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Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Undercover Crafter
One more week and I'll be finished with my top secret AntiCraft projects. I'll be sad to mail them away, but then I will be back to making post-able crafts.
Recently, I started thinking about all the craft and non-craft plans I have for the coming year and it made woozy. My solution? A chart, of course.
I made a list of all of the important things I want to fit into my life (or have to fit in) and I scheduled a chunk of time for each of them every week. This includes:
· apartment cleaning
· laundry
· putting away the laundry
· crafting
· craft research and development (I need a lab coat)
· blogging, craft and otherwise
· updating website
The point isn't to freak out that I'm not doing enough (which is status quo, I don't need a chart to freak out), but to help me spend my limited free time in a balanced way so none of the things I'd really like to do get completely neglected.
My philosophy is that even small things accumulate to become something bigger. Keeping that mantra in my head is what stops me from spending my ten free minutes playing Pop and Drop or just throwing up my arms and giving up when I feel overwhelmed. Ugh, it sounds like a ridiculous inspirational poster with a drop of water plinking into the sea, but it really does help me.
I plan on entering this magical utopia after I'm done with the AntiCraft book stuff, because that is my entire focus right now. I'll let you know how my plan works out and if I need to make adjustments to it.
Also, I have been tagged by
. It's the "five things I haven't already mentioned on my blog" one:
1) I have 7 siblings of all sorts: full, step, half, and adopted. In high school, there were 6 kids ranging from 2 to 17 living in my home.
2) I didn't touch raw meat (except hamburger) until I was 30-years-old. I will only touch raw meat with gloves on.
3) I have a thing for the moon. Seeing the moon in the sky makes me unbelievably happy. My only tattoo, which I designed, is the moon with clouds. It's on the inside of my left forearm.
4) I will eat anything tomato-related, but I will not eat tomatoes or anything with discernible chunks of tomatoes. Yes: tomato sauce, tomato paste, smoothish pasta and pizza sauce, ketchup, tomato-based Indian sauces. No: pico de gallo, tomato slices, diced tomatoes, big slimy chunks of tomatoes in my pasta or pizza sauce. I've gotten better ... now I will scrape the yuck off and keep eating (that wasn't always the case). I will also dip my chip in salsa to get the salsa juice, but I shake off any chunks that stick to my chip. I really should get a blender.
5) I love first-person-shooters and uber-violent video games. A couple years ago, Andrew gave me
as a surprise gift. I swooned. I had been seeing the commercials for months and they were scaring the hell out of me. The game is ten times scarier.
and, just in case someone is itching to tag me for "6 weird things about me" ...
6) My big dream is to be the lead singer in a band, and has been since I was around 11 years old. For real. Sadly, I'm a terrible singer.
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said ...
I am really glad to see that you have "laundry" and "putting away laundry" as two separate things on your list. I would also have to add "folding laundry." I think most people might think that "doing laundry" includes folding and putting it away, but it doesn't. I will, if I don't make myself do the other two steps, use the clean laundry out of the basket until it's all dirty again.
Therefore: "laundry" is three steps. Oh, wait, four; sorting laundry should be included.
said ...
Please tell me if the chart works. I'm so scattered right now.
Those are weird things but they seem eminently sensible when FutureGirl speaks.
said ...
I wondered if anyone would notice that laundry is two steps.
I sort the laundry as I do it, so that's just one thing for me. I separate "putting away" because most of our clothes are put on drying racks in the living room or hung in the guest bathroom on hangers to dry. Since air drying takes about a day, I can't do it all in one go.
I have no problem wearing my clothes off of the drying racks, getting dressed in the guest bathroom, or, in the case of socks and undies, pulling stuff out of the dryer. I'm being conscientious because Andrew is the best trash-taker-outer ever. I am never confronted with a full-to-the-brim trash can, so I try to make sure his sock drawer is full.
said ...
Putting away?? Wow that is rarely done here. We're like Blaize. Clean wrinkly laundry from the basket. But I figured out a new system so it was done 2 weeks ago and I was going to keep it up. I was so proud. Stuff all hung and put away in drawers. Everything was so easy to find and unwrinkled. Then I got sick and where is the nice clean laundry? In the usual place: all wrinkled and in the basket. :)
said ...
Haha, laundry is the bane of my existence. I will wash it all, only to pile it in a basket and wait for the shoemaker's elves to magically fold it for me. I *wish* it was only one step.
Hope the charts works out for you, and a belated congrats on your projects being accepted by the folks at Anticraft.
Funky Finds
said ...
thanks for sharing some quirks! :)
said ...
First things first: I'm loving the bags at the top of the post. I love the colors together but not together - like you'd want to carry one of each color, not just one in stripes.
I'm with you and everyone else on the laundry. The cleaning/tidying is what I'm all about these days, trying to do two things to make it easier. For one thing, I'm trying to follow that advice that I see everywhere about just tidying one room at a time, starting in one corner and working your way to the door, and just putting everything that needs to go to another room by the door, instead of running around the whole time taking one thing at a time to the bedroom, the bathroom, the kitchen, the bedroom...
Then the same thing with localized cleaning - you get all your supplies in one bucket, start in one corner or one room and do all the dusting/sweeping/wiping in one area all at once, instead of going around doing all the dusting, then all the sweeping/whatever. The real key there is the bucket with all your cleaning stuff in it - none of this grabbing one thing from under the sink, something else from the hall closet, under the other sink...
Green Kitchen
said ...
A couple things--
Ancient Chinese proverb:
Little by little the cotton thread becomes the loin cloth.
I used to play Quake (I think that's the name) when I worked with an all guy graphic design company. It was sooooo fun. I'd listen to Ministry and kill kill kill. ;)
said ...
I have to add one more step to my laundry process: stain removal. I have 3 kids and am kind of a slob myself, so pretreating with Shout and an old toothbrush is an additional (and very time-consuming) step.
said ...
For cleaning, I loop my arm through a grocery bag (which is used for paper towel trash), tuck a roll of paper towels under my arm, and walk around with the bottle of 409. With gloves on. I use a lot of vinyl gloves (meat, cleaning, hair dying). I buy them in bulk.
Everything with stains gets rubbed with the Stain Stick (LOVE IT!) before it goes in the laundry basket. You can leave it on there for up to a week. I've never had any stains defeat the Stain Stick. I don't have kids, though.
Oh! Ministry and Quake. Be still my heart. Sounds like a blast. I love it when you hear shuffling in your periphery and your chest gets tight in anticipation of the firefight.
said ...
Oh, thanks for taking the time to respond to the silly tag. Your tattoo is lovely, and how wonderful that you designed it yourself. I never could understanding picking something out of the artists portfolio for something so personal.
said ...
I love your tattoo, and I'm SO EXCITED to see the purses coming along. In the near future I'll get to hang those babies up in my shop!
said ...
your tattoo is so perfect...I want to have one since several years but I'm affraid of the pain :)
I'm not very brave...:)
a bunch of new bags...I'm so curious to see them when finished them ...
and all the plans for the year...I give it up to make plans for a new year..because most of the times I don't do anything from my to do list :)
said ...
There's no worse sound than the dryer buzzing when you're hunkered down under a blanket and two labs, sipping red wine and watching Top Chef.
Three steps for laundry. I can throw it in the washer. I can fold it. I can even get it up to the bedroom but I usually end up just picking it out of the basket to wear.
We need an entire post on laundry techniques.
Hilde C.
said ...
I'm so curious about your top secret AntiCraft project. I hope you'll show us soon :-)
ashley g
said ...
I'm just going to start copying your "to do" list. Because mine would be the EXACT same. And the tomato thing!?! Again I feel the exact same way. I'm getting better with them being dices (very finely).
Carla Sonheim
said ...
This is a fun post. I agree, laundry should definitely have at least two spots!
said ...
Oh you know, nowadays, you can be a pop star even if you sing terribly! Come on sing!
said ...
