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Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Random Tuesday musings
a) apparently you CAN hide yourself on Facebook, you just click "Offline" on the chat section. Sorry guys, I'm a little technology-challenged (I once turned my cell phone French by hitting, oh, TWO buttons and then obviously couldn't change it back because all my menu options were then IN FRENCH) so I'm a little slow on the trends. Hey, did you guys know there are cellphones out there that can take pictures?! And check email? Holy crap... :)
b) I have to say the debate is still-ongoing with the whole "Do I wear the t-shirt of the band to its own concert" issue. Not world-changing stuff, mind you, but hey, world peace has to start somewhere, and it might as well begin with us agreeing on the little things. Ban Ki-moon, take note. And hire me.
Krista has a good point that we Californians try to be as obscure and random as possible to thus make us even cooler - and I think Stewbottum gets to the source of it pretty quickly as well -- it all started off as TEAM pride, with music being the default (and Gwen noted, quite correctly, that the two are totally different.) I'm totally with Drollgirl about getting annoyed at the little trendsters who show up to concerts these days, and Des, I like to think that musicians appreciate fans no matter what they're wearing!
I think Celia summed it up best as "who cares how long I've been a fan?" -- people should be way less interested in what others are doing and just freakin' get out there and enjoy being who they are, regardless of what anyone else thinks. (Celia - I'm from Merrimack, just outside Nashua, by the way...and I'm totally jealous you got quality-Krista time). Both AJ and Jenn pointed out that this isn't necessarily an issue separated just by coasts (gah! An entire country seized in a concert t-shirt epidemic!), and Archana gets some serious cool points for naming the correct movie (Empire Records) that I quoted, but I gotta say, Archana -- the best concerts I've been to (and Flogging Molly is definitely one of these), the bands played their music much longer, louder, and insanely better than off their albums. If I go see a band that plays exactly how they sound on their CD, why did I bother...and believe me, I've seen my fair share of bands who do exactly that...and sometimes even worse. But when Green Day invites people to come up from the audience to play their instruments for them, or James Hetfield and Lars do drum battles at their Metallica concerts, or Flogging Molly riffs for 15 minute sessions...damn is it worth the price of that ticket...and maybe a few obnoxious tweens and some drunk idiots here and there.
I think we can probably concede, much as Shanna Suburbia pointed out, that wearing an older t-shirt from the band isn't quite as bad, and I think Jo, Sarah Alaoui, Iva, and Wine and Words are still making up their minds either way. As for you, Mildly Sensational... yes, I was totally going off of the movie PCU, and I love you too. :)
With that wrapped up, I can now move on to the two most interesting things that happened yesterday (besides the fact that I finally got to hang out with a wonderful girl last night for the first time in eons) by letting you all know that yesterday, while waiting in line at the bank, I was hit on by a blond guy named Hudson. In front of his mother.
Yes, Hudson and his mom were waiting just in front of me and he suddenly turned around, flashed me the most adorable smile I've seen on a guy in quite some time, and proudly announced that at home he had a rock and it was his and not mine.
Hudson was probably 3 and 1/2 years old.
At which point, his mom turned around, took one look at me and then Hudson, rolled her eyes and replied, "He's gonna be a big flirt."
At which point I'M thinking, Yes! I still got it!
And in the flirt/unexpected love department, approximately twice a year my cat Mocha (yes, occasionally she guest blogs on here) decides that she adores me and wants to be my pet. So late last night, after getting myself tucked into bed, she crawled all the way up the covers (she usually stays down by the foot of the bed), head-butted me to let me know that she now owned me, then curled up against my stomach and fell fast asleep. And it wasn't even cold in the apartment.
I think my jaw dropped. Here I was, thinking I was just an indentured servant for her...turns out she actually likes me once in a blue moon!
