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It Starts with a Wall: Creating a Data-Driven Culture
by Tim Henningsen on December 21, 2012
If you're a tech startup then you've probably heard something about big data. Big data is an unfancy word for using the data you collect to improve and grow your business. My definition of big data: a realization that current use of data is lacking insight. So, the overall goal should be making use of your data to provide greater insight to your business. This will in effect drive business process improvements and product growth over time.
Here, we're going to talk about Day One to Day Thirty-One issues for founders. Because without a data-driven culture in place all this big data talk is just false hope. Or, worse, your data becomes a bird named "dodo" (extinct flightless bird).
It Starts with a WALL
Any data consultant will tell you that it really starts with answering questions like "What problem are you trying to solve?" or "What is the research question?" The real problem an early startup faces is even knowing where to start with this type of exercise. You've already done this with your product and market. But apply this to your data already? That could be a mighty task, especially if your first customers are slow to move and your product is still in a state of flux. Let's keep it lean for now.
Find a wall. Any wall in your office space or current work space will do. Start brainstorming things you want to track. If you're just starting out, think about tracking the progress of building your product. At one startup, we actually did early screen design mockups by posting color print-outs on a prominent wall in our office. It was a very simple but effective way to track progress in the early design phase of the company. Any visitors to the office could be invited on a moment's notice to view the current iteration. Or, as the founder referred to it, "behind the curtain of awesomeness."
Later, we bought a cheap 40-inch monitor (we each sacrificed a burrito a week for an entire month!) and began displaying the status of development items and their burn down charts using Atlassian's Jira project software. Once we got a better sense of the data we were tracking, we then began creating some key metrics. We're now in the process of implementing different ways to track how our customers and their end users interact with our product to generate higher returns on engagement and revenue. And we just decided to roll-out a dashboard for displaying stats from New Relic application performance tools.
Smart, Actionable, Fun.
It's about creating a culture that values and recognizes the hard work being done. You don't need to be a data scientist or architect to begin creating this type of culture in your company. Creating a data-driven culture should also be fun. Data for most people, in itself, is anything but fun. Starting small, building up over time, and displaying the results in a visually appealing way to the rest of your company is a serious game-changer. You're building a better decision-making engine. This is also important for attracting new customers, new talent, and even new funding. While you may not get it right the first time, it says a lot about how your startup thinks.
In a future post, I'll dive more into some practical learnings and examples in the area of product growth — i.e. ways to make use of data to improve the product itself. Until then, get out your ladder or your roll of tape and put something on a wall.
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Finding Mr. Brightside
Abram and Juliette know each other. They've lived down the street from each other their whole lives. But they don't really know each other -- at least, not until Juliette's mom and Abram's dad have a torrid affair that culminates in a deadly car crash. Sharing the same subdivision is uncomfortable after that, to say the least. They don't speak.
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Love means never having to say, "You're awkward." Crap, or is it "you're sorry"? Regardless, Jay Baker is awkwardly in love with two girls and making no apologies for it. Mostly because he assumes they don't care. But when an awesomely bad plot twist throws his life into a tailspin, Jay's story takes a dramatic turn for the weird. Nothing he knows will ever be the same.
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TUCSON, Ariz. – After finishing first in the conference in kills, Arizona junior outside hitter Madi Kingdon was named All-Pac-12, the league announced on Tuesday. In addition, setter Penina Snuka was named to the Pac-12 All-Freshman Team.
Kingdon was arguably the league's top offensive player as she not only led the Pac-12 in points but she ranked third in kills and fourth in service aces. In addition, she finished second on the team with 351 digs, while also recording 70 blocks. Kingdon's 482 kills this season are already eighth on the school's single-season list for kills and she looks to become just the fourth player in school history to reach 500 kills for a season. She has also recorded 27 matches with 10 or more kills, which already ranks fourth in school history. Kingdon already ranks sixth for career kills in school history with 1,283.
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Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Economics Daily, No change in new vehicle prices in 2000 on the Internet at http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2001/june/wk1/art05.htm (visited June 27, 2016).
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Chug over to the latest edition of the Carnival of Children's Literature: Take a Ride on the Reading Railroad, at Charlotte's Library.
Thanks for lining up the engines over there, Charlotte. Great carnival.
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September 29th-October 6th is Banned Books Week. The American Library Association, which started the whole idea, is planning several initiatives at MySpace, Second Life, and Facebook. (You did not just hear me snicker. That would be really adolescent. Gah! Stop it!) ALA's "most challenged" book of 2006 was And Tango Makes Three, a delightful picture book about two male penguins who hatch an egg together. Come to think of it, Zinnia and Dot, two hens in a book I wrote about a few weeks ago, do the same thing, and nobody banned them.
