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Breaking into the Audit Market
A recent client is keen to break into the Quality Audit market and find a new career there. Looking at the difficulties they face has made me realise how very lucky I have been in my career. I guess I am a sort of 'accidental Quality Manager' - someone who has ended up with a career they love without ever setting out on that direction. A few lucky breaks, the realisation that this was something which I loved doing and some hard work on my part (achieving Chartered status, becoming a Lead Auditor to name but two hard work tasks) and here I am. I sometimes wonder what would have happened if I'd followed the careers advice at school 'go into teaching - teaching the mentally handicapped - you have good experience for that' (my sister has Downs). I am so very glad I didn't!
1 to 1 Training
This week I've been delivering a 3 day 1 to 1 programme for a lovely client. We've explored so much around quality management and audit and being able to work on a 1 to 1 basis means we have had time to cover what was important to this client. That said 1 to 1 means it is 100% go for the trainer and I'm glad I'm having a restful day tomorrow!
I'm spending much of this week working at the Holiday Inn on Tadcaster Road in York. Once again the service and conference facilities are second to none. Having a great venue is one thing, having a great venue with excellent service is quite another, and for the trainer or conference organiser knowing that everything will work effortlessly - from the room layout to the refreshments - makes such a difference. Thank to
Being part of a team
Whilst I do love working for myself, one of the things which I occasionally miss is the chance to sit down and talk current issues over with colleagues. Sometimes that chat by the kettle whilst making a coffee, or whilst you walk to the sandwich shop together can be SO helpful. I relish the fact that I am part of many teams - with my client base - but sometimes, just sometimes, it would be good to have those office kitchen chats again!
Effective Preventive Action
During an audit I identified that a company had a break down in it's system for recording service and maintenance of plant. They didn't know who was responsible for the maintenance of hired plant and the correction of faults found and were at risk as a result. They corrected this problem, for the particular item of plant we had found in the audit, but their review of the root cause didn't take place and as a result they didn't see the bigger picture. This month I've been back in and looked at the issue again. I've now drawn their attention to the much wider issues which are there and encouraged them to dig into this issue and sort it out across the whole organisation and for all associated plant and equipment.
In discussing the problem with them it was clear that management were unable to see the risk that the issue presented to them, and we spent some time identifying the 'worst case scenario' and looking at just how serious the issue is.
When you have audit findings to address make sure you look at the bigger picture - just putting a bit of sticking plaster over the problem isn't the answer.
100 Happy Days
I've been intrigued by friends who are recording 100 Happy Days via their Facebook pages and have today looked into this in more detail. It is something I am determined to do because we are all too keen to focus on the negative and a drive to positivity can only be good for the soul . . . but will I remember to do my post each day? Time will tell!
Too Busy . . .
Needed a very quick word with someone yesterday, rang but got no answer. Left a cheerful message asking them to call me when they could, and got an email back saying they were too busy to talk and could I email them. They said they would get back to me if/when they could. Another email received suggesting that I might link in to a 1 day meeting and training event 'via Facetime' rather than having to attend in person, presumably driven by a desire to save money.
What is wrong with this world of ours? Are we really all too busy to engage in conversation and face to face dialogue? Today accept the challenge of making PERSONAL contact with someone rather than just pinging them an email. Wish them a happy Friday and a good weekend and enjoy the warmth of human contact. Better still, if they are nearby speak to them in person. Go on, you can do it!
Out of interest I chose not to bother emailing back as requested yesterday - I decided that I was too busy to waste time on that!!
The new issue of ISO9001, due in 2015, is widely expected to include a clause on Leadership. I've been pondering this today with one of my client's and have been reflecting on various businesses I worked in/for and the impact of the leaders involved. One case comes readily to mind. A business had a go-getting enthusiastic guy in charge of day to day operations. He knew his market, his staff, his targets and he shared his passion and vision with his staff who were motivated and engaged in the business processes as a result. He had 'Monday morning' meetings with employees where he praised them for their work. Another company recognised his talents and poached him and what followed can best be described as silent management. A brilliant strategist took charge and undoubtably knew what he wanted to achieve but he wasn't a people person and he just didn't inspire. A similar scenario has come to mind more recently but in this case the brilliant guy wasn't replaced directly - the remaining management team decided to share out the role and as a result confusion reigned and the staff became disheartened. SO I welcome the idea of a clause focussing on leadership - and the challenges that will bring!
End of a Project
Today a project which has occupied me since August last year drew to a close. I am left feeling pleased with a job well done but sad that the company which I have built such good links with won't be in my diary as much now. A job well done though and I am pleased with how much has been achieved over the last 8 months. Now I move to providing 'on line' and 3 monthly visit support and I look forward to being back with them in July to see just how well their systems are supporting their business. Now to the next challenge!
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Oregon softball head coach Melyssa Lombardi rounded out her coaching staff on August 22, 2018, with the hiring of Megan Langenfeld as an assistant coach.
A three-time all-American and 2010 national champion as a player with UCLA, Langenfeld comes to the Ducks after spending the 2018 season as pitching coach at UC Riverside. She joins fellow assistant Justin Shults and volunteer assistant Sierra Romero on Lombardi's first staff at Oregon.
"I am excited to hire Megan Langenfeld as the final member of my coaching staff," said Lombardi. "Megan is a fierce competitor and a national champion, and her mental toughness as an athlete is impressive. She is a versatile coach who has the ability to help our student-athletes advance at the plate, in the field and on the mound, and her playing experience in the Pac-12 will be beneficial for our team. I look forward to some exciting softball this fall and I can't wait to get started with our team and staff. Go Ducks!"?
"I am incredibly honored to be a part of coach Lombardi's staff and join the Oregon Ducks family," said Langenfeld. "The University of Oregon has set a standard of excellence both on the field and in the classroom, and I believe that with coach Lombardi's guidance and vision Oregon softball will continue to thrive and only get better. I would like to thank coach Lombardi and senior women's administrator Lisa Peterson for the amazing opportunity."
Langenfeld helped take the UC Riverside pitching staff to new heights in 2018, leading the Highlanders to 15 shutouts, a no-hitter and several new program records in the circle. Individually, Hailey Dolcini went 15-9 and boasted a 1.80 ERA to rank second in program single-season history, and Tayler Misfeldt tied for second all-time with 21 wins while posting a 2.51 ERA.