I hope you all are having lovely Tuesdays and that you enjoyed the Great T-Shirt Debate as much as I did. I loved hearing from all of you and I'll try to pose some more controversial questions in the future...like, is it okay to put salt on food that someone just cooked for you? That's always a touchy one... :)
6 comments:
- drollgirl said...
your cat is not affectionate all the time?!??!?! wow! well, i guess when your kitty shows you love you know it is FOR REAL!
p.s. wearing my motorhead shirt today.
KIDDING. i wish. :)
- August 25, 2009 at 5:47 PM
- Annie said...
haha, i always have myself "hidden" on facebook! ;)
- August 25, 2009 at 5:58 PM
- krista said...
ah, yes, the great 'salt' debate. i know celia will weigh in on this one.
- August 25, 2009 at 6:46 PM
- Riff Dog said...
I like to think that musicians appreciate fans no matter what they're wearing!
Absolutely. Although a top that can be pulled up for a "flash" is always nice. ;-)
- August 26, 2009 at 7:48 AM
- Celia said...
yes, yes!! i WILL NOT eat bland food! and if you are serving me bland food and don't like the fact that i'm adding salt so as to not feel like i'm eating a plate of cardboard, then you should consider that a personal problem. seriously people, cook with salt, and i won't have to do the dirty deed!
- August 27, 2009 at 11:31 PM
- Laura said...
I am all for expression! no worries :) I was just poking fun at the over-use of those words but I'm lovin the blog. Keep em coming :)
- August 28, 2009 at 8:52 AM


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Hannah Arendt is considered one of the most important political philosophers of the twentieth century and, it must be stated, a profoundly influential contributor to the social and political theory of the Isocracy network. Two of her major works include The Origins of Totalitarianism, a sociological study of the Stalinist terror and Nazi genocide, and On Revolution, which combined political science with history, both highly important for an isocratic perspective. Arendt is difficult to position in a traditional political sense; she is a supporter of constitutionalism and the rule of law, yet she also disparaged representative democracy in favour of high levels of deliberative participatory democracy and the revolutionary spirit. Both anarchistic in her love of political pluralism, political involvement, and direct democracy she also emphasised the fundamental roles of government in establishing lasting institutions and laws as the free agreements of behaviour between members of the polis.
The Human Condition, reviewed here in summary form, emphasised the vita activa and distinguished between three fundamental activity; labor, work and action, distinguishing the "human condition" from "human nature", the latter existing within human beings, the former between. The vita activa, or active life, is necessarily distinguished by what has been more popular in the western philosophical tradition which concentrated on vita contemplativa (contemplative life). Famously Arendt refused to describe herself as a philosopher precisely because of the historical attachment of that discipline to contemplativa; Arendt (to use the Platonic philosophical language which she targets) attended to the world temporary 'appearances', rather than the world of eternal 'forms'. For her, life was to be lived with others in the practical tasks of common activity i.e., praxis.
The Collapse of Complex Societies (1st paperback ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Tainter aims to provide a theory as to why most complex societies so far have not just faded away but abruptly collapsed, short of the current world-wide one, there we don't know yet. But he fails. He repeats the phrase "diminishing marginal returns on complexity" a lot but it sounds like something he overheard someone in the economics department saying (which he is not from, he's an archaeologist) and now just repeats it. Just repeating it doesn't make it true.
However in the course of building his case for his theory, he's providing a lot of detail about societies past & current that you can use to come up with your own theory. Now here is mine: Complexity requires a lot of communication and, short of the Internet, communication is expensive, so they start building hierarchies. A society's political/social/economic hierarchy is simply a communication hierarchy the same way we build our star-shaped networks, hierarchical DNS etc. Any more decentralized communication structure requires redundancy and that was too expensive in the old times and may or may not be too expensive in our time, time will tell.
