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how little it takes
to organise a space. To make us move to left or right, to stop us walking in a straight line and force us to turn, go round in circles, inscribe an ellipse with our feet. Or make us draw close and hunker down, draw a circle with our eyes as we trace the relations from one object to the next, or lean in to see ourselves, in pieces, looking back. The works by Karla Black and Claire Barclay sit alongside one another in the gallery and make us, for a time, part of the space they shape and inhabit. Depending on the time we take to move through and around this space, we are taken up into relations with the work that are tangential and fleeting or that capture and re-situate us, catching us up somewhere between movement and stillness.
This temporary stilling is evoked in the title of Barclay's composition of objects and materials that sits against the gallery wall. A simple metal frame supports a shelf partially silvered with mirroring paint on which are set several small steel cubes and two highly polished brass discs. Nestled amongst them is a folded piece of straw, while another ear of corn protrudes from two stacked cubes, bent neatly downwards in an inverted 'v', as if to direct our attention from one small collection of objects to another, as well as down through the shelf to a second group of discs and straw placed on the floor below.
On the shorter, right hand side of the frame, the metal is encased by an envelope of soft black fabric from which two more envelopes are strung: sombre flags quietly invoking anonymous rituals. In contrast with the bright and burnished metal, their soft opaqueness incites the desire to touch so that they lead us down not only by the eye, but the imagined movement of the hand. From the last envelope, a small arc of tightly-woven straw tied off with black ribbon continues the downward movement, almost touching the single ear of corn that lies across the square of black fabric placed like a simple altar on the floor. Here another two brass discs sit, poised and burnished. Behind them, a glass leans against the wall, again partly covered in mirroring paint, leading the eye back up to the left hand side of the metal frame, whose length it overlaps without actually touching.
The work thus forms an open circle, structured by a play of echoes and repeated elements. The attentive viewer too is implicated in this open whole, through partial reflections in silvered surfaces, making them part of a work that they can no longer dominate or totalise as if from outside. Instead of operating as an external point from which the different elements might be gathered together and unified, the viewer is gathered into the work, which organises its own space. Both inside and outside, the viewer-participant is drawn into the circle of the work: stilled by the tactile beauty of the objects it houses, and set in motion by the relations between the different elements of the composition. Thus one stands, and crouches, and stands again, leaning in to see the lips of fleshy pink that line the edge of the black envelopes.
This sensuous edging hints at the possibility of a more intimate or even invasive participation. The tactility of 'Stillstill' is echoed and reinforced by Black's 'Pleaser', whose cellophane curtain runs through the gallery space parallel to the wall against which Barclay's work stands. The curtain is taped to the ceiling and hangs down to just over a metre above the floor. Its flimsy transparency is simultaneously disfigured and made visible by a multitude of creases in its surface which reflect the light. As material traces of the way the cellophane has been folded or crushed in the past, these creases emphasise its fragile malleability. The bottom edge of the cellophane has been painted along one side, in a warm yolky yellow shot through in places with white, like a border on a shower curtain. Into this strip of colour are folded pockets of viscous substance, which could be soap or cream, paint, or dye powder.
On encountering this work, we are easily made children again: drawn in by the cheerful spring-like colour and tempted to push our fingers into the cling-filmed pouches of unknown matter to see how much they ooze and give beneath our touch. Like 'Stillstill', 'Pleaser' binds sight and touch together in a close and carnal viewing. Despite its apparent flimsiness, Black's work speaks of its own materiality as insistently as Barclay's carefully crafted objects and burnished brass. The rough taping to the ceiling, the visible join between the two sheets of cellophane that compose the curtain, the occasional bristle stuck in the patchy paint-work: these seemingly makeshift elements remind us of the process of making, not so much as the result of artistic intention and control, and more as a playful improvisation that takes place between the artist and the materials with which she works.
a material intelligence
is expressed in these works. Not just the artist's intelligence about her materials, but equally, the intelligence of matter. Both are essential to a process of making in which artist and materials are co-participants. While the artist might contribute her knowledge of physical properties and cultural history together with an experienced sensitivity to the limits and potential of the materials with which she works, the materials themselves delimit the forms they can take and shape the relations into which they enter.
This co-participatory intelligence is evidenced in the craft techniques that are central to Barclay's work and that foreground the specificity of the materials used as well as the processes required to work them. Thus in 'Stillstill', the simple line of the single ear of corn not only serves to emphasise, by way of contrast, the sculpted strength and more substantial presence of the curving plait of straw, but makes us aware of the pressure the maker must have exerted to bind the strands together so precisely, and of the tension they now embody in their tightly interwoven form.
One of the striking things about Barclay's use of craft is that hand-crafted objects such as the plaited straw are as clearly sculpted as any artwork, while pieces produced by a more mediated technological process such as the machined brass are as clearly 'made' as the pieces produced by hand. Moreover, while the brass discs reflect the light with an intensity only made possible by the machinic processes that burnished them, this reminder of technological intervention takes the form of an apparently unmediated sensation of light, colour and warmth. In this way, Barclay's work undoes any straightforward opposition between the natural and the technological as well as between art and craft, the handmade and the machined.
The latter should give us pause if we are tempted to read Barclay's re-appropriation of craft techniques as a straightforward feminist critique of the division between art and craft. Certainly it is the case that this distinction downgraded many of the arts (understood here more in the original Greek sense, as techne or making) that were traditionally performed by women (such as embroidery, weaving, or making corn dollies) by assigning them to the more functional category of 'craft' and denying them the cultural significance of art as a transcendent, metaphysical, and creative practice. Barclay's work displaces this division, while at the same time reminding us of the value of making as that which both underlies and is too often neglected in our hyper-consumerist techno-industrial culture. But her incorporation of materials and processes that belong to the latter (the mirroring paint as well as machined metals) belies the suggestion that the main aim of her work is in any simple way to reclaim the significance of crafts (work with fabric or straw) traditionally aligned with women.
