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To earn an MDiv the Association of Theological Schools (the accrediting body of seminaries and divinity schools) requires that students complete two internships, called field education assignments. It depends on where you go but these are broken down as either two summer placements (10 weeks at 35 hours a week) or a summer and a year long placement (year long is both semesters at 10-15 hours a week). At Princeton Theological Seminary we are required to do one summer and one year long internship.
Field ed is exhausting, especially when there are young children in the mix of your life. It's a major time drain. If you know about field ed, and provide primary care for young children, then it actually may be something holding you back from seminary. After all, basically what this means is that you need to be a full-time parent, a full-time student, work on your studies with a quarter of the time of your non-breeding colleagues, and then add on a part-time work position. Sounds awesome, right?
But there are ways to make field ed work. First, as always, talk to other parents (especially mothers) who have negotiated with the field ed office. Try to do this before choosing the seminary so you can make sure it's going to work. My sense is that most offices want to work for you. Second, be upfront about your limitations and if you're adviser isn't responding well, ask for a new adviser.
For a year-long placement look for churches and organizations that keep most of their work to one or two days a week. If you can bust out 7 hours at a church on a Sunday, and do three hours of prep from home, you're golden. Sadly, I'd recommend staying away from youth and college ministry, unless your working in the university's chaplaincy office or at university chapel. I did my field ed (and loved it) with college ministry at Princeton, but the expectation from students (and the effective way to do ministry with them) is full-on presence – at their games, their recitals, their band gigs. Sometimes the best moments of ministry happen over coffee at 2 am. And I as never able to have coffee at 2 am. I definitely felt like my firm boundaries made it difficult to minister in the way I would have liked.
At the same time, don't give up on the possibility of a really kick-ass field ed. I went into the office this spring expecting to be doing VBS at a Presbyterian church in Princeton for the whole summer. Instead, I'm at a great Mennonite church in Philly working as a generalist so I get to see all parts of church life. It's been a wonderful fit and the field ed office helped make it work. For one, you can get a lot of hours from doing a mission trip, conference or convention. I also asked the office if I could make my field ed a few weeks longer so that I could work fewer hours during the week. That means I commute one less day a week, which makes a big difference.
A couple other notes. Your denomination may require or you may desire to do CPE. Clinical pastoral education usually requires you to work at a hospital and be on call, but not always. I know a couple people who have worked in clinical programs for people with intellectual disabilities and have found the hours very flexible. Others have simply told their CPE adviser their situation and they have made the process more accommodating. The other note is that some places (Duke Divinity School) assign you to field ed. In these situations be especially proactive and share your limitations and requirements in person (not just on a form) with the field ed office.
Like all things in seminary having young children requires endurance, creativity, forethought and a re-channeling of one's expectations. But it is doable and there are lots of people who can help to make it work.


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"No more pointless deaths, please"
Right, apologies before I even start this opinion if I offend anyone in any way, it was just impossible to write this one without personal feelings creeping in now and again, you'll understand why at the end.Also apologies for cheating somewhat as this opinion is about car safety as opposed to home safety, but as cars are just an extention of your home then I can just get away with it, can't I? If anyone knows of a better category for this then feel free to redirect me.
I have been looking after children in one capacity or another now since the age of 18, first as a student nurse, then having my own children and also as a childminder. It was all I ever wanted to do and all I ever will want to, children are my life and nothing upsets me more than seeing some people holding them in such low regard.Not to say accidents don't happen, they do and sometimes they can't be avoided, but so many times with a little thought and extra vigilance they can. I have seen many seriously injured children, sometimes fatally, come into the hospital over the years, seen things on the news and had experiences with my own family, and it tears me apart to think they could have been avoided so easily.
So here is my guide to having a safe journey with your children, please read it carefully and if you find there is something in it that applies to you or that you can change for the better then great, I have done my job well.So let's start with the obvious, car seats. Most people, thankfully, do buy a car seat for their child, but there are still a few who plonk the carrycot on the backseat without even restraining it or have baby on their lap in the back. WAKE UP, if you have an accident you will not be able to hold onto that child, she'll be out of your arms and through the windscreen in 2 seconds flat. What possible reason can you have for putting your child's life at risk like this? Whatever it is it won't wash with me. Go out and buy one, have it fitted properly and bloody well use it.
For those that do have car seats, are they fitted in the correct way? Did you know that 3 out of every 10 car seats are either incorrectly fitted or carrying a child of the wrong weight/height? If in doubt take your seat along to Mothercare World, they regularly have car seat checks that you can attend where someone will make sure it's right and if it isn't they'll show you exactly how to use it. They will also tell you if your child has outgrown the seat, which can be potentially dangerous too. You don't even have to have purchased your seat at Mothercare, all are welcome.Don't ever borrow or buy a second hand car seat unless you know EXACTLY where it has been. If a car seat has previously been in an accident, however small, it weakens the structure rendering it pretty much useless if the worst should happen to you. I wouldn't recommend using a car seat for more than two children either, even if it hasn't been damaged, even normal use and just time itself has it's own wear and tear values.
If your child is older then you still may need a booster seat and/or a seatbelt guide. These are not props to make him able to see out of the windows, they are both needed to make sure the seatbelt is properly positioned around your child, if it is around his neck it could easily strangle him. Lap belts are also dangerous to young children, if you have an accident all the force of the impact is centred in one spot. Only use them if you have no other choice and make sure you put your biggest child in that seat. One young boy died from internal injuries caused by his lap belt.Lastly, if you have a rear facing car seat in the front passenger side, or a child under the age of twelve and you have twin airbags, move him. There have been one or two cases where the airbags have actually suffocated children; they're safer in the back seats.
Right now you have the correct restraints in place you need a baby/child on board sticker. These are another misused item and contrary to popular belief they are not there to scare away the bloke who is right up your bum nor are they a way of advertising your child's birth to the world, they are there for our emergency services. It lets them know there is a baby or child that they need to be looking for in an accident, just in case the child is not visible in the wreckage or has been thrown clear.Don't forget to take them out when your child is older or not travelling with you, or it will have the opposite effect of making them look for someone who is not even in the car, wasting their precious time.
Child door locks and window locks. USE them, I know it can be annoying having to let the kids out of the back all the time, especially when they are that bit older but if they are on all the time then you won't forget to 'reset' them for the younger kiddies.Sunshades are another absolutely necessary item; the sun WILL burn your child through the window, or give them heat stroke which is very very dangerous in infants. Don't be penny pinchers, you can pick these up for about £3 a pair, and there is no excuse to not have them either.
