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You may remember a few weeks ago, I told you about a date night I had coming up that I was truly looking forward to...the Ruth's Chris Steak House 90+ Wine Dinner. I have been having a rough few weeks as of late and my husband and I were definitely ready to take a break from it all and relax with a night out that promised both great food and great wine.
On Thursday, August 23rd, most of the Ruth's Chris Steak Houses around the country paired with Wine Enthusiast Magazine to bring everyone a phenomenal night of 90+ rated wines. Now, I'll be the first to admit that I am no wine enthusiast, but I always enjoy a tasty glass of vino. Keep reading to learn more about our fun-filled night on the town!
If you're like me, then you might not know what a 90+ wine is. I learned that basically it's a rating wine experts give a vintage and it's based on a 100 point scale. If a wine receives 90-93 points, it is considered excellent and if it receives 94-97 points, it's considered a great achievement and ranks superb.
I was very excited because one of the five wines we were scheduled to taste at the wine dinner was actually rated superb. Although I was sipping and enjoying the others throughout the night, I have to admit that I was eagerly awaiting the taste of the Col d'Orcia Brunello di Montalcino 2007.
Menu for the Ruth's Chris Steak House 90+ Wine Dinner:
First Course
Ferrari NV Brut Metodo Classico – 90 Points
Warm Brie and Pecan Tartlet
Savory Apple-Mango Chutney, Guava Sauce
Second Course
Planeta Chardonnay 2009 – 91 Points
Summer Tomato, Cucumber, Feta Salad
Kalamata Olives, Fresh Herb Vinaigrette
Third Course
Santa Rita Triple C 2007 – 90 Points
Lobster & Chorizo Risotto
Cognac Spiked Creamy Lobster Sauce
Fourth Course
Col D'Orcia Brunello di Montalcino DOCG 2007 - 94 Points
Filet Mignon Oscar
Sauce Béarnaise, Ruth's Garlic Mashed Potatoes
S.A. Prum – Graacher Himmelreich Riesling Spatlese 2009 – 92 Points
Fresh Strawberry Shortcake and Dark Chocolate Covered Strawberry
One thing I love about attending the special events hosted by Ruth's Chris is how we are always seated at large tables together when we dine. Michael and I have had some of the most interesting and enjoyable conversations with the people we were seated with at these dinners, and we both definitely enjoyed our company at the 90+ Wine Dinner as well. Seated with us were a retired pediatrician and a professor of accounting at the University of Houston. We talked everything from football, to books, education and child rearing and had a fabulous time!
I also have to admit that the 94 point wine I was anticipating all night was most certainly worth the wait. The Col d'Orcia Brunello di Montalcino 2007 was hands-down, the best wine I have ever tasted. As a matter of fact, everyone at our table even asked the staff at Ruth's Chris if we could have another glass of this tasty vintage. I don't know how readily available this wine is, but my husband and I have decided to find out and purchase a bottle for ourselves. If you're a big wine lover, then I highly recommend you do the same. The Wine Enthusiast magazine was definitely spot-on in their rating of this vintage.
Here's an excerpt from their May 2012 review of this wine: "An impressive wine from one of Montalcino's top estates. The wine opens with ethereal balsam notes of eucalyptus, humus, dried fruit and dried mint. Beyond those elegant tones are sturdier layers of cured meat and savory spice. It shows bold concentration, thick power and firmness on the close, with a drying mineral finish."
The food at Ruth's Chris was delicious as always and they absolutely never disappoint with their amazing Filet Mignon and Garlic Mashed Potatoes. Although some of the dishes served during the wine dinner weren't exactly my favorites, I couldn't get enough of the Warm Brie and Pecan Tartlet and the Feta Salad.
Once again, Ruth's Chris Steak House provided both my husband and I with a fabulous night we won't soon forget. The 90+ Wine Dinner is one we will be talking about for quite a while to come. If you'd like to enjoy an unforgettable night out too, then be sure to visit Ruth's Chris Steak House to learn more about the next event on their calendar as well as find a participating restaurant in your area. I promise that you will be oh-so-glad you did!
Disclosure: My husband and I attended the 90+ Wine Dinner at Ruth's Chris Steak House free of charge in order to facilitate my review. No other compensation was received. This product review is based on my own personal experiences with this restaurant and is always completely honest and objective.
I'm a former 7th grade Science teacher turned stay-at-home mom that lives in Houston, Texas. I am married to my college sweetheart and have a beautiful daughter named Riley, who definitely keeps me on my toes! I am also involved in starting a small business which would both manufacture and sell an invention that I've patented, called Toothpaste 2 Go. I love interacting with my readers and hope to learn as much about you as you learn about me!
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The Fist
The fist clenched round my heart
loosens a little, and I gasp
brightness; but it tightens
again. When have I ever not loved
the pain of love? But this has moved
past love to mania. This has the strong
clench of the madman, this is
gripping the ledge of unreason,
before plunging howling into the abyss.
Hold hard then, heart. This way at least you live.
Love After Love
The time will come
when, with elation
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror
and each will smile at the other's welcome,
and say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was your self.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who has loved you
all your life, whom you ignored
for another, who knows you by heart.
Take down the love letters from the bookshelf,
the photographs, the desperate notes,
peel your own image from the mirror.
Sit. Feast on your life.
— Collected Poems, 1948-1984 (pp. 327, 328)

