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Archive for January, 2009
People under time pressure don't work better; they Just work faster
January 27, 2009 2 comments
People under time pressure don't work better; they Just work faster. – Peopleware.
Really wise words, this applies even if you are appying it on yourself.
Categories: Inspirational Stuff
Down the memory lane – Managing your boss
January 27, 2009 1 comment
Yesterday I was searching through the archives of my blog. I read the entry (which I was searching for) and I was really happy about it.
I am posting it in verbatim again, as it might help a few of my friends.
It's pretty easy to be smart when you're parroting smart people (Borrowed from Randy Pausch's Last Lecture).
In plain english, none of these are my own thoughts 🙂
Do not get the title wrong, It is not about Apple Polishing (nicer than boot licking isn't it) or political maneuvering. Its about working with your boss to get better results for yourself, your boss and the organization. Its about doing it, so that you do not have to keep running away from compaines every 6 months cribbing your boss is bad. Its about developing a good working relationship from your superior. I just happened to read an article from Harvard Business Review "Managing your Boss". Really an eye-opener.
Key takeaways:
- Bosses, like everyone else,
- are imperfect and fallible.
- They don't have unlimited time, encyclopedic knowledge, or extrasensory perception;
- nor are they evil enemies.
- Some superiors spell out their expectations very explicitly. But most do not. Ultimately, the burden falls on the subordinate to find out what the boss's expectations are.
- At a minimum, you need to appreciate your boss's goals and pressures.Without this information, you are flying blind, and problems are inevitable.
- Understand three key aspects, knowing yourself, knowing your boss, knowing the symbiosis between you both. Knowing yourself is something which you have the most control. If you tyring to change your boss, you are most likely trying it because you are unable to change yourself. Changing your boss is next to impossible, considering that you are unable to change yourself.
Managing your boss is not the same as pleasing him in or playing an yes minister always. As Johanna Rothman and Esther Derby state in "Behind the Closed Doors, Secrets of Great Management" – Manage Your Boss, Stand Up for Your Team
Harvard Business Review – Managing your Boss
The Secret Art of Managing Your Boss, part 1
The Secret Art of Managing Your Boss, part 2
The Secret Art of Managing Your Boss, part 3
The Secret Art of Managing Your Boss, part 4
Gleaned in full from: http://sendhil.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!30862CF919BD131A!618.entry
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Happy New Year 2009
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Happy New Year 2009 to all the patrons of this blog.
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Strategic Planning - I assist in navigating my school through the best technology tools to enhance learning. Professional Development - I work predominantly with teachers, exposing them to best practices with technologies. I construct and deliver professional development courses and I work with staff throughout the year making software meaningful and relevant to their own teaching. Technology - I asses and review and implement new software and hardware to be used in the classroom.

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This address explores a broad framework for thinking sociologically about emancipatory alternatives to dominant institutions and social structures, especially capitalism. The framework is grounded in two foundational propositions: (1) Many forms of human suffering and many deficits in human flourishing are the result of existing institutions and social structures. (2) Transforming existing institutions and social structures in the right way has the potential to substantially reduce human suffering and expand the possibilities for human flourishing.
Effectively teaching sociological theories to undergraduate students is challenging. Students often enroll in theory courses due to major requirements, not personal interest. Consequently, many students approach the study of theory with anxiety. This study examined the effectiveness of an experiential learning activity designed to teach Karl Marx's theory of alienation. Based on pretest/posttest surveys, responses to open-ended questions, and observational data, students reported that the activity helped them gain a clearer understanding of Marx.
My impression of Marx's understanding of theory and praxis is that the transition from capitalism to socialism is contingent on the historical circumstances at any given point in time. The logic of capital creates certain preconditions that set the stage for the transition, but the transition is by no means guaranteed to unfold, or unfold in a clearly predictable manner. One of the preconditions is the concentration of capital into the hands of few and the general tendency toward increasing relative poverty of workers.
The International Sociological Association has developed the "Global Map of Sociologists for Social Inclusion" (GMSSI) to create a global database of sociologists. GMSSI aims to identify, connect, and enable global collaborations in sociology, and support sociologists who encounter multiple barriers, economic and political, which impede participation in global exchanges.
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Craven District Council want to hear your views about how they spend Your money. As FOAP we have made a Committee response, which we have shared with you below.
But we would encourage you all to fill in the questionnaire as individual residents too and have your say, and if you feel that Aireville Park is important as we do, please let them know, and feel free to use our response for any inspiration.
The survey takes less than 15 mins to complete and the deadline for responses is midnight Sunday 14th October 2018 and is available to view here
As the Friends of Aireville Park (FOAP) we appreciate that the council faces continued cuts and financial pressures but we would like to clearly state that FOAP are a small group of volunteers who juggle this role alongside family commitments and other paid employment and would not take on the responsibility of landowner or service provider for Aireville Park. Frankly, we do not have the relevant resources, experience or skills to replace the number of Craven District Council Officers and departments that currently cover Aireville Park.
We can continue to support the Council and fund raise toward the capital costs of improving Aireville Park and would like to see a continued commitment and financial forecasting from the Council within this budget to cover the ongoing revenue and maintenance costs of both existing and any new assets. Including the new play area, that was identified by, and delivered as part of the agreed Aireville Park master plan.
As we have highlighted with previous consultation responses to the Draft Local Plan and previous budgets, Craven District Council now have an agreed Master Plan for the park, developed after widespread stakeholder consultation. With increased development proposed, and here prioritised, for the District we want to ensure that as well as improvements to the park for local people there are sufficient resources for these to be managed in a sustainable way so that any increased pressures in the future from a growing population does not have a negative impact on the park. Aireville Park is a key community asset for the people of Skipton and the surrounding area and also provides an amenity for visitors and tourists from further afield. The new play area will greatly enhance this offer and attract even more visitors. It is an important green space, free and accessible to all, that provides an important health and well-being function for our community.
We hope you will take these comments in to consideration as part of the budget consultation