There is a deeper destabilisation of the art/craft distinction at work here. In modern aesthetics, at least in the western tradition influenced by thinkers such as Kant, craft is downgraded insofar as it is functional. Guided by purpose and use, the maker's art is (supposedly) not genuinely creative. However, there is another, more submerged reason why it was so important to separate craft from art. Because of its relation to purpose and use, craft is more obviously dependent on its materials and their limits: if you want to throw a pot, you need clay of a consistency that will hold its form.
Barclay's work reminds us of this, but by so thoroughly undoing the distinction between art and craft, she also reminds us that the creations of artists are no less dependent on and limited by the materials with which they work. More uncomfortably, her work reminds us that far from inarticulate and inert stuff waiting to be informed by artistic intention or inspiration, matter is no less an active participant in the making of a sculpture than the throwing of a pot, as it embodies forms and structures relations. It is the matter of making, as well as the way matter makes, to which Barclay's work draws our attention.
the transformative potential of matter
is harboured by Black's curtain too. The very fragility of the material, its flexible plasticity, allows the pockets of matter to remain fluid and pliable, so that the finished work contains a multiplicity of future possibilities: still becoming(s).
As in some of her previous works, some of the materials Black deploys in 'Pleaser' are drawn from beauty regimes and the domestic rituals of cleaning, inviting a feminist reading of her work as performing a deliberate subversion. Products associated with the objectification of women and their confinement to a domestic sphere of labour are here re-appropriated and turned into a creative site of public expression, showing us that it is just as possible to make art with nail varnish and cif cream as with oils or acrylic (and drawing our attention to the arbitrariness of the divide that determines which of these might more usually be designated 'artist's materials').
Read through this lens, the transparency and flexibility of 'Pleaser' might be seen as mimicking a cultural history in which women have been educated to please others, emptying out the very substance of their being to reflect the desires of men and fulfil the needs of those for whom they care. Yet this alignment of woman with pleasing appearances and passive adaptability is simultaneously undone, for here a female artist pleases herself, playfully using products designed to make her more beautiful to create her own work.
Appealing though it may be, as with Barclay, if we restrict our reading of Black's work to this specific line of feminist interpretation, we limit our ability to see the deeper and more far-reaching transformations that are at work. These are not necessarily at odds with a feminist perspective – indeed, I would suggest that they are in keeping with the kind of thorough-going transformation of our cultural framework that feminism itself demands. Nonetheless, if it is read only as an act of feminist re-appropriation in the sense outlined above, the fact that 'Pleaser' is both so seemingly insubstantial and deliberately fails to disguise the marks of its making might be deemed problematic, for this might be taken to suggest that this work remains merely playful, embracing a whimsical subversiveness rather than engaging in the more 'serious' and 'substantial' work required to give its materials the status of 'great art' (and thus inadvertently reinforcing the way this endorsement has traditionally been withheld from works by women). Yet such a perspective is itself problematic: it misses the fact that it is the insubstantiality of Black's work that is challenging and transformative, insofar as it helps shift the way in which we think about matter itself.
In modern western metaphysics, matter tends to be aligned with substance thought as that which remains permanent through change. Thus, to borrow a famous example from Descartes, if we heat a piece of wax, all of its properties will be transformed: not only because, as it melts, it turns from hard to soft, but because its colour, shape, texture and even its smell will change too. And yet, we can still claim that it is the same piece of wax, so long as we posit 'something' that stays the same throughout this process of change. This 'something' is typically identified with matter, understood as an underlying substrate or substance in ways that reinforce the traditional western view whereby matter is an essentially inert and formless support for more actively generated forms.
In Black's work, by contrast, it is the easily damaged cellophane of the material support which seems flimsy and insubstantial, while the changeable and superficial property of yellowness lends the curtain an opacity that means it appears to be most solid where it is most vibrantly coloured. Equally, the curtain seems most substantial where it holds a thicker but more fluid matter, whose form is not yet permanent or fixed, but characterised by its capacity to shift and move. Black could thus be said to be exploring an aesthetics of the insubstantial, which returns to matter its fluidity along with its supple capacities for change and transformation.
The history of conceptualising matter as unchangeable and inert substance is inextricably bound up with a history that associates women with the sensible and material realm. To this extent, Black's transformative re-appropriation of the insubstantial could be said to retain a far-reaching, if implicit, feminist dimension. For if woman has historically been aligned with a receptive matter shaped by active (male) forms, and female identity has traditionally been fixed in terms of reproductive function, 'Pleaser' presents us with a matter that is neither fixed nor formless, but full of mobility and a generative potential from which new forms might emerge.
Rather than confronting us with that which destroys or exceeds representational form, Black, like Barclay, seems to bypass the whole question of re/presentation to place the emphasis on the capacity of matter to give form – to spaces and relations as well as new becomings. Rather than challenging the limits of representation in the tradition of the avant-garde, their works are more resistantly non-representational: not so much because they are 'abstract' (another category that seems at odds with their insistent materiality), but because they do not make matter re-present or refer to something else that lies beyond it.
Thus Black's curtain is neither wholly transparent nor wholly opaque. It neither disappears from view to give unmediated access to some deeper meaning that transcends its materiality; nor does it successfully hide anything behind it; nor is it a blank screen which could serve as a perfect and self-effacing support for images of something else. Rather, we both see it for what it is, and see through it. Our attention is drawn to the materiality of the curtain itself at the same time as it shapes the way we see the space around it, drawing our attention to the opening into the gallery behind even as it divides us from it – albeit with the most insubstantial of barriers.
