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The Android 4.4.3 update for HTC One M8 has started seeding in some parts of Europe.
Last week, HTC released Android 4.4.3 update for the unlocked and developer version of HTC One M8 in the US. The Android 4.4.3 update, as confirmed by Mo Versi vice president, product management at HTC, features all the security fixes from Android 4.4.4.
@Gray_Fox88 @HTCUSA @JasonMacHTC Yes, however, we've incorporated the security fixes from 4.4.4 into 4.4.3. Thanks, Mo— Mo (@moversi) July 15, 2014
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Chiquita Brands International has been talking with an Irish produce company about a potential merger for more than two years, going back to before Chiquita moved to Charlotte, according to a securities filing Wednesday.
That differs from the account given by Chiquita CEO Ed Lonergan and Fyffes Chairman David McCann in March, when the deal was announced. At the time, they said discussions between Chiquita and the Dublin-based produce company started last fall.
Wednesday's securities filing, however, says the discussions between the two companies started in late 2011. That's when the company was finalizing its plans to move from Cincinnati to Charlotte, lured in part by almost $22 million worth of state and local incentives.
The proposed $1 billion, all-stock merger would create the world's largest banana company, ChiquitaFyffes, based in Dublin, Ireland. McCann is set to lead ChiquitaFyffes, although some top executives and hundreds of workers are expected to remain in Charlotte.
As part of the incentives deal, Chiquita was supposed to keep its headquarters in Charlotte for at least 10 years. Local officials haven't decided yet whether they will seek to stop incentive payments or try to recoup any of the $1 million in local funds already paid. Chiquita says it has met its job targets to receive incentive payments so far, with about 320 workers uptown.
The companies expect to close the merger deal later this year, after securing approval from regulators and shareholders.
Chiquita spokesman Ed Loyd said Wednesday that Lonergan's previous comments about the deal's origin referred only to the most recent round of talks with Fyffes – not previous, inconclusive talks.
"There should be no surprise that our company and others have had discussions over the years that have not led to a transaction," said Loyd. He said "no one had envisioned" the merger scenario announced in March at the time the company was considering moving to Charlotte in 2011.
"We expended $35 million to do so, and clearly there isn't a business that would make that type of decision if this had been on the horizon at that time," said Loyd.
When the Charlotte City Council approved its share of incentives in a 2011 closed session, former City Council member Edwin Peacock was one of three members who voted against the deal. Peacock said Wednesday that he had heard no discussion at the time that Chiquita might merge with another company.
"No, not at all," said Peacock. "This was clearly an organization that was very comfortable negotiating for money, whether they needed it or not."
Chiquita received a $2.5 million state grant and $2.5 million worth of incentives each from Charlotte and Mecklenburg County. The biggest piece of incentive money for Chiquita, more than $16 million, is from a 75 percent state rebate on payroll taxes for the Charlotte employees.
Officials with Charlotte and Mecklenburg County have met with Chiquita over the past week, city Economic Development Manager Brad Richardson said. They plan to meet with the company several more times over the coming months to review the incentives and decide whether to try to get any money back.
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The securities documents filed Wednesday show Chiquita was considering merger options even as Charlotte officials celebrated the company's decision to move from Cincinnati.
In May 2011, Charlotte Chamber officials were approached in secret about the possibility of Chiquita moving its headquarters. After five months of meetings with officials from former Gov. Bev Perdue on down – and a lobbying push that included a scramble for financial incentives and dinner with former Bank of America CEO Hugh McColl Jr. – Chiquita announced it was moving to Charlotte.
The jubilant November press conference heralding the arrival of more than 400 new jobs and an iconic company's global headquarters was held at the chamber's uptown building. Officials greeted the news with a standing ovation.
Chiquita, meanwhile, was exploring options.
"At the end of 2011, (former Chiquita CEO) Fernando Aguirre ... contacted David McCann, the Executive Chairman of Fyffes, to determine Fyffes' interest in exploring a potential transaction with Chiquita," the companies wrote in Wednesday's securities filing. On Dec. 21, they signed a confidentiality agreement to evaluate a deal.