Langenfeld went to UC Riverside in August 2017 after spending the previous three seasons (2015-17) as an assistant at Stanford. Before joining the Cardinal, Langenfeld worked as a graduate assistant and manager for two years (2013-14) at Arkansas.
The 2010 Pac-10 player of the year for UCLA, Langenfeld was a four-time all-Region and all-Pac-10 selection from 2007 to 2010 while starring both in the circle and at the plate. She was also a finalist for USA Softball national player of the year in 2010, when she hit .706 and slugged 1.529 while going 3-0 in the circle with 17 strikeouts in 24.2 innings at the Women's College World Series to lead the Bruins to the national title and earn the WCWS most outstanding player award.
Langenfeld's name can be found at or near the top of nearly every major UCLA single-season and career statistical category. In 2010, she set program single-season records in slugging percentage (1.085) and on-base percentage (.667), and posted the second-best batting average (.527) in UCLA history. She also led the Bruins with 20 home runs, 58 RBIs, 43 walks and 140 total bases. In the circle, she was 14-1 with a 1.53 ERA and 76 strikeouts in 114.1 innings.
For her career, Langenfeld finished 53-9 with a 1.42 ERA in the circle with 348 strikeouts in 453.1 innings, and added 34 complete games and 13 shutouts. She closed her UCLA career ranking in the top 10 all-time in nine different categories, highlighted by the all-time career saves record (12). She also shined in the classroom for the Bruins, earning Pac-10 all-academic honors three times.
Following the 2010 season, Langenfeld was nominated for an ESPY and honored as the Los Angeles sportswoman of the year, and in 2013 she was inducted into the Bob Elias Kern County Sports Hall of Fame. She has spent time with the U.S. National Team as a first baseman, designated hitter and pitcher, and helped lead the squad to a Japan Cup title in 2010, when she earned tournament MVP honors.
Langenfeld graduated from UCLA in 2011 with a degree in economics, and then earned her Master's degree in recreation and sport management from Arkansas in 2014.


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In regard to November in our Catholic Church, we do intend to talk about the month of the holy souls in purgatory. The Jesuit scholastics of St. Joseph Scholasticate have spent those days in order to pray for the souls, especially the Vietnamese Jesuits and those who lived and served in Vietnam.
In November 05, 2017, by the way of the Autumn vacation in Da Lat city after the first school-year semester was ended, we took a visit to see two foreign Jesuits' tombs. Fr. Jean Motte, SJ and Fr. Anton Drexel, SJ were Jesuit priests who served as professors at Pontifical College of St. Pius X. We spent some moments in silence at their graveside and then said our prayers together.
Afterward, in November 26, 2017, another visit of the Scholasticate community to Thien Binh cemetery was held. In fact, our visit has become the traditional activity for years and years. There were five Vietnamese Jesuits were buried in the final resting place. In spiraling-up incense-smoke, we said mass and prayers for their repose in God. This was also a time for us to experience our gratitude with the reverend fathers. To some extent, they laid a foundation for the Jesuit Vietnam province in the early years of the Society in Vietnam.
The visits in the churchyards are not only to see and pray for our ancestors but also to pray for ourselves. The tombs and death remind us how temporary and speedy our life is. And in order to fulfill the present life, we are asking for our ancestors' intercession to God.
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The zombie apocalypse has arrived
Have you been involuntarily furloughed today? Are you looking for a good way to spend some of your newly freed-up time? And do you want to understand what's really going on in Washington? In that case, I can highly recommend that you read John Powers's brilliant article, The Political Economy of Zombies, over at The Airship.
In Powers's view, the zombie apocalypse is less horrific than it is utopian: it's a way to cleanse the world of its otherwise ineradicable neoliberal capitalism, and to pave the way for a much more equal post-capitalist (and post-Zombie) society. "The zombie apocalypse," he writes, "is as close as we have come in the past 30-odd years to producing a convincing utopian vision for the future that grows out of our present circumstances."
It was easy to see a lot of people dressed up as zombies during the Occupy protests, and Powers explains what was going on: "Zombies were not being equated with corporate capitalism – they had become the revolution itself. Zombies had become the alternative to the system with no alternative." Powers quotes anarchist economist David Graeber as saying that neoliberalism has "succeeded magnificently in convincing the world that capitalism – and not just capitalism, but exactly the financialized, semi-feudal capitalism we happen to have right now – is the only viable economic system."
And he also quotes (of course) Slavoj Zizek:
Look at the movies that we see all the time. It's easy to imagine the end of the world – an asteroid destroying all of life and so on – but we cannot imagine the end of capitalism.
And then he explains why zombies have become such a common theme in popular culture:
For movie audiences, the mainstream, the 99%, catastrophes aren't something to dread; they are something to look forward to. They are a catharsis, a conceptual clearing of the deck. They are the implosion of the banking towers at the end of Fight Club, they are the destruction of the White House in Independence Day, they are the wholesale destruction of the entire global map in 2012.
Powers dates the era of utopian zombiedom to the release of 28 Days Later in 2002, a film which opens after the zombie apocalypse, with a scene of Cillian Murphy exploring the now-empty streets of what was formerly the capital of capitalism:
I remember seeing Boyle's film when it came out in theaters. I went to see it, not because it was a zombie movie, but despite that. Everyone I knew was buzzing about the opening scene in London. It was that image that got me and a lot of other "not into zombies" guys and gals to go see 28 Days Later. It was that same image that got people excited to see I am Legend: It was Manhattan emptied. It was the end of buying and selling. For the majority of us who live within the capitalist system but aren't of the neoliberal breed of capitalist, catastrophe means no more mortgage payments, no cell phone surveillance, never again having to bicker over what is or isn't a preexisting condition. Catastrophe voids all obligation, makes the world anew.
Go read Powers's essay for the, er, fleshed-out version of this argument: it's well worth it. Or, just watch what Powers calls "the finest moment of all ecstatic wealth destruction in the zombie movie canon", from Zombieland. My point is that Ted Cruz, and the Tea Party generally, are basically doing their best to play out this exact fantasy. By shutting down the government, they are destroying not a desert gift shop, but rather billions of dollars of real-world economic activity.
