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Market Summary for Saginaw TX Homes
The median home value in Saginaw is $145,000. Saginaw home values have gone up 13.4% over the past year and Zillow predicts they will rise 6.0% within the next year.
Foreclosures will be a factor impacting home values in the next several years. In Saginaw 4.0 homes are foreclosed (per 10,000). This is greater than the Dallas-Fort Worth Metro value of 3.2 and also greater than the national value of 3.3
Click here to find out more about the Saginaw Market provided by Zillow.
For Saginaw real estate overview provided by Trulia, click here.
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What Is Your House Worth in Saginaw TX?
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Neighborhoods: Saginaw TX
Click here to learn more about the neighborhoods in Saginaw such as:
- popular neighborhood
- the safest neighborhoods
- the most expensive neighborhoods
- the best neighborhoods for education
- the highest appreciating neighborhoods
Popular Neighborhoods in Saginaw TX
More Information About Saginaw TX
- City of Saginaw
- County of Saginaw – Tarrant
- About Saginaw – Wikipedia
- Profile of Saginaw – City-Data.com
We buy houses in Saginaw and all surrounding areas in Texas. Also by zip code: 76131, 76179. If you need to sell your house fast in Texas, connect with us… we'd love to make you a fair no-obligation no-hassle offer. Take it or leave it. You've got nothing to lose 🙂


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I'm a storyteller. I tell stories. Stories of my home stories of my travels. To be precise, when I started this blog, I was mostly to be spotted in le Cantal, France, between the two great mountain ranges of the Massif Central – Les Monts du Cantal and Le Massif de Sancy which dominate the Auvergne region. Later, I lived in Grenoble the city known variously as the gateway to, or the capital of, the Alps. It was a marvellous opportunity to dunk self in a chic little cup of urban French life and in my mind I sashayed elegantly and effortlessly effecting a constant that was so much more hip than hick … the success or failure of this tenure was for others to judge and occasionally chronicled here for posterity.
For the last couple of years, I have lived in the USA. Massachusetts to be exact. And that's where the latest chapter in my half-baked life is based. But wanderers wander and ramblers ramble and I am still rootless and searching for roots.
So, I tell of my meanderings, of the people I meet, of their lives, of their kith, their kin and their animals. And I tell of their land. I tell of things long ago and far away. I tell of things I've seen or been. The stories are all real so all I actually do is observe and translate. My role is l'étrangère fitting in and trying to merge into the background like David Attenborough so as not to startle but rather to witness reality. Not journalistically, you understand. I binned the idea of being a journo back in 1980 when as a higher muck-a-muck PA on The Daily Telegraph with delusions of being a reporter it was pointed out to me that I needed to cut my teeth with the rest doing flower shows and funerals for the Toadswallop Gazette or the Gigglespuddle Evening Post …. being a gal-about-town on a fast-track to greatness I quickly moved on from THAT idea. More like a mediaeval raconteur. Without the lute or the mismatched tights.
When I started this blog it was to give me a space to write those stories. Over time, things inevitably develop and alter. I published my first book, 'Russians Love Their Children Too', in France in early 2015 . And, the intention was to follow it up with more. But in my experience life seldom goes to plan but good intentions abound and despite being blocked like a mighty fouled drain for some while, I am falteringly getting back to writing. This blog provides me a place to be fairly formless – formerly it was a sort of 'Eat Pray Love' meets Gertrude Stein on the set of 'A Year in Provence' with the cast of 'Allo Allo' skulking and bickering in the background … now I'm looking to this great continent to provide the inspiration and it's proving pleasingly fertile ground. Occasionally, you can expect food, sometimes photographic posts with lyrical or poetic commentary, I might dip back from time to time to a bit about life in France. I'll give you a random spritz of the actuality of living in a Foreign land, often by yourself with no buoyancy aids, in a place where no-one speaks your native tongue and you speak theirs 'comme une vache Espagnole'. And I don't mean in France …. I will still spin a story or two your way – old habits die hard …. now there's an idea – let's morph Maria von Trapp with Bruce Willis. By George! I think she's got it!
So welcome! Let the feast commence. You can find a little more about me here
One thing though. Photographs. I only use my own and occasionally those taken by friends and family when they are with me and always credited. I don't use stock photographs however tempting it might be to gussy the blog up with a fantastic professional picture that is vaguely in context. Good, bad or indifferent I prefer authenticity.
If you are new to my half-baked world then may I gently suggest a meander through the archives. My most recent posts all appear in the sliding bar at the top and every single post is archived by date in the side-bar. The 'pages' at the top are a selection of stories covering things which captivate me – in truth I don't really know what the difference is between a post and a page – perhaps someone clever might enlighten me though the truth is I tend to do things my own way and so long as I'm not doing any harm I see little value in worry. HB² is the chemical symbol for my husband with two brains and The Bean is our dog.
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Incredible post! Thanks…Lovely words. Flawless photographs.September 5, 2017
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Dazzling words. Dazzling photos…Great blog you have here. I delighted in it!September 27, 2017
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is the cold still very strong in Grenoble?February 28, 2018
tomorrow will be the International Women's Day…..best whishes dear Osyth!