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So the built in Event Log monitor while it works well wasn't able to return what our users required. They asked for us to be able to return the actual message in the alert. This is a very rough draft at my attempt to do this in powershell and I am still testing for possible flaws but I wanted to throw it out there if anyone has any suggestions.
APM seems to reject when I output more than one line so I couldn't separate using the built in `r`n method by powershell I instead used a method supported by our notification system \\n. Unfortunately it shows up as 1 line in SW but I haven't found a way around this yet.
Feel free to criticize or comment on the coding as this is only my second attempt writing a powershell script so I am still learning many of the concepts and I am very receptive to feedback.
This method allows me to return the number of entries found along with the actual output of the message in the alert emails that we send out so our users can see at a glance exactly what is in the event log entries. The replace functions were required because the output of the powershell get-eventlog included a Message: which SW keys off of so I had to replace it with something else.
# This script will search a Windows Event Log for a particular message.
# It is designed to return the number of Events found along with the actual description messages of the events.
# If a wildcard match is required issue a .* for the argument
# Arguments example: application,Office Software Protection Platform Service, 1003, Information, .*, 1640
# Argument 1 is the event log name (ex. application, security) CANNOT BE A .* MUST SPECIFIY LOG FILE NAME
# Argument 2 is the event log source (ex MSSQLServer, Outlook, Desktop Window Manager) If source contains multiple words no wrappers # # are needed
# Argument 3 is the eventID tied to the windows event
# Arg 4 is the Entry Type (error, Informational)
# Arg 5 is the message text (looks for a specific string of text)
# Arg 6 is the interval in minutes that the monitor should look at. THis should match or be greater than the APM polling interval. THis monitor will only alert on events found in that interval.
$evt_log = $args.get(0);
$Source = $args.get(1);
$EventID = $args.get(2);
$Entry = $args.get(3);
$MessageTxt = $args.get(4)
$Interval = $args.get(5);
$SW_StatOutput = @(Get-EventLog $evt_log -After (Get-Date).addMinutes(-$Interval) |where {$_.source -match $Source}| where {$_.message -match $MessageTxt} | where {$_.entryType -match $Entry} |where {$_.eventID -match $eventID}).count
if ($SW_StatOutput -eq 0)
Write-Host Statistic: $SW_StatOutput
Write-Host Message: No errors found during last $Interval minutes. Monitor Reset.
$SW_MessageOutput = Get-EventLog $evt_log -After (Get-Date).addMinutes(-$Interval) |where {$_.source -match $Source}| where {$_.message -match $MessageTxt} | where {$_.entryType -match $Entry} |where {$_.eventID -match $eventID}|FL TimeGenerated, Source,EntryType,Message |out-string -stream -Width 1000
$SW_MessageOutput = $SW_MessageOutput -replace "Message :","\\n EventLogEntry: "
$SW_MessageOutput = $SW_MessageOutput -replace "TimeGenerated :","\\n TimeStamp:"
$SW_MessageOutput = $SW_MessageOutput -replace "Source :","\\n Source:"
$SW_MessageOutput = $SW_MessageOutput -replace "EntryType :","\\n EntryType:"
Write-Host Statistic: $SW_StatOutput
Write-host Message: $SW_MessageOutput
Thanks for sharing, Mike!
Nice approach.
There is some code posted at http://www.biterscripting.com/helppages/SS_WebLogParser.html to process event and other logs.
The SAM development team is also working on some improvements to the Windows Event Log Monitor. SAM 5.2 is currently in beta. I'd recommend signing-up here to try out the new features.
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This is the first time that I've actually streamed through the whole awards ceremony, from the red carpet to the encore and I must admit that it was a deathly experience. Not only was I killed by my biases' interaction but also because of the hot drama actors present there. I was so happy to be able to do this and I would probably do this again next year if given a chance.
So, My babies won!! and I'm so happy~~
BigBang snagged :
- Artist of the Year
- Best Male Group
- Best Male Artist (GD)
- Guardian Angel Worldwide Performer
Suju Snagged :
- Album of the Year
- Best Line Award (idk what is this tbh)
- Best Global Group
All in all, I'm happy with whatever results they get! I'm a proud ELF and VIP! I was kinda hoping DBSK would win too but well there's always next year. I'm actually happier not because both of them won but because my biases are just a seat apart during the opening.
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You can see Donghae there and G Dragon just a YESUNG apart and I literally want to tell Yesung to change seats with Hae so I can die happily ;~~;. The performances were awesome and GD's hair was RED by the time he accepted the award for Best Male and that is one quick drying hair dye, BigBang stage was HELLA GREAT and the effects and the awesomeness and the sessy and everything is just to difficult to describe. Suju's on the other hand was crazy beautiful, they did Mr. Simple with the lights just appearing and it was all dark and like it was soooooo cool. Everything about it was great and I was spazzing the whole time with my twitter friends and we were dying and exploding at the same time. It felt like we watched a concert with VIP tickets, it was that cool.
Anyway, If you want the full list of winners you can go check out THIS SITE (This is the official site for MAMA) If you haven't seen the stages then I suggest you go watch it and do look out for some clips too!! ^^


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Mathias Stevenson Monash University
My interest in this research topic stems from my dual passion for Italian language/culture and Jamaican popular music. I have been collecting and studying Jamaican music for a little over twenty years but only discovered that Italian reggae existed during my first study trip to Italy in 2001. After seeing a poster at Florence's Campo di Marte station, I set off on a solo mission to attend the internationally recognised, but now exiled, Rototom Reggae Sunsplash in Osoppo. At this festival I was introduced to Italian reggae for the first time, through the performances of Salento's Sud Sound System and Turin's Africa Unite. Upon returning to Australia I managed to stumble upon a second-hand CD of Sud Sound System, and when I returned to Italy in 2004 to undertake my Masters fieldwork on the cinema of Nanni Moretti (with generous financial assistance from the Cassamarca Foundation), I attended a number of reggae events at Rome's centri sociali (Villaggio Globale and Intifada). I finally decided to transform my interest into a research project at the towards the end of 2010 as I became increasingly disenchanted with teaching Italian to year 7, 8 and 9 high school students. Bob Marley's legendary concert at San Siro stadium in 1980, immortalized by Antonello Venditti's song "Piero e Cinzia", was one of the first concerts by a foreign artist after a ban lasting some years. Attended by close to 100,000 young spectators, this concert helped to launch reggae as a significant form of protest and creative expression within a new era of antagonistic and autonomous Italian youth culture. Along with the increasing availability and influence of Bob Marley's brand of international reggae, and various other releases from the Island and the Virgin record labels, a number of young Italians had begun to have first-hand experience of the militant reggae subculture of London's Jamaican and Afro-Caribbean immigrants. Furthermore, there was a growing awareness of the connection between reggae and punk that had established itself in the British capital. The emergence of Italian reggae culture coincided with the fracture of the collective youth movements of the 1970s, as a consequence of government repression and the widespread disillusionment and political disengagement of the so-called riflusso. This fracturing of social solidarities was accompanied by a heroin epidemic and the increasing exaltation of the individual, which was reinforced by Silvio Berlusconi's brand of commercial television.
Although the 'official' historical narrative of the of the 1980s has been one of collective apathy and narcissism, the recontextualisation of foreign musical forms, such as reggae and punk, within Italy's pre-existing political subculture demonstrated a rebirth of the autonomous personal and collective political practices of the 1970s. These counterhegemonic musical forms flourished within a new wave of centri sociali sociali organizzati autogestiti (CSOAs) throughout Italy, and were accompanied by the creation of alternative and independent forms of media, such as fanzines and radio programs on the radio libere. A particularly seminal reggae scene of the early to mid-1980s was that of Bari, associated with the pioneering dub/roots band Different Stylee, which was involved in the occupation of the reggae-punk CSOA la Giungla, as well as the creation of the Italy's first reggae fanzine, "Rebel Soul". At this time, a number of local reggae scenes and bands began to spring up from throughout the Italian peninsula, collaborating with one another for the first time and signalling the emergence of 'translocal' Italian reggae scenes. However, what distinguished Different Stylee from the rest was the fact that they went beyond the commercially recognized figure of Bob Marley to adapt the heaviest and most marginal aspects of reggae, such as dub and sound system culture, as well as some of its Rastafarian metaphors and lifestyle practices. Moreover, this context witnessed the first phase of reggae's transculturation in Italy, with the incorporation of southern Italian and Mediterranean musical influences alongside the use of the Italian language.
Bari was also to play a central role in the spread of reggae culture to the neighbouring sub-region of Salento, which, in turn, became known as Italy's Jamaica. Piero Longo (aka Militant P) was the lead vocalist of Bari's highly accomplished roots/dub band Struggle and lived in Bari with his Salentine parents. Militant P would spend the summers with his friends in the Salentine coastal town of San Foca, and he influenced them with his passion for Jamaican sounds. Together they formed one of Italy's first raggamuffin crews: Sud Sound System. The music of SSS marked a key phase in the transculturation of reggae music in Italy, blending local language (il salentino) and local music (la pizzica) with Jamaican reggae, raggamuffin, and sound system culture, along with American hip hop. Such creative cultural syncretism even led to the neologism tarantamuffin by the French ethnomusicologist George Lapassade. SSS used music didactically, or as a form of edutainment, to increase cultural consciousness amongst marginalised Salentine youth, and to critique organized crime, heroin addiction and political corruption.
The activity of SSS coincided with the 'national-popular' explosion of reggae/raggamuffin and hip hop during the so-called 'posse movement' between 1989 and 1996, and its association with and underground and independent network of CSOAs, free radios and independent record labels. The movement was characterized by an overt youth politics, gaining impetus through its affiliation with the student movement la Pantera between 1989 and 1990. Taking its cue from pioneers, such as Sud Sound System and Florence's il Generale, the message-driven music created during this period adopted Italian and a range of local dialects, freely blending a confrontational punk sensibility with Jamaican raggamuffin and Afro-American hip hop. In spite of its cultural and technological innovation, the confrontational, collective, and ideologically-laden music of the posse era can be understood as a nostalgic return to the collective youth politics of the 1970s, and its ideological conceptualization of cultural production and reception. While these black music forms were disseminated in Britain and France through immigrant cultures, their emergence in Italy was intrinsically tied to long-standing and internal cultural, political, economic, and generational power imbalances.
Situating my research within the field of Italian cultural studies, my theoretical framework is based around the notion of the connective marginalities of Italian reggae culture, understood as a means of explaining how the subaltern and peripheral origins of reggae (and hip hop) connect with marginalized groups in a manner that cuts through linguistic, cultural and geographical borders. My notion of 'marginality' is multilayered, comprising political, social, economic, geographical, gender, linguistic, cultural, class, historical oppression, and generational factors. The rhizomatic recontextualisation and transculturation of global/foreign cultural signs, idioms and practices, and the manner in which this engages with a 'dialectic of the glocal' and the evolution of differentiated and cross-pollinated cultural forms, languages and identities, is also central. The thesis further seeks to frame this popular yet marginal cultural form as a counterhegemonic force able to redefine our understanding of Italian culture and identity and subvert and reposition the historical imbalances surrounding the so-called 'Southern Question'.
Apart from some books and articles on the 'posse era' and the recent appearance of some books and a documentary on the evolution of Apulian reggae, there are limited resources directly related to my topic. (Some useful references can be found here). Consequently, I am largely drawing on interviews that I conducted with some key protagonists of Italian reggae culture during my visit to Italy last year. My thesis has a chronological structure, so interviews have also been crucial in piecing together a history which has remained largely untold, both in Italy and abroad.


