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Filed under: Building Healthy Relationships | Tags: Building Healthy Relationships, eduaction, gender violence, high school, masculinity, sex, stereotypes
so, today was the last day of a week long session of workshops and discussions at north high school. all my thoughts seem to be very dense and inextricable. it might be because i am awful at waking at at 6:45 and maintain a cogent line of thinking, or because there is so much to say.
even though i have been doing this for a while, and the information shared is similar in every workshop, the experience is always very different. even between one class and another the way people respond to the discussion varies greatly. the past week left me with many questions i struggle to have answers for. one of the classes in particular was very resistant to the idea that rape can mean someone freezing up instead of physically fighting , that if you are married you can still rape your spouse, and that making the first move does not equal to consenting to intercourse.
the people pushing these ideas forward happened to be male, white, and conventionally attractive and athletic-looking. i found myself battling my internal stereotypes as i was discussing with them, while trying to welcome other people in the conversation, and keeping the discussion respectful for all parties involved. it was not easy.
it left me wondering how i can engage men, as a woman, without making them feel like shit about themselves , but also challenging the myths that surround rape and sexual assault that i know to be hurtful. It feels like i am trying to tear down a wall with a bare finger. the ideas that man cannot be vulnerable or victims is still alive and well, as one of the piece of information that seems to be most shocking is that, according to the FBI (which is not one of the most progressive sources), one in 10 men is sexually assaulted or raped in their life time. it seems incredibly difficult to engage both genders in a conversation about consent and sexual assault, without man feeling like they are being accused of something.
why is that? do they just have an internalized guilt of being potential perpetrators? did they actually do something fucked up?
the other side of it is that, without fail, in every class there are men willing to challenge their peers, and to talk about masculinity. i met boys every day that are disgusted by rape, and angry at the social pressures they bear on their shoulders. these boys and men fit well outside the box of the expected intellectual sensitive guys, they are everyone.
Today i had a bulky, burly farm boy tell me about how aggressive his father is when he drinks, and that he has vowed to be different and responded vehemently to the other guys in the class claiming that what a woman wears can justify assault. This other kid that came in the first day with a tough swagger, and an air of being above it all, told me about the police coming to his house and not arresting his dad after he had beat his mother. he wanted to know more about the legal rights of people that are hurt by their partners.
so i finish my week feeling both drained and energized, defeated and victorious. and amazed at the infinitely complicated hues of human nature.
Filed under: Building Healthy Relationships | Tags: abstinence, BHR, sex, teens
i just finished my first round of workshops and presentation at a local high school, and i came out of it with a whole new perspective on the current american teenage experience. i went to school in italy until college, and we definitely did not have anything resembling abstinence education.
these kids, however, are bombarded with it. one of them showed me their health class book, in which sex was presented in two chapters: 1. "how to say no to sex until marriage", in which sex was described like something that will break your family apart, strip you of your self worth and expose you to every imaginable danger. 2. "how to build a healthy marriage" in which a detailed description of the different phases of marriage appears, from the first stage in which the newly weds come to terms to the idealized image of coupledom they had before the nuptials, to stage 3, in which the loss of children to college has to be processed and dealt with.
oh, and as part of health class students have to sign a card (wallet sized for convenience) , in which they swear solemnly not to do the deed until after holy matrimony. now, i ask , how is this possible? how can any teenager trust any teacher when we are indocrinating them with outright lies, and making them feel like shit about their own bodies?
the time i had with them was awesome nevertheless. i was warned by the professor that some of the classes had "real trouble makers" in them, and to send them to the office if they mis-behaved. what i experienced was a diverse gruop of bright, curios and challenging individuals, that were just waiting to actually have a discussion about things that are relevant in their lives without feeling stupid.
we talked about how people are bombarded with contradictory messages about either sex being bad and deadly, or that to be worth anything you have to be sexy and sensual, and that sex is the one thing you should want. only neither of these opposites offer any knowledge about emotions, mutuality and consent. what i saw were people so lost when it comes to relationships and sex, and eager to listen and share their genuine thoughts and fears.
it gave me hope, because it's so obvious that people don't want to be assholes, and many times when they are hurtful it's because of ignorance, or social pressure or frustration. it gave me hope that this knowledge we shared can be something they can add to their tool belts and carry with them.

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7 Month Scrapbook Page
Go me! Done with page 7 of Hayden's monthly layouts! Its been a slow process but I am officially past the halfway point!
I started this layout by using papers from CCB's Snips n Snails paper pad. Then I arranged his photos at the top, and began embellishing around them. I fussy cut the airplane and all the word strips from the Snips n Snails as well.
Around the photos I added a few paper doilies, as well as some Jute Cord from CCB as well. I found some bright red brads in my stash that matched perfectly with the raffia that I used for a bow.
After I knew all the embellishments I wanted to use as well as where I wanted them to lay on the paper, I removed everything and added some splatter marks to the background paper. I used Tattered Angel's Lobster Glimmer Mist and Java Glaze for this. I hit the splatters with my heat tool and when they were dry, I adhered everything down.
...and as you can see, SOMEONE thought he could get his grubby hands on my layout while I was photographing it. Gotta work quickly with this little guy!!
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2011 EUROPEAN TOUR DATESTalk about concerts promoting the Rock Dust Light Star album in 2010 and beyond...
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waow look at that eyebrows ..!
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you lucky things... I wish I could get to the uk for the dates but i cant due to work commitments!! Can only pray that they go to spain ... or even gran canaria (unlikely!!) but being that i live in Fuerteventura that would be purrrfect for me... dream on girl! Hope you all have a great time!
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Thank you guys! I will make a report for sure!
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List updated once more!
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24.06.2011 - BULGARIA - Elevation 2011 festival
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Does anyone have any idea about how often the shows on the homepage are updated?
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hmmm.so far not often enough
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It took quite a long time but it's official now! Jamiroquai will be in İstanbul in June 26
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At the end in official web site ... 26th of June in Istanbul Kurucesme Arena... World's most beautiful concert hall... Istanbul welcomes all of Party People..!!
Actually i'm so impatient while waiting for tickets of gig... But "Buy now" link still doesn't work... :/
If ticket company is dealed could you pls active it guys??! can't wait more for VIP tickets...
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lots of dates for the summer have been confirmed by jamiroquai on their facebook page yesterday
I added them to the first post!
10 Jun 11 (Fri) Russia - Saint Petersburg, Ice Palace
12 Jun 11 (Sun) Russia - Moscow, Crokus City Hall
14 Jun 11 (Tue) Ukraine - Kiev, Palace Of Sports
21 Jun 11 (Tue) Croatia - Zagreb, T-Mobile Festival
24 Jun 11 (Fri) Bulgaria - Razlog, Elevation Festival
26 Jun 11 (Sun) Turkey - Istanbul, Kurucesme Arena
02 Jul 11 (Sat) Romania - Mamaia - Orange Summer Party
09 Jul 11 (Sat) Serbia - Novi Sad, Exit Festival
13 Jul 11 (Wed) Germany - Straubing, Jazz Donau
14 Jul 11 (Thu) Germany - Mainz, Zollhafen Nordmole
16 Jul 11 (Sat) Switzerland - Bern, Gurten Festival
17 Jul 11 (Sun) Germany - Ulm, Radio Festival
21 Jul 11 (Thu) Italy - Padova, Piazzola Sul Brenta
22 Jul 11 (Fri) Italy - Rome, Ippodromo Delle Capannelle
24 Jul 11 (Sun) Italy - Lucca, Piazza Napoleone
A few of the dates listed above have not previously been announced at funkin.com.
The following dates have been reported here at funkin.com but have not yet been confirmed by Jamiroquai - 8 June in Estonia, 19 July in Arcachon (France) and 28 July at Vienne (France).
that´s a full calender!! oh my!
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OH MY HOLY HYSUS! Amiraaaaa, wake up! Jamiroquai are going to the EXIT festival! Not VAMPS but Jamiroquai! Either way, you are still better than me! f*** you for that
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Ah, f**k you all.
And your European tour.
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That's awesomee!
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Giba, this European "tour" sh*t is a hoax JK fabricated to f*ck with the minds of those of us in the U.S.!! It's not actually happening! Just ignore these posts, the pictures posted here and the youtube videos! None of it is real.......
Also, for anyone who is interested I have a bridge that's been in my family for generations that we're trying to sell…..call me.
just kidding of course...
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@Shaolin -that was great! Made me laugh! Is it the Brooklyn bridge?