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first of all congratulation for the blog, and want to say thanks for the good starting. Love the blog most.May 11, 2018
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Not too many years ago in the typical American family, only the father worked outside the home. Usually the mother was the homemaker and was there to greet the children when they returned home from school each day. But there have been dramatic changes in that picture.
Millions of families find that they need two wage-earners in order to buy a home, pay the rent, afford vacations or simply to maintain the family budget. In most communities, two-working-parent families are no longer exceptional.
When both parents are occupied with their jobs for eight or more hours per day, there are obvious effects on the family. On the positive side, the family has an increased income and thus fewer financial stresses. Also, when both parents work, there is a potential for greater equality in the roles of husband and wife. Depending on the nature of the parents' work, as well as the family's values, fathers may assume more responsibility for child care and housework than has traditionally been the case. With their wives out in the workplace, men find it easier to define a greater role for themselves in child-raising. This is particularly evident when parents have staggered work schedules - for instance, if the father works daytime hours and is home after school and in the evening, while the mother works a shift such as 4:00 p.m. to midnight. Dad may then be in charge of preparing dinner, cleaning up the kitchen and helping the children with their homework.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration maintains it is unable to say how many times one of the government's most politically sensitive anti-terrorism surveillance programs — which is up for renewal this week on Capitol Hill — has inadvertently gathered intelligence about U.S. citizens.
In a briefing for reporters on the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the general counsel for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence said Tuesday that the program designed to monitor international communications by terrorist suspects has collected an extraordinary amount of valuable intelligence overseas about foreign terrorist suspects while simultaneously protecting civil liberties of Americans.
Originated by the George W. Bush administration, the program was publicly disclosed by The New York Times in 2005 and was restructured in 2008 to provide oversight by a secret federal court and with additional oversight from Congress.
Civil liberties groups and some members of Congress have expressed concern that the government may be reviewing the emails and phone calls of law-abiding Americans in the U.S. who are at the other end of communications with foreign terrorist suspects being monitored abroad.
The House began debating renewal of the program Tuesday and expected to vote Wednesday. A hold has been placed on the legislation in the Senate by one of the program's critics, Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore.
The program "is not a tool for spying on Americans," said Robert Litt, the general counsel for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
Litt said the program cannot be used to target American citizens and cannot be used to target people within the U.S. In addition, it cannot be used to collect the contents of any communication when all the participants are in the United States, said the ODNI's general counsel.
There has never been any intentional effort to bypass restrictions, he added.
At Tuesday's news briefing, reporters repeatedly pressed Litt on how many times there had been incidental collections of intelligence on Americans.
Litt pointed out that the National Security Agency, the ODNI and independent inspectors general for each office have said information is not readily available on the number of instances involving unintentional monitoring of U.S. citizens.
Some members of Congress have suggested that the law contains a loophole that enables intelligence-gathering on U.S. citizens.
"I strongly take exception to the suggestion that there is a 'loophole,'" James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, said in a letter to 11 Senate Democrats and two Senate Republicans on Aug. 24.
The law prohibits "reverse targeting — targeting a person located outside the United States as a pretext when the real goal is to target a person inside the United States."
On Tuesday night, Sen. Mark Udall, D-Colo., said the DNI's Aug. 24 response does not sufficiently address Udall's concerns regarding "the possibility of unauthorized surveillance of Americans." Wyden criticized the lack of "even a ballpark estimate of how many Americans have had their communications collected under this law."
Asked at the news briefing about the program's successes, Litt said that the ability to collect certain kinds of communications that cannot be gathered any other way is "incredibly helpful." He said that being more specific would signal to the targets of the surveillance what was being collected.
In July, the administration acknowledged in a rare disclosure that the program had exceeded legal limits on at least one occasion, but that the problem had been remedied. The ODNI made the comment in a letter to Wyden, a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
On at least one occasion, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court held that an intelligence collection effort was "unreasonable under the Fourth Amendment" requirement to obtain a court warrant, Wyden said at the time.
In response, the intelligence office said that Wyden's statements "may convey an incomplete and potentially misleading understanding" of what is at issue.
Litt said he had met with Wyden, talked through the issues and that the ODNI was prepared to continue doing that.
"If a problem develops, we fix it," Litt said of the program.


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Jered Weaver pulls out no-hitter for Angels
(AP) ANAHEIM, Calif. - His gem complete, Jered Weaver started to sob. Then, there were more tears when his wife and mom and dad joined the Angels ace for a group hug.
Quite an on-field celebration for the California kid. And quite a performance a no-hitter, for crying out loud.
Weaver pitched the second no-hitter in the majors in less than two weeks, completely overmatching Minnesota and leading Los Angeles to a 9-0 win over the Twins on Wednesday night.
"It was an easy ride," Weaver said.
He's about to get another chance to tame the Twins, too. His next start is scheduled for Monday night at Minnesota.
