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Krista's essay on why she doesn't do Christmas prompted reader Jeff Jackson to share this video on the Advent Conspiracy. It's well done.
"O Come, Emmanuel"
For so many Christians, this song was sung and played this past weekend on the first Sunday of Advent. But I'm going to guess that very few church services featured such a stirring pairing of piano and cello.
The Wrappings of Love in Enveloping Arms: An Advent Reflection
by Pádraig Ó Tuama, guest contributor
There's an internet site called The Nicest Place on the Internet that I came across the other day. I'm not sure how I saw it — a link from a tweet, or something somebody wrote.
When you open the site, an acoustic version of "I Have Never Loved Someone" by My Brightest Diamond begins playing. While it's playing, short videos of people hugging a camera are played. There seems to be an unending slew of people who have sent in these YouTube videos of themselves approaching the camera. That's all it is: the song on repeat and these videos of people hugging the camera that's filming them.
My first time meeting Protestants from the north was at a church camp in August 1987. I was eleven years old. I spent my camp asking the poor Protestants if they were Irish or English, with a curiosity I usually reserved for asking whether certain characters in Wonder Woman were goodies or baddies. At the end of the church camp, one of the Protestant women, a woman with blonde hair called Annette, said "Give me a hug."
I didn't know what she meant. I didn't know what hugs were to give her one. I didn't know that I had one to give.
An Advent of Doubt and Struggle
by Debra Dean Murphy, special contributor
Advent is my kind of season.
No, not the pseudo-Advent of most Christian piety with liturgically-correct hymns and texts on the Sundays of the season and full-on Christmas hoopla all the other days, but this one: the ancient, autumnal interval of darkness and foreboding with its achy uncertainty blanketing landscapes both inner and outer. This Advent offers room for doubt and struggle. It grants permission to rest in — rather than to resolve — the tensions and paradoxes, the sometimes maddening contradictions that shape the life of discipleship.
We read the appointed texts for the Sundays of Advent and they are startling in their bleakness, their familiarity inuring us to meanings inscrutable, ominous, perilous. (Unless we subscribe to the Left Behind school of hermeneutics, in which liturgical Advent doesn't exist and these texts are never bad news for us).
What the season reveals in its hymns, poems, texts, and traditions is that we begin the Christian year not by embarking on a straightforward path to nativity joy but by acknowledging the gaping chasm that exists, as Rowan Williams has put it, between "our deepest and holiest longing and the reality of God."
Prophetic oracle is a fitting literary companion for traversing such a divide. While the lectionary texts for Advent are rooted in a time and place that have everything to do with their significance for our own time and place, it's the apocalyptic form itself that provides strange comfort to those of us with less than sunny spiritualities. We are not very sure of ourselves, theologically and otherwise. Our questions often consume us, overwhelm us. More than anything, sentimental Christianity makes us want to run away from church and never come back.
But the Advent rantings of John the Baptizer and the little apocalypse of Mark's gospel intrigue us and are part of the reason we stay. There's something interesting going on here, something that even an accommodated church can't quite tame, obscure, or ignore. The God spoken of in these ancient texts is saving a people and redeeming all of creation. In this work we sense, with Flannery O'Connor, that "grace must wound before it heals."
And we also sense that the three-fold coming (adventus) of Christ — as baby refugee, as word and sacrament, as glorious Lamb of God — is more political than personal: He comes to "shake the powers in the heavens" that justice at long last might be established, that the politics of fear and the economics of scarcity might be exposed as the fraudulent scams they are. In Jesus is abundance — life and health and joy for all. For the brooding skeptics and cynics among us, indeed for all Advent people, He is the apocalyptic thief who breaks in not to rob us but to give us the goods.
Maybe a domesticated church — even one that observes pseudo-Advent — can hear this good news with new ears.
Photo by Stuart Anthony/Flickr, cc by-nc-nd 2.0.
Debra Dean Murphy is an assistant professor of Religion and Christian Education at West Virginia Wesleyan College and serves on the board of The Ekklesia Project. She regularly blogs at Intersections: Thoughts on Religion, Culture, and Politics.
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Photos We Couldn't Use This Christmas
by Trent Gilliss, senior editor
Photography is a medium that can add immeasurable depth to the character and content of an online essay or show page or blog commentary. But, so often, choosing complementary images is treated as an afterthought, a sort of window display that fails to give you a hint of what's inside or add to the story that's being told in text or audio. I take this aspect seriously, especially when it comes to guest contributions to this blog.
In a simple call-out on Facebook and Twitter, we asked our readers to write about Advent or Hanukkah. We received dozens of clever, moving essays (even some on winter solstice!) and poetry — so many so that I worked through my first week of vacation editing and posting them. There were too many not to publish, and putting them off until I returned would mean that the built-in deadlines of the holidays would void them completely. Oh, what a joy though!
And what a challenge to find photos worthy of their partners. I hope I did our guest contributors right. Along the way, I found many others that weren't quite right for pairing with our submissions. I'm sharing three photos with you that I don't want to let go unnoticed.
I couldn't find a spot for the photo above, but Christy Quirk's street shot from her travels in Azerbaijan is absolutely wonderful. The scene is a bit depressing, and the Santa is a skinnier version of Dan Akroyd in Trading Places. (I'm just waiting for him to pull out a piece of salmon…) The photographer's caption says it all:
"Christmas in a Muslim, post-Soviet country is a bit schizophrenic. Christmas isn't celebrated as it is the West, but many of the icons are visible. Azeris like a secular New Year's, but they also sometimes celebrate the Russian Christmas on January 6th. Nevertheless, this Santa looks a little worse for the wear."
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And a Lancastrian photographer took this intriguing shot of a roadside vendor selling Santa masks and hats that read "Merry Christmas" — in Goa, India.
As interesting as these two Santa photos may be, it is the following family photo that I regret not using most:
photo: Micah Taylor/Flickr, licensed under Creative Commons
Any family who has sat for a photo knows that the outtakes are often most memorable, and amusing. This one is scintillating and rich with texture, something the viewer can layer with meaning depending on the context. The photographer adds some flavor with his own caption: "For many obvious reasons, this did not make the cut for the family Christmas card, but it made the cut into my heart."