Smokers?.Yoo-hoo, is anyone in there? Yes it's your brain I am talking to. For god's sake don't smoke in the car, not only are you filling your children's lungs with toxic fumes it's bloody dangerous. When you throw that ciggie out of the window, back in it comes and burns the baby, totally stupid and infinitely unforgivable. And before you all get on my back, I smoke ok, so if I can go without in the car then so can you.Hand's up who is guilty of this one? Most of you I bet. Giving your child food in the car, packet of crisps to keep them quiet? Not a good idea unless they are within reach of another adult. If they choke whilst you are driving what are you going to do? I'll tell you what, you'll panic, your driving will be impaired as you hastily look for somewhere to stop, maybe causing an accident. Even if you do manage to stop, think of the time that has been wasted doing so, it doesn't take long for a child to suffocate.
My own son was 5 when he choked on a hula-hoop, he had a cold and as he went to cough it got wedged in the back of his throat. He was standing right in front of me when it happened and even though I took direct action his little lips went blue almost straight away, imagine if I had been driving and took a bit longer to get there. Best to just avoid the situation completely and disallow food in the car. If you are on a long journey and have to feed your children, pull over to do it in a rest stop, then everyone is safe and can enjoy their food.OK, so I'll give them some toys to play with then? This all right, but do think about what you are giving them. Pencils and paper, a book? No, in an accident that pencil becomes a lethal weapon that could seriously injure him and the corner of the hardback book will take his eye out. Make it something soft or if they are older then visual games are better, eye spy, counting sheep/cars etc, which will also keep them from.....
Arguing, another dangerous pastime as if it gets loud and out of hand the driver is turning around, losing concentration rapidly, generally being distracted, exactly how accidents are caused. If you can't seat your squabblers separately then BRIBE them. Tell them it's 10p for every ten minutes they don't argue or 10p for every new car they spot out of the window. Most children are so money hungry that it works a charm!And finally, this is the one that gets my goat the most, is the most dangerous of all and yet I bet each and every one of you have done it at one time or another.
DON'T EVER LEAVE YOUR CHILD UNATTENDED IN THE CAR, EVEN FOR A FEW SECONDS.Did I say that loud enough? I do hope so; I have lost count of the tragedies caused by leaving kids alone in the car. There is no other reason for doing it but laziness, except perhaps extreme stupidity. Three things that could happen if you leave your child alone in the car....
Scenario one
Little Jodie is fast asleep in her babyseat, mum needs to pop into the local shop to get her babymilk for tonight and is parked right outside so she leaves her snug in her seat. After all she can actually see her from the shop window, as she is paying for her milk mum hears a screech of brakes and a loud bang and turns around in horror, just in time to see a lorry plough into the side of her car. Little Jodie is still asleep but now it is eternal...
Mum is hurrying to get her children to school one morning. She puts Billy, Matthew and Emma in their car seats and is just about to lock the house when the phone rings. She runs back inside to answer it leaving the kids in the car, after all they are in their seats. Emma decides to play a trick on mummy and gets out of her chair and the car, and hides. Mum comes back out just as she slips out of sight. Before the boys can say anything mum has jumped in the car and started it up....unfortunately dad has left the car in reverse gear, so it lurches back and smashes into the garage door. Mum gets out to survey the damage, not for one minute expecting too she her daughter's crushed and broken body lying behind the car....
Scenario three
Dad is picking Lilly up from school today, he takes little Michael with him to give mum a break. He parks right out side the gates and decides to leave Michael in the car, he is only 10 feet away.. He leaves the window open slightly as it's a hot day and goes to chat with Samantha's dad, whilst he waits. He keeps one eye on Michael constantly but his gaze is averted as Lilly comes out calling 'Daddy'. In the two seconds he isn't looking, Michael climbs up to the window, he has seen Lilly too and wants to get out, he falls headfirst out of the window on to the concrete below. Michael was rushed to hospital and suffered irreversible brain damage as a result of the injury. He died a few days later....
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leeha37 published 11/10/2002i liked your op very sharp and to the point
firelighter published 11/09/2002With a little forethought, a lot of accidents can be avoided. Dave
COOOEEE published 16/06/2002Well that certainly got the point across. Made me shudder. Fionaxx
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If someone is interested, I can volunteer to try migrating the G'MIC makefiles to CMake, for better dependencies checking and also to automatically generate a suitable pkg-config file.
Just give me green light if you think it is a good idea...
That is maybe a good idea to have an alternative to the Makefile, but that would also mean you are OK to do the maintenance and bug fixes in the future :slightly_smiling:The current Makefile works great for me, so what would bring the use of CMake in this case ?
A Cmake based build system could provide better checking of dependencies, with some more informative messages if required packages are not found, and hopefully a more compact build configuration file. Or could allow to enable/disable specific features from the command line, if needed in future.
Surely I'm ready to maintain the cmake configuration once it is ready!
any progress on this front? @Carmelo_DrRaw
There was no work done yet on this simply because it seemed that the existing build system was OK for all situations. However, if a cmake-based system would help making G'MIC more compatible with various distros, I'm ready to resurrect the topic, and help with writing/maintaining the CMakeFiles! In which case, I can start doing some work in September.
@Carmelo_DrRaw the current build system is maybe OK only for some situations, and a PITA for others. See https://discuss.pixls.us/t/patching-the-makefile/1824
@darix @David_Tschumperle @Morgan_Hardwood Hi there! I have started to write an experimental CMakeLists.txt file for compiling G'MIC.
It would be great if somebody could test it and give me feedback. The building is currently limited to the CLI interface and the GIMP plug-in.Also, it does not check for all the optional dependencies, and is not tested under Windows.
Here is how to use it:
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=the_install_prefix ../ && make
make install
sudo make install
I confirm that your steps work!
Thanks for checking! So this most likely means that the automatic detection of X11 libraries and XShm extensions works fine under gentoo.
Did you also compile the gimp plug-in?
The other advantage is that optional packages (like OpenEXR support) are only enabled if the corresponding libraries are found. Maybe some of them should be changed to "REQUIRED"?
Um, I guess? I didn't pass any flags other than what you wrote, and I think I saw two executables before I deleted the whole thing after the successful test.