Whereas 'Pleaser' seems transparent but in fact draws our attention back to the tactility of its materials, 'Stillstill' can initially seem strangely closed and overly opaque. The carefully placed objects do not obviously 're-present' anything, either singly or as a composition. They are replete with sensuous suggestiveness but – as with the dark envelope/flags – carry only the most ambiguous of symbolic meanings. Yet we might read this initial resistance as a protective strategy that blocks us from trying to grasp Barclay's work too swiftly, by imposing a more familiar interpretative language on the materials with which she works. Once we stop trying to make them mean something else, and allow the relations between the objects themselves to direct our attention and carry us around the work, the circle becomes open and inviting.
matter is shown to be articulate
in these works; it speaks not of something other than itself, not referentially, but by articulating space and those who pass through it. The space in which the works are situated is treated neither as an unchanging container nor as a mere backdrop for appearances, but is made a visible part of the work at the same time as the viewer-participants are made part of the space. In keeping with this, Black's curtain both echoes the window that runs at right angles to it along the front of the gallery, and reveals the unblemished transparency of this curtain of glass to be an illusion: unlike the creased and untethered cellophane, which one can move around or duck underneath, the window does not really allow passage from one side to another but divides and seals.
'Stillstill' reaches in the other direction, to the house that lies behind the gallery, which is drawn into intimate relation with Barclay's work through a complex set of echoes and resonances. Thus, her brass discs echo a similar set of metal discs with holes punched through them (a work by Richard Pousette Dart) that are placed along the top of a bookshelf, which in turn sits not far from a basket of dried grasses and straw. The ways in which Barclay undoes the distinctions between art, craft and technology so as to foreground the practice of making is echoed in the way that in Kettle's Yard house, sculptures and paintings sit alongside collections of pebbles which are as beautiful, and as carefully placed, as any art work.
Even the circular form of 'Stillstill' seems to repeat the path one takes as one wanders through the house, passing from ground floor entry rooms, through and across the upper galleries, and back down again, traversing a space replete with the results of making. On first encountering either the house or the work, one feels oneself to be a newcomer to a pre-existing set of relations which one needs to learn how to enter into without intrusion. The objects placed around the house quietly resonate with one another, articulating the space between them just as Barclay's objects articulate the space of 'Stillstill'. Such articulations can allow a human participant in, but their rhythms and relations depend more on material resonances than on human intervention.
In this work, then, it is as if Barclay has distilled the essential character of Kettle's Yard house, which stands strikingly apart from the noise and bustle of the surrounding streets, and whose quiet envelopment demands that we set aside the pace of everyday life so as to enter into a fuller and more attentive stillness. It is this attentiveness to articulate matter to which Barclay and Black re-attune us.
Hung like a painting yet forming what the artist has called a 'very thin sculpture', 'Pleaser' does not passively adapt to its surroundings, but – more pleasingly – refuses to behave either like a representational surface or with the immobile weight and substance of sculpted matter. Like 'Stillstill', which can be read as both sculpture and installation, it stands somewhere in-between to show us how space and relations are shaped by a matter that remains flexible and mobile, by material objects as well as by the processes of making. Together, Black and Barclay both remind us that making matters, because matter makes.
Rachel Jones is a lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Dundee and author of a forthcoming book on Luce Irigaray's feminist transformation of philosophy.


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The Struggle to Ensure Educational Opportunity in Massachusetts
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I looked around the dilapidated North Philadelphia classroom
I shared with another teacher six years ago and thought, "There's
got to be more I can do." After four years, I still loved teaching and
especially loved my students, but there were challenges that I could not address.
I had thirty-five students in each class – and only twenty-six desks and
twenty-eight copies of the novel we were reading. Because the one hundred forty
students in my four sections of ninth grade English had to share these books,
a student who had been unable to follow the in-class reading or discussion could
not take one home. Many could have used the extra time to review, as several
were reading at the second- or third-grade level. My average ninth grader was
fifteen years old but could only read at the seventh grade level.
I left my position as a teacher thinking I would have more freedom to help young people learn from outside the system that was failing them. But after two years running a delinquency-prevention program in the same troubled community, I wanted more for my students. I realized that I needed additional tools in order to effect both individual and systemic change in urban education. When I applied to law school, Boston College offered me a Public Service Scholarship, which made it possible for me to study and practice new approaches to familiar problems.
When I began my first year of law school in 2002, prospects for reforming education through law in Massachusetts were promising. Twenty years after the United States Supreme Court held in San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez, that there is no federal constitutional right to education, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts (SJC) in 1993 ruled in McDuffy v. Secretary of the Executive Office of Education that the state constitution imposes on the Commonwealth an "enforceable duty" to "provide education in the public schools for the children there enrolled, whether they be rich or poor and without regard to the fiscal capacity of the community or district in which such children live." Although the court declined to adopt as its own the word "adequate" to describe the education that all students must be provided, it did hold that this education must "prepare all students to participate as free citizens of a free State to meet the needs and interests of a republican government." Moreover, the SJC declared that the state was not fulfilling its constitutional duty. Rather than find any specific legislation for school funding unconstitutional, the SJC set forth "broad guidelines" concerning the capabilities that an educated child must possess and "presume[d] ... that the Commonwealth will fulfill its responsibility with respect to defining the specifics and the appropriate means to provide the constitutionally required education." Three days after the release of the McDuffy decision, the Legislature enacted the Massachusetts Education Reform Act (ERA). With the aim of providing "a consistent commitment of resources sufficient to provide a high quality public education to every child," the ERA substantially restructured education funding in Massachusetts and established "uniform, objective performance and accountability measures for every public school student, teacher, administrator, school, and district in Massachusetts." In 1996, the Massachusetts Board of Education announced that all students, beginning with the class of 2003, would have to pass the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) examinations in order to receive a high school diploma.