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From Vatican Radio's front page story:
Monday, March 5, 2018
From Vatican Radio's front page story:
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Bee here:
The good Cardinal said, "Before saying that something is heresy, the question should be what the other person means by what has been said. "
Wasn't this done by several cardinals asking for "clarification" in a letter to His Holiness, which was responded to with the sound of crickets?
The Cardinal also said, "Sin is a complex term."
This very much reminds me of one of our past Presidents of the United States, one William Jefferson Clinton, saying his answer to a very probing question about a sexual scandal he was involved in depended on what the meaning of "is" is. Parsing of words usually means someone is evading the truth.
The Cardinal also said, "And this needs to be examined in the internal forum—in the Sacrament of Reconciliation—if there is truly a grave sin, or perhaps a venial sin, or perhaps nothing. If it is only a venial sin, the person can be absolved and admitted to the Sacrament of the Eucharist."
Yet, isn't the Sacrament of Reconciliation the a teaching moment for the poorly catechized (or the reprobate) that to have married once, divorced and remarried without an annulment is possibly a very grave sin, and they must cease and desist immediately from participation in the Eucharist until the matter can be formally resolved, lest they commit sacrilege and face damnation? It seems once someone in this situation has conferred with a priest, it should be very clear to their conscience that what they are doing is possibly a very grave sin. So perhaps before confession they have not committed a grave sin due to ignorance, but after confession, if the priest has done his job informing their conscience, how could the sin of receiving Holy Communion in their state not be a grave sin?
I hope in future interviews the good Cardinal can answer some of these questions I, as a lay person, do not understand about Amoris laetitia.
God bless.
- March 5, 2018 at 9:35 AM
"Today we are living a violent time which has never before been experienced."
The Cardinal must be living in a cozy ivory tower if he thinks that. The entire history of human civilisation contradicts him, that is to say, not much has changed. Just check out the Old Testament, indeed, why humanity needed salvation in the first place. He is typical of a neo-Modernist, who thinks the world has changed so much that it is now the one which has the Truth. The typical Modernist tactic is to open the door just slightly, which sets the principle that eventually allows for the door to open wide later. Just look at the liturgical reforms.
The Cardinal is also invoking the sensus fidelium here, precisely in the way that Benedict XVI warned against, that is, not as sensus fidei, but as sensus laicorum, a heresy.
Nevertheless, there is a problem, the problem that in some cases an annulment cannot be granted for technical reasons, that is to say, there was never a real marriage in the first place, but that this cannot be "proved". That is what needs to be fixed, not trying to allow divorce and remarriage in the True Church as the Cardinal and his Germanic buddies are trying to do.
- March 5, 2018 at 11:04 AM


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David OConnor Takes Eventing Lead On First Day at Fair Hill International
OConnor took the lead in Thursdays opening round when he received a score of 37.01 penalties on his Gold Medal mount, Custom Made, a 17-year-old Thoroughbred owned by Xandarius LLC. OConnor has announced that this years Fair Hill International is Custom Mades final competition and OConnor is hoping that he can repeat the dramatic farewell appearance of one of his earlier successful mounts, Wilton Fair, whom OConnor rode to the Fair Hill Championship in the horses final appearance in 1993.
It would be great to have the same thing happen with Custom Made, but weve got a lot to do before that happens, said OConnor who won last years USET Fall Championship at Fair Hill on The Native. We gave it a lot of thought before deciding to compete him here, but we thought it would be a real nice way to end his three-day career.
Standing second is Vicki Baker of Rougemont, NC who scored 41.40 on Reggae Mon, a 14-year-old Thoroughbred owned by the Baker Family. Baker rode third in the morning and took an early lead in the competition.
I was so excited after my score was announced, Baker said. My horse wasnt real happy when I got on him at 7:30 this morning, but he has a great work ethic and he sure did everything I could have asked of him.
OConnors student, William S. Coleman III of Gordonsville, VA, is third after receiving a score of 41.80 penalties on Second Hope, a 10-year-old Thoroughbred cross owned by Tivoli Farm. William is just an incredible rider, OConnor said of Coleman who won the individual Gold Medal at the 2001 North American Young Riders Championships. Its no surprise to see him do this well.
The eventing championship continues with the second half of the dressage phase on Friday, followed by the cross country phase on Saturday and the concluding stadium jumping phase on Sunday.
This years Fair Hill International has 78 eventing entries, with riders representing Australia, Belgium, Canada, Pakistan, The Netherlands, and the United States.
Fair Hills driving competition begins Friday with the dressage phase. The driving competitions are highlighted by the USA National Single Horse Championship and the final legs of both the FEI North American Driving Challenge and the Triple Crown of Combined Driving, presented by Driving Essentials/Glinkowski Carriages. Driving competition will continue with the cones competition on Saturday and will then culminate the marathon on Sunday.
Country Shops, fine and casual dining, dog agility competition and entertainment add to the fun, making the Fair Hill International a family-friendly fall outing with something for everyone.
Special thanks go to the Fair Hill International sponsors - American Home & Hardware, Artesian Water Company, Bit of Britain, Cosequin / Nutramax Labs, County Banking & Trust Company, Dansko, First Union National Bank, General Mills, Inc., Glenmede Trust, Intervet, Nowpac, Inc., Scudder Financial Services, Sentman Distributors, Southern States / Agway, The National Bank of Rising Sun, Thornhill Enterprises, Thoroughbred Charities of America, Ltd.
Rain or shine, gates are open from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Thursday through Sunday. Tickets are $10 a day on Thursday and Friday and $12 a day on Saturday and Sunday, or $35 for all four days. Children under 12 are admitted free.
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So without further ado, here's my list...
Number two is the quilt i'm making for my oldest little guy. I'm attempting to make a quilt for my guys every year for their birthday and both of them were born in February. So first up is Sammy, who's bday is on the fourth. Yikes! I haven't even started this one! I mean i've had the fabrics pulled for about a year now and foolishly thought that there would be plenty of time in January to get it done. I'm going semi improv on this one. Sam has requested some stars in it though so i'll put a smattering of them here and there. I also will be making a couple of other blocks i love. The fabrics pulled with the patterns above are for two fantastic patterns (also free!) from Julie of 627handworks, Global Concepts and Zeppelin. I've also cut fabrics for a castle block using Amy of Badskirt's supersized castles tutorial.
Y-seams people! I'm going to attempt y-seams! Wish me luck :)
This was also to be a Christmas gift, one for a fantastic friend. Unfortunately it didn't get done in time (story of my life here folks!). So i need to finish it up and get it mailed off. I can't really say more about it, but i hope she loves it!
this one not to be finished! I just have to buy something for the backing (i'm thinking the Carolyn Friedlander widescreens... maybe in yarrow? I'm going to pop into my LQS this week and see if it matches the mustardy colour in the 2wenty Thr3e line. If not i'll probably just go with the grey croasshatch... maybe. Then quilt and bind!
little stack? I think i've found that PP pattern i want to use, just need to give it a test run to see if i like the results with these fabrics, but i think it's going to work! Finally! I've been waiting to cut into this forever (and i also keep pulling fabrics from it to use for other projects so if i want any of this to last i need to get on it!)
These are the left over HST's from this quilt, i was thinking about making a cushion or two to put in the shop but i'm thinking instead of using them for more nesting bowls. I've been wanting to try using Nova's pattern for more "fancy" bowls. This could be a great place to start!
last time i posted about it.
Jen Kingwell's Gypsy Wife pattern. I. Love. This. Quilt! And i will someday make it. But $25 plus another almost $10 to ship, just not in my budget with two little boys birthdays coming up. Someday :(
So then i came across AMH Flight Map pattern. Love! And we know that the fabrics will work for it! I'm hoping to post some more about it soon!
And that should keep me busy!
Once again people, overly ambitious or just delusional? You be the judge!
Linking up over at The Littlest Thistle for the first quarter! There's still time to get your link on, might be the motivation you need to get something done!
High fives for a new year, hopefully one that sees me finishing some projects!
xo snips
And did you really think i was going to leave with no pics of my little guys?!