That sounds generally good, but for Gentoo there needs to be a way to disable/enable support for an optional component regardless of whether the dependency for such a component is present. For example even though a user ("they") might have OpenEXR installed, they may also have USE="-openexr" which means the package should not compile support for OpenEXR. Is there a way?
See https://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/functions/src_configure/configuring/index.html
The G'MIC ebuild currently in Gentoo has these optional components:
$ equery uses gmic
[ Legend : U - final flag setting for installation]
[ : I - package is installed with flag ]
[ Colors : set, unset ]
* Found these USE flags for media-gfx/gmic-22.214.171.124:
+ + X : Add support for X11
+ + ffmpeg : Enable ffmpeg/libav-based audio/video codec support
- - fftw : Use FFTW library for computing Fourier transforms
- - graphicsmagick : Enable support for many common image file formats using the GraphicsMagick++ library
+ + jpeg : Add JPEG image support
- - opencv : Enable support for webcams using the OpenCV library
+ + openexr : Support for the OpenEXR graphics file format
+ + openmp : Build support for the OpenMP (support parallel computing), requires >=sys-devel/gcc-4.2 built with USE="openmp"
+ + png : Add support for libpng (PNG images)
+ + tiff : Add support for the TIFF image format
+ + zlib : Add support for zlib (de)compression
Maybe we could take as example some other cmake-based package with optionaldependencies? Like rawtherapee and/or darktable?
And see how the use flags are connected with cmake options...
Just like this:
option(USE_OPENEXR "Enable OpenEXR support" ON)
# ...
From the cmake side this is clearly the way to go, my doubts were more onthe gentoo ebuild side... for example how to set -DUSE_OPENEXR=ON/OFF basedon the emerge use flags.
I think this page explains everything:https://devmanual.gentoo.org/eclass-reference/cmake-utils.eclass/
Precisely. So as long as the CMake script supports optional components, the Gentoo side of things is happy.
I am just trying it on OSX 10.10 with macPorts:
and get these messages:
X11_INCLUDE_DIR: /opt/local/include/usr/X11R6/include
I am not just familiar with cmake, hence you have maybe an idea?Karsten
It is strange that cmake does not report any library directory for X11... does it compile fine?
Unluckily not! Where should the folders be located. I have build,cmake and src in gmic folder?
Here is the log
build $ cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ../cmake; make-- The CXX compiler identification is AppleClang 188.8.131.5200181-- The C compiler identification is AppleClang 22.214.171.12400181-- Check for working CXX compiler: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/c++-- Check for working CXX compiler: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/c++ -- works-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done-- Detecting CXX compile features-- Detecting CXX compile features - done-- Check for working C compiler: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/cc-- Check for working C compiler: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/cc -- works-- Detecting C compiler ABI info-- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done-- Detecting C compile features-- Detecting C compile features - done-- Found PkgConfig: /opt/local/bin/pkg-config (found version "0.29.1") -- Found ZLIB: /usr/lib/libz.dylib (found version "1.2.5") -- Looking for XOpenDisplay in /opt/local/lib/libX11.dylib;/opt/local/lib/libXext.dylib-- Looking for XOpenDisplay in /opt/local/lib/libX11.dylib;/opt/local/lib/libXext.dylib - found-- Looking for gethostbyname-- Looking for gethostbyname - found-- Looking for connect-- Looking for connect - found-- Looking for remove-- Looking for remove - found-- Looking for shmat-- Looking for shmat - found-- Looking for IceConnectionNumber in ICE-- Looking for IceConnectionNumber in ICE - found-- Found X11: /opt/local/lib/libX11.dylibX11_INCLUDE_DIR: /opt/local/include/usr/X11R6/includeX11_INCLUDE_DIRs: X11_LIBRARY_DIR: /opt/local/libX11_LIBRARY_DIRS: -- Checking for module 'fftw3>=3.0'-- Found fftw3, version 3.3.4-- Found TIFF: /opt/local/lib/libtiff.dylib (found version "4.0.6") -- Found PNG: /usr/local/lib/libpng.a (found version "1.2.41") -- Found JPEG: /opt/local/lib/libjpeg.dylib-- Checking for module 'OpenEXR'-- Found OpenEXR, version 2.2.0-- Checking for module 'gimp-2.0'-- Found gimp-2.0, version 2.8.18-- Checking for module 'gimpui-2.0'-- Found gimpui-2.0, version 2.8.18-- Configuring doneCMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:180 (add_executable): Cannot find source file:
Tried extensions .c .C .c++ .cc .cpp .cxx .m .M .mm .h .hh .h++ .hm .hpp .hxx .in .txx
CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:180 (add_executable): Target "gmic_gimp" links to item "-lpthread " which has leading or trailing whitespace. This is now an error according to policy CMP0004.
CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:152 (add_executable): Target "gmic" links to item "-lpthread " which has leading or trailing whitespace. This is now an error according to policy CMP0004.
CMake Error: CMake can not determine linker language for target: gmic_gimpCMake Error: Cannot determine link language for target "gmic_gimp".CMake Error: CMake can not determine linker language for target: gmicCMake Error: Cannot determine link language for target "gmic".-- Generating done-- Build files have been written to: /Users/karo/sw/gmic/buildScanning dependencies of target gmic_gimpmake[2]: *** No rule to make target `CMakeFiles/gmic_gimp.dir/build'. Stop.make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/gmic_gimp.dir/all] Error 2make: *** [all] Error 2build $
Sorry, I updated the CMakeLists.txt file but had no time yet to write a comment here... the new version is meant to be put in the main gmic directory, instead of a "cmake" subdirectory. I think that this makes more sense and is more in line with what other software packages do.
That's why you get this error:
Previously the sources where searched in ../src.
Could you please move the cmake/CMakeLists.txt file in the root directory of the gmic sources, and try again? I have also corrected the instructions in my previous post...
By the way @Carmelo_DrRaw, -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release works but RelWithDebInfo does not. Haven't tried debug.
Hmm, next trial delivers this:
build $ cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ../; makeX11_INCLUDE_DIR: /opt/local/include/usr/X11R6/includeX11_INCLUDE_DIRs: X11_LIBRARY_DIR: /opt/local/libX11_LIBRARY_DIRS: -- Configuring doneCMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:180 (add_executable): Target "gmic_gimp" links to item "-lpthread " which has leading or trailing whitespace. This is now an error according to policy CMP0004.
