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On Friday, Politico offered an image of left-wingers fearful that Republicans at the helm in both the House and the Senate will take advantage of the backlash over the Common Core standards and "strip the federal role out of education." True conservatives, however, lament that the Republicans in charge are not poised to accomplish that.
Maggie Severns writes that Republicans are "hatching an ambitious plan to rewrite No Child Left Behind this year."
She states, "The push to rewrite the country's main K-12 education law will be 'all about Congress taking a red pen and deleting' language, said Mike Petrilli, president of the conservative Thomas B. Fordham Institute and a former Education Department staffer."
What Severns refers to as the "conservative" Fordham Institute, however, is an organization that has been funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to promote the Common Core standards, the education initiative that ultimately reminded millions of Americans that the federal government has no constitutional role in education.
Earlier in December, Petrilli, apparently longing for bipartisanship, wrote about his "predictions and predilections for a new Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)," the current iteration of which is No Child Left Behind (NCLB):
A reauthorization of the ESEA (on its fiftieth anniversary no less) could play the same role again: showing America that bipartisan governance is possible, even in Washington.
Thankfully, both incoming chairmen of the relevant Senate and House committees—Lamar Alexander and John Kline—have indicated that passing an ESEA reauthorization is job number one. And friends in the Obama administration tell me that Secretary Duncan is ready to roll up his sleeves and get to work on something the president could sign. So far, so good.
Searching for that elusive happy medium, Petrilli says that while his organization believes it is not currently politically practical for Washington to have too much power over education (because of the "true" conservatives who have grown powerful in Congress), still "federal education policy" is a must–even though the Constitution provides no role for the federal government in education:
That doesn't mean that Washington must foreswear reform. To devolve everything to the states would be much like saying, "Here's fifteen billion dollars in Title I money a year—do whatever you want with it." The federal government may be a minority investor, but it still has a duty to demand something constructive in return. (Call it accountability for the taxpayer's dollar.)
The challenge, then, is to find the right spot on the continuum between today's coercive, micromanaging federal role and "leaving the money on the stump"—a spot that is realistic about Washington's proper role (and capacity) in the education cosmos, but that still nudges the system in a reform direction.
What does Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN), former U.S. education secretary under President George H.W. Bush, have to say about his plans as the new head of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee?
Soon after his re-election in November, Alexander told NPR that his first priority would be to "fix No Child Left Behind":
The Republican proposal to fix NCLB would give states the option — not mandate — to take federal dollars and let those dollars follow children to the schools they attend. We want to expand choice, but my view is that the federal government shouldn't mandate it. … Republicans would [also] transfer back to states the responsibility for deciding whether schools are succeeding or failing. Tennessee, Texas or New York would decide what the academic standards would be, what the curriculum would be, what to do about failing schools and how to evaluate teachers.
Asked if he supports the Common Core standards, Alexander replied, "I support giving states the right to decide whether to [adopt] the Common Core or not."
Though Alexander may believe he is moving things in the "right" direction, there is no plan afoot to eliminate federal involvement in education, a factor that frustrates conservatives who have recently been fighting the federal government's overreach–intermixed with corporate cronyism–into an area that is constitutionally reserved for the states and local governments.
"I am hoping that Chairman Klein and Sen. Alexander will draw the major lessons from NCLB and the more recent Race to the Top programs," Jim Stergios, executive director of the Boston-based Pioneer Institute, told Breitbart News. "Federal involvement, even with the best of intentions, tends to bring unintended consequences and often even negative impacts on student achievement."
"With NCLB, we saw many states react by lowering their standards and/or lowering the bar set by their state tests," Stergios continued. "Race to the Top has handcuffed states seeking to set high standards by locking them into standards that are more or less in line with the average quality of standards in the states prior to the development of Common Core in 2009 and 2010."
Stergios observed the billions of tax dollars spent on so-called "game-changing initiatives" over the past 15 years, with nothing to show for it, "except that now the decisions are being made further from classrooms."
"I'm concerned this effort to revise NCLB serves as the quintessential D.C. head-fake wherein some of the old cobwebs of federal intrusion are brushed away but knitting of more recent vintage from the bureaucrats in Washington–initiatives like Common Core and the national tests–are locked into place," he added. "We'll have to monitor what comes out to know that."
Similarly, writing at the Heritage Foundation, Lindsey Burke notes that Alexander will likely use, as his starting point for reauthorizing NCLB, the Every Child Ready for College or a Career Act, which he himself introduced in 2013.
While Burke says Alexander's measure would eliminate the Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) and Highly Qualified Teacher mandates, as well as requirements that the states maintain certain levels of spending to qualify for federal funding, his proposal still mandates that states use federal funds to develop programs to enhance the mental, physical, health, and nutrition needs of students.
"It also proposes reforms that are inappropriate for the federal government to pursue," Burke continues, "such as authorizing competitive grants to be awarded to states and school districts to develop performance-based teacher compensation models and school improvement strategies for local education agencies to use with under-performing schools."
Burke also observes that Alexander's original proposal only permits Title I funds for low-income students to be portable to other public schools–not private ones.