And I'm happy for those of you who get to see the tour.
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Well, I've just read on FB the Rotterdam date is canceled due to illness. I'm sorry for those of you who missed it. I didn't mean to curse the tour.
I hope all the dates remain.
Oh, and I hope all (Jay?) gets better.
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I'm with ya Giba. I've been hating a little because we're not going to see them live, but my hate is ALL LOVE....know what I mean? I hate because I love.......is that better?
Anyway, someone over at funkin.com mentioned that maybe the tour dates were scheduled a little too close together. That could be. If he were a performer that just stood there and sung things would be a lot easier. Maybe there should be at least a day in between dates.
I hope he gets well soon.
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Just don't cross us American women!
(oops -it was Oberhausen not Rotterdam.) Good thing nobody's paying attention to what I say.
Echo, echo, you can kiss my
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3 july 2011 in Skopje are you going to do this concert?
Because its near by my city THESSALONIKI GREECE and we want to come with my wife.
Please let me know.
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Just read on facebook. 2 dates canceled due to sprained ankle.
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Just last night @ 00:01 I got tickets to the RDLS concert in Antwerpen on December 3rd! second concert this year. First Rotterdam and later on this year Antwerpen. *bounch* It is going to be a party again!
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I read 2 more dates had to be canceled. So unfortunate. I'm sure they'll be rescheduled. But the July schedule was jam packed -too close together.
Blessings for the rest of the RDLS tour for the Jamily and the Band!
I'm still so happy for the new music and the chance for the fans to see them play again.
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Does anybody have or know where I can find tickets for the Barcelona, Spain show on 07/31/2011?? I'm coming to the show from the US and the concert sold out before I knew I would be able to go. If anyone can help me please e-mail me at email@example.com
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CONCERT CANCELLED LAST NIGHT IN BAYONNE!! Return the money from the tickets but gasoline for 550 km and 25 € toll, lunch, dinner ... Who takes care of travel expenses??
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So sad for the tour, another date had to be canceled.
It doesn't take a genius to see that the dates were too close together. You need to allow for time to recuperate, and unfortunately, for injury as well. (who's booking the tour? cuz they missed an important country also) They seemed to stay on top of things when they had 4 dates at a time. Maybe this is how it should be.
For the sake of the band, Jay, the fans, and the tour, it needs to get back on track.
But if there are other underlying issues, they need to be addressed first, before continuing.
Why? Because we love Jamiroquai!
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Ida is downgraded to a tropical storm
By The Times-Picayune
November 09, 2009, 8:50AM
Ida is no longer a hurricane.
It was downgraded to a tropical storm by 9 a.m. today, the National Hurricane Center said. Officials discontinued all hurricane warnings and watches along the Gulf Coast.
Tropical storm conditions may unfold in the next 24 hours anywhere in the area between Grand Isle in coastal Jefferson Parish and the Aucilla River in Florida, including the metro New Orleans area, forecasters said.
At 9 a.m., Tropical Storm Ida was about 185 miles south-southeast of the mouth of the Mississippi River and about 285 miles south-southwest of Pensacola, Fla.
The system is headed toward the north-northwest near 17 mph. It should turn toward the north and then to the the north-northeast over the next day. Tracks show it should make landfall Tuesday morning east of Louisiana before it heads east even further.
Maximum winds are now near 70 mph with higher gusts. The storm should weaken as it approaches the Gulf Coast. Tropical storm force winds extend up to 200 miles from the system's center, forecasters said


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House Democrats are pulling ads from a formerly competitive Northern Virginia House race, a sign that they are in triage mode as well-heeled outside groups pour money into Senate races instead, Roll Call reports.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee canceled $2.8 million in ads to help Virginia Democratic candidate John Foust, who is running for the seat currently held by retiring Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA) against GOP candidate Barbara Comstock.
Instead, they are putting $2 million in to help incumbent Rep. Ami Bera (D-CA), a freshman lawmaker in a seat formerly held by Republican Dan Lungren.
Bera is in a tough race with former-Rep. Doug Ose and outside groups have put serious money in to help defeat him.
Democratic triage on the House side is something of a mirror image of the Senate landscape, in which South Dakota and Kansas have become unexpectedly close contests, widening the chances for Democrats to win and making the GOP's path to Senate control more difficult.


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Vendor Fair & Sponsorship Opportunities
November 13, 2019
UCLA Conference Center, Lake Arrowhead
Pre-registration is required please and it opens in June! Click Here for the Vendor Registration Form for 2019!
The vendor fair and sponsorship opportunities give commercial vendors an opportunity to reach approximately 150+ professionals (students, regents and several instructors). By supporting the school through your vendor opportunity or a sponsorship, you reach park and recreation professionals from all organizational levels. Cities, counties, states, utility districts and private organizations are all represented at the school. Professionals from California, Arizona, and Nevada have attended in past years. Discuss your product and /or service with professionals who are motivated to improve themselves and their organizations!
A variety of sponsorship opportunities are available, please contact our coordinator below. Your support is greatly appreciated by the students as well as CPRS and the MMS Board of Regents.
Vendor Fair Coordinator: Cassidy Skelton


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Our Major Customer Connection Manual (PDF 4.0 mb) is a useful reference when applying for a major business connection, and can help when negotiating and entering into agreements with us for a new or modified major business connection.
We also have a range of fact sheets, listed below, which provide information about different aspects of major connections.
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Baldío de los Alamillos Carretera A-372 Km. 53 - 11610 Grazalema (Cádiz) - Show map
As high season comes around, Fuerte Grazalema becomes the most enjoyable place to be with animation from the Sierra de Grazalema, including a range of entertainment options for children and adults.
One of the options that is a real hit with the little ones is visiting the farmyard at the hotel, which is home to various species, such as a pot-bellied pig, a donkey, pigeons, fantail pigeons, Andalusian and Castilian black hens and Japanese bantams, turkeys, ducks, chicks, tortoises, a sheep, a lamb, quails, rabbits, partridges and Spanish water dogs. As part of this activity, both children and their parents get the opportunity to interact with the animals.
Furthermore, guests can visit an organic vegetable garden and learn, under the guidance of an animator, how a farmer tends to this small corner of the hotel that, depending on the time of year, is home to broad beans, onions, cauliflowers, cabbages, carrots, radishes, artichokes, lettuces, thyme and, in summer, tomatoes, aubergines, courgettes and red and green peppers, in addition to other vegetables.
In low season, reception staff are happy to suggest trails and activities in the surrounding area that are suited to your preferences and your type of holiday.
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"Just because some people can do something with little or no training, it doesn't mean that others can't do it (and sometimes do it even better) with training."
When I was a kid, I always scored well on those standardized tests they like to give children. I remember taking an IQ test when I was no more than seven or eight, and while I was never told the results, I was put into a 'gifted program' shortly after that. I was routinely praised as intelligent, as 'the smart kid', as all those kind and not-so-kind terms we use for so-called over-achievers. I was placed in an environment that told me I was smart — that defined me as smart — and created expectations from that stereotype.
Then I reached high school and, without being too nice about it, fell apart. I quit caring, and since I didn't care I didn't try. I didn't care about school work, I didn't care about learning, and threats of working at McDonald's forever didn't faze me. That attitude, of defining myself by a stereotype and its expectations, of treating failure as a personal trait, of judging things in strict good/bad terms, stayed with me for most of my adult life. It bled over into college, into relationships, and into my lifting.
Though I didn't realize it, I operated under what Carol Dweck calls a fixed mindset. In her book Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, Dweck divides our mentalities into two distinct mindsets. Those like myself hold to the above-mentioned fixed mindset; you're born with certain gifts, and if you aren't good at an activity, then that's that. People don't change, and if you suck you just suck, so you might as well give up. The fixed mindset focuses on ability as an unchanging (and unchangeable) quantity.
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Family and friends from Menno Home and Menno Hospital are invited to our Family Support Group. This group will be led by a current family member who has previous experience leading support groups. We are hoping this group will grow over time and will benefit the members who attend.
When: Thursday, October 17, 2019 3:00-4:00pm
Where: Menno Hospital Conference Room (right near Hospital Reception)
A move to residential care involves many changes in lifestyle as life transitions from independent living to a shared living experience. This adjustment can take time for both residents and their loved ones. For some of you, the transition may be new, for others, you may have been here longer. As family members, you share similar experiences and you are not alone. Many emotions can arise by having a love one in residential care. We want all of our family members to feel supported by staff, as well as other family members. After the meeting, our hope is that you will feel encouraged, supported and strengthened to continue this ongoing journey.