The September edition of the online kid-lit journal The Edge of the Forest is up. Lots of good reading, as usual.
The Hartford Courant reports that the Connecticut Book Awards were handed out recently. Among the honorees were several people with connections to children's literature: Morton Schindel, founder of Weston Woods (which adapts picture books into short films), Lane Smith (John, Paul, George & Ben), and Barbara McClintock (Adèle and Simon).
Alan Greenspan interviews O.J.? See "Greenspan and Simpson: On Writing" at The New Yorker for details. Ha!
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A few weeks ago I wrote about Bossy the chicken and her reluctance to free-range solo. Bossy is just one of my backyard flock of four, which is led by Petunia. The group also includes Loretta, who may be a rooster, but is permitted very little slack by the others, much like a first-grader on a school bus with all fifth graders. Fuzzy the Blue Orpington completes the crew, and she is becoming quite a beauty. If Fuzzy cared, she could possibly swipe Petunia's chieftain role, but Fuzzy is a free spirit.
Anyway, free-ranging. I've discovered that the girls like to go out as a group. What fun is going to the mall by yourself? I suppose it's like that. They don't go far, and they all stay together. Sometimes they run/fly/skedaddle back to the coop. Which is fine, because it's not that easy to get them back in, unless they are of a mind to do so. After school Junior likes to let them out to free-range while he sits outside and does homework. So far our September afternoons have been mild and sunny and full of chickens. It suits us pretty well.
I like to mention picture books featuring barnyard fowl on Saturdays, and today I chose Wings: A Tale of Two Chickens, by the late James Marshall. Here is what Marshall's editor Regina Hayes had to say:
Almost all of Jim's books included some spectacularly dim-witted characters, and I felt he had a particular affection for them and gave them the best lines: the Stupids; the Cut-Ups; the wonderfully dumb chicken, Winnie, in Wings: A Tale of Two Chickens. Winnie meets a fox who introduces himself in "a silky voice," reassures her that "plump is nice," and declares at the end, "Unhand that chicken! She's mine!" Winnie
is rescued by her sister and given an informative book to read. "'Oh, my stars!' cried Winnie. 'Mr. Johnson was a fox!'" It is so deadpan that it's
hard to say what's so funny, but many lines from Wings became bywords around the office, where Jim was a great favorite.
That's from a profile of Marshall in The Horn Book's July-August 2007 issue. Hayes wrote it in honor of Marshall's winning this year's Laura Ingalls Wilder medal, which "honors an author or illustrator whose books,
published in the United States, have made, over a period of years, a
substantial and lasting contribution to literature for children," according to the Association for Library Service to Children, the award's administrator.
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GalleyCat reports that Alice Quinn is stepping down as poetry editor of The New Yorker. The poet Paul Muldoon will take her place. Born in Northern Ireland and currently a professor at Princeton, Muldoon won a 2003 Pulitzer for his collection Moy Sand and Gravel. Publishers Weekly called him "the best, most-honored Irish poet of the generation after [Seamus] Heaney."
Until I read the biography at his web site, I didn't know that Muldoon is also the author of several books for children, including Reverse Flannery: Magical Tales of Ireland, The Last Thesaurus, and The Noctuary of Narcissus Batt. Muldoon also wrote the preface for the Modern Classics edition of Irish Folk and Fairy Tales, which was compiled by William Butler Yeats. The first three seem to be from UK publishers only.
My library has a copy of Muldoon's book The End of the Poem, a collection of lectures (given at Oxford) about individual poems by Yeats, Dickinson, Ted Hughes, Heaney, and others. I have to put my name on the hold list, though. Someone beat me to it!
So, Friday's poem is Muldoon's "As," which you can read at the Poetry Foundation, from Moy Sand and Gravel. To see what other verses arise in the kidlitosphere today, look to the Poetry Friday roundup at Sara Lewis Holmes' blog Read Write Believe. Sara is the author of Letters to Rapunzel, a novel for 9 to 12 year olds.