"If the forthcoming NCLB reauthorization is modeled after the Every Child Ready for College or a Career Act," Burke concludes, "it will represent a missed opportunity to advance federalism in education, limit Washington's overreach into local school policy, and provide states the opportunity to make federal funding student-centered and portable."
But the advancement of federalism seems miles off for those who are simply hoping for bipartisanship and retention of the ever-incentivizing "strings" that are attached to the states' acceptance of federal funding. In the recent debate over Common Core, more Americans have come to understand what these "strings" mean in terms of their children's education.
"As parents, teachers, and other citizens increasingly realize, the US Department of Education is a millstone around the necks of our children," education director of the American Principles Project, Emmett McGroarty, told Breitbart News. "Unmoored from the constitutional system of checks-and-balances, it gravitates toward education fads like Common Core and heavy-handed accountability schemes like No Child Left Behind."
"The American people no longer view the US Department of Education as a supplemental agency that lends aid to state and local government," McGroarty added. "Instead, they view it for what it is: an intermeddler that prevents parents and teachers and state and local government from having a real say in what children learn and how they are taught. Congressional leaders fail to appreciate the breadth and intensity of this change."


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Saturday, November 8, 2014
Friday Night With Friends.
Happy Stitching,
20 comments:
- Melody said...
Lovely stitching esp that sweet little mouse. I'm slightly obsessed with tins too.
- November 8, 2014 at 6:45 AM
- creations.1 said...
Love the table runner. A fetish for tins is good! I like buying tins also!
- November 8, 2014 at 8:12 AM
- Bev C said...
Hello Jeanette,
Love the table runner. Who doesn't love tin's, the bottom two are beautiful. Plus the biscuits in them don't taste great so the tins really are the things you want!
Have a lovely weekend.
Happy days.
- November 8, 2014 at 9:30 AM
- Narelle said...
Lovely tins, especially the kitty.
Cute stitcheries ... a few stitches all add up :)
- November 8, 2014 at 11:17 AM
- Leanne said...
Beautiful stitching Jeanette. I went looking at woolies today for those floral tins but I couldn't find them anywhere, Do they contain chocolate or biscuits?
- November 8, 2014 at 3:12 PM
- Allie said...
Beautiful stitching!!! And I had to laugh about your tin fetish - I have that too. They're one of my favorite things to look for in antique stores!! The ones you got a really gorgeous!
- November 8, 2014 at 5:40 PM
- Michelle Ridgway said...
Fellow tin addict here too!!!! Lovely! Very nice stitching as well xx
- November 8, 2014 at 6:52 PM
- Peg - Happy In Quilting said...
Love your projects xx
- November 8, 2014 at 8:23 PM
- Susan said...
Its hard to resist some of the tins that come out at Christmas time.
Better progress on Friday night than me - well done!
- November 8, 2014 at 10:09 PM
Hi Jeanette such lovely projects and love your tins.xx
- November 8, 2014 at 11:37 PM
- Fiona said...
lots of lovely projects... and pretty tins.... do you fill them with your pretty projects?
- November 9, 2014 at 8:32 AM
- Cheryll said...
What a wonderful project to work on at FNwF. Love the tins too!
Thanks for joining in...xox
- November 9, 2014 at 8:52 AM
- Sheila said...
Some lovely stitching jeanette and very cute tins 😃 I missed this FNWF ! Next month I will try to remember . Hugs Sheila
- November 9, 2014 at 9:49 AM
- barb's creations said...
Lovely table runner and I have to also confess to having a tin fetish and only this week had to resist buying a couple more from Big W but I can still hear them calling my name so I may just relent and go buy them for some peace and quiet lol :) Barb.
- November 9, 2014 at 11:45 AM
- FlourishingPalms said...
Ooo. I love the colors of that table runner! You've surprised me a little with that one, stepping out of your usual color box. Good job!
- November 9, 2014 at 1:06 PM
- Sharmayne said...
looks like quite a productive day and I love the tins!! I expect its quite hot up there in Ipswich at present....
- November 9, 2014 at 1:48 PM
- Cheryl said...
Lots of lovely Friday sewing Jeanette. If any consolation I have a tin fetish too lol
- November 9, 2014 at 7:08 PM
- Anthea said...
Tins! I love tins! Yours are so cute Jeanette... lovely work there for fnwf
- November 9, 2014 at 8:01 PM
- Sue said...
I've popped over from FNwF. What a fabulous table runner. Your stitchery is lovely...especially the mouse!
- November 9, 2014 at 8:08 PM
- Binsa said...
Love the table runner, I too have a love of tins. Hugs O'faigh
- November 11, 2014 at 4:13 PM

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Boy...Am I in an ill mood!!
I have been wondering if my gray Tiny Watch mare settled...or not. I had her ultra-sounded at 2 weeks and there was an embryo there. I breathed a sigh of relief and have kept my fingers crossed that the embryo continued to develop.
Normally, a mare goes back in for a 60 day ultrasound to confirm pregnancy and heartbeat...
However, due to Miss's circumstances, I have gone round and round in my head whether it was worth it to do that or not. Miss lost quite a bit of weight in just the week she was at the vet's and I saw how stressful it was on her when she was being ultra-sounded. The poor old girl would just tremble and shake.