For over half a century the conflict between Israel and Palestine, the centre of the world's three Abrahamic monotheisms, has raged. Space is not sufficient here of course to detail the main events of this conflict, except in title alone: The British Mandate in Palestine and the Balfour Declaration, the Arab revolts of the 1930s, the declaration of the State of Israel (with scant regard of local opinion) and the subsequent war in the late 1940s, raids and counter-raids in the 1950s, the 1956 Suez Crisis, the 1967 Six Day War, the 1973 Yom Kipper War, the 1982 Lebanon War, the First and Second Intifada, the 2006 Lebanon War, and the Gaza War of 2008-2009. With over 100,000 casulties since 1945 and with economists estimating that the opportunity cost of the various conflicts representating trillions of dollars [1].
The dead are many, the costs are high and the divisions are deep. David Hacohen, a supposedly left-wing member of the Israeli Knesset for six terms once described Arabs as "... they are not human beings, they are not people". At the start of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, the first secretary-general of the Arab League, Azzam Pasha, announced: "This will be a war of extermination and a momentous massacre which will be spoken of like the Mongolian massacres and the Crusades" [2]. These are just illustrative examples of how deep the hatred has often reached; there are plenty of others and from equally senior positions.
Peace efforts have only had a modicum of success. The two United Nations Security Concil Resolutions, 242 and 338, have provided a temporary cessation of hostilities, but have not been unable to unravel the continuing damage, let alone implement, the original UN General Assembly Resolution 181 for the partition of Palestine. Resolution 242 called for Israel to give up the occupied territories and the resolution passed was passed 15 to 0. It has not, of course, ever been implemented. Indeed the opposite has been the case; there are now 0.5 million Israeli settlers in the West Bank and East Jersualem, turning the region into a "pastrimi" [3] of harshly discriminatory settlement policy, of restricted movements, of concrete and iron 'separation barriers' - of kibosh ha'adama - "conquest of the land". The 1993 Oslo Accords fared somewhat better - they allowed for the formation of the Palestinian National Authority, providing the 'right' for Palestinians to police their own imprisonment.
Born of desperation and hopelessness some Palestinians fight back against this systematic, grinding humiliation with the predictable tools of people in such a situation; the use of violence against non-combatants for political ends, better known as terrorism. A tragic shortlist can easily be rattled off - the 1972 Munich Olymipics massacre, the 1974 Ma'alot massacre, the 1978 Coastal Road massacre, the 1989 Tel Aviv-Jerusalem bus attack, the 1993 Mehola Junction bombing, the 2003 Maxim restaurant suicide bombing, the 2008 Mercaz HaRav massacre, along with thousands of Qassam and similar rockets being launched indiscriminately into civilian areas. All, it must be grimly accounted, with relatively few fatalities and absolutely no threat to the Israeli State. But of particular note as the conflict drags on, the desparation of the Palestinian people grows, along with their acceptance of the use of violence against civilian targets and support for less flexible religous doctrine [4]. Without freedom, there is nothing left to lose.
Development and Spirit
"Evolution" means change, an "unrolling", according to the Latin root evolvere. There is something naturalistic, remorseless and in some cases even tragic about it. Because of this, Alex Callinicos, Professor of Politics at the University of York, prefers the term "development" to indicate those changes where conscious human agency is involved, where human beings can direct change itself. "Development", of course, is a French-derived words "développement", or "from evolution". Callinicos is quite correct to make this distinction and it is particularly important in reference to the subject matter. There is no suggestion here that the human spirit is evolving in a naturalistic fashion. Thus I will cede to Callinicos that "development", in lieu of anything else, is a better description; consider the presentation to be better entitled "The Development of the Human Spirit".
Social systems don't live forever. They have their own internal contradictions, which produce systemic crises. Capitalism is no different; someday it will end. The question we are addressing is whether it will be followed by barbarism, mass death, and barrenness, or by a better world. The current crisis is not only one of greatly increased attacks on the working class and oppressed people but is also a fundamental crisis of the system itself. We cannot predict the demise of the system, something in which the working class and oppressed people must also play a conscious part. We can, however, state that this is the most serious crisis of capitalism since the 1930's--and that one was only "solved" by World War II.
An understanding of today's world crisis must begin at the end of that previous crisis.