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"There's no reason to feel...that we must always read aloud to little children from 'easy' books that they can 'understand.' If we are reading something we like, with great expression and pleasure, a child may well like it, at least for a while, even if he doesn't understand all of it. After all, children like hearing adults talk, even though they can't understand much or most of it. Why not reading as well? Once, when teaching first-graders, I decided to try reading aloud to them something more difficult than the very simple stories they were used to. My choice was The Odyssey for Boys and Girls, by A.J. Church—a book I loved when small, but which many teachers would feel was much too advanced or difficult for first-graders. This class, however, liked it very much, and on subsequent days asked me to read more of it."
from How Children Learn, by John Holt (revised edition, Perseus Books, 1967, 1983)
When I read Holt's book last spring, the above quotation intrigued me. On the one hand, it proves one of my pet theories: people are often talking about themselves, no matter what their ostensible subject. Holt's example just happens to be a favorite book from his childhood. The message seems to be that he, unlike those pedestrian other teachers, is willing to try something different. Ho-hum.
On the other hand, I think his idea has merit. First grade, for example, is all about learning to read, and much of the material does fall into Holt's "very simple story" category by necessity. That's why read-alouds by teachers, school librarians, and parents are so important. Audiobooks, too, can provide more advanced storytelling and vocabulary in a fun way. Some children will like to hear science books read aloud; even though they don't understand all the specifics, they may get excited about the overall ideas.
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On Sunday, The New York Times Book Review considered children's books, with two new readers by Mo Willems getting some lukewarm praise. Picture books about school, as well as other new titles, are part of the mix, too.
Blog news: say hey and welcome to Crooked House, written by Stephany Aulenback, a former contributor to Maud Newton's site. Don't miss the "Beckett for Babies" post.
Irritating trend alert: Baby discos, in the San Diego Union-Tribune.
The Nation's Katha Pollitt shares her 5 must-have books for reviewers, at Critical Mass, the blog of the National Book Critics Circle's board of directors. Neither Pollitt nor Cynthia Ozick, who handed in her list last week, mentions any books by Updike, unlike others in the "Critical Library" series.
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A few announcements:
1. What are the best children's books of 2007? It's that time of the year again—time to gear up for the Children's and YA Bloggers Literary Awards, a.k.a the Cybils. If you write about children's books at your blog and have an interest in volunteering on an awards committee, go to this post at the spiffed-up Cybils web site. Soon all readers—bloggers and non-bloggers—will be able to nominate their favorite titles, too.
2. The next Carnival of Children's Literature takes place at Charlotte's Library on September 26th. The deadline for submissions is Friday, September 21st. Use the submission form linked at the Blog Carnival site.
3. The September Learning in the Great Outdoors blog carnival is going on right now at Alone on a Limb. You'll find lots of great ideas for enjoying and studying nature with children, plus some beautiful photographs of monarch butterflies.
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Judith Viorst's "Some Things Don't Make Any Sense at All" gave me a laugh this morning, so having met that criteria, it's my choice for Poetry Friday. You can riffle through the archives at the Academy of American Poets' web site and find several other poems that Viorst wrote for children. Viorst's name was linked at the article "Serious Play: Reading Poetry with Children," which offers a number of online reading suggestions and references. Very handy.
Now I must go see what poetic thoughts the other children's literature bloggers are thinking today; Hip Writer Mama has the roundup of all things verseful. To find out more about Poetry Friday (what is it? how did it start?), see this article at the Poetry Foundation. All are welcome.
Go forth and rhyme.
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From the blog Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast:
By now, you have probably read the very sad news of the death of Robert Mercer, Grace Lin's husband, at the end of last month, due to cancer.
You may remember from [Seven Imp's] May '07 interview with Grace that she was the driving force behind the Robert's Snow: for Cancer's Cure fundraising effort after Robert was initially diagnosed with Ewing's sarcoma and after writing Robert's Snow (Viking Books;
2004) soon after that diagnosis. The fundraising effort entailed the
auctioning off of special snowflakes, created by children's book
illustrators, whom Grace had gathered together in the name of raising
money for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI).
Read more about the 2007 Robert's Snow fundraiser at Seven Impossible Things, and find out how you can help out.
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Our son's third-grade teacher sent home a friendly, informative letter after the first couple of weeks of school, telling the parents what the class had been up to. I was especially glad to see the list of books she had been reading to the students, so I thought I'd post them here. Maybe the kids in your life would like them, too. Thanks, Miss Nelson*!
Being a Scientist (I don't know this one.) The Library, by Sarah Stewart; art by David SmallMath Curse, by Jon Scieszka; art by Lane SmithThe Minpins, by Roald Dahl; art by Patrick BensonOdd Velvet, by Mary E. Whitcomb; art by Tara Calahan KingThe Teacher from the Black Lagoon, by Mike Thaler
At home, Junior avidly read Beverly Cleary's Socks, via a book-on-tape narrated by Neil Patrick Harris. He followed along in the book as he listened. I heard bits of the story, about a beloved pet cat who must adjust to a new baby's arrival, and thought it sounded fun. School Library Journal gave a a thumbs-up to both Cleary's "hilarious" chapter book and Harris's rendition.