But McDuffy's promise of an adequate education for all children of the Commonwealth was never fully realized. A new group of plaintiffs representing nineteen school districts brought the case back to the SJC, seeking further remedial relief. A single justice of the SJC, the one remaining judge who had participated in McDuffy, referred the case to a specially assigned judge of the Superior Court to make findings of fact and recommendations. On April 26, 2004, after a seventy-eight day trial that focused on evidence from four "focus" school districts and included the testimony of 114 witnesses and entry of over 1000 exhibits, Judge Botsford issued a 318-page report detailing educational inequities and inadequacies. She observed that none of the focus districts was presently "equipping its students with the capabilities described in McDuffy," and that in "every one of these districts, therefore, the students are not receiving the level of education that the Commonwealth has a constitutional duty to provide." Eleven years after McDuffy, the Commonwealth was still in violation of its constitutional obligation to educate children in its poorer communities. Despite "substantial improvements in public education [that] had occurred since 1993, significant failings persisted in the focus districts," and the funds that the focus districts received from the State were insufficient to allow them to meet the standards of McDuffy. Judge Botsford recommended, in essence, that the SJC direct the Commonwealth's educational officials to determine the actual cost of providing a constitutionally adequate level of education for all children in the focus districts, and further direct them to implement the funding and administrative changes required to accomplish those goals. Finally, she recommended that the defendants be given a "definite but limited" amount of time to make these changes, and that the SJC retain jurisdiction over the remedial efforts.
A year ago, in February 2005, the Supreme Judicial Court declined to adopt Judge Botsford's conclusion "that the Commonwealth presently is not meeting its obligations under" the Massachusetts Constitution, and "rejected her recommendation for further judicial action." In Hancock v. Commissioner of Education, the plurality determined that although "serious inadequacies in public education remain," the Commonwealth "is moving systemically to address those deficiencies." The court noted that the legislature was doing its best to tackle a difficult problem, and declined the plaintiffs' invitation to intervene. The irony of this holding is palpable in a state where doing one's best is not sufficient for a student to earn a high school diploma if she is unable to pass MCAS, but we accept from our Governor and our legislators a plan that is only "beginning to work in significant ways." Apparently, our legislators are held to a lower standard than our students. In Hancock, the SJC denied the plaintiffs' motion for further relief, terminated the single justice's ongoing jurisdiction, and disposed of the case in its entirety.
While Hancock was making its way through the courts of Massachusetts, on the national level, No Child Left Behind (NCLB) was signed into law in January, 2002. Like the ERA, NCLB emphasizes stronger accountability and aims to ensure educational opportunity for all children. Many educators oppose NCLB for its focus on testing as the primary assessment of schools' progress. Furthermore, NCLB appears to have been drastically under-funded, prompting several states to challenge the Act's constitutionality or to opt out of its requirements, thereby losing significant federal funding. Although NCLB promises to free children from persistently failing schools, such promises, like those of McDuffy, appear empty to the thousands of children who struggle, every day, to learn in overcrowded, under-resourced classrooms like the one I left in North Philadelphia.
After Hancock, what is left? What can lawyers and others do to realize McDuffy's promise of an adequate education "in the public schools for the children there enrolled, whether they be rich or poor and without regard to the fiscal capacity of the community or district in which such children live"?
The Boston College Third World Law Journal spring symposium will address these issues. The symposium will examine the next generation of challenges in obtaining access to adequate education for at-risk students. A national panel will discuss the role that courts and legislatures might play in determining what constitutes an adequate education under state constitutions and in the current context of education reform requirements. A state panel will focus on how Massachusetts can improve education for at-risk students in the wake of the court's decision in Hancock v. Commissioner of Education, which refused to issue an order requiring the state to increase funding to fully realize the commitment of the Education Reform Act "to provide a high quality public education to every child."
The keynote speaker will be Derrick Bell, who now teaches at New York University, and is an active proponent of educational equity. He has most recently authored Silent Covenants: Brown v. Board of Education and the Unfulfilled Hopes for Racial Reform.
National panelists include:
Michael Rebell, Executive Director and Counsel, Campaign for Fiscal Equity, Inc.
William Koski, Professor of Law, Stanford University
Diana Pullin, Professor of Education Law & Public Policy, Boston College
Lawrence C. Johnson, Project Coordinator, Fifth Street Renaissance
Dr. Joseph O'Keefe, S.J., Dean of the Lynch School of Education, Boston College, Moderator
State panelists include:
Michael Weisman, lead plaintiff's attorney in Hancock v. Commissioner of Education
Kathy Boundy, Co-Director, Center of Law and Education
Tom Birmingham, former state legislator and chief architect of Mass Education Reform Act
Alan Rom, Massachusetts Appleseed Center for Law & Justice.
The Symposium will take place on April 21 from 1:30 - 5:30 p.m. at the law school in East Wing 200. All are invited to attend. Please contact Joyce Dalrymple at email@example.com for more information.

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Miranda IM is pretty much the most versatile, customizable, powerful, minimalistic and down-right sexy IM client on the planet.
I know that sounds like a lot, but I've been using it for years, and I've tried pretty much everything else Windows and Linux have to offer. I never tried Adium, so maybe Adium's better – but for Windows, nothing beats Miranda. As you can tell, this application is a prime candidate for one of my What the Zuk columns, so I will save the rest of my admiration for later and get to the news already:
Miranda 0.9.0 is now out! Miranda is very actively developed, but the release cycle isn't exactly lightning-fast. So 0.9.0 means something, and here's a few features off the list:
- New improved protocols engine with full Unicode support
- New high quality icon theme
- First official x64 version
- Added Windows 7 taskbar icon support
The weirdest feature added to this release was support for file transfers of over 4GB in size. I mean, who the heck transfers over 4GB of files over IM? This release also brings strong Unicode support across the board, so if you happen to be a non-English user this may come in handy. I just installed it myself, and the myriad of add-ons I use seem to work just fine.
And of course, Miranda keeps all of its existing goodness, including support for an insane number of protocols. I currently use it for IRC, ICQ, MSN, GChat, and Olark. One client to rule them all! If you've never used Miranda, now would be a great time to give it a spin!