I didn't really want to stress her out like that again. I worried that if she had settled that the stress might just cause her to lose the pregnancy. And since, at this late date, there is nothing I could do about it if she was, in fact, open. Regardless of whether she is bred or not, this girl requires a little extra care, so she would be getting the same treatment. I opted to just wait and see how it played out.
A few weeks ago, I noticed that after urinating, that Miss continued to 'wink' for an unusual amount of time. That's representative of mares during a heat cycle. However, while I watched all of the other mares go through their heat cycle, I never saw Miss act any more 'in heat' than the winking. Not that I ever saw her ever act actively 'in heat' in all of this time anyway. She's pretty darned quiet about it.
All this time, I have remained in contact with the previous owners and had at least 3 in-depth conversations with them in the last month. In one of those conversations, I discussed everything that I just talked about here.
The other night, I had Miss out for her evening grain and as usual, while she ate, I went over and started feeding the boys. The mares (and Ruger) are all in a dry lot on the west side of the house. The geldings (and Flashy) are down at the barns/pens on the east side of the house. Always, when Miss is done eating her grain, she just goes over to the hay bale by the red shed and starts eating hay. When I am done with the other chores, I come back up, open the gate and she goes back in with the mares. This particular evening, I was picking a pen and heard Flashy starting to nicker...in a VERY manly voice I might add and I look up to see Miss standing beside Flashy's pen...squatting and peeing.
Oh man, I mean to tell you...My heart just sank.
Now, I know that people talk about having mares that show heat when they are in-fact bred. We sort of thought that was what Sassy was doing after her first breeding. But the most I have ever seen this mare do to show heat is lift up her tail and squeal a little and that is like, right AT ovulation. I've never seen her squat and pee before.
I was so heartsick I couldn't sleep that night. I mean...I have 2 years invested into this mare + a stud fee + semen shipping costs + the vet fees...And I am pretty darned sure that this will be the only year that Miss will be able to carry her own foal. She's getting 'fragile' and the melanomas on her tail are growing. I believe that I can keep HER comfortable for another year or two, but probably not her carrying another foal. Anything she produces in the future will more than likely have to be done by embryo transfer.
I knew she was a high risk when I bought her, so I was already thinking about these things anyway. But man...Realizing I was not going to even get a baby this time around...That hurt!!
Well, I put my sorrow out there on fb and the previous owner is sympathizing and out of the blue she CASUALLY mentions that 'Oh yea...She showed strong heat the first 2-3 months she was bred when we had her too'....
I wanted to reach through the computer screen and throttle the bitch!!!
Now...I could understand, if we had not been talking all along...if I had not specifically mentioned;
#1- Kind of thinking she was showing heat and not sure if she had settled or not
#2- Not wanting to stress the mare out to do another ultrasound
I mean...If you are a breeder...And the person you sold a horse to was expressing concerns over seeing signs of heat...Wouldn't you at LEAST mention the fact that when YOU had the mare she DID show strong...actually stronger than normal...signs of being in heat, when in fact she was CONFIRMED in foal? Especially when I am expressing concerns for the mare's well-being and opting NOT to do another ultra-sound?
So I went from being heartsick to absolutely smoking fury!!!
WHY would she not have told me that?
Are people just that goddamn stupid??
Rather than blow up at her on fb, I deleted the post. I cannot even compose a private pm to tell her how upset I was that she failed to divulge that information in any one of our previous conversations. I mean...THAT is important information to have.....especially considering the circumstances. I mean, I have gone out of my way to answer their constant inquiries about 'how are the mares doing?', 'can you send pictures?', 'Oh we miss them so much'....
I do have to say, I love my vet. Bless his heart! He called me after he read my fb post and said, 'When do we need to see her?'. I explained the situation to him and we discussed holding off at this point. I may go ahead and have an ultrasound done later this Fall, when the weather cools off. The stress shouldn't bother Miss as much then and her weight will be back up to where it should be, so maybe she won't seem so fragile. Luckily, I had already talked to the stallion owners and explained my position about not wanting to do a 60 day ultrasound to them and they were fine with that. She said she has coddled many an old mare along and understood completely my desire to avoid any undo stress and she went ahead and put Miss on the stud report.
I AM relieved to learn that expressing strong signs of heat doesn't necessarily mean that Miss is open. She could still be carrying 'Tiny' and I have my fingers crossed that she is. I just wished I had known that she has done this before. It would have saved me having a total meltdown. Ugghhh!!!
Saturday, August 15, 2015
Totally Disgusted
Posted by BrownEyed Cowgirl at 1:22 AM
3 comments:
- TeresaA said...
I'm always amazed at what people neglect to share when it seems so obvious to us. I will keep my fingers crossed that she is fact pregnant.
- August 15, 2015 at 5:24 PM
- GunDiva said...
How frustrating!
I hope that she is bred for you.
- August 15, 2015 at 9:36 PM
- cdncowgirl said...
OMG! I saw your original FB post and KNOW how upset you were. I cannot fathom how someone can be so obtuse as to not even THINK of mentioning that right away.