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3.11 We will endeavour not to have data breaches. In the event of a data breach, we will
endeavour to rectify the breach by getting any lost or shared data back. We will evaluate
our processes and understand how to avoid it happening again. Serious data breaches which
may risk someone's personal rights or freedoms will be reported to the Information
Commissioner's Office within 72 hours, and to the individual concerned.
3.12 To uphold this policy, we will maintain a set of data protection procedures for our
committee and volunteers to follow.
This policy will be reviewed every two years
Agreed by the ISKO UK Executive Committee on: 11th June 2018
ISKO UK Chair: David Haynes
ISKO UK Secretary: Sylvie Davies
(adapted from 'Data Protection for Community Groups' published by Brighton & Hove Community Works, May 2018
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Pakistan Army and Air Force (PAF) on Saturday tested their joint conventional fire power capability in Central Command exercise at Jhelum firing ranges.
In a statement issued by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), Commander Central Command Lieutenant General Azhar Saleh Abbasi briefed the audience about aims, objectives and conduct of exercise.
The exercise marked culmination of a process aimed at integrating all available fire power assets/sensors held with both Pakistan Army and Pakistan Air Force through an optimized near real time Sensor – Shooter Grid in a Network Assisted Environment.
Various concepts related to integration of firepower assets like PAF, Artillery, Air Defense, SSG, Army Aviation, Infantry and Armor in support of offensive and defensive maneuvers in a conventional war were practiced, perfected and validated during the exercise.
Chief of General Staff (CGS) Lieutenant General Bilal Akbar witnessed the concluding event as chief guest.
A large number of senior Army and Air Force officers witnessed the fire power display.
The CGS applauded efforts of all ranks in making the exercise professionally rewarding and reiterated requirement for continuous efforts to hone professional skills in defense of motherland.
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Thursday, 11 June 2009
Recipe Round-Up: Eat, Drink and Be Vegan
So yes, Eat, Drink and Be Vegan is a new addition to my cookbook collection. I have not made that much out of it yet. But so far what I have made, I have been pretty darn happy with! I love that Dreena gives lots of suggestions for things that go together, because you all know menu plans (mine or other peoples) fill me with glee! So, let us take a peek and what has been cooked up, shall we?
This was the first thing I ever made. It is Garlicky Broccoli, Corn and Bean Burritos, topped off with some Smoky Avocado Sauce and a big green side salad for scurvy-fighting properties. The Smoky Avocado Sauce is delicious, and really pulls the whole thing togehter. I loved the beans for the burritos - you make your own pureed beans and it includes balsamic vinegar. It certainly makes for a scrumptious taste sensation!
Pictured here is Cumin Lime Tofu with Autumn Puree and a green salad topped with Polenta Croutons. The flavour of the tofu was awesome. Unfortunately, mon pere had purchased the wrong type of tofu (silken firm rather than real firm), which just refused to soak up as much marinade and it should have. It was still pretty tasty though! I found I was all out of pepitas, so I crushed up some sunflower seeds instead. The Autumn Puree was great, especially smothered in left over marinade. It is quite sweet and I think would also make a nifty quick pie filling. But that might just be me. The left over marinade also made a fabulous dressing for the greens. But I must now just take a moment to talk about the star of this dish.
Behold. The golden perfection. What happens when 5 ingredients, a bit of time and almost no effort combine. Polenta Croutons. Make them. Eat them. On their own. Holy cow, in case you cannot tell, I am in love with these things. They are seriously NOM and it is a miracle there were any left to go on the salad, I spent all afternoon just snacking on them!
This little number is Savory French Lentils with Roasted Winter Squash Rings, Lemon Broiled Green Beans and brown rice. So, the squash rings were more squash half moons because I could only find halved butternuts. The beans are super quick and easy to make. And the lentils require almost no effort and are really tasty. No wonder it is a mainstay in the Burton household, if we are to believe the blurb.
And finally the Bean and Corn Tortilla Lasagna with Avocado, served with a salad with Cumin-Cinnamon Vinaigrette. I used cheddar Cheezly to top this dish, but I have heard about the nacho flavour and I suspect it would go very nicely with it too. I did have a brief urge to splot some 'sour cream' on it, but in the end didn't. The salad dressing is amazing though! I put the extra in a jar and every lunch time I give it a shake and pour it over more salad. It is certainly inspiring me to eat lots and lots of my greens!
So, there is the current line up of dinners provided for me. They have all been fabulous. I will definitely be looking to get my hands on her other books if they are anywhere near as good as this one!
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Ooo yum! I borrowed that from the library and copied down one or 2 recipes to try but I haven't done so yet. You've definitely inspired me to give them a go!ReplyDelete
Have you ever tried The Book Depository UK for books? You have to wait for them to ship but they're wonderfully cheap compared to what they charge for them here and shipping is free :) I get all my books from there (it's just hard to wait till they get here ;))
Funny you should ask! I read about you getting Vegan Brunch from there in your blog post, and just yesterday I ordered it off there as well. I am hoping it shall be along shortly. ;)ReplyDelete
When I have recovered from my financial bridesmaiding duties (I am a bridesmaid again on the 4th of July!), I intent to buy some more books from there.
It is a very dangerous website. ;)
how awesome is that cumin lime tofu?? i love it. I have even fed it to my omni friends and they liked it too!!ReplyDelete
it's a great book. thanks for reminding me i need to make more out of it!
Cor blimey - that all looks so DELICIOUS! I'm definitely loving the Smokey Avocado Sauce! YUM!ReplyDelete
Susan - I am so so gutted we missed eachother at the vegan fayre - my messages are floating round the ether somewhere!! If Oz is anything like Spain you'll probably get them by Christmas!!
That brand of white Chocolate Chips and Butterscotch Chocolate Chips is made by Oppenheimer. They are pale yellow packets with a picture of a bear wearing a chefs hat and little red thought bubbles coming out of his head with Chocolate Chips in the thought bubbles.
Hahahaha - a bit like you hahahahaha.
It's all written in Arabic so look for a yellow bag unless of course you speak Arabic??
I don't suppose you could provide the details of this smoky avocado sauce - I have avocados to use up and it sounds both intriguing and tasty!ReplyDelete


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You want to become agile and start raising money? Then don't miss the fundraising workshops we are organizing together with Digital Wallonia and Creative Wallonia Engine throughout the Walloon region in the next few months!
It is estimated that there are up to 350 digital startups in Wallonia. Many initiatives are taken to support the existing companies, and to enhance the emergence of new ones.
In December 2015, the "Digital Strategy for Wallonia" was adopted by the Walloon government with a clear vision to make Wallonia a true digital hub. Over 500 million euros were allocated to be spent in a four-year period on actions for the region's digital transformation.
Any transformation, besides a plan and all other factors, requires knowledge and commitment.
In 2017, Digital Wallonia collaborates with Startups.be to address one of the key aspects of startups' growth, that is fundraising. For many, raising capital is a difficult task, and it needs a clear strategy.
Thibaut Claes, innovation manager at Startups.be, is convinced that "for the first stage(s) of funding, Walloon startups can be financed by governmental funds as Leansquare or WING, but when they are looking for more (€500+), they need to address business angels or Venture Capital. At that stage startups often experience a 'cultural' change, because what is expected from the startups turns to be much higher than what they initially were ready for."
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Have a look at what suits you best and pick your spot!
On March 6th: # 1 Workshop «Fundraising Basics» & «Startup Valuation» in Mons
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All workshops are part of investor readiness workshops, Startups.be and its partners are running in Brussels, Flanders and Wallonia. If you want to know how our first "fundraising basics" workshop in Brussels went, check out our video blog!