Chiquita moved into Charlotte's NASCAR Plaza office tower in spring 2012. Behind the scenes, discussions with Fyffes were proceeding. In July, McCann met with several members of Chiquita's board of directors.
Fyffes proposed a plan in which shareholders would split equity in the combined company equally. When Chiquita balked, Fyffes came back with an offer to give Chiquita shareholders 51 to 55 percent of the combined company. The deal never came together, and on Aug. 7, 2012, Aguirre announced he was leaving Chiquita.
On Oct. 8, 2012, Lonergan took over as Chiquita's new chief executive. Two weeks later, Lonergan started calling potential deal partners at the direction of his board.
An unidentified firm known as "Company A" was interested, as was Fyffes. The companies talked about a three-way deal, in which Chiquita would merge with Company A and Fyffes would take some of their assets. But by mid-November, that deal also fell through.
Almost a year later, Lonergan and McCann attended the Produce Marketing Association trade show in New Orleans. On Oct. 20, 2013, Lonergan asked McCann if he would still consider a deal.
McCann made clear that his terms were firm.
"Mr. McCann indicated to Mr. Lonergan that Fyffes would only be interested in reopening such discussions if the parties would negotiate an exchange ratio that would give Fyffes and Chiquita shareholders approximately 50% of the equity of the combined company on a fully diluted basis, that the appropriate governance structure would be put in place and that the name of the new entity would be a combination of both Fyffes and Chiquita," the companies wrote.
Three days later, Lonergan called McCann to say Chiquita was interested.
The companies spent the next few months ironing out the details, before announcing the deal in March. The final, all-stock deal netted Fyffes' shareholders a 38 percent premium to the company's share price and met all of McCann's conditions. He was named CEO, his shareholders got almost 50 percent of the combined equity and the combined company would bear both its predecessors' names. Observer staff writer Steve Harrison contributed
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MIAMI BEACH, Fla., March 1, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- AMBI® Skincare is pleased to announce the annual AMBI Research Award with The Skin of Color Society, a grant of $15,000 to promote dermatology research within the field of skin of color. By providing essential funding to this program, AMBI and the Skin of Color Society are helping to shape the future of tomorrow's clinical leaders in dermatology, expressly in this specialized field.
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Omnicom Net Income Increased Nearly 25 Percent in Q1
Omnicom Group, home to firms including Fleishman-Hillard, Ketchum, and Porter Novelli, reported a revenue increase of 23.6 percent for the first quarter of 2011. Net income was $201.9 million versus $163.4 million in Q1 2010.
Global revenue also increased 7.9 percent to $3.15 billion. Revenue totaled $2.92 billion for the first quarter of 2010. In the U.S., the increase was 3.8 percent to $1.65 billion versus about $1.6 billion year-over-year. Internationally, revenue increased 12.9 percent to nearly $1.5 billion. U.K. revenue increased 12.4 percent to $280 million.
PR contributed 9.1 percent to first quarter revenue, for a total of $286.4 million. That's a year-over-year increase of 3.9 percent, with organic growth also rising 1.9 percent.
Firms that fall under the "specialty" category, including Cone in cause marketing and branding firm Interbrand, contributed $288.6 million to the revenue numbers, an 8.8 percent increase from Q1 2010 and an increase of 6.6 percent in the organic growth column.
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Saying that new zealanders **** sheep is like the most petty insult, honestly. Is that the only thing you faggots can come up with? Oh wow we have alot of sheep, the funny thing is, most other countrys have ALOT more sheep than us.
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Should I throw my own baby shower?
My pregnancy has been great except for one silly little issue -- I have no one to throw a baby shower for me. My husband and I live far from our families, and I'm not that close to my female friends. My husband knows how sad I feel and has hinted at throwing the party himself. I have mostly male friends, so I wouldn't mind having a coed shower. But the thought of throwing my own shower makes me feel like a loser! What can I do?