I'd be upset enough that they didn't tell you that as a courtesy when you bought the mare, but to know that they were so dumb as to not think of it right away when you started expressing concern...
- August 17, 2015 at 10:51 PM
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Dear reader: I wrote three Poker Zoo stories back when online poker was brand new, and no-limit hold'em had not made its way into the casinos yet.
It was noontime at the Poker Zoo and the $20-40 limit hold'em game was soon to start. The six regular players were milling about in their regular ways, sipping their regular beverages, locking up their regular seats, when The Ruling Rhino approached the table with house chips. So far, everything was normal, except for the chips. For all these years they had been red. But today, they were blue. And instead of saying $5 in the middle, they said $10.
Rhino spoke firmly: "Players, players, listen up now. Listen up. I have an important announcement to make." The players gathered slightly in and listened slightly up. "Starting today, the $20-40 game will be played with $10 chips."
Rhino clunked a square, transparent carrying case in the middle of the table. Inside it was ten full racks of poker chips, two stacks of five racks each. Everyone stared. No one had ever seen such a thing as blue chips before. Rhino's excitement was mixed with fear, for he knew, from long experience, that his customers would resist the change.
The Logical Llama was first to complain. "Whatever your reasoning is behind all this, it is surely flawed."
The Tragic Trout said to all the world, "I do not know how this will cost me, or how much, but I am certain that it will."
The Snide Snake replied, "I can tell you how. Fewer chips will go into each pot and that means more hands will be dealt per hour and that means more rake for the house."
The Dealing Dog sat.
The Nimble Newt pretended to not be listening.
"And more bad beats for me," Trout added.
The Yammering Yak began, "I think we should keep the bets at four chips and eight chips, using red chips, the same as $20-40 hold'em online, to make the game more familiar and therefore welcoming to guys like me who started out on the internet because y'know, maybe if you all were a little friendlier to new folks, maybe you'd get more players. I am quite certain that—"
"I am quite certain that you all will like the blue chips just fine," interrupted Rhino. "Especially after you see how they make the game simpler and faster."
Llama automatically recycled the words simpler and faster through his brain, and he could find no flaw. He realized that if he had to debate against the change to $10 chips, his best arguments would be based on, egad, emotional appeal.
Argument One: The Poker Zoo should continue to use $5 chips for $20-40 simply because We Have Always Done It That Way. This argument was no good, as Llama well knew, having dismantled it during The Great Smoking Debates.
Argument Two: The players want lots of poker chips in their poker pots because it's more fun that way. Excuse me? Did someone say "fun?" As a purpose behind a policy? This was wholly unacceptable in Llama's world. And besides, he thought, simpler really is better, for the players, and for the house, and so is faster.
"I am willing to give the new chips a fair trial," Llama said, magnanimously.
The Bumbling Bee was last to speak up, "But won't this make the pots twice as small?"
And with that, Rhino collected cash and distributed chips and the game was underway.
Trout bought in for $200. On the first hand, he was dealt jack-ten suited and he lost $140, leaving him with $60 at the start of the second hand, when all hell broke loose.
Llama was under-the-gun with pocket kings, both red. He opened with a raise. Yak folded. Trout was next with two black sevens. Yesterday he would have called Llama's raise with eight red chips. Today, the same call required only four blue chips. After Trout called $40, he had two blue $10 chips remaining.
Bee was next, on the button. She had 8-7 of clubs, one of her calling hands. She saw Llama and then Trout put out four chips, so she did too, thinking she was limping along with the others, when actually she had called a raise.
Snake folded his small blind. Next was Newt in the big blind, with ace-jack suited. He called and four players were in for the flop.
The flop was A-9-6, all spades. Newt's ace-jack gave him a pair of aces. Llama still had two kings. Trout had the only flush draw, with the spade seven. And Bee's 8-7 gave her an open-end straight draw.
Newt checked. Llama sighed to himself and checked. Trout splashed his last two chips into the pot and declared, "I bet twenty. And for the first time today, I'm all-in."
Bee did not see Trout's chips enter the pot, but she heard his words. And because Bee's attention span is barely longer than a pollen sac, she was again temporarily unaware that there had been a change in chip-denomination today. Intending to call Trout's $20 bet, the Bumbling Bee put out four chips, as if it were yesterday. But what she had done, today, was raise to $40.
Newt was next. One of his eyes swiveled left, looking at Llama, suspiciously, because Llama had raised before the flop and then checked when checked to. Newt's other eye was angled right, at Bee, who, even more suspiciously, had now raised the flop, smoothly, in perfect position to isolate the all-in player, as if deploying expert strategy and mechanics.
Newt figured Bee either made a monster or a mistake, and Newt was not interested in paying several more bets to find out which. Plus, he had two other opponents to deal with, and one of them was unbluffably all-in. Newt decided to wait for a better investment opportunity, and folded.
Facing a bet and a raise with pocket kings and an ace on board, Llama emphatically folded face up in a fit of unfulfilled entitlement.