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Categories: agile, dependencies, Kanban, lean, Product Owners, requirements, scaling, Scrum
Although we strive to avoid functional dependencies between requirements, the fact is that they occur in practice. They certainly occur between requirements that are being addressed by a single team and they will even occur between requirements being addressed by different development teams. This is particularly true between the subteams within a program (a large development team organized into a "team of teams").
The following diagram depicts a simple situation where there is an agile program organized into five subteams (A thru E). The way you read the diagram is that the arrows between requirements represent functional dependencies. In this case the requirement fourth from the top on A's backlog (A4) depends on the one that is second from the top (A2) and on B3 (the requirement third from the top on team B's backlog). B3 in turn depends on C7, which depends on D3. D3 depends on E4, which depends on D10, which depends on C12, which depends on D14. There could very well be dependencies between other requirements, but for this example we're only worried about the dependencies originating from A4.
Figure 1: Example of functional dependencies between requirements.
Where Do Functional Dependencies Come From?
Functional dependencies occur between requirements for several reasons:
- End-user driven. Functional dependencies occur naturally in the business domain as the result of end user activities. For example, when a customer opens a bank account there is a functional dependency between the customer and bank account business entities. Furthermore, functionality such as being able to withdraw from a bank account depends on their being the ability to open a bank account for a customer to begin with.
- Requirements decomposition. When a large requirement is decomposed into smaller ones there are dependencies from the original large requirement to the smaller sub-requirements. An example of this is decomposing an epic, a large story, into several smaller stories.
- Technology driven. Some teams will choose to identify requirements for a given platform, subsystem, or architectural layer. For example, you may identify requirements for systems of engagement, such as applications running on mobile devices, and for systems of record, such as a back-end ERP system. A requirement for a mobile application may have a dependency on a requirement for a backend system to provide certain behaviors (such as the ability to create, read, update, and delete data). An example of requirements dependencies driven by architectural layering would be that you may choose to identify user interface (UI) requirements, business rules, and data requirements (via data models perhaps). A UI requirement depends on the implementation of a business rule which in turn depends on several data-oriented requirements.
Of the three reasons for why functional dependencies exist, the first two are clearly within the purview of a Product Owner (PO). The third one, technology driven dependencies, can be trickier because many POs will not be familiar with the underlying technologies. This is one reason why Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD)'s Architecture Owner (AO) role is so important. The AO and the PO on a disciplined agile team work very closely together. AOs will help POs to better understand the implications of the technologies being used as well as to understand potential implications of the technologies (including technology-driven functional dependencies). These sorts of discussions will occur throughout the lifecycle, although they are particularly important during initial release planning during Inception and during iteration planning and look-ahead planning throughout Construction.
How do You Resolve Functional Dependencies?
Functional dependencies are addressed via three basic strategies:
- Reprioritize one or both of the requirements. When requirement X depends on requirement Y you ideally want to implement Y before, or at least in parallel, to implementing X. The advantage of reprioritization is that it requires the least amount of work by the development team. The disadvantage is that when a requirement is reprioritized in this manner the team is no longer working on the highest priority functionality by business value, potentially decreasing the return on investment (ROI) provided by the team.
- Mock out the missing functionality until it is available. Requirement X depends on requirement Y and Y will not be available in time (e.g. X is being worked on right now and Y will be developed in a future iteration). In this case the development team will implement X to the best of their ability, but will mock out (simulate or stub out) the functionality of Y until it is available. The advantage of this approach is that it is now possible to demo X so as to get feedback about it. The disadvantages are that your solution isn't shippable until the mocked out functionality is implemented (or removed) and that there is the additional work to be done to mock it out.
- Rework the requirements to remove the dependency. If X depends on Y, then one solution might be to refactor X into X1 and X2, where X2 has the functionality dependent on Y but X1 has no dependency. X1 would be implemented now, and X2 at the same time or after Y is implemented. For example, a new screen has a dependency on data services being available. The screen includes five fields, four of which already have data services available but one of which is brand new. In this case X1 would be to do the work to implement the screen with the four fields and X2 would be the requirement to add the new field once the data was available on the back end. Another solution would be to not add the new data field at all, something you would need to discuss with your stakeholders.
Within an agile environment, functional dependencies are managed by Product Owners. When the dependencies are between requirements, or more accurately work items, that are being addressed by a single agile team this is fairly straightforward because it's within the purview of the single product owner.
Now let's consider how a Product Owner team would manage requirements dependencies within a program, as in the diagram above. In this case let's assume that each team has it's own product owner (PO) whom we'll refer to as PO-A, PO-B, and so on. There are three scenarios to consider when managing requirements dependencies:
- Within the same sub-team. An example of this is A4 depends on A2. This is straightforward as a single person, in this case PO-A, is responsible for managing this dependency.
- On previously developed functionality. An example of this is C7 depends on D3. This should also be straightforward as D3 was implemented in iteration N so it should be available when C7 is implemented during iteration N+1.
- On future functionality. An example of this is B3 depends on C7. The problem is that we want to implement B3 during iteration N but we currently plan to implement C7 during iteration N+1. The two product owners, PO-A and PO-B, will need to work together to determine a strategy for resolving the dependency. They'll do this via a combination of the strategies described earlier. They may also need to work closely with the Chief Product Owner to ensure that their reprioritization choices reflect the overall needs of the program.
How would the entire requirements dependency map for A4, as depicted in the diagram above, be resolved? It depends on what the product owner team decides. At the present moment the overall requirements dependency chain is to be implemented during iterations N through N+3. This may in fact be acceptable and the product owners will decide to live with the impact of mocking out functionality until it is available. Or they may decide to reprioritize the functionality so that it is implemented in a more effective order (perhaps during iteration N+1). The point is that the product owners will engage in negotiation amongst themselves to determine the best order in which the sub teams will implement the functionality.
How do You Manage Functional Dependencies?
Functional dependencies are managed by the Product Owner, or in the case of a program, the Product Owner team. The goal is to do just enough work to maintain the dependencies and no more. When you do not sufficiently maintain the dependencies, perhaps you forget to record that a sub-requirement was created as the result of decomposing a larger parent requirement, then it becomes difficult to ensure that a requirement is properly implemented. When you invest too much effort into maintaining functional dependencies any extra effort beyond the point of sufficiency is a waste. In short, your dependency map should be just barely good enough (JBGE) for the situation you find yourself in.
There are several options available to you for maintaining a functional dependencies:
- Physical dependency map. With this strategy requirements, such as user stories or features, are captured on paper (typically via index cards or sticky notes) and placed on a whiteboard, corkboard, or table. On physical boards dependencies can be indicated via physical placement, for example the cards capturing the sub-requirements of a large requirement are placed immediately to the right of the large requirement card. On a corkboard strings representing requirements could be placed from one card to another and on a whiteboard lines could be drawn to represent the dependencies. Or IDs could be given to each requirement and any dependencies simply captured on the cards via writing down the appropriate IDs. An example of a physical map include user story maps, see Figure 2 below, that indicate the epic or theme that a story is part of (this is a rudimentary form of dependency mapping). Another example includes a program plan board, an idea promoted by SAFe, where requirements are mapped to iterations/sprints (columns on the board), to implementation teams (rows on the board), and dependencies indicated via strings or lines.
- Simple electronic tool. Dependencies can be managed using tools such as spreadsheets, word processors, or wikis.
- Backlog/work item management tools. This includes products such as Trello, Atlassian's JIRA, Rally and VersionOne. Some of these tools will have native support for managing dependencies where others do not (if the solution is to add a text reference into a freeform notes field then that's not native support).
- Requirements management tools. This includes products such as Blueprint, Enterprise Architect, or DOORS NG. Be aware that some of these tools will have native, and more importantly effective, support for agile requirements artifacts such as user stories and acceptance criteria. Sometimes they will not.
Figure 2. Example of a simple story map.
Which approach should you take? Our advice is always to keep it simple and use physical tools if your situation permits. Having said that, there are advantages and disadvantages to each strategy:
- Physical dependency maps work well when teams are geographically close (working on the same floor or at least nearby floors in the same building). When you find yourself with a lot of dependencies to manage, or in a regulatory environment when traceability is mandated, or your team is geographically distributed (even if you just have a few people working from home), you'll find that you'll want to consider using electronic tools.
- Simple electronic tools work well when the team is small to medium sized (say less than 30 people), when the team is geographically distributed in some way, and the dependencies aren't very complex.
- Backlog management tools are an effective option if you're already using them for other reasons (such as managing your work), they natively support dependency mapping, and when physical dependency maps haven't worked out for you.
- Requirements management tools are appropriate when you find yourself in complex situations, often at scale. This includes geographically distributed teams, complex domains, and regulatory situations.
Parting Thoughts
Earlier we said that the diagram represents a "simple" situation. It is simple in that all five teams are following the same sort of lifecycle, in this case the basic/agile DAD lifecycle. Furthermore the velocities of the teams are roughly the same, which we did for the convenience of the example. Usually the team velocities are very different, due to a combination of different team sizes and different levels of productivity. In a future blog posting we'll discuss the challenges that arrive when the subteams are following different lifecycles (for example a lean or continuous delivery lifecycle or even a waterfall lifecycle).
Several of the strategies described in the blog posting were first identified in Complex Requirements on an Agile Project (Dr. Dobbs Journal, October 2008).


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Chief Dennis Mathisen says, besides not knowing whether the man's backpack had a bomb…there were other concerns.
"You know, it could have been anything. We could have had, later in the fire, a weakened roof structure with a lot of heating and ventilation equipment on top that we had concerns about safety. We would make the same decision there. We wouldn't put firefighters under that if we felt it was unsafe. And so we had to adjust our strategy and tactics accordingly."
This morning, firefighters are inside the mall watching out for any minor flare ups.
Meanhile…Roseville city leaders say yesterday's fire did more than destroy part of a regional shopping hub. Mayor Gina Garbolino says it's also an economic setback just before the crucial holiday shopping season.
"It's a tremendous blow to our economy and it's a blow to our community. You know, there's jobs at stake. People are expected to come to work and they won't be able to. We have events here for community that benefit our community. This is very sad, a very sad day for Roseville."
Officials say the Galleria could be limited in operations for months because of yesterday's blaze…which caused part of the roof on the building's south end to collapse.
Police arrested a suspect. He's 23-year-old Alexander Corney Pigee.


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Pew Study: Fox News was No. 1 news source — for Trump voters
Forty percent of Americans who said they voted for Donald Trump said they relied on Fox News as their main source of election news before Nov. 8, a stark contrast with Americans who said they voted for Hillary Clinton, only 3 percent of whom relied on the cable news channel as their main source of election-related news.
The findings, from a study released by the Pew Research Center on Wednesday, reflect a continued partisan divide in the media consumption habits around the country.
Americans who said they voted for Clinton reported a more diverse array of news sources than Americans who said they voted for Trump, with no one news source named by more than one in five self-identified Clinton voters. About 18 percent of Clinton voters said they relied on CNN as their main source of election news; other sources, like The New York Times and MSNBC, hovered between 5 and 9 percent.
Eight percent of Trump voters relied on CNN for their main election news, according to the survey results.
All in all, most respondents said they relied on television news as their main source of election news. About the same percentage of Trump and Clinton voters relied on news sources like CBS and NBC News, as well as local television stations.
In the primaries, however, Democratic and Democratic-leaning voters who supported Clinton said they relied on news from MSNBC and local television at higher rates than Democratic or Democratic-leaning voters who didn't support the candidate. Only 37 percent of Democratic and Democratic-leaning voters who did not support Clinton during the primaries relied on television news for their election news, compared to nearly 48 percent of those who used news websites and social media for their news over television.
Among Republicans and Republican-leaning voters in the primaries, Trump supporters and opponents alike said they used TV, print, radio and digital news sources for election news at similar rates.
In the general election, 8 percent of Trump voters and Clinton voters said they relied on Facebook for the main source of their election-related news. (The study noted that the specific news outlets that appeared in individuals' Facebook feeds most likely varied.) But overall, digital news publishers were not reported to be a main source of election news during the primaries or the general election. Instead, a majority of voters said they received most of their election-related news from television.
The study surveyed 4,183 adults who are members of Pew Research Center's American Trends Panel, which the Center says is nationally representative. The survey was conducted over two weeks beginning Nov. 29, 2016.