After Phil Humber of the Chicago White Sox threw a perfect game at Seattle on April 21, Weaver was almost as fine.
"He got pretty emotional, but I think it was more a case of him not believing he did it than anything else," said Weaver's father, Dave. "I'm so happy for him. It's just fantastic."
Weaver struck out nine and walked one. The Twins never came close to getting a hit against the All-Star right-hander, and Weaver knew it.
"I probably started think about it in the third," he said with a laugh. "It's tough not to think about it when you see some goose eggs up there. But in a professional ballgame, you never know what's going to happen. A bloop hit or anything else could happen. A lot of things have got to go your way, and that happened tonight. It still hasn't kicked in. It's pretty awesome."
Weaver (4-0), who played at Long Beach State, began the ninth inning by quickly retiring Jamey Carroll on a routine fly and striking out Denard Span looking.
Weaver then got Alexi Casilla to lift a long fly that right fielder Torii Hunter easily caught at the warning track. Weaver watched his Gold Glove outfielder make the play, and put his hands on his head as the Angels rushed out to mob him.
"Spiderman out there. I knew he had a bead on it," Weaver said of Hunter. "Casilla put a charge in it and Spiderman tracked it down."
An inning earlier, Weaver and his teammates could only hope when Trevor Plouffe lined a shot that hooked foul a few feet before reaching the left-field foul pole.
After that, Weaver finished off the Twins in fast order.
"I was locked in for the most part," he said.
It's just so surreal, man. It's awesome. And to have my family here and my wife, and knowing that my brother was watching, this is an awesome moment," he said.
This was the second Angels no-hitter in less than a year Ervin Santana pitched one July 27 at Cleveland and the 10th for the Angels franchise, including four by Nolan Ryan.
Weaver threw 121 pitches, and the cheers from the crowd of 27,288 kept growing louder.
Weaver recalled how he once had a no-hit bid broken up in eighth, and said he was talking five days ago with Angels pitcher C.J. Wilson about coming close.
"C.J. came up to me and said: `Why don't you just go out there and throw a no-hitter?' And I said: `There's no way. There's no chance.' So it's funny that it happened," he said.
Only one Minnesota batter reached base through the first seven innings, and that was when catcher Chris Iannetta committed a passed ball on strike three to Chris Parmelee with two out in the second. Josh Willingham drew the only walk Weaver allowed with two outs in the seventh.
"He dominated us, there's no question about it," Span said. "He was doing everything. He kept us off-balance, changed speeds and finished strong."
The Twins were held hitless for the first time since 1998, when David Wells of the New York Yankees pitched a perfect game against them.
The no-hitter was the highlight for a 29-year-old pitcher who has already compiled quite a resume.
Weaver finished second in the AL Cy Young voting last year after going 18-8 with a 2.41 ERA. He and winner Justin Verlander were the only pitchers listed on every ballot.
Kendrys Morales and Howie Kendrick homered to back Weaver, not that he needed much support.
The Angels' three-game sweep of the Twins included a complete-game three-hit shutout on Tuesday night by Jerome Williams, who retired 18 of his last 19 batters.
The Twins haven't had a hit in the last 15 innings.
It was the first time the Angels had back-to-back complete game wins since 1993 when Chuck Finley and Mark Langston did it.
The Angels built a 6-0 lead against Australian-born Liam Hendriks (0-2).


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Menino won't block Chick-fil-A
Gay marriage comments cause national controversy
Boston Mayor Thomas Menino says he won't try to stop Chick-fil-A from applying for permits to open a restaurant near Faneuil Hall.
Menino is acknowledging that there is little he can do to prevent the fast food chain from coming to Boston, though he stands by his position that the company isn't welcome in the city because of its strong opposition to gay marriage.
The mayor clarified his position on Thursday.
In a sharply-worded letter last week to Chick-fil-A president Dan Cathy, Menino wrote: "There is no place for discrimination on Boston's Freedom Trail and no place for your company alongside it."
Menino now says he was just expressing his own opinion.
Gay rights groups have called for a boycott of the chain and some Chicago politicians hope to stop a restaurant from opening there.
Meanwhile, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg says he strongly disagrees with the mayors of Boston, Chicago and San Francisco over Chick-fil-A's position on gay marriage, the New York Post reported.
Bloomberg supports same-sex marriage, but says the restaurant flap is none of "the government's business."


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Allegheny County police say missing girl may be with wanted dad
Police say Pricilla Papaleo left Sleepy Hollow Academy; may be with Edgar 'John' Papaleo
Allegheny County police are asking for help to find a 15-year-old girl who they classified in an email Monday as a "missing/runaway juvenile."
Police said Pricilla Papaleo left the Sleepy Hollow Academy detention facility on Sunday and is believed to be with her father, 42-year-old Edgar H. "John" Papaleo.
Edgar Papaleo is wanted by police in Philadelphia for robbery, theft and related offenses, according to county police.
Papaleo has connections in Pittsburgh, Zelienople and Philadelphia.
Pricilla is described as white, 5 feet 2 inches tall and 115 pounds, possibly wearing a grey long-sleeve shirt and navy blue pants.