I agree with Blaize, I think it is extremely telling that you are the type of person to list those items seperately. I have done laundry and left it clean and piled in the laundry basket for as long as possible. I think it is definately important to work the "putting away laundry" into the schedule as well.
said ...
first, i hate laundry. my clean laundry also gets left in the basket until it gets worn. blah.
But, I just had to comment on this:
4) I will eat anything tomato-related, but I will not eat tomatoes or anything with discernible chunks of tomatoes. Yes: tomato sauce, tomato paste, smoothish pasta and pizza sauce, ketchup, tomato-based Indian sauces. No: pico de gallo, tomato slices, diced tomatoes, big slimy chunks of tomatoes in my pasta or pizza sauce. I've gotten better ... now I will scrape the yuck off and keep eating (that wasn't always the case). I will also dip my chip in salsa to get the salsa juice, but I shake off any chunks that stick to my chip. I really should get a blender.
I AM THE EXACT SAME WAY! People tell me I am weird because of it. Now at least I know I am not the only one :) Thanks!
jen b
said ...
I am so with you on the raw meat thing.
said ...
Great list! I end up doing as many chores as possible in a whirl of activity - always, of course, past the time when I should have. At least my daughter is now old enough to help with folding and putting away - though she refuses to TOUCH her father's clean undies! I find researching and creating new crafts to be very difficult lately, as the orders seems endless and crafting is sinking into drudge work for me at present. Love the tatoo! I always wanted an "autumn" tatoo - a swirl of leaves running down one side of my body - starting with one on my shoulder and ending with a pile on top of my foot. Sounds painful, though.
said ...
I thought I was the only one in the world who felt that way about tomatoes! It's a total texture thing for me... whole tomato texture is just gross. :)
said ...
Carmen ... Exactly!
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text: | Seanad Éireann - Volume 115 - 03 April, 1987 Business of Seanad. Acting Chairman (Mr. Fitzsimons) Acting Chairman (Mr. Fitzsimons) Acting Chairman (Mr. Fitzsimons): When is it proposed to sit again? Professor Dooge Professor Dooge 2225 Professor Dooge: On a motion that we adjourn sine die, as a Senator who will not be here on whatever that particular dies happens to be, I feel an urge within me to move an amendment that the Seanad do not adjourn in order to prolong my membership. Before we enter on the full debate on the Adjournment, I would like to say a few words based on my experience in this House since 1961. I do not want to draw comparisons with [2225] other places; I merely want to state what has been my experience here. It has been an experience not of conflict but of comradeship, not of confrontation but of an attempt to reach consensus. I have many happy memories of this House, of being a fellow Senator as were Senator MacDonald, Senator Willie Ryan, Senator Eoin Ryan with those who were responsible for the establishment of the State, Senator Michael Hayes who was the first Ceann Comhairle, and Dr. Jim Ryan and Gerry Boland who passed a short time here after their long service as Minister. We have had the privilege of listening to the glorious Irish of An Seabhac in the Seanad. These are memories that will remain with me all my life. I feel impelled to move an amendment to the motion before the House that this should not end — but all good things must come to the end. I hope those who will be returned next week to Seanad Éireann and to succeeding Seanaid will experience as much pleasure as I have from service in this House. Mr. Ferris Mr. Ferris Mr. Ferris: I shall be brief at this hour of the night. It would be remiss of us if we did not record our appreciation to those Members of the House who will not be coming back — most of them by their own choice. They have served long and well here and made our service with them all the more pleasurable and beneficial. All of us have learned much from the people who have been referred to by Senator Dooge. I would put Senator Dooge in the category of great persons who have worked in this House. He fulfilled many roles from Cathaoirleach to the Leader of the House. He used this House to his utmost under the last Government. Many Bills were initiated here. He was loath to adjourn the House sine die. We always had business to do. We always ensured that the Government used this House to the fullest extent and we always adjourned the House to a date we agreed amongst ourselves. 2226 The Cathaoirleach paid tribute this morning to those who had been successful in elevating themselves to another [2226] House. Many of us would consider that that is not an elevation in legislative terms. To Deputy Michael D. Higgins, Deputy Howlin, and Deputy Michael Smith who is now a Minister of State in the new Government, Deputy Michael Lynch, Deputy John Ellis and Deputy Jim Higgins we wish happiness and as much satisfaction in the new House to which they have aspired as they had in this House. Senator Durcan is not seeking re-election. To our new Members, Senator O'Toole and Senator Nuala Fennell we wish luck in their short term in this Seanad and we hope they will be successful in the next Seanad. 2227 We wish the Cathaoirleach well. He has a long family tradition of service in the Houses of the Oireachtas. As Senator Lanigan, the new Leader of the House, said we hope your name will be continued here and that the opportunity will arise during the next few days to ensure that. That would meet the wishes of many Senators on all sides of the House. To the outgoing Leader of the House, Senator Dooge, I wish many happy years in retirement. He has served the State well. It was a pleasure for us to serve with Senator Dooge. There are many other Senators whose names I should put on the record of the House now because this will be my last opportunity in this session. I aspire to future membership of the House but that is in the lap of the electorate at present. We can only hope for the best. We have Senators Andy O'Brien and Luke Belton who have served many years with us. Senators Helena McAuliffe and Timmy Conway because of other situations, find themselves without an electorate to re-elect them; this is possibly one of the reasons they may not be going forward. I know they contributed well and ably while they were here. Senator Eoin Ryan has had many long years of service here and has been a peer to many of us. We always looked upon him as a fatherly figure in the House and he always made excellent and sensible contributions. Senator Martin O'Donoghue participated fully today with us. I pay tribute also to a very dear colleague of [2227] ours, Séamus de Brún who was nominated and finally elected by the closest of margins, but was considered by everybody to be a gentleman. I hope Séamus and the organisation he represented will prosper for many years and that he will have a long and happy life in his retirement. Senator Mark Killilea, who is not with us just now, was a great blustering boisterous Senator who has gone to greener pastures as a member of the European Parliament. He was not slow today to let us have the sharp end of his tongue, which most of us enjoyed very much. Senators Pat Magner and Stephen McGonagle, have not offered themselves for re-election. Both of them were nominated by the then Taoiseach on the recommendation of the then Tánaiste, Deputy Spring. Both brought a dimension to this House which is to be welcomed. Senator McGonagle, in particular, from across the Border, with his vast experience in the trade union movement, and as an ombudsman with so much involvement in the North of Ireland will be missed in this House. His two colleagues, Senators Brid Rogers and John Robb, made major contributions and for the first time we had a kind of cross-Border dimension which is important to us all. Last but not least, we have Senator Seán O'Leary who is not offering himself for re-election. I have no doubt that somehow, some time Senator O'Leary will be back in the benches again. If not, it would be a tragedy because he was magnificent in his contributions towards the betterment of legislation and he had his own way of doing it. I hope that people in that category who offer themselves for re-election will be successful. Indeed I hope that all those seeking re-election will be returned. Mr. Hussey Mr. Hussey 2228 Mr. Hussey: On behalf of the Government I would like to join in the tributes that have been so ably and deservedly paid to the Senators who are finishing their sojourn in this House tonight and who are not seeking re-election. All of them have played a noble part. They [2228] have served their country well. They have served this House well and they have served well the various committees of which they were members during the years they were here. I thank them for all the work they have done. I mention in particular Senator Dooge, because he has been the Leader of the House since I came here. He has been very courteous and helpful to all the Members, and particularly to new Members who did not know the run of the House. He has been a trojan worker and has set a record regarding the number of sittings of this House during the past four years. I wish Senator Dooge and all the other Members who are not seeking re-election every success and happiness in their retirement. Knowing those men as the workaholics they have been, I know that they will be active in other spheres and I wish them success. We will miss their service in this House. We will miss their words of wisdom but I am confident that they will continue to serve their country and their party in other spheres. I hope they will enjoy many happy years. Mr. W. Ryan Mr. W. Ryan Mr. W. Ryan: I join the other speakers in their tributes and, like them, I shall refrain from mentioning names, with the exception of a couple of people to whom special tribute must be in order. First, I mention you, a Chathaoirleach. You were elected to the Dáil at the same time as I was elected to the Seanad. In the past 25 years, whether as a Deputy or a Senator as well as Cathaoirleach, you have given distinctive service. In the past four years here you have been most fair to all sides of the House. Indeed, we are sorry that you have decided to call it a day and retire. I have known you for many years. I met you only a short time after you were elected a Deputy and I a Senator; we were staying in the same hotel during a by-election. 