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In 2011 at Basel watch fair, Swiss haute horlogerie brand ANTOINE MARTIN had announced their grand entry to the world of luxury watch making by introducing the Perpetual Calendar QP01 ("Quantième Perpétuel au Grand Balancier") Collection.
This year, the enigmatic watch brand founded by watch making genius Martin Braun, presents their second and newest collection "Tourbillon Quantième Perpétuel". This grand complication timepiece was unveiled at Basel world 2012.
The tourbillon revolves around its own axis once a minute, while the escapement in the rotating cage ticks away steadily at 2.5 Hertz, or 18,000 beats per hour. Martin Braun chose silicium as the material for the pallet lever, escape wheel and impulse pin, and opted for a balance of nickel silver.
Precision adjustment is achieved via the two half-round-head screws made of 18-carat gold, while the tourbillon cage is poised using two gold rings. The result is a tourbillion consisting of precisely 65 parts and weighing a total of 0.62 grams. Not only that, the rotating cage has the breath taking diameter of 14.1 millimetres.
The ANTOINE MARTIN Tourbillon Perpetual Calendar watch is equipped with the in-house movement Calibre 39.002. The collection has two models and features a choice of two different dials – silver in the rose gold – or black in the white gold case.
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Model: ANTOINE MARTIN Tourbillon Quantième Perpétuel
Reference TQP01.710.1
Hand-wound movement with six days power reserve
Case: Rose gold 18K
Double anti-reflective sapphire crystal
Genuine brown Louisiana alligator leather strap
Deployant buckle with rose gold 18K
Reference TQP01.800.1
Hand-wound movement with six days power reserve
Case white gold 18K
Double anti-reflective sapphire crystal
Genuine black Louisiana alligator leather strap
Deployant buckle with white gold 18K


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President Donald Trump said Tuesday he will be speaking to Saudi officials about the disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, as the foreign ministry of Turkey announced it will search the Saudi consulate in Istanbul where Khashoggi entered to fill out paperwork last week but apparently never returned from.
Khashoggi, a Saudi citizen who was living in exile in the United States and writing opinion columns for The Washington Post, has been a vocal critic of Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman and has extensive intimate knowledge into his inner circle.
While the Saudi government alleges that Khashoggi left the consulate after his visit last week, his fiancee maintains that he never did. Media reports have called into question whether the journalist is still alive.
Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office on Tuesday, Trump said he had not spoken to Saudi officials about Khashoggi but added that he "will be."
"I know what everybody else knows — nothing," Trump added.
A probe Turkey launched into the case is now expanding with the cooperation of the Saudi government, which reportedly agreed to a search of its Istanbul consulate.
"Although consular premises are inviolable according to the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, the receiving state can conduct an examination in these premises with the consent of the head of the diplomatic mission," spokesman for the Turkish foreign ministry Hami Aksoy said in a statement Tuesday. "The Saudi authorities have notified that they are open to cooperation in this regard and that the examination can be conducted in their consular buildings in Istanbul."
Saudi Arabia has denied any allegations that Khashoggi was killed while in the consulate, claiming that Khashoggi exited the diplomatic office through a back door.
A report in Sabah, a Turkish newspaper linked to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, claimed that 15 Saudi nationals arrived in Istanbul the day of Khashoggi's disappearance and are suspected to have been involved in the incident after entering the consulate. The report, whose general claims were corroborated by The New York Times and The Washington Post, also said that six vehicles carrying Saudis left the consulate two-and-a-half hours after Khashoggi's arrival. The six cars were followed by a black van, suspected to have been carrying the dissident journalist.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Monday night that State Department officials had raised the matter, which he called "concerning," through diplomatic channels with the Saudi government, while also calling on the Middle Eastern kingdom to investigate. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) also sent a letter Tuesday to the Saudi ambassador, Prince Khalid bin Salman, asking for details surrounding Khashoggi's interactions with Saudi consulate employees and warning that his disappearance could soil relations.
"This incident hangs heavy over the relationship of the United States and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and needs to be resolved as honestly and as soon as possible," Graham wrote in the letter, sent Tuesday and obtained by POLITICO.
But the administration has drawn heavy criticism for what others see as a slow response to Khashoggi's disappearance.
"If this is true, if the Saudi regime murdered a journalist, critic in their own consulate, there must be accountability, there must be an unequivocal condemnation by the United States," Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said at a Johns Hopkins University speech Tuesday. "But, it seems clear the Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman feels emboldened by the Trump administration's unquestioning support."
State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert largely demurred on answering questions about Khashoggi at a Tuesday press briefing, saying again that Foggy Bottom was concerned but did not want to get ahead of any of Trump's possible conversations.
Nauert called for a "thorough and transparent" investigation five times in five minutes during her back-and-forth with reporters.
"We're not gonna make any judgments about what had happened to him," Nauert said.
Trump has boasted about his relations with the Saudi family in the past, and he visited Riyadh in 2017. The Saudi heir apparent paid Trump a return visit with a reception in the Oval Office in March.
"I love the King ... King Salman [bin Abdulaziz Al Saud] but I said, 'King, we're protecting you. You might not be there for two weeks without us," Trump told a crowd of his supporters at a campaign rally in MIssissippi last Tuesday, the same day Khashoggi was reported missing.
Sens. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), Chris Coons (D-Del.) and Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) and Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.) have all called for more information about Khashoggi's whereabouts.
The U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights added its voice to the international pressure for an independent investigation into the incident, calling it an "apparent enforced disappearance."
"If reports of his death and the extraordinary circumstances leading up to it are confirmed, this is truly shocking," OHCHR spokeswoman Ravina Shamdasani told reporters in Geneva. "We call for cooperation between Turkey and Saudi Arabia to conduct a prompt, impartial and independent investigation into the circumstances into Mr Khashoggi's disappearance and to make the findings public."