From World War I to the Great Depression and then World War II, the world capitalist system went through 30 years of crisis and decay, politically reflected in revolutions in Russia, Europe and Asia, the rise of fascism in Italy, Germany, Spain and elsewhere, and the counterrevolutionary consolidation of the Marxist-Leninist bureaucracy in the Soviet Union.
After World War II, the U.S. emerged as the dominant world power. The Axis was in ashes. The old British and French empires were greatly weakened, and the USSR was a weak rival to the USA. World dominance—imperialism—was the basis for the long postwar boom in the U.S. Although it contained several recessions that didn't threaten the system, that relative and limited prosperity (for European-Americans, anyway) lasted through the '50's and '60's. It was based on enormous military power and spending (what some have called the Permanent Arms Economy), industrial superiority, financial control (the Bretton Woods agreement and gold reserve standard), and oil. Consequentially, there was a vast expansion of car ownership and suburban living (again, at least for white folks). There was a vast looting of natural resources, treating the natural world as a limitless mine, while undercutting our biological basis of existence. Growing from the experiences of the Depression and war came the dominance of the liberal idea of contra-cyclical government intervention to stabilize the economy (Keynesianism).
The Isocracy Network is establishing a formal Melbourne group. This meeting will be held on Saturday, June 12 at 2pm at 110 Grey Street East Melbourne; the date coincides with the adoption of Virginian Declaration of Rights, one of the earliest and strongest modern statements on the limitations of government and the rights of individuals. Light refreshments will be provided.
Governments and Taxes
As long as there are humans, we will form societies. As a result of those societies there will be governments [1], and in all probability these governments will require a source of human energy. This may be achieved through some fairly blunt means, such as slavery, corvée, a portion of a crop to more abstract methods through the monetary system which generally come in the form of taxes on transactions, taxes on production, taxes on consumption. Almost invariably the people who are required to pay taxes dislike the experience and some aggressively so, claiming that tax is a form of theft or slavery [2]. Others will debate on the proportion that should raised as a function of the total income of a country, or they will argue the relationship of the tax on income (progressive, proportional, regressive), the source of the tax, the most efficient ways of collecting it, and, quite importantly, where the money is going to be spent.
Volumes could be spent on each of these topics, and indeed already have. As a result, the following is only a sketch. But the core premise is for a tax that isn't a tax, nor a form of theft or slavery by any definition, that is a source of public income whose collection is extremely efficient, that spurs productivity rather than acts as a deadweight [3], and a means of expenditure that provides both welfare without corruption. Everyone from the most ardent socialist, to the Austrian-school capitalist should support it. How could such a thing exist? Economics, as a social inquiry, must begin differently to physical sciences. In the social world normative values alter positive values, rather than the other way around. As such, we begin on a normative basis - political-economy.
The Gifts of Providence
It is easy to become caught up with the online world. There is a certain wonder with meeting people on the other side of the world with similar interests, to share stories, to swap tips ... and to argue incessantly about some of the most seemingly trivial things; I swear I've seen a knitting flamewar. Such discussions can amaze observers who do not have those interests and compare very poorly with the necessity of involvement in politics; "... the chief penalty is to be governed by someone worse if a man will not himself hold office and rule." (Plato, The Republic, Book I, 347-C). Politics however, like any other interest, is subject to such debates and distractions. For someone who wants to be a serious political activist, to make real changes in the world, this is a problem. The following are some suggestions on how to manage online activism in a manner that furthers actual social change.
1. Extend Real-World Activism With ICT
The purpose of political activism is to successfully introduce legal change and public awareness. This can be assisted by information and communications technology. Information technology is an extremely effective means to record, store, search and distribute information. Communications technology allow for asynchronous as well as synchronous two-way information flow whilst at the same time independent of spatial constraints. These are exceptional tools to aid one in promoting their cause to public officials and interested members of the public. Of course, there are other tools that one can use for direct political effect such as denial of service attacks and web vandalism. It must be pointed out that these have limited effect beyond the media interest that they generate.
