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Maybe the reason Thanksgiving dinner is so low pressure compared to other holiday meals is that the menu is fairly set.
There's the turkey, of course, and decisions about whether to brine or not to brine, to grill or to roast, to stuff or not. But these are the small creative licenses afforded those cooks who must have a little wiggle room to play.
As we move through the menu, Mom has to have the stuffing. Daughter doesn't think the meal is complete without cranberry sauce. Uncle Keith can't live without mashed potatoes with gravy or he'll be grumpy. Aunt Laura needs her greens because the meal is "SO fatty." Dad won't be happy without pecan pie and it isn't Thanksgiving dinner for the kids without what we call Mama Rolls (or Aunt Annie Rolls, depending on who's talking).
For most, Thanksgiving dinner isn't about the innovative, but about the comfort.
As it typically happens when I travel to my parents' house, everyone asks what I'll be making. I've discovered that the true question is not, "What amazing feat of culinary skill will you be displaying this year?" but more, "You're making turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes, greens, pecan pie and Aunt Annie Rolls, RIGHT?"
One year, the only thing on the menu that changed was the addition of those rolls. I don't remember what happened before, maybe we bought rolls because the kids were still so small that I felt triumph in just getting all the food on the table before meltdown central happened.
The first year of Aunt Annie Rolls, the kids were old enough to help shape the dough. I made extra so they could make their own loaves, but instead they played with it, making dough snowmen, square-rigged ships, Uncle Keith faces, snowflakes and pilgrims. And a menu item was born.
The only portion of the menu that isn't sacrosanct in my family is the vegetables. To have broccoli as opposed to squash wouldn't step on any toes. So that's where I play, and the recipes that follow are ones that I've made in the past.
2 1/4 cups warm water
1/2 cup vegetable oil, plus a little extra for the bowl
1/2 cup sugar
2 tablespoons yeast
3 eggs, beaten
1 tablespoon salt
8 cups flour
In a large bowl, dissolve yeast in warm water for 5 minutes or until small bubbles begin to form. Add oil, sugar, eggs and salt.
Add 1 cup of flour at a time and keep stirring until the dough forms a ball that you can knead. Knead for 5 to 10 minutes.
Return the dough to a clean, oiled bowl and cover with plastic wrap. Let rise in a warm place until doubled, anywhere from 45 minutes to 11/2 hours.
When the dough has doubled, pull it out of the bowl onto the counter and shape into rolls (or snowmen or square-rigged ships).
Place on a flat baking pan, cover with plastic wrap and let rise again until doubled, about 30 minutes to 1 hour.
Bake at 350 degrees for 20 minutes or until the tops are golden brown and the center is cooked through.
Makes 24 dinner rolls, 5 snowmen and 3 square-rigged ships.
1 1/2 pounds Brussels sprouts
2 cups sliced red onion; about 1 large onion
1 tablespoon butter
1 tablespoon whole-grain mustard
1/2 teaspoon salt
Several grinds of fresh black pepper
Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Prepare the Brussels sprouts by slicing a sliver of the core off and then making an "x" or cross mark into the core about 1/2 inch. This cut looks as if you started to quarter the sprout and then stopped. The purpose is to allow heat into the center of the vegetable so you don't end up with a mushy outside and a crunchy inside.
Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Add the sprouts and blanch for 1 to 2 minutes. Remove from the water with a strainer or slotted spoon.
Heat a medium-sized pan over medium-high heat and melt the butter. Add the red onion and saute for 5 minutes or until the edges begin to brown. Add the mustard and then the half-cooked sprouts. Sprinkle with salt and black pepper.
Transfer pan to the oven and roast for 20 minutes or until the centers are tender but not mushy. Serves 4 to 6.
Pulsing the Brussels sprouts in the food processor is the easiest way to grate them. Just go easy, so you don't pulverize them.
1 pound pumpkin flesh, peeled and grated, about 6 cups
1 1/2 pounds Brussels sprouts; core end removed and then grated, about 6 cups
3/4 teaspoon salt (sprinkle half over pumpkin and half over Brussels sprouts)
Several grinds of fresh black pepper
1 tablespoon butter
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. On the stove-top, heat a large, oven-proof skillet over medium-high heat and add the oil.
Add the pumpkin, sprinkle with half of the salt and saute until heated through. It will stick to the pan, but don't worry, it will loosen up at the end.
Add the Brussels sprouts on top of the pumpkin, but don't stir. Sprinkle with the other half of the salt and all of the black pepper. Break the butter into smaller pieces and dot the top of the Brussels sprouts.
Transfer to the oven and cook for 35 to 45 minutes or until the sprouts are cooked through, but still a little firm. If you can, slide the whole mess out of the pan at once. Slightly mix the pumpkin into the sprouts and serve immediately. Serves 6 to 8.
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Niagara University is headed to the Final Four.
Don't worry, your bracket isn't busted - the seven NU students headed to New Orleans today will be juggling hospitality duties, not dribbling basketballs.
The trip is one of several unique experiential learning opportunities that Niagara University's College of Hospitality and Tourism Management offers to its students. For example, NU students have participated in activities associated with four Super Bowls (including the last three), Major League Baseball spring trainings and a women's Final Four. This trip will mark Niagara's first foray into organizing events for the men's Final Four.
"We really try to provide our students with as many hands-on learning and networking opportunities as possible," said Dexter Davis, Ed.D., an assistant professor of sport management who will accompany the students to New Orleans. "We have had great success generating contacts and placing students in jobs as the result of their involvement in these activities."
Joining Davis in "The Big Easy" will be NU students Sean Byrne, Emily Carson, Ashley Dilcher, Megan Forsyth, Aubrey Kettrick, Darien Kinney and Stephen McCarthy. While in New Orleans, the group will work with the National Collegiate Athletic Association, the NCAA's sponsorship committee, and the Greater New Orleans Sports Foundation, the city's sports commission and host of next year's Super Bowl organizing committee.
(The men's Final Four takes place Saturday night, with the championship game scheduled for Monday evening.)
The Niagara contingent will be helping to activate sponsorships and facilitate Youth Day activities in Bracket Town, the NCAA's fan experience area located in the George R. Brown Convention Center. And in accordance with the university's mission, NU students will partner with two community-minded organizations, Samaritan's Feet and Feed the Hungry, on a service project designed to provide food and sneakers to underprivileged children from throughout the Greater New Orleans area.
At the same time, another five Niagara students will fly to Miami to assist with ancillary activities associated with WrestleMania XXVIII, the WWE's marquee event. Cara Bacelli, Kevin Eckert, Jason Freeman, Anthony Pettinelli and Matt Vorpahl will represent NU during the WWE's golf tournament and Hall of Fame induction ceremony.
Students undergo a fairly rigorous process to be selected for the trips. Resumes and cover letters are collected and interviews are conducted to determine which students to take.
For more information on Niagara University's College of Hospitality and Tourism Management, call 716-286-8279 or visit http://www.niagara.edu/hospitality.

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Sarah Lewis necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 31 diseños de 21 diseñadores freelance.
I'm launching a blog with a friend that will feature local technology news, interviews, and articles. I need a logo for TechBoise that will communicate this focus.
Desired Style:
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The TechBoise logo should be clean and modern, and highlight the technology focus of the site.
While the site is called TechBoise, it will be targeting the whole Treasure Valley of southwest Idaho - so if you are thinking some kind of graphical element representing the geography, keep that in mind. (Please note that this kind of element is completely optional, subject to your tastes.)
Our target audience is two-fold: tech folks and business folks (we want to promote tech both within our area and throughout the country). We have no particular color preferences, so use your judgment. We like the web 2.0 look but also want something that will endure.
Entries will be evaluated based on how well they convey our tech focus and overall visual appeal.