In doing so, the Tea Party is proving that it, truly, is the party of the 99% — of the masses who thrill to zombie movies, who fantasize about living in a post-zombie utopia, who understand that you can't make an omelette without breaking some eggs. We live in a country where the best way to ensure blockbuster status for your summer movie is to blow up as much stuff as possible — a building, a city, the entire world. Highbrow film critics might find such wanton destruction horrific, but the typical moviegoer just finds it thrilling. And when you look at the grass roots of today's Republican party, it's easy to see a bunch of heavily-armed zombie hunters: today's downtrodden masses, perfectly positioned to become tomorrow's post-apocalyptic elite.
The Tea Party's "tear it all down" mentality — the worldview which has shut down the government today and which could conceivably even end in debt default, if the debt ceiling isn't raised — is not, then, the result of any particular political philosophy. I doubt that Ted Cruz spends overmuch time reading Graeber or Zizek. But it's real, all the same. And if you think that a government shutdown somehow decreases the probability of a debt-ceiling catastrophe, it might be worth thinking again. I fear that instead it might just whet the Republicans' appetite for more.


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Teddy Bears' Mother Goose
Mother Goose rhymes that feature teddy bears either in the text or the illustrations.Written by Michael Hague and it is published by Henry Holt and Co. (BYR). The child's book was available on the 15th of April, 2001. In the library the reference number is PZ8.3.H11935 Tes 2000. This is the 1st ed. of the child's book has 64 pages and it incorporates numerous fantastically colored illustrations. It stresses Children's poetry, Teddy bears and Nursery rhymes. To obtain your own copy of this child's book for your kids, visit the market button.
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A collection of favorite Mother Goose rhymes, each featuring Michael Hague's irresistable teddy bears. Mother Goose poems have delighted countless generations with their captivating rhythms and playful rhymes. The charm and urance of these classic poems inspired master illustrator Michael Hague to develop Teddy Bears' Mother Goose. From"Rub-a-Dub-Dub, Three Bears inside a Tub"to"Diddle Diddle Dumpling, My Bear John"and"Little Bear Blue,"Michael Hague has selected his favorite nursery rhymes and illustrated them with the loving detail that is his hallmark. One in essentially the most beloved children's book artists of our time, Michael Hague has won the hearts of millions of kids and adults alike with his irresistible paintings.
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While I will spare you pictures of our green pancakes, eggs, and milk ( a tradition in my family) I'll tell you about our favorite new spot! The GreenHouse coffee and crepery!
The atmosphere is so fun, and has awesome artwork everywhere!
I really liked this painting on the back of the skateboard!
Our friends Matt and Cait introduced us to this HotSpot, and we fell in love. We played a rousing game of Trivial Pursuit, Drew worked on his construction studies and floor designs! While I sipped my vanilla steamed milk (a wonder that my dad introduced me to) and read Gone With the Wind, and bits of The Alchemist. Both incredible reads! All in all an incredible St. Patricks Day!
An awesome sign, and a great insentive to keep an eye on your kids!


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The association of modesty and fear
Parisian women do not wear drawers
Ladies in a state of Nature, stark naked
Modesty Washed Away in the Bath
Women Exercising Naked
Modesty is a Question of Convention
Modesty of the Women of the African Tribes
The principle of chastity
Irradiations of the Sexual Act
"Modesty, which may be provisionally defined as an almost instinctive fear prompting to concealment and usually centering around the sexual processes, while common to both sexes is more peculiarly feminine, so that it may almost be regarded as the chief secondary sexual character of women on the psychical side.
The woman who is lacking in this kind of fear is lacking, also, in sexual attractiveness to the normal and average man. The apparent exceptions seem to prove the rule, for it will generally be found that the women who are, not immodest (for immodesty is more closely related to modesty than mere negative absence of the sense of modesty), but without that fear which implies the presence of a complex emotional feminine organization to defend, only make a strong sexual appeal to men who are themselves lacking in the complementary masculine qualities. As a psychical secondary sexual character of the first rank, it is necessary, before any psychology of sex can be arranged in order, to obtain a clear view of modesty.
The immense importance of feminine modesty in creating masculine passion must be fairly obvious. I may, however, quote the observations of two writers who have shown evidence of insight and knowledge regarding this matter.
Casanova describes how, when at Berne, he went to the baths, and was, according to custom, attended by a young girl, whom he selected from a group of bath attendants. She undressed him, proceeded to undress herself, and then entered the bath with him, and rubbed him thoroughly all over, the operation being performed in the most serious manner and without a word being spoken. When all was over, however, he perceived that the girl had expected him to make advances, and he proceeds to describe and discuss his own feelings of indifference under such circumstances. "Though without gazing on the girl's figure, I had seen enough to recognize that she had all that a man can desire to find in a woman: a beautiful face, lively and well-formed eyes, a beautiful mouth, with good teeth, a healthy complexion, well-developed breasts, and everything in harmony. It is true that I had felt that her hands could have been smoother, but I could only attribute this to hard work; moreover, my Swiss girl was only eighteen, and yet I remained entirely cold. What was the cause of this? That was the question that I asked myself.
"It is clear," wrote Stendhal, "that three parts of modesty are taught. This is, perhaps, the only law born of civilization which produces nothing but happiness. It has been observed that birds of prey hide themselves to drink, because, being obliged to plunge their heads in the water, they are at that moment defenceless.
After having considered what passes at Otaheite, I can see no other natural foundation for modesty. Love is the miracle of civilization. Among savage and very barbarous races we find nothing but physical love of a gross character. It is modesty that gives to love the aid of imagination, and in so doing imparts life to it.
Modesty is very early taught to little girls by their mothers, and with extreme jealousy, one might say, by esprit de corps. They are watching in advance over the happiness of the future lover. To a timid and tender woman there ought to be no greater torture than to allow herself in the presence of a man something which she thinks she ought to blush at. I am convinced that a proud woman would prefer a thousand deaths. A slight liberty taken on the tender side by the man she loves gives a woman a moment of keen pleasure, but if he has the air of blaming her for it, or only of not enjoying it with transport, an awful doubt must be left in her mind. For a woman above the vulgar level there is, then, everything to gain by very reserved manners. The play is not equal. She hazards against a slight pleasure, or against the advantage of appearing a little amiable, the danger of biting remorse, and a feeling of shame which must render even the lover less dear. An evening passed gaily and thoughtlessly, without thinking of what comes after, is dearly paid at this price. The sight of a lover with whom one fears that one has had this kind of wrong must become odious for several days. Can one be surprised at the force of a habit, the slightest infractions of which are punished with such atrocious shame? As to the utility of modesty, it is the mother of love.