* Not her real name.
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Thanks to @benvie for his feedback.
DEMO: http://jsfiddle.net/zFVyv/10/ (Tested in FF 12, Chrome 19 and IE 7.)
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I have found this little plugin that does exactly that and it can be changed to add any mutation you wish... Even scrollHeight change listener.
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here is the demo: http://www.jqui.net/demo/mutate/
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In an answer to a similar question, it was suggested that if you know that style-setting interactions would be performed via a standard interface (i.e. always using jQuery etc.) it was suggested that custom events be fired whenever the library method is called.
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Calvin Klein's Textured Bedtime Story
Francisco Costa, the critically acclaimed creative director of Calvin Klein Collection women's, said the lush textures that showed up in his intriguing and sophisticated show this afternoon were partly inspired by stuffed animals.
"It started with the whole idea of a teddy bear," he said, explaining the feel of his sumptuous bonded alpaca and cashmere jacquard "broad volume coat," his alpaca jacquard sweatshirt and a gorgeous wheat-colored big cuddly shearling duffle coat, among other looks.
Mr. Costa is known for slick and sleek architectural looks, which he achieves through innovative uses of fabric. There were still plenty of those kinds of looks in this show, such as the shift dresses that he dubbed "technical silk satin," for instance.
But the news here were the richer textures, which also included double face cashmere, supersoft leather dresses and jackets, and needle-punched velvet and shear.
The clothes cried out to be touched or hugged. It was all about the look and feel simultaneously: the textures made the iconic Calvin Klein women's staples look droolingly good, precisely because they raised curiosity about how they would feel to the touch.
Using such textures was a way to "elevate" the collection, Mr. Costa explained after the show. "By elevating, you look for textures and fabrics that have character and an interest."
It was telling that the designer used the word "warmth" in one instance when discussing texture as shiny, sleek clothing can be read as cold.
In this collection, they were textured fabrics one could cuddle and warm up with, a little like a teddy bear.


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As the state legislature - and schools - grapple with additional budget cuts, at least one official says districts across Kansas have an untapped resource at their hands: their own bank accounts.
Dr. Walt Chappell, a member of the Kansas Board of Education, says schools have millions of dollars at their disposal in funds that have carried over year after year. Records show that across the state, school districts have amassed a combined $1.5-billion dollars in extra funds. The numbers are up 10% from the 2008-2009 fiscal year.
The money constitutes unused funding that rolls over every year. Although school administrators say there are stipulations regarding how and where most of the money can be spent, Chappell points to nearly $700-million available in 'operating expenses' statewide.
Wichita schools, as an example, cut more than $16-million from this year's general fund. But Chappell says the district also has $157-million still available from previous budgets, including $94-million in the general fund alone.
Chappell believes such money could easily offset cuts made by the legislature in recent months. He wants lawmakers to consider lifting restrictions on how much of the money can be used.
Chappell also sees other ways to save money and make the state's educational system more efficient without raising taxes, cutting jobs, or eliminating programs. One example would be to redraw district lines.
"There's at least 300 to 400 million dollars that can be saved by redrawing those boundaries," Chappell says.
In the end, Chappell says school districts are faced with the same challenges as families and businesses in the current economy. To pull through, he says, requires accountability, efficiency, and not letting anything go to waste.
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A True ACCOUNT of the BEHAVIOUR, CONFESSION, AND Last Dying SPEECHES Of the Criminals that were Executed at TYBURN, On Wednesday the 20th of December, 1693.
THE Ordinary preacht to the condemned Criminals in the forenoon on the Lords day: The Text was from the 23d Ch. of St. Luke, the 42d and 43d v. Lord remember me when thou comest into thy Kingdom.