Thanks in advance for your entries!
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Trend Trading for a Living: Learn the Skills and Gain the Confidence to Trade for a Living by Thomas Carr
The title of this book is misleading, this book is not about trend trading. This book is about swing trading. This is a book about specific trading setups for swing trading using technical analysis. It gives you criteria for generating long and short trading ideas using any simple trading software.
This is a very basic book and goes in to very basic information like how to set up broker account, which broker to look for, what computer you need, what kind of Internet connectivity and so on. The first few chapters take beginner readers through these basic things and basic introduction to chart reading and technical analysis..
The second part of the book deals with determining overall market direction. Thomas Carr describes trend trading as he practices as a way to capture bulk of major moves in a trending stocks. For this one must enter after a new trend has started and exit before the trend ends. The author recommends setting up a watchlist of possible trend trading candidates using three criteria:
- Price: between 10 and 100
- Average Daily Volume: 500000 plus
- Beta: greater than 2
Once you set up a list like that the author suggest using technical analysis to enter or exit. How to play these setups is determined by the trend of overall market. Thomas Carr describes five different kinds of market conditions:
- Bullish Strongly trending
- Bullish Weakly Trending
- Bearish Strongly Trending
- Bearish Weakly Trending
- Range Bound
He suggests focusing on long plays in first two types of market , short plays in the next two types of market, and a long and short approach in last type of market. He uses 20 and 50 day moving average to determine above 5 kinds of market conditions.
Part three of the book talks about specific setups. Specific setups are set of conditions a stock must meet to qualify for a bullish or bearish entry. Thomas Carr describes five bullish and five bearish setups. He provides detailed guidelines for scanning for these set ups and narrowing stocks from these scans. He also provides alternative scans for same set ups.
Five Bullish Setups
- The pullback
- The coiled spring
- The bullish divergence
- The blue sky breakout
- The bullish base breakout
Five Bearish Setups
- The relief rally
- The bearish divergence
- The gap down
- The blue sky breakdown
- The rising wedge breakdown
This section has many good ideas and while the specific setups mentioned in the book may or may not be profitable, this book will give you lot of ideas to create your own setups. All these setups can be easily scanned in Telechart. The author discusses various approach to entries and exits post trend identification. Last part of the book deals with options and how to trade the above setups using option.
Overall this is a very simple book on swing trading with some good ideas for trading setups for beginners. One major negative in this book is blatant self promotion by the author of his own prowess and website. It is excessive and irritating.
To sign up go to www.stockbee.biz and follow the sign up process. The site uses Paypal for payment processing.
Are you serious about your trading?
If you are serious about your trading and want to build an enduring edge the Stockbee Member site might help you. Members tell me they have tried lot of things before coming to my site and it has offered them the most extensive and detailed methods to swing and position trade.
It is only for those who want to develop their own self sufficient trading method. It is not a stock picking service. It is service for you to build your own scans and trading method to have your own daily pick based on your method.
Be warned it will take you time to learn to trade. Learning to trade is difficult art and unless you are willing to spend months or years to perfect your strategy and also develop your mental edge you are unlikely to succeed in this game. Unless you understand that no site, no service, and no mentoring is going to work.
Why traders come to stockbee?
The member site is one of the most recommended site for learning to trade by other traders and bloggers. You will see no advertising, no hard marketing, no promotions, no free offers, no affiliate marketing, no incentive to other bloggers to promote the site, no constant twits self promoting the site, no free trial and no tall claims of making you instantly wealthy, and yet the site attracts new members everyday. Members come from all walks of life and all kinds of trading size and trading styles.
You will see that many trading bloggers have been using my market timing methods, scans , stock ranking lists and chart templates. They have developed their own methods based on my methods. Many paid newsletter site recommend my site to their subscriber for learning about trading and market.
Over the years thousands of traders have been members and those who benefitted from the learning talk about the site to others or talk about the methods used and that is how new members learn about the site.
What will I learn in the members site?
The members site will give you in depth understanding to develop your own trading method. The emphasis is on making you self sufficient and confident of your own trading method and style.
As a member you will learn the basics of swing trading, momentum investing, growth investing and risk management.
You will learn about Stockbee Trend Intensity Breakouts method that uses momentum based swing trading to find 3 to 5 day swing trades for 8 to 40% profit.
You will learn about Stockbee Episodic Pivots Breakout method which uses Post Earnings Announcement Drift (PEAD) to find stocks that had a game changing earnings and that are likely to rally for 3 months to 12 months.
You will learn about Stockbee Dollar Breakout method that uses momentum, range expansion and swing trading approach to find 5 to 40 dollar moves in high priced stocks.
You will learn about Stockbee Lemonade Strategy for 401k which uses market timing and momentum to invest in 401k. You will get weekly update on how I am using the strategy on our 401k to do allocation decision.
You will learn about Stockbee Market Monitor method for market timing using breadth. It allows you to avoid risky periods in market and allows you to identify market turns. It is used for 401k allocation decisions.
You will learn about Stockbee Double Trouble method to find stock with confirmed upside momentum using anchored momentum and that are likely to continue their up move.
You will learn about Stockbee Night Time is Right Time method to find news catalyst based trade ideas for short term day trade and swing trade.
You will learn about Investor's Business Daily's IBD 200 list and how it can be used to find swing trading candidates for explosive moves.
You will learn about Telechart 2000 and how to use it effectively to scan for swing and position trade ideas and to set up your 401k strategy.
You will learn about Jesse Livermore Range Breakout, Darvas Box setup, and many other member shared methods.
You will learn how to setup your own scans, select right kind of stocks, how to setup stops, when to enter , when to exit, how much to risk, how to track your trades and all other details about trading. You will learn about developing your own methods and not relying on others for trade ideas.
The site has hundreds of videos and trading methods and variation of methods. Members help each other in developing the methods and share actively their research and finding. A collaborative spirit allows you to get input from others on your trading ideas or problems.
The site gives you opportunity to interact with some of the most successful traders and learn from them about their trading methods. It is a vibrant community with members from different background and experience willing to help each other. The emphasis is on continuous learning and up gradation of market knowledge and setup knowledge. The members range from hedge fund employees, financial advisers, active swing traders, investors and new traders.
If you are looking to develop your own trading strategy the membership site might be for you. You have to be willing to put in the effort to build your own method. There are no silver bullets offered on members site. Every method, every scan, every nuance is detailed and all possible help is offered to design your own method.
Do you have a trial?
If you are just looking for trial you are better off trying thousands of other trading site that offer free trail or one month trial and offer you promise of riches.
It is for those who are ready beyond the trial phase and ready to put serious months or years of efforts to learn to trade on their own. It is for those who want to learn to find their own fish.
The free blog has all the details about the methods I trade and if you go through the posts highlighted in the sidebar you will learn about them.
How can I become a member?
To sign up go to www.stockbee.biz and follow the sign up process. The site uses Paypal for payment processing.


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Thon reflects on injury after Stassi, Heyward are hit
Once-promising Astros shortstop suffered vision problems after fastball hit face
HOUSTON -- Dickie Thon watched the replays of Braves outfielder Jason Heyward getting hit in the face by a pitch Wednesday night and immediately had memories of April 8, 1984.
That's the day Thon's baseball career and life changed forever. Thon, an up-and-coming shortstop with the Astros who had made the All-Star team in 1983, was struck by a Mike Torrez fastball in his left eye and was never quite the same on the baseball field.
Thon battled vision problems for the rest of his career and was never able to tap into the potential he flashed in 1983, when he batted .286 with nine triples, 20 homers, 79 RBIs and 34 stolen bases en route to finishing seventh in the National League Most Valuable Player voting.
The injuries to Heyward, who suffered a fractured jaw, and Astros rookie Max Stassi, who was hit in the face by a pitch in his second game in the Major Leagues later that night, are part of the game, Thon said.