2229 I want to pay a very special tribute to the Leader of the House for the past four years, Senator Dooge. I have been Whip here since 1973. The last four years were my happiest years here because Senator [2229] Dooge never changed business or anything else in this House without acquainting me of the fact. I often got telephone calls from him from as far away as Warsaw. If there was only the slightest change to be made in business he contacted me. During that four years there were no rows about the Order of Business as happens elsewhere, and I will not say where. Senator Dooge was elected to the Seanad on the same day as myself, 25 years ago. I regret that he too has decided to call it a day. Another Senator who was elected on the same day, Senator McDonald, is not calling it a day yet. Mr. McDonald Mr. McDonald Mr. McDonald: Hopefully not. Mr. W. Ryan Mr. W. Ryan Mr. W. Ryan: I hope he will be back here again when the new Seanad assembles because he has been a good Member of this House and he has made very good contributions here. We were in Opposition for the past four years. When we return here after the election of the new Seanad, I hope that the same co-operation will obtain. A great deal has been said about this House by people who do not know much about it. They say that it should be abolished and so on. Senator Dooge, in his term here, has uplifted this House. We sit almost as often as the Dáil. Bills are discussed and teased out here much more than in the other House, where they are rushed through. We take our time at them, otherwise we would not be here now, at midnight. I hope to be back here after the election, and I hope this House will remain as long as the Dáil exists. Mr. Browne Mr. Browne Mr. Browne: Ar eagla nach mbeadh seans agam labhairt sa Seanad núa — tá súil agam go mbeidh an seans sin agam ach ar eagla na h-eagla — ba mhaith liom cúpla focal a rá anseo anocht. 2230 I realise that it is getting late but as one of the rookies who came in here four years ago, I would like to pay tribute to many of the people who have done so much to make my four years here such an enjoyable experience. In thanking you, a Chathaoirligh, for the way you conducted business, for the jovial way in which you [2230] dealt with many a serious problem and the way in which you treated us who helped you out on occasions, I wish you every success in the many years, I hope, left you to enjoy away from the hustle and bustle of serious politics. In the absence of the Leas-Chathaoirleach, Senator Tras Honan, who is obviously trying to pick up more votes than she needs, I want to thank her for looking after us so well, and I wish her well in the election. Referring to my own side of the House I want to say it has been a privilege for me to have worked with Senator Dooge, who with his wonderful clarity of thought and speech has set a standard for us that many of us envy but will never reach. I thank him for the leadership he has given us. Senator O'Leary has at all times shown that he has a wonderful intellect and at times a wonderful tongue in which to take people apart if they try to tell him where he is going wrong. It has been a pleasure for me to work with him. It has been a pleasure too for me to have shared the experience of our Northern Ireland colleagues, Senator McGonagle, Senator Rogers and Senator John Robb, not alone for the way they expressed their views so fearlessly but for giving us the views of people who share experiences that some of us are sheltered from. I regard it as a privilege to have worked with them. To my colleagues across the House in Fianna Fáil I want to say that people down the country think that politicians are always tearing one another apart. It has been a pleasure to be here with people, to have different views, to argue cases here but at least to be extremely civilised and friendly. Do mo chara nua agus do mo shean chara, Séamus de Brún, nach bhfuil anseo anocht, ba mhaith liom a rath Dé a guí air. Bhí sé ina fhear uasal. I wish every success to those from Mayo who have left us, Jim Higgins who has gone to higher levels whether for better or worse, and to Senator Durcan who is taking a rest and who I hope will be back shortly as he has much to contribute. Mr. McDonald Mr. McDonald 2231 [2231] Mr. McDonald: I should like to take this opportunity of joining in the very fulsome tributes that have been paid to yourself. Sir, on your retirement from public life and to the Leader of the House, Senator Dooge and all my colleagues who are not contesting the election. It has been a great experience to work here. We can make a good deal of progress here perhaps by virtue of the fact that this House is not as political as the popularly elected assembly. The Seanad carries out a constitutional role. It has been a great success. We can see the progress that has been made and the effects of full co-operation. I wish you and my other colleagues very sincere good health and happiness in retirement. Perhaps it is because the numbers of the House are very small that we get to know our colleagues better than in other larger assemblies. We have to rely on one another to get the business through. That perhaps is one of the reasons that so many people enjoy their membership of the Seanad. To all of you who have been so kind to me over the years my very sincere thanks. Mr. Durcan Mr. Durcan 2232 Mr. Durcan: I, too, would like to express briefly my thanks to you for your chairmanship of this House during my four and a quarter years membership. I want to thank you for teaching me many things I did not know when I first came here. I want to join with other speakers in wishing you well in your retirement after a long, distinguished and constructive parliamentary career in this House and elsewhere. I should also like to pay tribute to Senator Dooge for his leadership of the House over the past four and a quarter years. Senator Jim Dooge taught all of us much and I, in particular, perhaps learned more than most from him. I always marvel at his tremendous ability to return from abroad and discuss with us, his colleagues on the then Government side, complex legislation and immediately grasp and know precisely what has to be known and what was relevant for us in a tactical parliamentary sense. I remember one day him saying to me, when we were dealing [2232] with the Dentists Bill: "If you want to learn something about parliamentary procedures, then get stuck into this Bill", which I did and I think other people did, too. It was certainly one Bill which taught many of us much about the role of Parliament and how we could mould legislation here. I want to thank Senator Dooge for that and for his many personal kindness to me and to every Member of this House during our period here. I should also like to thank Senator Mick Lanigan, the Fianna Fáil leader in this House, with whom I had a fair amount of contact. I say in a very affectionate and fond way that I have always regarded him as being the Flurry Knox, as it were, of the Seanad. There was always a certain unpredictability about him, which was in the best sense of Irish parliamentary tradition. I hope he is returned and that he leads the next Seanad for Fianna Fáil. I want in a special way to thank tonight the Clerk of the House, Jack Tobin, who is not here and who will be retiring in the next few months and also his present assistant and former assistant. His office made available to me and to all Members a great fund of knowledge, a tremendous courtesy at all times and a great willingness to help in every way. With that, I want to couple my thanks to the staff of this House. Speaking as somebody who is not seeking election I can only marvel at the tremendous help and assistance every member of the staff of this House gave to me during my four and a quarter years here. It is something which I appreciate and for which I want to thank them. 2233 Finally, to those who try to demean the role of this House publicly, in my view this House has a very important role to play. If one examines the way in which we looked at legislation over the past four and a quarter years, one will see that in terms of hours we spent as long dealing with legislation as did the Dáil. I believe we had a far greater input into legislation than the Dáil did and I do not say that in a critical way of the other House. If the record of this House over the past four [2233] and a quarter years is examined, its relevance will be seen. Certainly, there is need for reform of certain aspects of the Seanad, but I think this House has a role and a role which must be confirmed for the future. With that, I wish to thank you, a Chathaoirleach, to wish you well and to thank everybody associated with this House. Mr. Hanafin Mr. Hanafin Mr. Hanafin: I certainly should like to be associated with all the remarks that were made here tonight. I should like, in particular, to wish you, a Chathaoirleach, well although I have a feeling at this stage you would rather I was wishing you goodnight. However, there are things that should be said, no matter how late it is. I should like to wish you many happy years in retirement. You have given many years to politics and yours is a respected and honourable name in politics. It is very difficult to start singling out people. Senator Dooge is, of course, a person about whom one could speak quite a lot. He is a very gentlemanly type of man. As a Senator he was selected by the Taoiseach of the time to be a Minister, which is a great honour. It has not happened many times; as far as I know it happended only three times. Professor Dooge Professor Dooge Professor Dooge: Three times under this Constitution. Mr. Hanafin Mr. Hanafin Mr. Hanafin: It was a great honour and it rarely happens. By the selection of Senator Dooge, the Seanad itself was honoured. Senator Eoin Ryan is an exceptional man. Professor Dooge Professor Dooge Professor Dooge: Hear, hear. Mr. Hanafin Mr. Hanafin 2234 Mr. Hanafin: I shall greatly miss Senator Ryan, who is a great friend of mine. I shall miss him in the House. He is a very dependable man and is a man of great integrity. He