Her father is described as white, 5 feet 7 inches tall and 190 pounds.
Anyone who sees the girl or has information about her location should call 911.


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The High Line—that elevated stretch of spruced-up ex-railroad along New York's western fringes—is turning out to be an alluring muse for__Bond No. 9__–fragrance founder Laurice Rahme, and in more ways than one. In 2009, she paid olfactory homage to it with her High Line parfum, a blend of green floral notes reminiscent of the plantings found along the suspended waterfront park. And now it has inspired the venue for her newest boutique, on Washington Street, nestled within close walking (and sniffing) distance of the revived landmark. "When we launched the High Line fragrance, it was such a success story. I fell in love with the neighborhood, and I just knew that I wanted to open up something here," Rahme recalls.
Location has always been important to Rahme, who was born in Paris but moved to New York 35 years ago. Every fragrance in her Bond No. 9 collection evokes a different New York environ, from the woodsy Gramercy Park to Wall Street's slick and spicy sidewalks. With four boutiques in the city, and a satellite shop in the American Hotel in Sag Harbor, the decision to camp out in the High Line 'hood—the Meatpacking District (home to slaughterhouses in the 18th century)—is not something she would have predicted years ago. "Everyone used to ask me, Would you ever do a Meatpacking location? And I said, 'Never! It doesn't smell good there!'" she says with a laugh. But the area's revamped High Line changed all that. "Now it smells of flowers, breezes coming off the water, and green spaces, which is something we as New Yorkers always want more of."
The new 900-square-foot brick-fronted boutique offers all manner of luxuries, including a custom-blending fragrance bar, a library, and a tea room, where customers can sip 40-plus varieties of Harney & Sons teas (Rahme's personal favorite: Jasmine. "It opens like a flower in your cup."). All 43 of her storied scents are on hand, as well as a soon-to-arrive debut: a set of 15 "I Love New York" eaus, to commemorate the 10th anniversary of 9/11 (look for it starting September 18). Also worth keeping an eye out for: a new "Bond mobile," an English taxicab wrapped in a polka-dot pattern of Bond No. 9 logos, which will be parked out front and stocked with a fragrance bar. "The original Bond mobile is stationed at the headquarters, and I've been searching to find a second one for years," says Rahme. "When I finally found one, I thought it would be perfect for the Meatpacking location." No word on whether it can be taken out for late-night spins to the Standard hotel, but the store itself keeps nocturnal hours, staying open till 10 p.m. What better way to cap off your cocktail than with a fresh spritz on the wrist?
Also in September, the company will branch out with a broader line, aimed at Nordstrom and__Saks Fifth Avenue.__
The Bond No. 9 High Line boutique (212-206-9907) is located at 863 Washington Street, in Manhattan.


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Rumors are now swirling that Dell—the famed PC maker that popularized mainstream customization—may soon be acquired by a private-equity firm, according to a report in Bloomberg citing two unnamed sources.
The Texas-based company is currently publicly traded and its market capitalization puts the company's worth at around $19 billion. Dell, like many other PC makers, has struggled in recent years as laptops, tablets, and smartphones have risen to the fore. Still, the company launched Sputnik, an Ubuntu-based laptop geared towards developers, just last year.
On Monday morning, company stock shot up 14 percent to more than $12 per share (as of this writing) on the heels of this not-quite-yet-news.
Bloomberg also reported in 2010 that CEO and founder Michael Dell "considered" taking the company private, just three years after he retook the top job.
"We're in the midst of a transformation and we're very focused on how we're doing in that and what's our progress and are people coming along in that and making the journey successfully," Dell said at the time.


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The significance of Abdul Ghaffar Khan in the recent history of peace activism is his institution of the importance of discipline in peace- makers.
By Dr Thomas Michel S.J.
On 20 January 1988, Abdul Ghaffar Khan one of the 20th century's great proponents of non-violent change, died at the age of 98 and was buried in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. His funeral was the occasion of the first visit of an Indian Prime Minister to Pakistan in three decades and also occasioned a temporary cease-fire observed both by Soviet and Mujahidin forces in Afghanistan, in order to allow free access to his burial. Three years before his death, Abdul Ghaffar told an interviewer, "For today's children and the world, my thoughts are that only if they accept non-violence can they escape destruction, and live a life of peace. If this doesn't happen, then the world will be in ruins".
Abdul Ghaffar was a Pathan, born in the North-west Frontier Province of British India. In 1929, he founded a non-violent movement called the Khuda-i-Khidmatgar, "the Servants of God".
The movement, which eventually enrolled over 100,000 Pashtun (Pathan) followers, was dedicated to social reform and to put an end by non-violent means to British rule in the still undivided India. He was a close associate of Gandhi from many years until the latter's assassination and is still remembered today in India as "Frontier Gandhi". His calls for social change, equitable land distribution and religious harmony were seen as a threat by the British Raj as well as by some local politicians, religious leaders and landlords, and Abdul Ghaffar survived two assassination attempts and more than 30 years of imprisonment.