Mine too, Micah. Mine too.
A Well-Rehearsed Ritual
by Anna Lawrence Pietroni, guest contributor
A Christmas tree stands a month after Christmas last year. Ashley, who had recently overcame thyroid cancer, kisses her son Trey, who was undergoing treatment for tuberculosis.
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Advent Tea was invented by my mother 40 years ago. My brothers were young and knocking over furniture in their pre-Christmas fervor. Mom needed to find some way of marshaling their excitement, so she built a little ritual around the lighting of a candle on a Sunday — something to pull them back to here and now and to take their eyes off December 25th. She took a few simple ingredients: cream crackers (frugal, brittle squares of air and flour), a jar of home-pickled onions, and a slab of cheddar cheese. She lit a candle, and that was it: Advent Tea.
Now my young sons are knocking over furniture, and I welcome Advent Tea as a slower, settled time on Sunday afternoons. My boys' religious education is a little patchy. When I asked them what Advent meant, they told me "it means crackers." But Advent Tea does what all good rituals do: it's a simple, repeated practice that has worn grooves into our years; it brings the weight and depth of shared experience to the moment.
Last December we were far from home, living in Boston, Massachusetts. Back in England, my parents were nursing my grandfather through the final stages of cancer. Advent was about a different kind of anticipation: not of birth, but of death. We knew Grandad did not have long to live. My parents were fully occupied with making his last weeks as comfortable as they could, and yet my dad found time to buy the makings of Advent Tea and ship them in a shoebox to the States. I felt the separation keenly — daily Skype calls are no substitute for being in the room. But Advent Tea connected me with them; I ate what they ate, we all lit a candle, and this invoked a little of their presence.
I'm back home now and don't need the shared practice to draw my loved ones close. This year, the ritual of Advent Tea is serving us in an unexpected way. We face our first Christmas not only without Grandad, but without my father too. He was vital, active, in his mid-sixties and struck down this summer by a stealthy, aggressive cancer that shocked everyone with the speed of its progression. I got home five days before he died. Our family is depleted: we've lost two tender, generous men who blessed the lives of everyone they knew. It's all too easy to dread Christmas, to seek out all the gaps and silences their absence has created and fill them up with weeping. I find myself angry when explaining Advent to my children; that it's more than cheese and crackers. I discover that the ecclesiastical construct both baffles and irritates me: the baby's already been born. Not only that, he's lived; he's died; we've had the Resurrection. We know the story. So why all this faked 'waiting'?' And don't get me started on the Second Coming.
My rant leads me to look for definitions. (What does it mean, anyway?) Advent, meaning "coming," leads me to parousia, the Greek word used in the New Testament in connection with the Second Coming. It means "presence."
And this is what the ritual of Advent Tea fosters: a gentle coaxing to be fully present, to cultivate what John O'Donohue calls "soul texture." It's a well-rehearsed ritual, so we don't need to think about what to set out on the table. The meal is simple. There is no cooking, no performance. We laugh. We eat. We light a candle. My sons fight about who gets to blow it out. As with my brothers, 40 years ago, Advent Tea helps us all to sit still. This year, more than ever, it coaxes me to be right here right now, with all the sadness and the gratitude and joy.
Anna Lawrence Pietroni started writing fiction when she was training to be a prison warden. She currently lives in Birmingham, England and published her first novel, Ruby's Spoon, this year.
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La Vida es Esperar, or Life Is Waiting
by Meagan Howell, guest contributor
"Waiting for a Train" in Régua, Portugal (photo: Rosino/Flickr, licensed under Creative Commons)
I nearly stood up my very first client on the first day of my first job in social work. Graduate school had not prepared me for the intricacies of the scheduling system at the community health center where I was working. By the time I figured things out, I was nearly half an hour late for the appointment.
Mortified, I found my client, a sixty-year-old woman recently arrived from Puerto Rico, sitting placidly in a folding chair. She didn't say a word when I greeted her; she just followed me back to my office. She sat down opposite me with her coat on, holding her purse firmly in her lap. When I apologized for the wait, she looked at me steadily and said: "La vida es esperar." Don't worry about it. Life is waiting.
Then she told me about all the waiting she'd already done that day: waiting for the bus, waiting for the connecting bus, waiting at the social services office, waiting for a dental appointment, now waiting for me. After this she'd go wait for the bus some more. The upshot was: Did I really think I was so important? I was just another stop in between waits.
Oh, her manner was grim. She had steeled herself to endure the kind of waiting that comes with poverty and it had made her fierce and passive at the same time, if that's possible. She was pissed, she was resigned. I have never forgotten her, because she was right about la vida. But there are other ways to wait.
These days I spend less time social working and more time taking care of my kids, who are five and two years old. Waiting for small children can be maddening. And interminable. I wait for my daughter to tie her shoes with great effort and focus, for my son to walk ever so slowly up the stairs at the store, for the nap to end (or begin!). But the greatest moments of intimacy and love with my kids find me when I can accept the waiting and become present within it. There is no such thing as killing time for little kids, and when I am able to enter into that kind of time with them, I open up to all the possibilities of right now. Waiting with intention helps me to feel the present moment, and all the unexpected gifts it brings.
Advent waiting is like that. It is the opposite of the sort of dehumanizing waiting that my first client described. It is active waiting, a waiting I choose with my whole heart, which makes the world around me new and strange. Intentional anticipation clears a space for the present moment. There is nothing burdensome about it, though it is hard to do.
During Advent, we are waiting for God. But when you start to pay attention, you realize, When aren't we waiting for God? The paradox is that within that yearning, that focused waiting that catapaults you across the open expanse of not yet, you feel God to be always already here. How beautiful. How impossible! I am waiting for God, and while I do, God is waiting with me.
I grew up in a Unitarian Universalist-Jewish family. We observed a whole lot of things, but Advent wasn't one of them. As an adult, I became an Episcopalian. My husband was raised Catholic. We were both religion majors in college. In short: we have a lot of material to work with. Yet when it came to Advent, we weren't sure what our new family traditions would be. I know from experience that waiting for Christmas can feel like the worst kind of torture to a child. I wanted to find ways to wait together as a family that would help us to clear that space, to open ourselves up, and not be afraid of what we are yearning for.