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I know my blog has covered a lot about the dissociative disorder known as depersonalization, but since there are so few people who are diagnosed with it, and some people who have been diagnosed with it have reached out to talk about it, I thought it was best that I cover my experiences so others might learn from them.
Anxiety is not really fun, as probably many people can attest to, and it affects various aspects of our lives. When anxiety and depression combine to create depersonalization, this can have a profound effect on a person's livelihood and outlook.
One of the most frustrating parts of my journey with depersonalization has been the impact it has had on my creativity.
As a child, I had an amazingly active imagination. Some teachers grew completely frustrated with me as I'd day-dream away in class (I was actually paying attention to what they were talking about too, which is why they were frustrated) or doodle my ideas down on paper. My mind was this wonderful imagination factory. Sometimes, I'd even hide away in the basement or my bedroom and act out these scenes blossoming in my head.
At the beginning of 2014, my creativity coursed through every inch of my body. I had what I felt was an awesome idea for a novel, which I started on. This spurred me to look at refining my writing abilities as well, so I ended up enrolling in Advanced Fiction Writing at Massey University. (If you are going towards, or have, a degree in English, and you are eligible to study this course, I can't recommend it highly enough.)
In short, I was a mean, lean, writing machine. My creativity exploded like a volcano, and it kept erupting, erupting, erupting with so much energy and life that I felt like I had rounded a corner in my life and my creative energies could easily be contained and channelled as a never-ending source from some deep well within me.
Due to several external reasons that one day I might expand upon, my anxiety and depression gnawed away at me later that year, until, quite suddenly, they consumed me. The warning signs of a major depressive episode were flashing, and I took heed, arranging to see a new counselor, but by the time we had our first session, all the connections to my emotions were gone. Depersonalization had settled in.
I've covered how that specifically felt, and the recovery itself, but one of the most frustrating things during my recovery has been reconnecting with my creativity. Before the depersonalization, worlds would blossom in my mind like a field full of wildflowers, and I'd have no problem traipsing through, picking the choicest blooms. But now, very often, the field is brown and withered. When something sprouts, I have to approach with trepidation and care, because it could die if I rush it, and then I'm left with nothing.
Sometimes, I'm easy on myself. Sometimes, the idea finds its way to a note on my phone or the first few sentences meet the page, get saved, then filed away for future reference. You see, the first several words emerge, and then the energy simply drains away from me. Part of me grows angry and wants to keep going, but if it keeps going, I lose the magic, which frustrates me further, which makes me even sloppier, which frustrates me further — wash, rinse, repeat. Another part of me is afraid; I've already lost my creativity once and I don't want to lose it again, perhaps forever.
So this delicate waltz keeps being danced inside me: the spark of inspiration, the scribing of words, the creativity dying. One-two-three, one-two-three, like my Mom teaching me to dance in our kitchen when I was 12.
I fought through depersonalization by sometimes going outside my comfort zone and sometimes taking it easy on myself. With previous injuries, continuously pushing myself only led to a longer recovery, and I was mindful of this during those recoveries.
Part of this reason is why I go through fits and starts of writing blogs. Blogs, for me, are easier, because they don't need as much creativity or energy because, well, I'm writing about real life. My life. There's no "right" answer or "right" way of arranging the words.
I've said in previous blogs that part of me is excited because depersonalization has given me a blank slate, in many ways, in my life. What I once enjoyed is merely tolerable now — neither enjoyed nor disliked — and that unfolds other opportunities to me. That's at least how the optimistic side of me sees it.
But the pessimistic side of me is frustrated. Angry. I feel robbed. The only thing I can compare it to is what I imagine what losing a limb must feel like: the phantom sensations, the dreams of being whole to awaken to the harsh reality of being not as complete as you once were. I feel like I'm driving on the highway of life while looking at the rear view mirror.
Will the creativity come back? I think so. Maybe differently. I feel it surge in me sometimes, and I need to learn to pin it down better and flow with it until the energy is gone. This is how I recovered my emotions when I had depersonalization. The emotion broke through the wall of depersonalization — sometimes very quickly and very harshly and very strongly — and I learned to acknowledge it, ride the emotion out, deal with it, and then let it fade naturally. (Using the limb lost imagery: imagine losing your leg and learning to walk again. That's what reconnecting to my emotions has been like.)
There have been good things to nudge me in the right direction with my creativity. This year, I refined my story "The Replacement" a few times, and even made the ballsy move to submit it to The New Yorker, and, after not hearing anything back from them, to The Atlantic. No answer means rejection from those two publications — and let's face it, the odds of me getting published in either one at the moment is really minuscule — but I reworked parts of the story and expanded more parts, as per the feedback I received on Scribophile, and submit it again to Glimmer Train Press for consideration in a fiction-writing contest they were holding. While this isn't creative as much as refining the story I have, there were small creative elements to it this latest round by adding scenes. Do I think they are as strong as the other scenes in the story? No. But with more revisions, especially when I have that creative spark flickering, it will get better.
What am I saying here? If you have depersonalization, or any other condition that's stiffled your creativity, be patient, be kind, be strong, be resilient, and keep working at regaining it, slowly but surely. You will get there. Have faith.


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It's been almost a year since I posted anything to this blog. It isn't because there was nothing to report nor because I was too busy. It was simply an oversight and laziness on my part. So, I'm going to try it again.
I do not promise a post every day or even every week but I will post at least a couple of times a month about theological news and items that capture my interest.
One thing I hope to do is to use another blog of mine to share material that I was unable to use in the sermon but which is worth reading. I hope to index those links by passages for those who wish to use the sources.
Although I am pastor at Kenton Church the blog posts are my own and do not represent the will or mind of Kenton's membership or Session and certainly they are not the opinions of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church or the Presbytery on which Kenton is a part...


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Peter Gill plays are very literary, very poetic, and as such they stand out today. They don't make 'em like this any more. It struck me on seeing this one again how difficult it must be to both stage and perform, but new company Both Barrels Theatre pull it off.
Set in East Cardiff in the 50's and the 70's, it concerns friends and neighbours Gerard and Vincent and their respective mothers, their fathers mentioned but unseen. In the 50's they all live in a working class neighbourhood, just about making things meet. Neighbourliness is the norm and they are forever popping in next door.
By the 70's Gerard has left home but is back to see his mam. Vincent has been to sea, married and fathered a child, but hasn't really left home. Both mams have their problems and insecurities but are devoted to their sons, as are they to their mothers. The boys look back from the 70's and realise how much their relationship in the 50's has impacted their lives.
It's a non-linear narrative and you have to concentrate and keep your wits about you. The many short scenes switch quickly between times and characters and its best to approach it as a whole, rather than look for the literal meaning of dialogue or scenes. That way it rewards you, like looking at a painting rather than reading a book.
Staged in what looks like a Richard Serra sculpture that they reconfigure occasionally, it's beautifully performed by Andy Rush and Toby Gordon as Gerard and Vincent respectively, Sioned Jones as Gerard's mam & Tameka Mortimer as Vincent's mam. George Richmond-Scott's staging is very much is in harmony with the 'staccato' nature of the material.
This was my first visit to the Omnibus Theatre, the nearest to my home, but with work of this quality there's little doubt I'll be back.


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According to a report from BET. com, Lifetime is working on a successor to the 'Surviving R. Kelly' docuseries that was aired in January. Inside sources say it may air a lot sooner than later. This newer series is set to air on May 4 as a two hour feature titled, ' Surviving R. Kelly: The Impact'.
The series is exploring the after math of the original docuseries on the R& B singer. In addition, the series will discuss the culture and conversations had following the first film, featuring clips of interviews and thoughts of experts on the singer. Moreover, it will discuss a more microscopic look into the Gayle King that was aired on CBS.
R. Kelly was arrested on 10 counts of sexual abuse against four women, three of whom were underage and with several of them occuring more than 10 years ago. Following the airing of the first docuseries, it's been reported that phone calls to sexual assault centers have increased by 35%, alledgedly proving that 'Surviving R. Kelly' provided a catalyst for conversations about sexual abuse and sexual assaults.
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Default and Exit Seem Inevitable
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Unfortunately, it looks like we are heading towards default and exit. The Syriza government is seeking a political solution. Yet, given that the IMF and the ECB are involved, I do not think there can be a political solution. What is particularly troubling is that in order to avoid crossing "red lines" Greece will end up crossing a lot more serious red lines after default and exit… Fighting against austerity is a noble cause, but you need to know when to call it quits. This is not a game of chicken.
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I'd be the first to admit I judge books by their covers all the time, but sometimes the blurb is so compelling I have to try the first chapter anyway. Such was the case with Noteworthy, a book with a deceptively bland cover much like the author's previous book, Seven Ways We Lie. I mean, look at them! A+ for colour-matching but C- for covers that don't match the content:
Actually don't look at them, just open them up and start reading instead, because listen to the description of Noteworthy:
After learning that her deep voice is keeping her from being cast in plays at her exclusive performing arts school, Jordan Sun, junior, auditions for an all-male octet hoping for a chance to perform internationally.
I didn't realise I needed a book about a girl going undercover in an all-male a cappella group, but I definitely did. The blurb doesn't mention it but she auditions and spends much of the book passing as a teenage boy and (against her first inclinations) becoming friends with the other members of the group. The author describes her book as "approx. 1/3 slapstick comedy, 1/3 hideous music puns, and 1/3 explorations of toxic masculinity and performative femininity," which is fairly accurate, so if you're a fan of puns and a cappella and figuring out who you are while pretending to be someone you aren't, then give Noteworthy a try. If you want something a bit darker with a larger cast of characters, each based loosely on one of the seven sins, then try Seven Ways We Lie.
Ramona Blue is the most recent novel by Julie Murphy, whose book Dumplin' I enjoyed last year. They have similar themes of teenage girls in small towns trying to be confident in who they are while suffering from crippling doubts, but where Dumplin's self-proclaimed fat girl Willowdean deals with this by entering the local beauty pageant, Ramona Blue is aggressively happy to stay living in a trailer with her dad and supporting her pregnant sister, definitely isn't frustrated that she can't go to college, definitely isn't upset that her summer girlfriend has gone back home to her boyfriend.
In the middle of all this Ramona's childhood friend Freddie moves back into town and they start swimming at the local pool, which Ramona turns out to be rather good at, and maybe also start having feelings for each other, but that can't be right because Ramona has always known she was gay, hasn't she? And she still likes girls, so what's going on? Spoiler! it's the elusive bisexual, now captured in fiction. I was worried when I realised the direction the book was going in but it was handled really well, and is only one strand of Ramona's complex story.
If that's still too light-hearted for you then maybe you'll appreciate Tiffany D. Jackson's grim debut, Allegedly.
Inspired by a similar case in Maine five years ago, Allegedly is told from the perspective of the now sixteen-year-old girl (Mary) convicted of manslaughter of a white infant when she was only nine. Her case is famous; books have been written, a film is in the works, and at the time of her trial the public were pushing for the death penalty. Eight years later she's living in a group home while attempting to study for her SATs despite the interference of the women who run the home and the other girls living in it — while newly pregnant. The discovery that the authorities will take away her baby when he's born prompts Mary to re-open her case, declaring she has been innocent all along. Was she? Or is she just doing whatever it takes to keep her unborn child?