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
When it comes to complexity, The First Amendment is rivaled perhaps only by the 14th Amendment. There are voluminous bodies of law attached to a number of brief clauses; non-establishment of religion by law, free exercise of religion, free speech, freedom of the press, and the freedom of assembly. Any one of those clauses have been the subject of many important court rulings.
Then there is this odd clause at the very end - to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. It's rarely discussed in legal treatises and there are precious few cases where the "Petition Clause" is at issue.
"Petitioning the government" may sound like formal language for any act of what we might call "lobbying" today. But petitioning was more than that.
From precolonial days until just before the U.S. Civil War, petitioning was a particular formal procedure that was commonly used by citizens and groups to make their wishes known, especially to legislative bodies, with the expectation that the request would be taken up on the agenda and considered on its merits. In other words, ordinary people introduced the equivalent of "bills" to be debated in legislatures and either passed in law or not. This is not the same as modern initiatives and referenda, which are subject to a public vote and pass or fail without legislative deliberation, although some states do allow for "initiatives to the legislature." However, in the heyday of petitioning, a single individual could petition the legislature, and that individual's request would be considered.
Dr. Joe Toscano, of the Anarchist Media Institute, is a well-known libertarian activist. A medical practitoner and surgeon, he has run the Anarchist World radio show on 3CR since 1977 and producted a weekly newsletter, the Anarchist Age Review, since 1991. He was a chief organiser of the 1986 Australian Anarchist Centenary Celebrations. One of the most prominent recent campaigns he has been involved in is founding and promoting "Defend and Extend Medicare", Australia's public health system, through decentralised community groups. The groups attracted not only the criticism of the government's health minister (and now opposition leader) as well as briefing papers on the activists by "a senior intelligence official".
The Isocracy Network raised a number of questions with Joe, which he responded en bloc Firstly Joe, thank you for agreeing to be interviewed on The Isocracy Network. Can you give our readers a brief background on your own activities and that of the Anarchist Media Institute? You're an anarchist, you are not enrolled to vote, and yet you stand as a candidate for Federal parliamentary elections and as the Lord Mayor for Melbourne. You have probably received some criticism, both by from fellow anarchists and from mainstream politicians. Why do you do this? Politically, you've advocated delegative and direct rather representative and indirect democracy, and collective rather than representative decision-making. A serious criticism of this model is that majorities can - and often do - oppress minorities. What are the limits of collective action in your view? What about economically models of organisation? What is your perspectives on anarchist economic organisations, such as mutualism, or commonwealth approaches, such as Georgism? Finally, what are the priorities of activity for an politically-involved anarchist today?

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The Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) means that over 1 million Texas public school students now receive free breakfast and lunch each day. This new tool makes school meal signups easier and increases revenue for schools. CEP is now
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Ladies' second team dominate over Eastbourne winning 4 – 0
The Ladies second team captained by Patricia Pollard outclassed and out played the David Lloyd Club – Eastbourne Ladies First Team winning 4-0 with plenty to spare.
On a bright December morning on the Pav & Ave clay courts Morna Fox and Amanda Aaron playing as the first pair won both their matches 6-1 6-0. The key was their experience and sheer consistency that simply wore down the opposition. They were relentless.
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UMBC Gets 1st Road Win Of Season
Retrievers Improve To 2-11 On Season
Chase Plummer scored a career-high 23 points and Brian Neller hit the go-ahead 3-pointer with 32 seconds left as Maryland-Baltimore County defeated New Hampshire 82-76 Monday night in the America East Conference opener for both teams.
The 82 points scored is a season high for the Retrievers (2-11), who hit 8 of 12 from beyond the arc. The win is also UMBC's first in a league opener since 2008.
Neller, who finished with 17 points on 5-of-8 shooting from long range, hit a trey with 4:01 remaining to give the Retrievers a 71-64 lead.
The Wildcats (5-7) then hit eight consecutive free throws in a 10-2 run, capped by Jordon Bronner's pair with 46 seconds remaining that put New Hampshire ahead 74-73.