These words are the summary of the Christian Faith, declared by the late convered Thief, under the Abasement of Christs Crucifixion. Tho he suffered with him as a notorious Malefactor, yet being baptized in the laver of Christs blood, applied to him by the Spirit of Regeneration, he died as a Martyr for Christs cause, in asserting his Godhead against all the reviling of his Enemies. Let no man expect the like wonderful change of corrupt nature. For this single example of late Repentance, and the thorough Conversion to God in Christ, was and will be without any such future miraculous unparallelled president: This Converts Faith equaliz'd in some degree that of Abraham; for God made an express Covenant of grace with him, and showed him many present favours to encourage his Faith: But this Thief believed, before Christ spake friendly to him. Moses Faith was confirmed by a succession of miracles; God appeared to him in the flaming Bush, not consumed: But this Convert saw Christ crowned with Thorns, the Livery of the Earths curse, for the sin of man. Peter believed, seeing Christ walking on the Sea, as on a firm Pavement; but now Christs hands and feet were nailed to the Cross, as tormented in all the Nerves of his sacred Body, yet this Thief stedfastly confest Christ to be the King of Eternal Glory, tho he were erected higher on the Cross, as a worse reputed Criminal than either of the Thieves. He renounced all the spoils of his robbing Trade as dross and dung, that he might win an interest in Christs favour, counting now, the very fear of God to be his chiefest treasure. How remarkable was his humility and self-denial? he did not desire that he might sit at Christs right hand in heavenly glory, as a peculiar favourite, only he prayed, Lord remember me, shew me the least glimpse of thy favour admit me to be only a Door-keeper in thy celestial Temple, and this shall abundantly satisfy me. It is the sum of all happiness to be the meanest Pensioner of Christs kingly bounty and beneficence. Herein he acknowledged that Christ was the sole purchaser, and absolute disposer of heavenly glory; as if he had thus said, O my Lord I am ashamed and deeply grieve, that I no sooner knew thee, that I might longer have honored and served thee, than possibly now I can, in the extreamest part of my life; thus I seal the sincerity of my heart in owning thee for my Lord and my God, with the chearful shedding of my Hearts blood. Observe Christ waited to be gracious, and therefore immediately accepted this late Converts sincere, yet fervent and modest petition. Observe how Christ replied, as under the form of an Oath, Verily, verily, I say to thee, this day shalt thou be with me in Paradise Late Converts, if they have been notorious sinners, need extraordinary divine assurances of their future blessedness; five reasons were given of this. Let us therefore not delay our repentance and conversion to God; let us greive that we have so long stood out against all the sollicitations of Christs Spirit, to get our hearts renewed and our lifes reformed; so shall we behold the beatifying vision and fruition of the God of glory, in the celestial Paradise; herein all the mysteries of Salvation are made known perfectly, without the least with holding of assent unto them; here God in Christ is all in all, for the perfecting of the Saints felicity. To be with Christ in Paradise is the highest happiness of heaven, Christs continued presence garrisons the celestial Paradise, that Satan, the subtile Tempter, cannot possibly inject into our minds the least diverting thought from our fixt contemplation and rapturous admiration of Gods infinite excellencies, would we enjoy this immediate blessedness after death: Let us then be awakened from our security in sinning. This Convert had very serious and deep reflexive acts of Conscience, which reduced him from his distracted state in sinning to the soberness of a sound mind. He was not converted altogether in an hurry of confused dolorous passions and exclamations against himself, for bringing this shameful death upon himself. It was not the rending of the Rocks, nor the Thunder striking of the dead out of their Graves, which wrought this strange conversion; it was rather his being baptized with the sprinkling of Christs blood on his soul, which sanctifyed the extremity of his sufferings to the healing of his corrupt nature: His heart was changed and mollified, by hearing Christs prayer for his most malicious enemies. Thus Christ showed the miraculous effects of his death in saving this sinner, tho himself was reputed the Chief of Criminals, and was cast out, as the Pest and Execration of the Nation.
The Conclusion was thus directed to the Condemned.
And now, that I ay more immediately apply my self, to you who are under a sentence of death; let not this single instance of a late effectual repentance, cause you so to presume on Gods mercy, as to imagine true conversion, in your last hours, an easie and slight performance. No, 'tis certainly a very difficult and laborious work (however possible and performable) for habits of grace and virtue are not ordinarily introduced into the Soul, but by a frequent repetition of holy actions, like as vicious habits were contracted by a reiterated usage of sinful practices, and how hazardous a thing it is, to expect extraordinary means of grace and conversion, after having forfeited the ordinary auxiliaries of Gods Spirit, by a customary disobedience.
The Convert Thief did not trifle with Gods goodness and forbearance (as many men do) but readily answered the first call of the divine Spirit inviting him to repentance. He probably never before heard of Christ never saw any of his miraculous performances, never knew any thing of his doctrine, and consequently had not receiv'd any, till now, external motive to become his follower, and accept of the Gospel terms of Pardon and Salvation.
'Tis likely also that Christ in wisdom deferr'd this extraordinary proof of his Almighty Power, till the last act of his life, thereby to evidence more fully his Divine Nature, and that he is the All-sufficient Redeemer of the world, now when he seem'd by his ignominious sort of suffering the vilest of Malefactors.