"You have to learn from it and be ready, you know, because you're so close to the pitcher and it's going to happen," Thon said. "You have to learn to have good balance, but you cannot shy away from the pitch, because you won't be able to hit. They have to deal with it."
While speaking Thursday afternoon from Puerto Rico, Thon said he hadn't heard what happened to Stassi, who was struck in the shoulder and face Wednesday in Arlington. The catcher was released from the hospital Thursday after X-rays and a CAT scan showed no fractures.
Thon wasn't as lucky.
A Torrez fastball broke the orbital bone around his left eye and ended his 1984 season only five games in. He came back in '85, but continued to suffer vision and depth-perception problems. He went on to play 10 more seasons with the Astros, Padres, Phillies, Rangers and Brewers, but was never the same.
"When I got hit, I was a .280 hitter, and I went down to .240-something, .250, .260," he said. "I learned to play the best I could and forget about what I could have done, because in the beginning, I was a much better hitter before I got hit.
"I couldn't see the ball very well after I got hit in my left eye. I had to make adjustments, and open up a little bit and see the ball better. It's tough to do that in the big leagues, but I did manage to play 10 [more] years."
One of the things Thon said he learned is you can't lean out over the plate expecting a pitch on the outside corner. That alters your balance and makes it harder to get out of the way of a pitch that's headed for the body.
"When I was younger, I used to try to cover both sides of the plate, and really, the outside part of the plate, it's tough to get," he said. "I will tell you, when you get hit, you're leaning toward the pitch and you're not ready for the inside pitch. They're going to have to make those adjustments."
The adjustments Thon had to make were more about his altered vision than any apprehensions he had mentally about getting back in the box. He was hit by a pitch only nine times in 4,871 career plate appearances.
"My shoulder used to be closer to the plate, and I liked the ball middle-in when I was younger, and after I got hit, I learned how to hit the other way, and the inside pitch I would let it go," he said. "That's the way I made adjustments. I couldn't see the inside pitch the way I used to."
Thon was asked what advice he would give Heyward and Stassi.
"One of the things is to be able to be a good hitter, you cannot shy away," he said. "That's the one thing. But at the same time, you have to be able to get out of the way. That's a fine line that you have to have that ability. Sometimes you're going to get hit, but you don't want to get hit in the head."
Thon, 55, remains active in baseball and owns a Puerto Rican Winter League team in Santurce. His son, Dickie Joe Thon, was selected by the Blue Jays in the fifth round of the 2010 First-Year Player Draft and is playing for short-season Class A Vancouver of the Northwest League.


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Jay-Z, owner of the 40/40 Club chain, is suing slugger David Ortiz for allegedly swiping the 40/40 name for his own club in the Dominican Republic, called "Forty Forty," an apparent reference to a baseball achievement no one associates with David Ortiz.
According to the suit, this vicious use of a non-trademarked set of spelled-out numbers has brought about "marketplace confusion" and caused grave damages to Mr. Z's business. His trump card: Ortiz has patronized 40/40 on several occasions, so this simply cannot be a coincidence!
Left unaddressed in the lawsuit is why on earth David Ortiz is naming his club for the rare feat of recording 40 home runs and 40 stolen bases in a season, as if it's something people think of when they think of David Ortiz. That's ridiculous. Don't you have to have a little power to hit 40 home runs?
Jay-Z sues Red Sox David Ortiz over club name [MSNBC]
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Sad and Tired
My work took me visiting to the Mental Health Services floor of our local hospital. D1 wing is located as far as it is possible to be from the main doors. To get there, you need to pass through the only public part of the hospital that is underground, down a corridor more narrow than the ones above (with, obviously, no windows) past doors clearly marked as electrical and mechanical service space. Barely public space. It is a distressing place to visit. I cannot even imagine what it would be like to be in distress, and have that be where I was expected to go for help.
I rarely find my way to D1, most of the people I am called in to visit in the hospital are there for physical ailments. (You know, the "good" kind of sick. The "normal" kind. Just regular sick. Not like those sickos locked away on D1.) And when I note that Mental Health Services is tucked away down an inhospitable corridor, far away from the hopeful bustle of the rest of the hospital, I should hasten to add that it used to be housed in a separate building altogether, even less encouraging of visitors. Today I saw no peeling, faded yellow paint. No damage or graffiti left by previous inhabitants. No barred gates. So it's better than it used to be. I have some hope that the people there are being helped.
I went to visit a woman I last spoke to the day before she was admitted. She yelled through the door at me that I could not come in, that she hadn't been expecting me, that I should come back tomorrow; she shouted her phone number, which I didn't have- which was why I'd stopped by. I thought it odd, the yelling through the door part, and the frantic tone of her voice. But I didn't know her well, I didn't (and still don't) know what her baseline of 'normal behaviour' looks like. I don't know how she came to be in hospital, or who she let in to her apartment after I left. She didn't answer her phone. I didn't hear from her for weeks. Until today, when she asked me to bring communion to her, on D1.
I struggle with finding that line – when does "respecting human diversity" blur into "failing to recognize significant distress". When does "respecting human autonomy" blur into "failing to support and help someone who didn't know how to ask". When does "respecting privacy" blur into "letting people fall through the cracks". When am I my sister's keeper?
She was very insistent that she was a "client" on D1, not a patient. I don't know what the difference is, or if there is one. I know she is a beloved child of God, that is all I need to know in order to bring communion to her.
I'm not sure what my point is, or even that I have one. That the collective, societal "we" needs to get right the fuck over our stigmatization of mental illness. That mental health care needs to stop being Health Care's neglected cousin. That it sucks that when I hit the genetic lottery, the place I'll be seeking help for depression is a place that already makes me feel sad, and tired.
Bless me, what do they teach them at these schools?
I admit it. I am that mom. You know the one. The one who had her police record check into the school office three months before her kid started Junior Kindergarten. The one who goes along on field trips, and tries to learn all the kids' names (even though all the light-haired, light-skinned, crew-cutted boys look the same to me) and volunteers in the classroom.
As much as I jealously watch the careers of other women who made different choices, I really do like having the time to be that mom.
But now the question arises- since I'm right there in the classroom, how do I talk to the teacher about stuff that really bothers me, without burning bridges, and becoming a whole other kind of that mom– the one who walks into a classroom with no background and questions what is being taught by the expert?
The last two days that I have been in school, I have heard my daughter's class singing "Little Bunny Foo Foo". I learned this song as a Girl Guide. It was kinda funny.
Here's the classic version, the one I sang as a kid:
Now, all in all, this is not a terrible model for the stuff that I teach to my volunteers. The smallest and most vulnerable members of the community are being mistreated. The good fairy witnesses unacceptable behaviour, and asks that it be stopped. She confronts FooFoo directly, uses "I" statements, she doesn't attack- she just lays out a clear expectation about what behaviour will and will not be tolerated, she lays out the consequences for persisting in the unacceptable behaviour. When FooFoo persists, she takes action to protect the field mice from further harm. You could argue that a three-chances policy placed the field mice at greater risk than necessary, but… all in all, the Good Fairy is a pretty good fairy, in the classic scenario.
Ruth has learned a very different version.
There is no fairy.
Mommy Bunny says "Little Bunny Foo Foo / I don't want to see you / pickin' up the field mice / and Boppin'em on the head… you need to learn how to make good choices. Hands are for helping, not for hurting"
and the next day… nothing changes. Little Bunny Foo Foo still makes the wrong choice.
Daddy Bunny says "Little Bunny Foo Foo / I don't want to see you / pickin' up the field mice / and Boppin'em on the head… you need to learn how to make good choices. Hands are for helping, not for hurting"
And the next day… and little Bunny Foo Foo decides to make the right choice.