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Nigeria wedding dresses and traditions
Today the old traditional weddings are changing and are becoming more like the Western-style church weddings. This has more or less become norm in Nigeria today. Eventhough you are born and raised in Nigeria it is still likely to have a Western-style wedding when you are getting married. And the wedding is usually with a church ceremony with a white bride and a reception after the ceremony. The reason behind this can be the Nigerian Church and the missionaries who influenced the Church and the African tribes. But there are some tribes in Nigeria who still live after the old traditions and are preforming the tradtioally wedding ceremonies.
The first step in the wedding process is the first meeting with the both involving families where they investigate each other. At this occation they groom's family donate some gifts to the bride's family, consisting mostly of cattles, yams or money. After this the ceremony the bride comes to live with the groom and his family, and if that turns out to work out a weddingfeast is held. After thet ceremonial feast he bride is concidered married to the groom and his family.
Today's Nigerian weddings tend to follow the Western style traditions which means that the weddings are held in Churches with with dresses, suit, reception etc. But during the reception bride couples usually wear traditional clothes have traditional food and a combination of Aerican and traditional music. Here two diffrent cultures are meeting and this is something that has become more common in the Nigerian weddings today. The Western societies are influencing the African societies with the traditional Western wedding norms with white dresses, receptions etc.
The bride should be a virgin befor the actual wedding, but today there are exceptions. Nowadays the couples usually want to ensure themselves that they can have children, so the bride could be pregnant at the wedding or all ready have children. But this is not allowed in the Nigerian areas with Christian religion. Polygamy marriages exist and are legal in Nigeria, but again the Christian religion forbids it. Pologamy marriages have though become less common in today's Nigeria. This is due to the fact that a man in such a marriage is responsible to provide for his family and to provide for a family is expensive. Because of the economical situation in Nigeria it has become less common with polygamy marriages.
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Craig Overton risked a punctured lung to play his part in the third Ashes Test in Perth - and reckons that withstanding the pain was second nature because of the fast-bowling batterings he took while growing up from his twin brother Jamie.
Overton, one of the few bright spots in another disappointing England campaign, was hit in the ribs while batting in the second innings in Adelaide. While he initially reported little pain and was cleared to play in Perth, he sustained another blow in the same area after he landed heavily as he dived in vain for a caught and bowled chance. Subsequent scans showed a cracked rib.
But rather than sit out the rest of the match, Overton waved away warnings that he could sustain a more serious injury and dug in alongside his fellow bowlers as they struggled through two days in the field against Steve Smith and co.
"Battling through the pain is in my nature," Overton said. "Growing up as a kid, with Jamie hitting me, it was always a case of 'Get on with it' really. You never want to show too much pain."
The potential of the Overton twins have long excited Somerset cricket followers and, although it was Craig who achieved an England Test cap first, Jamie's potential, at his best, to bowl a 90mph ball has seen him called up for England squads and encourages the thought that he might one day follow.
"We're fighters down in Somerset, that's how we play our cricket," Overton said. "It was painful, but not too bad. Even though I didn't bowl that many overs, I could still bowl some that the other boys didn't have to. That was the aim, just to get through this game really.
"I've been brought up to fight through the pain, and I'm not the sort to leave the field for nothing. It would have taken a broken leg or something that prevented me standing to stop me batting to try to save the game. All you can do is dose yourself up and try to get through it.
"But then, just before lunch on the fourth day, I had to leave the field after one dive too many in the deep. The team doctor warned me it could become much worse if I landed the wrong way and I could even puncture a lung. That's why I was making sure I didn't dive too much because I was worried it could break properly."
Overton had assumed that the injury was behind him after Adelaide and England had few, if any, injury concerns about him entering the third Test in Perth.
"It's a hairline fracture at the minute," Overton said. "I was hit in Adelaide, but it was fine and in the build-up to the game in Perth I was bowling fine in the nets with no painkillers. We weren't worried about it.
"Then I went for that caught-and-bowled catch off Usman Khawaja and landed awkwardly on it and we think that's when I cracked it. But it was only a bit later, when I came back on for a second spell and bowled a bouncer that it really hurt. It caused me massive pain."
While Overton's bravery was admirable, it has rendered him a doubt for the fourth Test starting in Melbourne on Boxing Day. He described himself as "a cross between the Michelin Man and a Mummy" when he walked out to bat in the second innings such was the extent of padding he was wearing to prevent further blows to the sore area and rates himself as "unlikely" to appear in Melbourne.
"The draw of playing in that game is absolutely massive," Overton said. "But I think you've also got to be realistic. There's another game after Melbourne and then the New Zealand Test series as well. So I've got to keep my eye on the bigger picture. It's not just about one game, there's a lot more to come after this."
Although Overton is frustrated by the results, he has taken confidence from his ability to compete at this level. Only James Anderson has a lower bowling average among the England bowlers - Overton is taking his wickets at a cost of 37.66 apiece - and both Alastair Cook and Moeen Ali are averaging fewer than his 20.66 per innings.
He accepts, however, that if he is to add some bite to his bowling, it would help if he could increase his pace.
"I'm proud to have shown what I can do," Overton said. "The confidence of being able to bowl and take wickets at this level is massive. But for me, it's not about how proud I am as a cricketer, it's about winning games for England. That's what hurts: we're not winning games.
"The pitches out here are generally quite flat and you've seen from their bowlers if you have a bit of pace you can still take wickets here. That's one thing we're trying to develop a little bit, and I am as well: to get that little bit quicker. It's still a work in progress but I'll keep at it."


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Go-kart track moves into old Phoenix Kmart building
As online retailers grow in popularity and big-box stores shutter around the metro Phoenix area, some huge former retail spaces are getting a second life thanks to new businesses.
"Some alternative uses that we've seen include gyms … churches and sometimes back office spaces," said Brent Mallonee, vice president for the retail services group at Cassidy Turley.
One of the latest business to repurpose an old building is Phoenix Indoor Karting, a go-kart and remote-control off-road car facility that took over the space of a former Kmart in north Phoenix.
Turning former retail space into recreational experiences is one way the business landscape is shifting. Traditional retailers that used to be tenants for large spaces have downsized their store footprints, Mallonee said.
Adam Crippen, the owner of Phoenix Indoor Karting, located on 3401 W. Greenway Road, said that the box store provided enough space for him to build what he believes is the first go-kart, R/C racing and hobby store combination in the world.
The site is also the home of HobbyTown USA, an R/C hobby store that relocated from Scottsdale.
Phoenix Indoor Karting opened in June and Crippen said he has more plans for expansion. He plans to have a paved track for R/C drift and Formula 1-style cars open in the fall. The new track will be located in what was once the Kmart's garden center.
"It's a huge spot that has air conditioning," he said. "It makes it really attractive to people who would normally have to race these cars outside, especially with the summer heat."
Crippen added that he's not worried about the survival of his go-kart facility, despite the fact that a track just a few miles away in Glendale, near 67th Avenue and Bell Road, closed in January 2013.
Owners of Speed Street Indoor Racetrack, which opened in 2005, said the recession was largely responsible for the failure of the business.
Crippen said he thinks that the variety of activities offered and the ever-changing track layout will keep customers coming back.
"We're aiming to provide an experience that's world-class," he said.
More details:phoenixindoorkarting.com.
Republic reporter Caitlin McGlade contributed to this article.


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Don't let national holidays such as Memorial Day or the 4th of July, be the only reasons to get your hands on fashionably striped pieces this spring/summer. From the nautical stripes to pinstripes, and other strikingly lined garments in between, let's get some wear from this trend without worrying if the stripes will fall on the wrong place of our bodies.
Style Tip: Use vertical stripe pieces to elongate and flatter your figure.
Style Tip: When your stripes pieces are bold, and wide on blouses, blazers, jackets or shorts, wear them with delicate simple pieces to balance your look.
Style Tip: Take the oxford or pinstripes from the work to play by pairing it cool, vivid prints, and bright colors or try pinstripes in playful silhouettes.
Style Tip: Step away from the traditional black, red and navy stripe pieces and try more seasonal colors like pink, yellow, mint or lavender.
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$10,000 in Grant Money Awarded to Sioux Falls Nonprofits
Two nonprofit organizations in Sioux Falls have been awarded grants that will help meet the goals within the City's Sustainability Master Plan.