brought great dignity and honour to politics and to the Seanad. To Senator O'Leary, who is not contesting, and Senator Durcan I wish both of them well. I got to know both of them very well. Senator O'Leary's contributions were excellent. I am sorry to [2234] see men like that not being here. The only other Senator for mention, then, is Senator Séamus de Brún. If I were asked to describe Séamus de Brún I should describe him as a beautiful man and I think all of you would agree with that. Professor Dooge Professor Dooge Professor Dooge: Fear ann féin. Mr. Hanafin Mr. Hanafin Mr. Hanafin: He spoke beautiful Irish and very simple English. To me, he represented all that was nice about being Irish. To Jack Tobin, I wish him well in the future. Jack is retiring and I hope he will have many happy years in retirement. To all Senators who are seeking re-election, I hope they will be reelected, but that they will not cost me my seat in the process. Thank you, a Chathaoirleach. Mr. O'Leary Mr. O'Leary Mr. O'Leary: This is the first time in the course of this Seanad that I have got up to say anything nice about anybody. I am not going to make a habit of it, I can assure the House. There are a few people I should like to mention. I would like, first of all, to mention Dr. Garret FitzGerald who did me a great honour by nominating me to this House. Secondly, I would like to mention you, a Chathaoirleach. You come from a family with a long tradition of public service and you have lived up to that in the best possible way. Senator Dooge, who I have known for many many years, from the time he lived in Cork, is an excellent man. Senator Eoin Ryan— what can I say about him? Lastly, I shall mention one other person, Senator Tras Honan. During the period of time when I had difficulty in this House Tras Honan was very good to me and I appreciated it. Mr. McGonagle Mr. McGonagle 2235 Mr. McGonagle: In the absence of my two colleagues from the North, I think I must assume the position of speaking on their behalf and to thank you, a Chathaoirleach, for your wonderful chairmanship during this period of time. I thank Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and, above all, the Labour Party Senators. I want to thank all the political parties in the [2235] Republic — all, I said — for their contribution to the democratic evolutionary position as distinct from the revolutionary. That must be said tonight. Professor Dooge Professor Dooge Professor Dooge: Hear, hear. Mr. McGonagle Mr. McGonagle Mr. McGonagle: Reason must take over. Intelligence shows that reasoning is the way to do it. From the North, I have to say it, that you are going about it the right way. There is a challenge and it is a challenge to democracy. It is not a challenge to Fianna Fáil, it is not a challenge to Fine Gael, it is not a challenge to The Workers' Party, it is not a challenge to any political party, as such and that is not a contradiction. It is a challenge to democracy. 2236 Coming from the North we feel this. We feel that this traumatic experience we are now going through in Ireland must be faced. Reason and intelligence must take over eventually. We cannot have the gun and the bomb. It is not reasonable, it is not reasoning and it is not intelligent. I must assume I am speaking also for Senator Robb and Senator Rogers when I say that you in the Republic have made a great contribution to the democratic principles involved in seeking a solution to terrible problems. I have had a wonderful experience during all the time I have spent in the North trying to wrestle with whatever problems the Northern majority felt they had. They are sincere in their belief that there are problems for them. James Connolly said, "Ireland means nothing to me without her people". The unification of Ireland, that loose phraseology, should be identified this way: it is not territory about which we are bothered, not green fields but people. I believe sincerely that the people in the Republic have made a powerful contribution, in their popular democratic style, articulated in the Dáil and Seanad, in appealing to the Northern people with reason and intelligence. It is the reasoned and intelligent approach that must win. It will take a long time to do so but time is on our side. I believe that eventually the people in the Thirty-two Counties will [2236] accept the democratic principle so that the people of Ireland will be able to reach, not a compromise, but an accord or agreement on the basis of acceptance of all the traditions in this country. I want to pay tribute to all the political parties in the Republic on their reasoned and intelligent approach to this problem. That approach is crystallised in the Anglo-Irish accord. I am not saying that the Anglo-Irish accord will provide a solution; I have never said that. It is just a step in the right direction. I insist that time is on our side but I insist also that the use of the bomb and the bullet must be regarded as offensive, unintelligent and unreasonable. I believe that the Irish people, North and South can come to the position of unity eventually. The traumatic experience of the past 20 years must have made an impression on the youth of this country but the youth, North and South, will make the necessary changes within the democratic context; they are bound to because they are intelligent, much better educated than those who have gone before them and they understand. There may be radical changes which many of us will not like but they will make the changes and before too long, eventually establish a new relationship with their friends in Great Britain. That is what the Anglo-Irish accord means. It is part of the aspiration for unity. The accord has to be reviewed. I would like to think that such review will take the form of our young people: where do we go now? I pay a great tribute to you, a Chathaoirleach, as Chairman of this Seanad. Over the past four years I have always felt very privileged to have been here at all. An Cathaoirleach An Cathaoirleach 2237 An Cathaoirleach: I would like to wish all those Members seeking re-election the best of luck. As somebody said, unfortunately there will not be seats for them all. To the people retiring, myself included, the best we can wish each other is the best of health; if we have that we will be happy. I, too, would like to pay [2237] tribute to the Leader of the House, Professor Dooge. I have worked with him for the past four years, together with Senator Lanigan, Leader of the Fianna Fáil Party, and Senator Michael Ferris, Leader of the Labour Party. I always had difficulty in finding out who was Leader of the Independents; most frequently I thought they were all Leaders. I must say that the Leaders of the three parties and the three Whips were most helpful and kind to me at all times. I should like to pay special tribute to the three Independent Senators from Northern Ireland who honoured their obligations to this House. I thank them very much. 2238 I want to thank also the Leas-Chathaoirleach, Senator Honan, who unfortunately is not with us today. Senator Honan was most helpful to me during my four years as Cathaoirleach. I should like to extend my thanks also to the Clerk of the Seanad, Mr. Jack Tobin, and the three Assistant Clerks we have had during the four years — Mr. Martin McMahon, Mr. Kieran Coughlan and now Mr. Deirdre Lane. Just this morning we had the experience of Senator Charles McDonald submitting a motion that was late and of Standing Orders unfolded something which permitted me to accept the motion. The three of us talked and argued about it — I will not give the opinions of the other two people — but we decided to take the motion. That was the procedure followed every time we had a motion submitted about which there was any doubt. The Clerk, assistant-Clerk and I met. We talked about it and cleared it with the relevant Department. No matter how many motions were submitted I always accepted the first received, the second being second and so on. The Clerk and the Assistant-Clerk knew that and that there was no way I would break that rule. I hope whoever succeeds me will engage in the same practice because it relieves many problems encountered in the arrangement of our business. Miss Josie Briody I should like to thank also whom we tended to see only when we are in trouble. She has been most efficient, courteous and helpful to [2238] everyone. That lady proved most helpful to everybody. The Official Reporters were most kind to Members of the House and I thank them for that. The press were in our favour on occasions but against us on others. One often wondered what side of the road they were on but, however, I was never too particular about that and I do not think other Members were. The Ushers we met here and around the House were most helpful to us. The gardaí were always helpful to Members and I convey our thanks to them. Above all, I thank Members who acted as temporary chairmen, particularly those who acted in that capacity when I was ill. I was absent from the House through illness for almost three months and there was never any problem because a number of Members acted as temporary Chairmen. To them I must express sincere thanks. I wish the Taoiseach, the members of his Cabinet and his junior Ministers the best of luck. They have a hard road ahead of them but I can assure them of my co-operation. I am one of those people who was fortunate, or unfortunate — I often think I was more unfortunate than fortunate — in that I was born into politics. I did not even have a choice in the party I joined. Both my parents were Members of the Dáil. I do not think there is any person in the country who can make the same claim yet. I was a member of Leitrim County Council for 45 years, for 15 of which I was chairman of that body. I was a member of the Dáil or Seanad for 26 years and I enjoyed every moment. When it comes to the end of the trail a look back often brings tears to one's eyes but that is the way life is. Seanad Éireann 115 Business of Seanad. General Debate 19870403 | ||||||||||||||||||||||


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On Friday, while I was stuck at home dealing with a busted garage door opener, I wandered into the sunroom of our house to find our cat, Ben Franklin, positioned thusly:
Look at that. His very pose and demeanor violated me.