As to the utility of modesty, it is the mother of love. As to the mechanism of the feeling, nothing is simpler. The mind is absorbed in feeling shame instead of being occupied with desire.
Desires are forbidden, and desires lead to actions.
It is evident that every tender and proud woman—and these two things, being cause and effect, naturally go together—must contract habits of coldness which the people whom she disconcerts call prudery.
The power of modesty is so great that a tender woman betrays herself with her lover rather by deeds than by words. The evil of modesty is that it constantly leads to falsehood." (Stendhal, De l'Amour, Chapter XXIV).
It thus happens that, as Adler remarks (Die Mangelhafte Geschlechtsempfindung des Weibes, p. 133), the sexual impulse in women is fettered by an inhibition which has to be conquered.
A thin veil of reticence, shyness, and anxiety is constantly cast anew over a woman's love, and her wooer, in every act of courtship, has the enjoyment of conquering afresh an oft-won woman.
An interesting testimony to the part played by modesty in effecting the union of the sexes is furnished by the fact—to which attention has often been called—that the special modesty of women usually tends to diminish, though not to disappear, with the complete gratification of the sexual impulses. This may be noted among savage as well as among civilized women.
The comparatively evanescent character of modesty has led to the argument (Venturi, Degenerazioni Psico-sessuali, pp. 92-93) that modesty (pudore) is possessed by women alone, men exhibiting, instead, a sense of decency which remains at about the same level of persistency throughout life. Viazzi ("Pudore nell 'uomo e nella donna," Rivista Mensile di Psichiatria Forense, 1898), on the contrary, following Sergi, argues that men are, throughout, more modest than women; but the points he brings forward, though often just, scarcely justify his conclusion. While the young virgin, however, is more modest and shy than the young man of the same age, the experienced married woman is usually less so than her husband, and in a woman who is a mother the shy reticences of virginal modesty would be rightly felt to be ridiculous. ("Les petites pudeurs n'existent pas pour les mères," remarks Goncourt, Journal des Goncourt, vol. iii, p. 5). She has put off a sexual livery that has no longer any important part to play in life, and would, indeed, be inconvenient and harmful, just as a bird loses its sexual plumage when the pairing season is over.
Madame Céline Renooz, in an elaborate study of the psychological sexual differences between men and women (Psychologie Comparée de l'Homme et de la Femme, 1898, pp. 85-87), also believes that modesty is not really a feminine characteristic. "Modesty," she argues,
"is masculine shame attributed to women for two reasons: first, because man believes that woman is subject to the same laws as himself; secondly, because the course of human evolution has reversed the psychology of the sexes, attributing to women the psychological results of masculine sexuality. This is the origin of the conventional lies which by a sort of social suggestion have intimidated women. They have, in appearance at least, accepted the rule of shame imposed on them by men, but only custom inspires the modesty for which they are praised; it is really an outrage to their sex. This reversal of psychological laws has, however, only been accepted by women with a struggle. Primitive woman, proud of her womanhood, for a long time defended her nakedness which ancient art has always represented. And in the actual life of the young girl today there is a moment when, by a secret atavism, she feels the pride of her sex, the intuition of her moral superiority, and cannot understand why she must hide its cause. At this moment, wavering between the laws of Nature and social conventions, she scarcely knows if nakedness should or should not affright her. A sort of confused atavistic memory recalls to her a period before clothing was known, and reveals to her as a paradisaical ideal the customs of that human epoch."
In support of this view the authoress proceeds to point out that the décolleté constantly reappears in feminine clothing, never in male; that missionaries experience great difficulty in persuading women to cover themselves; that, while women accept with facility an examination by male doctors, men cannot force themselves to accept examination by a woman doctor, etc. (These and similar points had already been independently brought forward by Sergi, Archivio di Psichiatria, vol. xiii, 1892).
It cannot be said that Madame Renooz's arguments will all bear examination, if only on the ground that nakedness by no means involves absence of modesty, but the point of view which she expresses is one which usually fails to gain recognition, though it probably contains an important element of truth. It is quite true, as Stendhal said, that modesty is very largely taught; from the earliest years, a girl child is trained to show a modesty which she quickly begins really to feel. This fact cannot fail to strike any one who reads the histories of pseudo-hermaphroditic persons, really males, who have from infancy been brought up in the belief that they are girls, and who show, and feel, all the shrinking reticence and blushing modesty of their supposed sex. But when the error is discovered, and they are restored to their proper sex, this is quickly changed, and they exhibit all the boldness of masculinity. (See e.g., Neugebauer, "Beobachtungen aus dem Gebiete des Scheinzwittertumes," Jahrbuch für Sexuelle Zwischenstufen, Jahrgang iv, 1902, esp. p. 92.) At the same time this is only one thread in the tangled skein with which we are here concerned. The mass of facts which meets us when we turn to the study of modesty in women cannot be dismissed as a group of artificially-imposed customs. They gain rather than lose in importance if we have to realize that the organic sexual demands of women, calling for coyness in courtship, lead to the temporary suppression of another feminine instinct of opposite, though doubtless allied, nature.
But these somewhat conflicting, though not really contradictory, statements serve to bring out the fact that a woman's modesty is often an incalculable element.
The woman who, under some circumstances and at some times, is extreme in her reticences, under other circumstances or at other times, may be extreme in her abandonment. Not that her modesty is an artificial garment, which she throws off or on at will. It is organic, but like the snail's shell, it sometimes forms an impenetrable covering, and sometimes glides off almost altogether.
A man's modesty is more rigid, with little tendency to deviate toward either extreme. Thus it is, that, when uninstructed, a man is apt to be impatient with a woman's reticences, and yet shocked at her abandonments."
Havelock Ellis. "Studies in the Psychology of Sex.


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What could be better than a bottle of top quality wine..?
...An empty bottle of top quality wine!