The 2018 Sustainability Community Nonprofit Grant Program is a Public Works initiative designed to encourage nonprofit organizations to apply for funding for projects. Goals include waste minimization, water resources, energy, transportation, built and natural environment, and community vitality.
The City of Sioux Falls received two applications and has elected to fund a portion of each applicant's request. Program funding is $10,000. The grants were awarded to the Furniture Mission and Ecomaniacs Summer Program.
The Furniture Mission of South Dakota will receive funding of $5,500. This amount will help provide 40 families with furniture that has been refurbished, repurposed, cleaned, and delivered. The Furniture Mission repurposes and restores furniture that has been donated by the community and they help keep more than 400,000 pounds of waste out of the Sioux Falls Regional Sanitary Landfill each year.
Ecomaniacs Summer Program will receive funding of $4,500. With this money Ecomaniacs is set to service Hot Harley Nights and JazzFest in 2018. Ecomaniacs donates dollars to other area not-for-profit organizations to provide litter cleanup and recycling services at summer events. They also provide hands-on recycling education to event attendees.
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Two new colorways of the Nike Toki ND have surfaced, a Deep Burgundy suede, and a Black suede colorway. Both of these Nike Toki ND features an all suede upper, with a White mid sole and corded trail laces. Both pairs should be available now at select Nike Sportswear retailers across the states, like Schuh-You. Continue after the jump for more shots of the Burgundy and Black colorways of the Nike Toki ND, and stay with Sneakerfiles for the latest info.
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Editorial: Are we subsidizing a public health crisis by allowing the poor to buy soda with food stamps?
A major study of the grocery-buying habits of millions of Americans released late last year found that people using food stamps generally make the same unhealthy food choices as everyone else in America. Too many sweets, salty snacks and prepared desserts. Junk food, in other words.
But when it came to soda and its sugary ilk, the results were more surprising, and not in a good way. According to the USDA-funded study, shoppers using food stamps spent a larger share of their budget — 9.25% to be exact — on sugar-sweetened beverages than other shoppers. Even more startling: Food-stamp shoppers bought more soda than any other single grocery item.
The new data revived an old debate about banning soda from the $71-billion food-stamp program. In February, the House Agriculture Committee held a hearing to gather testimony about the pros and cons of such a restriction. It does seem counterproductive to spend billions of taxpayer dollars in an effort to improve the nutrition of low-income Americans on a product with little or no nutritional value. It is called the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, after all. What's worse is that soda has been identified by public health experts as one of the prime culprits in soaring U.S. obesity and Type 2 diabetes rates.
Food-stamp shoppers bought more soda than any other single grocery item.
The study and committee debate, however, raised some of the same uncomfortable issues that have caused the proposal to languish in the past. On the conservative side, folks have worried that this type of nanny-state regulation will lead to other heavy-handed health-related restrictions (enforced exercise, perhaps). Liberals, meanwhile, have been concerned that it is patronizing and punitive to tell people how to spend their government benefits. Add in the opposition from beverage industry lobby and it's no surprise this idea hasn't gotten very far when it's been proposed in the past. In recent years, a handful of states and cities, including New York City, have tried to impose such a requirement, but were blocked by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
The difference now is that the attitude toward soda has rapidly soured as more evidence has poured in that beverages with added sugars are making people fat and sick. The USDA has issued dietary guidelines warning people to limit their consumption of food with added sugars, the largest sources of which are sweetened beverages. This belief helped San Francisco, Philadelphia and handful of other cities push through new taxes on soda. A handful more are considering their own soda levies, and it wouldn't be a surprise to see an effort to adopt a statewide soda tax in California before too long.
We know that there are detrimental health effects of drinking lots of soda, but we don't know if barring SNAP recipients from spending their benefits on soda will really improve their health. It's worth finding out by undertaking a limited pilot program, regardless of the qualms we may have about imposing restraints on the poor that better-off Americans don't face. The assumption is that those billions of dollars not going to buy Coke or Red Bull will be spent on healthier food. But that may not be the case. What if consumption of other sugary items, like ice cream and pudding, increases? Or if SNAP recipients simply transferred their sweet drink habit ounce-for-ounce to more expensive and still sugar-laden fruit juice? Or if they spent their non-SNAP money on soda? Before making a permanent change, we need to know if it would improve nutrition or be pointlessly punitive.
But it is a good step to take to gather data. And the argument that it would be too hard on grocers to carve out sugary drinks doesn't hold water. As the study shows, modern grocery check stand technology is sophisticated enough to easily separate out purchases by UPC code. Indeed, SNAP already comes with restrictions on alcohol, tobacco and hot foods, among other things. Grocers don't have a problem sorting them out. The Women, Infant and Children food-assistance program is even more prescriptive, permitting only specific items to be purchased: milk, cheese, cereal and formula, for example, but absolutely nothing with added sugar or artificial sweetener. Ideally, a pilot program would also find ways to improve access to safe drinking water. One of the reasons that low-income people may choose sweetened beverages is that their drinking water isn't reliable.
Denying poor people the ability to use food aid to buy a Coke on a hot day may raise some unsettling questions. Yet the findings in the USDA's study about excessive soda consumption shouldn't be ignored.
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Ok, we all know I have a sneaker obsession. I wear them everywhere, with everything.
Fresh white Adidas Superstars probably make you think blue denim, an oversized knit… weekend vibes… and you're not wrong.
That's definitely one way to wear them, but at the moment I'm all about dressing them up.
Pair your sneakers with a crisp suit, a leather jacket, or a cocktail dress like this for something different. I love the contrast it creates, and sneakers just have a way of making everything look 10 x cooler instantly.


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Archive for October 2012
Welcome to my blog and my entry in the Blogger's Quilt Festival.
The quilt is called "Adalida" and the cat is Rion. He wanted to help me with my photo taking this morning. Unfortunately, it's a little overcast here, so the pictures are a little dull.
The blocks in this quilt were made for me in a block exchange group I was part of for 3 years. The center block was my contribution.
Over the next 9 months, each of the ladies in the group made a 12 inch square block that met my requirements, using fabrics that I provided, or from their own stash. My only real request was that they use purple, green, and gold in their blocks.
The four corner blocks and the sashing I added during a retreat weekend. I had a long-armer quilt it for me.
I know that I was the first one in the group to have a completed quilt, and I may still be the only one 4 years later to have one! I do have blocks for 2 other quilts from the same group…well, the members changed up a little in the 3rd year…but, they are in my WIP closet. One has turquoise and brown blocks and the other has batik New York Beauty blocks.
I wanted something "New Orleans-y" for the name; hence "Adalida" the old George Strait song about a pretty little Cajun queen.
Quilt Stats:
Approx. 57″ square
Paper piecing, traditional piecing
Quilted by Mike Taylor
Best Category – group quilt or wall quilt
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A couple weeks ago, the calendar said "autumn", but our weather has not. Although, this week has been so very nice; Sunday we turned off the a/c and opened the windows.
I took down the summer-y wall hanging this past weekend, too, because I finished this cute autumn-ish leaf wall hanging. I found a maple leaf block pattern and enlarged it to be 1 big 36×36 inch block.
I quilted feathers in the brown/leaf sections and some big meandering in the light background.
I also quilted our names into the section where the leaf stem is. That's "Lori" on top and "Al" on the bottom.
Then, I started on the Christmas wall hanging, so it will be done on time.
This picture is from the Bigfork Bay Cotton Company website. Isn't it pretty? Hopefully, mine turns out like that – or a reasonable facsimile.
Here are some pictures of the process:
Trace the pieces on freezer paper
Iron Misty Fuse to the back of the fabric
Take picture of Rion in the fabric closet
Take picture of Rion laying on my…his…practice quilt sandwich
Cut out a million little pieces while watching football on Sunday and "Castle" on Monday.
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Herewith, three thoughts inspired by the welcome new numbers:
1. AusterityA debate has raged about whether a misguided devotion to austerity is a major cause of global economic malaise. (I wrote about this a couple months ago in the context of France, where austerity is much-blamed but little-practiced). In the United States, at the time of the budget sequester, there were cries that we were casting ourselves back into the economic abyss by tightening at the wrong time.
In fact, looking across the world, the two countries that seemed to adhere most closely (and publicly) to a policy of austerity have also enjoyed some of the fastest growth. In the World Economic Outlook released this month, the IMF opined: "Among advanced economies, the United States and the United Kingdom in particular are leaving the crisis behind and achieving decent growth." US growth was 2.2 percent in 2013 while the U.K. came in at 1.7 percent.