We began with an Advent calendar. After Thanksgiving last year, the four of us made one from squares of felt that we decorated using all the crafting materials I could find in the house. We painted, glued, stickered, and markered the 24 squares, which are covered in lentils, sequins, ribbons, and googly eyes. Once they were decorated, I affixed them to a large rectangle of white felt and set about embroidering a number beneath each square.
I had very little experience with embroidery. I didn't realize how ambitious the project was when I began it; last year I only made it to 7. After Thanksgiving this year, I unrolled the calendar. I sat down in my mother's living room, listening to the sounds of my kids playing and my husband unloading the dishwasher. In that rare quiet stretch, I made it up to 12. That might be it for this year, but I hope not. In letting go of my urgency to get the thing done, I was able to experience the painstakingly slow work of embroidery as a fruitful Advent practice. Each stitch matters.
Plus, you know, waiting for God isn't easy. It's nice to have something for my hands to do. Our developing Advent rituals slow me down and make me a little more peaceful.
It is a gentle time, after all. I feel a new openness as we move into winter, like the birds' nests that are newly exposed now that the leaves have all fallen. There is a stillness in the season, a hush in the air that whispers: don't be scared. Don't be discouraged. Just wait.
Meagan Howell is a freelance writer with a background in social work and public radio. She blogs about family life at Home Made Time.
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The First Baby Shower Unites Women on the Margins
by Onleilove Alston, guest contributor
A statuette of the Virgin Mary in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn. (photo: Michael O'Donnell/Flickr, licensed under Creative Commons)
This Advent I am reminded of the meeting Mary had with Elizabeth to announce she was with child. Though this could have been a time of anxiety for Mary, with Elizabeth it became a time of celebration. I playfully call the following account of Mary's visit to Elizabeth the first baby shower:
"Mary didn't waste a minute. She got up and traveled to a town in Judah in the hill country, straight to Zachariah's house, and greeted Elizabeth. When Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, the baby in her womb leaped. She was filled with the Holy Spirit, and sang out exuberantly, You're so blessed among women, and the babe in your womb, also blessed, And why am I so blessed that the mother of my Lord visits me? The moment the sound of your greeting entered my ears, The babe in my womb skipped like a lamb for sheer joy. Blessed woman, who believed what God said, believed every word would come true!
And Mary said, I'm bursting with God-news; I'm dancing the song of my Savior God. God took one good look at me, and look what happened — I'm the most fortunate woman on earth! What God has done for me will never be forgotten, the God whose very name is holy, set apart from all others. His mercy flows in wave after wave on those who are in awe before him. He bared his arm and showed his strength, scattered the bluffing braggarts. He knocked tyrants off their high horses, pulled victims out of the mud. The starving poor sat down to a banquet; the callous rich were left out in the cold. He embraced his chosen child, Israel; he remembered and piled on the mercies, piled them high. It's exactly what he promised, beginning with Abraham and right up to now.
Mary stayed with Elizabeth for three months and then went back to her own home."
In America, baby showers are times for women to come together and celebrate new life; presents are exchanged, advice given, and games played. Mary and Elizabeth celebrated the new life within them by exchanging presents of joy, encouragement, song, and prophecy. Both women were carrying children of promise: one would pave the way and the other would be the way.
John the Baptist, a prophet even from the womb, jumped for joy because he knew the baby Mary carried was the Messiah. Mary and Elizabeth were both silenced and marginalized in their society, yet in the company of each other they declared prophetic words of what God was doing in their midst. Neither woman had a convenient pregnancy — Mary being a teenager and Elizabeth being an elderly woman, but each allowed herself to be inconvenienced for God's purposes. Mary and Elizabeth's celebration shows the importance of women coming together for prayer, praise, and prophecy.
When Mary sings, "He knocked tyrants off their high horses, pulled victims out of the mud. The starving poor sat down to a banquet; the callous rich were left out in the cold," we see that in the presence of Elizabeth she could freely declare words that may have been dangerous if spoken in public. Mary's song was more than words of celebration, it was a declaration of the inevitable breakthrough of justice.
In my tradition as a Protestant Christian, Advent is a season of waiting, but this Advent season I am not waiting for Christ. There is no need to wait because his grace breaks into my reality each day. As a young African-American woman, I am waiting for the justice Mary sang about to break through into my community, into the U.S. prison system, into the shacks of South Africa, into the relations we have with each other.
This passage is an encouragement to me as I wait because it reminds me that when women gather in Christ's name He is in our midst. I believe that if we want justice to break through into our society we cannot passively wait, but like Mary and Elizabeth we have to actively wait singing prophetic songs and taking actions of justice. Let us not grow anxious by the circumstances we see: the holiday parties, gifts to buy and return, or seasonal loneliness. But, during this season of Advent, let us remember that the Gospels included everyday people who God used in extraordinary ways.
Women can continue to come together to rejoice, celebrate, and prophesy about liberation through collective action and prayer. This Advent I will actively wait by organizing for justice in my community, because when we come together the course of history will be interrupted, life birthed, and justice given.
Onleilove Alston is a native New Yorker and a student at Union Theological Seminary and Columbia University. She lives in a Christian intentional community in Harlem and is a contributing writer for Sojourners.
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My Advent of Magnanimous Despair: Doubt and Depression Mediated Through Poetry
by Luke Hankins, guest contributor
For me, Advent means that God is coming into your life — is already there, in fact, has always been there, but you are about to experience that fact in an unprecedented way. I have come to view my experience of losing my faith and falling into anxiety and depression, into fear of damnation, into hopelessness, as being God's advent into my life.
My first 25 years as a devoted member of a conservative, Protestant Christian tradition were never easy, and I had always been plagued with doubts and fears from early childhood on, but I never anticipated the traumatic loss of faith that I experienced in my 25th year.
About a year and a half ago, my doubts became unrelenting. And suddenly the only framework I ever had for understanding life and for making meaning was whisked away. This coincided with an event that sparked a year-long cycle of severe anxiety and depression unlike anything I had ever experienced. I was going through each day in terror and despair, literally shaking — for months.