And then there were two, Trout and Bee, with the betting complete and more cards to come. The Dealing Dog corralled the pot and tossed two chips back to Bee. Bee's surprise at the rebate was obvious to all, confirming Newt's conjecture, and initiating Llama's awareness, that Bee had intended to merely call Trout's bet on the flop, not raise it.
The turn card paired the ace, and the river paired the nine. The final board was: A-9-6, A, 9.
Bee turned over her 8-7. Her hand was aces and nines with an eight. Trout flipped his hand up. His pocket sevens gave him aces and nines with a seven. Not enough.
"Two pair with the eight kicker wins it," said the Dealing Dog, trying to keep a straight face, as he pushed the pot to Bee.
Newt knew he would have won this pot with aces-full if Bee had not accidentally checkraised the flop. And he knew the cause of the mishap. It was the blue chips. But he said and did his usual nothing.
Llama, however, was unaware of the strength of Newt's folded hand. In Llama's mind, what should have happened was this: Everyone checks to Trout on the flop and he bets $20 all-in. Bee calls, as intended. Newt folds. Llama calls one bet because now he's headsup on the side against Bee who readily checks it down. On the turn, Llama checks and Bee checks. On the river, Llama checks again, and Bee checks again. Llama turns over pocket kings and wins the whole pot.
Llama, like Newt, knew that the blue chips had cost him this pot. Unlike Newt, Llama could not silently endure the injustice of it all. "Rhino! Get over here!" he shouted.
Rhino arrived, ready for trouble.
"This is ridiculous," said Llama. "The blue chips are ruining the game. I don't know why you have to keep trying to improve everything. We were perfectly fine before. I'm leaving now, to go play at the Poker Barn, where the chips are the right color. Anyone else coming?"
Snake nodded along vigorously with Llama's words, and stood up. While Llama and Snake racked up, three of the other four players were looking around, for empty racks, and at each other, as if asking, "Are we really about to mutiny?"
The other player, the Bumbling Bee, was very busy. She was maneuvering her $1 tip-chips in some sort of abacus fashion, to assist calculating how much her recently expanded collection of $10 chips was worth.
The Ruling Rhino was raging within. He looked to the Dealing Dog for guidance and he was met with waiting eyes. Dog shot back a look of respectful resignation, as if to say, "This is your call to make, of course, but if it was me, I'd go get the red chips, right now."
Rhino said to the table, "Alright, alright. Have it your way. I'll bring the red chips back out. But it's really too bad that you are all too stubborn to appreciate innovative ideas."
"I got an innovative idea for you," said the Snide Snake. "Maybe you could sell the blue chips in the gift shop for eleven bucks each."
Rhino stomped off and returned with two chip-carrying cases. One full of empty racks. The other loaded with red chips. "Let's get this done," Rhino said to Dog, and Dog distributed empty racks.
"But I like the blue chips!" Bee said. "I just figured them out!"
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Phase 2 of healing diastasis recti – reinforcing the abdominal muscles and linea alba
Phase 2 – Reinforce the structures.
If you checked out phase 1 of healing abdominal separation, closing the gap – you know that narrowing the space between 2 sides of the rectus abdominis is only the first step.
Here's why –
There is a beautiful principle know as "tensegrity" – tension plus integrity to create structural strength. This absolutely needs to be paid attention to when healing abdominal separation.
The term was originally coined by Buckminster Fuller, and is well articulated by Thomas Myers in his Anatomy Trains literature.
If you place too much tension (let's say in the form of exercise) on tissue (such as ligaments, tendons and fascia) that does not have the structural integrity to withstand it, you will cause damage.
If you place the appropriate amount of tension on the structure, the tissue becomes stronger.
AND – to heal the linea alba fully and in order to last, this tension needs to be placed on the healed gap in a variety of patterns. This provides different angles of tension on fascia – which then sort of "criss cross" over the closed/narrowed gap to make it super solid.
How do you do that and how long does it take?
Phase 2 generally takes about 6-8 weeks – mainly because you can't speed up tissue repair beyond a certain point.
There are 3 key exercises that I do in my phase 2 classes – one of them is the Supine Inchworm You can find it in this video here from Dan Hellman, an amazing exercise therapist and colleague of mine. He gives some fantastic info about infant development patterns in this video.
Here's the link for the exercise:
Tips for doing this exercise for abdominal separation –
Place your fingers into the linea alba for the first round of this exercise – if you notice gapping or coning you are not ready for this phase yet – go back to phase 1.
Draw in your pelvic floor while you perform this exercise.
Start by doing 4 repetitions up the mat and 4 down, then stop and have a complete diaphragmatic breath before doing it again. This will recharge and fully release the pelvic floor, ensuring you get the best activation during the exercise.
CAUTION – do not throw the hips up into the air and use momentum to lift the legs in this exercise. This can make abdominal separation worse. Keep the hips low and the knees moving horizontally, not vertically.
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Keynote Presentation: Pacific Rim Conference, University of Alaska Anchorage
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"The World is our House" – International Colloquium of Jesuit Secondary Education – Boston, Summer 2012
'The World is our House'These words by Father Jeronimo Nadal, S.J., capture the gist of the marvellous experience of around 400 school leaders and administrators representing 300 Jesuit secondary education high schools from 60 countries, gathered for the first ever International Colloquium of Jesuit Secondary Education (ICJSE) held in Boston at the end of July.