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Do you wish you had a secret room to store all of those giant boxes of cereal, empty beer bottles, random-and-seldom-used kitchen accessories, but could also double as a broom closet? Well, I have one, and I can tell you I wish it was twice the size it currently is!
It started off as a mere hole-in-the-wall, but before we even built the kitchen we outfitted this little pantry with sliding drawers from Lee Valley, basic Rubbermaid shelving, and some hooks and bits to hang brooms, etc…
For a while, it functioned pretty well, but it wasn't pretty:
Now, in the back shed of the property, there was a huge pile of random wood, fence posts, and doors, and leftover trim. That's where I spied what I thought would be the perfect accessory to hide the mess (ahem, pantry supplies)
Honestly, there wasn't much to "reno". I loved the paint exactly the way it was, so I merely wirebrushed the whole thing down. Hubby used special hardware for the hinges, so that when you release the door, it softly closes the way a screen door would.
The door hardware I found at our closest Habitat ReStore. If you have never been to one of those places – today would be a perfect time to start. You can donate your leftover/unused renovation materials and they resell it at basement bargain prices. The profit goes to support Habitat for Humanity projects. We've had much luck over the years; even got a huge bevelled double vanity mirror for the upstairs bathroom for $30 – which I had been quoted $260 new from our local glass shop!
After about a year of using the pantry, it still works like a charm. I did paint the trim black because the standard white we are using throughout the house seemed too stark and new against such an old door. A coat of flat black helped to tie the new trim with the old look.
What a great find – right on our own property! To me, it seems like the door was meant for this purpose. Wonder what it was originally made for? If doors could talk…


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Sometimes I feel like dating is simply a process of becoming a master of social entropy..
Characters are those people who stayed around long enough to make a significant impact on my emotional landscape…
For better or for worse…
Heartbreak number #1
Works for a leading national newspaper in the UK
I promise I'll finish my book before he finishes his
Self proclaimed feminist, socialist
Always speaks from the moral high ground, acts on the moral low ground, just like the government.
Now 35, Now fucking a 19 year old, do the perversion math
The Week of Precarity, Is the Unconventional Woman becoming the Short Term Dating Girl?, The Heteronormative Garden Party, Cherry Picking, Nightmare(Male Privilege)
Heartbreak #2
Start up, Business School Prof, Wants to make romantic comedies
Jungian provocateur, our friendship is productive in word counts
Sometimes advocate, sometimes sadist
He always confesses his sins, but he never changes his ways
The Week of Precarity, Is the Unconventional Woman becoming the Short Term Dating Girl?, Cherry Picking, The Heteronormative Garden Party, Nightmare (Male Privilege), Date #14: Rigor Mortis
The Irish Banker
He hates that terminology! He wants to do stand up, like Louis Ck
Speaks from the moral low ground, acts on the moral high ground
Startling moments of introspection and clarity
The Tall Irish Vegan
Feminist Sci Fi Screen Writer
Loves Whatsapp and Skype until….
Cross Dressing Submissive
Disappeared after a long vacation
Dates #4-5, The Tall Irish Vegan Discovers My Blog
The Red Headed Cupid
Growth Capitalist who had a lot to contribute to the discussion until he got exactly what he wanted.
I wanted to invite him to only children anonymous, he wanted to sue me.
Dates #13, #14, Nightmare:Male Privilege, #14 Rigor Mortis
The Greenwich Punk (is off the record!!)
I was impressed by a 33 year old master of reinvention.
I thought that we were the same kind of people: clawing our way through multiple power structures, fighting for the the right to live unconventionally.
I took a leap of faith when I revealed the blog to him. I was hoping that if I allowed myself to be open and vulnerable he might help me survive the UK and invest in a future with me.
He told me he doesn't do anybody any favours.
He went off the record after our second date, but I mention him in Dates #25,26,27,28, and 32
The End of the Greenwich Punk: Part 1, The Gig
The End of the Greenwich Punk: Part 2, The Family Lunch
The Young Irish Architect
I finally met someone sincere, intelligent, charming, and kind.
But do I like him?
The Media Man
Is my first Berlin date trying to take me on a slow train to nowhere with great dining cars? Or perhaps he's picked up on hints about my project with Loveflutter during our discussions of media theory, and he's secretly waiting until the fun is all over….
The Transatlantic Italian
I chose him having learned that an open style of engagement, a generous heart, and a familiarity with trying to live in alien environments was more important to me than any physical or intellectual achievement. At least I thought I saw the signs of those things. Yet after the key third date he showered me with cowardly excuses. Still, I don't know where this is going after he comes back from Prague next week. We're keeping in touch on Whatsapp…


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Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry stable in hospital after collapsing on stage
Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry stable in hospital after collapsing on stage
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NEW YORK, July 10 (Reuters) - Aerosmith guitarist Joe Perry collapsed on stage while performing in New York on Sunday and was hospitalized, according to reports.
Perry, 65, was playing in Coney Island in Brooklyn with his band the Hollywood Vampires, along with rocker Alice Cooper, when he staggered off-stage and collapsed, media reports said.
SEE ALSO: Chaka Khan enters rehab for perscription drug addiction
Cooper said on Twitter hours later that Perry "is stable right now, with family & is under the best care."
A Facebook account quoted Cooper as saying from stage "If you notice one of our brothers is not onstage with us, he was very sick before the show," Billboard magazine reported.


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Location: Trier, Germany
Itinerary and full experience of my visit to Germany can be accessed through the link below:
<- previous: St Gangolf's Church
I was confused at first: was that 2 churches or 1 huge connected church? It turned out to be both. From the outset, both the Liebfrauenkirche and Trier Cathedral were distinguished from each other yet inseparable - the former distinctly angular where the latter had more curves, the former a gothic work while the latter a Romanesque beauty. They were operated as 2 separate churches but they were connected structurally, freely accessible between each other internally. They had both been designated as part of Trier's single UNESCO World Heritage Site entry.
|Liebfrauenkirche on the foreground, with Trier Cathedral at the back. They can usually be differentiated by the color tone of the building material - the former usually darker while the latter usually fairer.
Meaning "Church of Our Lady" in German, Liebfrauenkirche was originally a Roman double church which southern portion was later replaced by the early Gothic style of the current church. Though an inscription stated that construction occurred from 1227 to 1234, it was believed that it could be slightly different. It is considered as one of the earliest Gothic church in Germany, its architecture falling into the style of French Gothic. All structures above ground were not Roman but excavations below ground showed that several Gothic columns were supported on Roman foundations.
It may not be immediately obvious but unlike the usual church's cruciform layout where the floor was laid out as a long and three short aisles, this was a round church. Liebfrauenkirche still had a cruciform vaulting but niches and walls transformed the floor plan into a twelve petaled rose, which in itself carried the symbol of Virgin Mary, the dedicated patron saint who was also known as rosa mystica, as well as representing the twelve tribes of Israel and the Twelve Apostles.
|Front facade of Liebfrauenkirche
|Front portal of the church, with elaborate sculptures
|A different view of the front facade
|Inner view
|Ribbed and floral painted ceiling
|A look down central aisle
A close look at the floor plan also revealed that there were 12 supporting pillars, and I noticed that each of them had an apostle as well as an article of the Apostle's Creed painted on. All of these pillars and the paintings were completely visible only from one spot, marked by a black stone. I only realized later that the church grounds included beautiful cloisters situated behind the building, which I totally missed during my visit. What a waste...
|Another interior look
|Stained glass
|What is he thinking?
|Elaborate sculptures
|Read this carefully
|Virgin Mary holding Jesus (I guess)
|Including the altar in this shot
|Each of the supporting pillars had an apostle and an article from Apostle's Creed painted on it.
|Painted on two sides of the pillar
|Candle light
|The mother and the son
|No entry
|Elaborate carvings
|Another interior look
|A cross on a dome
|Elaborate handles in the shape of fish
|Plaque commemorating the inscription of Liebfrauenkirche into UNESCO World Heritage List.
Any visit to Liebfrauenkirche would warrant a subsequent tour to Trier Cathedral and vice versa since both were connected, next to each other and were UNESCO World Heritage Sites, even if you are not a church admirer. I only spent limited amount of time in this church but it had already left a deep impression upon me. However I was further awed when I passed through the portal connected to Trier Cathedral.
<- previous: St Gangolf's Church
Environment: A round church listed as UNESCO World Heritage Site
Suitable for: History buffs, church admirers
Visit worthiness: 9/10
Entrance Fee: free
Historical value: 5.0/5.0
Architectural value: 4.0/5.0
Photographic value: 4.0/5.0
Landmark value: 5.0/5.0
Landmark value: 5.0/5.0
Entrance Fee: free
Opening Hours: (Apr - Oct) daily 8.00 a.m. - 7.00 p.m. (Sundays 6.00 p.m.)
(Nov - Mar) daily 8.00 a.m. - 5.00 p.m.
Best Moment to Visit: anytime of the day
Length of Visit: 1 hour
Contact: +49 0651-170 790 (phone); +49 0651-170 7917 (fax)
Address: Kath. Pfarrei Liebfrauen TrierLiebfrauenstr. 254290 Trier
- Wikipedia - Liebfrauenkirche
- Trier Tourism Information - Liebfrauenkirche
- Sacred Destinations - Liebfrauenkirche