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Im close to my 8 month pregnancy and unfortunatly i have no family around me on my side i have my hubby's family all here but neither of us talk this will be their first grandchild from their oldest son and no one has stepped up to even offer a baby shower. It makes me feel very sad and alone but i would say throw it yourself, i rather have it like that then to expect someone to have it for you. Sad how family act that way:(posted 12/19/2011 by mommyskittens
With my first baby I had to throw my own baby shower because the person that was going to throw it decided to go hang out with a friend the day of the baby shower. I just moved to Cali when I got pregnant and didn't really know anyone so I had a co-ed shower. That was great.This time around I am going to have a BBQ shower just low key I think.posted 12/12/2011 by tiffayala
If you feel like having a baby shower than you should make one!:) Im doing my own baby shower even though i have all my family around me.posted 12/09/2011 by carlaymiguel20
I think its up to you especially since your family is far away & no else has offered to throw you one. Im going through a similar situation my family did not offer & my friends are willing to try but are strapped for money so im financially helping & my closest friend lives out of state so its going to be very difficult to plan me here and her there. I too felt sad bc no one offered to throw me a shower without my input but it is what it is & im greatful for the help & will be very greatful when my family & friends show up to celebrate my 1st child & bring him gifts, preparing for a baby is expensive and a shower is key to get some of those baby items you haven't already. Good luck!posted 12/07/2011 by a BabyCenter Member
I am in the same situation. I am planning on 2 things. 1 going home for a shower with my friends & family. 2. He's lived out here all his life & we have couple friends or his sports guys have friends with wives or gf but no one I know enough to feel comfy invited myself. So he jumped up & offered to do it for me inviting his family & people I know. :)posted 12/05/2011 by Danithegreat
do what makes you happy ! throw ur own shower ! i never heard of just having a shower for the first one ? im throwiing my own shower and having a couple of friends help me organize it as well . I had 2 showers for my 2nd (work ) and one from family and friends . my first was 13 yrs ago and it was a suprise which included 60 people that i hardly knew . lol ! but any who have fun throwing your shower ! if you need any ideas private message me ! :)posted 12/04/2011 by a BabyCenter Member
Why not? I have a friend who did. It was her third baby but it was going to a girl. It was an all girl theme, anything pink, frilly and cute was every where! It was a super fun party. So go for it!posted 12/02/2011 by danesasov
I think that you should throw your own. I thought I had my best friends to throw my first baby shower but I was wrong. This is a time to celebrate you and this new life. I say go all out!!!! When you look back on it you will be glad that you did!posted 12/01/2011 by LovingOnMyBabies
I say go for it! I want to throw my own baby shower sooooo bad! but my FIL and my parents plan to do it themselves. Personally I prefer doing it myself because I know what I want to do, have a few family members come over, a few balloons, a few friends, nothing huge. I think it's best when you know whats going on, there's just so many rules to babyshowers. Screw the rules I dont think your a loser, I think its better for you to have some type of control on it. That way you invite the people you want, not the people you dont.posted 11/26/2011 by Mommy2Be March26
Someone brought up a good idea- I like the "come meet the baby" party after the baby is born. You would clearly have to throw that yourself and it wouldn't be tacky like throwing your own shower. I know people get all upset about this, but honestly throwing your own shower just looks like you are begging for gifts. People who say they are doing it because "every baby should be celebrated" I think are justifying it to themselves. If they are really doing it to celebrate the baby, then they should wait till the baby is actually born.posted 11/17/2011 by a BabyCenter Member
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Let's actually run through the exercise. Here, from the RealClearPolitics polling aggregator, are the seven Ohio polls that, as of this morning, had been published in November:
The total sample size is 7,568. That means the margin of error (as conventionally calculated, with a 95-percent confidence level) is somewhere around 1 point. If you average the seven numbers together, you get an Obama lead of 2.9 points. But that's a crude average. If we're going to be precise we should weight each poll according to its sample size, which gives us an average of 3.1 points.
So, collectively, polls conducted in Ohio recently have a (95 percent confidence level) margin of error of somewhere around 1 point and give Obama a lead of 3.1 points. That's no toss-up, even according to the loose definition of toss-up used by journalists who report on opinion polls. In fact, with a lead this big and a sample size this big, our confidence that Obama is ahead in the Ohio voting population at large is around 99 percent. Feel better, Obama supporters?