The colloquium, which was initiated and generously organized by Boston College High School with the full support and collaboration of the International Commission on the Apostolate of Jesuit Education (ICAJE) and the Jesuit Curia in Rome, had two main goals:
The different speakers challenged us not to be content with the good work we are doing in our schools. In such a fast changing world we are constantly reminded that we need to have a deeper understanding of our Ignatian Charism and the new contexts and frontiers in which we are immersed. Fr. Jose Mesa, S.J., secretary of education for the Society of Jesus, remarked that there is a temptation to feel that we are so good that we prefer not to take the risk of changing, exploring, pioneering new programmes and learning from others. During the conference there was a constant emphasis that the identity of our schools should be mission driven.
Our mission as Jesuits is stated clearly by the last General Congregation 35: "In this global world marked by such profound changes, we now want to deepen our understanding of the call to serve faith, promote justice, and dialogue with culture and other religions in the light of the apostolic mandate to establish right relationships with God, with one another, and with creation." (G.C.# 12)
We all felt the need to use the big potential and opportunity we have through our educational apostolate of the Society – 792 primary and secondary schools and 1290 Fe y Alegria schools - to put identity and mission at the heart of all we do and to strive to globalize solidarity, cooperation and reconciliation. We were constantly challenged to go beyond academic and economic success. Our goal is to have students who can truly become "men and women for others and with others."
I was particularly struck by the concern of many speakers to make Jesuit education available to ALL, including the poor and marginalized. Fr. Alvarez, S.J., the Social Justice and Ecology secretary of the Society of Jesus, pointed out that there are 70 million children who are not in school. Another 70 million children do not finish school for a variety of reasons. "The world is not only our house. The world is everybody's house", asserted Fr. Alvarez who observed that the regions of the world that currently present the greatest obstacles to education are Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia.
Though the conference was very intensive, with many inputs and workshops on particular themes ranging from the importance of technology in our schools to what makes a Jesuit school 'Jesuit', one could notice exchanges between school leaders from rich countries and poorer ones; between leaders of very old schools and leaders of newly founded schools such as in East Africa and East Timor.
The most important part of the colloquium starts now. We all approved a document with short-term initiatives and common collaboration projects as well as middle term and long-term networking initiatives that include the restructuring of the education secretariat in Rome.
Throughout the colloquium there was a clear message from the Roman Curia secretaries and assistants that the apostolate of Jesuit education remains an important way of going to the frontiers of mission, to those places where, as Pope Benedict told the 35th General Congregation, others "do not reach or find it difficult to reach".
I hope that the second International Colloquium for Jesuit Secondary Education, to be held during 2016 or 2017, will include evaluation sessions of the different networking initiatives taken during the coming years.
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How to Improve the Retail Customer Experience Through Inventory Analytics
Although consumers enjoy the ability to shop from their phones and get items shipped to them quickly (and for free), they often want to simply drive to a store and immediately get what they need.
The advantages of a real-life location disappear, though, when retailers — especially those who use their stores as hubs for omnichannel fulfillment — lack adequate visibility and controls around their inventory data.
Ship-from-store programs that treat physical stores as warehouses to get products into online customers' hands quickly, and that also lack intelligent inventory systems, can exacerbate or trigger supply problems, ultimately frustrating customers.
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Research suggests that retailers have significant room for improvement in this area. According to ABI Research's "Transforming In-Store Inventory Management" report, traditional inventory methods in the apparel, fashion and soft goods sector result in only a 65 percent inventory accuracy rate. Shoppers may not find what they want, and the store may lose sales.
And, according to Market6 research on the grocery sector, shoppers are likely to encounter stockouts on 1 in every 12 items on their shopping lists — 1 out of 10 for promoted items — even though shoppers say that product availability is one of the top reasons for choosing where they shop.
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When it comes to retail analytics, "pretty good" just isn't good enough. Even a handful of problems can cost retailers millions of dollars in lost sales, wasted labor and customer dissatisfaction.
"Stores which have limited intelligence on the location and quantity of stock at the individual item level cannot expect to adequately serve their customers or successfully execute a competitive omnichannel retail strategy," Nick Finill, senior analyst at ABI Research, said in an ABI press release on the report.
In an anonymous case study outlined in its "Improving On-Shelf Availability in Grocery" report, Market6 points to a grocery retailer that loses $2.3 million in annual sales due to stockouts of soft drinks alone. Soft drinks represent more than 27 percent of its total sales portfolio, and nearly 70 percent of stockouts at the retailer are in the soft drink category.
"The out-of-stock problem is alarming not only because of the immediate financial impact but also for its potential to contribute to a loss of product halos," the report notes. "For example, in this case, the sales of salty snacks could be negatively impacted.
"Loss of market share at the product or store level is also a real possibility as customers gravitate to products that are in stock or stores that are carrying their favorite brands," the report continues. "In other cases, customers could try other in-stock brands that may even be priced lower. Clearly, the magnitude of the problem (and other risk factors) is large enough to begin analyzing causal effects immediately."