In that horrible instant, I felt like Dustin Hoffman in The Graduate, trapped in a bedroom with an unwelcomed seducer. I still do not know what my cat's intentions were on that ill-fated afternoon, but I shudder to think of the possibilities.
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Even worse, the Media sometimes covers the press releases from USPS Management and Politicians bent on destroying the USPS without covering what the elected Union leaders of the people who really run the USPS say.
I am unaware of any Media reports on how the various Bills in Congress that seek to address the issues have come to be where they are - the VERY bad Issa bill was given a free pass out of Committee because Issa wrote it, while the Good bill (HR 1351) has to slug it's way onto the floor by gathering sponsors and co-sponsors.
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Oh My Gosh, I think someone needs to get some diet food! If his girth is part of winter storage then we are in for a cold winter! |
In years past, folks have mistaken our squirrels for ground hogs!! LOL They get a strict diet of unsalted roasted p-nuts, and black oil sunflower seed--yuuummm! janice |
OMG! LOL! That is the fattest squirrel I have ever seen! LOLOLOLOL! Great photo Alexa |
I wish I knew how to use the video recorder on my cell phone. He came waddling across the railing! I'll have to take the time to figure it out. |
Teresa, That is hysterical! I hope you can catch him on the cell phone. I have a squirrel that wants handouts. When he sees me he'll run up to the side deck and beg! Does yours beg for food? |
They don't beg but one came in the house one day. I had the screen door to the deck open and there wasn't any food out there. He came in about 2 feet, looked around, saw one of my cats and took off! |
- Posted by newhostaaddict z4/5WI (My Page) on Mon, Oct 30, 06 at 13:41
hi all... we put out unsalted in the shell peanuts here too.... the blue jays and squirrels go crazy after them and won't stop until the tray is empty... hope the squirrels don't find my tulips when they are burying the peanuts... jill |
What a funny picture! I have a problem with squirrels digging in all my flowerbeds. I have rocks in every pot and near every plant. They have started nibbling on the leaves. Maybe the secret is to feed them like your little fellow, and they will be too fat to bother the hostas. Your picture made my day. |
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Okay I went through page after page and called several places today and this has sounded like the best deal. I asked several times about the type of lens because it seemed almost too good. This is the package I found most interesting but want to know about the G lens listed. Is anyone familar with it? It appears to me like it may be an older model of lens. The person on the phone didn't go into any detail about it.
This is what the additional info read on the G lens.. " A key design element considered that the newest Nikon SLR models have built-in aperture control (via the Command Dial), and therefore do not require that the lens have an aperture control ring. With this point in mind, the G lenses omit the aperture ring, resulting a llighter and more compact lens."
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Not a bad deal, but they are definitely embellishing the quality of the free stuff. Some add on lenses and filter actually degrade the quality of the picture. The craftsmanship simply does not exist in those conversation lenses and filters. Is the Flash an actual Nikon flash? How does it work? Manual, auto, TTL? 4GB of memory DOES NOT cost $329 these days. Like I said, its looks like a decent price for what the market asking. Check here: 70-300MM G lens. you can buy them for about $140 and for what they are, it is a good lens. There are definitely better nikkor lenses, but they cost $900. You had better expect them to perform better. What type of photography do you plan to do with this lens? That will better tell if this lens is something you should have. Zjoe |
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- Posted by sydneydavis (My Page) on Wed, Oct 10, 07 at 23:12
Thank you Joe. I didn't even look at the Flash...I was was concerned about the lens part. This is from DigiCombos.com I'll paste the link. I have done lots of different types of photography with the little one I have. I do night photos - spiderwebs-, flowers, ducks & ducks on water, people, animals, interesting buildings and landscapes of sorts. So I have no favorites. I also like macro. I want a combo kit that covers a wide varity of objects and want to get it all together with one purchase. I know later I can get into the high dollar lens if that should be a need but thought I would start out with a varity kit. I dont have time to check out the link tonight but will tomorrow. Thanks again! |
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Sounds like a good deal, I know the Nikon D80 is a very good camera,on my wish list. My sister has one and she has taken awesome photos with it, 3 weddings, homecoming coronation. |
sounds similar to the deal i got, sunshine cameras (ebay store) i got a nikon D40X with all the extras like you described, upgraded to a 5 year warrenty (i have kids and god help me if they got their hands on my camera) the soft bag is a nice size i can also fit my digital camcorder inside as well. i did get an extra memory card,with shipping to canada was 1400.00 dosnt sound like a bad deal your looking at, i would look into it further. |
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Anyone have some software names they could toss my way? I'd like to hear from anyone who has Mac friendly software of this genre that they're satisfied with.