Purchased for my brothers wedding back in 2003, a few bottles survived the festivities and have been hidden away by his in-laws, Anne and Kel, for special occasions. This week was one of them. A big family meal with Mum, Dad, Anne and Kel joining us around our table. We toasted family present and far away and even though the tissues came out a few times it was a great night. I'm just having emotional difficulty throwing away the empty bottle now...


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Authority deploy power
Flow is a function of capacity
The potential of your future is dependent on whom you associate with.
The power or the quality of a seed may limit the potential of the seed.
Be kind to all, but pay attention to those who have access to you and the kind of access they have.
Who you allow into your space has the capability to stunt your growth or spike it high.
You will be deeply affected by what you hear and those you love.
Words have power and not all people around you will love you enough or even know how to use the right words—Ubi Franklin
I learned something yesterday about seasons. Life is seasonal, this isn't a new idea, we know it's darkest before the light. What I learned yesterday is not to curse the darkness. This resonated with me and I remembered that I've done some of my best work in darkness. Dark seasons are a preparation for something greater. Anyone that has achieved success will tell you you many tales of darkness. How do you remain positive in the face of adversity, how do you remain productive and active in trying times? The Pastor from Accelerate had the perfect answer, you do NOT reason like a child. You must understand the seasons of life. There is no comparison between the sun and the moon, they shine when it is their time. Work hard and stay focused, your season is about to change for the better. It's your race to run and yours alone, no one can run it for you. God has given you everything you need. Do not be arrogant enough to presume to know His plan nor doubt where He has put you. Just put in the work — Maje Ayida


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Prior to their monumental sophomore record Dirt, Alice In Chains released this five track acoustic EP which I had previously glossed over. Reviving Sap to my playlist, It took me a few spins to get past the change in temperament. Then I found another charm this group possess, a side of them not felt from the acoustic compliment that creeps into their dominantly heavy music. In stripping back the distortion guitars, their Grunge and Groove Metal energy leaves a void filled by a range of influences. Folk, Blues Rock and Country all have leanings on these traditional, acoustic guitar led song styles, blossoming into a different and simply indulgent experience.
Its opening track Brother is almost unrecognizable. I believe it is Staley singing with a soft casual, breathy persona, a polar shift from his normally electric out-poor. Guest vocalist Ann Wilson of Heart harmonizes in a higher octave on the chorus for another unexpected spice. In getting familiar with it, a warm and tender song of sombre acceptance emerges and that emotional reverence flows onward. I believe Ann returns again on Am I Inside. Her small roll adds a keen flavor, much like the bright piano that creeps in under the haunting guitar. Aligned with shimmers of cymbals and brief bongo patters it speaks volumes to their musical ability and inspiration.
The bass guitar lays down some deep, warm rumblings to thicken out these sombre acoustic strokes. It gets a gritty pump of groove going on Got Me Wrong, the only track to deploy distortion guitars. In a strange way you can hear them being pulled back to the more expectant sound but the two styles just pull the slider back and forth, rather than gelling into something bigger. The last track is a joke track of skits, goofs and gaffs with comical musical arrangements. Its quite fun and a peek into a less serious side of the musicians, a nice something to throw in at the end.
Favorite Tracks: Brother, Am I Inside
Rating: 6/10


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Thank you all for everything you do in pursuit of "Keeping Learning at the Center."
Notable Accomplishments provided by Faculty and Staff
This section recognizes the good work being done and linkages to the Strategic Directions (SD) and Institutional Effectiveness Criteria (IE) are provided where possible.
- On December 17, 2018, Capt. Mike Surgalski and GLMA Cadet Sabrina Wiater (daughter of GLMA alumnus Tom Wiater) were part of a team that met with Governor Rick Snyder. The purpose of the meeting was to thank the Governor for his support of the replacement locks at Sault Ste. Marie. (IE2)
- Lisa Blackford (Social Work), Melissa Sprenkle (Communications), and Brandon Everest (Sociology) held the 4th Annual Walk for Health & Housing with well over 100 in attendance in November. The event helps raise awareness of issues that people experiencing homelessness and food insecurity are encountering. (IE1)
- Katharine Zurek, Annual Giving Specialist at the NMC Foundation, presented at the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education District V Conference in Chicago, IL. Katharine shared the successes of her student philanthropy program. The program teaches students about the impact of charitable gifts at NMC and in their communities by engaging students in activities to thank donors to the college. More information about the program and how students can raise money for their student groups through participation can be found here: https://www.nmc.edu/about/foundation/about-the-foundation/student-engagement.html (IE1, IE2, IE3)
- Mac Beeker arranged for 13 second-year nursing students to present on a variety of topics at the Traverse Bay Regional Oncology Nursing Society Annual Conference held on November 10 at the Grand Traverse Resort. Students did research in the Nursing Management of Complex Patients I course, created educational posters and presented their findings to nearly 100 oncology professionals at the conference. Topics included presentations on the use of opioids in palliative care, the development of new scalp cooling technologies to prevent hair loss in patients receiving chemotherapy, compassion fatigue in oncology nursing and the potential benefits of fasting before chemotherapy treatments. Posters are being displayed on a rotational basis near the Health Occupations office in the Biederman Building through January. (IE1, IE2)
- Jim Bensley, Director of International Services and Service Learning, in partnership with Soliya Connect, recently presented an international webinar, Virtual Exchange: Study Abroad Gone Digital. Hosted by Community Colleges for International Development, the presentation focused on building global competency via real-time cross cultural dialogue. Current NMC students Alex Bernier and Autumn McClure also participated. (IE2, IE5)
Activities of Note: Tim
- Thank you to all those who attended Mid-Year Opening Conference at the Hagerty Center on January 7. NMC staff and faculty came together for college updates, meeting new employees, and to hear from guest speaker Randy Bass, from Georgetown University, on Higher Education and the Future. Randy conducted an experiential learning workshop with the faculty in the afternoon. Also, thank you to trustees Kennard Weaver and Ross Childs for joining us for this event.
- Thank you to all of the trustees for giving their time for the Special Study Session on January 9, where four search firms presented and answered questions regarding their services. At the January 14 regular board meeting the Pauly Group was selected to guide the search process for a new president of NMC.
- I was able to participate in a portion of the Experiential Education Academy training that was held over three days at the beginning of January where 20 NMC faculty and staff were trained and received a Certificate of Completion and Experiential Education Instructor Certification.