On the one hand, I no longer believed in hell; on the other, I very much believed that I was destined for it because of my loss of faith and that I was experiencing only a foretaste of untold suffering in my anxiety and depression.
When Gifts Are Offered, Take Them: Advent in Nicaragua
by Kate Moos, executive producer
José Napoleón Duarte, president of El Salvador, speaks with Minnesota delegation while I place my microphone.
In the late 1980's, an unlikely series of events carried me to Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador to meet high-ranking political figures and rebel leaders. But, it was an unexpected encounter with an unknown woman in Managua during La Gritería that made the trip so memorable and changed the way I see the Advent season forever.
Back then, Ronald Reagan was the sitting president, the nuclear clock was ticking loudly, hemispheric relations were fraught with Cold War geopolitics, and the deployment of the state of Minnesota's National Guard troops in central Honduras was part of a foreign policy that became a focal point for protest and debate. The state actually filed a lawsuit contesting the federal government's authority to deploy the state militia overseas. Its significance is hard to grasp now, when our "weekend warriors" are an integral part of U.S. military presence in Afghanistan and Iraq, but it was a different military and a different time then.
Revolutionary governments in the region were thought to destabilize American interests, even potentially the Panama Canal. In Nicaragua, the revolutionary Sandinistas toppled Anastasio Samoza, the last of a dynastic dictatorship. In El Salvador, "the disappeared" was a terrifying coinage used to describe the thousands of people who were killed by death squads.
In the midst of this as a local news reporter for Minnesota Public Radio, I accompanied a group of attorneys and lawmakers on a trip intending to learn about the long history of human rights abuses in the region, an important piece of history this blog post can't begin to retell, and explore the constitutional and legal safeguards of those rights.
We had an exhausting itinerary and were being received by the highest ranks of Central American governments. We met with then-president José Napoleón Duarte in the presidential palace in San Salvador. Sandinista leader Daniel Ortega came to meet with us in Managua.
Daniel Ortega with his English translator.
These were, without exaggeration, dangerous times in Central America. As we rode from Sandino International Airport to the city of San Salvador, one of our guides nodded down a road where, a few years earlier, a Salvadoran death squad had murdered a group of church women. A couple days later we stood at the tomb of the assassinated Archbishop Oscar Romero, all but enveloped by flowers and cards containing personal prayers and petitions from the faithful. …


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I love the new look and the fact that he will be getting his animations fixed finally, Trundle has always been one of my fav champs. Kinda sad to see the lore go though, he kinda had an awesome back story that made me want to play him even more.
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I'm going to miss the old Trundle
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They can not do this to my Troll. They are turning him into a ugly big muscle bound idiot. He was unique I liked him how he was he was perfect. He was one of my first to play and made me love the game. to see a unique character become a just another giant meat head is sad. I want a refund on his skins and him to be honest.
I love that new Trundle design. Ice powers is something I'd like to have. Leprosy? Not so much.
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As a huge Trundle fan, I'll reserve my final judgements until I of course see more. I understand Trundle's strange lack of popularity demanded that soemthing be done, but I'm not a huge fan of what I see so far. I think his new design looks too "monsturous", as where the current Trundle was more "human" and intelligent looking, the new one looks a bit too brutish for my taste. That being said, I'm really glad to ehar that his abilities are getting QoL changes, rather than re-works, because his kit is half the fun and reason why i like to play him (the other being that he's a cursed troll). I only REALLY hope you keep the same voice actor. Make's Trundle sound hilarious as is. Excited to see one of my all tiem favorite champs get some new found love. I just hope what I liked so much about the original is still intact.
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I'm trying to really grock this one... So... This... http://i.imgur.com/WU0aNuk.gif A model created in the game's youth, with limitations in technology... Is somehow better than this... http://riot-web-static.s3.amazonaws....omic_thumb.jpg A model created when the development team has matured, better skilled, better tech and all? Am I on Bizzaro Planet?
I was really digging the new default skin until i noticed one feature. Just one feature feels extremely out of place and is bothering me to no end. Here's a hint, it's right in the center of his face and looks like it belongs to another species.


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hi adam, we talked a bit earlier, I'm still injured but looking to take it slow in the beginning than i'm pretty good near the end of the day. I'm looking to rally/improve rather than play games, if you're down, let me know, k thanks, bye
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Twinbrook sounds good Adam. If you can give me an address, then ill see you there at 6:30... maybe +10mins ish if i'm late.
No prob. I'll put my feelers out for any other singles players your level...although tbh most of the people I know are doubles specific.
I am free this Thursday evening after 6:30 if you wanna hit then. Not sure yet for Friday onward.
Adam, how are you? Not too sure if I got thru to you at the Montgomery County homepage, but are you interested in playing doubles/singles over at Olney Sports Center on Mondays, 6:30 ish? Have a group of 3.5 mainly doubles/singles depending on number of people who is trying to expand. Wondering if you and/any friends may be interested.
Cant do this week but next week can do any weekay afternoon
Hi Adam, this maybe short notice but, would you like to hit tomorrow (Friday July 13th), say 5:30 or 6pm onward? You can chose whichever court to play on or you can come over to my place. I live in Grosvenor-Stratmore (in between Bethesda and Rockville), ...am a 4.0 and sure could get in some practice. I don't mind whichever so let me know.
hi again, My knees are still recovering, i really want to play but my body says otherwise. I will keep in contact in the future when i am better.
Adam, did we play in Falls Grove last year?
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Hi Adam, yea sure we can hit around sometime...weekends work well for me too but not this weekend...here's my email
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The four-bar linkage is a planar closed-loop linkage used extensively in mechanical machinery. This linkage has four coplanar bars that connect end-to-end with four revolute joints. In this example, you model a four-bar linkage using the Binary Link and Pivot Mount custom blocks that you created in previous examples. For an advanced application of the four-bar linkage, see the bucket actuating mechanism of the Backhoe featured example.