Stores Must Improve Inventory Accuracy
While the negative impacts of inventory issues are alarming, the technology now exists to dramatically improve inventory systems, even to approach 100 percent inventory accuracy. These solutions include artificial intelligence tools and radio frequency identification technology.
RFID tagging is particularly helpful for fashion retailers, who can expect to increase annual revenues by at least 3 percent after deploying the technology, according to the ABI Research report.
The ABI report states that a clothing store with annual sales of slightly less than $6 million can achieve a 44 percent ROI during the first year of an RFID initiative, with returns of more than 200 percent in the third year.
"The digitization of retail operations," ABI Research writes, "can increase the traditional norm of 65% inventory accuracy generally applied to brick and mortar retail to over 98% in most cases, if technology is employed in the right way."
Finill added, "In order to remain competitive with e-commerce retailers and other brick and mortar rivals, physical stores will soon be adopting IoT and AI-enabled inventory tools as the standard, rather than the exception."


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By Sreyashi Mazumdar
Wading through the crowd, sweat trickling down her brows, she finally queues behind the serpentine crowd at Huda City Centre. Her puckered face staring at the clock which is about to tick ten while the Jahangirpuri bound metro train billows at the teeming crowd thronging the station.
The doors gradually open and a huge crowd gushes out of the doors, pushing and squashing each other. The fifty year old puckered face enters the train somehow and says, "If you want to punish someone, please ask him or her to travel by Delhi Metro at the 9th hour of the day."
A similar situation pervades metro stations across the city. The Yellow, Blue and Purple Line could be termed as the busiest and the most unbearable ones in the rush hours.
Trailing on a similar line of thought, 40 year old Rakesh Kumar said,"I am physically handicapped and it becomes really difficult for me to commute all the way from Mayur Vihar to Central Secretariat. Though there are reserved seats for physically handicapped, it becomes difficult to get hold of a seat. People are just not ready to get off their seats. There should be a rule to curb the number of people boarding a train especially during the rush hours."
"Both ITO and Badarpur bound trains follow the same track. So, there is a lot of hassle and I get late. Besides, there is a lack of proper announcements owing to which I often miss my train and eventually get late for office," laments 24-year-old Priya Vashisht.
25-year-old Sukriti Kapoor while fidgeting with her bags, struggling to get inside the bloated train took a deep breath after boarding the train. She said, "Yesterday, I saw a three-year-old falling off the compartment, the infant was wailing out of pain but nobody had the intent to spare their time on him. I have testified similar issues earlier as well. I board a metro to save my penny but the kind of troubles I go through, I think I will be giving up my metro rides soon."
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In Hawaii, Maralyn and I enjoyed the tang of local salt on plums and pineapples.
This year's Mexican taste treat was adding hand crafted sea salt and fresh limes to our mangos, as well as rimming our margaritas.
Our family discovered two savory sprinkles to top sweet juicy watermelon at a weekend pot luck from a chef and a caterer.
The first is a 5 ingredient mix is from Courtney Burns of Bar Tartino in San Francisco, compliments of the Tasting Table.
I ripe watermelon, honey dew, or any melon
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Lightly toss on top of melon.
California Caterer Charlene's savory tip–Sprinkle kosher or sea salt on sweet watermelon. The addition of one simple ingredient is amazing. (I use hand-crafted Mexican sea salt).
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Last week we talked about what you can do when you feel a Chemical Brain Freeze (CBF) coming on during stressful times. One of the things I mentioned was gratitude. This is a very powerful tool for two reasons.
1. Your mind can't hold fear and gratitude together at the same time. Gratitude wins out every time.
2. With gratitude you release some great chemicals (serotonin and dopamine) that combat cortisol and it's adverse side affects.
After you have stopped and taken a couple of deep breaths its time to work on gratitude. If you can quickly recall a story about something that you are truly grateful for, something that has an impact on your life, you can get your mind to release these chemicals to counter the CBF. Here is my favorite gratitude story:
It is one of those beautiful spring days where the butterflies are testing their wings on the breeze and the grass blades are making their way up through the warm ground. My five-year- old daughter, Lindsey, and I are at the park for some exercise. She is on her girly-girl bike and I am on my roller blades. We get to the end of this long path and stop for a water break.
There is a huge oak tree with big limbs going out in every direction. One big limb goes out over this little creek, and someone has tied a rope around the limb and left it hanging. Lindsey sees the rope and asks, "Dad, can we swing across the creek?"
Of course being the prudent father I say, "No. We don't know if the rope is strong enough much less the branch. Plus if something happens, we fall into the mud and gunk in the creek." These all seemed to be good fatherly reasons that little girls understand so well.
Her response was "We never get to do anything fun!"
I'm standing here thinking, "Here we are in the park on a beautiful day riding and skating and she thinks we aren't doing anything fun!" Then it hits me "So when do you do something fun like this?"
I said, "Ok, let me try it out and see if the rope and branch will hold us." I get out of my skates and find a long stick and pulled the rope over. I gave it a good tug or two and then preceded to jump out over the creek, everything holds fast and I swing back and forth a time or two. Lindsey was squealing with delight on the bank.