-- Generating done-- Build files have been written to: /Users/karo/sw/gmic/build[ 20%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/gmic_gimp.dir/src/gmic.cpp.oIn file included from /Users/karo/sw/gmic/src/gmic.cpp:1917:In file included from /Users/karo/sw/gmic/src/gmic.h:168:/Users/karo/sw/gmic/src/./CImg.h:190:10: fatal error: 'initializer_list' file not found
1 error generated.make[2]: *** [CMakeFiles/gmic_gimp.dir/src/gmic.cpp.o] Error 1make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/gmic_gimp.dir/all] Error 2make: *** [all] Error 2build $


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Great plugin!
Regarding this old post: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/available-akismet-options-in-contact-form-7
CF7 does not appear to be working as described in that post. If I use:
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As a workaround, I've put the akismet:author tag on my content field: [textarea addl-info akismet:author]. However it appears that akismet will not work correctly if that tag appears in more than one element. So I've had to remove it from the author field (I'm getting more spam where the questionable phrases are in the content, not in the name of the submitter).
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Pull Up a Chair
We all have our traditions, many of which we are quite inflexible about (in our house, my father had to carve the turkey, there never was any turkey carving training for the young ones, this was serious work). And yet as I look back over the years, I'm surprised to find how many "traditions" are relatively new to our celebration, like the Mud Bowl football game, not watched but played. Or lately going over to the neighbors and meeting up with friends for a festive dessert potluck.
One couple I know always watches the same movie after Thanksgiving dinner, sending the kids out with their friends. An aunt always sits down the Saturday after to write out her Christmas cards. And at our house, always the football games and leftover sandwiches. Oh, and the ritual making of the turkey soup starting late Thanksgiving night.
One of the nicest transitions is saying a simple blessing before the meal and going around the table sharing the things we are thankful for.
What are your traditions old and new? Dress up or down? Friends and family? Whipped cream or ice cream for the pies? Best china or paper plates? Potato filling or bread stuffing? (I'm getting hungry.)
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In the bitter winter of 1847, from an Ireland torn by famine and injustice, the Star of the Sea sets sail for NewYork. On board are hundreds of refugees, some optimistic, many more desperate. Among them are a maid with a devastating secret, the bankrupt Lord Merridith, his wife and children, and a killer stalking the decks, hungry for the vengeance that will bring absolution.
This journey will see many lives end, others begin anew. Passionate loves are tenderly recalled, shirked responsibilities regretted too late, and profound relationships shockingly revealed. In this spellbinding tale of tragedy and mercy, love and healing, the farther the ship sails toward the Promised Land, the more her passengers seem moored to a past that will never let them go.
As urgently contemporary as it is historical, this exciting and compassionate novel builds with the pace of a thriller to a stunning conclusion.
Joseph O'Connor, an Irish critic and playwright who is also the author of several previous novels, lures us into an easy read that, before we know it, becomes a chilling indictment not of a murderer but of us. As a London publisher says midway through the book, advising a writer unsuccessfully peddling his fiction, this is ''a good old thumping yarn,'' the sort of thing a reader can ''sink his tusks into.'' But Star of the Sea is also an agonizing inquiry into the nature of abandonment and the difficulty of finding anyone who will truly care about the fate of others. How large does suffering have to loom before we take notice? O'Connor suggests that we can tolerate mountains of misery, sipping our coffee and reading our newspapers as the corpses pile up beneath the headlines. — James R. Kincaid


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I get asked a lot if I think that Gary Renard is a fraud. In the circles of A Course in Miracles it's a common question. It's also a funny question and I am never quite sure how to answer it. The truth is, I don't know Mr. Renard. I've never met him, never personally attended any workshops with him. Calling someone a fraud always is serious charge, and it's not one that should be leveled either quickly or casually.
My involvement with Renard boils down to the fact that I've read The Disappearance of the Universe. In fact, I read it several times. In the early stages of my study of A Course in Miracles, I found Renard's book to be accessible and helpful. Even now, when I do not give Mr. Renard as much attention as I did in the beginning, I continue to believe that his first book grasps the core concepts of the course, laying them out in a way that's easy to understand. There is a reason Gary's work is relatively popular in the ACIM community, and it's not all because of Arten and Pursah.
Do I think that Renard's humor is a little over the top at times? Yes. A little crude? That, too. But it is possible to read Disappearance without having to simultaneously defend Renard's style. It's just another ACIM book. If it's helpful, great. If it's not, well, there's no shortage of authors out there writing books about A Course in Miracles, nonduality, Christ mind and whatever else you might want to pursue.
I know that people get bent out of shape about Arten and Pursah, the ascended masters who taught ACIM to Renard, and who are featured so prominently in his writing. Come on, they say. A couple of ascended masters showed up in his living room? And he recorded them but then destroyed the tapes? Isn't it a little too perfect? A little too self-promotional? Oh and hey – isn't he hawking some vitamins now?
It's not what somebody else thinks is right or helpful – it's what is right or helpful for you. And only you – in relationship with the Holy Spirit – can discern that.
Maybe. For me, Arten and Pursah – and the question of whether they are real or literary devices or what – never got in the way of my reading. If Renard said tomorrow that he made them up – which, I should add, I'm pretty confident he's not going to do – I'd still be grateful for the help the book offered at a critical stage of my learning. And if somebody asked me should they read it, I wouldn't say no right away.
It is always tempting to find something wrong with other course students or teachers. Yet being right is not necessarily synonymous with inner peace.
Seek not outside yourself. For all your pain comes simply from a futile search for what you want you want, insisting where it must be found. What if it is not there? Would you rather be right or be happy? (T-27.VII.1:6-9)
When I find myself focusing on all the reasons not to read someone, or not to listen to them, or even brainstorming ways to discredit them, it is a reflection of my own guilt and fear and has nothing to do with this other person.
In other words, my anxiety over this "other" is simply a call to heal my own internal conflict, which is always my own experience of the separation of God.
One of the gifts of ACIM, at least for me, has been the ability to look at the external world – which includes my feelings and thoughts – and recognize it as a form of projection. "Projection makes perception" (T-13.V.3:5).
We look inside first, decide what kind of world we want to see and then project that world outside, making it the truth as we see it. We make it true by our interpretations of what it is we are seeing (preface xi).
Thus, if I am walking around feeling like Renard or any other ACIM teacher – Marianne Williamson, Ken Wapnick, David Hoffmeister, etc. – is a fraud, a phony, a cheat with good marketing skills or whatever, then I know that I have already rendered that judgment against myself. It's my guilt that I am looking at. So I don't need to "fix" Renard so much as I need to be willing to look at my own need for healing.