Before continuing, you must complete the following examples:
To model the four-bar linkage, you represent each physical component with a SimMechanics™ block. The linkage in this example has five rigid bodies—three binary links and two pivot mounts—that connect in a closed loop through four revolute joints. Two of the binary links have one peg and one hole. The third binary link has two holes. The fourth link is implicit: the fixed distance between the two coplanar pivot mounts represents this link.
You represent the binary links and pivot mounts using the custom library blocks that you created in previous examples. You represent the four revolute joints using four Revolute Joint blocks from the SimMechanics Joints library.
The two pivot mounts connect rigidly to the World frame. For this reason, the fourth (implicit) link acts as the ground link. Two Rigid Transform blocks provide the rigid connection between the two pivot mounts and the World frame. A translation offset in each Rigid Transform block displaces the two pivot mounts symmetrically along the World frame Y axis.
To guide model assembly, you can specify the desired initial state for one or more joints in the model. To do this, you use the State Targets menu of the joint blocks. The state targets that you can specify are the joint position and velocity. These are angular quantities in revolute joints. You can specify state targets for all but one of the joints in a closed loop.
To model the four-bar linkage:
Start a new model.
Drag these blocks to the model.
Block | Library | Quantity |
Rigid Transform | SimMechanics > Frames and Transforms | 2 |
World Frame | SimMechanics > Frames and Transforms | 1 |
Mechanism Configuration | SimMechanics > Utilities | 1 |
Solver Configuration | Simscape > Utilities | 1 |
Connect and name the blocks as shown in the figure. Be sure to flip the frame ports of the crank_base_transform block.
Drag four Revolute Joint blocks from the SimMechanics Second Generation (SM2G) > Joints library into the model.
Drag these custom blocks into the model. See the modeling tutorials if you have not created these custom blocks.
Block | Quantity | Modeling Tutorial |
binary_link | 2 | |
two_hole_binary_link | 1 | |
pivot_mount | 2 |
Connect the blocks as shown in the figure, paying close attention to the port names. Rotate the blocks as needed.
Specify the binary link dimensions and the spatial relationships between the pivot_mount blocks and the World frame.
In the Rigid Transform block dialog boxes, specify these parameters.
Parameter | crank_base_transform | rocker_base_transform |
Translation > Method | Standard Axis | Standard Axis |
Translation > Axis | -Y | +Y |
Translation > Offset | 0.15 | 0.15 |
In the binary link block dialog boxes, specify the length parameter.
Binary Link | Length (m) |
binary_link | 0.10 |
two_hole_binary_link | 0.35 |
binary_link1 | 0.20 |
The model is now complete. You can now specify the desired initial state for one or more joints in the model. In this example, you specify an initial angle of 30° for the Base-Crank joint. To do this:
Double-click the Base-Crank Revolute Joint block.
In the block dialog box, expand State Targets and select Position.
In Value, enter -30 and press OK.
With the model window active, press Ctrl+D.
Mechanics Explorer opens with a static display of the four-bar linkage in its initial configuration. If the joint state targets that you specified are valid and compatible, the initial configuration matches those state targets. The figure shows the static display that you see in Mechanics Explorer after updating the model.
In the Mechanics Explorer toolstrip, click the isometric view button .
You can guide assembly so that the four-bar linkage assembles in an open configuration instead. To do this, you must specify a position state target for at least one more joint. You do not have to specify this target precisely. If you have a general idea of what the target should be, you can enter an approximate value and select a low priority level for that target. The figure shows the open initial configuration that results when you specify an additional position state target of 0 degrees for the Base-Rocker Revolute Joint block.
Closed-loop kinematic chains like the four-bar linkage are especially vulnerable to assembly issues. Even when the model assembles, SimMechanics may fail to meet one or more state targets. You can check the assembly status of the model and of the joints using the Model Report tool:
In the Mechanics Explorer menu bar, click Tools > Model Report.
Scan the model report for circles that are yellow or red.
These circles identify issues in the assembly or in the joint state targets. A yellow or red circle in the Position > Status column identifies state targets that SimMechanics could not satisfy.
The figure shows the model report for the four bar linkage in the open configuration. A green circle indicates that SimMechanics satisfied the Base-Crank Revolute Joint state target precisely. A yellow circle indicates that SimMechanics satisfied the Base-Rocker Revolute Joint state target only approximately.
You can now simulate the model. To do this, In the Simulink® tool bar, click the Run button.
In a subsequent example, you actuate the four-bar linkage and sense its motion. So that you add the actuation inputs and motion sensors to this model, save it as four_bar_linkage in a convenient folder. Then, see example Prescribe Four-Bar Actuation Torque.


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Japan finished the HSBC Asian 5 Nations 2011 with a flourish, beating Sri Lanka 90-13 in Colombo before collecting the distinctive trophy for the fourth successive year, having won all 16 matches in the competition's history with the try-scoring bonus point.
The Brave Blossoms' campaign has been dedicated to the victims of the earthquake and tsunami in March and will help to lift the spirits of Japanese rugby fans back at home as the team build towards Rugby World Cup 2011 in New Zealand.
John Kirwan's side have scored 307 points in their four matches and conceded just 35 with 2010 runners up Kazakhstan and the United Arab Emirates unable to get on the scoreboard against Asia's dominant force.
Japan ran in 14 tries against Sri Lanka, who need to avoid defeat to remain in the Top 5 for next year, with centre Alisi Tupuailai claiming five of them to tie the record of teammate Kosuke Endo for the most tries in an Asian 5 Nations match.
Tupuailai's quintet took his tally for the season to nine, the most ever scored by in a single Top 5 campaign, while Takehisa Usuzuki, Toetuu Taufa, Fumiaki Tanaka (2), Shaun Webb, Atsushi Tanabe, captain Takashi Kikutani (2) and Hirotoki Onozawa also touching down.
Spiritual message
Japan finish top of the standings with a perfect 24 points, seven more than Hong Kong who beat the United Arab Emirates 62-3 to finish second for the first time, with UAE on eight points, two more than Kazakhstan with Sri Lanka bottom with three points.
Sri Lanka's stay in the Top 5 may have been brief, but they have shown their potential in a sport enjoying huge growth in the country and will be favourites to win another Division I title to return to Asia's elite tier for 2013.