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When escaping a violent partner women are often forced to flee their homes with their children or seek support to remain safely in their home. The housing sector has a critical role to play in keeping them safe, but agencies can sometimes lack the skills, knowledge, or procedures to tackle domestic abuse with confidence.
The Domestic Abuse Housing Alliance (DAHA) is a partnership between Standing Together Against Domestic Violence, Peabody, and Gentoo Group. It's mission is to improve the housing sector's response to domestic abuse through the introduction and adoption of an established set of standards and an accreditation process.
We work to improve the housing sector's response to domestic violence by:
- Setting an accreditation standard for housing providers.
- Gathering best practice from across the sector.
- Developing service assessment tools.
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The right response can save lives
The housing sector is ideally placed to identify, recognise, and prevent domestic abuse in their properties.
Small changes in practice and procedure could result in a life-saving intervention. On average, two women a week are killed by a current or former partner in the UK.
Responding effectively to domestic abuse makes communities safer and reduces the fear of crime in your neighbourhoods.
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The National Domestic Abuse Service Standards produced by DAHA enable housing providers to examine service delivery and practice, identifying gaps and areas for improvement.
The Standards cover the following priority areas:
- Policy and procedures.
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The hungry army of 1.2 million ramen eating realtors should march on the NAR offices in Chicago and demand an end to Lawrence Yun's happy talk and spin, the NAR's non-stop "we've hit bottom" and "prices aren't falling" spew of lies and deception.
Because this line of BS is actually hurting the 6%'ers, a HELL OF A LOT more than helping. Besides destroying their dwindling base of dues-payers' credibility (what very little of that there's left), the monkeys at the NAR are also confusing would-be sellers into not pricing their debt-traps at saleable prices, and transactions (that aren't REO's) dry up.
No transactions = no commissions = no NAR dues = more ramen
As we've said for years, the NAR should be out there saying "prices are plummeting and will fall even more. If you're a seller, lower your price, lower it big-time, and get out. If you're a buyer, get even more aggressive with your low-ball offers"
Instead, the NAR happy-talk is just freezing the market, as sellers point to the NAR spin as a reason to NOT lower prices, and buyers don't buy, because prices are still way to high.
Meanwhile, the realtors don't eat. And they're getting pissed.
Here's the latest, thanks to the NJ Real Estate Report, who's still kicking HP's ass in that REIC contest btw...
Real estate agents debate local statistics
The latest positive numbers for home sales and prices have divided real estate agents, ordinarily a group uniformly upbeat about the housing market.
Some doubt the numbers, even though they're from their own association, and say it's making it tougher to get home sellers to reduce their prices to more realistic levels.
In particular, Dawe said the figures from the National Association of Realtors, and other information gathered from state and local Realtor groups, seemed to disagree with what the Multiple Listing Service showed.
"As we talk to our sellers about the declining market we are actually facing and the fact that they have to be aggressive in pricing their homes if they expect to find a buyer, the statistics in your article are baffling and impact our credibility with customers," Dawe said.
To Eileen Raynes, an agent with Rosenthal Realty in Margate, the higher sales and price figures were a very welcome break from media coverage she described as "standing on a corner screaming 'Get your dead fish.'"
Bruce E. Breunig Jr., broker at Century 21 Alliance in Margate, admitted that "we Realtors remain part of the problem. We blame the media for fueling the downturn and try to counterbalance it with our own positive spin."
May 26, 2008
And then the realtors, after two years of not eating, finally turned on their lying and deceptive National Association of REALTORS masters
Posted by blogger at 5/26/2008
Labels: it's the p/e stupid, realtors are not very bright, reic corruption, the nar is run by monkeys
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Are the absurd gas prices a deterrent to knife-catchers who need to drive a lot in order to visit all open houses? Are gas prices a factor that could postpone house hunting even further? After all, that used to be America's hobby, but with these high gas prices...
Discuss amongst yourselves...I feel a little preeclamptic.
- May 26, 2008 7:18 AM
Well, once again, NASA just landed successfully the Phoenix Mars Lander probe. Hey Europeans, do you want us to look around to see if we can find your POS Beagle 2 probe you guys lost before even getting close to Mars? bwahahahaha Meanwhile, the almighty China is supplying our 7-11s with keychains and plastic lighters.
- May 26, 2008 7:28 AM
Why is it that millions of Americans stuff their faces with hot dogs and beer on the holiday, but they can't go to Costco to buy a damn bag of rice for $6 to send to Myanmar?
To see those thousands of kids waiting for some food on the side of the road, it's just heartbreaking:
Get your fat arse to Costco this week to buy those huge bags of rice for $6 ea, especially you, elitist freaks from the cult of the Messiah.
- May 26, 2008 7:53 AM
Loudoun County Virginia Realtors® takes a rather optimistic view of the current market conditions.
The article is titled Loudoun County Real Estate Market Showing Continued Signs Of Strengthening
And when they explain HOW it is strengthening, it is the REDUCTION OF SHORT SELLS:
3) The percentage of total listings that are foreclosure/bank-owned and short-sale properties has stabilized.
WOW! Compelling reason to buy NOW! Can't wait until prices fall further, more people walk away, and there are even more short sales. Buy NOW! BUY! BUY! BUY!
- May 26, 2008 7:55 AM
Ladies & gentlemen, welcome to Peak Oil. They said that Mexico was the first to go, and we told you to get a bunker. Enjoy a Mad Max experience coming near you. Meanwhile, Democrats are crying to oil executives to fake they care or know how to solve this energy crisis. What's Obama plan? None, of course. Oh I get it, we all should chant with him "change" and "si se puede", that's the plan. Got it; I feel much better now.
Bloomberg -- Mexico's crude oil production fell 13 percent to 2.767 million barrels a day in April, Mexico City-based Pemex, as the company is known, said on its Web site. Output a year earlier was 3.182 million barrels a day. The decline was the largest since October 1995, when output fell 29 percent.
Output at Cantarell, Pemex's biggest field, fell 33 percent to 1.07 million barrels a day, according to the Energy Ministry. That was the lowest output since March 1996 at the field, which peaked at 2.192 million barrels a day in December 2003 and once accounted for about 60 percent of the company's output.
Exports fell 14 percent to 1.439 million barrels a day. Pemex has said it will cut exports as output falls so that it can refine more of its own oil.
- May 26, 2008 8:13 AM
Do you see all the signs around you?
Perhaps governments know something we don't.
- May 26, 2008 8:21 AM
Back to check out stand 6!
- May 26, 2008 8:31 AM
Oh yeah, the EU (aka Next Shoe To Drop) is swimming in money:
(Bloomberg) -- U.K. home values fell for an eighth month in May and will probably drop further, Hometrack Ltd. said.
The average cost of a residential property in England and Wales slipped 0.5 percent to 172,200 pounds ($341,000), the London-based research company said today in a statement. Prices fell 1.9 percent from a year earlier, the biggest decline since November 2005.
``The `buyers' strike' continues,'' said Richard Donnell, director of research at Hometrack, in a statement. ``Pricing looks set to remain under downward pressure over the coming months.''
Bank of England Governor Mervyn King predicted this month that property values are ``likely to fall further'' and said there is a risk that the U.K. economy may contract. The construction industry dragged down economic growth to the slowest pace since 2005 in the first quarter and homebuilders are cutting tens of thousands of jobs.
- May 26, 2008 8:35 AM
"standing on a corner screaming 'Get your dead fish"
Best quote ever
- May 26, 2008 8:36 AM
I can't believe this. I am sitting in Arizona bed with my girlfriend. And I say to her, "If you want to piss your mom off (a realtor), you should send her a link to HousingPanic.com."
Five seconds later, I read the Eileen Reynes "Dead Fish" quote.
Eileen Reynes is my my girlfriend's mother!
I cannot believe it.
- May 26, 2008 9:31 AM
They think it's bad now? Wait until Lord Humongous rolls down their quiet suburban street.
- May 26, 2008 2:36 PM
"To see those thousands of kids waiting for some food on the side of the road, it's just heartbreaking:"
I love to see these little rats and their sorry eyes. I picture myself hungry depending on some communist chink for a handout for survival. Guess what, I'd be dead because they don't even give a shit about their own people, never mind another nations people in trouble.
F*ck China AND Burma. DIE U PIGS.
- May 26, 2008 3:35 PM
- bearmaster said...
I am starting to wonder if sale statistics are being manipulated in Redondo Beach. There is a new mega senior citizen condo complex here (the ticky-tacky box type), and a number of units have recently been sold, but have so far not shown up in any sale stats.
These are tiny little cr*p boxes, and their sales, if aggregated to the remaining sales for RB, would pull the median WAY down.
The only reason I know about the sales is because I was snooping around in Zip Realty and happened to click on "Sold Homes" while researching a listed property in the general neighborhood of these s**tboxes, and there they were.
This senior citizen complex, BTW, is right next to Ruxton Pacific.
- May 26, 2008 4:09 PM
I am a REALTOR in Memphis, TN and avid HP reader. This is a great post and I will link it on my blog. The Real Estate leaders here still are touting our great market (even though it is down 17% from last year), and following the Yun mantra, with the new "all real estate is local" twist. Believe it or not, some buyers and sellers really want to hear the truth.... while our local association pushes http://www.hopoffthefence.com
- May 26, 2008 4:37 PM
from 7:53
You absolute Moron!
What the hell am I suppose to do?
Buy a sack of rice, put a priority stamp on it , and then drop it in the mail????
Where am I suppose to mail it to,
Nyguen Ding, Shack #4 Ching bang Ave., Myanmar?
It doesn't work that way Nimrod!
Even if you could, the warlords would confiscate it!
- May 26, 2008 4:56 PM
The aide that is sent by the U.S. to any and all nations that request it is staggering !
Aide to others is More and Faster than it was after Katrina !!!
Any natural disaster that happens, the first thing those (any) ungrateful Bastards do is Cry for American Aide, in the form of MONEY, food, medical aide and medical supplies, clean water, generators, fuel, various other items!
We Rush to help BECAUSE THATS WHAT AMERICA DOES!
Then when we've done our job, we are pissed on and told to leave, taking nothing with us!
And when disaster strikes... we do it all over again!
Because we are The Greatest Nation,
Blessed by God Almighty!!
- May 26, 2008 5:06 PM
Its the 6% commission. Lower selling prices means lower commission. They talk about sellers being in denial on the dropping value of their homes, but I think many realtors are in denial about their shrinking 6% commission. Like the sellers they can't accept the fact that prices and therefore their commissions have went down and will continue to go down for sometime to come.
- May 26, 2008 5:33 PM
Here at the Jersey Shore the realtors seem to be in a particularly bad state of denial. Most will insist prices will not fall because we are "special". Nevermind the fact that prices are already down 10-20% and nothing is selling.
- May 26, 2008 7:29 PM
The NAR just keeps pounding away. Look at their latest propaganda release late last week. Yun and company are zooming down the road to irrelevancy.
RE agents stand to loose a great deal of their tenuous credibility if this keeps up.
- May 26, 2008 7:31 PM
Greg Swann Rocks!!!!!!!
BloodhoundRealty is an exceptional-service residential real estate brokerage in Metropolitan Phoenix, Arizona!!!
Paid for by the propaganda dept. of Bloodhound reality and the forces of darkness. I'm greg swann and I approve this message.
- May 26, 2008 9:17 PM
See international friends, that's what America is about. On the same day that we land the Phoenix Mars Lander probe on Mars, Robbie Knievel jumps over 24 trucks with a motorcycle:
Where else do you see this stuff but here? Perhaps Obama will tell Robbie Knievel that he should ride less his motorcycle, otherwise countries might complain about it. We need to ask Obama's permission to do stuff in America now, like using our thermostat. Folks, that's communism trying to take over.
- May 26, 2008 10:33 PM
You're dead on Keith.
I'm a broker. I think I'm the only one in my local association who thinks prices, which only recently started falling here, are going to go through the floor.
My colleagues distribute rosy economic predictions from NAR and other MSM economists that predict housing prices will start rising again the end of the year.
What a F'ing joke. They tell their buyers that prices are going to start going up any day now, so now is the time to buy. It makes me sick! Watch what happens when their knife-catching clients sue them for false inducement. You know, errors and omission insurance specifically excludes promises of future appreciation from coverage. So when these agents get sued for their pressure tactics, they will be held personally responsible.
When a potential buyer asks me if now is a good time to buy, my reply is usually "if you plan on staying here a very long time." That, and most of the rentals are shit around here. That will change with all of the foreclosures coming our way.
I recently opened my own brokerage, focusing on fee for service. As a broker, I think 6% is a rip off and I'm out to help destroy the traditional compensation model.
NAR makes me sick. If membership wasn't a requirement to be in the MLS, I'd boycott the bastards. Talk about a monopoly . . .
- May 26, 2008 10:47 PM
tail = monkey
no tail = ape
Either describe realtors as apes or better yet use a baboon (monkey) pic instead of a Chimp (ape) pic.
- May 26, 2008 11:30 PM
Where am I suppose to mail it to,
Nyguen Ding, Shack #4 Ching bang Ave., Myanmar?
It doesn't work that way Nimrod!
Even if you could, the warlords would confiscate it!
Local churches are collecting. You know, there's that thing called internets and the google. I bet you still want the UPS to pick if up for you, huh? Lazy and selfish bastard.
- May 26, 2008 11:47 PM
Would someone put Lawrence Yun out of his misery.
- May 26, 2008 11:54 PM
end of the 6%er...i think this is pretty
Real estate agents earned $93 billion in commissions in 2006
In a report last year, the Justice Department and Federal Trade Commission found limits on discount brokers' access to Web listings of properties for sale prevented consumers from getting the cost savings and other benefits online competition has brought other industries.
- May 28, 2008 1:02 AM
UNICEF is now collecting!
Give it to them
Now there's a honest bunch?!?!
As if!
- May 28, 2008 11:44 PM
from 11:47
Hey jackass,
Even churches and other organizations have to go through governmental red tape and warlords ya know!
Let your tax dollars feed them,
Thats what America does!
- May 28, 2008 11:51 PM
Aide is currently not being accepted by open door, but only through smuggled efforts in Burma!
- May 29, 2008 3:48 AM