"Little bunny Foo Foo / hopping through the forest / picking up the field mice / and giving them a hug"
And Mommy and Daddy Bunny say "Little Bunny Foo Foo / I'm so proud of you / come up on my lap / and get a great big hug".
(But I don't. Because Nice Girls don't cause a commotion in kindergarten. And that Mom is a Nice Girl.)
So now, Mommy Bunny is a useless disciplinarian who offers nothing but a faint and easily ignored warm-up for Daddy Bunny, there is no consequence for bopping the field mice, and scoopin' up the field mice for an uninvited hug is the "right" choice.
"Little Bunny Foo Foo / I just want to see you / remembering that you're at least three times bigger than a field mouse / and asking their permission before you touch them at all."
Well, we would teach the 4-year-olds about body autonomy, but it just doesn't scan.
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I love when Play with me Sesame airs classic segments from the street.
Ruth was exhausted when she came home today (I'm hoping she'll get accustomed to the pace of JK, otherwise we're going to have a very tired little girl on our hands!) and we got to sit together and enjoy this:
I hope you do, too.
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Ruth begins junior kindergarten this week.
And so begins the next great adventure in family eating: school lunches.
We started today with a 1-hour small-group visit to school, we joined 3 other kids and their accompanying adults to meet the teacher at 1pm- so not until after we ate a picnic of the practice lunch we had packed before going to day-care for the morning.
I don't know if there will be adults passing judgment on her packed lunch (or, lunches, since they have eating/nutrition/food/lunch breaks in the mid-morning and early afternoon. If there are, I will just have to leave her with polite but firmly worded notes "Ruth is free to pick and choose from the variety of different foods we packed together, eating what she is hungry for and stopping when she is full. This includes the freedom to eat her jellybeans first, in the middle, or last, as she sees fit". I fear this battle, but I am fully prepared to wage it if necessary.
I also hope they don't object to a 4 1/2 year old playing with her food. Because we seem to have developed a really specific routine around eating sandwiches (on those occasions when they are not cut into triangles. We like triangles better than squares). She must have learned this from me, because several of these steps (not all of them, interestingly, she has put her own stamp on it) were part of my toast-and-cheese-whiz routine when I was a kid.
Behold, the Devolution of a Sandwich
Silly Fun
A friend of mine had a Mad Man avatar of himself on facebook, and as a new fan of the show, I followed the link. (How did I miss this show? Where have I been?)
And, unlike other avatar-generator games I've seen, this one let me make a version of me that actually resembles me. Well, except that nothing in my closet is that fabulous. And while I do occasionally find myself making presentations, they would rarely involve pictures of scantily clad women.
I hate bathing suit shopping.
Were you looking for a heaping helping of self-loathing, here? Sorry to disappoint you. Bathing suit shopping for me is almost painless- provided I can find a suit that looks as though I came to the pool to swim. (If you, as a sexually available adult, enjoy lounging around the pool looking sexy, then please understand that I mean you no disrespect. It's not my thing. We're all individuals.)
No. it's for my daughters that bathing suit shopping makes me come home from the mall and grumble-chat to my girlfriends about how much I hate the entire child-bathing-suit-manufacturing universe.
But, Ruth's beautiful handed-down suit is falling to pieces after half a season of playing in the chlorinated pool at day care. And next week we have plans for both a family trip to the splash pad, and a day camp trip to the public pool, and maybe a visit to Nan and Papa's backyard pool. So off to the mall I went.
It is not yet August (by the skin of July's teeth). So, even if you only swim in the summer, there is still a month left of bathing-suit season. And realistically, with swim lessons and pool parties and such, bathing suits are a 12-month-a-year item– readily available in June. Kids grow. In spurts. They outgrow things in the middle of the season. Bathing suits fall apart with frequent use in chlorine pools. But new bathing suits in August? Too much to ask.
And especially too much to ask is the style of bathing suit I want for my 4-year-old. She's coming out the other side of potty-training, but when she's doing something superFUN! (like, say, swimming) she'll ignore subtle signals until it's a rush. Any item of clothing requiring herculean effort to get into or out of? Bad idea. So a two-piece suit is the logical choice here. I don't, however, want to put my 4-year-old in a string bikini. Modesty! Sun Coverage! Avoiding the year we have to say "last summer that was fine but now it isn't"! Sun Coverage!
Thank all the retail gods that little boys get to cover up their young and tender little torsos with board shorts and sun-resistant board tops! Now, if you could just manufacture some of those without pirate skulls on them? That'd be spiffy. Kthnx.
After 4 stores, where suits were picked over, out of season, or entirely made of string, we found these:
Thank you, Please Mum for coming closer than any of your competitors to providing me what I need for my family! The bodysuit (we got it in a lovely turquoise blue) is more hassle for getting in and out than I'd like, especially when she's off to day-camp and her counselors may not have time for potty helping. It'll be fine for family trips to the splash pad though, so at end of season (can you see me rolling my eyes?) sale pricing, it made the cut. And she can manage the two-piece on her own, no problem.
(There's a WHOLE OTHER RANT about how this store is gendered. There is a boy side and a girl side and ne'er the twain shall meet. What makes that bodysuit (it came in turquoise blue, orange, and green) with an adorable turtle on it a 'boy' item? Yeah, I didn't know either. I'm a hetero, cis-gendered, traditionally feminine female woman person, and even with my fairly uncomplicated relationship with sex-and-gender, I want to SCREAM when I enter these shrines to gender policing. Is *I* *AM* *A* *GIRL* really the most important thing about my kid? The one thing that needs to be telegraphed at all times and in all places without ceasing? And my friend whose sons who are rocking gymnastics camp- does it need to be so nearly impossible for her to find a pair of leggings somewhere where her eldest doesn't FREAK OUT about buying "girl clothes"?)
But. Really. Why why WHY?!?!? do toddler-sized bathing suits come in styles that look like the adult-style suits I refuse to buy for myself? The ones that are made not for swimming, but for lounging around the pool looking sexy. My kids have NO NEED to lounge around the pool looking… anything! They are not at the pool, the splash pad, the cottage, or the beach to be looked upon.
Whose needs are being met with a toddler-sized bikini on which the top rides up when she jumps in the pool because she lacks the anatomy to keep it in place?
Male Gaze? I'm looking at you. With burning white-hot angry-laser-vision eyes.
Get. your. gaze. off. my. kid.
In which I Ruminate on my New Hobby
I learned to knit a long long time ago, and my enthusiasm for the craft tends to wax and wane. I spent the last trimester knitting blankets for both of my girls. I have found a group of fellow knitters here in town, and I delight in their gatherings. Somehow, even working on individual projects in the same space can't help but make a gathering feel like a community. Becoming a part of a community is probably the most significant reason why this current bout of knitting has lasted several projects longer than any other.
Which is why I'm so glad that I've become part of this community that thinks and writes about what it is to live happily in fat bodies. Knitting is not the only thing in my life for which my enthusiasm has been variable. My commitment to growing towards self-acceptance has also waxed and waned over the years. But the notion that this body is an acceptable body, a good body, and it deserves to be well-fed, well-dressed, and and well-loved is an important one. Are there limits? Sure. But in the past few years they have more to do with financial and time limits than with this body not being worth the effort. And being part of a community of other who believe these things about themselves makes it so much more possible for me to believe this about myself.