2. KeynesianismThe intellectual heft behind the austerity opponents comes from the work of Lord John Maynard Keynes. The idea was that a government could stabilize demand through its use of fiscal policy. It would run deficits in bad times and surpluses in good ones, thereby offsetting the spending of consumers and businesses and smoothing out economic cycles. This is not the place to debate the merits of a Keynesian approach (though it came under heavy attack over the years from some very prominent macroeconomists). Rather, the latest deficit numbers show how far we've strayed even from an orthodox Keynesian approach.
According to the National Bureau of Economic Research, which officially dates US business cycles, the most recent recession lasted from December 2007 to June 2009. That means we are in the 64th month of the post-recession expansion. The NBER reports that for the 11 business cycles since 1945, the average time period from trough to peak was 58.4 months.
Note that across this business cycle, the federal deficit hit its minimum of near one percent of GDP in 2007. It peaked near 10 percent of GDP in 2009. It has been shrinking since, but after a long, tepid expansion, we have only gotten the deficit just below 3 percent of GDP. The implication is that we are not following an orthodox Keynesian prescription – we're fluctuating between smaller and bigger deficits, not between deficit and surplus.
3. Debt and ContextPast deficits stay with us and future deficits will be driven by big structural factors beyond business cycles (a point Megan McArdle makes very well). The past deficits accumulate into the federal debt. If our deficits in bad times were offset by surpluses in good, the size of the debt would stay fairly constant. Instead it has grown. From just over 60 percent of GDP in 2007, it is now a notch below 100 percent of GDP.
This has a couple important implications. First, should the United States encounter a cyclical downturn, there is much less "fiscal space" to pursue deficit-driven demand. Second, it makes the United States vulnerable to a return to normalcy in financial markets. In FY 2008, on the eve of the financial crisis, the United States paid about $454 billion in interest on the federal debt. For the latest fiscal year, FY 2014, those payments were $431 billion. How could this be, with the debt escalating so rapidly, both in levels and as a share of GDP?
The key is the extraordinary low interest rate environment. In November 2007, the US government paid an average interest rate of 4.9 percent on its interest-bearing debt. In September 2014, that number was 2.4 percent.
It is impossible to say just when interest rates will return to historical norms. Speaking this week at The Chicago Council, Martin Wolf emphasized just how exceptional the present period of low rates is. Unless one believes that this extraordinary period will persist indefinitely, though, there will come a time when rates pop back up. When that happens, the cost of servicing the large US debt will pop up as well, even if we maintain more positive numbers like the one that came in this week.


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Members of Congress recently joined community and corporate leaders to honor the 283 recipients of the 2014 Congressional Award Gold Medal in Washington, D.C. and in ceremonies around the country.
Three alumni from Haysville USD 261's Campus High School received their Congressional Award Gold Medal in a ceremony in Wichita with representatives from the offices of U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, U.S. Senator Jerry Moran and U.S. Representative Mike Pompeo.
Alumni honored were: Robert Youel (Class of 2014), Dhonovan Hauserman (Class of 2013) and Jackie Shipman (Class of 2011).
This annual event highlighted Congress' highest honor for youth and recognized individuals that have dedicated hundreds of hours of service in their communities. Since its inception in 1979, the Congressional Award has recognized thousands of young Americans committed to serving their country and improving themselves, representing over 3.5 million hours of public service and 35,000 students – all of whom are actively working toward their Gold Medal.
At the center of this event are the 283 medalists that took the challenge and dedicated hundreds of hours to Voluntary Public Service, Personal Development, Physical Fitness and Expedition/Exploration. Youth are not given this honor, but earn it based on the guidelines in Public Law 96-114, The Congressional Award Act.
The Congressional Award, a public-private partnership, established by Congress in 1979 under Public Law 96-114, is a non-competitive program open to young people ages 14-23, regardless of mental or physical challenges, or socioeconomic status. The Congressional Award Foundation teaches participants to set and achieve personally challenging goals that build character, and foster community service, personal development and citizenship.
Each of the Campus High School recipients was featured in the ceremony program.
Robert Youel: To earn my Congressional Award Gold Medal, I completed over 400 hours of Voluntary Public Service work through numerous organizations in my community. I did a multitude of different tasks, ranging from aiding tornado victims to cleaning up various places in my town. For Personal Development, I attended Boy Scout meetings and eventually attained the rank of Eagle Scout. For Physical Fitness, I participated in swimming and attended practice on a regular basis. I consistently improved my performance at each meet. Last, for my Expedition, I coordinated a campout for my troop. We cooked, hiked and canoed. I enjoyed earning my Congressional Gold Medal and it showed me I can do anything I set my mind to.
Dhonovan Hauserman: I devoted my Voluntary Public Service to a variety of services. I developed and implemented Dixie's Legacy, to donate to local animal shelters and disaster areas in helping displaced animals affected by natural disasters. I also refurbished cell phones for a local women's shelter. Incorporating service into my life was very satisfying and it has inspired me to continue. For my Personal Development, I enhanced my computer programming and competed at the state and national levels. I also assisted a local Deacon with maintaining database financial reports. For my Physical Fitness goal, I became more physically fit through daily workout routines. For my Expedition, I decided to hone my hunting skills and outsmart a deer. I also had to endure extreme cold weather. It is a tremendous honor to earn the Congressional Award and I am truly appreciative of the experiences that have lead me here.
Jackie Shipman: I completed 500 Volunteer Public Service hours in various places including an elementary classroom, collected food for a local food bank and worked numerous community swim meets and local parades. I also purchased, wrapped and delivered toys for needy families. For the Personal Development activities, I completed 228 hours of playing the piano fluently. For my Physical Fitness goal, I went from doing Zumba workouts for 30 minutes to 45 minutes. I learned to play the piano by music and sound. For the Expedition/Exploration activity, I planned a trip to Washington, D.C. to explore the historical sites. I researched and book hotels and plan tickets, I researched historical sites, restaurants and transportation. I had fun working on the Congressional Award Gold Medal and learned how to discipline myself.
Haysville USD 261's Campus High School alumni received their Congressional Award Gold Medal in a ceremony in Wichita with representatives from the offices of U.S. Senator Pat Roberts, U.S. Senator Jerry Moran and U.S. Representative Mike Pompeo. Alumni honored were: (from left) Robert Youel, Jackie Shipman and Dhonovan Hauserman. Earning the Award is a fun and interesting way for young Americans to get more involved in something they already enjoy or something you'd like to try for the first time. Participants move at their own pace – on their own or with friends. This is not an award for past accomplishments. Instead, recipients are honored for achieving their own challenging goals. (Courtesy Photo)
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he spells of sunshine, but you see splotches on the chart. scattering at hadi and thunder downpours, which will continue to race and from the southwest as a go through the day. this band of its persistent rain pushes north to go into the afternoon and we see that mixture of sunny spells and heavy and thundershowers gusty winds, wind and becoming increased feature of the wet after the afternoon, got a 50 mph or more across the far southwest. temperature is 50 degrees for aberdeen and 25 for london. moving into saturday and sunday low pressure in control of the latter, and on the southern flight especially, white lines and isobars splashing together. saturday is very windy, and land seeing 50 mph wind and 60 on the coast. that could cause problems for outdoor events and also for travelling. there will be some really heavy downpours for central and northern portions of the uk. signed a kind down and we see a band of shower and rain pushing southeast, wind is like you're coming from northwest so it appealed cool indeed especially in the north. hello, i'm nuala mcgovern, this is outside
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This a reminder that the Annual General Meeting is to be held on Thursday, 21 Septemeber at 5pm at Claudelands Arena.
Copies of the Annual General Meeting documents can be found here. We will not have copies available on the day so we suggest you print your own in advance of the meeting.
Graeme Mills has been nominated for Honorary Life Membership, this will be voted on by the members. We suggest that you read Graemes bio to ensure you can make an informed vote on his nomination.


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Introduction: Bring Your Solar Powered Lamps Back to Life
Everybody has a bunch of these at home. You see them in the store, buy them, put them in your yard and depending on their quality you will be throwing them a way a few weeks to a season later.
Solar powered lamps work like this;
1. Sun shines on the solar panel. The battery gets charged.
2. Once it gets dark a photoresistor tells the LED to light up and the battery starts to discharge.
The main problem with solar powered lamps is the battery. When the lamp is brand new and the battery is fully charged it will work really well. But usually the solar panel is not enough to charge the battery fully so it will slowly get drained. A battery that is discharged loses its capacity and eventually the battery goes dead.