My suggestion? If you are curious or feel called to do so, then read Renard's books. Check them against your gut, against your existing understanding of the Course, and ask the Holy Spirit to guide you. Don't worry so much about the personality behind the writing and don't get hung up on the story behind the sales. It's not what somebody else thinks is right or helpful – it's what is right or helpful for you. And only you – in relationship with the Holy Spirit – can discern that.
When our focus is on healing, and when we are related to our internal teacher who knows what healing its, then we begin to perceive a world in which everyone is a blessing because we are blessing them. All things work for good in that world, because all things are "echoes of the Voice for God (W-pI.151). Gary Renard, too.


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With each breathtaking, New York Times best-selling entry in her acclaimed Anna Pigeon mystery series, author Nevada Barr earns more and more fans. Loaded with intrigue and adventure, High Country showcases Barr at the top of her game. Anna is lodged in Yosemite National Park's historic Ahwahnee Hotel when four employees disappear. Sensing evil, Anna hikes a snowy trail to the high country, only to discover a disturbing reality that may end her adventures once and for all.
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a. What is the value of the shareholders' equity account for this firm? b. How much is net working capital?
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Assets Liabilities and Owener`s EquityCurrent assets $2,170 Current liabilities $1350Net fixed assets $9,300 Long-term debt $3980 Shareholders` equity $6140Total assets $11470 Total liabilities and shareholders` equity $11470|
Net working capital= $2170-1350=$820
2. Lifeline, Inc. has sales of $585,000, costs of $273,000, depreciation expense of $71,000, interest expense of $38,000, and a tax rate of 35 percent. Building an income statement for this company, what is the net income?
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Net sales $585,000 Cost $273,000------------------------------------------------- Depreciation $71,000Earnings before interest and taxes $241,000------------------------------------------------- Interest paid $38,000Taxable income $203000Taxes $71050Net income $131950|
3. The SGS Co. had $275,000 in taxable income. Using the rates from Table 2.3 in the chapter, address the following:
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There is a new kid in town when it comes to the elusive question of holiday pay and it now looks like he is here to stay…
Following a string of judgments at Employment Tribunal level which bring into question the way holiday pay is calculated in the UK, we have been waiting with trepidation for some higher authorities to shed some light on this conundrum. The first judgment on this issue has been handed down this morning (22 May) by the Court of the European Union (CJEU) in the case of Lock v British Gas Trading Limited.
The CJEU has followed the Advocate General's opinion and held that commission payments do fall within the concept of normal pay and employers therefore should take commission payments into account when calculating a worker's holiday pay.
In this case, Mr Lock's salary comprised a basic salary and commission payments which were based on his sales. His commission made up over 60% of his total remuneration. When he was on holiday Mr Lock received an average of his pay over the preceding 12 weeks before he took the holiday.
However, he could not make any sales whilst on holiday and therefore he pursued a case to Tribunal on the basis that he suffered a loss in commission because it dropped in the period after he returned from holiday.
British Gas and the UK government argued that under UK legislation and practice the objective of the Working Time Directive (WTD); to pay normal remuneration during holiday, was achieved. This was because during his period of paid annual leave, Mr Lock did receive a salary comparable to that earned during the 12 weeks preceding the annual leave, which comprised his basic salary and commission. However, the problem, as British Gas conceded at the hearing, was that a worker does not generate any commission during their period of holiday and as a consequence the worker is paid reduced remuneration comprising only his basic salary upon his return to work after annual leave. The result is that the adverse financial impact may deter the worker from actually taking annual leave. The Advocate General emphasised in his opinion that this is all the more likely to act as a deterrent in a case like Lock, in which commission represents an average of over 60% of the remuneration received by the worker.
The CJEU concluded that the WTD must be interpreted as precluding national legislation and practice which allows a worker whose remuneration consists of a basic salary and commission, to be paid remuneration composed exclusively of his basic salary during periods of annual leave. In other words commission must be factored in when calculating holiday pay.
Unhelpfully, the CJEU sidestepped a specific question it was asked about what principles were to be adopted by Member States when calculating the sum that is payable to the worker by reference to the commission that the worker would or might have earned if he had not taken annual leave. The CJEU stated that it is for the national court or Tribunal to assess, in light of the principles laid down in Williams v British Airways, whether the average pay calculated for Mr Lock in respect of his annual leave was compliant with the WTD. The case will now go back to the original Employment Tribunal for it to transpose this decision into UK law.
This decision is not surprising in light of the Advocate General's opinion and the European approach to holiday pay which had tended to side with the worker. Another first instance decision has been issued by Nottingham Employment Tribunal in the case of Hertel (UK) Limited v AMEC Group Limited. In this case the Tribunal were willing to interpret the Working Time Regulations (WTR) in a manner consistent with the recent European decision in Lock by adding a further paragraph to the end of regulation 16(3)(d) of the WTR. The effect of this is to assume that non-salaried employees have no normal working hours such that an average therefore needs to be calculated which should include overtime and incentive bonuses in holiday pay calculations. This may be an early indication of the willingness, or perhaps the necessity for UK Tribunals to be creative and stretch the WTR in order to make them compliant with the EU case law position.
Watch out for more commentary and guidance as the Lock case goes back to Tribunal and the keenly awaited Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) decision in the joint cases of Neal v Freightliner and Fulton v Bear goes to the EAT on 30 and 31 July 2014.
Do contact us if you would like further advice on any preparatory steps you can take now to mitigate the risk of holiday pay claims and significant claims for back pay. Will this decision lead to more novel approaches to commission based roles, such as rolling up or applying an annual average to commission?
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The Asus Eee Pad Transformer prime is currently king of the hill as far as Android tablets go, but that doesn't mean it's perfect. As we've seen with other high-profile devices, a single critical failure can sound a sour note for an otherwise great piece of tech. For the Transformer Prime, that sour note appears to be the GPS radio, according to a growing thread over at XDA Developers. Users are reporting extremely poor GPS performance when not connected to wireless networks.
Android uses cellular and WiFi networks as a backup method for determining a device's location, and in the case of the Transformer Prime (which has no cellular connection at this point) WiFi is the best option for getting around this problem. Of course, that's small comfort to users who want to make their tablets into navigation systems, or just play with Google Maps outside of a WiFi area. At this point, there doesn't seem to be any other way around the issue.