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There have been a lot of articles floating around online about the exploration of emotional development of children since the release of Inside Out, Disney's new animated film based on the personification of an eleven year old girl's emotions.
Some have the perspective of using the film to look into sadness and depression while others talk about the science behind the emotions and how they interact to create reactions and behavior.
One perspective I particularly appreciate is that of Claire Lerner, LCSW, at ZERO TO THREE. She focuses on the complex emotional lives of children as shown in the movie, and shares tools that parents (and child care providers) can use in their everyday lives to help children deal with their feelings and grow into emotionally aware adults.
To quote Lerner:
Young children are deeply feeling beings. Starting in the earliest months of life, well before they can use words to express themselves, babies have the capacity to experience peaks of joy, excitement, and elation. They also feel fear, grief, sadness, hopelessness, and anger—emotions that many adults understandably find it hard to believe that such young children can experience. But just as Riley in the film needs her parents to hear and empathize with her difficult feelings of pain and loss—which helps her move on in positive ways—so do babies and toddlers.
Her post, Inside Out: A Film for Parents of Young Children, Too, is a must-read for all child care providers, early childhood educators, parents and others who interact with or care for babies and young children.


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The Sights Along the Harbor: New and Collected Poems
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Wesleyan University Press, 288 pages, $29.95.
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In his mother's recollection, Harvey Shapiro's first words were in Yiddish. Born in 1924 to an observant Jewish family, he lived as a child first on the Lower East Side, then high enough up on Riverside Drive for him to remember the George Washington Bridge being built and then, when the Depression hit, in an apartment near the Woodmere station of the Long Island Railroad. His education at Yale and Columbia universities was interrupted by service as an Air Force gunner in World War II. After professorial jobs at Cornell University and Bard College came teaching at Queens College at night while working at the new Village Voice during the day as both poetry editor and ad salesman. He got his mentoring as an editor for Commentary and later moved to The New York Times, where he spent the rest of his workday career, rising to senior positions, including editor of the Book Review. With this background, it's not surprising that two of the main themes running through Shapiro's poetry are the work and marriage of middle-class American existence viewed as a battle — one of his early books is called "Battle Report" (Wesleyan University Press, 1966) — and the quests of a Jew lost in the maze of New York City and looking for answers.
Shapiro's poetic voice is wry, urbane, adult — "I take out my old anxieties/And they still work" — and he can be original using the most familiar of metaphors: "As long as the heart listens/It pumps blood."
Perhaps in part as a result of the experience of war, he can perceive a simple gesture of affection as a gift: "She made him a gift of her touch/Softly turning the collar of his jacket down/In the crowded elevator." The subject matter here, as elsewhere in his seemingly effortless poems, is serious — in this case the importance of gifts of the spirit.
For New Yorkers and Jews in particular, there is the delight of having poetry of this quality couched in terms of familiar mental and physical homes:
In the first section, there is a series of enjambments that set up the punch line; the lure and protection of pyrotechnics is shunned in favor of an artfulness that doesn't call attention to itself. To write poetry like this requires not only lived experience and clarity of mind, but also the technical skill to use to the full the resources of poetry that highlight plain meaning.
Classical and literary references are to be found throughout these collected poems, but they are not flaunted and the poems don't depend on them:
Perhaps the shadow of the unlived life gulls us, but that thought is not made explicit, it's just there for the reader to find in this small argument with Socrates.
Many of Shapiro's later poems form a record of his sympathies:
The five definite articles imply that these particular tears and this particular individual's dignity are the concern of the poem and are not just an illustration of an ideological point. Few modern poets can match the range of experience that Shapiro records with a classical sanity and clarity.
Giving a reader so much in return for such little effort risks underestimation. I'm confident that posterity won't make this mistake; in the meantime, Shapiro, now in his 80s, continues to write, and we can read his new and collected poems with gratitude, aware that "Only/now and then a voice cuts through/saying something right."
David Curzon is a contributing editor at the Forward.