One historian describes Abdul Ghaffar's movement as follows:
"The fullest practical expression of Gandhism anywhere in India appeared among the Afghan tribes along the north-west frontier, under the leadership of Abdul Ghaffar Khan. Noted for their feuding and raiding, these tribesmen were won to an active and almost universal program of social self-reform.
Feuding was stopped, discipline was imposed under the name of Service of God (Khuda-e-Khidmat). When nationalist campaigns for independence were launched, the Khudai-khidmatgars gave effective and faithful support. At all times, they remained firmly non-violent. Quranic encouragement of forgiveness as better than revenge became the foundation of a highly Muslim interpretation of Gandhi's ideas". (Marshall Hodgson, The Venture of Islam, III:344).
In the 1930s and 1940s, the British army tried to crush the Khidmatgar movement with extreme brutality, employing mass killings, torture and destruction of members' homes and fields.
An Historian notes: " The British treated Ghaffar Khan and his movement with a barbarity that they often did not inflict on other adherents of non-violence in India. ' The Brutes must be ruled brutally and by brutes,' stated a 1930 British report on the Pashtuns. (Amitabh Pal, " A Pacifist Uncovered," The Progressive, February, 2002).
Abdul Ghaffar spent 15 of those years in prison, often in solitary confinement, but the Pathans refused to give up their disciplined non-violence even in the face of severe repression. In the worst incident, the British killed over 200 Khidmatgar members in Peshawar on 23 April 1930.
Abdul Ghaffar's commitment to non-violence was even more sweeping than that of Gandhi's Indian National Congress. It also differed from that of the Congress, in that the movement had "First of all, religious basis- it took as its objective both local socio-economic reform and political independence.
Abdul Ghaffar's non-violent activism was firmly rooted in his understanding of Islam, which he summarized in the key words mohabbat (love), amal (service), and yakheen (certitude, faith). He interpreted Islam as a moral code with pacifism at its centre. He once related to Gandhi a discussion he had with a Punjabi Muslim who did not see the non-violent core of Islam:
"I cited chapter and verse from the Quran to show the great emphasis that Islam had laid on peace, which is its cornerstone, and I showed him how the greatest figures in Islamic history were known more for their forbearance and self-restraint then for their fierceness".
Abdul Ghaffar's daughter-in-law, Begum Nasim Wali Khan, was interviewed shortly after his death. "He told people that Islam operates on a simple principle-never hurt anyone by tongue, by gun, or by hand. Not to lie, steal and harm is true Islam", she said. Although firmly based on the principles of Islam, the movement was non-sectarian. When Hindus and Sikhs were attacked in Peshawar, 10,000 Khidmatgar members actively helped protect their lives and property. When communal riots broke out in Bihar in1946-1947, Khan toured with Gandhi to bring about peace. "Although the character of the movement was intensely Islamic, one of the objectives of the organisation was the promotion of Hindu-Muslim unity", Bondurant observes.
In 1938,Gandhi asked some members of the movement if they would take up violence if Ghaffar Khan ordered them to, they replied emphatically "No".
The principles of the Khudai-Khidmat are well-expressed in the oath taken by new members of Khudai-Khidmat:
* I am a Servant of God: as God needs no service, serving his creation is serving Him.
* I promise to serve humanity it the name of God.
* I promise to refrain from violence and from taking revenge.
* I promise to forgive those who oppress me or treat me with cruelty.
* I promise to refrain from taking part in feuds and quarrels and from creating enmity.
* I promise to treat every Pathan as my brother and friend.
* I promise to refrain from anti-social customs and practices.
* I promise to live a simple life, to practice virtue and to refrain from evil.
* I promise to practice good manners and good behaviour and not to lead a life of idleness.
* I promise to devote at least two hours a day to social work.
* The significance of Abdul Ghaffar Khan in the recent history of peace activism is his institution of the importance of discipline in peace makers. Working for peace and building peace run counter to many natural impulses. When one is a victim of oppression, the normal human instinct is to fight back, to respond to violence with more of the same. Forgiveness does not come easy or does patience, nor does the kind of forbearance that places long term goals ahead of immediate, spontaneous reactions. In his Islamic faith, Abdul Ghaffar Khan and the Khidmatgars found the basis for self-discipline which enabled them to be strong, patient and forbearing even in the face of brutal violence.
Dr. Thomas Michel, S.J. is the Secretary of the Jesuit, Secretariat for Interi-religious Dialogue in Rome, Italy and Ecumenical Secretary for the Federation of Asian Bishops' Conferences. He is also member of the JUST International Advisory Panel (IAP) (Courtesy: International Move ment for a Just World)
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I went through this earlier, with my friends, about how the nurse at my kid's school sounds like some sort of cartoon character southern belle. I did the accent around work a few times today, and people died laughing.
But this got me to thinking.
I live in ATLANTA. I actually live OUTSIDE of Atlanta by 40 miles. Up where the mountains are starting to be hilly and forests crop up (I live by one). Southern Belles abound here - ALL AROUND ME.
