. But Uncle Pang says although the benefits are appreciated, they are not enough for him to stop working.
Singapore's employment rate for people above 60 is among the highest of all OECD nations. The government has made it mandatory for companies to offer three more years of work to those turning the official retirement age of 62. The push to hire older workers follows an attempt to increase the population through immigration, a policy that caused a public backlash as the arrival of migrants pushed up property prices and strained public transport.
"We have scarce resources in terms of housing, medical, transportation and so forth. So if you keep on having this inflow of so called low cost foreign labor, it's not sustainable. So there has to be a shift towards actually looking at how we can leverage more on older workers," said Faizal Bin Yahya, Research Fellow at the Institute of Policy Studies.
Even working past the age of 65 has now become commonplace in Singapore. In 2013, 40 percent of Singapore's elderly population aged 65 to 69 was in the labor force, compared to less than half of that figure a decade ago. As Singaporeans live longer, more and more of them expect shortfalls in their retirement savings.
"Our government wants the older people to be financially independent. That is why you can't withdraw your CPF in one go. Nowadays people live longer. If you withdraw all your life savings at 55 years old and spend them all, who is going to look after you when you are old said 67-year-old Tan Chiw Eyeng.
In the latest budget, Singapore government says it will raise income tax for the top earners and give cash payouts to the poorest seniors. As Singapore deals with a rapidly-ageing population, the city-state is trying to strike a balance between a western-style welfare system and a Hong Kong-like low interest rate competitive economic model.


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Last but not least in the series of butterfly paintings features the chrysalis stage of the Monarch. Safely nestled amongst the common milkweed leaves, the chrysalis is anchored on the midrib (central or principle vein) on the underside of a single leaf.
Friday, March 8, 2013
Progress of the chrysalis painting
Posted by Colette Theriault at 11:58 AM
Labels: chrysalis, commission, monarch butterfly, pastel on suede, pastel painting, progress, Wildlife art
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Very nice. I've noticed most of the chrysalids with a jade green tone. I also saw a brown one, but had to delete it from the blog, because after I watched it a while it was one of those that didn't make it (and stay dark brown all the time).ReplyDelete
This is coming along beautifully, Colette...I love how you painted the veins on the leaf...this is going to be another winner!!!ReplyDelete
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