Not so fast! Here's what should shake your confidence in these polls:
All the statistical reasoning described above is premised on the assumption that the sample population is a random sample to begin with. Now, it's true that it's possible, in principle, to get a truly random sample. For example: If you have a jar full of red and blue jelly beans, all mixed up, and you're taking jelly beans out of the jar while blindfolded, you get a truly random sample. The larger your sample, the more likely it is to reflect the ratio of red to blue jelly beans in the jar as a whole -- and the exact likelihood can be accurately determined by the math alluded to above. In a situation like this, the probabilistic margins of error that pollsters calculate will be entirely reliable.
But pollsters don't pick jelly beans out of a jar. They call jelly beans on the phone (or, try to reach them online, or, as in the case of the Dispatch poll, solicit responses by mail). And for all they know, blue jelly beans are less likely to be near a phone than red jelly beans -- or less likely to answer the phone, or less likely to agree to be polled after they answer the phone, or whatever.
This is a very challenging problem, in part because the technological landscape is changing so fast that it's hard for pollsters to use their experience from the last presidential election as a basis for refining their methodology. Among the things that presumably have changed since 2008: the number of people who have cell phones, the number who have abandoned land lines in favor of cell phones, the number who have caller ID and use it, the number who ignore calls from unknown parties, etc. And these kinds of things tend to vary by age, income level, ethnicity, etc. -- all of which correlate with which candidate a person will vote for. Pollsters can do things to try to correct for all of this, but the ground is shifting so fast that it's hard for them to know they're doing the right things.
So I'm sympathetic to people who say the polls can't be trusted. But if the polls can't be trusted, then the logic behind that Columbus Dispatch headline -- and the story underneath it, and the poll the story is based on -- starts to fall apart. The premise of doing a poll and writing about it, and putting it under a banner headline on your front page, is that polls in some meaningful sense can be trusted. And if polls can be trusted, there's no basis for calling Ohio a "toss-up" in the sense that we normally use that term.
[Postscript: I've assumed that the Dispatch pollsters, in calculating their 2.2-point margin of error, are following the most common convention and using a 95-percent confidence level. But the poll's fine print doesn't say. And my sense, from nosing around online, is that 2.2 is actually a bit low for a 95-percent margin of error when your sample size is 1,500 -- though, on the other hand, it sounds slightly high for a 90-percent margin of error. But, as I said, my math is a bit rusty, so I'll hope some whiz-kid commenter clarifies the situation for us. Anyway, the basic morals of this story hold regardless of how exactly the Dispatch is defining its margin of error. And, in any event, I'm pretty sure I'm on solid ground in saying that Obama's 2-point lead, given a sample size of 1,500, implies a probability of roughly 90 percent -- give or take a few points--that he is ahead of Romney in the voting population at large (or would be, if the sample were truly random).]
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Baltimore, MD (Sports Network) - Kevin Youkilis delivered the go-ahead, two- run homer in the seventh inning, as Boston beat the Baltimore Orioles, 6-5, in the opener of a three-game series.
Just a day after David Ortiz was notified of a 2003 positive test for performance-enhancing drugs, Boston's designated hitter slugged a two-run shot, his second homer in as many days.
"I don't think about that when I'm playing," said Ortiz. "That's the way you have to do it. You think about problems when you're playing, you're not going to be able to do what you have to do. We need to win games and move on."
Jacoby Ellsbury went 3-for-5 with a homer and made a spectacular catch at the wall in center field for Boston, which snapped a five-game skid on the road. The Red Sox moved to 9-2 this season against the Orioles and have won 16 of the last 19 meetings.
John Smoltz (2-4) allowed eight hits and five runs over six innings to get the victory as he snapped a two-start losing streak. Jonathan Papelbon fanned a pair of batters in the ninth to pick up his 27th save of the year.
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Boston also traded the recently acquired Adam LaRoche for fellow first baseman Casey Kotchman of the Braves on Friday. Boston, which also sent cash considerations to Atlanta, traded a pair of prospects -- shortstop Argenis Diaz and pitcher Hunter Strickland -- to Pittsburgh in exchange for LaRoche just last week.