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Meet the Cook: Based on the "moist meat" method of preparation my grandmother used, this gets passed around the table a second time. Even people who think that pork is dry like it. I serve it with mashed potatoes, peas and cranberry sauce. My husband and I have two grown children and four grandchildren. -Nancy Schilling, Berkeley Springs, West Virginia
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Prep: 25 min. Cook: 1-3/4 hours
1/2 cup all-purpose flour,
1/2 cup seasoned bread crumbs,
4 pork chops (1/2 inch thick)
2 tablespoons canola oil
1 medium onion, sliced
2 garlic cloves, minced
1/4 teaspoon pepper
3 cups water
2 tablespoons beef bouillon granules
1 teaspoon browning sauce, optional
2 bay leaves
1 jar (4-1/2 ounces) sliced mushrooms, drained
1/2 cup cold water
In a large resealable plastic bag, combine half of the flour and
bread crumbs; add pork chops, a few at a time. Seal bag and toss to
In a large skillet cook chops in oil over medium heat for 2-3 minutes
on each side or until chops are lightly browned; drain. Add the
onion, garlic, pepper and water. Stir in the bouillon, browning
sauce if desired and bay leaves; bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover
and simmer for 4-6 minutes or until a thermometer reads 145°.
Discard bay leaves. Remove pork to serving platter and keep warm. Let
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Blisters can be formed not only by a fire burn. Even our life giving sun has the ability to give blisters to you! Sun blisters are a result of prolonged exposure to sun. A question can quiet normally arise. Why does it happen and is it same for everyone? The simple answer to the question is, it is not same for everyone and that it happens because the intensity of the harmful sun rays exceeds the protective capacity of the melanin (a black pigment in our body that protects us from the harmful ultra violet rays of sun). People with dark complexion have higher concentration of melanin than the fair and this explains why fair people are more prone to sun burns and sun blisters.
There is a long list of home remedies that can be effectively used to cure sun blisters. The list of those treatments is given below with a hope that they will be able to help you in case of sun burns and sun blisters.
These home remedies can be used to help and cure the sun blister. In case it does not help you always have a second option open. You can visit a skin specialist!
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I am 13 years old, and I went to the park yesterday for school. Lots of running, and exercise. But I didn't think I needed sun block… well, big mistake! I ended up getting a horble sun burn. I am embarresed almost. I went to bed last night, and the next morning, I had a red spot on my nose! Ah! I am cuped up in my room afraid to go outside. Err… I'm so embarresed. :T
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Most people are aware that exercise alone won't magically transform the body. Spot reduction, or exercising a specific part of the body to lose fat, just isn't effective. However, there are some steps you can take to address stubborn belly fat, with exercise, diet and supplements all playing a part.
There's a saying in the fitness industry that abs are made in the kitchen. I believe this is true. You can do crunches all day long, but you'll never see the results under a layer of body fat.
When I'm eating a clean, healthy diet, I see a significant difference in the appearance of my stomach. It's flatter and tighter. I focus on foods such as lean protein (fish, chicken or turkey), fibrous carbohydrates (such as oatmeal, broccoli, whole grain breads and whole grain pasta) and higher fiber fruit such as apples and pears. I keep sugar consumption to a minimum and drink plenty of water throughout the day.
After diet, cardio is the next important step. Four to five days of cardio exercise per week is ideal. When trying to trim my tummy, I increase my normal cardio activity by 10 minutes, and I'll often alternative cardio sessions with high intensity interval training (HITT). HITT involves alternating low- to moderate-intensity intervals with high-intensity intervals. For example, warm up for five minutes, jog for 30 seconds, sprint for 30 seconds, then repeat 10 times and cool down.
Along with cardio, abdominal exercises should be included to strengthen ab muscles, making them tighter and giving them more definition. I like to train abs every other day, and I typically don't use any weights. I want my abs to be trim and tight, not build up my ab muscles!
There are three areas to focus on when doing abdominal exercises: upper, lower and obliques. Crunches address your upper abs. Hanging leg lifts are great for lower abs (if you're working out at home, try leg lifts on the floor""raising your legs 90 degrees and keeping hips down to keep pressure off your lower back). Oblique twists will help to bring in your waist.
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The US-UK Relationship: From Special to Indispensable
Washington, DC's grand, neo-classical Pennsylvania Avenue is festooned with Union Jacks and star-spangled banners. British Prime Minister David Cameron is in the US from March 13 to 15, his second and more high-profile official visit since assuming office in 2010, and the pomp heralding his arrival is breathtaking.
The British Foreign Office has long placed the primacy of the relationship with the US at the top of its strategic interests. Now the feeling is clearly mutual.
Mitt Romney's campaign team has placed the US's neglect of the British as the centerpiece of its critique of Obama's Europe policy. In an attempt to profile its policy muscle, the campaign published a white paper covering the broad strokes of a Romney foreign policy. The paper failed to mention the EU or NATO once. Nor did it include Europe's economic troubles. It did, however, contain a bizarrely anachronistic pledge to restore the special relationship with the UK. Demonstrating little let-up in this line, a top Romney foreign-policy advisor stated this week that the US-UK relationship in the era of George W. Bush was a "much more equal partnership." This observation would come as a surprise to most Brits who saw that relationship as profoundly asymmetric. Images of a highly coiffed canine come to mind. To avoid being dogged with similar criticism, Obama and Cameron penned last May a joint piece in The Times (London) that coined the term "indispensable relationship." They recognized that in a changing world a changing bilateral relationship does not diminish its importance. And precisely because the US-UK relationship is so robust, it sometimes proves unwieldy. The US, after all, relies on the UK in three areas: as a guardian of security, as a partner in global economic governance and for its place in the EU.
In a bookend to their Times piece, the two leaders opened their Washington get-together with a weighty op-ed on foreign and security policy in The Washington Post that reflects the close cooperation on security issues. Their agenda this week also confirms this relationship. Successes in Libya and its lessons for NATO's future, timetables for withdrawal from Afghanistan, intensified engagement in Syria, combating piracy on the high seas and the escalating danger of Iran's progress towards nuclear weapons-grade uranium enrichment are all highlights of their talks. The re-emergence of the Falkland Islands dispute is also likely to come up.