Beg therefore of God to quicken your resolutions of turning unto him immediately, and of supplying your late repentance by the more powerful workings of his Holy Spirit upon your hearts.
Divine wrath is let out to the utmost after death, then obstinate Sinners shall for ever be deprived of all the seasons of grace, or any possibility of future happiness; Then shall they be utterly unable to amend any defect in the work of their Conversion. There is a limited Season of Grace, as well as of a mans natural life in this world. Be imployed therefore in the fulfilling of your heavenly Fathers Will, with all diligence and chearfulness, that Christ may say to each of you at the time of your dissolution, well done good and faithful Servant, enter with joy into my everlasting Kingdom.
I proceed to give you an Account of the Behaviour and Confessions of the Condemned Criminals.
I. Richard Kensey, Gentleman, Condemned for the murther of one Henry Hutton, in the Parish of St. Brides within the liberty of London. He was born of Parents of good Reputation, aged 27 years; He came over with King William into England, hath served him; 5 years in Flanders; He was in the Expedition of Ships sent to reduce Corke and Kingsale, now is under Brigadeer Churchill; he came from Flanders as a Lieutenant to raise Recruits here, but a week before this unhappy accident; he said that he did heartily repent that he was prone to be in drink, and actually to, when he joyned with the two Breams condemned for the same Murther. That he will take care hereafter to serve God and the King faithfully, to avoid evil Company, and to be more strict and watchful in his course of Life, if he may obtain sparing mercy.
II. Arnold Breams, Condemned for the foresaid Murther, was born of Parents of good Quality and Reputation, who are now dead; yet it grieves him that he hath not ordered the course of his life according to that Religious Education which was be
stowed on him. I told him that I was informed that he had travelled into Flanders, out of curiosity of acquainting himself with the Customs of that Country, and to learn the Spanish Language; which he readily acknowledged, and added, that he did lament the not guarding himself by prayer and watchfulness over his Heart, against the Vices of that place; That he observed not the Sabbath, to worship God thereon; That he had been overtaken with intemperance in drinking; That sometimes he did prophane Gods Name in swearing, and had kept vain Company, which betrayed him to commit much evil, for which God being displeased, he was left to himself to be drunk when this Crime was committed: Yet that it was not done by his own hand. He often sighed, and said that now sin was as an heavy burthen on his Conscience, but be hoped if he may live that by Gods assistance he shall reform his life.
III. John Breams, The Younger Brother, was Condemned for the same Murther of Henry Hutton. He denied not that the dead person was run through by him; He was a Volunteer in the Sea-service very lately; He said that he did heartily repent, that he was drunk when he committed the sin of Murther; And that the Person dying suddenly might not be prepared for it: That he had been guilty before of prophaning the Sabbath, and the Name of God in swearing, and seldom prayed to be preserved from evil Company; but yet his own heart had most what inclined him to any sinful course. He exprest sorrow for all his sins, and expecting no reprieve from death, he desired me to visit him in his Chamber and to prepare him for dying; which I hope God fitted him for, because he desired not to live to fill up a measure of sin, but said that he was willing to dye, if his Peace might be made with God through Christ.
IV. Abraham Stacey, Condemned for Robbing on the Highway. He mourned that he took not warning, being pardoned formerly. And that he had sinned against much knowledge and the convictions of his Conscience, yea against vows of Reforming. I exhorted him to demonstrate his Repentance, by drawing up a Narrative of his evil life, to warn others by his untimely end; he said that he would consider of it: I told him that it was the only way to clear his Conscience, and to Glorifie God in taking shame to himself, and thereby to give publick satisfaction to others of his Repentance, for the scandals given to the Christian Religion. He did not at any time absent himself from publick Exhortation and Prayers with the other Condemned Criminals: I went several times to his Chamber, that I might the more affect his heart with his sinful deplorable Condition, as having been a former Offender, and therefore needing the more care and earnest endeavours to bring him to a through sense of his evil Courses: He did acknowledge that he had provoked God, by hardning his heart against Divine Longsuffering which should have led him to an earlier Repentance, yet not being prevailed upon hitherto, he now earnestly prays that God would not utterly reject, but give him his Holy Spirit to renew and change his heart, that he may be fitted for his death.
V. John Urwin, Condemned for Murther; he is a Cooper at present by Trade; He said that he always lived Chast before and after marriage; Yet that he kept not the Sabbath, nor prayed as he ought; That he had been sometimes drunk and did swear in Passion; He was very attentive to the Instructions given him, to prepare for his death, and seemed penitent.