Also- I notice knitted items now, and I notice things about them I didn't before: the colour, the stitch patterns, the construction. Because I'm part of a community that talks about these things. I'm learning. And last week, I finished my own first design. I went looking for a pattern and couldn't find one so I made one up. And now I'm adding that to the vast pool of knowledge that is out there, contributing my own small voice to the conversation. In a similar way, because I am part of a community that talks about things such as bodily autonomy, and shame, and the difference between being harmed by a state of being and being harmed by a social and cultural response to that state of being… I see those in more places, too. In people of all sizes. So often I find myself thinking a lot less about how "Fat people should be treated better" and more "damn! People should be treated better". I'm still figuring out how to participate in that wider conversation in a meaningful way. I know that things I've learned here have found their way into my preaching, into my interactions with with people, into my parenting. A small enough contribution to the conversation, but a contribution that I wouldn't ever have been able to make, if I were on my own.
So thanks for having me, eh.


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Two of the park industry's most experienced and respected expert consulting firms, David Gorin & Associates and DC Westphal Associates, are forming a new alliance that will offer a wide range of consulting services.
This partnership will present a seamless source of expertise covering the vast array of campground and RV park consulting needs of owners, developers, investors, providers of goods and services and professionals serving the RV park and campground industry, according to a news release.
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Clemson University establishes social media listening center with support from Dell, Salesforce Radian6
CLEMSON, S.C. — Clemson University has built a Social Media Listening Center (SMLC), with support from Dell and Salesforce Radian6.
The center enables students to monitor thousands of online conversations about organizations, brands, products and services on a global scale in real time. This allows for more sophisticated review, routing and response to social media posts and content.
"We are early, possibly the first, academic adopters of this technology and approach," said Clemson Chief Information Officer Jim Bottum.
Bottum learned about a social media listening center during a visit to Dell's headquarters last year. He proposed a partnership that would involve student engagement, faculty research and an environment to test the value of the center in helping an IT organization move into a more proactive service position.
"When I returned to campus and talked to faculty, students and staff about the Social Media Listening Center, I sensed a very high level of interest and excitement — more so about this project than any other technology we've undertaken at Clemson," Bottum said. "They were from a wide range of disciplines, too, including business, communication studies, psychology, marketing, computing and others. The center is inherently interdisciplinary and focuses on an area where all students and a growing segment of our population lives: social media."
Dell officials also were enthusiastic about the proposed partnership.
"The ability to bring what Dell has learned and developed in social media to academia is extremely exciting for us," said John Mullen, vice president and general manager for education, state and local government, Dell. "Clemson University is a leader in the field and their desire to provide their students and faculty with innovative new technology is critical. We're looking forward to seeing what we can continue to build together and, more importantly, finding new ways to really impact student life and learning on and off campus through the Social Media Listening Center."
The SMLC has six large display screens that faculty and students monitor, similar to a small network operations center. Salesforce Radian6 provides the platform to listen, discover, measure and engage in conversations across the Web by capturing more than 150 million sources of social media conversations, including Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, blogs and other online communities. The Radian6 summary dashboard provides a graphic display of social media content to convey sentiment, share of voice, trend information, geolocation data and much more.
Clemson faculty members mentor their students on social media research and issues through Creative Inquiry team projects and in communication and management classes.
Jason Thatcher, associate professor in the management department, is the center's academic lead. Barbara Weaver, project manager in the Clemson University Cyberinstitute, is the information technology lead.
"My students are learning to listen to the online conversations around private, nonprofit and public organizations. By learning how to listen and what to listen for they can understand how to better engage in the civil discourse around different parts of our society," Thatcher said.
Sample projects include student teams listening to:
- the conversation among Millenials about an automobile brand to help another student team create an advertising campaign for a specific car;
- conversations about emergency management issues to determine patterns in conversations that may help law enforcement deliver better services to citizens; and
- online conversations around college athletics. They are examining the words people use to describe college sports, patterns and conversations about different sports, and why differences exist in conversations around women and men's college sports.
"This is the future of social media education, a listening center that doubles as a way to educate students on how marketing and service are changing," said Marcel LeBrun, Salesforce Radian6 senior vice president and general manager. "We're happy to work with forward-thinking organizations like Clemson and Dell to further demonstrate the social revolution."
At the university, the SMLC is a collaborative initiative between Clemson Computing and Information Technology, the Clemson University Cyberinstitute, the College of Business and Behavioral Science and the College of Architecture, Arts and Humanities.
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It's no secret that Donovan McNabb probably isn't long for the Washington Redskins. He's been benched twice. His agent blasted the team. He supported his agent blasting the team. Oh, and he's kind of awful. So that probably spells the end for McNabb's brief stint under Danny Snyder.
But that doesn't mean there can't be numerous other teams out there hoping that McNabb can play horribly for them. No, sirree! Remember, there are a ton of teams that are utterly bereft at the position of quarterback, so much so that it can make signing McNabb and making him the starter seem like a good idea.
Now, McNabb has already requested his release from Washington, but the Redskins (cue snickering) are hoping to trade McNabb in the offseason in order to recoup some of the bounty they paid for him last offseason.
The terms of McNabb's contract allow the Skins to hold onto McNabb right up until the end of the 2011 preseason before exercising their out clause. So they can essentially hold McNabb hostage all summer long and hope a team sends them a token draft pick just so that they can have him in time to pick up the offense (though Mike Shanahan will tell you there's NEVER enough time for McNabb to pick up an offense).
So McNabb might find himself in the employ of a team that needs a QB due to either A) Injury, or B) A rookie QB who isn't quite ready to start yet. Or the Skins could be nice and release him outright immediately. But if you've ever paid for parking at a Skins game, you know they don't do courtesy. Where will McNabb end up? Here are your favorites:
Minnesota (4/1): The Vikings were a rumored spot for McNabb as far back as last year, and the reason why they'd consider him is because Zygi Wilf is pushing for a new stadium and doesn't want to have a rebuilding year with a rookie QB and a 3-13 record. Much better to have an old QB and a 6-10 record, like this year! The Vikings may believe they have the weapons and talent to help McNabb flourish where Washington did not. Plus, they have a thing for really, really old QB's (Favre, McMahon, Cunningham).
Arizona (8/1): McNabb's offseason home is probably where he'd like to go the most, but my pal Will Leitch at New York Magazine says he thinks coach Ken Whisenhunt doesn't like McNabb at all. And I believe everything negative said about another person.
Cleveland (10/1): Kind of a perfect destination for McNabb. He'd have Mike Holmgren as the GM, which means the offense would probably end up resembling the one he ran in Philly (especially if Holmgren cans Eric Mangini and brings in his own guy). And he'd probably end up competing with Colt McCoy for the #1 job. McNabb might like the idea of beating a younger guy out and coming to Cleveland's rescue.
San Francisco (11/1): Another team desperate to fix their horrible QB situation. BONUS: McNabb's last name isn't Smith. McNabb would almost certainly be a caretaker for the position while the team's new coach breaks in a rookie passer. If McNabb is released by the Skins, he may not want to go somewhere where he knows he could be benched by Week 10.
Seattle (12/1): What better place to go to be forgotten? Warren Moon had the right idea.
Miami (13/1): Because they don't really know what they're doing.
Buffalo (15/1): If only for the irony. Would TO ever stop laughing? No, he would not.
Tennessee (19/1): To keep the seat warm while Vince Young learns to mature. ONE OF THESE YEARS IT'LL HAPPEN! BUD ADAMS TOLD ME SO!
Philadelphia (100,000/1): But only if the Skins give them an extra second rounder just to take him off their hands.


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NBC edits out "Under God" in Pledge
At the beginning of NBC's coverage of the U.S. Open, the network showed scenes from our nation's capital with children reciting the Pledge of Allegiance in the background. But the network edited out "under God" and "indivisible". And it was edited out twice during the montage, so it was not a mistake but done on purpose. What purpose I don't know? And don't say separation of church and state.
About 3 hours into the coverage, announcer Dan Hicks apologized for the omission.
Here's a YouTube clip of the montage.