Their place will be taken by either Korea, Singapore, Malaysia or the Philippines, who will contest the next HSBC Asian 5 Nations action with Division I kicking off on Wednesday, 1 June with the two semi finals.
"We set two main goals for the HSBS Asian 5 Nations 2011 at the beginning of this tour," explained Japan coach John Kirwan. "First, defending the championship title and second, remembering the March 11 tragedy and sending a sort of spiritual message to the people who are suffering from the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear issue in the Tohoku region.
"We wanted to do this by displaying our best possible performance over the past four games. Of course, we still have a lot of work to do to improve before the upcoming Pacific Nations Cup and Rugby World Cup in New Zealand. We need to prepare and focus on intensive defence to lift the team to the next level."
Legacy from tournament
Kikutani added: "It is great to defend our title and we sincerely appreciate all the people who have supported our national team on this tour to make it happen. We were so happy to participate in the HSBC Asian 5 Nations tour considering the difficult situation in Japan.
"In our team, we have two players whose families were affected by the March 11 disasters. Thus, at the beginning of the tour, we were determined to play hard in the four matches, not only for ourselves, but also for the people of Tohoku and Japan.
"Through the tournament this year, we have forged strong unity and solidarity in the team. This is our legacy for us to keep up the good work for the upcoming Pacific Nations Cup."
The title was already Japan's before the final round of matches, but Hong Kong and the United Arab Emirates both had their sights set on finishing second place with victory in their head-to-head at the Hong Kong Football Club.
In reality, there was only going to be one winner once the match got underway with Hong Kong dominating the set pieces and the breakdown, enjoying a wealth of possession to run in 10 tries for their biggest win in Asian 5 Nations history.
Improvement key for Hong Kong
"It was an excellent performance from the guys," said Hong Kong national coach Dai Rees. "We have always stressed what mattered was performing and today the guys shone. We didn't sneak over the line, we finished second in commanding fashion.
"We have to sustain this result. Finishing second in Asia probably means nothing at the end of the day if you look down the road to qualifying for the 2015 World Cup. What matters is that we keep improving as we have done over the last few years. Last year we finished third and now we are second. We have to continue to improve.
Flanker Nick Hewson and full back Ross Armour both scored braces in the win with number 8 Pale Tauti, flanker Mark Goosen, prop Nigel Hobler, hooker Alex Harris, centre Alex McQueen and replacement Jamie Hood all touching down.
UAE's departing coach Bruce Birtwistle added: "It feels like a job half done. While we have achieved our target of staying in the Top 5 next year, our goal was to finish second, but Hong Kong came up with a very impressive display today."
There was further cause for celebration in Hong Kong with their women's team providing too strong for Singapore, running out 53-8 winners with centres Natasha Olson-Thorne (3) and Becky Underwood (2) accounting for five tries in the match.


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In 2011, the Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame launched the Ella T. Grasso Leadership in Action Grant Program, designed to honor the late Governor Ella Tambussi Grasso and her lifetime of public service and civic engagement. Believing that there is no better way to learn leadership skills than by developing and implementing a project plan and also that young people have the potential to find creative new ways to address community issues and problems, we strive to encourage and applaud their ingenuity. Our goal is to provide opportunities for college students to have real-world leadership-in-training experiences that foster real social change. Grant recipients will design and implement a community action project from start to finish. A faculty advisor/sponsor's involvement is required, but it is the student who will develop the specifics of the project, outline goals and objectives for its outcomes, put together a plan for its implementation, create budgets and timelines, follow through with the project's implementation, and report on successes, failures, and the true impact of the project on the community.
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Grant(s) will be awarded each fall to young women enrolled at Connecticut colleges or universities to fund or partially fund community action or public service projects. The project must be completed within one year following the grant award. Deadline for submission of applications: October 1. Download Application Form (PDF)
Young women entering their junior or senior year at a Connecticut college or university are eligible to apply. Second-year students enrolled at two-year community colleges are also eligible. Students enrolled in a graduate program are also eligible to apply. Applicants intending to carry out a community action project in Connecticut during the grant period are eligible to apply for the grant. Applicants are eligible regardless of their primary area of study.
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Any community action, community service, or community outreach project is eligible for consideration. Possible examples include educational programs in the community or on the campus; programs affiliated with a community service/non-profit organization (e.g. women's shelter, crisis pregnancy center, etc.); literacy projects; summer projects with elementary/middle/high school age students, etc.; public service projects raising awareness for political issues; field studies (for academic credit or otherwise) focusing on an issue affecting the community. Preference will be given to projects focusing on serving women or raising awareness of women's issues.
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Cub Scout Pack hosts kick-off party
Sequim Cub Scout Pack 4490 invites boys in first grade through fifth grade to join the Scouts. Outdoor adventures, learning activities and fun are all part of being a Cub Scout. The Pack 4490 kick-off party is 6-7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 18, at the Boys & Girls Club in Sequim. Food is provided along with activities for the family. To contact the group, go to www.sequimscouts.org.
Annual tourism summit
The 2008 Olympic Tourism Summit will have three speakers and lots of new information for its one-day seminar from 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 15, at the Jamestown S'Klallam Tribal Center in Blyn. Hosted by the Olympic Peninsula Tourism Commission, the cost for the summit is $35 for the first registrant from a company and $25 for each additional registrant and lunch is included. The registration deadline is Sept. 28. There also are vendor tables available - for more information, contact Diane Schostak at the Olympic Peninsula Visitor Bureau. Included on the agenda are Becky Hixson, with the state Department of Transportation, who will speak on the 2009 Hood Canal bridge closure; Mark Lellouch of the Sonoran Institute on geo-tourism; Eduardo Jaramillo of Peninsula College on marketing essentials; Steve Faulstick of the Portland Doubletree Hotel on going green for growth; Deborah Hopkins of the San Juan Islands Visitor and Convention Bureau on effective marketing and Eric Waterkotte of Peninsula College on "The Web Today."