In this instructable I will show you how simple it is to replace the dead battery with a fresh one.
Many people don't realize how easy it is to actually do so. I am one of those who threw away solar powered lamps for more than 500$. It was just recently, when I started to work with electronics, that I decided to open one up to see if there was some component I could replace and bring it back to life. Turns out it was much easier than I thought.
Step 1: Stuff You Need
For this project you need the following;
- A broken solar powered lamp to fix
- A screwdriver
- A fresh rechargable NiCd battery
- 5 minutes to spare
Step 2: Dissembley
Start out with picking the lamp apart. Usually cheap electronics are easy to pick apart since it needs to be easy to put them together.
For this specific lamp I had to do the following;
1. Screw the body off with my hands.
2. Unscrew the four screws that kept the "control house" together
Step 3: Replace the Battery
Turns out that the battery is in a standard holder. Just remove it and replace it with the fresh one.
Step 4: Assembley and Test
Put everything together again by reversing the steps and see if it works.
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And just my 2 cents worth, in stead of buying rechargeable solar batteries, our 99c stores sells the whole unit.
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Cangjie input method
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The Cangjie input method (Tsang-chieh input method, sometimes also Changjie, Cang Jie, Changjei[1] or Chongkit) is a system by which Chinese characters may be entered into a computer using a standard computer keyboard. Invented in 1976 by Chu Bong-Foo, the method is named after Cangjie (Tsang-chieh), the mythological inventor of the Chinese writing system; the name was suggested by Chiang Wei-kuo, then Defence Minister of Taiwan. Although the input method was initially based upon traditional Chinese characters, it has since been revamped so that Cangjie and the simplified Chinese character set can interact.
|Cangjie input method
Coding of "倉頡輸入法" (i.e. Cangjie method) in traditional Chinese characters
|Traditional Chinese
|Simplified Chinese
Cangjie is the first Chinese input method that uses the QWERTY keyboard. Other earlier methods use large keyboards with 40 to 2400 keys, except the Four-Corner Method which uses only the number keys. Chu saw that the QWERTY keyboard had become an international standard, and believed therefore that Chinese-language input had to be based on it.[2]
Chu Bong-Foo released the patent of Cangjie in 1982 as he thought that it should belong to the Chinese cultural heritage.[3] Therefore, Cangjie has become open source software—free for anyone to use and modify—making Cangjie ubiquitous on every computer system that supports traditional Chinese.
In filenames and elsewhere, the name Cangjie is sometimes abbreviated as cj.
Unlike pinyin, Cangjie is based on the graphological aspect of the characters: each basic, graphical unit is represented by a basic character component, 24 in all, each mapped to a particular letter key on a standard QWERTY keyboard. An additional, "difficult character" function is mapped to the X key. Within the keystroke-to-character representations, there are four subsections of characters: the Philosophical Set (corresponding to the letters 'A' to 'G' and representing the sun, the moon and the five elements), the Strokes Set (corresponding to the letters 'H' to 'N' and representing the brief and subtle strokes), the Body-Related Set (corresponding to the letters 'O' to 'R' and representing various parts of human anatomy), and the Shapes Set (corresponding to the letters 'S' to 'Y' and representing complex and encompassing character forms).
The basic character components in Cangjie are usually called "radicals"; nevertheless, Cangjie decomposition is not based on traditional Kangxi radicals, nor is it based on standard stroke order; it is in fact a simple geometric decomposition.
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The keys and "radicals"Edit
The basic character components in Cangjie are called "radicals" (字根) or "letters" (字母). There are 24 radicals but 26 keys; the 24 radicals (the basic shapes 基本字形) are associated with roughly 76 auxiliary shapes (輔助字形), which in many cases are either rotated or transposed versions of components of the basic shapes. For instance, the letter A (日) can represent either itself, the slightly wider 曰, or a 90° rotation of itself. (For a more complete account of the 76-odd transpositions and rotations than the one listed below, see the article on Cangjie entry in Chinese Wikibooks.)
|Primary meaning
|Philosophical group
|日 sun
|日, 曰, 90° rotated 日 (as in 巴)
|月 moon
|the top four strokes of 目, 冂, 爫, 冖, the top and top-left part of 炙, 然, and 祭, the top-left four strokes of 豹 and 貓, and the top four strokes of 骨
|金 gold
|itself, 丷, 八, and the penultimate two strokes of 四 and 匹
|木 wood
|itself, the first two strokes of 寸 and 才, the first two strokes of 也 and 皮
|水 water
|氵, the last five strokes of 暴 and 康, 又
|火 fire
|the shape 小, 灬, the first three strokes in 當 and 光
|土 land
|itself, or 士 for soldier
|Stroke group
|竹 bamboo
|The slant and short slant, the Kangxi radical 竹, namely the upper parts in 笨 and 節
|戈 dagger axe
|The dot, the first three strokes in 床 and 庫, and the shape 厶
|十 ten
|The cross shape and the shape 宀
|大 big
|The X shape, including 乂 and the first two strokes of 右, as well as 疒
|中 centre
|The vertical stroke, as well as 衤 and the first four strokes of 書 and 盡
|一 one
|The horizontal stroke, as well as the final stroke of 孑 and 刁, the shape 厂, and the shape 工
|弓 bow
|The crossbow and the hook
|Body parts group
|人 person
|The dismemberment, the Kangxi radical 人, the first two strokes of 丘 and 乓, the first two strokes of 知, 攻, and 氣, and the final two strokes of 兆
|心 heart
|The Kangxi radical 忄, the second stroke in 心, the last four strokes in 恭, 慕, and 忝, the shape 匕, the shape 七, the penultimate two strokes in 代, and the shape 勹
|手 hand
|The Kangxi radical 手
|口 mouth
|The Kangxi radical 口
|Character shapes group
|尸 corpse
|匚, the first two strokes of 己, the first stroke of 司 and 刀, the third stroke of 成 and 豕, the first four strokes of 長 and 髟
|廿 twenty
|Two vertical strokes connected by a horizontal stroke; the Kangxi radical 艸 when written as 艹 (whether the horizontal stroke is connected or broken)
|山 mountain
|Three-sided enclosure with an opening on the top
|女 woman
|A hook to the right, a V shape, the last three strokes in 艮, 衣, and 長
|田 field
|Itself, as well as any four-sided enclosure with something inside it, including the first two strokes in 母 and 毋
|卜 fortune telling
|The 卜 shape and rotated forms, the shape 辶, the first two strokes in 斗
|Collision/Difficult key*
|重/難 collision/difficult
|(1) disambiguation of Cangjie code decomposition collisions, (2) code for a "difficult-to-decompose" part
|Special character key*
|(See note)
|Auxiliary code used for entering special characters (no meaning on its own). In most cases, this key combined with other keys will produce Chinese punctuations (such as 。,、,「 」,『 』).
Note: Some variants use Z as a collision key instead of X. In those systems, Z has the name "collision" (重) and X has the name "difficult" (難); but the use of Z as a collision key is neither in the original Cangjie nor used in the current mainstream implementations. In other variants, Z may have the name "user-defined" (造) or some other name.
|Shift + 8 (*)
|It can replace any key from 2nd to 5th place, and return a list matches the combination. It is very useful for unknown guesses when you are sure about the first and last input. (e.g. Input 竹*竹 will include the following in the list: 身, 物, 秒, 第 )
The auxiliary shapes of each Cangjie radical have changed slightly between different versions of the Cangjie method; this is one reason that different versions of the Cangjie method are not completely compatible.
Chu Bong-Foo has provided alternative names for some letters according to their characteristics, for example H (竹) is also called 斜 which means slant. The names form a rhyme for learners to memorize the letters, each group in a line: (The sounds of final characters are given in parentheses)
- 日 月 金 木 水 火 土 (tǔ)
- 斜 點 交 叉 縱 橫 鈎 (gōu)
- 人 心 手 口 (kǒu)
- 側 並 仰 紐 方 卜 (bǔ)
Keyboard layoutEdit
The basic rulesEdit
The typist must be familiar with several decomposition rules 拆字規則 that define how to analyse a character to arrive at a Cangjie code.
- Direction of decomposition: left to right, top to bottom, and outside to inside
- Geometrically connected forms: take 4 Cangjie codes, namely the first, second, third, and last codes
- Geometrically unconnected forms that can be broken into two subforms (e.g., 你): identify the two geometrically connected subforms according to the direction of decomposition rules (i.e., 人 and 尔), then take the first and last codes of the first subform and the first, second, and last code of the second subform.