After Neller's final 3-pointer, UMBC hit 6 of 6 free throws -- four by Ryan Cook, then two by Neller.
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TROY — George "Keith" Greene, 87, of Troy, N.C., passed away Thursday, May 29, 2014 .
TROY — George "Keith" Greene, 87, of Troy, N.C., passed away Thursday, May 29, 2014 .
Born April 12, 1927, he was born and educated in Troy, N.C . He was the son of the late George Carl Greene and Mattie Allred Greene. He was a veteran serving in the U.S. Army during World War II. Mr. Greene was retired from the N.C. Department of Transportation, Bridge Maintenance Division.
Preceding him in death was his wife, Alice Capps Greene, on Dec. 11, 2013.
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Avoid These Mistakes When Changing Careers
Most people change career on average 5 times during their professional life. Consequently, it's fair to say that at some time during your professional journey, you'll be faced with the challenges of how to best change career without going back to an entry-level position.
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If you are intoxicated, under the New York Penal Code, you will face a vehicular assault charge if you decide to operate a vehicle and injure another person. According to the New York Penal Code, there are three different types of vehicular crimes defined. Aggravated vehicular assault is the most grievous of all three. Under the New York penal code 120:04, you are likely to face an aggravated vehicular assault if you recklessly drive while you are under the influence of drugs or alcohol and cause a serious injury to a person, and:
• A 15-year-old child and less was in the vehicle with you and got seriously injured, or
• Your BAC was recoded to be more than .18, or
• You have faced a vehicular manslaughter conviction, or
• Within the past one decade, you faced a conviction for driving under the influence of a drug or alcohol in New York or any other state, or
• You caused a serious physical injury to one or more people, or
• You have your driving privileges suspended in any other state in the United States because of driving under the influence of alcohol or any drug, or
• You had your driving privileges suspended in any other state including New York because you refused to take a medical examination test to determine the level of your drug in the body.
This crime is a class C felony. This is a charge that is similar to the first-degree vehicular assault. For you to face an aggravated vehicular assault charge, the prosecutor must show that you were driving the vehicle recklessly. Under the New York Penal Code 1212, reckless driving is defined by driving a vehicle in a manner that interferes unreasonably with the proper use a highway. It can also be defined as causing unreasonable danger to other road users in a public highway.
A man stops at a local bar to get relaxed after a long walk. He is also seen with a couple of alcohol beers. While he feels a little lightheaded, he makes a decision to drive himself home. He approaches a road sign and looks at both sides. Instead of stopping, he speeds off after slowing down. A woman steps in his way and gets hit by him. She got injured and rushed to the hospital. When the man is examined, she has an alcohol content of above .18 BAC. For this reason, he is likely to face a prosecution for the aggravated vehicular assault charge.
Related offenses
1. Driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol: New York Vehicle and Traffic Law 1192:2
2. Driving while intoxicated: New York Vehicle and Traffic Law 1192:2
3. Second-degree vehicular assault: New York Vehicle and Traffic Law 120:3
4. First-degree vehicular assault: New York Vehicle and Traffic Law 12:04
When a chemical test is performed by a law enforcement agent to prove that you are driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol, the test must be conducted to make the results inassimilable. You can use the accuracy of that result to challenge the chemical test. You can also defend yourself about how the test was administered.
Because this action belongs to the Class C felony, you are likely to face a 15-year jail sentence in a correctional facility located in your country of residence.
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I have 2 children at school and would like to home school them instead but would mean giving up work plus I have no idea where to start, thinking of de-registering them for Christmas or half term.
Both seem happy at school so am I wrong in wanting to home school? I just have had enough with regimented learning etc… And dealing with friendship dramas,peer pressure and not seeming to learn any life skills other than how to answer back, argue.
What if I fail?
I have messaged on here before and for some help so I joined our local fb page but in honesty it's not been much help with regards to groups, advice etc…...
Sorry for bugging you guys again but I would like to make informed decisions as its a big thing that just keeps churning round and round, Thankyou.