"It was kind of an emotional day, all the way around," said Red Sox manager Terry Francona. "After the emotional day yesterday, and we made some mistakes during the game, but we didn't let it get in the way of us winning. It's not always perfect, but we keep grinding and it's nice to have a win to show for it."
Nolan Reimold and Aubrey Huff hit two-run homers for the Orioles, who had a two-game win streak broken but lost for the eighth time in 11 games to finish July.
Jeremy Guthrie (7-10) yielded nine hits and six runs over 6 2/3 innings to suffer the loss, his second straight to the Red Sox.
Ellsbury singled with one out in the seventh, and with two down Youkilis homered to left field, giving Boston the 6-5 lead.
"We busted our butts to win the game tonight and I left Guthrie in one hitter too long," said Orioles manager Dave Trembley. "I really believed he was going to get him out. He made a bad pitch."
A throwing error by reliever Ramon Ramirez opened the door for the Orioles in the bottom of the frame. Runners were at first and second with one out after the miscue, but Reimold and Adam Jones hit into force plays to end the inning.
Hideki Okajima walked Huff and Ty Wigginton with one out in the bottom of the eighth, but Luke Scott fouled out and Matt Wieters lined out to the pitcher for the last out.
Nick Green lifted a sacrifice fly in the Boston second, and it became 3-0 the next inning on Ortiz's 15th homer of the year.
The Orioles tied it in the bottom of the third. Green's throwing error scored Wieters and Reimold followed with a two-run homer. The ball barely went over the wall in right field, and was only confirmed a homer after a video review.
Ellsbury led off the fifth with a homer to right, but the Orioles went on top 5-4 in the sixth on Huff's blast to center. Baltimore was bidding for another run, but Ellsbury reached over the wall to snare Scott's fly ball to center to end the frame.
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Many atheists and scientists assert that morality is derived from our genetic make up. In other words, morality is a product of genetic encoding. They sometimes reason that individuals who behave in a way that aids survival will pass on their genes. For example, if a person were to kill another person, the natural reaction by others is to punish the killer, possibly by killing him. This would mean that his genetic information would not be passed down to further generations (unless he had offspring before the killing). Likewise, thieves would incur the wrath of other people and their survivability would be reduced, further lessening the chance of genetic information being passed on. As a result, a morality is developed that is based on survivability. This way, those people who behave in a more "moral" way than others would have a better chance of surviving and passing their genes on to offspring. Morality, then, would be woven into the genetic structure by producing individuals who behave in a manner consistent with the morals of a society and end up with better survivability.
If this is how morality is defined, then the preceding paragraph proves morality is genetically based. But, this "proof" is achieved by defining morality in a such a way that it is true by definition. In actuality, this is not how an idea is proved.
If genetics is what determines morality, then we must conclude that nothing is inherently morally right or wrong. There is only survivability and non-survivability, and morality is whatever aids in surviving. But this has problems. Rape, for example, which is considered morally reprehensible by societies, would potentially result in an increase in offspring. So if that which is moral assists in survivability, then rape would necessarily be moral by the genetic-survivability definition given above. Also, what about theft where a person has higher intelligence and is more capable of stealing without getting caught and punished? This would result in an increase in "morality" by his theft, aiding his survivability and passing on his genes to offspring.
See the problem?
But if we are to say that murder, rape, and theft are morally wrong, then we are saying that there's something inherently wrong to actions. Such an assertion cannot be based in genetics because actions, genetically speaking, are neither good nor bad. They are just actions. For an action to be wrong by nature, there must be a standard by which we judge such actions. Since it cannot be that morality is genetically based, there must be something other than genetics that provides moral objectivity.
Of course, as a Christian I would assert that God is the ultimate objective standard by which morality is measured.
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It feels funny to be typing in "September", not sure why, but it does.
My aunt and uncle's 60th wedding anniversary today, we are all getting together on Monday evening, the last day of the long weekend to celebrate with them. A happy celebration.