Many commenters suspect that the all-aluminum construction of the Transformer Prime is to blame. There's something to be said for that – when smartphones use metal as a primary means of construction, they always leave a plastic portion of the case for the cellular signals to pass through. It could be that during the engineering phase, Asus just didn't consider other wireless communications essential, or didn't sufficiently test them. It could also be a software bug, not entirely unlikely in a product so new. We'll be keeping a lookout for a more permanent solution, should one arise.
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Lana Del Rey is paralyzed by loss on her hypnotic new track, "Terrence Loves You." "I lost myself when I lost you," she sings over piano and moaning saxophone. "But I still got jazz when I've got those blues." The song, which teases the lyrics to David Bowie's "Space Oddity" ("Ground Control to Major Tom"), is Del Rey's latest tease of her upcoming fourth LP, Honeymoon, out September 18th.
The singer also revealed the album's cover art, which features Del Rey sprawled out in a "StarLine Tours" cab. The phone number listed on the vehicle – 1-800-268-7886 – is inactive, but Stereogum reports that dialing may later activate a "Honeymoon Hotline."
Last month, Del Rey released Honeymoon's string-coated title-track, the album's first single. That ballad found the singer exploring more themes of tortured romance: "We both know the history of violence that surrounds you," she sings. "But I'm not scared, there's nothing to lose now that I've found you." Del Rey followed with the synth-driven "High By the Beach," which she paired with a campy clip days later.
The singer announced her album title in a January interview with Billboard. "It's very different from the last one and similar to the first two, Born to Die and Paradise," she explained of the sound. "It's growing into something I really like. I'm kind of enjoying sinking into this more noirish feel for this one. It's been good."
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Hey everyone I have a touching story to share with you.
Intensity by C.C. Koen
Serena Thomas has had a tough and heartbreaking life. She was raised and taken care of by her grandmother but as a young adult the roles were reversed. The one woman who loved and nurtured her depended on her until her last breath, taken by cancer.
With bills piled up and responsibilities layed solely in her lap. The scarce income she was making was not keeping her afloat no matter how hard she worked.
One day her saving grace walked in with an employment opportunity that could turn things around. Her first step, going to the interview.
Lincoln Jefferson has a well established exclusive escort club called The Lounge. It was started for very personal reasons and because of those reasons it is ran like no other, the women call the shots.
Linc is an extremely attractive business man but safety for his employee's is of extreme importance to him, which is why he conducts the intrerviews himself.
Serena is inexperienced yet makes such an impression on him and Linc does something unheard of for him. He makes her an Exclusive right off.
They each have a secret.
Second chances can be found in the most unexpected places.
I LOVED THIS BOOK!! It is a very unique story with melt your heart twists. I will be adding this author to my MUST read list!
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Recently, Google removed the Search by Location ('Change Location') feature. I'm pretty sure this was only used by SEOs anyway, so I completely get why Google would remove a feature that normal users weren't using.
According to a Google Spokesperson:
"It was getting very little usage, so we're focusing on other features."
At any rate, there are many digital marketers out there that are not happy with the removal of the geo-location feature, as this was a great way to monitor and analyze clients as they appear in the search results in their location.
But don't go nuts — it's all good! There's still a way to see your client's results in a similar fashion. In fact, there are multiple ways to monitor the local search engine results status for your clients.
Here's what most are suggesting (decent solution)
Search Google and append this to your URL after you search — &near=[cityname]
So, for example:
This solution is ok, but it's not going to give you the same results as before when you used the search by location setting in the search results.
I talk about this a little more below, but you're scanning this now to know what the best solution is, so I'll go ahead and get to that.
I Search From – the best kept secret in Local SEO! (btw, Wired SEO has NO affiliation with this tool)
http://isearchfrom.com/ — Not many know about this, even SEO professionals. Since Google got rid of the location search, I'm guessing this will get a lot more use. This will emulate/simulate the local search by location results in Google exactly like before, when the Location filter was offered in the Search Tools.
BONUS!! Not only is this tool going to show you exactly what you're looking for in a specific location, but you can search by device.
We also use it so search by iPhone in a location for instance.
That's probably all you need to read, if you'd like more details, keep reading…
Here's the difference between using &near=[cityname] and what iSearchFrom delivers
With the "near" and city name search it's basically doing just what you'd think a "near me" type of search would do… it's giving you a larger surrounding area.
Like in the example below, the near search returns results that are basically saying, I'm not necessarily IN Houston, I'm just NEAR it.
So, since you're not necessarily IN Houston, you get 2 results on the outskirts, instead of the 2 that are in the center of Houston.
So in this case, The Dentistry of Dr. Ka-Ron Y. Wade is completely removed from the local mix when you do the &near search
Google Search "dentist" in Houston, TX
Google Search "dentist" NEAR Houston, TX
Here's how it works and how you can do it yourself (if iSearchFrom goes down or something)
This is what needs to be added to your URL after you do a Google search. But all the crazy characters are what establishes where you are locally.
To break it down….
There are 3 things to look at:
Keep this part: &uule=w+CAIQICI
That red part is what represents your location, but it's encoded with what's called Base64.
That dark "b" you see in between the green and the red is derived from the amount of characters in the UNencoded search location.
Ok, so here's an example, we'll keep going with a Houston dentist….
The only other thing y0u need is a character in front which represents a count of the un-encoded region characters. In this case, there are 27 characters in Houston,Texas,United States (including spaces), so the character we need is "b"
So, we have the following…
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Happy Monday! I hope you all had a great weekend! Mine was quite busy at work, but today I'm back, blogging about my top fashion picks from http://www.shoespie.com/
Shoespie is a great on-line boutique that I wanted to present to you because I really like their offer of cool shoes and bags.
In fact, it's a web store specialized in selling all types of shoes for men and women, and they also sell high fashion handbags and beauty products.
This season I'm going crazy for gladiator sandals! They're a big trend and they look absolutely cool with denim shorts, skirts or dresses! They're perfect for summertime :-)
I'm in love with these pair of black gladiator's:
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Here are some gorgeous heels for cheap that caught my attention:
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Now that you have picked your favourite pair of shoes for this season, it's the time to choose the right handbag! When it comes to bags, I don't like them to be too trendy, but I much prefer best classic handbags, as I'll be able to wear them for many years.