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Link Time Optimization (LTO) gives GCC the capability of dumping its internal representation (GIMPLE) to disk, so that all the different compilation units that make up a single executable can be optimized as a single module. This expands the scope of inter-procedural optimizations to encompass the whole program (or, rather, everything that is visible at link time).
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It has been an amazing trip through the Arizona desert. We took a day out from our time in Sedona, to make the two-hour drive northwest to the Grand Canyon.
Vast. Perhaps the best way to describe the Grand Canyon. Like most things, pictures do not and cannot do the Grand Canyon justice. Standing at the edge of the rim, you are immediately struck by the sheer immensity and magnificence of it. The creative power of God in full display.
Arguably, Arizona's premier and most distinguishable landmark, next to Sedona, the Grand Canyon is a stunning 277 miles long, and more than a mile deep. The Colorado River snaking in a southwest direction on the canyon floor.
There are two main entrances from which to view the Grand Canyon: the South Rim and the North Rim. We entered the Canyon via the South Rim, and from Mather Point, essentially because of it's proximity to the Grand Canyon Village and the visitor center.
Starting from Mather Point, we walked the well-marked trail along the rim, parts were fenced, and other sections, astonishingly, were not. In fact, it was quite frightening how close you could get to the steep walls that descended all the way down to the canyon floor, and even more frightening to see some visitors virtually dangle themselves over the edge. On one occasion, we had to walk the kids away from the edge for fear of a person disappearing over the side due to two overly daring visitors.
Free bus shuttles regularly ran back and forth between the visitor center and certain points along the South Rim. This made getting around the Canyon much easier and also meant that a lot of walking was not necessary. A final stop at the Grand Canyon Village to browse through the souvenirs completed our time at the National Park, and in the doing so, another 'bucket list' item was checked off.
On the drive home, we grabbed some lunch at Cracker Barrel, an southern-themed restaurant and gift store chain that is not in California, but one that our American friends often raved about. We now know why – lunch was great and the store was both captivating and interesting.


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To say that being gay in Albania is hard would be an understatement.
There are very few people who are openly gay in this country, and the few who are brave enough to do so generally live in the capital (where progress happens faster and many things are more modern). So living in Shkoder it's safe to say that I haven't come across anyone who is, "out of the closet".
But this week with my students we invited an Albanian organization to come and do an after school activity with us about diversity and stereotyping in an effort to change all of this. A little bit of background – Albania is a very traditional country that places a lot of significance on social acceptance through conformity. After 50 years of a communist dictatorship telling people exactly what was right and wrong, it's hard for people to break the mold. In more ways than being openly gay, it's difficult for people here to be different whether it's music tastes, fashion, haircut, desired profession, or political opinions. And even though my students like to tell me that bullying is an American thing and Albanians don't do that, I beg to differ. It's hard to watch people get ostracized from groups or teased for being different, regardless of what country you live in. It's a human thing, not an American or an Albanian thing. In my opinion, the beautiful part about being human is that we're all unique, and I say we should embrace that not cover it up.
So anyway, back to my school activity. When it started I was literally shaking with nervousness/fear. This could be the end of my relationship with some of my students and with my community as a whole for that matter. Was I pushing the boundaries too much with this one? My students are so open-minded and respectful that I thought, why don't we address a real issue this time. I wanted to move away from conversations on saving the environment because they all know they should do it (whether they take their own advice is a different story!). I wanted to tackled something that was tricky to talk about and makes them so uncomfortable that it forces self-reflection and consideration. Because only then can we really change the world. And after all, my student group is called "Change the World," so why not?
The session started with the speakers explaining prejudice, diversity, bullying, harassment, and stereotyping. We all talked about ways we've been isolated by society and how it made us feel. So far so good. And then the conversation shifted. We started talking about the LGBT community in Albania, how we treat them, and how they must feel. My heart was pounding. "Please be polite. Please don't say anything offensive. Please be respectful," I keep repeating my head. And surprisingly, they were.
Okay, of course there were a few people who were visibly uncomfortable and wanted to leave. So I announced that anyone was free to leave at any point, and they all stayed. Baby steps. There were a few people who rolled their eyes and pulled out their cellphones. But the majority listened attentively and even raised their hands to ask questions.
And then the speakers actually came out to my students. For the first half of the presentation, my kids had no idea these 3 individuals were gay. And for that hour they were enjoying their company and laughing and talking. Why should it be any different now that we know she's a lesbian? Yet all of the sudden the room was silent. I could see their eyes widening in disbelief. But when the speaker told her own story and the struggles she's surpassed, they all clapped. And inside, I couldn't have been prouder.
This woman in front of them had come out to her parents in high school when they saw her speaking about gay rights on national television. Her aunts, uncles, mother, and father cried, screamed and disowned her. They said she was going against nature and inhuman. Her father said he'd be the first to kill her for disgracing his surname and her mother wanted to force her to marry a man to cure her of this disease. As she told her story I watched the faces of my students soften. In fact, I've heard many of my favorite students utter these same words about gay people. But now gay had a face, and they couldn't openly express their hatred. I watched as they struggled to grasp their own opinions and hoped that I had done the right thing by bringing them here today.
Across Albania, students are yanked out of school and sequestered in their houses when their families suspect them of being homosexual. Openly gay people, like this woman, can only leave their houses at night in the cover of darkness to buy groceries for fear of being attacked and beaten during the day. Gay rights are unheard of here, because gay is unheard of here. How can you have rights for something that doesn't exist?
It's not easy being different. But this woman fights every day for her right to be herself. And for that, I applaud her. I look at the faces of my students and I know that someday in the future, life will be better for everyone in this country and if they have anything to do about it, people will be free to be who they are.
"It's not better. It's not worse. It's just different."


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As expected, the fifth and final hole dug for the porch footings had layers of cinderblock three feet down, put there as a sort of footing for the original 4×4 post. What I didn't expect to find, about two feet down, was the long-lost septic outflow pipe:
Fortunately, due to its angle, it left just enough room for the tube form to sit plumb in the right spot. I'm not sure what I would have done if it hadn't.
But we were also glad to find the pipe — if you recall, we had closed up the septic tank and started using it without actually, physically, confirming the existence and location of a leach field. We had a fair idea where it was supposed to be, but after digging in several spots had been unable to confirm that there was an outflow pipe leading in that direction.
Now we know! (That is not to say that we know the leach field or its perforated pipe is in any creditable condition — on that we are still crossing our fingers. But the septic runoff is definitely going the right way, and not just backing up under our porch waiting to engulf us. Eew.)
So after three days work we have our five 10-inch footings, each with its 6×6 post brace.
By Wednesday or Thursday the concrete will be cured enough to start putting up the final beam and its posts. Meanwhile we'll start work on the porch above — rebuilding the outer wall to fit the new windows, and to make it thicker for better insulation.
I wanted to say a word about how we ended up doing this bit "DIY." The issues with the original posts on this porch were identified very early on — the first time we laid eyes on the house, we all said, "are those posts sufficient? Are they even in concrete? That'll have to be strengthened…."
And then over the months we had bits of advice from all comers — but notably from a couple of builder-contractors — about what it would take to do the "strengthening." One "quick-and-dirty" approach proposed by Jaison was simply to sandwich the existing beam with a pair of 2×12's (both hiding and reinforcing its unsightly and inadequate lap joints), and then incrementally substitute the support posts. Our builder/friend Mark was the one who explained that a temporary "wall" could support the entire porch, allowing us to completely refit the posts and beam at once (the approach we ended up taking).
But another question was, "what posts? what footings?" We'd had a demo of the Techno-Post process on the post under the stairs, and at $230 each that seemed excessive for the whole porch. I researched traditional concrete footings, and the depth needed to guard against frost heave in this climate.
Even so, should we rent a portable auger? Hire someone with a higher-powered auger? Hire someone with a back hoe?
Just how hard would these holes be to dig? Time went on, and we had other opportunities to dig in this area (notably, searching for the septic line). It wasn't bad — it seemed like easy clean fill for at least two feet. I also got (physically) stronger. Money got tighter. The schedule became clearer — these supports were a first prerequisite for a whole chain of improvements, all of them necessary even for our "minimal" move-in standard.
I bought the tube forms, the galvanized post braces, the rebar, the pressure-treated 2×12's for the beam and the pressure-treated 6×6's for the posts. Helping Jaison's helper Reid put up the 6×6 post under the stairs boosted my confidence for being able to handle this dimension of lumber.
Meanwhile I'd been talking with our neighbor Jon, who had started a project of his own up the street: a 3-season guest cabin. He would need about nine concrete footings himself, and was looking to hire an excavator and a concrete truck. We agreed to coordinate with each other — perhaps if it worked out, we could save money together by hiring the same workers on the same days.
And then we had several days of perfectly clear weather. Jon was running a few days behind. I laid out the geometry and survey markers and started digging. And so the decision was made — I made the four round trips to the Unity hardware store, amassing 21 80# bags of ready-mix concrete, and really before we knew it I was committed to full-bore DIY.
It became a pretty cool case of realizing that I was ready, willing, and able, exactly in step with actually forging ahead.