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The look
"Shall I move now? Is this what I should be doing for you? I will do what you encourage me to do, just let me know, I will move my eyes a centimeter if necessary. I love you. What else can I do for you? I feel safe. But is it time to go to that other room? Food. I smell food in your pocket. Oh, sorry, my eyebrow moved."
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We are Family: the family ministries research project by The Methodist Church and the Consultative Group on Ministry among Children (CGMC) is now complete and has reported its findings.
The aim of the project has been to better understand:
• who engages in family ministry
• the type of activity this involves
• the availability of training and resources.
The research suggests that family ministry and support is most effective when:
• There is a clear definition of what is meant by family ministry and support in a particular context or church.
• Family workers have a clear mandate for their role and are well equipped in terms of resources, awareness of needs
and training.
• Churches have a fully embedded family ethos, sharing the vision of what 'family' means in all senses for the church community and a commitment to support families in that local environment.
Challenges for the Church
(just a few questions from the booklet)
Finding 1: Understanding family ministry
Q. How could family work and ministry in your context become more inclusive of different kinds of family?
Finding 2: The spectrum of family ministry
Q. Which elements of family work are a priority in your church? Are they the right ones?
Finding 3: Issues in family ministry and support
Q. How does your whole church community come together for shared worship and conversation? What would need to change to make this happen?
Finding 4: Equipping for family ministry
Q. What structures does your church have to enable it to manage, support and train volunteers?
For more information, please download and read the following documents:
We Are Family Booklet
We Are Family Research Findings
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Forty years later, the Beatles ... are a consolation against
~ L'Osservatore Romano, the official newspaper of the Vatican
...Not all sound that is proclaimed on Earth as music IS music! I'm not restricting compositions to a narrow band of "masterpiece" musical styles, but rather I'm saying that piercing, clashing, raucous, dissonant sound is not music, it is noise. Those sounds fracture the body's energy, short circuit its electrical system, shatter its equilibrium, and prevent light from entering...Messages from Matthew
37. There is NO balance or any redeeming quality whatsoever in "heavy metal" compositions any more than there is goodness in a concentration of heavy metals in your body. The strong dark undercurrent in this NOISE is strategically designed to shatter the body's energy and prevent light from reaching the souls of those who are captivated by these raucous sounds. This fact needs to reach those who regard "heavy metal" as entertainment instead of the strong deterrent to spiritual clarity that it actually is...
...Well, what people in general don't think about is that music is vibrations. What frequency the music vibrates on is directly determining what emotions and reactions you get from it. Classical music has its own vibration, which often lifts us up spiritually. Rock music has another frequency, hip-hop another and rap music yet another. Do we really think we have a choice as of what to listen to, as a society? Are we really that blind that we think that we, the consumers, are setting the trends? No, my friends, the trends are set by the Illuminati owned music industry, where they know exactly how frequencies work - they have the best scientists working for them, so what can we expect? One day, pop and rock is what they want us to listen to, the next day the trend is punk rock, then rap and then back to rock in an endless stream. Almost within a blink of an eye, the music you listened to yesterday is now not hip anymore and you are not supposed to listen to it, unless you are a nerd or something. They, the Illuminati-owned music companies, are the ones who decide what we want to listen to, and don't get fooled to believe it's anything else than that. The music they produce vibrates on the frequency they want us to vibrate on for the moment to enhance the New World Order [NWO] Agenda! And that's it. They want to keep us on a certain frequency, where they can control us as a whole...
...McCartney (sic) then "wrote 'Helter Skelter' to be the most raucous vocal, the loudest drums, et cetera" and said he was "using the symbol of a helter skelter as a ride from the top to the bottom—the rise and fall of the Roman Empire—and this was the fall, the demise."[1]...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helter_Skelter_(song)
Charles Manson, who was both a slave and a handler, is an example of how a penetrating hypnotic stare is used by the Programmers.http://www.whale.to/b/manson.htmlLee Harvey Oswald, Sirhan-Sirhan, Charlie Manson, John Hinckley Jr., Mark Chapman, David Koresh, Tim McVeigh and John Salvi are some notable names of infamy, strongly suspected of being pawns who were spawned by MKULTRA.
The Manson Family and the Hell's Angels were instruments by which enemy forces could attack and discredit hippies and critical American youth who had dropped out of the establishment.From Monterey Pop to Altamont.OPERATION CHAOS: The CIA's War Against the Sixties Counter-Cultureby Mae Brussell, November 1976
What Manson did was a milder version of the US army's Operation Phoenix, which is the purpose of all the Mind control killings, terror (see: Programmed to Kill: The Politics of Serial Murder by Dave McGowan), and gun control. Designed, and succeeded, in ending the good feelings of the 60's.
What Terry revealed was that the murders attributed to the Son of Sam, the Manson Family, and numerous other interconnected killings (including possibly the Zodiac murders) were not what they appeared to be. While these killings appeared to be the random work of serial/mass murderers, they actually were contract hits carried out for specific purposes by an interlocking network of Satanic cults .....In other words, these were professional hits orchestrated and disguised to look like the work of yet another 'lone nut' serial killer. Which is, of course, exactly what Henry claimed his crimes to be, several years before investigative journalist Terry published his convincingly documented work.
[Mae] Brussell ... believed the Manson family was set up by counterintelligence types to blacken the image of anti-war-music-and-youth longhairs who were becoming a threat to the dominant culture...
[1988] CIA-Mafia conspirators can rest easier by Warren Hinckle
She [Brussell] alleged in a radio broadcast that the Manson Family was working with the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department to commit mass murders.
Conspiracy Theorist Mae Brussell Dies of Cancer
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Discover the night sky from Assateague Island! The event will begin with auditorium presentations followed by stargazing with telescopes.
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Currently in Peculiar MO (Low 64 Partly Cloudy with Rain Currently 66)
Heading to Claremore OK (Currently 70 Cloudy with Storms High 84)
Although we have stayed a few times at this park this was one of the few times we have been in one of the pull thru sites. Since it is very likely that most visitors would probably end up with one of these sites we thought it would be a good idea to review the park from this perspective.
Conveniently located right next to Interstate 49 south of the Kansas City area it is probably the best park in the area, especially for longer stays. The downside is that the road noise is fairly consistent all day long and pretty loud. Sounds strange to say but that is an upside too. It is consistent enough that you do get used to it. All the park roads and sites are gravel and it can get a little dusty if it is dry. There is good spacing between sites.
The pull thrus are long enough to stay hooked up if necessary or to park your 2nd vehicle. The hookups are convenient. Here is the Lifestyle from the front.
To the right.
To the left.
From the rear.
The view of Interstate 49.
The folks in the office are great. Having farm fresh eggs and home grown tomatoes for sale in the office was an added bonus.
We leave today for Oklahoma as we start our trek to Albuquerque for the International Balloon Fiesta.
Till next time,
Bob and Jo
Bob & Jo's Full-Time RV'ng Travel Adventures
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text: Land of rising suicide We investigate why Japan has one of the highest suicide rates in the world. 101 East 25 Nov 2010 17:43 GMT Business & Economy, Japan The cliffs of Tojinbo on the coast of the Sea of Japan are famous for their rugged beauty. But this place also has a dark side – many Japanese come here to end their lives by throwing themselves onto the jagged rocks and crashing waves. Japan's suicide rate is one of the highest in the world – more than 30,000 people kill themselves every year. On this edition of 101 East, we ask why so many Japanese, young and old, see suicide as the only option.Source: Al Jazeera Tell us what you think