- Our Construction Management and Marine Technology teams hosted their colleagues from Yellow River Conservancy Technical Institute (YRCTI) last week—one of several planned professional development experiences this year designed to broaden their understanding of our integrative approach to program development. In spite of an unplanned overnight in Chicago due to the weather, the teams made the most of their two-day stay working in the labs at both Parsons-Stulen and APL.
The YRCTI team included Professors Liu Yuntong and Zhu Enli from the Surveying and Mapping Department, Professors Cao Lei and Yang Liguo from the Civil Engineering Department, Vice President Jiao Aiping representing technical academic programs, and Duan Lina, serving as interpreter. Hans Van Sumeren, John Lutchko, Scott Swan coordinated Marine Tech experiences, and Dan Goodchild, Brian Sweeney, Phil McCuien coordinated Construction Technology labs. Along with Marguerite Cotto, all participants have been part of our program delivery on the campus of YRCTI, in the city of Kaifeng, China.
I, along with other NMC Executive Staff, joined the group for a farewell reception Thursday evening before their return to China early Friday morning. Our next teaching cycle at Yellow River will begin in early April and run through the end of May.
Yellow River faculty will return to Traverse City again this June.
Legislative Issues
- Following a historic lame duck session in Lansing where the legislature held a combined total of 883 votes and sent 401 bills over the finish line to the Governor's desk for his signature, we now move forward into the 100th meeting of the Michigan Legislature.
Lame Duck Recap
- Before looking forward to 2019, a quick recap of this frantic action in the waning days of the Snyder administration. Several policy bills were signed into law that will impact NMC. These include PA 479 which amends the Michigan Liquor Control Code to remove Parsons-Stulen and adds West hall to the list of approved facilities where liquor may be served; PA 512 of 2018, which addresses participation of part time student workers in MPSERS, PA 616 of 2018, which addresses the distribution of personal property tax reimbursements and accelerates implementation of the dynamic formula from a 20-year phase in to a 10-year phase in; and PA 579 of 2018, which amends the Public Employees Health Benefit Act by lowering the number of employees a public employer must have to be provided with claims utilization and cost information from 100 to 50 and requires the information to be provided in more usable formats. There were also several pieces of legislation that did not make it through including, legislation banning local tree ordinances and legislation that would prohibit union release time for public employee unions.
- We were also closely watching the massive supplemental appropriations funding bill, which we hoped would include our capital outlay authorization for the Osterlin Learning Support Services Project. Unfortunately our capital outlay authorization was not included in the final budget supplemental. Statewide, there were 4 new planning authorizations and 2 new construction authorizations in the final bill. Planning Authorizations included: Delta College, Electronic Media Broadcasting Wing Renovations; Glen Oaks Community College, Campus Renovation; Henry Ford College, Entrepreneur and Innovation Institute Building Renovation and Addition; Macomb Community College, Skilled Trades and Advanced Technology Center Renovation. Construction Authorization/Funding included: Schoolcraft College, Applied Science Renovation and Expansion; Direct Grants (Michigan Enhancement Grants) included Gogebic Community College, workforce training facility. We will certainly be working to advance our capital outlay request once again in 2019.
100th Legislative Session
- As we move forward into the 100th Legislative Session we will be looking forward to working with new members, committee chairs and committee structures. This includes a reshaped Senate committee structure that combines the Higher Education and Community Colleges appropriations subcommittees into one Universities and Community Colleges Subcommittee to be chaired by Sen. Kim LaSata (R-Bainbridge Township). Senator Ken Horn of Frankenmuth will be chairing the Capital Outlay Subcommittee and also a new committee, the Talent and Economic Development/MEDC committee. The Senate Education and Career Readiness committee will be chaired by Sen. Lana Theis (R-Brighton).
- Senator Wayne Schmidt currently serves as chair of the K-12 and Michigan Department of Education and Transportation subcommittees; he is also the assistant Senate majority leader and serves on several other subcommittees.
- On the House side, Speaker Lee Chatfield has announced a new committee process where most legislation will now be reviewed a second time before being sent to the House floor by four committees: the House Appropriations Committee, House Judiciary Committee, House Ways and Means Committee, and House Government Operations Committee. Speaker Chatfield has also announced the reorganizing of committees/names, eliminating the Workforce and Talent Development Committee and combining the Community Colleges with Higher Education Appropriations Subcommittee.
- Representative Larry Inman chairs the Military & Veterans Affairs & State Policy Subcommittee and the Joint Capitol Outlay Committee. He also serves on the Health & Human Services subcommittee, School Aid & Department of Education subcommittee, and is a member of the Appropriations Committee.
- As you know, the federal government has been partially shut down, impacting NMC and other community colleges nationwide. While funding has been passed for the Department of Education, several other agencies are shuttered or partially shuttered affecting NMC programs and students. NMC programs that have been impacted include:
- NMC Aviation Program: Impacted by the lapse in funding for the Federal Aviation Administration, which certifies our manned and unmanned training programs and administers tests to program graduates. Our current FAA certification expires February 28, 2019.
- Great Lakes Maritime Academy: Impacted by the lapse in funding for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Coast Guard, which certifies our graduating cadets prior to their ability to enter industry jobs. The Maritime Academy also receives funding from the U.S. Department of Transportation Maritime Administration and with their lapse in funding; no allocations are made to NMC.
- Michigan Manufacturing Technology Center: Receives approximately $280,000 annually from the U.S. Department of Commerce Manufacturing Extension Partnership Program, funding that is not available without approval of FY19 funding for this important program.
- Dennos Museum Center: Since 2010, Dennos/NMC has received $57,000 in funding directly from the National Endowment for the Arts, funding that is not available during a lapse in funding.
- Given the numerous impacts, I have communicated with our federal elected officials to make sure that they are aware of the impact this continued shutdown is having locally. As of Friday afternoon, it appears a deal has been reached to reopen the federal government and provide funding through February 15. We will of course be monitoring these developments and will keep you apprised of impacts to NMC.
- Looking ahead to the 116th meeting of Congress, we will be watching the following legislation closely: the FY20 appropriations process; the potential for the Higher Education Act to be reauthorized; the Department of Education's regulatory review and rewrite of accreditation and other key regulations; proposed Title IX regulation changes; and immigration related legislation/regulations. We will also look forward to continuing to work with our congressional delegation on issues related to the Great Lakes Maritime Academy, FAA and the U.S. Coast Guard's Great Lakes Center of Expertise.