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Daily Archives: April 2, 2012
Remember Old McDonald had a farm? I wonder if he had an awesome kitchen like this one made from reclaimed barnboard and distressed zinc for the countertop. I'm not crazy about the basket fixture and I do think you need some relief from all that wood to have great feng shui. However, in a certain setting this could be very cool. This kitchen is in a mountain retreat in Asheville, NC and more of it can be seen at Kitchens.com. BTW if you have an old barn or shed on your property, those distressed barn boards—or even the entire building intact– are worth some hay in resale value. See the Old Barn Wood Site for more info.
Filed under Architecture, Design, Feng Shui, Green/Sustainable, Interior Design


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I received two more trophies recently. One on April 12, 2015 for 100 follows:
And the other one on April 14, 2015 for 1,000 likes:
Thank all of you out in the blogging world for liking. and for following my posts. I am glad you are enjoying them. I hope to keep up the good work and keep all of you interested in my stories, tales and goofiness. And my worries and sadness. I have made quite a few friends across the world here and I hope to make more. Blogging has been a good experience for me. I never thought I would be as successful as I have been. And I wouldn't have been if not for all of you finding, reading, liking and following me.
I have never been a confident person, and still am not totally confident in a lot of things. But, you have helped me to believe that I can try something and be successful at it. Even though it is a small success. I have to give myself a pat on the back. And a very BIG pat on the back to you. Many of you have brought me smiles and tears. A chance to share in your happiness, and share in your sadness, and even a small way of sharing my faith. You all have made my day. Have a great evening and rest of the week.
Stay Safe and God Bless!


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Nearly every weekday morning for 10 years, Carina Lockley has hopped in a van with a few fellow NC State employees for the 30-plus mile commute to campus.
Lockley drives, the others ride and everyone in the vanpool saves.
"All of the people in the vanpool save money by not buying gas, parking permits or putting wear on their personal vehicles," said Lockley, a program manager in Human Resources.
At the same time, the community benefits. When employees use vanpool, fewer cars hit the road for the daily commute. The result is less traffic, air pollution and fuel use.
"Vanpooling has quite a few benefits and reduces the number of cars commuting to campus. That's why NC State encourages and provides incentives for vanpooling," said Sarah Williams, who manages NC State's transportation demand program.
Vanpools with riders working on one of NC State's three campuses receive a free parking pass for the van, a $20 monthly subsidy toward each rider's fare and 24 free daily parking permits each year for days when riders must drive a car to campus. Additionally, riders are provided with a free emergency ride home.
GoTriangle, the region's public transportation provider, provides the van, fuel, insurance and maintenance. The primary driver of the van rides for free and the remaining riders split the monthly fare, which is based on the number of miles the van travels daily.
Vans of various sizes are available to accommodate vanpools ranging from a minimum of six riders up to 15.
Unlike bus service, which doesn't extend to every town in the region, vanpool makes ridesharing accessible in any location where a group of employees have similar commutes.
For Rhonda Greene, who works in the Office of Information Technology, vanpool has been a game-changer for her daily commute from Fayetteville to campus. Since joining a vanpool in 1997, Greene estimates that vanpool cut her commuting expenses by two-thirds.
"Participating on a vanpool has saved me a significant amount of money and time. I am not driving the entire distance so I'm able to relax, read the latest James Patterson novel or plan a to-do list for work or home," she said. "An added benefit is that I know in a small way I'm helping to sustain our environment."
NC State maintains a list of existing vanpools of campus-based employees, as well as information about how to start a new vanpool. As incentive for trying vanpool, NC State employees receive the first two months fare-free.
"Ride for a week and you'll be hooked," said Joan Davis, who works in the Prestage Department of Poultry Science and has vanpooled for 17 years.
Learn more about forming a vanpool at NC State Transportation's website.


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So, as I have given thought to the opening and action scenes in my screenplay, which is very simple… I am thinking like Kubrick and how he used music. Also all the rest of my favorite filmmakers.
I know that we do not have much time in film to give back story to things. It's all done with images, gestures and sound.
These are some location shots and images for my teen characters who meet on a local beach. It's a very simple and beautiful character study. For really good parts, for REAL actors.
Devlin my teen boy is seen in locations like this:
There is really gorgeous golden light in the location I have chosen. Especially in the fall and winter here on our coast.
There is a lot of magical realism in the tale. Which is my specialty as a writer. Perhaps because I have seen beauty all my life.
I have decided to use the weather and the light and the sound to describe my character's emotional states. Part of Heart of Clouds is a simple children's book, and part is a very deep cure for depression in people.
This is an American story. About an American boy and girl on a beach.
When Devlin first sees Teenie, the music has uplift!
Here is what uplift might sound like. It's just exquisite.
Just listening to this made yesterday's news fade.
Yesterday I had listened lots to this — I was trying to find a sound for sadness and fog. It was quite beautiful.
Of course, experts do the sound.
I am just the writer.
But I write magic.


text: Miss Stephanie simply adores her Mommy. She adores her so much that she just couldn't quite part with her during our first attempt at her 2-Year photo session. So, Grandma & Grandpa came to the rescue for the 2nd attempt. These photos could not have been any cuter! Plus, add the loving pictures with Stephanie and her big sister and you have a perfect photo session. Capturing the bond and love between these two precious ladies was so heartwarming. Those big blue eyes can make any person just say "Awww…". Check out those bold colors. Perfect for a lively and lovely little lady!