Washington and London see eye to eye on global economic governance. The breakdown of G20 coalitions over the past three years -- be it on global current-account imbalances, financial-market regulation, currency manipulation or free trade -- reveals that the two capitals are on the same side of these issues, often with other European countries galvanizing the opposition. But Cameron's approach to the UK's budget woes -- balancing spending cuts with targeted tax increases -- reflects a more deliberative process than that currently taking place in the US. Britain's willingness to have budget talks that encompass all areas of spending, from defense to health care to pensions, offers an example to obstreperous Democrats and Republicans. Lastly, shared legal traditions and industrial interests mean the UK could serve as the key broker in the deeper trans-Atlantic economic integration. This could even lead to a Trans-Atlantic Free Trade Agreement (TAFTA) in the coming years.
Regarding the EU, the US national interest is keeping the UK in core Europe. The British lead the call to imbue eurozone crisis management with an emphasis on economic growth, a position that was undoubtedly met with nods of affirmation in the US Treasury, not to mention the International Monetary Fund. The UK's ambivalence to an EU financial-transaction tax also reflects Washington's economic interests. Finally, the UK is among the staunchest supporters of the EU-US Passenger Name Record (PNR) Agreement, which homeland-security experts see as vital to maintaining safe and open visa-free travel between the US and much of Europe.
Obama's message to Cameron should be that the UK should continue to maintain its place in the Euro-Atlantic community. That place, however, begins with London's role in Europe. The US can leverage its relationship with the UK only in so far as the British maximize their influence in the EU. And only Washington has the gravitas to deliver that message.


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NPR story calculates the cost of at-home caregiving
When Marilyn Geewax of NPR saw foreclosures and apartment vacancies increasing three years ago, she wondered where people had gone. "They had to be someplace," she says.
She found Census data showing a 10 percent jump in number of households with multiple generations of adults. That prompted NPR's series Family Matters: The Money Squeeze, which profiles three families.
The most recent segment explores the costs of at-home caregiving. Citing a MetLife report, the segment notes the typical woman's lost wages average nearly $143,000. "That figure reflects the wages lost while not working — typically for about five years — as well as lower wages after returning to the workforce with rusty skills. When foregone pension and Social Security benefits are counted, the out-of-pocket losses roughly double."
Today's Tip: Use insurance company studies and newsletters to gather data.
The MetLife study provided a lot of data for the segment, including annual costs for various types of adult care.
Reporters can find studies by searching for insurance companies online. Also, AARP offers data, Marilyn says.
The profiled families in the segment responded to Facebook queries, she says. She suggests reporters contact the Office of Aging in their areas, community centers and church groups to find families.
Another angle to consider is the lack of community resources to handle elderly care, Marilyn says. Many community centers and aging programs have had funding cuts.
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I want to thank all my supporters and the people who voted for me. It has been an honor to serve Nassau residents on the Legislature and I am grateful for the opportunity to continue my work. I won by a solid margin that shows two important things: First, people appreciate the work I have been doing as a Nassau County legislator; second, if you have a good track record, you can successfully run a clean campaign without stooping to false statements and negative attacks. As far as redistricting, I will miss the residents of the old 18th legislative district (LD), but I hope they know I am still here to serve all of Nassau and will continue to fight on their behalf. In my new 11th LD, it has been a pleasure getting to know my new constituents and I look forward to working with residents in Roslyn, Roslyn Harbor, Glen Cove, Sea Cliff, Glen Head, Sands Point and Port Washington.
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Nobody is going to top the 2012 United Way campaign kickoff that featured the Howard School marching band. That campaign is going down in the record books, 2013 campaign Chairman Tom Decosimo said Thursday.
He tried to get the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga band, but couldn't, he told about 900 people gathered for the annual campaign kickoff.
So Decosimo belted out "76 Trombones" from "The Music Man," and called the audience to join him in a challenge to raise $11.7 million to $12 million.
"The only thing I'm going to top is the amount of money you raised last year," said Decosimo as the crowd began to applaud. "And it's not going to be me. It's going to be everybody in this room and all of the businesses in our area."
The 2012 goal was $11.6 million. Decosimo said $1.9 million already has been pledged to the United Way of Greater Chattanooga for this year's campaign.
The money will be used to improve public education and help provide financial stability for families. The United Way raises money for 42 agencies, said Decosimo.
Decosimo, a certified public accountant and principal with Decosimo CPAs, has advised clients on transactions totaling more than $15 billion throughout the United States and Europe.
"But quite frankly that did not excite me," he said. "I'll tell you what did. I learned what today's United Way does and I was flabbergasted."
Kelley Nave, United Way's director of public relations, said the crowd was the largest at a United Way campaign kickoff in at least five years. In previous years the crowd has been about 600 to 800 people, she said.
Chattanooga Rotary Club and Kiwanis Club of Chattanooga hosted the event, and Rotary President Tom Griscom was master of ceremonies.
To accomplish its goals, the agency partners with Hamilton County Schools, Hamilton County, the Chattanooga Housing Authority, Front Porch Alliance, the Bethlehem Center, the Westside Center and more. United Way also helps takes care of the city's most vulnerable residents like those at the Signal Centers and at Orange Grove Center.
"What they are doing is fabulous," said Decosimo. "What group is going to organize all of the different groups into where we need to put our focus? If not for the United Way, I don't know who."
He recognized former College Hill Courts resident Tonya Rooks and commended her for her door-to-door efforts in the Westside, where she talked to people about reading to their children and signed them up to receive books and physical check-ups.
"That's what United Way is all about," Decosimo said as the crowd began to applaud.
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"We're going to beat the amount we raised last year," he said. "It's for the good of the community."
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It has been reported that thirty-seven pieces of state-owned artwork are missing or "unaccounted for" from within Leinster House.
A spokesman for the Office of Public Works (OPW), who is responsible for the safekeeping of such items, made the following response.