Not one of them sounds like this.
Where "I" is "AH" and "Okay" is "O KAYEEEE YEEEYEE". Who talks like that? NO ONE.
Yes, there are accents. Some people say I've picked one up but I don't hear it. But maybe I have. This though, it truly was like Carol Burnett herself was pretending to be Miss Scarlet, too pronounced, too much drawl.
It makes me a bit nuts. I am not sure if people realize that, just as east coasters with sharp tone and fast rate of speech seem RUDE to those from the south - when in fact they feel they are just being efficient with their words, this slow make believe southern drawl makes you sound like, well YES Melanie Wilkes less intelligent sister.
We decided today then, that this would be Simpleton Hamilton. And we're not surprised because we all know that they marry their cousins.
So that explains it all, then doesn't it?
It never ends well.
Friday, November 02, 2012
Melanie Wilkes' Less Intelligent Sister
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Many women are especially attached to their handbags. As well as being receptacles for our personal possessions, sometimes they are fashion statement and status symbol too. "There are few material items more personal or more indispensable to a woman than her handbag," wrote Rebecca Kamm.
So you'd think we'd all have figured out by now the appropriate placement of these objects in various social contexts. Yet I have witnessed many a faux pas regarding the depositing of a handbag upon arrival at a venue. I've seen women sweep into houses and dump their all-purpose handbag in the middle of a kitchen bench-top - presumably oblivious to the fact they've just contaminated a clean surface used for food preparation.
For the record: if your handbag has sat on pavements, the floors of public transportation, airports, restaurants, shops or any public space, it's not appropriate to then rest it on table tops or any surfaces associated with the storage, preparation or consumption of food. If I'm really honest, the only time I'd like to see a handbag on my kitchen bench is if it's fresh out of its designer packaging. Once it's been used, placing it on the floor or a chair is far more acceptable.
On a trip to Singapore I noted that women in restaurants habitually sat their (usually expensive designer) handbags on the back of their chair while they perched on the front. Seriously, twelve years ago every woman in every restaurant would be doing this. It was as if this practice had been handed down through the generations or taught at some etiquette class for polite young ladies.
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I'd suggest that this strategy might not work so well in nations in which the general population has a heftier build. It actually didn't look that comfortable for the women but at least their bag stayed pristine. Presumably it was also a security measure; because it rested against their back they'd surely know if anyone tried to swipe it.
Al Brown's Depot in Federal Street has conveniently installed handbag hooks under the tables. It's great for customers but I suspect it's also a safety measure to reduce the risk of staff members tripping over handbags strewn across the floor. Or else you can consider purchasing a handbag hook; these are defined as a "fashion accessory that is used to hang your handbag over the side of a bar/table to keep it off the ground. This keeps your handbag safe, clean and off your lap and off the dirty floor".
The subject is further explored in Would you put $8,000 on the floor? in which it is claimed that bags "languishing on the floor" are "vulnerable to thievery, filth, scuffing, and nasty microbes", which reminded me why I'll never use a public toilet without a hook on its door.
Related issues are examined at styleyourlifeblog.com where someone wrote: "I have a great vintage clutch ... and I'd like to take it to a dinner ... at a restaurant at a country club ... It's the size of a paperback book so not huge. I wasn't sure if it stays on my lap or what? Why don't they teach you this stuff in school?"
That's a great question yet it's precisely because they don't impart such knowledge in the classroom that we must apply our own logic and rationale to each handbag dilemma, taking into account a range of factors including: size of bag, its core purpose, where it's been, the nature of the surface you are eying up as a potential resting spot, how keen you are not to offend - and possibly even how much the bag cost and the value of the goods inside it. Good luck with all that.
What's your handbag policy? Do you rest it on the floor, chair or table? What's your response if someone plonks their handbag on your kitchen bench?


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Earth from Space: Africa's largest and highest
The border region of southern Kenya and northern Tanzania – with a small portion of south eastern Uganda – is pictured in this Envisat image.
Lake Victoria straddles all three countries. Named after Queen Victoria in the mid-1800s, it is the largest African lake by area and supports the continent's largest inland fishery.
In the lower-right portion of the image, we can see the snows of Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest mountain at 5895 m above sea level.
This dormant volcano has three volcanic cones: Kibo, Mawenzi and Shira. The last major eruption is believed to have occurred over
North of Mount Kilimanjaro is Mount Kenya, the second-highest mountain in Africa – just above 5000 m. This mountain has 11 small glaciers, but they are rapidly retreating – similar to the ones on Kilimanjaro. Glacial retreat can be caused by changes in the trends of temperature or precipitation.
The area around Mount Kenya is a national park protecting the biodiversity and forming an attractive destination for tourists. The area is home to monkey, antelopes, elephants and leopards.
The area pictured is part of the East African Rift – an area where two tectonic plates are moving apart from one another – making this home to a number of both active and dormant volcanoes.
Most volcanoes around the world are not monitored effectively – or at all. Satellite radars can detect small changes in the ground that may indicate volcanic activity, and can do this on a global scale and in remote or inaccessible areas.