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I was surprised when I saw this hundred-year-old advertisement for candy thermometers. Sometimes I think that making homemade candy is becoming a lost art – but I thought that this a a relatively recent phenomena. I was wrong. People have been concerned about the decline in candy making for at least a hundred years.
42 thoughts on "Is Candy Making a Lost Art? Hundred-Year-Old Candy Thermometer Advertisement"
Making candy is a lost art in this household. That is something I never fancied doing, other then taffy and chocolate covered pecans that's the limit of my candy making. Like the ad … they are serious about selling their thermometer.
LOL . . I hadn't thought about it until you said it, but you're absolutely right. They are serious about selling their thermometer.
Well I have a thermometer which I use for jam and marmalade making rather than for sweets. I guess as we get older, sugar-rushes are less attractive to us. We even eat jam and marmalade less often.
I also eat fewer sweets now than I did when I was younger. Maybe we've learned a little about the importance of eating healthier across the years.. 🙂
I still have the Taylor candy thermometer my mother and I used for making fudge and divinity when I was a kid. Not only that, I have its original box and the little brochure that came with it. The model shown here looks like # 5908, the Deluxe model: "Stainless steel scale with large black figures ranged from 40 to 320 degrees F in 2 degree intervals; 3 times easier-to-read 'Binoc' tube; ring for hanging."
The model we had model #5916: "Non-corrosive scale with conventional type thermnometer tube; ranged 40 to 320 degrees F in 2 degree divisions; wood handle."
There also was this helpful note: "Altitude and barometric pressure affect the boiling point of liquids. To correct for this, test thermometer in bubbling, boiling water to find the variation from 212F and use this correction in recipes. For example, if the water boils at 210F, subtract 2F from all recipe temperatures."
And by the way — the price still is on the box. $3.95. Since Mom had it by the time we started making candy, it would have been purchased no later than the late 1940s.
Wow, it's really cool that you have the your mother's candy thermometer – and that you still have the original box and brochure. I needed those directions about how to correct temperature errors. . When my daughter and I made candy last year, my thermometer didn't seem to be accurately measuring temperatures. She solved the problem by giving me a new candy thermometer for Christmas. 🙂
My grandfather was a candy maker and had a shop. Every Christmas my Dad would make candy and treats for friends and family.
What a wonderful tradition! Your father's friends and family were lucky to get such a lovely gift each year.
When I think of my grandmother, she was a fantastic cook, she never made candy.
When I was growing up, we often made cookies and cakes, but we rarely made candy.
Wow – who knew!? I love making candy too, but I know so many people who are intimidated by it! And they sure don't make candy thermometers like they used to. I have owned several "good ones" and after a while, the calibration is off. Now I do the boil test and readjust for the discrepancy (I stopped replacing them and do this now) . I also have to readjust for altitude where I live. I can see why this would turn off someone off – it's a bit of a pain! 🙂
I've never calibrated a candy thermometer, but really need to do the boil test. I have a candy thermometer that definitely is a bit off. When I use it, I always double check its accuracy by dropping a little of the hot liquid into a cup of ice water to see whether the candy has reached the right stage (soft ball, hard ball, etc.).
Hi Sheryl, Yes, I have done that test as well, but my thermometer was really off! I can see how it would be so intimidating to the newby!
With and without a candy thermometer I've never been good at making candy.
I don't think that I'm particularly good at making candy – but I have a lot of fun trying. 🙂
It is indeed quite surprising that even back then they thought it was a lost art. I'm not into making hard candies, but I do make my own marzipan and fruit sweets. Nothing like homemade! 🙂
It also surprised me that they thought that candy making was becoming a lost art a hundred years ago. I've occasionally made hard candies, and I made lollipops with my kids a couple times years ago, but I tend to prefer to make fudge and other similar types of candy.
My mom made fudge, divinity, and a date candy at Christmas. I've done them, too, though not often. I'm satisfied with the cold water test. Once in a while we see tourist fudge traps, and that's when I come home and make it for us.
You're a wise person. I've bought mediocre fudge at those tourist traps more times than I care to remember. 🙂
Maybe people were already buying lots of candy bars and Life Savers! I am planning to try to make maple sugar candy. Wish me luck!
mmm. . . Maple sugar candy sounds wonderful. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it turns out perfectly.
Me too. No time yet to try it :(.
After some early disasters with candy making and wasting a lot of sugar it's something I've never tried again…I respect those who can make it though!
There are so many things that can go wrong when making candy, but somehow I always think that the next time I'll get everything just right and the candy will be perfect. 🙂
The only candy I make is peanut brittle which does not require a thermometer.
Hard to believe 100 yrz ago there was concern over the art og candy making.
mmm. . . I love peanut brittle. I have peanut brittle on my to-do list of old-fashioned candies that I want to make during the 2017 holiday season.
I see back then they also made the assumption that the dealer in candy thermometers is a "he." And to think it was probably only women making candies back then.
sigh. . . Some things have changed for the better over the past hundred years.
Very interesting and enlightening. Thanks for sharing!
It's nice to hear that you enjoyed this advertisement.
I like that ad, it does give me pause to realize that an ad from back then, talked about the lack of enthusiasm of the new generation to follow in the foot steps of the fore-mothers (is that a word? lol) Well, that's what I got out of it. lol
Every few years, we make fudge using the old recipes (before marshmallow cream became the rage) we use the soft-ball technique to see if our fudge is ready to pour on a flat dish to let it harden.
Have a wonderful weekend. 🙂
The soft-ball technique works for me. Sometimes I use a candy thermometer; other times I don't – but regardless I always use the soft ball technique to check (or double check) that the candy has reached the right stage. 🙂
I hope that you also have a wonderful week-end.
When I lived in rural Kansas, it was quite common for people to make their own cinnamon candy, and occasionally taffy. Before then, I didn't know anyone who made candy.
Over the years I've made a couple kinds of taffy for this blog. Each time I've done it, it was when my children were visiting over holidays We had a lot of fun. I can see why taffy pulls were so popular a hundred years ago.
Other than fudge, I've never tried to make candy. We are blessed to have a fantastic chocolate maker in our state (Munson's) and the factory is only 10 minutes from our house! About two years ago, an organic Belgium chocolate shop opened in our town that has to die for chocolate candy. And near where I work, the director of the counseling center left to fulfill his dream of opening up a candy store that has every candy imaginable. So I figure, why bother making it? lol
mmm. . . The candy shops in your area sound amazing. I'm not sure whether to be jealous . . . or thankful that I don't have so many temptations. 🙂
Just sold my candy thermometer last year when we moved south as I hardly ever used it.
I have more kitchen equipment than I want to think about that I seldom use. I definitely should sell (or give away) some of it. 🙂
The cottage cheese pie looks yummy! I was surprised to learn that candy making was a lost art 100 years ago. That would be true today for sure!
I don't make candy as much because I know it will all end up in my tummy 🙂
I don't make candy very often for exactly the same reason that you seldom make it. 🙂
Wow Sheryl, this article is really cool! Dolle's was created in 1910, so it's neat to see history in action with this article from 1917. Keeping candy-making alive is something we pride ourselves in doing.
Domestic sweet making should be a lost art, for a few good reasons. Severely restricting access to high sugar, empty calorific contents is a very good idea for the sake of healthy teeth, waistlines & diabetes. There is also a better example to set if children are around – especially if they are around regularly. Then there is the professional sweet making industry to consider. What happens if masses of people stop buying sweets because they make sweets themselves? Yes, the spectre of unemployment. Plus, the real art of professional sweet making methods then get lost…
I may sound like a moody killjoy but, there really is nothing wrong with the occasional batch of home made sweets. It is fun and instructive. It's when people scale up the production particularly if they want to save money, that things can get out of hand. They will


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Dave and Tamler start out talking about the new wave of skepticism about free will and moral responsibility in the popular press from people like Sam Harris and Jerry Coyne.
Neuroscience figures heavily in their arguments, but Dave and Tamler agree that neuroscientific data adds little of substance to the case other than telling us what we already know: human beings are natural biological entities. Dave also accuses Tamler of being a hipster philosopher for abandoning a view once it got popular.
Next, we talk about what kind freedom we need to have in order to deserve blame and punishment. Do we need to create ourselves out of the swamps of nothingness? Dave comes out as a Star Trek nerd and asks whether we're all, in the end, like Data the android. They also wonder whether a belief in free will is all that's keeping us from having sex with our dogs.
Finally, Dave grills Tamler about his new book on the differences in attitudes about free will and moral responsibility across cultures. After seeing how long they've been carrying on, they then agree to talk about all the stuff they left out in the next episode.
Coyne, J.
You Don't Really Have Free Will."
Sam Harris. "Free Will."
Eddy Nahmias. "Is Neuroscience the Death of Free Will?"
Galen Strawson "Luck Swallows Everything."Support Very Bad Wizards


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Solar storms will grab the earth
In recent days, due to three major explosion on the surface of the Sun over the last week, would cause waves of electromagnetic storm. Solar storms can cause interference with the satellite, telecommunications equipment, and electronics.
Government of the United States, even specifically issued a warning that risk by stating that the Solar Storm is going to happen next may have a moderate or strong levels. This was stated by Joseph Kunches, scientists from the Space Weather Prediction Center, a division of Adaministration National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Kunches said the storm the sun happens next week and could have an impact on satellite communications and Global Positioning System (GPS) and can even create the aurora can be seen from the Minnesota and Wisconsin, USA.
Aurora is created, called the aurora borealis, the natural light that can be seen in the Arctic and Antarctic. This phenomenon is formed by collisions between high-energy particles with atoms in the upper atmosphere.
According to NOAA, the storm caused major damage to the Sun are rare, but never reported any serious impact. In 1989 for example, solar storms cause power plants in Quebec, Canada, paralyzed so that local residents have to live without electricity for hours.
Meanwhile, the biggest impact of solar storms occurred in 1859. Solar Storms paralyze telegraph communications systems around the world and the creation of the aurora can be seen through the Caribbean.
Telegraph system reportedly continued to send signals even if the battery is removed. What about the impact of the storm the sun this time? Kunches revealed that the impact is not going to like it. This will be the number two or three out of five on a scale of NOAA's Space Weather.
But, still must be wary of. The first solar storm that occurred last week resulting in little impact on the Earth. While a second more powerful storm. The third, still have not been reported, but could likely exacerbate the second solar storm or no impact at all. Director of the Space Weather Prediction, Tom Bogdan, said the peak of the storm the sun occurs every 12 years and he predicted the next solar storm will occur in 2013.