We don't have the resources to constantly keep a track of where things go.
Often, when staff move offices, they take artwork they like with them and this poses great difficulty to the OPW and management staff in Leinster House to keep a track on them.
Given the size of the collection under the auspices of the OPW, it is impossible to know where everything is all of the time.
This response indicates a complete abdication of responsibility for valuable state/citizen owned property.
In effect, this spokesman is extending an open invitation to any thieving official, politician or member of the public to steal at will.
While serving in the Naval Service I was appointed as a storeman for a number of years. I had absolutely no training for the job and was given just one assistant.
We were charged with keeping track of items ranging from radio equipment on several ships, bedding, lockers and other equipment in three billets, thousands of items in stores and a large volume of arms and ammunition.
When something went missing it was usually noticed quickly and acted upon immediately.
The claim by the OPW official that it is impossible to know where everything is all the time is complete rubbish.
These art items went missing from Leinster House, presumably from offices and public areas like halls and stairs.
The standard method of keeping track of such items is simple and effective.
An inventory of all items in any particular office is typed up, signed by the politician/official responsible for that office and displayed on the wall for all to see and inspect.
When that politician/official is vacating office they simply ask their successor to check that all items on the list are present and take responsibility by signing the inventory.
All inventories are independently checked on a regular basis to make sure all is in order.
The system is simple, effective and easily operated.
I phoned the OPW to ask some questions regarding the missing items and, as usual, was referred to the Press Office who asked me to put my queries in writing.
Dear Ms.
Re our phone conversation today regarding the missing pieces of art from Leinster House.
What are the name, position and rank of the person/s responsible for the safe keeping of the missing items?
What action has been taken in response to the missing items?
In particular, what action has been taken in respect of items that went missing prior to the last general election?
What is the overall time period in which the items went missing?
Please supply a list of the estimated value of each missing item
Please supply a list of the exact offices/locations from which items went missing
Please supply a list of the officials/politicians who occupied offices from which items went missing.
Please confirm or otherwise if members of the public are entitled to speak directly to OPW officials regarding this matter.
Yours Sincerely,
Anthony Sheridan
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"Office of Public Works (OPW), who is responsible for the safekeeping of such items"
The OPW obviously rely on the well worn excuse of the public service – everyone is responsible so no one is responsible!
Your such a fusspot Anthony, they are not missing just 'elsewhere'.
Next thing you'll want is people accounting for the millions they've spent or claimed or lost,
or worse taking reponsibility for those things.
i mean really, the mere thought of such a thing its enough to bring a civil servant out in hives!
You want to speak to someone from the OPW!!! Ha-ha-ha!!! Wonderful. While you're at it, see if you can get to chat with the Queen, you know, the next time she's riding Shergar.


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"Well, my mom had 14 kids, her mom had 14 kids, and her mom had 11 kids, and her mom had 12 kids. . ." Shayne Packer said jokingly when Tanda, his newly engaged fiancé, brought up the topic of how many children they would have.
Tanda's gleaming blue eyes shot sideways as she interrupted with a firm tone, "That's where tradition stops right there, buddy!"
Today, Tanda works hard to keep up with her three grown girls, two grown boys and eight grandchildren. Being a modern grandma, she uses whatever technology she can find to connect across the four times zones containing her loved ones. In fact, the Packers are writing a book on grandparents connecting with their grandchildren through technology. They also created two websites to encourage and promote activities and technological devices that allow families to connect in today's world. Their websites, called Grandparents TLC and The Grandparent Project, educate other grandparents from what they have learned. The Grandparent Project allows grandparents all over the world to create their own sites for reaching out across the wires and bonding with grandchildren in a whole new way.
This new world of iPhones and video conferencing are very different from the childhood Tanda remembers. Raised on a 1,000-acre cattle ranch in Idaho, Tanda learned young the value of hard work, knowing how to ride a horse, and relying on family connectedness to make ends meet. She also learned to "reuse and repurpose" as only a farmer's daughter and member of a large family would know. Farmers had to be creative – as they say, "we fixed it with spit and wire." Growing up in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Tanda embraced the strong emphasis on family and faith, which served her well over the years.
"We were your average Western family," states Tanda, humbly. "Walking into the nearby town, they knew what you were going to do before you did it."
"Tanda emphasizes the importance of better social skills and etiquette, things that aren't learned over the internet. 'Too much training is being left to the schools to teach. MBA's are losing jobs over their meal habits.'"
Despite her tomboy tendencies at home, Tanda's mother taught her to sew, cook, and value education. After high school, Tanda started a career in nursing but realized she was afraid of shots, which made that profession quite unappealing. As nurses' aid, Tanda witnessed a live birth. She attributes this experience to her reticence regarding childbirth. Anything you might have glamorized about the process flies right out the hospital window. She still wanted to work with people, teaching family and home values. After her mother died and her fifth and last child was born, Tanda used money left to her to go back to school for teaching.
As a teacher of Family & Consumer Science, renamed and modernized from the more traditional Home Economics, Tanda is reminded daily of the increasing role of technology in the world of her students and in her own life.
Today, Tanda calls herself bi-lingual. "I use a Mac [computer] at home and a PC at work." At work, she emphasizes the lessons she learned growing up, that "no success compensates for value in the home." Technology is changing family and relationships. Tanda sees too much emphasis on the computer time, while family time suffers. Computer users, young and old, need to balance time spent facing a little colorful screen with real face-to-face time.
For this reason, Tanda works with Shane to review the available technology to help grandparents connect to their grandchildren rather than separating them. If your grandchildren are going to be surfing the web, why not talk to Grandma over videochat? Grandparents long for those lost moments that distance separates. Seeing the children online doesn't replace the touch of precious little fingers but pictures and heart-to-heart conversations go a long way to bridging the gap.