VI. William Trapps, born of Creditable Parents, now dead. He was not brought up to any Employment, and that exposed him to extravagant Courses, and Poverty; so that he now laments his Robbing on the High-way, for which he is Condemned. I went to him before his Tryal to exhort and pray with him, to fit him for the Sentence of Death; Bur being very secure and not sensible of his evil Course of Life; He told me that when he had need of me he would send for me. After the Sentence of Death, he came not to the Chappel to joyn in the worship of God; He absented altogether, tho desired to come and receive Instructions for the benefit of his Soul: At last I went to him, and inquired the reason of his absenting himself: He told me that he was bred of good Parents who died in the Romish Perswasion, and he could not lay aside those Opinions: I replied that many of them were dangerous, as destructive to the Christian Profession; He said that he did not hold any gross parts of Popery, I asked him what he thought of praying to Saints and Angels, he said that they did interceed to God for us. I replied that this is derogatory to the allsufficiency of Christs merits, and that his intercession is grounded on the satisfaction made to Gods offended Justice by his Death, so that none in Heaven can be mediators of Intercession, who are not mediators by the purchase of Redemption. He did not utterly deny it, but desired me to pray, that God would sanctifie his distressed Condition to the saving of his Soul.
VII. Thomas Hoyle, Condemned for Robbing on the Highway. He was born of Parents of Quality and good Reputation, but after their decease he left the Discipline of a Boarding-School, grew Idle, and followed vain Company; At last he entred himself into the service of our present King, and was by Commission a Chieftain over a Military Company , till June last; I asked him why he left the Kings Service, he replyed that his Commission was taken away for fighting in a Duel, whereby he received a wound, which disabled him to continue in the Service. He seemed much affected on the Lord's Day, with the Exhortations and Prayers. He with others said that they were under some perplexity of Spirit, as doubting of their Salvation; I replyed that true faith may be mixed with doubting, and usually is, tho this be not of the Essence and Nature of Faith: But if they adhered to God in Christ, fulfilling by the assistance of his holy spirit the requisite qualifications of Salvation, which I explained unto them, that they might comfortably rely on Gods Promise to state them in future blessedness; and that they ought strenuously to lay hold on the Kingdom of Heaven, as they had offered Violence to the Authority of Gods Sacred Laws. Upon this Thomas Hoyle acknowledged the particulars of his sinful Course, namely, that he had not been serious in the worship of God, that he had sometimes been intemperate and prophaned the Name of God in common discourse. There were others very ignorant who gave little or no account.
On Wednesday, December 20th, seven Prisoners were executed at Tyurn, viz. Abraham Stacy, Arnold Breams, John Breams, John Urwin, William Trapps, Thomas Hoyle and Samuel Gibbins.
Abraham Stacy behaved himself as became a dying man, with much humility, he warned the people four several times, the substance of which was this. I had religious Edncation but followed not the counsel given me. I little thought, I should come to this untimely end, but I sinned against much knowledge more than thousands have done; therefore my guilt is the greater. I have been accustomed to robbing on the High Way, and counted my self and Associates brave couragious Persons not to be overmatcht; but Gods wise power hath disappointed all our confidences, and justly brought us to be spectacles to warn others. I became guilty of all kinds of iniquity, but only the sin against the Holy Ghost. I lived in uncleanness which caused quarrels with my Wife, but I have begg'd her pardon this day. I have robbed many more than those who know me, several I saw in the way to my Execution, I begg'd their pardon not being able to make any satisfaction. I never actually murthered any man, yet I declare that I might have committed it lately in Newgate, had nor God restrained me; for my self with others attempted to make an escape in an evening in disguise. I and others intended to thrust briskly to escape, tho discovered, yet not to kill any one man, as a dying man I speak it? God knows that this is truth, and I beg pardon for that attempt. He often warned the Spectators and said, That it grieved him to see the Youth did not restrain themselves from vicious courses by frequent examples of Justice in Criminals. He begg'd pardon for the breach of the Laws of the Nation, and wisht it much peace and prosperity. He desired the prayers of all present, that God might be glorified in the improvement of his death to the amendment of others Lives.
Hoyle wept much in Prison, and was very penitent at his Execution, desiring all whom he had wronged to pardon him. He confest he had been a great sinner, in neglecting to worship God, and in being too familiar with women; that he took not to the road to rob any for the Money, only he joyn'd with High waymen for the pleasure of their Company in Candelmas last. He prayed and exhorted the people against all sin, and moved tears in several eyes. He gave me a Prayer to print, which is as follows.