Here is the tote bag from the webstore I liked a lot:
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Have you ever ordered anything from Shoespie? What is your one must have pair of shoes for this summer season?
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Honestly, you couldn't have scripted a more fitting end to this season. Blow a 10-point halftime lead, on the road, against a team full of seniors who stayed more focused and motivated throughout the game than you did. Fall asleep on defense over and over again and let that kid keep getting free on the baseline for those alley-oop dunks.
I hate watching my team in the NIT, because you never feel good about rooting for it. ("We're Number 66!!") But now at least that's all resolved. From what I saw, it certainly looks as if Greg Monroe could use more seasoning, so hopefully he stays away from that NBA draft and comes back to try and make up for what happened this year.
We could go over it and over it, but we already have, for the past few months. And besides, this is the best day of the year -- whether the Hoyas decided to join it or not.
The NCAA Tournament begins in earnest this afternoon. I'm in Florida, doing some spring training coverage, but the heavy early odds favor me blowing off this Phillies-Marlins game and finding a sports bar with about 110 TVs and parking there for the afternoon. Or going back down to Delray Beach and crashing on my in-laws' couch to watch one game on the TV and others on the laptop.
Briefly, my Final Four is Michigan State, Duke, Connecticut and Oklahoma, with Michigan State beating Duke for the title. I never win these things, and my performance (as detailed below) in this year's Conference Tournament Pool speaks to the success I expect to have in the big bracket as well. So while I have no reason to think you'd be using my picks as any kind of advice anyway, I can confidently advise you to stay away, and use them only to poke fun at me after the fact.
My winners today:
LSU over Butler
Memphis over Cal State-Northridge
BYU over Texas A&M
Purdue over Northern Iowa
North Carolina over Radford, easily, even with Ty Lawson tied behind their backs.
Cal over Maryland
UConn over Chattanooga
Washington over Mississippi State
Minnesota over Texas (Sure, drinking the Big Ten Kool-Aid. Why fight it?)
Clemson over Michigan (Too much Kool-Aid is bad for you)
Villanova over American
Akron over Gonzaga (UPSET SPECIAL -- GO ZIPS!!!)
Duke over Binghamton
Oklahoma over Morgan State
UCLA over VCU (though I see the President picked the upset here...)
Illinois over Western Kentucky
Let's tip off!!!!
Seedy K's GameCap: Syracuse
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Increasing Consumer Engagement
In Web 2.0, our concern is with two way communications. We no longer want to simply inform our readers, but to engage them. In fact, the concept of engagement and the word itself are thrown around quite a bit in social media marketing.
As a result, brands may create marketing objectives centered upon increasing consumer engagement. EXAMPLE GOAL: By the end of the quarter, consumer engagement will increase on our Facebook page by 10% as evident by increased likes and comments.
But what does engagement look like across social media platforms? Or, more importantly, what does the brand need to do during the strategy creation phase to increase consumer engagement?
Monologue Vs. Dialogue
Recently, a student of mine in Riga made the observation that some social content is monologue, while other is dialogue. He made the distinction that status casts (tweets, etc.) might be classified as monologue, while conversations would fall into the dialogue category.
Often, on personal social accounts (Facebook, Twitter, etc.), users tend to follow this model rather closely. We've all heard people joke about the users whose status casts update the world on their latest trip to the refrigerator or breath of fresh air.
But brands are guilty, too! Social content that speaks as monologue from brands often looks a lot like this: Buy our product by clicking on this link!
Increasing Dialogue = Increasing Engagement
Let's go back and try to answer our previously stated question: What does a brand need to do during the strategy creation phase to increase consumer engagement?
While status casts can be used in the monologue fashion we addressed above, they can also be used to create dialogue. During the strategy creation phase, the brand should do the following to increase consumer engagement:
1. Look for brands in similar markets whose social pages get a lot of consumer engagement. Zappos is a great example on Twitter.
2. Brainstorm a list of questions that might provoke the brand's customer base to respond.
3. Test, collect data, go back to the drawing board, and try again!
Our goal as social media marketers in Web 2.0 should be to move away from using monologue and toward provoking dialogue. What do you do to increase dialogue with your customers online?


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Just back from a fabulous trip, here's the cliffnotes version!
Just back from a fabulous trip, here's the cliffnotes version!
Just back from 10 days in the beautiful southwest, we had a fabulous time! Thanks to all of you who helped me in my planning!
We flew direct to Las Vegas and were famished so went directly to Ellis Island, primarily because it was close to our hotel, Paris, and also because of the good reviews here. The steak special was very good—I was envisioning a thin little steak and was quite surprised with a super thick, filet type steak! Service was a little off but overall a good stop, and my teen boys liked their root beer.
Paris was a beautiful hotel, we enjoyed our stay in a Red Room but didn't try any bribe tricks for a view room because of the noise. Our room was fresh and beautiful, on the 30th floor so no noise. Used the wifi at the little bakery and then we were off to a trip down the strip. We walked to Wynn and back, stopping for a $1 margarita at Casino Royale and to see the Bellagio fountain show. Toured around in Bellagio, Venetian, and Mirage but frankly we were so tired from getting up early and the flight that it was an embarrassingly early night. Got the kids back to the room and set up with a movie, and DH and I went our separate ways gambling a bit, he in the poker room at Planet Hollywood and me at the slots in Ballys. We broke even!
In the morning we were off to Zion which was just beautiful on a bright sunny day. We hiked Emerald Pools, Weeping Rock, the Riverside walk. DH wouldn't go on Canyon Overlook because of the heights and Angels Landing was not even a thought! Fabulous day! We stayed at Cliffrose Lodge which I highly recommend. All the reviews are true. Our room was great and roomy, and looked right out on a nice lawn to the Virgin River. Used the hot tub which is 24 hours but the pool was cold. Got pizza at the Flying Monkey which was very good, the nice thin kind.
In the am my DH and two teen boys went to do a canyoneering day with Zion Adventure Co. Mike was their guide and they had a fabulous time canyoneering in Kolob Canyon. He was patient and so helpful for my three newbies. I had to sit out because my bum knee was acting up, but I soaked up the serenity at Cliffrose. We ate at Oscars that night on Mike's recommendation and everything was wonderful!
Off to Bryce the next am on another clear sunny day, just gorgeous! I remembered its grandeur from my middle school trip and it was still as beautiful! Did all the view spots but I couldn't hike so that was about it. Had an overpriced and "ok" meal at Zion Lodge because there weren't many options, but it wasn't worth the $ IMHO.