Hi Weetabix,
You are right it is a big decision. I have answered the points you raised here.
You say you would need to give up work in order to home educate your children. Are you a single parent or do you have the support of a partner?
Some parents share both the educational duties and the earning money duties and find that works great.
Other parents run a home based business alongside educating their offspring.
In the UK it's very easy to deregister your child from school. You can do this at any time. It does not have to coincide with any term dates. You also do not have to give a reason. All you do it send/give a written letter to the head teacher stating that from a certain date you will be educating your children at home.
Your children both seem happy but it could be that they don't know what the alternative is and could be happier with more freedom.
What if you fail? This depends on your criteria of failure. If you and your children find that it's not the best path for you or them, then you can always enrol them in school again.
If your local FB group is not helpful, you could join the national and international FB groups. You can use the phrase 'home education' as that is what the British call home schooling.
I also recommend reading John Holt's books. I also recommend Ross Mountney. She has written books and has a very comprehensive blog. I highly recommend you sign up to her blog. She writes like a friend talking to you. Very comforting. rossmountney.wordpress.com
This is her FB page. https://www.facebook.com/RossMountneyAuthor/
This is a home educating mum/public figure, Nadia Sawalha. https://www.facebook.com/nadiaandkaye/
Sarah, in Australia, talks about unschooling on her blog, which in the UK is called autonomous education. http://happinessishereblog.com/homeschooling/
Most people in the UK do a blend of structured and autonomous learning.
Here is another great blog from down under. Kate has a more structured approach because, being on the spectrum, her son needs that. http://www.aneverydaystory.com/
Here is a useful FB group you can join https://www.facebook.com/groups/HEsupport4all/
This site gives general information re home ed and it has a comprehensive section on local groups contacts, not just FB but yahoo email groups too. http://www.educationotherwise.org/
Mike Wood is a home ed dad with a comprehensive site http://home-education.org.uk/
It's good to read Peter Gray's articles to remind you why you want to educate at home, https://www.facebook.com/peter.gray.3572
I hope this helps.
By the way, I am sadly, not a home ed parent. I am a former teacher, who now tutors privately and am a great advocate for home ed.
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Very helpful Thankyou, I will look into the groups etc….. Have met a few mums who home ed and they are lovely. To be honest I did send the de-reg email Tuesday night but it brought on a massive panic attack as I realised I, personally, need to make financial arrangements first and this side of Christmas is not good for us. My dh works long hours and with my wages we can manage but without it will be tough so I need to get organised make cut backs etc…. So we have decided January and thus also gives us time to get resources enroll in clubs etc…. Thankyou for taking the time to help, much appreciated.
Making a decisoon and a concrete plan is a good. Did that stop the panic attack?
I have found that YNAB (you need a budget) is an excellent tool to help to focus spending on what is important rather than squandering money.
I am glad to hear that you have a plan in place that will work for you. Sorry I didn't respond before I was in the middle of a really busy time when I read your post. One thing I was going to say was that many home ed groups go quiet over the summer as many people are away/take a break or use the time to catch up with school friends. I hope you find the groups a bit more repsonsive now that Autumn is well on its way!
I have been home educating for eight years, I still have wobbles (as I call my worries) now and then. That is what makes us good parents as we care about our children.
Nothing that you decide now has to be forever, if it doesn't work out then you can always rethink your plan and try something else, just don't give up as everything will be ok
Hello! I agree with sustainablemum, the home ed community goes very quiet around here too over the summer, we live in a tourist spot so it becomes extremely busy and we all take a little hibernation break! So I do hope you get to meet some home educators now who are local to you, they are the best support you will have. Keep an eye out on local boards to get a feel for what goes on in your area and what opportunities there are. Here, there is so much going on we have had to start being selective!