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I understand that Vectorworks is supposed to be a very good professional program. It has a landscape specific cad module. I have had only minimal use of mac in school a few years back. Professional design offices pretty much stick to pc based cad systems, although I believe a lot of photoimaging and other graphics are often done with mac. |
- Posted by gardengal48 PNW zone 8 (My Page) on Wed, Jan 18, 06 at 22:54
VectorWorks is a great software program - I'm seriously considering it myself for a PC application. But it may be well beyonds the needs of a nonprofessional. It's pretty expensive, has a sharp learning curve and requires a plotter. All in all, a little heavy duty for a homeowner just wanting to mess around with design software. |
- Posted by peregrinekt z6 Connecticut (My Page) on Thu, Jan 19, 06 at 10:27
not specifically landscape but you could have a fun time with Sketchup http://www.sketchup.com Also, archicad is another professional, mac-compatible CAD program. (expensive tho!) |
- Posted by phoeniciansailor Z9 Austin Texas (My Page) on Mon, Jan 23, 06 at 17:30
Another vote for SketchUp. It's easy to use, once you get the hang of it (and the keyboard shortcuts). And fun to play around with. It's got some built-in landscaping shapes, but not many, unfortunately. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Our yard idea, in SketchUp
Good luck. I couldn't find anything but a 60.00 program on ClubMac that was total crap. This was about a year ago. After not being able to find any floor plan/create a house programs (and there are some great ones for pc's for non professionals) and now none for landscaping I'm pretty peeved. I owned PC's from 88 till 2003 or so. I like the stability of my Mac but I'll be going back to a PC. Hope you fare better. |
- Posted by Gardener99(firstname.lastname@example.com) onFri, Mar 3, 06 at 13:59
Sketchup is $500. PC non-pro landscaping programs cost 1/10 that. It's disappointing that developers aren't catering to this market, but they follow the money. One option, if you're not on Tiger and have a sufficiently fast Mac, is to try running a Windows landscaping program in Virtual PC. Depending on the graphics load, it will perform passably or sluggishly; only way to know is to try. |
- Posted by peregrinekt z6 Connecticut (My Page) on Fri, Mar 3, 06 at 15:43
ok, how about mac draft |
How about GardenSketch (used to be iGarden)? It's still in beta and still has -- i think -- some pretty obvious bugs, but looks really promising if they continue development. see |
Try 'Virtual Garden' available on BBC's website...simple, free and offers 3D views. May have to 'pretend' that some plants are others as there are no planting zone options...obviously...the UK supports pretty much the same type of plants, no arid deserts there... |
Here is a link that might be useful: BBC's Virtual Garden
- Posted by chillin_already (My Page) on Tue, Nov 14, 06 at 14:39
Hi, I have been searching for a landscape program for the mac for quite some time and think I have found it - Punch! Home Design is available at the Apple Store web site in the software section. It's pricey ($149.95) but seems to offer everything I'd like, e.g. photo importing, 3d, full growth etc. Hope that helps! |
Here is a link that might be useful: Home Punch Home Design
Punch! does look interesting. I checked their website and will probably purchase soon. I've been using a draw program for about ten years now called Canvas. It's worked very well for me but the company was sold and it looks like it may not be supported for much longer. It has a paint component as well, but I've been using PhotoShop for imaging for almost as long, so I've never used Canvas for that. The originator of Canvas, a company called Deneba also created an application called DenebaCad, which I purchased but never learned. I've long considered biting the bullet for the cost in dollars and learning curve for the highly rated VectorWorks (originally called MiniCad). It seems like Punch! may be worth checking out as the price is quite reasonable for what it says it can do. Did you ever acquire Punch!, chillin already? |
Google scetchup is free now for personal use and there's a huge library of components that people upload to share. But beware, it's addictive. |
- Posted by brent_in_nova z7/6 VA (My Page) on Mon, Jan 8, 07 at 12:27
"there are some great ones for pc's for non professionals" Really? I have tried a couple (purchased Broderbund's software and tried a demo of Punch) and they seemed like a lot of work to produce something that was not very useful. I found that I had much better luck with graph paper and sketching over the top of photo printouts. Funny because I am not very artistic, I like to do a lot with the computer and I have a hard time envisioning a design without seeing a picture. - Brent |
Try out ConceptDraw VI for landscape and garden design. It's available for Mac and Win as well. |
- Posted by Lynda(email@example.com) onTue, Oct 21, 08 at 9:31
Has anybody found a Mac software for the actual cataloging of plants and keeping photo's of plants along with planting info, such as pruning time, soil requirements etc. I have Ideas Genie for PC but really want to be able to drag photos from iphoto straight into a programme without resizing and stuff. Any ideas ! Anyone ! |
- Posted by yourenglishgardener 7 (My Page) on Mon, Nov 3, 08 at 16:02
I use 'highdesign'. It's very user friendly and trouble free. Cost is about $150. |
I used PunchUp for a community garden that I had to lay out in detail because the folks I was presenting it to couldn't "see" in their heads. It wasn't awful, which is more that I can say for any other home-user software I've tried. I love Sketch-up for visualizing hardscapes and how beds will relate to a house, especially with substantial changes planned, but I haven't tried placing individual plants with it. |
- Posted by Llinestud Ca(email@example.com) onThu, Jan 20, 11 at 11:47
Punch. Does the software require photos to be uploaded. Also is it beginner friendly |
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"Our goal throughout the Columbine investigation has been to ascertain the most accurate information possible and to present it to you and the public in order to help bring this tragedy to some closure...We all share the same objective: To determine as accurately as possible how the attack on Columbine was planned and carried out."
The letter didn't placate Brian Rohrbough. He says the sheriff is mistaken if he thinks the families' questions only concern how the attack took place, and he bristles at the word "closure."
"There is no such thing as closure, or any desire for closure," he declares. "It's our kids, and we don't want to put them behind us. We're not trying to relive April 20; everyone's accepted that their kids are gone. But everyone wants to know why it happened, if it could have been prevented, should it have been handled differently -- and, most important, what can we do right this minute to keep it from happening again? We're not getting those answers."
With the release of the sheriff's final Columbine report still weeks, if not months, away, there's little prospect of closure soon for anyone who wants those answers. And many of the toughest questions about Columbine won't be addressed in the report. Undersheriff John Dunaway describes it as "an executive summary of the entire investigative effort," which will present a scrupulous timeline of official actions but won't attempt to evaluate the performance of the emergency response teams or stray into discussion of possible accomplices. Despite the fact that investigators say they've found no evidence to date anyone other than Klebold or Harris was directly involved in the attack, the case remains open, much of its findings sealed from public view.
"The sheriff's office is under no obligation, legally or otherwise, to produce a public report," Dunaway notes. "But because of the nature of this crime and the attention it has generated, we have felt some obligation to report to the public at large what occurred."
Dunaway maintains that there has never been "a 'leak' of any confidential information that was done intentionally by any member of the sheriff's office. This office is open and forthcoming with the media, to our own detriment, it would seem."
From the outset, the sheriff's office has blamed much of the confusion surrounding the investigation on the press. It was the media, after all, that ran with sketchy, unconfirmed stories about bogus suicide notes, the Trenchcoat Mafia and the killers' supposed affiliations with goths and hate groups, a mythology about the massacre that persisted months later ("Doom Rules," August 5, 1999). It was the media that stirred up the families' animosity with secondhand revelations and phony exclusives. ("They had that information for months," Dunaway says of the recent Post article. "Yet it's structured in a way that looks like these bozos over here at the sheriff's office can't keep anything confidential.") It was the media that created the "perception" that the final report has been delayed again and again, by running overly optimistic stories about its pending release. And it was the media, in the form of Time, that bamboozled Sheriff Stone and offered the grieving families, as a sick Christmas present, the spectacle of Harris and Klebold showing off their stash of weapons and their hit list.
But blaming the messenger ignores the extent to which media outlets have taken their cues from the sheriff's office -- often from Stone himself. In the first weeks of the investigation, Stone repeatedly aired his conviction that Harris and Klebold didn't act alone, and then obligingly named suspected accomplices on national television. Reports that the investigation was nearing completion came out of the sheriff's office as early as last August, only to be "corrected" by subsequent reports (many phases of the investigation, Dunaway says, didn't wind down until January). And regardless of the actual arrangement, it was Stone's decision to provide access to sensitive materials to Time, thereby incurring the wrath of Columbine parents.
The ongoing public-relations fiasco has prompted several parents of the murdered and wounded to throw their support behind the recall effort. Some have accused Stone of grandstanding, using the tragedy for his own political gain, and worse. His most virulent critics predict the final report will be a whitewash, skirting ugly questions about how the sheriff's office handled previous complaints concerning Eric Harris and what might have been done to save more lives once the shooting began.
"There are 9,000 rumors about Columbine, and the police report, unfortunately, is one of them," said Randy Brown, the Columbine parent who launched the recall campaign, at a recent gathering of recall supporters. "Don't expect the truth."
Dunaway says Brown, whose son Brooks was labeled a possible suspect by Stone, is pursuing his own agenda with the recall. But the sheriff's right-hand man seems baffled by the outrage of other parents. "I feel our handling of this case has been as clean and objective as it could have been," he says. "No law-enforcement jurisdiction in the country has ever dealt with a case like this."
He adds, "We have communicated extensively with the families at every turn. But this thing has taken on a life of its own. We don't have anyone to prosecute, other than the people who helped them obtain the guns. There's nobody to put in the dock for the murders of all these children. Not having somebody to blame, except the killers themselves, [the families] turn and attack the very people who have tried to help them."


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Sony: 14 Unannounced Titles to Grace TGS
Sony has announced its Tokyo Game Show lineup, revealing 32 games for PS3 and PSP that will be at the consumer show. In addition, the company has revealed that 14 games not on the list of announced titles will also be revealed at the show.
Of the mystery titles, nine will be first-party PS3 games. Two are unannounced third-party PS3 titles, from Konami and Irem respectively. The remaining three will be first-party PSP games.