- As you know, the federal government has been partially shut down, impacting NMC and other community colleges nationwide. While funding has been passed for the Department of Education, several other agencies are shuttered or partially shuttered affecting NMC programs and students. NMC programs that have been impacted include:
- January 30—MCCA Legislative Summit, Lansing
- February 16—GLMA Alumni Dinner & Mariners' Ball, Park Place Hotel


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"We can create economic conditions for growth, an inclusive ecosystem where micro-businesses and SMEs can really flourish"
Steve Rotheram
Speaking at yesterday's FinTech North conference in Liverpool, Metro Mayor Steve Rotheram talked up the opportunities of devolution, and the plans to create a digital ring to use Big Data capabilities ethically.
The former MP addressed a packed out audience at Liverpool's first FinTech North conference as part of the International Business Festival. Steve Rotheram said:
"The North has suffered from an unbalanced economy; for example, for every pound of transport investment we get, London gets six. But Liverpool can now become the digital gateway to the fourth industrial revolution… We can create economic conditions for growth, an inclusive ecosystem where micro-businesses and SMEs can really flourish."
The Mayor also referenced plans for a Digital Ring, linking the local areas with connectivity: "The possibilities of the digital ring means we can use Big Data for the region, as long as it's ethical, creating not just 'superfast', but 'ultrafast' speeds. Digital connectivity and renewable energy is where the magic starts, and we already have global companies looking to this region for that."
Liverpool remains an important part of the Northern Powerhouse jigsaw, it has seen a 144% increase in digital business births from 2011-2016, boasting an annual turnover of £305m in digital tech businesses and a £44m growth since 2014.
The event heard from speakers who had travelled from as far as Canada and Australia as well as local tech firms such as Colu, the inventors of the Liverpool Local Pound, and MirrorWeb which recently announced its contract to preserve the UK Government's entire digital history in a fully searchable, cloud-based archive.
Director of FinTech North Julian Wells said,
"FinTech North has evolved immensely in its three years, culminating in the final event of 2018 today in Liverpool. Originally it was a one-day event in Leeds that went extremely well and this year it has expanded to Manchester and Liverpool for the first time. In two years, FinTech North has delivered 17 events with over 1700 attendees from 400 companies from more than 10 countries around the world. What is clear is that FinTech North has struck a chord with the community we have developed and is opening up opportunities for collaboration for organisations in the north, the UK, and internationally."


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In North Beach, in a six-block area from lower Grant Avenue to upper Grant Avenue, there existed a large number of bars, cafes, and coffee houses, frequented by poets, artists, and jazz musicians. While Grant Avenue was the center stage of creativity, the bevy of coffee houses and bars extended from Broadway and Columbus, all the way to the produce district, where the self-proclaimed King of the Beats, Eric Big Daddy Nord held court in a large warehouse on the fringe of the old produce district. Kaufman and his wife Eileen were frequent visitors to Eric's pad, joining in on the festive activities.
Kaufman seldom talked about his childhood and upbringing in his native New Orleans, but we know from Eileen Kaufman that he was the youngest of thirteen children, born on April 18, 1925, the son of a German Orthodox Jew and a Black woman from Martinique. His grandmother came to the U.S. on a slave ship from the gold coast of Africa, and he was proud of his African roots. As a child, his mother saw to it that he regularly attended Catholic mass, but he would also join his father in the synagogue on the Sabbath, while at the same time learning about the voodoo beliefs of his grandmother. Kaufman's religious upbringing was nothing less than a spiritual mosaic, although in later life he would mock God in several of his poems.
Kaufman was arguably the most intelligent of all the Beat poets and writers, including Ginsberg. He boarded a ship at a young age, and for twenty years sailed with the U.S. Merchant Marines, traveling around the world several times. It was during one of these trips to Greenland that he suffered frostbite, causing him to lose 40% of his hearing.
Kaufman's literary education began at sea when a first mate gave him books of the masters to read, among them the works of Jack London. His formal education was obtained at an elementary school in New Orleans, and, he later attended the New School of Social Research in New York City. It was while spending time in New York that Kaufman met Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs, but it wasn't until later, in Big Sur, California that he met Jack Kerouac and Neil Cassady.
In May 1958 Kaufman met a young woman named Eileen, and a short time later they were married. In 1959 City Lights published a Kaufman broadside, Abomunist Manifesto, and shortly thereafter a second broadside, Second April, was published. A year later City Lights published a third Kaufman broadside, Does the Secret Mind Whisper. These early broadsides earned Kaufman a cult following in San Francisco's North Beach District.
In early 1959 Ron Rice directed a film titled The Flower Thief, which was shot in San Francisco, starring the North Beach bohemians, with Kaufman playing a leading role. The film was later shown in Italy, where it received critical acclaim.
In late 1959, and into the early part of 1960, Kenneth Tynan produced a film titled Dissent in the Arts in America. Kaufman appeared in the film, which was never shown in the U.S., after Tynan was called to appear before the infamous House Un-American Activities Committee. It was, however, shown in Europe, which partly accounts for Kaufman's popularity abroad. During the early Sixties he read his poetry at the Gaslight and other popular coffee houses in New York's Greenwich Village, but returned to San Francisco in 1963.
On a November afternoon in 1963, Kaufman watched on television the assassination of President Kennedy. Many of Kaufman's friends have said after watching the assassination that Kaufman took a Buddhist vow of silence, which lasted nearly twelve years, until the end of the Vietnam War. This is only partly true, for Kaufman did occasionally speak with friends, even if it was only to say hello or to bum a cigarette.
Kaufman was not a prolific writer, but his poetry books are generally regarded as among the best verse written by any of the Beat poets. His first book, Solitudes Crowded With Loneliness, was published in 1965 by New Directions, and caused an immediate stir in local literary circles. The book consisted mainly of early poems written while he traveled from New York to San Francisco and back again. It would later be published in France, in 1975, and helped him gain a larger foreign audience. Kaufman's second book, The Golden Sardine, was published in 1967 by City Lights, which earned him a solid reputation in the U.S., England, and France.