The American Center for Law and Justice is sending a letter of protest to NBC and the USGA. You can sign or print out the the letter by going here. What are your thoughts on this omission?


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2nd VIEW: God is leading my departure from IMB, Elliff says of decision
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Originally posted Feb. 27, 2014
AUSTIN, Texas (BP) -- IMB President Tom Elliff asked the mission agency's trustees to begin searching for his successor because the Lord told him during prayer that it was the best way to ensure a smooth transition to new leadership, Elliff said in a teleconference with several state Baptist papers."[God's] telling me that this is the time to leave," he said Wednesday (Feb. 26), "and that if I will obey Him and ask the Board of Trustees to appoint a search team ... that is the surest way to ensure a smooth transition.
"Not every entity has gone through that kind of a process, and sometimes things go along with fits and starts. But we've got so many personnel on the field, they don't need that. They need a sure vision. They need sure communication. They don't need to feel at any moment that there's a lack of leadership."
Elliff has no timeline for his departure, but in speaking to the board at its Feb. 25-26 meeting in Austin, Texas, he asked that the search begin immediately. The last search, he said during the teleconference, took about a year and a half.
"There's not any reason for us to be without strong leadership all the way through," he said. "My intention is to serve, as I said, to run through the finish line, until such a successor is found. This seems to be the right way to do it."
"He didn't say resign and I'm definitely not going to retire, but I do believe that the board needs to be looking for the successor and the minute they find that man or when, I need to join the ranks of all the other people who are holding up his hand and praying for him."
Elliff was 67 when he accepted the post in 2011, and marked his 70th birthday this February. He is hesitant to give advice to a successor, but said prayer should remain a priority for anyone who accepts the position.
"Every person follows the leadership of God and they don't need someone standing over their shoulder saying, 'If you're not doing it my way, you're doing it the wrong way,'" Elliff said. "If I had one little bit of counsel ... I would say ... live in prayer. I don't know how you could do it any other way. I don't know how one person could move the organization forward if he's not hearing from God, and if God's not hearing from him."
Elliff said he's concerned that the Southern Baptist Convention, with a membership of 16 million, only has 4,816 missionaries deployed worldwide.
"People say we're the largest evangelical missionary organization of its type in the nation, maybe in the world. People say, 'Doesn't it make you proud?' Elliff said. "Actually it makes me ashamed."
Less than 3/100 of 1 percent of the Southern Baptist population is on the mission field, Elliff said.
"One challenge is going to be finding out where Southern Baptists' heart is in reaching the lost," he said. "I think Southern Baptists are facing an opportunity to determine just where their heart is in terms of missions. With the Cooperative Program having declined for almost 30 years, although it leveled out the last couple of years, and with our Lottie Moon Christmas Offering being [at a plateau], although this year we're praying for $175 million, we only send people whom we support. We have right now about 4,816 people on the field, along with their 4,000 children, that's about 9,000 people."
The SBC faces opportunities that directly impact the International Mission Board, Elliff said. He said the SBC needs to determine its identity, define its communication goals, study its missiology, determine whether its passion lines up with Christ's, make sure members are participating in SBC stewardship, and ensure that Southern Baptists are accountable to one another.
"We have an entire generation of pastors and church people who in some fashion have not had a hand in creating who Southern Baptists are," he said.
He cited progress in several mission initiatives, including Embrace, where churches commit to work among unengaged, unreached people groups; Ready Reserve, which allows former field personnel to volunteer for overseas missions; Marketplace Advance, a mechanism for the corporate world to use its resources in advancing the Great Commission; Global Connect, which allows churches to fully fund their own missionaries with guidance from IMB leadership, and the School of Prayer for All Nations, which mobilizes churches in prayer.
IMB trustee board chairman David Uth, senior pastor of First Baptist Church in Orlando, Fla., appointed a 15-member committee to find Elliff's replacement.
Search committee members include: Uth, chairman; first vice-chair John Edie, retired, member of Second Baptist Church, Springfield, Mo.; Jay Collins, civil engineer, member of First Baptist Church Haughton, La.; Jay Gross, pastor, West Conroe Baptist Church, Conroe, Texas; Scott Harris, minister of missions, Brentwood Baptist Church, Brentwood, Tenn.; Rick Lewis, pastor, Ken Caryl Baptist Church, Littleton, Colo.; Jaye Martin, ministry director, Houston's First Baptist Church, Houston, Texas; Vickie Mascagni, a registered dietitian and member of Morrison Heights Baptist Church, Clinton, Miss.;
John Meador, senior pastor, First Baptist Church, Euless, Texas; Matt Pearson, pastor of First Baptist Church, El Dorado, Ark.; Doyle Pryor, senior pastor, Bethel Baptist Church, Norman, Okla.; Cindy Snead, a clinical laboratory scientist and member of North Phoenix Baptist Church, Phoenix, Ariz.; Matt Taylor, senior pastor, First Baptist Church Lebanon, Mo.; Kristen White, director of global mobilization for California Baptist University and a member of Magnolia Avenue Baptist Church, Riverside, Calif., and Jay Wolf, pastor, First Baptist Church, Montgomery, Ala.
The search committee is receiving names for consideration at email@example.com. The next IMB trustee meeting is May 13-14 in Spartanburg, S.C.
Diana Chandler is Baptist Press' general assignment writer/ editor. Get Baptist Press headlines and breaking news on Twitter (@BaptistPress), Facebook (Facebook.com/BaptistPress) and in your email (baptistpress.com/SubscribeBP.asp).


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Egypt's main opposition coalition announced today it will boycott upcoming parliamentary elections, deepening the political crisis in Egypt and practically ensuring that Egypt's next legislative body will be dominated by Islamists.
The National Salvation Front (NSF) coalition of leftist, liberal, and socialist parties announced it would not take part in the elections, scheduled to begin in April, because the law governing the elections is unfair, and the president has not met their demands to change the cabinet or amend the new constitution.
The coalition also rejected an invitation from President Mohamed Morsi to participate in a "national dialogue." The meeting went ahead without them today, aired live as Morsi sat at a table with mostly Islamist figures. Almost all major opposition parties and figures boycotted the discussion.
"We are not going to run in a process only aimed at giving legitimacy to a regime that proves day after day they aren't capable of running this country," says Khaled Dawoud, a spokesman for the NSF.
The opposition coalition says fair elections can't take place while loyalists of the Muslim Brotherhood, whom they argue are biased, occupy key positions in the government. They also strongly object to a recently-approved election law, which they say is tailored to improve the chances of the Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party in the elections. "It's unconstitutional and unfair," says Mr. Dawoud of the law.
Looming election
The vote will elect a new parliament to replace the one dissolved last year after a court found the law the elections were based on to be unconstitutional. It will be conducted in eight stages over a two-month period. The president's office changed the dates for two rounds after a controversy erupted because the original schedule had them falling during the Coptic Orthodox Church's celebration of Palm Sunday and Easter.
Some members of opposition parties say they thought they had a chance to improve their showing in these elections. The popularity of the FJP and Morsi has slipped as the political crisis and economy have worsened since his election. Political polarization grew after Morsi issued a constitutional declaration granting himself vast power late last year, and brought a new constitution to a vote over the objections of the opposition.
The head of the Egyptian Social Democratic Party Mohamed Aboulghar had argued for participation. "My feeling is the popularity of the Brothers is in the lowest level now," he says..Though his party agreed to abide by the decision of the NSF to boycott, he says members have not answered the question of their next steps. "What are you going to do next? This is the most important thing. What are you going to do in the long term?… This is a question we should answer."
FJP and Brotherhood members portrayed the decision to boycott as a sign of the opposition's weakness. "There simply is no justification for the opposition to boycott elections … unless they are really worried about the world finding out the truth of their popularity – or lack thereof – on the ground," said FJP media advisor Murad Ali, according to the Brotherhood's website.