Recently, Tanda created a webpost of both projects to do online (through e-cards, etc.) and to print off and do together. The web is a great resource for reasons to get off the computer – like finding recipes to cook together and doing projects together. Sometimes grandparents can fill in the teaching gap that parents get too busy to realize is missing. Parents today are going in so many different directions and sometimes basic disciplines are lost.
While learning the latest technologies is important to any new graduate, Tanda emphasizes the importance of better social skills and etiquette, things that aren't learned over the internet. "Too much training is being left to the schools to teach. MBA's are losing jobs over their meal habits."
Tanda pulls from what she teaches at school for the websites and vice versa. Some of the subjects she teaches in school include nutrition and food science, interior design, finance, social & physical sciences, and family relationships.
From her own farming background, she teaches students sewing the hem in pants to prolong the garment's life, repairing and repurposing household items to stay in one's budget and using leftovers creatively rather than always going out to eat. Tanda adds, from her years of training, "80-90% of diseases are lifestyle related: obesity, heart disease, diabetes. Children need to know how to make good food choices, how to plan a nutritious meal and how to live on their own when the time comes."
With the world becoming a global economy, Tanda teaches students to appreciate other types of food and where they come from culturally. Technology is making the world a smaller place so people are traveling farther -- but the family is suffering. Children are not raised around extended family, learning to laugh with a silly uncle or take lessons from the crafty aunt. Adequate websites that share ideas and keep family traditions documented are increasingly useful in bringing together family from all over the world.
With a renewed vision to help connect loved ones, Tanda and Shayne have learned to look at all technology through "grandparent glasses" and to provide a valuable resource for everyone for years to come. Their articles and advice all stem from their desire to promote family values and bring families closer together where they can love and learn from each other. Tanda coined the term TLC because it represents the "tender loving care" a grandparent has for a grandchild and the "Technology" used for "Loving" and Connecting."
Tanda Packer (Grammy Tanda) has a degree in Home Economics Education, and has been teaching high school since 1988. She enjoys keeping current with teen lives of today and keeping in touch with her own family of 5 children and 8 grandchildren through any and all available technologies She and her husband, Shayne, are co-authoring a book on connecting grandparents and their grandchildren through technology.
GrandparentsTLC.com is a website about grandparenting and technology. It's where grandparents can discover technologies that will help them connect with their grandchildren in new ways. The Grandparent Project allows other grandparents to join the fun!
Thank you Tanda, for sharing your Story with us.
Our Stories and pictures are the sole copyright of their Authors and may not be reprinted or used without their permission.© 2009 by Sarah Peppel and Story of My Life® And don't forget to read Shayne Packer's Story as well!
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A truly warm lovely story, Tanda. I am looking forward to the book you and Shayne are writing. All the best in that venture!
That made me chuckle to think about raising all those children in today's day and age. I know for my mother it was a lot different and many of their era - children were bodies to be put to work to make the household survive. Boy am I sure glad that we didn't have to go through 12-14 labors! Hoo boy they were strong ladies.... lovely story.
Tanda, This is a wonderful story, and so true! You did a wonderful job raising our five children — with my help, of course. ;-) Our grandkids love spending time with you, whether it's in person, or on a videochat. It's fun to help other grandparents learn about technology. Tanda, allow me to express my love for you in public. But how can I say it without sounding mushy? -- Oh, here goes anyway... You are my sweetie, the love of my life, my loving wife, my best friend, my favorite person, a good listener, the best cook, a wonderful mother, a fun grammy, a successful educator, a role-model for the youth you teach, an inspiration to mothers and grandmothers, very spiritual, a high-tech grandma, a talented craftswoman, and you're a cutie too! - Your loving husband, Shayne
:) Tanda - love it that you've raised what sounds like a pretty amazing family. @Shayne - our writing assignment for the writing group on SOML is to write a love letter to someone you care about http://tinyurl.com/ce29ql due- Feb 14th of course - (in the middle part click on "Request to join this Group
sorry, can you delete my first comment Tanda? I mean to say: that opening part was hilarious: "Well, my mom had 14 kids, her mom had 14 kids, and her mom had 11 kids, and her mom had 12 kids. . ." Shayne Parker said jokingly when Tanda, his newly engaged fiancé, brought up the topic of how many children they would have. Tanda's gleaming blue eyes shot sideways as she interrupted with a firm tone, "That's where tradition stops right there, buddy!"
Sarah - Tanda's story is delightful. You bring out the best in a person. For Tanda though, it's ALL good! ;-)
Aren't I lucky to have such a great Mom?! She has sure taught me a lot, both about traditional and modern living. And I sure am glad she stopped the tradition of having 14 kids, a lot less grandbaby pressure for me!!! Thanks, Mom! You are the BEST!!!!!
Haven't I told you the 14 kids tradition skips a generation? You're next! So get busy! ;-)
Looks like you just opened a can of worms!!!! lol
For all me new friends, thank for your encouraging words and great ideas. A special thanks to Shayne and Emily. I am blessed to have such a wonderful family. Extra special thanks to Sarah. It's a beautiful article. Your gift with words is amazing !
Don't I have such a wonderful Mom! I'm glad that Storyofmylife.com featured her (Tanda), so everyone else knows as well. I love all of the valuable lessons that my mom has taught, and continues to teach me. I think she is a rare jewel in our society and especially in the education system. Tanda is the perfect combination of good ol' home values and modern advancements. Although she is far away from me and my kids, my mom always makes time to connect with us (thanks video chats)! I feel like I am loaning out my mom to all of her students on the East coast that she has "adopted" and shared these same values with. I am now the nurse (fulfilling her original plans without the fear of needles), and she is serving her more suited purpose of being "Mom" to so many of the next generation. It's all as it should be. Thanks Mom, I love you!
Kristi - That is a wonderful tribute to mom, and so true indeed. You are an amazing daughter. Now let's see if you can beat Emily to our 14 kids tradition! (just kidding)
This truly made me LOL. My mom was one of many as were her aunts & uncles with their big ole' families. Half the time we don't know who's who and have to ask "how are you related to me" during family reunions :)
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