I tell her, "I'm going to bend down, you put your arms around me and then wrap your legs around my waist and hold on tight. We'll go on the count of three. Ready? One, two, thhhhrrrreeeee,"
There is nothing sweeter in the world than a 5 year old giggling hysterically as you swing out over a creek. She is holding me tight around my neck. When we get done she is just grinning from ear to ear. Later that night when I put her to bed she is still talking about the swing. I leave her room and walk down the hall and I hear her calling me. I walk back into her room and ask "What's up?"
She says, "Daddy, I was still thinking about swinging over that creek with you and I can't get this smile off my face!"
This is my story that helps me do the chemical battle to rid myself of the toxins from a CBF.
You need to come up with a story you own which will allow you to go deep about being grateful and be able to do some chemical battles against the toxins. In times of stress, the story and gratitude that you conjure up should be so strong that you don't have to go through the entire story. With the story just shared, I only have to think about Lindsey's arms being around my neck and I can feel a calmness come over me within moments. It's the ability to stay in the game during difficulty and stress that allows leaders to excel and lead on to great things.
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How important is Bloglines?
I have 70 feeds in my Bloglines account. Everyday I only read those blogs.
Today, as usual, I get up and turned on my computer, but bloglines kept me out and said my password was wrong. Looking around I saw keso in MSN Messenger, so I asked him, and he said, yes, it's confirmed that B is down, and he's already written a blog about it.
I read keso's blog everyday, but now since I can't login bloglines, I can't read anyone's now, how the hell can I know what is in his blog without bloglines?
People will see how important Bloglines is after this event. Yes, we must have a "decentralized" system to make sure a server can't effect so many people, but a central database is easier to maintain than distributed db.


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The lab manual of C Programming provides twelve laboratory exercises to provide the concept of programming for beginners. In addition, students will be well familiar with report writing skills and make them prepared for the lab VIVA. These lab sheets will guide a student to prepare for programming and submission of lab reports. These exercises shall be taken as the base reference during lab activities for students of intermediate and bachelor of engineering, science & technology. students have to submit lab report of the previous lab into corresponding next lab during when instructor shall take necessary VIVA for each lab works
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It is its eclectic history which makes Vilnius the pocket rocket of capitals; it's incredibly small but packs a punch far beyond its size. True to its Pagan roots, the Lithuanians enjoy a bohemian lifestyle and a hedonistic nightlife, which gives the country a seductive point of difference compared to its Baltic brothers.
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Do you want to give your house an edge over your neighbors? Well, your search is over! Here are some easy, simple home improvement ideas.
Design a renovation with an eye to creating built-in storage. For example, a broom closet can be reborn into a small pantry, or you can add floor-level shelving to a coat closest for shoes and bags. If you are renovating to sell a home, the benefit of the added storage can be the deciding factor in a buyer's decision.
You may have occasion to repaint your porch. If so, lean on a quality exterior paint. Make sure you use the same paint type as the existing paint. An oil-based paint is better for trims and will last a long time but you should use a water-based paint for decks or floors since oil-based paint can become slippery in the winter.
Sign a contract before a contractor starts working on your home. If at all possible, have the contract reviewed by a lawyer before proceeding. There are many details that you can examine yourself in the home improvement contract including the total time anticipated to complete the project, when it will begin and finish, how long a workday the contractor puts in, warranties on work performed as well as total cost for the project.
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You can give your kitchen an old fashioned look by shopping for old tins. Flea markets and thrift shops are full of vintage coffee, tea and candy tins that make great little storage spaces for your items. Use them to hide your utensils, cookies, flour or sugar. Attach little handmade labels to the top labeling what each one contains.
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The Ice Cream Vendor – Biarritz 2
I went back to La Grande Plage more than once. I always do so when I find a spot I love to photograph to try and shoot it with different light conditions. Also trying to change the composition often helps in getting more dynamic framing. So here it is a second shot of the same ice cream vendor on the beautiful beach of Biarritz.
Location: La Grande Plage, Biarritz, France.
What to shot: The small ice cream vendor at the entrance of the beach really appealed to me, being so evocative, especially at the blue hour, when its artificial lights started to compete with the fading natural brilliance of the sky.
Ideal time to shot: Sunset and the Blue hour.
Gear: Standard zooms.
How to get there: Biarritz has both an airport and a train station. The Grande Plage lies next to the centre of the city and is easily reached by foot from the town. The nearest bus stop is "Mairie – Edouard 7" served by lines A1, 8, 10.
Coordinates: 43°29′01″ N 01°33′42″ W
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My instant reaction was "Haven't we seen him before ?"; and then I thought "something's different, though…"
And I was right on both counts – amazing !
It's a gorgeous shot, Bruno; and the biggest version shows exactly how marvellously you managed to get a kind of icing of light around him … Wonderful !
The way the vendor is isolated against the sea is very clever. Excellent comp and all round fine shot.
How wonderful! I always adore sunset scenery when the blue sky blends into the redish sunlight at the end of the day to create a dreamy and fantastic mood!