Vehicle tax exemption
Purchases of new, clean, alternative fuel vehicles and hybrids will be exempt from sales tax beginning Jan. 1, 2009. The exemption was enacted by the Legislature in 2005 with a delayed effective date. The exemption is effective through Dec. 31, 2010. It includes the 0.3-percent motor vehicle sales tax.
Qualifying vehicles include new passenger cars, light duty trucks and medium duty passenger vehicles that are powered by clean alternative fuels such as natural gas, propane, hydrogen or electricity or use hybrid technology and have an estimated EPA highway mileage rating of at least 40 mpg.
Any payment or deposit made toward the purchase of a qualifying vehicle before Jan. 1, 2009, qualifies for the tax exemption as long as the vehicle is registered, titled and delivered to the purchaser from Jan. 1, 2009, through Dec. 31, 2010.
The exemptions also generally apply to leases and out-of-state purchases of new qualifying vehicles. Purchases of new vehicles that the sellers convert into qualifying vehicles prior to or as part of the sale also qualify for the exemptions.
Septic system work
group meeting planned
The Clallam County On-site Septic System Work Group meets from 6-8 p.m. Monday, Sept. 22, in Room 160 at the County Courthouse, 223 E. Fourth St., Port Angeles. The work group will be discussing septic system inspection training for homeowners and other topics. Citizens are welcome and can provide feedback during public comment periods.
For more information, visit www.clallam.net/html/septic.htm or contact Clallam County Environmental Health Services at 417-2543.
Well 101 class offered
Clallam County Environmental Health is offering a Well 101 class. The class is for operators of small community water systems and for private well owners. Participants will learn how to inspect, maintain and protect their well water system and about testing the water quality. The class will be from 6-8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 18, at the Dungeness River Audubon Center, 2151 W. Hendrickson Road, Sequim. The class is free and open to the public. No preregistration is required. Phone 417-2506.
Get out your walking shoes
The fifth annual Clinic Fun Walk benefiting the Dungeness Valley Health & Wellness Clinic will be on Oct. 4, beginning at the Guy Cole Center at Carrie Blake Park. Registration is at 8 a.m. and the walk begins at 9 a.m. Walkers have a choice of an easy one-mile walk around the park or a 5-mile route along the Olympic Discovery Trail east of the park. The walk is the annual fundraiser for the clinic and the hope is to raise $5,000. Registration forms are available at www.sequimfreehealthclinic.com and at local businesses. For more information, visit the Web site or call Leslie Lauren at 683-0610.
Hospital guild meets,
asks for volunteers
Sequim-Dungeness Hospital Guild will have its first meeting of the fall season at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 24, at St. Luke's Episcopal Church, 525 N. Fifth Ave., Sequim. The guild provides funding to Olympic Memorial Hospital, Clallam County Fire District 3 and scholarships for those in the medical field. The guild uses The Thrift Shop as a means of fundraising and is in need of volunteers at the shop. For information, call 683-4393.
Calling all actors
Auditions for Olympic Theatre Arts' "Peter and the Wolf" will be held at 2 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 20, at the theater, 414 N. Sequim Ave. This is a musical comedy based on the children's tale. Needed are a young boy for the part of Peter, a young girl, preferably with gymnastics experience, three men and two women. Please bring music and be prepared to sing. The show opens Dec. 5. A copy of the script is available at the Sequim Public Library. For questions or to schedule an audition if unavailable on audition day, call Tracy Williams at 461-1483.
Veterans Benefits Day planned
A veterans benefits day will be held from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Sept. 20 at the Port Angeles Veterans Center, 216 S. Francis St., Port Angeles. Featured speakers will present updated and relevant information for all veterans and their families. Hot dogs, hamburgers and potato salad will be provided. For more information, contact the Port Angeles Veterans Affairs Service Center at 417-0294 or e-mail at email@example.com.
Wal-Mart stores offer
NOAA weather emergency radios
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. will offer and program National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Weather Radio Receivers at select Wal-Mart stores, including the Sequim and Port Angeles stores, from noon-4 p.m., on Saturday, Sept. 20. Local Emergency Management volunteers will program the radios, which will be on sale through the event only. Volunteers will also distribute information on disaster preparedness and will provide a list of suggested items for a ready kit.
Since coastal areas are particularly vulnerable to storms, high winds and tsunamis, this program will focus on areas of Western Washington along the Pacific and the Strait of Juan de Fuca. NOAA's National Weather Service broadcasts conditions 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Check your child's safety seat
There will be a free car seat checkup event from 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 20, as part of Safety Restraint Coalition and National Child Passenger Safety Week. For additional information about the Washington State Safety Restraint Coalition, call 800-282-5587 or visit Web site www.800bucklup.org.
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The Two-Way Obama Visits Immigration Activists November 29, 2013 The president told activists on the National Mall on Friday that there is still time for the House to pass legislation that would overhaul the nation's immigration system. The Senate passed a comprehensive bill in the summer. House Speaker John Boehner says he prefers a piecemeal approach.
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The Two-Way Obama Calls For Collaborative Ties With Tanzania July 1, 2013 The president is on the final leg of his visit to Africa. On Tuesday, he and former President George W. Bush will join together for a wreath-laying ceremony at the site of the 1998 bombing at the U.S. Embassy.
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The Two-Way U.S. Provided 'Technical Assistance' In Botched French Raid, Obama Says January 13, 2013 A French soldier and 17 Islamist rebels were killed in the raid to rescue a French hostage in Somalia, who is also believed to have died. The president's acknowledgment of the U.S. role in the raid came the same day as France said the U.S. provided "communications and transport" support for the ongoing French military action against Islamist rebels in Mali.
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Blue skies, windows and synthetic grass sorround the Spanish festivals of contemporary electronic.
The location of "Sonar de Dia" is the beautiful MACBA, "Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Barcelona". People dance barefoot on the green carpet that cover the ground in front of the main stage. I must admit that Sonar has been to me a very nice surprise event, almost intimate in some ways, nothing to do with the chaos I expected. Among the musical proposals, I definetly liked ones, while others well, what can I say? Not in my strings. But, if you add good vibes, sun and great Catalan food ...
My opening concert was Toro y Moi, stage name of Chazwick Bundick, twenty-five years old, native of South Carolina. Chaz brings on stage clear references to 'electropop from the 80s, mixed with synth, loops, samples and filtered voices.