This image was acquired by Envisat's MERIS instrument on 4 January 2012.
Contact with Envisat was suddenly lost on 8 April and the mission has come to an end. But ten years of Envisat's archived data will continue to be exploited for studying Earth's land, atmosphere, oceans and ice caps for years to come.
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�You can put your boots in the oven. But that don�t make �em biscuits!� goes the old Texas saying.
Will they be saying that when they get a chance to secede from the Union? Do secessionists know that in this event, they would get to pay taxes to the state, which they don�t have to pay now?
Let�s take it easy today so there is this post-Thanksgiving poem:
T�was the night of Thanksgiving, but I just couldn�t sleep.
I tried counting backward, I tried counting sheep.
The leftovers beckoned -- the dark meat and white.
But I fought the temptation with all of my might.
Tossing and turning with anticipation, the thought of a snack became infatuation.
So I raced to the kitchen, flung open the door and gazed at the fridge, full of goodies galore.
I gobbled up turkey and cold buttered potatoes, pickles and carrots, beans and tomatoes.
I felt myself swelling, so plump and so round, �til all of a sudden, I rose off the ground.
I crashed through the ceiling floating into the sky with a mouthful of pudding and handful of pie.
But I managed to yell as I soared past the trees, �Happy eating to all; pass the cranberries, please!
May your stuffing be tasty, may your turkey be plump.
May your potatoes and gravy have nary a lump.
May your yams be delicious, may your pies take the prize.
May your Thanksgiving dinner stay off of your thighs.


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The number of major record labels seems set to drop to a mere three, as EMI has failed to make a deal for North American distribution rights with either Universal or Sony.
As I wrote about extensively here, EMI is doing very, very badly, and things have just been getting worse for them. They had hoped to get themselves out of immediate danger of being broken up or sold by making a five-year deal with either Sony or Universal worth about $US304 million. They couldn't pull it off.
So where does that leave them? Well they need to raise about $US180 million by June or their loan from Citigroup goes into default, at which point the bank could seize EMI and either break it up or sell it.
The consolidation of the major labels to a mere three (Sony, Warner and Universal) would be the tightest the music industry has ever been. But those remaining three, while struggling to be sure, have not been in the terrible situation EMI has been in. And with them probably snapping up EMI's valuable assets (without the worthless ones) for rock-bottom prices, they could get a bit of a life come this summer.
But the way things are headed for the industry, without some major changes they're all headed in the same direction as EMI. The questions is whether or not they'll be able to figure out how to change course before it's too late.
Update: A source familiar with the discussions told me that Universal initially approached EMI for a deal. Sony then heard about it and got in on the discussions as well as they turned serious over the weekend.
In the wee hours of the morning yesterday, EMI walked out from the deal UMG was proposing as it did not offer enough value to stakeholders or its artists. The deal's off and EMI is finalizing a plan for its owner, Terra Firma, and in turn, Terra Firma is talking to its investors about additional funding for an "equity cure" or cash to ensure Terra Firma can meet its debt obligations for EMI.
If EMI had been that desperate for cash, they would have taken the UMG deal — about $310 million — and banked the money before the end of its fiscal and you would have seen a deal announced. But EMI is doing great in an otherwise down market and they didn't need that UMG deal.
In any case, the deadline for EMI is June. We'll see what happens.
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Google has announced the dates for its annual developer conference.
The event will be held May 15-17, 2013 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Additional details surrounding the event will be available in early 2013.
At last year's conference, Google announced Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, the Nexus 7 tablet and the Nexus Q media-streaming device. Google co-founder Sergey Brin also demonstrated the company's new Google Glass by skydiving onto the Moscone Center wearing a pair of the futuristic glasses.
SEE ALSO: Everything You Need To Know From Google I/O
Exceptionally popular with developers, Google I/O traditionally sells out moments after tickets go on sale. While the event has a pretty hefty price tag, those in attendance often walk away with a handful of Google products. Last year, each attendee was given a Galaxy Nexus smartphone, Nexus 7 tablet, Nexus Q and a Chromebox.
You can check out videos from Google I/O 2012 on the conference website.


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Behind the Scenes at 2Bar Spirits, a Small Batch Distillery in Seattle
Your ticket into the secret world of boozemaking.
It's hard to imagine anyone better prepared to start a craft distillery than Nathan Kaiser. Armed with a microbiology degree, years of experience at startups (mostly in tech), and a family history of making moonshine, it almost seems like destiny. "I have a pretty good life," 2Bar Spirits owner, founder, and CEO Kaiser says. "I've got a wife, two kids, and I make booze."
I dropped by the distillery in Seattle's SoDo neighborhood for a tour and to learn about the process of making moonshine, vodka, and bourbon. 2Bar is one of the few grain-to-bottle operations that have opened in the three years since the easing of laws gave birth to Washington State's fledgling craft distilling industry.
Kaiser's excitement about his still-new business is effusive. "I made bourbon!" he giggles, even as he explains that the bourbon—his third spirit after wheat vodka and moonshine—is still aging while he clears the paperwork with the state.