text: Elena Baltacha: Former British tennis number one's career in pictures 5 May 2014 From the section Tennis Share this page Share this with Digg Facebook Google LinkedIn Reddit StumbleUpon Twitter Copy this link http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/27280803 Read more about sharing. "A shining light has been lost," said a Lawn Tennis Association spokesman after the death of former British number one Elena Baltacha aged 30 from liver cancer Born in Ukraine and raised in Scotland, Baltacha was British number one intermittently between 2002 and 2012 and became a familiar face at Wimbledon Widely known by her nickname Bally, she reached a career high world ranking of 49 in September 2010 She won 11 International Tennis Federation titles including the Aegon Trophy in Nottingham in 2010 without dropping a set Baltacha (centre) and her Fed Cup team-mate Anne Keothavong meet the Queen at Wimbledon in 2010 Baltacha was just 19 years old when she diagnosed with primary sclerosing cholangitis, a chronic liver condition which compromises the immune system Despite her illness and multiple injury problems, Baltacha went on to reach the Australian Open third round in 2005 and 2010, and Wimbledon's third round in 2002 Baltacha became part of Judy Murray's promising group of young Scottish players, which included not only Murray's own sons Andy and Jamie, but the likes of Colin Fleming and Jamie Baker Baltacha made her Fed Cup debut for Great Britain in 2002 and had an impressive win-loss record of 33-16 The Lawn Tennis Association announced in April that they would be staging a fundraising "Rally for Bally" similar to Ross Hutchins's successful "Rally Against Cancer" at Queen's Club last year Baltacha (second right) played her final Fed Cup match against Argentina in 2013 and retired from the sport later in the year after marrying her former coach Nino Severino Current women's British number one Laura Robson paid tribute to her friend and former Fed Cup team-mate, when she tweeted: "Impossibly sad. Forever a team-mate. Sweet dreams Bally"


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A tragic mum took a fatal overdose of alcohol, anti-depressants and sleeping tablets, an inquest heard.
Diane Hart, 31, died at the University Hospital of North Tees on April 14, 2003 after taking a cocktail of drink and drugs at her home at Ullswater Road, Billingham.
Her partner Anthony Moon, 35, told the inquest the couple had argued and she later told him she had taken tablets.
Her GP, Malcolm Gittens, said she had a history of depression and had received treatment.
The inquest heard that Ms Hart suffered multi-organ failure. Dr Peter Ritchie, consultant anaesthetist at the accident and emergency unit said the situation became "hopeless" and it was agreed that treatment be withdrawn.
Pathologist Christopher Rettman confirmed that she died from an overdose, due to the toxic combination of alcohol and drugs.
Coroner Michael Sheffield recorded a verdict of misadventure, saying he was satisfied Ms Hart intended to take the drugs and alcohol but she did not intend the fatal consequences.


text: After taking nearly a decade off following the release of "Here''s to Shutting Up", Mac, Laura, Jon, and Jim decided to shout it out again in 2010 with "Majesty Shredding", an album perfectly described by its own title. It''s a celebratory set of whoa-whoa-whoas from a group so thrilled by making music together again that they can''t contain themselves. The band''s forthcoming release, "I Hate Music", is "Majesty Shredding" ''s dark twin. It''s similarly aggressive-often moreso (see "Staying Home")-and every bit as energetic. It reflects the joys of a life spent immersed in music ("Me & You & Jackie Mittoo," "Trees of Barcelona"), but there''s a dark undercurrent as well. That title isn''t tongue-in-cheek, but it''s really more a question than a statement: When you''re 20, lazy co-workers and romantic missteps number among your biggest worries; two decades later, life''s bigger questions knock louder and louder, demanding answers. "I Hate Music" is an album about love more than anything else: love of life, love of living, love of people, and yeah, love of music. It defies its own title so completely and diligently that it never even seems like a fair fight: There''s no pain this deep or yearning this severe without the type of love earned over a lifetime. "I hate music - what is it worth? / Can''t bring anyone back to this earth" goes the first line in "Me & You & Jackie Mittoo." That song and its ten companions can''t relive the past or resurrect those lost, but they can keep them close enough to see and hear and celebrate. It''s dark in here, but if we conjure the right words and sounds, maybe we''ll find our way out. TRACKLISTING: 01. OVERFLOWS 02. ME & YOU & JACKIE MITTOO 03. VOID 04. STAYING HOME 05. LOW F 06. TREES OF BARCELONA 07. BREAKING DOWN 08. OUT OF THE SUN 09. YOUR THEME 10. FOH 11. WHAT CAN WE DO


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Getting Reacquainted with Michelangelo
Sculpture by Buonarroti in photographs and paintings from the xix century to the present
As part of the celebrations the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno has coordinated to commemorate the four-hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the death of Michelangelo Buonarroti, the Galleria dell'Accademia of Florence in collaboration with Fratelli Alinari I.D.E.A. S.p.A. present an exhibition that deals with the complex theme of the renewed interest and admiration for the artist from the XIX century until today.
The means for handling the topic will be the work of sculptors, painters and photographers who have looked to the figure of Buonarroti and his work as the iconographic point of reference in their own work. Departing from the photographs produced by several of the best-known studios and professionals from the XIX and XX centuries, we have sought to highlight the decisive role photography has played in consolidating the critical and iconographic fortunes of Michelangelo and, as a consequence, the celebration of his myth. This will be a transverse reading that spans history and photography and will centre on the role photography has played, since its very origins, in celebrating one of the uttermost artists of the Italian Renaissance, selecting a restricted pantheon of images of his sculptures as monuments of the collective memory.
The exhibition itinerary starts out with representations in a historicist vein of Michelangelo's physiognomy and personality, featuring works by Eugène Delacroix and Auguste Rodin, as well as by other authors who worked with the then-new photographic medium from its very birth, including the early work of Eugène Piot, Édouard-Denis Baldus, the Alinari brothers, and John Brampton Philpot, to name only a few.
The exhibition will be characterised by continuously cross-referencing the various modalities of translating and proposing Buonarroti's sculpture anew: from the photograph as an object of documentation to its interpretative specificity in focusing on sculpture, up to the total autonomy of twentieth-century photographers in creating new points of view and analysis of the work of art. A new relationship is thus formed between art historians and photographers who are, in turn, entrusted with the responsibility to search out the forms and material of the work in support of historical-artistic studies. The cases proposed include Giuseppe Pagano's photographs of the Palestrina Pietà, and the work of David Finn and Aurelio Amendola in collaboration with authoritative art historians who, from their work, have drawn important confirmations of their own theories and stylistic analyses.
As the myth grew stronger in the collective perception, Michelangelo's presence was also recognised in the work of twentieth-century artists such as Medardo Rosso, Henri Matisse, and Carlo Mollino, as well as in the photographic studies of personalities such as Emmanuel Sougez, Herbert List and Horst P. Horst. His influence continued in the Seventies with the explorations of Tano Festa, Paolo Monti, Antonia Mulas, finally arriving at the expressions of contemporaneity with Helmut Newton and Gabriele Basilico. The exhibition itinerary ends with references to the theme of the copy and of the multiple in the epoch of reproducibility and massification, confronted in the work of Karen Knorr, Lisa Sarfati and Tim Parchikov. We recognise Michelangelo as the formal model of reference of the staged photography of Frank Horvat, Youssef Nabil, and Kim Ki duk, up to the point in which he becomes 'absence' in the images of Thomas Struth and Candida Höfer.
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10 Security Flaws Found in Mozilla
While Microsoft's Internet Explorer has become the bane of computer security, switching to Mozilla may not be the simple answer after all. Security firm Secunia has issued a "highly critical" advisory that details 10 separate vulnerabilities found in Mozilla, Firefox and Thunderbird. The flaws can be exploited remotely, allowing an attacker to compromise a system and expose sensitive data. Mozilla users are urged to upgrade to the latest releases of each application, which contain the necessary fixes.