- Geometrically unconnected forms that can be broken into multiple subforms (e.g., 謝): identify the first geometrically connected subform according to the direction of decomposition rules (i.e., 言) and take the first and last codes of that form. Next, break the remainder (i.e., 射) into subforms (i.e., 身 and 寸) and take the first and last codes of the first subform and the last code of the last subform.
The rules are subject to various principles:
- Conciseness (精簡) — if two decompositions are possible, the shorter decomposition is correct
- Completeness (完整) — if two decompositions of the same length are possible, the one that identifies a more complex form first is the correct decomposition
- Reflection of the form of the radical (字型特徵) — the decomposition should reflect the shape of the radical, meaning (a) using the same code twice or more should be avoided if possible, and (b) the shape of the character should not be "cut" at a corner in the form
- Omission of codes (省略)
- Partial omission (部分省略) — when the number of codes in a complete decomposition would exceed the permitted number of codes, the extra codes are ignored
- Omission in enclosed forms (包含省略) — when part of the character to be decomposed and the form is an enclosed form, only the shape of the enclosure is decomposed; the enclosed forms are omitted
- 車 (chē, vehicle)
- This character is geometrically connected, consisting of one part with a vertical structure, so we take the first, second, and last Cangjie codes from top to bottom.
- The Cangjie code is thus 十 田 十 (JWJ), corresponding to the basic shapes of the codes in this example.
- 謝 (xiè; to thank, to wither)
- This character consists of geometrically unconnected parts arranged horizontally. For the initial decomposition, we treat it as two parts, 言 and 射.
- The first part, 言, is geometrically unconnected from top to bottom; we take the first (亠, auxiliary shape of 卜 Y) and last parts (口, basic shape of 口 R) and arrive at 卜 口 (YR).
- The second part is again geometrically unconnected, arranged horizontally. The two parts are 身 and 寸.
- For the first part of this second part, 身, we take the first and last codes. Both are slants and therefore H; the first and last codes are thus 竹 竹 (HH).
- For the second part of the original second part, 寸, we take only the last part. Because this is geometrically unconnected and consists of two parts, the first part is the outer form while the second part is the dot in the middle. The dot is I, and therefore the last code is 戈 (I).
- The Cangjie code is thus 卜 口 (YR) 竹 竹 (HH) 戈 (I), or 卜 口 竹 竹 戈 (YRHHI).
- 谢 (simplified version of 謝)
- This example is identical to the above, except that the first part is 讠; the first and last codes are 戈 (I) and 女 (V)
- Repeating the same steps as in the above example, we get 戈 女 (IV) 竹 竹 (HH) 戈 (I), or 戈 女 竹 竹 戈 (IVHHI).
The short list of exceptionsEdit
Some forms are always decomposed in the same way, whether the rules say they should be decomposed this way or not. The number of such exceptions is small:
|Fixed decomposition
|Version 2
|Version 3
|Version 5
|門 (door)
|目 (eye)
|鬼 (ghost)
|竹 戈 (HI) or HUI
|几 (small table)
|贏 (win)
|虍 (tiger [radical])
|亡 on top of 口 (吂)
|隹 (fowl)
|气 (air [radical])
|畿 minus the 田
|鬥 (compete)
|阝 (mound or city radical)
Some forms cannot be decomposed. They are represented by an X. (Which appears as the 難 key on a Cangjie keyboard.)[4]
|Fixed decomposition (v5)
Early Cangjie systemEdit
In the beginning, the Cangjie input method was not a way to produce a character in any character set. It was, instead, an integrated system consisting of the Cangjie input rules and a Cangjie controller board. The controller board contains character generator firmware, which dynamically generates Chinese characters from Cangjie codes when characters are output, using the hi-res graphics mode of an Apple II computer. In the preface of the Cangjie user's manual, Chu Bong-Foo wrote in 1982:
[in translation]
In terms of output: The output and input, in fact, [form] an integrated whole; there is no reason that [they should be] dogmatically separated into two different facilities.… This is in fact necessary.…
In this early system, when the user types "yk " (for example) to get the Chinese character 文, the Cangjie codes do not get converted to any character encoding; the actual string "yk " is stored. In a very real sense, the Cangjie code of each character (string of 1 to 5 lowercase letters plus a space) was the encoding of that particular character.
A particular "feature" of this early system is that if you send random lowercase words to the character generator, it will attempt to construct Chinese characters according to the Cangjie decomposition rules, sometimes causing strange, unknown characters to appear. This unusual feature, "automatic generation of characters", is actually described in the manual and is responsible for producing more than 10,000 of the about 15,000 characters that the system can handle. The name Cangjie, evocative of creation of new characters, was actually very apt for this early version of Cangjie.
The presence of the integrated character generator also explains the historical necessity for the existence of the "X" key used for disambiguation of decomposition collisions: because characters are "chosen" when the codes are output, every character that can be displayed must in fact have a unique Cangjie decomposition. It would not make sense—nor would it be practical—for the system to provide a choice of candidate characters when some random text file is displayed; the user would not know which of the candidates are correct.
Cangjie was designed to be an easy-to-use system to help promote the use of Chinese computing; nevertheless, many users find Cangjie to be a difficult method. Many of the perceived difficulties arise from poor instruction.[citation needed]
Perceived difficultiesEdit
- In order to input using Cangjie, one must know not only the names of the radicals, but also all their auxiliary shapes (which might not appear to make sense, though Chu had intended all the auxiliary shapes to be related to the basic shapes and "easy to remember"). It is common to find tables of the Cangjie radicals with their auxiliary shapes taped onto the monitors of casual computer users.
- One must also be familiar with the decomposition rules; a lot of casual computer users are not even aware of the existence of decomposition rules but rather type by guessing. This makes Cangjie difficult for them.
Enough practice, however, can overcome the above problems. A typist with sufficient practice in Cangjie touch-types, much like one typing English. It is entirely possible for a touch-typist to type at 25 Chinese characters per minute (cpm) or better in Cangjie, yet have difficulty remembering the list of auxiliary shapes or even the decomposition rules. Experienced Cangjie typists can reportedly attain a typing speed between 60 cpm and over 200 cpm.
There are also difficulties arising from current implementations of Cangjie:
- The decomposition of a character depends on a predefined set of "standard shapes" (標準字形); however, because Cangjie is used in many different countries, the standard shape of a certain character in Cangjie is not always the standard shape the user has learnt for that character. Learning Cangjie then entails learning not only Cangjie itself, but also unfamiliar standard shapes for some characters. The Cangjie IME does not handle mistakes in decomposition except by telling the user (usually by beeping) that there is a mistake.
- However, Cangjie is originally designed to assign different codes to different variants of a character. For example, in the Cangjie provided on Windows, the code of 產 is YHHQM, which corresponds not to the shape of this character but to another variant 産. This is a problem from the implementation of Cangjie on Windows. In the original Cangjie, 產 should be YKMHM (the first part is 文) while 産 is YHHQM (the first part is 产).
- Punctuation marks are not geometrically decomposed, but rather given random-looking codes that begin with ZX followed by a string of three letters related to the ordering of the characters in the Big5 code. (This set of codes were added to Cangjie on the traditional Chinese version of Windows 95. On Windows 3.1, Cangjie did not have a set of codes for punctuation marks.) Typing punctuation marks in Cangjie thus becomes a frustrating exercise in either memorization or pick-and-peck. However, this is solved on modern system through accessing a virtual keyboard on screen (On Windows, this is activated by pressing Ctrl + Alt + comma key)
Actual difficultiesEdit
Cangjie, however, also has some fundamental problems:
- Cangjie is error-intolerant (不容錯): Cangjie does not include any commonly made errors as alternative codes. For example, if one does not decompose 方 from top to bottom into YHS, but instead type YSH like the stroke order, Cangjie does not return the character 方 as a choice.
- The user cannot type a character which they have forgotten how to write. This, of course, is not a specific problem with Cangjie but rather a problem universal to all non-phonetic input methods.
In some situations it cannot be used at all. Cangjie uses all 26 keys in an QWERTY keyboard; it cannot be used to input Chinese on feature phones. For cell phones, zhuyin, 5-stroke (or 9-stroke by Motorola) and the Q9 input method are the current norm because they are designed specifically for use on numeric keypads. Of course, smartphones can and do support Cangjie input by using the touchscreen virtual keyboard.