We stayed at the Bryce Best Western Grand and our stay of 2 nights was not without trouble. While the room was clean and roomy, the service there was abysmal. The "free breakfast" was a train wreck with ¾ of the food being gone by the time we got there towards the middle of the "open" hours – not the end. There were a lot of angry people and the manager began importing food in from the hotel next door, which was under the same management I guess. It was really crowded and disorganized and we had some toast and called it good. In addition the wifi would not work hotel-wide and the management really made no real efforts to fix it – one reservationist even argued with me about it and got really snarky. They eventually gave my computer genius hubby a phone number to call their IT dept and work it out himself! Hmm. Not impressed at this facility but like I said the room was very nice.
Spent the next day as our "free day" checking out Highway 12 towards Escalante. We didn't make it quite to Boulder because my driving DH was getting a bit spooked by the roads and no guardrails. We did check out Hole in the Rock road to Devils Garden, on the recommendation of this board, and the boys had a total blast there! I would heartily recommend this spot for anyone with kids who need to burn off steam! They spent probably 1.5-2h just running and climbing the boulders having a great time. A great cure for too much sitting in the family minivan! Grabbed Subway in Escalante since dinner options at Bryce are so weak.
Next morning we were off to Page, AZ looking forward to Antelope Canyons. Absolutely fabulous! Otherworldly and peaceful, so beautiful! The highlight spot of our trip for us. We got on the reserved list at Upper, then went to do Lower while we waited. Took about 1.5h in lower and I think I liked it best. I know the kids did, with all the climbing and tight corners. Went back to Upper and it was just gorgeous too. Loved, loved, loved them! Had dinner at Bonkers, great meals, reasonably priced. Thanks TA! Also got fabulous real-fruit shakes at RD's drive in under the recommendation of our guide Bonnie. The hotel in Page was the Holiday Inn Express, just ok, kind of tired and drab. Kind of uneventful.
Next day was Grand Canyon day and another beautiful sunny day. We took our time stopping a couple Navajo jewelry stands (everything looks just alike?? Kind of disappointed in that but the prices were really low) and stopping for lunch for a Navajo Taco at the Cameron Trading Post. It was very good, hubby and I split one. Our first glimpse of the Grand Canyon was at Desert View and it was awesome. Did all the tourist spots up to the Bright Angel Lodge then got our cabin. They surprised me—very clean, spacious, and everything we needed. They even have TV's now. We got parking right outside our unit, and because of the kids, they gave us two adjoining units in a duplex so no noise from others. Awesome service all the way by Xanterra people. Went on the tram to sunset at Mojave Point and it was so nice, so beautiful. Almost everyone gets off at Hopi Point, so our little spot at Mojave was heaven. The bus ride with everyone going back to Bright Angel was packed but everyone was mellow. Dinner afterward was a very slow affair with everyone unloading at Bright Angel after sunset, we waited an hour for a table at the restaurant and it was just ok. Kids and dad hiked Bright Angel in the am then we had breakfast at the BA restaurant again. Breakfast much better than dinner, very good esp. the blueberry pancakes, yum!
Off to Sedona. The drive down 89A through Oak Creek Canyon was just beautiful, kind of wished I had settled on a hotel or cottage there. Stopped at the Dairy Queen to check jewelry, but disappointed that they all have exactly the same thing, I really wanted something different. We stayed at the Sedona Real, which was ok. Our first double queen was **tiny**, the rollaway I'd requested would fit but then no one could use the bathroom!! Upgraded to the only available thing, a king suite, which in retrospect I wish I'd have spent that $$$ at a smaller place in Oak Creek Canyon. It was fine but nothing special.
We rented a Jeep from Barlow and had a great time doing Soldiers Pass and the Outlaw Trail. Liked that they were less full of people than broken arrow plus it was our first time and we weren't sure about driving broken arrow. Kids had a blast and it was great family bonding time I got uptown to do some shopping and found my unique piece of jewelry I had been looking for—boy could I do some damage shopping in Sedona! Ate dinner at Red Rock BBQ as my sons love BBQ – it was good and priced reasonably. Coconut crème pie was really good! Overall Sedona was just beautiful and a relaxing end to our vacation.
Traveled the long and boring drive back to Vegas with little to be diverted by. Passed Hoover Dam but we'd seen Glen Canyon dam so we just passed on by. Stayed at a very nice Holiday Inn Express in Henderson and hopped a flight back to Michigan, tired and thrilled with all we had seen and done, thanks again for all your help!!
Nice report! You hit some places that we missed on our recent trip to the region. This has me itchin' to go back. Thanks for sharing your trip with us.
Thanks for the report. You packed a lot in a little time - my kinda trip! Glad you had a good time.
Thanks for posting. Sounds like you had a great adventure!
Thanks for sharing.
At Bryce, the Rubys Inn complex and BW Grand aren't just managed by the same folks, they are owned by the same people. The Ruby family has been hosting visitors to Bryce for about a 100 years now. When it gets crowded, food gets short. Never expect anything beyond mediocre food anywhere around Bryce. That's just the way it is.
Hoping that you learned that when visiting the parks in the Southwest, other than Springdale and Sedona, there really aren't any options for great lodging. But the important thing is just having a place to sleep and clean up. The vacation is all about the outdoors.
Thanks for your TR Snorkelgirlie. Enjoyed reading it. Sorry for your BW Grands stay. We had better experiences there. And I agree, Flying Monkey has good pizza's!
always nice to read about other people's experiences when they are traveling - will be going to tour some of the same area in May as my Swiss husband hasn't seen it all yet.
Very nice and interesting report. We stayed at Cliffrose once when Dessert Pearl was full and we enjoyed it very much. Sounds like your family enjoyed everything they did and it worked out well for you.
Great TR....enjoyed reading it! Sounds like you all had a great time on your adventures!
We weren't impressed with Ruby's either! Just to.....commercialized for our taste and actually ended up getting a room inside Bryce at the last minute! Enjoyed that much better!!
Thanks for taking the time to write this up and share your experiences with all of us here!
*thumbs up* Glad you had a good trip!
We recently stayed at Ruby's and the room was fine (we usually camp, so our standards are low, lol), but I thought the food was abysmal. We always temper our expectations for food in places like that, but even with our low expectations we found the food particularly bad. The flavored popcorn in the little grocery store was yummy though. :)


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