Hani Sabra, a Middle East analyst at the Eurasia Group, says regardless of the outcome, an election will not defuse Egypt's political crisis. "A parliamentary election in Egypt given the current level of political polarization is not a stabilizing event.... I don't think that even if you have a definitive result that that means Egypt has entered a new stable political era. There needs to be some sort of broader reconciliation process and some governing by consensus in Egypt, which is not happening."


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Jim Knox's interviews with fans during Texas Rangers telecasts have become a bit of legend around here, and he continued his streak of finding interesting individuals last night when he came across a boisterous Brit with a love for the Rangers. (We encourage you to Google 'Lovely Jubblies,' though not at work.)
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There was one good thing about Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's recent visit to Lebanon: although it increased tension prior to the publication of the indictment by the special international tribunal into the murder of Rafiq Hariri, it also demonstrated that in the Arab world, Iran can now really only be sure of the support of Shiites. In Beirut and during his trip to South Lebanon, Ahmadinejad was almost exclusively cheered on by Shiites; Sunni Muslims in the Arab world, on the other hand, viewed his visit to Lebanon with considerable disquiet.
There are many reasons why Iran's influence in the Arab world has passed its zenith. One of them is the circumstances that surrounded Ahmadinejad's re-election in June 2009 and the bloody crackdown on protests. Another is the growing influence of Turkey.
Last July, Khalil Shikaki's Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research discovered that 43 percent of all Palestinians consider Turkey to be their most important foreign policy ally, ahead of Egypt at 13 percent and Iran at only 6 percent. Support for Turkey in the West Bank and in Gaza is virtually the same.
In Lebanon, Ahmadinejad did not succeed in reversing this trend. Shortly before his arrival in Beirut, the Turkish prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, was back in Damascus for another meeting with President Bashar al-Assad. In the race for the post of prime minister in Iraq, both these men support the secular Shiite Iyad Allawi, while the powers that be in Iran prefer Nouri Maliki.
In addition to the matter of Iran, Erdogan and Assad spoke about opportunities for reviving the peace process. Assad made it clear that indirect talks with Israel could only be restarted if Turkey were to act as mediator.
Turkey is a "success story" in the Middle East
Up until ten years ago, Turkey was not a player in the Middle East, despite the fact that it shares borders with Syria, Iraq and Iran. It was a quiet neighbour. Today, the state that succeeded the Ottoman Empire is a popular go-between and trading partner. For the states and societies of the Middle East, Turkey – with its dynamic economy and practical evidence that Islam, a secular political landscape and parliamentary democracy are indeed compatible – is a "success story"; it has become a "soft power".
There are heated debates in the West as to whether Turkey is currently just rediscovering the Middle East or whether it is actually returning to it and – if this is indeed the case – whether it is abandoning its foreign policy orientation towards the West. These questions were recently addressed at a conference in Istanbul organised by the Sabanci University, the German Institute for International and Security Affairs and the Robert Bosch Foundation.
One of the conclusions reached at the event was that although Turkey has adopted a new, active foreign policy, it has not abandoned its pro-European, pro-Western course. Nor has it shifted the main lines of its foreign policy. The policy of opening up towards its neighbours in the Middle East is much more a matter of diversifying its diplomacy and increasing prosperity in Turkey by tapping into new sales markets.
Foreign policy in the service of trading interests
Turkey's former foreign policy was based on security considerations and the priority of territorial integrity. Its new foreign policy, on the other hand, is in the service of Turkey the trading nation and seeks to guarantee security and safeguard borders by increasing prosperity. Sükrü Elekdag, one of the best-known ambassadors in the country's old diplomatic guard, often liked to say that Turkey always had to be ready for "two-and-a-half wars", i.e. wars against Greece, Syria and the PKK.
In sharp contrast to this, Turkey's current foreign minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, has formulated a "policy of no problems" towards all neighbours, the aim of which is to maximize cross-border trade. With the exception of Armenia, this policy has worked so far.
Turkish foreign policy is more than just classic diplomacy, it is trade policy. It is above all Turkey's new, up-and-coming middle class – the backbone of the ruling AKP – that is benefitting from the new, economy-based foreign policy of Turkey the trading nation.
The industrial cities of Anatolia, which have been dubbed the "Anatolian tigers", are eyeing as yet unexploited market opportunities in neighbouring countries. While their entrepreneurs are also trading with Europe, they are increasingly focussing their efforts on the Middle East because of Europe's restrictive Schengen visa policy, which also hits entrepreneurs and investors. This is why they support the visa-free zone which Turkey has established with Syria, Lebanon and Jordan.
One of the success stories of Turkey's new foreign policy is Syria. In 1998, the two neighbours stood on the brink of war. Today, their economic and political ties are close. The Turkish-Syrian rapprochement went hand in hand with a cooling of relations with Israel. This process had already begun under Erdogan's predecessor, the left-wing nationalist Bülent Ecevit, who accused Israel of "genocide" against the Palestinians. That being said, Erdogan visited Israel as recently as 2005; two years later, Israeli President Shimon Peres addressed the Turkish parliament.
Turkey's policy towards Israel and the Palestinians is very different to that of the EU. While both advocate a peaceful resolution to the conflict and a two-state solution, they are talking to different players. Turkey accuses European diplomacy of ignoring reality because it is only talking to Fatah and boycotting Hamas. The Turkish reasoning is that there cannot be a peaceful solution without the involvement of Hamas. This is why Turkey is trying to pull Hamas into the political "mainstream".
The differences of opinion between Turkey and the West are particularly blatant when it comes to Iran. While the West is toughening its sanctions against Iran, Turkey is developing its trade with the Islamic Republic.
Last June, Turkey voted against harsher sanctions in the UN Security Council. Unlike the West, Turkey believes that the only way to normalise Iran is to normalise relations, which involves trade and diplomacy. Turkey is familiar with the kind of bazaar mentality that is needed for negotiations with Iran. For fear of destabilizing the region, neither the Ottoman Empire nor the Turkish Republic has ever supported rebellions in Iran. For centuries, the safeguarding of a regional balance of power has been more important than the pursuance of a foreign policy based on ideology. This is why Turkey's sympathy with the dissident "green" movement is only modest.
Just like the EU, Turkey only plays a secondary role in the Middle East behind the United States. At the end of the Cold War, however, it correctly identified the shifting of the tectonic plates in world politics and now, as a modern, self-confident, trading nation, wants to grasp the opportunities that are arising. Turkey still has its sights set on Europe. But the door to Europe remains locked and so this newly self-confident nation is pursuing its own interests in the Middle East and elsewhere.
Rainer Hermann
© Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung/Qantara.de 2010
Translated from the German by Aingeal Flanagan
Editor: Lewis Gropp/Qantara.de
Interview with Turkey's Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu
"Turkey Creates Balance in the Middle East"
Turkey's foreign policy has been under the spotlight in recent months, with many Western commentators expressing concern about a perceived swing toward a more Middle Eastern orientation. Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu speaks to Ayşe Karabat about his country's new regional role
Turkey and the European Union
Turkey Will Not Be Lost to the West
The shift in Turkey's foreign policy orientation towards the Middle East has raised fears that the country could turn away from the West. In his essay, Hüseyin Bagci, professor of international politics at the Technical University of Ankara, explains that despite appearances, the USA and the EU remain Turkey's most important partners
Turkey's Image in the Arab Countries
"Are There Any Muslims in Turkey?"
Part of the West or leader of the Islamic world? The Arab nations see their neighbour Turkey in various ways. The Jordanian journalist Yousef Alsharif, head of TV station Al Jazeera's Turkey office in Ankara analyses how the perception of Turkey in the neighbouring Arab states has changed
The Media and the Free Gaza Flotilla
Islamists or Freedom Heroes?