Possibly a sad occasion today. Garry's co-workers wife was not expected to last the night. Bonnie has been battling cancer for the past couple of years and two days ago, Al had to admit her to the cancer institute once again. When Al phoned yesterday, he said that she had only hours left. Such a difficult time for the family. Please keep them in your prayers. Al, especially. Bonnie is Al's whole world.
My positives:
It's the last work day this week for me! Yay a four day long weekend ahead.
Shy has invited me to go shopping with her on Saturday...she needs new jeans and needs a second opinion.
Garry has this weekend off too! Usually on long weekends, he ends up having to work.
The hail that fell yesterday seems to have avoided damaging my struggling tomato plants! YAY...if we get some sunshine, I just might get some tomatoes yet.
I'm putting my intention out into the universe....I need a green house!
Life is good, you just have to look for and acknowledge the blessings in each day.
Have a great day, keep smiling and moving forward.
31 more days until we begin our move at work to our new building. It seems like the past 2 years of preparation and planning have gone by in an instant. We get the keys to our new facility on the 17th, but the actual move begins on the October 1st. This will be a monumental task. Moving an entire library and all that it encompasses to a building that will be twice as big and 2 stories tall. It's exciting, but also overwhelming at the same time.
Our department will be one of the last departments to move over. We are responsible for keeping things running (computer wise) in both locations, as well as receive all deliveries until such time as we are able to begin receiving deliveries at the new location, which we've been told will be Oct 25th. The logistics of all of this will be interesting to say the least.
We have to wait until we actually have access to the building before we can even begin to put together an emergency evacuation plan. A detail that must be in plan before we open to the public on Nov 1st. A detail that falls on my shoulders and the Safety committees shoulders. Yikes! The great thing is that it will be a work in progress for the next couple of years as we continue to refine the plan. Weeding out what doesn't work as well as we would like and altering to make things smoother.
My positives:
A short work week. I have Friday off, plus it is a long weekend in Canada. Yay a 4 day weekend for me!
We had sunshine yesterday, still cooler temperatures, but sunshine none the less.
Farmer's market tonight...just might have to go and buy some tomatoes.
Pay day today! woo hoo.
Being alive....what a blessing to wake up each morning knowing I have been given more time to become all that I'm meant to be.
I am worth it!
Thanks for stopping by for a visit. Take today and make it a day you are proud of.
Sometimes you just have to stop and listen. What you are committed to do and what your spirit is telling you to do are not always in alignment. What do you do?
Sunday nights for the past couple of weeks, have found me having a great deal of difficulty falling and staying asleep. When I do get up Monday mornings for work at 4:30 am, I'm dragging. I've been struggling all day with overwhelming tiredness. Knowing that I still had to keep going until 9pm when study group is over and I can head home to bed. Then because, I'm over tired, I once again have difficulty relaxing and getting to sleep. Hmmmm. Time to stop and listen to that still small guiding voice from within.
That is what I did finally yesterday when I got home from work. Sunday night had me up and down all night with some very intense and stressful dreams, I was so tired when I got home and really struggling, knowing that I still had a commitment to see to that would have me not going to bed until almost 10pm.
I made the decision to fore go my commitment and once I phoned and let it be known that I was not going to be there, an overwhelming sense of peace decended on me. This was not an easy thing for me to do. I'm the type of person that if I say I will do something or be somewhere, I move mountains to keep my word. Boy talk about an internal struggle. I'm sure glad though that I listened to my spirit. I needed the rest.
Sometimes I get so caught up in living that I forget that I also need to make rest a part of that living. I need to take breaks from always "doing". For me, that involves not just the "not doing anything" breaks, it's more the "mental breaks". I realized that even when I think I'm relaxing (not actually doing physical things), my brain is not relaxing completely. I'm busy turning things over in my mind, examining options, thinking. That's the part of me that I needed to give a rest to. That's the part of me that was screaming "enough already!"
I headed to bed early last night and really focused on listening to my guidance by asking for assistance in mentally shutting down my busy brain and just relaxing into sleep. Ahhhhh.
My positives:
A good night's sleep. Feeling much more rested this morning.
The awakened knowledge that I need to pause before accepting anymore commitments and check in with guidance on whether or not I can accept the commitment at this time. I have a hard time saying "no" to people. I thought I had learned that art...but apparently I haven't!