According to a translation of the Japanese language press release printed by Wired Game|Life, the announced titles are as follows:
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- Dynasty Warriors: Gundam 2 (Bandai Namco)
- FIFA 09 World Class Soccer (Electronic Arts)
- Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock (Activision)
- LittleBigPlanet (SCEI)
- Lumines Supernova (Q Entertainment)
- Mainichi Issho (SCEI)
- Metal Gear Online (Konami)
- MotorStorm: Pacific Rift (SCEI)
- Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm (Bandai Namco)
- PlayStation Home (SCEI)
- Resident Evil 5 (Capcom)
- Resistance 2 (SCEI)
- SOCOM: Confrontation (SCEI)
- Sonic World Adventure (Sega)
- Street Fighter IV (Capcom)
- Way of The Samurai 3 (Spike)
- WWE 2009 Smackdown vs RAW (THQ)
PlayStation Portable
- Ape Quest (SCEI)
- Bleach: Soul Carnival (SCEI)
- Dissidia Final Fantasy (Square Enix)
- Dynasty Warriors: Multi Raid (Koei)
- The Idolmaster SP (Bandai Namco)
- Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep (Square Enix)
- LocoRoco 2 (SCEI)
- Mainichi Issho Portable (SCEI)
- Mobile Suit Gundam: Gundam vs. Gundam (Bandai Namco)
- Orochi Warriors: Second Coming of the Devil King (Koei)
- Patapon 2 (SCEI)
- Secret Agent Clank (SCEI)
- Sengoku Basara: Battle Heroes (Capcom)
- Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology 2 (Bandai Namco)
- Yuusha no Kuse ni Namaikida 2 (SCEI)


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Do any of the readers or posters here actually know of anyone that went from RN to MD. I wanted to see how many people actually did this. Most people I know that went medical followed the PA route.... Read More
1Jan 3, '13 by ♪♫ in my ♥One of our ICU residents was an RN. I found out during rounds on a hot-mess patient when she pulled me aside and gave me two pager numbers for any new issues (getting hold of the right doc can be a challenge for us) - of which there were many. As I was expressing my gratitude, she smiled and said, "I get it... I used to be a nurse."brown eyed girl likes this.
1Jan 3, '13 by brown eyed girl, LPNYears ago when my son was ALOT YOUNGER, I flirted with the idea of being either a cardiologist or a neurosurgeon. IM GLAD I DIDN'T! I hate the telephone and would be ****** if someone interrupted my beauty sleep! Its worth the money and prestige but, not your piece of mind. I take my hat off to all the Physicians who make this choice.Last edit by Esme12 on Apr 4, '14 : Reason: TOSgonzo1 likes this.
2Jan 3, '13 by somenurseQuote from brown eyed girlYears ago when my son was ALOT YOUNGER, I flirted with the idea of being either a cardiologist or a neurosurgeon. IM GLAD I DIDN'T! I hate the telephone and would be p***ed if someone interrupted my beauty sleep! Its worth the money and prestige but, not your piece of mind. I take my hat off to all the Physicians who make this choice.
some specialties are way way less tied to the phone than others. Opthamology (ka-ching!), plastic surgery, hospitalist, dermatology, podiatry, etc, are just a few of the specialties which one might have to take way way less call than other areas have to do.
Many of the ER docs i've worked with, punched in/out like an employee, no call at all, no offices/overhead, no employees, no list of patients to keep up with or round on, and very set and (mostly) predictable hours, too. -
2Jan 3, '13 by GrnTea, BSN, MSN, RNAbout ophthalmology: You want to get somebody's attention in a big hurry at 1400 on the Friday of a long holiday weekend, tell them you have a new central field visual defect. I had this happen to me-- it was a little scary, I mean, am I having a CVA? or what? First stop, PCP-- she sees nothing, sends me to my optometrist for a better look. He sees nothing, but calls the ophthalmology practice. Now it's quarter of four. I get over there (DH driving). I get seen by two physicians, one to look around in there and one to do something about it if possible.
Fortunately (everything's comparative) it was only a spontaneous retinal tear, tucked up high on the back wall where you need special toys to see it well; the central defect was because the fluid behind the tear was putting tension on the retina, which affected the fovea. They said it's a good thing I didn't wait until Tuesday after the holiday to get seen, because I would have had a total separation of the retina and been blind in that eye for good by Saturday morning. And they fixed it on the spot c a cryogenic probe. Definitely not the most fun I ever had in my life, but they stayed late to monitor me, too.
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0Jan 3, '13 by somenurseOH, yes, eye doctors sure can end up taking call,
so can plastic surgeons or podiatrists,
but, it can be less often than some specialities which pretty much have nightly calls being divied up among their group.
edit: re the ka-ching,
it's just that so so many of the opthamologists and plastic surgeons seem to be so financially lucrative, too. I once had a GI doc tell me, he had counted up how many hours he worked,
and divided that into his pay,
afataer subtracting his overhead,
and determined he is making about $14 per hour. I have no idea if he was lying, mistaken, bad at math, exaggerating, who knows...
but, i've never forgotten that. There were some other docs around and none of them cried out, "oh come onnnn" either, which sorta made me think this doc wasn't that far off...(this was long time ago, too, is old number)Last edit by somenurse on Jan 3, '13 -
3Jan 3, '13 by ThePrincessBride, BSN, RNGod bless 'em. I couldn't put myself through med school. Hence why I'm trying to become a nurse practitioner. Best of both worlds.
0Jan 3, '13 by DoeRNQuote from IndiCRNAThat is pretty cool. You have a sweet deal. I checked out a DO school near me and gave it some serious thought but again it's the age thing for me.
Not me! I practice completly autonomously, my program was only 27 months long and about $40K, no residency required, and I make more than two thirds of the physicians in the hospital's group practice. Plus I get 2 weeks out of every 6 off. None of the physicians have it as good as we (the 3 CRNAs in our group) do and they know it.
I have worked with several nurses who went the CRNA route and every single one of them said they don't regret it. But the bad thing is all of them eventfully had to quit working. One toughed it out and worked weekend option but when she got to her second semester she had to quit working.


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General Assembly 2002 Event 2050 Presenters: Fred Seidl, Unitarian Universalist (UU) Church of Buffalo, NY; Rev. Sam Trumbore, Minister, First UU Society, Albany, NY; Kate Lore, Social Justice Director, First Unitarian Church, Portland, OR; Hilary Goodridge, Program Director, Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) Funding Program; Diane Olson, UUA Moderator; Rev. Meg Riley, Director of Advocacy & Witness, UU
Over 100 General Assembly attendees turned out to hear a panel of seasoned veterans of grass roots reform talk about their work in their communities, putting our UU faith in action through working with interfaith communities and neighborhood organizations to bring about social changes for a better world. Their work spans a variety of areas including soup kitchens, mentoring, after-school programs, living wage campaign, worker justice, reproductive rights, and gay rights.
Fred Seidl began with a social justice song written by a friend and led participants in the refrain, "People like you help people like me go on, go on…"
About 1% of all organizations are involved in grass roots community social justice efforts. Currently, about 70 UU congregations are actively involved in what Fred has named "Congregation Based Community Organizing" (CBCO), as distinct from President Bush's "Faith Based" organizing. There are about 143 such CBCO groups in the USA involving more than 4000 member organizations.
A congregation that involves itself in social justice projects with interfaith groups gains in various ways:
Fred stresses the importance of finding commonality of interest with multi-faith groups on which to build the relationship. He avoids theological discussions.
Rev. Sam Trumbore found an outlet for his energies when he became involved in interfaith social action projects in Albany, New York, where he has been the minister since 1999. He has found this to be life-changing for him. He was almost immediately elected president of a 4-county interfaith social action group called ARISE, which is partially funded by the Gamaliel Foundation. Through his involvement with ARISE, not only has he has been transformed personally, but his ministry is also transformed as he brings his leadership and energy to his congregation.