In the tasting room at the front of the building, he pours tastes of the two completed spirits under a photo on the wall of his grandfather. 2Bar as a spirits company may only be a year and a half old, but 2Bar Ranch in South Texas has been in the Kaiser family for five generations. The company name comes only from the ranch side of the family, but the moonshining, legend has it, comes from both. So moonshine seemed like a logical first spirit for Kaiser's Seattle distillery.
2Bar's moonshine is an un-aged spirit made from 80% corn and 20% malted barley, a less complex mashbill than Kaiser's corn-focused white dog (which is what goes into oak barrels to become bourbon). In bourbon, the aging process smooths out rough edges as the wood interacts with the spirit, but in 2Bar's moonshine, the flavor stays true to the original ingredients. The dominant flavor is reminiscent of summer's sweetest corn, with a brightness that bourbon's time in the barrel tends to gloss over. The single-distilled vodka too, has a wonderful sweetness, creamy and rich, a far cry from anything you'll find from most major producers. Kaiser encourages flavor in his vodka, rather than trying to distill it out. He refuses to answer when I press him to compare his product to larger brands—and I can't blame him. I'd have an easier time naming a cocktail or even a bourbon that match the wafting caramel flavors of his vodka than any vodka I've had outside of Washington State.
"What you can do with booze is amazing," Kaiser tells me, remarking on the difference between his and other vodkas. "Twenty or thirty years ago, nobody knew the diversity of wine or beer. Soon it will be the same with vodka." He says that distilling "is a volume business, so after a while we won't see craft, as a word, meaning small, since distillers need to grow bigger and bigger to make more money." I ask him how he plans to grow in the future. The same way, he answers, that he got started: going door-to-door, knocking and getting people to try his product, whether they might sell it in their store, their restaurant, or just enjoy it. Like his grandfather before him—who took over the 2Bar Ranch at age eight, after the death of his father—Nathan is ready to get his hands dirty and work hard to build his business.
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If your kids could use a little brush-up on their spelling, beezi might be the game that does it.
My son and I took the game for a test drive. He figures he's a better speller than his mother (who is a writer by trade, a-hem).
We really enjoyed beezi. For off, it was easy to figure out how to play it–a huge plus. I hate having to read through two pages of directions to figure out a game before you can even play it.
And it was fast-playing. Another plus.
Essentially, beezi takes you around a board; you select cards and spell words. The harder the word, the further you go on the board. Special spaces on the board let you roll again, skip a turn or advance.
The game includes spelling challenges at different levels. That's good because it means that your eight-year-old can play with your 10-year-old at the same time. And it makes it extra flexible for playdates.
There's also a Teens and Parents edition, which we will definitely have to get (we were given this one by beezi, for review). We did find that the younger game was a bit too easy for my 12-year-old. Although, he did not—I stress, did not—win against his mother.
Because kids write down their answer, rather than just spell it out loud, the game can definitely help kids improve their spelling. The game provides a real incentive to sound words out and try to get them right. It also gives adults a chance to explain why certain words are spelled the way they are.
Some kids are shy or embarrassed about not being able to spell very well. Even my son, who's a pretty good speller, didn't like to admit it when he couldn't spell certain words, and I can see that. So you may want to keep that in mind when you're playing. Usually, I was able to explain that "everyone gets that one wrong," or "that spelling rule is tricky" and then roll the dice and keep the game moving.
The game is themed around bees, a riff on "spelling bees." The bee theme continues with the die, which features six types of bees (from honey bee – the easiest words to spell, to killer bee – the most challenging). My son likes "Shaggy Fuzzyfoot" the best; Shaggy's a wildcard. And the object of the game is to reach the "beehive" in the middle of the board.
The illustrations are quirky and modern, and the dice is one of those big, chunky ones that are such fun to roll.
Bonus: The next time I go to a restaurant or a long car ride with my son, I'm going to bring along the card deck. It will be a terrific quiz-me activity, even without the game board. beezi would also be a good game to take to the cottage, because everyone can play it, using different level card packs.
beezi: the s-p-e-l-l-i-n-g game sells for $29.99 and is available at toy stores and Chapters/Indigo. You can also purchase it from the beezi website ($10 to $15 shipping within Canada).
(If you're in Toronto, buy it from my friend Sam at her Playful Minds toy store. Tell her I sent ya.)
On the beezi website, click on Take the Beezi challenge for a fun online spelling challenge.


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Washington, D.C. – In the galactic scheme of things, the Sun is a remarkably constant star. While some stars exhibit dramatic pulsations, wildly yo-yoing in size and brightness, and sometimes even exploding, the luminosity of our own sun varies a measly 0.1% over the course of the 11-year solar cycle.
There is, however, a dawning realization among researchers that even these apparently tiny variations can have a significant effect on terrestrial climate. A new report issued by the National Research Council (NRC), "The Effects of Solar Variability on Earth's Climate," lays out some of the surprisingly complex ways that solar activity can make itself felt on our planet.
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