By the late Fifties, Ginsberg, Corso, and the rest of the Beat gang had left North Beach, leaving behind Lawrence Ferlinghetti to tend City Lights Book Store. Other than Ferlinghetti, Kaufman was the last of the recognized original gang of Beats too regularly make the rounds of North Beach.
Kaufman would not see another book of his in print until 1981 when New Directions published Ancient Rain, which consisted of previously published poems alongside unpublished poems written between l973-l978.
In October 1982 Kaufman emerged from near obscurity to read one of his poems on the PBS television show Images, and from that time on rarely read his work at local literary events.
Jack Micheline, a Beat poet friend of Kaufman, said in an interview I did with him in the eighties that he considered Kaufman to be an original jazz poet, a poet deeply steeped in the jazz tradition. His work is essentially improvisational, and was at its best when he read with various jazz musicians.
His poetic technique resembles that of the surreal school of poets, ranging from a powerful, lyrical vision to the more prophetic tone that can be found in many of his political poems.
Golden Sardine contains a striking political poem on the death of Caryl Chessman, a convicted kidnapper, robber, and accused rapist, who many even to this day feel was wrongly sentenced to death for crimes (kidnap and rape) for which he was innocent. The tone of the poem is one of anger against a system intent on destroying the mind and body. Kaufman's defiance parallels Chessman's own defiance, evidenced by Chessman refusing to admit his guilt, and be spared from the gas chamber.
Carl (sic) Chessman knows the Governor of
California knows. Good Johnny the Pope
Knows, Salvatore Agron knows & all the
Leaky eyed poets know. In their poems
No one is guilty of any thing at any time
Anywhere in any place
The difference between Kaufman's anger and the anger expressed by other Beat poets is that he could move from anger to humor in a matter of seconds. But even within the humor we find a biting message of condemnation of what the poet considered a system speaking of honor and God on the one hand while practicing rape and plunder on the other.
Death is a familiar subject in many of his poems. His obsession, perhaps awe, with death is evident in such early poems as Results of A Lie Detector Test, which appeared in the Golden Sardine.
From the sleeping calendar I have stolen a
I am afraid to look at it. I don't want to know
its name
Clenched in my fist I feel its frost. Its icy
I cannot face the bewildered summer with a
pocketful of snow
I imagine the accusing finger of children
who will never be born
How to shut out the cries of the suffering
Death wishers, awaiting
The silent doors of winter tombs, deprived of
cherished exits.
I shall never again steal a month…or a week
or a day or an hour
Or a minute, or a second, unless I become
desperate again.
You won't find any pretension in Kaufman's poems. There is no attempt at word play. The poems fall naturally without a hint of strain to them. His early poems still ring true today, even after two-plus decades have passed.
Kaufman also spoke of a driving force of love. Many of his poems speak of dreams and the imagery the mind produces, as if the poet realizes it is the dream that keeps the artist going, and keeps at bay the imperfections and pain.
But Kaufman saw clearly through the dream, as evidenced in a stanza from another poem from The Golden Sardine, "The Mind For All Its Reasoning."
The mind for all its complicated reasoning
Is dependent on the whim of the eyelid
The most nonchalant of human partsOpening and closing at random
Spending its hours in mystique
Filled with memories of glimpses
& blinks.
His work is particularly harsh toward the church. In Early Loves, he closes his poem with "Tears will wash away her dirty murdered soul/God will be called upon to atone for his sins."
To have had the privilege of reading Kaufman's work, or to have shared a drink with him, or to have read with him, or spent time with him in his small North beach hotel room, with little or no conversation taking place, was an experience not easily forgotten.
(Stay Tuned for Part 2)
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Now then,
Its been a while since I updated the old blog, so I thought I would update it with what ive been up to recently. Well, first of all, alot of painting. Namely 6mm sci/fi stuff, Space marines and Tau shenanigans mostly. I have a few to finish off so will save the pictures until later. For now the epic stuff is being put on hold, namely because I have other stuff to get done.....
Ill start with whats getting dropped first.
The Fantasy project.
I had hopes that this would get my 2 lads interested, but alas that's not going to happen. Personally im not inspired enough anymore to spend my spare time painting these, so they will be up for sale on the blog shortly, as soon as I can get them photographed etc. If not then eBay may be the way forward.
So whats new?
Well, first off, I should be back home in the UK by this time next year if not before, so my plans are revolving around minimizing projects and getting existing stuff painted.
So maybe the Ancient Greek cavalry will finally get done, or the Theban hoplites may see the light of day (ive had them for nearly 5 years!)
The 6mm Austrian army is nearly finished, I could probably get them done in a few weeks if I concentrated on them......
I also have a few bits and bobs for my 15mm Crusaders and Muslims that need doing, again a pretty quick job....sigh...
My main "thing" at the moment is WW2.
I have recently been re-inspired by initially rediscovering Flames of War, then, after getting hold of the V3 rulebook cheap via eBay, decided that its still crap.
Instead I have discovered Battlegroup Kursk. LINK
Im a massive fan of the Eastern front, and this ruleset seems to offer all the stuff that is lacking from FOW, BKC, and Bolt Action. The book was ordered last week, so I hope to have it in my possession in the next few days.
In the mean time, heres a few links to useful stuff:
Overview of the game
BGK forum on the Guild ( the hardest forum in the world to join!)
Video overview of the book
dux-homunculorum blog review
There are loads more reviews and stuff out there, google it!
Anyway, more epicness in the next update, then its firmly back to historicals!
Cheers for reading,
Monday, 18 August 2014
New Plans
Posted by Stig of the Dump at 00:48
Labels: 15mm, 6mm, Allies, Austrian 1809, BGK, crusades, EPIC, German, Greek, Napoleonic, Random, Saladin, Soviet, Space Marines, Spartans, Tau, WW2, Xyston
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Huge East Front reader here too! I'm hoping that my partner in Chain of Command will agree to move from the West Front to the East front in the next year. I have not seen these rules so I'm curios to hear what you think.ReplyDeleteReplies
Monty, I would have a look at them, looks like a great game.Delete
We are looking at these rules as well as the eastern front holds an interest for us.ReplyDelete
Nice to see you ordered the book, I really enjoy these rules and have certainly never looked back since I changed from FOWReplyDeleteReplies
I ditched FOW a few years ago now, played Blitzkrieg commander abit, got into Bolt action for a while, now looking forward to trying these rules out too.Delete
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