Listening, a skill that I am learning applies to my inner voice as well as to others
The knowledge that I am learning....I was able to recognize my need to listen to guidance before having a meltdown! The strength to follow guidance and do what is necessary for me regardless of what others needs are. As moms, we get so used to always putting our needs last that it can be a difficult habit to break.
God, who never gives up on me.
Thanks for stopping by and sharing in my thoughts. Have a wonderful day.
We are now into the last couple of days of August...fall is here and winter is just around the corner.brrrrrr!
Garry and I headed into the city yesterday afternoon to th Bulk Barn. Came away with lots of little bags of goodies. I especially love the dried blueberries. They were so yummy in my cream of wheat cereal this morning. Yep...My first hot cereal breakfast of the season! It's only 9 degrees outside this morning...a good morning to have a nice hot breakfast inside of me.
I made a crock pot of chili for dinner yesterday, called the girls and had them come over to help us eat it. Garry had been working outdoors most of the day doing repairs to the storage shed, so he appreciated a nice hot dinner. Almost time to put away the lawn furniture. I've been holding on though, hoping that we are going to get some summer yet in September. Farmers almanac says Sept and Oct are supposed to be nice, so guess we'll see.
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A short work week, I have taken Friday off to give myself a nice 4 day long weekend. Hard to believe that labor day weekend is upon us already!
A nice fruit salad lunch today.
Time with Garry and the girls yesterday.
Study group tonight.
Company arriving back on Sunday for overnight and then a 60th wedding anniversary to attend for my aunt and uncle on the holiday Monday. So nice to be able to celebrate such a momentous occasion.
God, my family and friends.
Have a wonderful motivation Monday. Make wise choices, be the master of your life.
It is so quiet this morning. The wind has finally stopped blowing and the lack of noise has made things so very quiet! Love it!
Skies are overcast and the temperature is down to the single digits...brrrrrr. I'm resisting turning the furnace back on, it's just not right that I have to have the furnace turned back on before October! It reminds me that we had to turn the furnace on in June and that is just wrong for this time of year! It's extra sweaters for us today in the house. lol
I used my pressure cooker for the first time yesterday to do my beets. Now either it was because I never noticed when I bought my beets at the market that they had already had the leaves trimmed off, there fore they bled alot when pre heating them in order to slip the skins off easily. Or because of my trial and error of using the pressure canner for the first time, caused so much color to come out of the beets that it looks like I have white beets in red juice now! Oh well, I still have 2 pints and 1 quart of beets to use this winter in borcsht. Might have to add some fresh beets to the mixture but that is okay. I did not can my green beans, I've decided that I'm going to cut them up and freeze them instead.
I did get all the laundry done yesterday and then phoned Shyra to see if she wanted to come and help me find a baby gift. Yay, shopping with Shy, always so much fun. We found the cutest little outfit for Jaidyn in 9month size, so she'll be able to wear it for awhile. Kaeli is leaving on Thursday after work to head to Kamloops BC, so she will take it with her.
Shy and I spent the afternoon together and had a great time. I love that my kids like to spend time with Mom. I'm so proud of each of them. They are such unique people and so very interesting to talk with.
My positives:
Got my beets done, took on the challenge of a pressure cooker, it was a little daunting, but the next time will be easier.
Got a baby gift for Jaidyn.
I don't have to worry about mailing it...Kaeli is traveling there next week.
No wind blowing, at least as yet.
Serenity Sunday and Garry is home to spend the day with.
Going to the bulk barn later today to stock up on spices...I love going there. I love experimenting with different spices when I'm cooking.
Being alive.
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With a mixture of distaste and satisfaction Americans last July took in the news that U.S. forces in the city of Mosul, in northern Iraq, had surrounded a house harboring the two sons of Saddam Hussein, Uday and Qusay, and after an intense firefight lasting several hours had succeeded in killing them both. The Hussein boys were abominable people by any standard, and few expressions of regret were heard. No world figure sought to reprise the role of Ireland's Eamon De Valera, who in May of 1945, upon receiving the news of Hitler's death, visited the German embassy in Dublin to offer his formal condolences.