Some see it as a "freedom flotilla", others as a fleet full of violent Islamists. Arab and Western media for once showed the same pictures, but they still have entirely different ways of telling the story. Stephanie Doetzer looks at how the media covered the incident


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Jul 17 2019, 06:57 AM
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From: Cardiff
Hi UtterAccess,
This may or may not be something you can help with but I'm having issues creating certain foreign keys for specific tables. A lot of the foreign keys create just fine however there are some tables that I must link together and I just can't do so as I don't even get given the option. When I select the dropdown all it says is "Specify Column..."
I have done some googling before I posted this and the most common clause is inconsistencies in table structure, however I don;t believe this is my issue as:
- both tables use the same chartset/collation.
- both tables are InnoDB,
- both table fields are set to BIGINT(20)
- both table fields are set to NotNull
Note: I know bigint(20) is probably very excessive however this is just more future-proofing and other bigint relationships work perfectly fine (example CompanyID on contacts table)
Anyway here are some screenshots:
(Contacts Table) - ContactID = PK
mysqlhell1.PNG ( 52.85K )Number of downloads: 13
(ContactFlags Table) - ContactID = FK
mysqlhell2.PNG ( 30.25K )Number of downloads: 8
Relationship window with no options...
mysqlhell3.png ( 20.15K )Number of downloads: 9
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Jul 17 2019, 08:01 AM
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Have you indexed the FK?
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Jul 17 2019, 08:22 AM
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Workbench will normally create the index for you if required.
@Castiel - perhaps check ContactID before dropping the Referenced Column list.
David Marten
Jul 17 2019, 08:40 AM
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From: Cardiff
Hi both, thanks for the replies
Have you indexed the FK?
Can confirm workbench creates the indexes when I hit apply changes (If there is the option to select a column in the dropdown) - only thing I do is set the index names to be as short as possible because it hates long names (e.g. this would be 'contacts_cflags' rather than tbl_contacts.ContactID_tbl_contactflags.ContactID)
perhaps check ContactID before dropping the Referenced Column list
What should I check in regards to this?
I did execute a stand-alone statement though the query window in workbench
ALTER TABLE tbl_contactflags
ADD CONSTRAINT FK_ContactID
FOREIGN KEY ( ContactID )
REFERENCES tbl_contacts ( ContactID )
Which then actually applied the FK with no issue HOWEVER, when I then went to test the index by basically deselecting the column in drop down and attempting to reapply through the usual process I got the following error:
mysqlkeyerror.PNG ( 4.95K )Number of downloads: 2
Only thing is with this is it doesn't help due to the previously mentioned:
- both tables use the same chartset/collation.
- both tables are InnoDB,
- both table fields are set to BIGINT(20)
- both table fields are set to NotNull
My concern is although I can adapt this statement manually to do all the foreign keys, whether or not they will actually work/apply when attempting to update records or if it will return errors down the line when a user goes to enter data because I'm basically forcing a join that it doesn't like.
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Jul 17 2019, 08:49 AM
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In your third image in your original post you have not checked 'Column' (ContactID) at the point you drop down the list to view the referenced column options.
I meant check the checkbox to indicate the column to be used as FK. Then perhaps the referenced column list will populate.
David Marten
Jul 17 2019, 09:14 AM
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From: Cardiff
Oh right, it won't let me check the box because there is no option in the drop down - workbench auto-checks that once a valid option has been chosen.
Did a check vs a different table with a BIGINT primary key and it actually does display as a valid choice, it seems to pick and choose what it likes.
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Jul 19 2019, 05:52 AM
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Did you get a solution to this?
If not, can you post the results of running:
SHOW CREATE TABLE tbl_contacts;
SHOW CREATE TABLE tbl_contactflags;
We can see if we can replicate the issue.
David Marten
Jul 19 2019, 06:28 AM
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From: Cardiff
Hi again,
still having the issue, here are the create table statements - as you can see there is an FK between contacts and contactflags however I basically forced that with the SQL statement in my previous comment and looking at the below I'm not sure if it's even been indexed correctly as a result
'tbl_contacts', 'CREATE TABLE `tbl_contacts` (\n `ContactID` bigint(20) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,\n `Email` varchar(255) NOT NULL,\n `FirstName` varchar(255) NOT NULL,\n `MiddleNames` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,\n `LastName` varchar(255) NOT NULL,\n `Position` varchar(255) NOT NULL,\n `CompanyID` bigint(20) NOT NULL,\n `LocationID` int(11) NOT NULL COMMENT \'Contact location\',\n `OfficeNumber` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,\n `MobileNumber` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,\n `TwitterHandle` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,\n `LinkedIn` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,\n `PAName` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,\n `PAEmail` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,\n `PAPhone` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,\n `Source` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,\n `Suppress` tinyint(1) DEFAULT NULL,\n `TempSupp` tinyint(1) DEFAULT NULL,\n `FailedVerification` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,\n `Notes` varchar(255) DEFAULT NULL,\n `ImportDate` datetime DEFAULT NULL,\n PRIMARY KEY (`ContactID`),\n UNIQUE KEY `Email_UNIQUE` (`Email`),\n UNIQUE KEY `ContactID_UNIQUE` (`ContactID`),\n KEY `contacts_companies_idx` (`CompanyID`) /*!80000 INVISIBLE */,\n KEY `contacts_location_idx` (`LocationID`),\n CONSTRAINT `contacts_companies` FOREIGN KEY (`CompanyID`) REFERENCES `tbl_lst_companies` (`CompanyID`),\n CONSTRAINT `contacts_location` FOREIGN KEY (`LocationID`) REFERENCES `tbl_lst_location` (`LocationID`)\n) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8mb4 COLLATE=utf8mb4_0900_ai_ci'
CREATE TABLE `tbl_contactflags` (
`ConFID` bigint(20) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`FlagID` int(11) DEFAULT NULL,
`ContactID` bigint(20) DEFAULT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`ConFID`),
UNIQUE KEY `ConFID_UNIQUE` (`ConFID`),
KEY `contactflags_flags_idx` (`FlagID`),
KEY `contactflags_contacts` (`ContactID`),
CONSTRAINT `contactflags_contacts` FOREIGN KEY (`ContactID`) REFERENCES `tbl_contacts` (`ContactID`),
CONSTRAINT `contactflags_flags` FOREIGN KEY (`FlagID`) REFERENCES `tbl_lst_flags` (`FlagID`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8mb4 COLLATE=utf8mb4_0900_ai_ci
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Jul 19 2019, 09:02 AM
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From: Telegraph Hill
I can't reproduce - it works OK for me.
What version of MySQL server are you running, and what version of Workbench
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David Marten
Jul 19 2019, 09:49 AM
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From: Cardiff
It is a very odd error becuase it only seems to impact certain tables/foreign keys.
I'm using Workbench Version 8.0.16 build 14498383 CE
Server version: 8.0.16 MySQL Community Server - GPL
mysql> SHOW VARIABLES LIKE "%version%";
| Variable_name | Value |
| immediate_server_version | 999999 |
| innodb_version | 8.0.16 |
| original_server_version | 999999 |
| protocol_version | 10 |
| slave_type_conversions | |
| tls_version | TLSv1,TLSv1.1,TLSv1.2 |
| version | 8.0.16 |
| version_comment | MySQL Community Server - GPL |
| version_compile_machine | x86_64 |
| version_compile_os | Win64 |
| version_compile_zlib | 1.2.11 |
Only thing I could think of is it's configured to MySQL Server 5.5 legacy authentication due to visual studio 2019 being released but no updates on the connectors so it won't connect to workbench with the new authentication method until they get an update - but then that's only the authentication method and shouldn't have any impact on the indexes/foreign keys
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