In terms of the financial side of things, home education can be as inexpensive or costly as you want it to be. Some people are members of lots of clubs and classes and with most carrying a fee, even a couple of pounds per child, that can soon add up. We are on a pretty tight budget and are creative about where we spend our money, and put a lot of thought into whether we really need to sign up for things before we do. DH is an artist so we are very lucky in having him as our source of inspiration, but pinterest can provide a wealth of ideas for any subject you care to type into the search box! We get National Trust membership as a christmas gift and use it endlessly, for events they hold or just a nice place to meet with friends. DS enjoys being outside so the meet ups we go to tend to be those that are in the park or outdoor adventure playground and therefore tend to be free. We pack a picnic wherever we go and make sure we have plenty of drinks/snacks/spare clothes for muddy play and we spend very little during the week this way. We use the library excessively! We have netflix account and use youtube for watching documentaries. We cook from scratch and DS is a whizz in the kitchen because of it. The great thing is home education can look however you want it to, if you can think creatively, outside the box, then you will be fine xx
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Create a Series to Group Your Articles on Hashnode
Sharing complex ideas often requires more than one story. Some community members suggested that it would be great to be able to group multiple articles together so that it's easier to find them.
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How to add articles to a series
To add a story to a series on Hashnode, click on the more options icon (⋮) below your story, and select "Add to a series":
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Name or select a series, click on done, and your article will now be part of a series.
Repeat the process for any other articles you'd like to add, and you're done! As you come up with new ideas, you can always keep adding new stories to the series.
You can find all the series you've created under "Series" on your profile page.
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When you go to a series page, you will see the "Edit" option:
When you click on it, you'll be able to add a description and a cover image for your series.
This will give your readers landing on the series more context.
Series on the user feeds
The name of your series will be shown above the article title on the homepage and on the user feeds. If someone clicks on it, they will go to the series page, where they can see all the articles included.
All of the posts in the series are also shown under each individual story, making it easy to find the next post to read.
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Nine Below Zero on Saturday 12th October 2019
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'Are We There Yet?' 40th Anniversary Tour
One of the UK's finest Rhythm & Blues Bands, Nine Below Zero, formed in 1979 and named themselves after the famous Sonny Boy Williamson song. In 1980 they signed to A&M Records and released the seminal 'Live at the Marquee' album. By the end of that year they had moved from selling out the Marquee to selling out the Hammersmith Odeon. In 1981 their first studio album 'Don't Point Your Finger' and the band made appearances on the Old Grey Whistle Test and the South Bank show. In 1982 they appeared on 'The Young Ones' with the track 'Eleven + Eleven' before releasing arguably their finest album 'Third Degree' which features such tracks as 'Wipe Away Your Kiss' & 'You Can't Say Yes And You Can't Say No'. The album's iconic image was taken by none other than David Bailey.
Nine Below Zero have shared stages over the years with Chuck Berry, The Kinks, The Who, Eric Clapton, & Squeeze.
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Discipline: Packaging / Marketing Collateral / Materials Sourcing / Trade Show Booth Design
Ball Corporation is a leading global supplier of innovative, sustainable metal packaging for beverages, food, and household products as well as other goods, services, and technologies for commercial and government customers. Founded in 1880, Ball employs nearly 20,000 people worldwide. In 2016, MASV began working with the marketing team of Ball's Aerosol Division, in partnership with Lumenati, to create award-winning aerosol can designs that showcase Ball's printing innovations and capabilities. Ball has since been recognized six times for can designs created by MASV, including:
- 2018 Aerobal Spring Magazine Feature
- 2018 Euro Cantech Aerosol Award
- 2018 Paris ADF Packaging Technology Diploma
- 2017 Canmaker Can of the Year, Bronze Award
- 2017 BAMA Aerosol Packaging Award
- 2017 Aerobal Can of the Year Award
Because all designs are custom-made to wrap 3D cylindrical objects, MASV strikes a balance between award-winning product design and the limitations of can printing. MASV works on projects for Ball's global brands, collaborating with people from across the world including Mexico, United Kingdom, Czech Republic, France, Germany, and India. MASV also assists with materials sourcing and creating Ball's trade show booths.