What did prove to be something of a surprise was the degree to which ordinary Iraqis refused to believe that Uday and Qusay were dead. Faced with this reality, American officials allowed photographs of the bodies to be made public. Shortly afterward the former CBS and NBC newsman Marvin Kalb, in a radio interview, observed, "In a funny way it's similar to what used to happen in the Middle Ages when, say, a conquering army would come into a town. And they would behead the leader of the old regime and then put that head on a spike and put the spike right in the middle of town so that all of the people could see that the old regime was truly gone."
Kalb's analogy was apt. But insofar as latter-day parallels with the Middle Ages are concerned, he could have gone a lot further. To be sure, the self-perception of people in the developed world has very little of the medieval about it. We inhabit the Information Age. We proclaim the Era of Globalization. We consider ourselves postmodern, maybe even posthuman. But it is also true that elements of a prior regime were never quite eradicated, and in some cases are growing back. The geographer David Harvey once wrote that "modernity is not a time—it's a place." The Middle Ages, one might add, are not an epoch—they're an outlook.
What are some of the medieval characteristics of the present day? Looking about idly, one could point to the growing prevalence of barter as a form of economic transaction. One could note the emergence of something akin to heresy trials, as outspoken people in academe and other areas of public life are subjected to harassment or worse for their political and cultural views. One could cite the new federal insistence that able-bodied people in public-housing projects devote time to community projects—a dusting off of the ancient corvée, which entitled an overlord to acts of service from those living on his estates. Although there is no longer a single Church, as there was in the Middle Ages, some powerful corporations are setting themselves up in its absence as enforcers of social morality. Home Depot is enacting a ban on wood harvested from endangered rain forests. Wal-Mart has banned Maxim and similar magazines from its shelves, and offers only cleaned-up versions of some videos and many CDs. Its drugstores don't stock the Preven "morning-after" pill.
The manner in which movers and shakers wind down their careers frequently has a medieval flavor. Aristocrats of yore often forsook their earthly obligations in late career, entering the cloister and devoting the rest of their lives to study and prayer. In much the same way, modern grandees seek monastic solace in the nonprofit world. Isn't this what the former senator Bob Kerrey has done, taking over the presidency of New School University? And Walter Isaacson, leaving the chairmanship of CNN News Group to become the president of the Aspen Institute?
Medieval society was essentially an oral one, dominated by the spoken word rather than the written text. Words on paper surged in influence during the first several centuries after Gutenberg, but in recent years technology of various kinds has greatly enhanced the capabilities of speech. Nowadays people never have to stop talking. One of the iconic sights in airport men's rooms is a line of well-dressed gentlemen standing at urinals, all of them conducting phone conversations, wires dangling from ear to chin. This post-flight ritual stands as a contemporary analogue, possibly, to the chanted refrains of ancient monks in their stalls at Westminster or Chartres.
But these examples are frankly trivial. There is a far more basic parallel between medieval times and our own. The precise definition of "feudalism" is one of those things on which medievalists can't quite agree—the field is divided into warring fiefdoms—but the historian F. L. Ganshof discerned in feudal society "a dispersal of political authority amongst a hierarchy of persons who exercise in their own interest powers normally attributed to the State." In the West the path away from the Middle Ages was marked by the evolution of governments and nation-states with a sense of responsibility for the public interest rather than merely private interests. Power was no longer a form of property. Social services and protections became a consequence of citizenship, not a private deal between a lord and his vassals, or between a private entity and its clients.
But at some point in the late twentieth century evolution's arrow began changing direction—toward the re-privatization of everything. It was not until the nineteenth century that governments, through local police forces, managed to make an ordinary citizen's personal security a matter of public responsibility. This was a major, if temporary, advance. No one with money relies on such guarantees any longer. More and more people have withdrawn into moated, or gated, communities. Private security is a huge growth industry; in 1970 America had about one and a half police officers for every hired security guard, whereas today the private guards outnumber the police by three to one. Individuals may give titular allegiance to a town or a state, but their oath of fealty is to Securitas or Wackenhut.
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