Trumbore shared the following four points with the workshop participants:
Kate Lore is the Director of Social Justice, a paid staff position at the First Unitarian Church of Portland. She leads her congregation in a very active social action program that varies from peace work to economic justice actions to environmental lobbying.
When she first went to an "interfaith" meeting, she found out that the group consisted mostly of Catholics and a few Lutherans. By staying around rather than leaving, she was able to help the group become more diverse and to help shape how they were going to do interfaith work. The group, later renamed "Metropolitan Alliance for the Common Good," now has Jewish and Muslims members. With involvement from 35 institutions and 30,000 people, it is a strong voice in the community. When it speaks out, the media notices.
Hilary Goodridge is program director of the UU Funding Program. Funds of up to $20,000 are usually awarded for the first year, sometimes for the second year but rarely for the third year. Congregations are encouraged to raise their own funds after that as fund-raising itself is an important part of organizing.
Diane Olson, before being elected Moderator of the UUA, was active in the Valley Interfaith Project in Phoenix, Arizona, a community of predominantly white Anglo-Saxons with a very small percentage of Native American and Hispanic people. Residents in the area didn't feel safe walking in the streets. One contributing factor was the slow police response to emergencies and street violence. The community, working together with police offices, was able to reduce police response time from 25 minutes to 5 minutes. The fire department followed suit. Police officers now walk their beat and the streets are safe once more. Other areas of improvement include reduced crime rate, reduced drug abuse, affordable after school programs and child-care facilities.
In cooperating with minority groups, one needs to remember to:
During the question-and-answer session, participants sharing their experiences of organizing from scratch as well as joining already-established social justice organization, both of which have advantages as well as disadvantages. It was pointed out that many African American ministers from evangelical Christian churches often speak up for their congregations strongly on issues of importance, whereas most Caucasian ministers, especially UU ministers, will only speak for themselves and not their congregations, which dilutes the importance of their messages. There needs to be a balance between authoritative and democratic congregational polity when it comes to speaking out against injustices. Although lay leaders can, and often do, take the lead in social justice work in their congregations, it is so much easier if their ministers are also interested and involved. The work can change church members, transform congregations and feed the soul.
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Cash Reserves in Retirement
This is the last of the original recordings and will be the last one without any transcript. Actually, today I recorded four more and hopefully there will be some positive changes coming based on your feedback.
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- AnonymousOctober 24, 2013 at 12:50 AM
The paper would have been more useful for a retiree if the transaction fee was calculated on a percentage of assets (index fund management fee + Financial adviser fee) than a $30 per transaction cost.
I am encouraged to see researchers start to take fees & taxes into account.RepliesThanks for the comment. Many studies do incorporate expense ratios / advisory fees as a percentage of assets. But this study wanted to get at a way for incorporating a cost every time a transaction is made. This is something different. Whether or not $30 is an appropriate number can be debated.
- AnonymousOctober 25, 2013 at 11:09 AM
A few production comments. Most of the video shows your talking head, so this is more an audio production than a video production (not that there aren't many viewers eager to see you, of course). The only times it actually uses the video, it doesn't do it very well; for example, it puts one table from the article on the screen so briefly that I couldn't even find the numbers you were discussing in the table, much less look at the rest of the table (which is the reason to put it on the screen in the first place) -- and I've read the article you were discussing. Don't you have access to someone with video presentation experience? As a retired college professor (but not a video expert), I suggest: Open showing you; then bullet lists and tables on the screen while you talk; then close showing you. That would make much better use of the medium. But, as I say, I'm not an expert.
ReplyDeleteReplies- AnonymousOctober 28, 2013 at 9:31 AM
Agreed. Wade, your content is excellent, and I'll keep watching even if you don't make changes. But improvements on the video production and editing side of things could remove some distracting elements / help get your message across. I've had similar thoughts when watching a few of your earlier videos too... the content of which, again, is always great. Thanks for sharing your expertise.
Delete Thank you both for the feedback. I will share your comments with the video team.
It seems the main result of the paper is to point out that more frequent transactions - monthly in the case of the RDCA vs yearly or so in the case of the CFR - add up, mainly through transaction costs and to a lesser degree through taxes (presumably because that there is less tax deferral). Wonder what happens at $10 per transaction, a more typical rate at many discount brokers.
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I am a fan of Evensky's cash flow reserve strategy for income distribution in retirement. However, I am aware that Evensky espouses the total portfolio return approach and rejects the income portfolio approach. But my experience with income portfolio investing todate meets my objective and requirement well. I have retired for more than 5 years. I withdraw cash equivalent to 5% of my total portfolio for living expenses annually. My portfolio consists of 2 years of cash reserve,ie 10% cash and the rest are invested in high yield dividend growth equities (90%). My whole portfolio has a dividend yield of about 6 % ( on current portfolio value) . Since I withdraw only 5% annually , thus I have excess cash to invest into more dividend growth equities. So far the plan works very well and I did not have to sell any shares at all to fund the income distribution and my portfolio is in fact growing. I am not concerned at all with the volatility of the stock market prices and can sleep well at night.
My investment strategy of investing in stocks with growing dividends means that I will never have to sell any stocks to fund retirement withdrawals. My wife and I would be able to leave an ever growing portfolio as estate to our adult children.RepliesThanks. The Evensky cash flow reserve system could be classified as a time segmentation strategy, but he prefers to think of it as a total returns portfolio with a risk management overlay of short-term cash holdings.
I'm glad your strategy is working for you. Holding higher dividend paying stocks is certainly a popular strategy in practice which is under-researched, as it is hard to get appropriate data. Dividends, of course, can be cut, but William Bernstein has written that you should be able to consider 1/2 of your dividend payment as being pretty safe.- AnonymousOctober 29, 2013 at 3:13 AM
My understanding from watching Evensky's videos and reading his interviews on cash flow reserve is that he recommends investors should construct a portfolio that maximises the total return i.e capital appreciation + dividends, after considering the risk/return, rather than selecting portfolio based on income or yield only.
My equity portfolio consists of over 30 well diversified stocks and over 80% of which pay increasing dividends every year. Thus even during the peak of the Global financial crisis of 2008 & 2009, total dividend income of my portfolio increases. My portfolio consists of 90% equities, which would be considered as very high risk , in the conventional sense, for a retiree of age over 60. Typically the rule of thumb of asset allocation would be 60% cash/fixed interest and 40% equities for a retiree. I am able to and feel comfortable to allocate 90% equities because of the stocks I invest in are dividend growth stocks. The share price may have dropped over 30% to 50% during GFC, but streams of increasing dividends keep coming in to pay for my living expenses. The share price volatility do not worry me and in fact I am always looking for price pull back ( bigger the better !) so that I can buy more stocks from the excess dividend income. I agree with Bernstein to consider a cut of half of the dividend payment to be pretty safe. I am a conservative investor, and thus I allocate 10% cash ( my portfolio does not have any bonds) as cash flow reserve to allow for any large unusual expenses ( buying a new car, overseas holidays... etc) or potential cut in portfoflio dividends income (though fortunately, it has not happened in the last 5 years) even though my portfolio yield of 6% exceeds my withdrawal rate of 5% per year.
It would appear as a no brainer that during the distribution phase, a retiree should invest in high dividend growth stocks. This would not only provide him certainty of income streams but also allows him to allocate a larger percentage of his portfolio to equities to grow his portfolio and beat inflation. What I have written here is based on common sense and my personal experience and is not from any from finance theory, which may disagree with my assertion.
You would find ( if you have not already come across) many articles on DGI (Dividend growth investing) in the website www.seekingalpha.com. Well regarded contributors of articles on DGI in the site are Chuck Carnavale, Bob Wells, Bob Johnson, David Fish ( who maintains a list of high dividend growth stocks).... Thanks for the additional info about your strategy. This is certainly an area deserving of greater research attention. I'll try to pay more attention to this.
such a informative video , i think , if the transaction fee will calculate on a parentage ,then the paper's will be more useful.
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