Soon after, always at the Village Stadium, comes Floating Points with its amazing vinyls, officially entered in my favorite DJs list. Dj and producer, founder of Eglo, independent British indie label, Sam Shepherd has a 'classical and jazz music education, his father encouraged him to join a local choir as a child. Syrian, Indian, classical, jazz, house, dubstep, hip hop, soul... his sets include all of these genres, and even more. Herbie Hanckock, Fela Kuti, War, Chaka Kahn are some names that I could pick up during the live performance. A special mention, however, the real tribute, uncompromising fashionistas, who he gave to the genius of Gil Scott Heron, recently died, proposed in the full live version of "Home is Where the Hatred Is." We really danced!
"The Brandt Brauer Frick Ensemble" performs at the Sonar Dome, hosted by Red Bull. Daniel Brandt, German musician, winner of the Red Bull Music Academy in 2006, began playing drums in rock bands, jazz and even classical orchestras. Then he started producing electronic music with his partner Jan Brauer. The meeting with the composer Paul Frick was decisive for the trio' creative process: Brandt Brauer Frick is a unique project, able to stage a techno / club sound, very appreciated in the contemporary scene. Their live involves a real jazz band, a harpist and a cellist included.
Short note for Sebastien Devaud, in art Agoria, with its mix of soft techno and dreamy house, and Atmosphere, american hip hop group, my soundtrack while I was looking around, comfortably lying in the shade of the trees.
Finally is the turn of Mtendere Mandowa, aka Teebs, able to enchant the audience with his avant-garde sound, rich of atmospheres. Often interspersed with environmental ' sounds, buzzing, wet ropes and strange percussion, the production of his pieces is impeccable, clearly inspired by the sound of Flying Lotus. Apparently Mtendere is also a painter .. I can imagine him, on the back of his Los Angeles house, enjoying a beer, with colors in his hand, some music from the stereo ...
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Going back to work after your maternity leave is a big change for your family. As well as juggling your work duties in the office or at home, you'll need to organise childcare and fit in family time. We'll guide you through what you need to think about before you go back to work.
How can I find childcare that fits around my working hours?
There will be a range of childcare options in your local area that you can choose from. All have different hours of operation, so you should be able to find one which suits you:- Day nurseries, which are usually open between 7am and 7pm on weekdays.
- Childminders, who may work from 8am to 7pm on weekdays. Some may also work at weekends.
- Nannies, who may care for your child any day of the week and are flexible with their working hours. You can have a live-in nanny or a day nanny who will come and care for your child when you need them.
- An au pair, who will live in your home and care for your child for between 25 and 30 hours per week.
- A relative, who may be flexible enough and happy to look after your child whenever is required.
Read more about finding childcare.
I'm not sure whether to return to work or be a stay at home mum. How can I make up my mind?
Your decision has to be based on what feels right for you and your child. If you're itching to get back to work after your maternity leave, then do so. However, if you'd rather care for your child instead of putting him in childcare, then stay at home. Looking after your child every day is a full-time job.What's best for you financially may also influence your decision. Going back to work may mean that you will have to pay for childcare for your child. This can be expensive, and you may worry that your salary will barely cover the cost. Therefore you may feel that staying at home is the best option for your family.
However, perhaps you don't want too long a break in your career, even if it's not providing you with much extra income after childcare costs. When your child is old enough to attend a free state-run preschool, you may start to gain some more disposable income again.
Read our article on deciding whether to return to work for more advice.
How can I cope with going back to work in an office?
Show that you are committed to your job, but make it clear you need to keep to strict working hours. This should give you time to get your work done, and allow you to leave promptly to collect your child from childcare.Ask to be given as much notice as possible if you're required to work longer hours or take a business trip. This means you can be prepared to inform your childcare in advance or sort out back-up care.
If you find yourself overloaded with work, you may be able to find a way to prioritise or delegate to a colleague.
Also try to keep your mind off how your child is coping at childcare while you're working, so you stay focused on your job. Only contact your carer during the day if you really need to. Otherwise you are bound to pick the time when your child is crying, which will worry you for the rest of the day.
If you want to stay in contact when you first return to work, ask your carer to call or text you when your child is napping or quietly playing.
Read our article on working in the office for more advice.
How can I work at home?
To tackle most work at home jobs you'll almost certainly need some regular childcare. So decide what time of day you would like to work, then organise childcare to fit in. For example, if your brain is sharpest in the mornings, book childcare for those hours. Then you have a set period of the day to get everything done.There are lots of different childcare options, so take the time to explore what's available. The right childcare decision frees you to concentrate on work, knowing that your child is being well looked after.
When you're working try to keep yourself free from distractions. Plan chores for set times of the day, so they won't eat into your working hours. Also tell friends and family what hours you'll be working, and ask them not to contact you at those times.
Set up your work space, too. If there isn't anywhere obvious in your house, think whether you could you set up in the hall, on the landing, in a bedroom, conservatory or utility room.
Ideally, find a place where work can be left out, so you don't have to clear away each time. If necessary, store work items where your child can't get at them, such as on high shelves or in lockable cupboards.
Read our article on working at home for more advice.
How can I fit in quality time with my child as a working parent?
First of all, don't feel guilty and don't try to cram in too much to make up for lost time. There are some simple ways to fit in quality time with your child, even if you're working full-time:- Have a routine so your child will know when she will see you. So on weekdays, be there to wake up your child, give her breakfast, and if possible, take her to childcare. And try to collect her at the end of the day and hear all about what she's been doing.
- When you're with your child, be focused completely on her. So turn off your phone, the television and computer, so you're free to play games and have a cuddle.
- Make mealtimes special. Get your child to help you with the cooking or preparing, such as mashing the potatoes or washing the beans. Then sit down at the table as a family and take your time eating so you can chat about your day. Even if your child isn't talking yet, she will enjoy seeing you and sharing food together.
- If you work particularly long hours, at least try to be there for her dinner, bath and bedtime.
- Make the most of weekends by doing something fun. Go on a trip to the playground, do some artwork together, or go for a swim.


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