Versions of CangjieEdit
The Cangjie input method is commonly said to have gone through five generations (commonly referred to as "versions" in English), each of which is slightly incompatible with the others. Currently, version 3 (第三代倉頡) is the most common; it is the version of Cangjie supported natively by Microsoft Windows. Version 5 (第五代倉頡), supported by the Free Cangjie IME and previously the only Cangjie supported by SCIM, represents a significant minority method and supported by iOS.
The early Cangjie system supported by the Zero One card on the Apple II was Version 2; Version 1 was never released.
The Cangjie input method supported on the classic Mac OS is somewhat like Version 3 and somewhat like Version 5.
Version 5, like the original Cangjie input method, was created directly by Chu, the inventor. Chu had hoped that the release of Version 5, originally slated to be Version 6, would bring an end to the "more than ten versions of Cangjie input method" (slightly incompatible versions created by different vendors).
Version 6 has not yet been released to the public, but is being used to create a database which can accurately store every historical Chinese text.
Variants of CangjieEdit
Most modern implementations of Cangjie IMEs provide various convenient features:
- Some IMEs list all characters beginning with the code you have typed; for example, if you type A, the system gives you all characters whose Cangjie code begins with A so that you can select the correct character if it is on the screen; if you type another A, the list is shortened to give all characters whose code begins with AA. Examples of such implementations include the IME in Mac OS X, and SCIM.
- Some IMEs provide one or more wildcard keys, usually but not always * and/or ?, that allows the user to omit part(s) of the Cangjie code; the system will display a list of matching characters for the user to choose. Examples include xcin, SCIM, and the IME in the Founder (University of Peking) typesetting systems. Microsoft Windows's "standard" Changjie IME allows * to substitute for in-between characters (effectively reducing it to Simplified Cangjie entries), while New Changjie IME allows * as a wildcard anywhere except for the first character.
- Some IMEs provide an "abbreviation" feature, where impossible Cangjie codes are interpreted as abbreviations for the Cangjie codes of more than one character. This allows more characters to be input with fewer keys. An example is SCIM.
- Some IMEs provide an "association" (聯想 lianxiang) feature, where the system anticipates what you are going to type next, and provides you with a list of characters or even phrases associated with what the user has typed. An example is the Microsoft Changjie IME.
- Some IMEs present the list of candidate characters differently depending on the frequency of character use (how often that character has been typed by the user). An example is the Cangjie IME in NJStar.
Besides the wildcard key, many of these features are very convenient for casual users but unsuitable for touch-typists because they make the Cangjie IME unpredictable.
There have also been various attempts to "simplify" Cangjie one way or another:
- Simplified Cangjie ( also known as Quick, (簡易 jiǎnyì) or (速成 sùchéng) ) has the same radicals, auxiliary shapes, decomposition rules, and short list of exceptions as Cangjie, but only the first and last codes are used if more than two codes are required in Cangjie.
Many researchers have discussed ways to decompose Chinese characters into their major components, and have tried to build applications based on the decomposition system. The idea can be referred to as the study of The Genes of Chinese Characters.[5] Cangjie codes certainly offer a basis for such an endeavour. Academia Sinica in Taiwan[6] and Jiaotong University in Shanghai[7] have similar projects as well.
One direct application of the use of decomposed characters is the possibility of computing the similarities in writing Chinese characters, e.g.[8] the Cangjie input method offers a good starting point for this kind of application. By relaxing the limit of five codes for each Chinese character and adopting more detailed Cangjie codes for each character, we can compute visually similar characters. Integrating this with pronunciation information enables computer-assisted learning of Chinese characters.[9]
See alsoEdit
- Chinese input methods for computers
- Keyboard layout
- More complete table of input shapes at Chinese Wikibooks
- OpenVanilla – a framework that provides facilities to use Cangjie on Mac OS X.
- ^ A spelling used as filename on ETen Chinese System.
- ^ Chu Bong-foo (朱邦復). "智慧之旅". 開放文學 (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 19 October 2017. Retrieved 8 June 2017.
- ^ Chu, Chyi-Hwa (朱麒華) (1 February 2012). "教育科技的專利與普及". National Academy for Educational Research e-Newsletter (in Chinese). Retrieved 28 May 2017.
- ^ http://www.chinesecj.com/newlearncj/cj5/cj5.php
- ^ http://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-hant/漢字基因 漢字基因
- ^ http://cdp.sinica.edu.tw/cdphanzi/ 漢字構形資料庫
- ^ 上海交通大學漢字編碼組,上海漢語拼音文字研究組編著。漢字信息字典。北京市科學出版社,1988。
- ^ 宋柔,林民,葛詩利。漢字字形計算及其在校對系統中的應用,小型微型計算機系統,第29卷第10期,第1964至1968頁,2008。
- ^ Liu, Chao-Lin; Lai, Min-Hua; Tien, Kan-Wen; Chuang, Yi-Hsuan; Wu, Shih-Hung; Lee, Chia-Ying (2011). "Visually and phonologically similar characters in incorrect Chinese words: Analyses, identification, and applications". ACM Transactions on Asian Language Information Processing. 10 (2): 1–39. doi:10.1145/1967293.1967297.
- Taipei: Chwa! Taiwan Inc. (全華科技圖書公司). 倉頡中文資訊碼 : 倉頡字母、部首、注音三用檢字對照 [The Cangjie Chinese information code : with indexes keyed by Cangjie radicals, Kangxi radicals, and zhuyin]. Publication number 023479. — This is the user manual of an early Cangjie system with a Cangjie controller card.
- The second-to-last paragraph on the first page in the section entitled "The Cangjie radical-based Chinese input method" (倉頡字母中文輸入法) states that
This is no problem; there are also auxiliary forms to complement the deficiencies of the radicals. The auxiliary forms are variations of the shape of the radicals, [and therefore] easy to remember.
- The last paragraph on the fifth page in the same section states
The dictionary appended [to this book] is based on the 4800 standard, commonly used characters as proclaimed by the Ministry of Education. Adding to this the characters that are automatically generated, the number of characters is about 15,000 (using the Kangxi dictionary as a basis).
- The second-to-last paragraph on the first page in the section entitled "The Cangjie radical-based Chinese input method" (倉頡字母中文輸入法) states that
- Part of the information from this article comes from the equivalent Chinese-language Wikipedia article
- The decomposition rules come from the "Friend of Cangjie — Malaysia" web site at http://www.chinesecj.com/ The site also gives the typing speed of experienced typists and provides software for version 5 of the Cangjie method for Microsoft Windows.
- It might be difficult to find specific references to the "not error-forgiving" property of Cangjie. The table at https://web.archive.org/web/20050206223713/http://www.array.com.tw/keytool/compete.htm is one external reference that states this fact.
- Input.foruto.com has a brief history of the Cangjie input method as seen by that article's author. Versions 1 and 2 are clearly identified in the article.
- Cbflabs.com contains a number of articles written by Mr Chu Bong-Foo, with references not only to the Cangjie input method, but also Chinese language computing in general. Versions 5 and 6 (now referred to as 5) of the Cangjie input method are clearly identified.
External linksEdit
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Cangjie input method.
- Online Cangjie Input Method 網上倉頡輸入法
- The Chinese University of Hong Kong Research Centre for Humanities Computing: Chinese Character Database: With Word-formations Phonologically Disambiguated According to the Cantonese Dialect: A Chinese character database covering the entire set of Big-5 Chinese characters (5401 Level 1 and 7652 Level 2 Hanzi) as well as 7 additional ETen Hanzi. Cangjie input codes are shown for each character in the database. Note: The Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set (HKSCS - 2001) is not included in this database.
- Mingzhu generator(in Chinese): Chu Bong Foo's page. Includes the executable, sourcecode and instructions. Mingzhu is a Canjie character generator that runs on MS Windows ' "DOS PROMPT". It requires Microsoft Macro Assembler and Link.
- Friend of the Cangjie: a Cangjie reference and a place where it is possible to download the Cangjie 5 for various operating systems, and Cangjie's supplementary input code lists for inputting the Simplified characters
- CjExplorer: a tool for learning Cangjie. The Cangjie code for a highlighted Chinese character will be displayed when the tool is running.
- Overview of the Cang-Jie Method: a great resource for English speakers to learn the rules and method of Cangjie.
- Online Cangjie Input Method Editor (IME) 網上倉頡輸入法
- 倉頡之友。馬來西亞


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