MOst Just and Holy Lord God, who bringest to light the hidden things of darkness, and by thy just and wise Providence dost bring sin to shame and Punishment, frustrating the hopes of wicked men, visiting their sins upon them in this present Life, that thou mayest deter others from the guilt of such ways. O Lord in thy mercy, look down upon me a wicked and miserable sinner, who is now before thee to confess thy justice in making me a sad example to others; (it is just O Lord, thus to deal with me for my sins) O Lord I must with sorrow and shame confess, it would be just with thee, should Death eternal be the wages of my sins. O Lord, I have slighted thy mercy, and what can I expect, but to be an everlasting sacrifice to thy Justice: I have stopt my Ears when thou hast called me to repentance; how just would it be with thee to mock now, at this calamity which is come upon me. Wash me that I may be clean, purge away all my filthiness and corruption, and sanctifie me throughout.
The two Breams behaved themselves penitently; the elder being very weak speak little, the other said not much, but prayed for himself, as did the rest, after the Ordinary, and were all turn'd off
Decem. 21. 1693.
Licensed Decem. 21st.
AT the Pattern-drawers upon Ludgate-hill, next Door to the Kings Arms Tavern near Fleet Bridge; any Person may be furnished with Water for the Freckles, Pimples, Worms, and Morphew in the Face; Elixir Salutis, Balsamick viti, Tinctured viti: Water and Oyntment for the Eyes, Oyntments for the Rickets, Burns, Scalds, Wounds, Aches, Sprains, &c. Powders, Dentrifices, Elixers, Essences, Oyls, Spirits for the easing and curing of most Distempers incident to Humane Bodies. Prepared and Sold by B. L.
LONDON, Printed for E. Mallet, at Sir Edmundbury Godfrey's Head, near Flet-Bridge, 1693.


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A group of concerned residents of the Maryland towns of Hampden and Medford have scheduled a meeting for Saturday to discuss a plan of action to combat recent reports of dogs being poisoned in the area. Operation paws on hampden is scheduled for 2 pm Saturday at the Roosevelt Recreation Center.
A Hampden woman, Terri Carter-Galvan reported that someone tried to poison her pit bull, Maddie, with sausage stuffed with Tylenol, according to a report published yesterday on the Baltimore Sun website.
Other reports are emerging on the Facebook page set up for Operation Paws on Hampden. Titus Bell posted the following, along with a photo of what the dog ingested:
To people in the hampden area, there is an older man between 50 and 70 bald or balding woth a limp that is poisoning dogs, mainly pitbulls, all around the area. He almost got mine and actually got A few others.
Another person posting using the name The Fallen Angel posted on the page about a similar incident:
He got my puppy too she's alive but suffers being deaf n blind on her right side almost like a stroke I would luv to know who he is
Facebook user Em sull 4 paws posted an update on a similar incident:
I met the brother of the woman whose dog was poisened on Elm Ave last week. He said the dog is still recovering but will be ok. However, there was another attack and unfortunately the man was successful this time. He doused a steak in anti-freeze, threw it over a fence to a dog, the dog ate it and is now dead. Apparently these attacks have been happening for a while now and they believe it to be the same man. Please keep an extra cl...ose eye out for anyone suspicous fitting this descripton, male caucasion, in his 60s or possibly 70s, bald, heavy set. He appears to be tarketing pitbull breeds in the Hampden area.
Residents in that area may want to be vigilant about watching what their dogs are eating, and contact a vet if they appear to be ill.


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Assistance is available to families of all types while visiting Disney theme parks.
Services for guests include assistance with hearing, visual, mobility and cognitive disabilities. Wheelchair and electric conveyance vehicles are available to rent at all Disney parks as well
When Disney Parks introduced their new Disability Access Service Card (DAS) to guests at Walt Disney's theme parks some questioned whether the change would upset or protect the ones who need it the most.
According to Disney's website, "Disney Parks have an unwavering commitment to providing a welcoming and inclusive environment and accessible experiences for guests."
Prior to the new program, guests with disabilities could go directly to an attraction and were given an immediate seat. Unfortunately, some guests took advantage of this and abused the access program. According to Disney, abuse occurred at what they called "an alarming rate" hence the new system.
Disability Access Service Cards are designed to accommodate guests who are unable to tolerate conventional wait times in line. The cards are issued at the main entrance of each park. Guests are encouraged to use Disney's FASTPASS Service and Disney Fast Pass+ service in addition to a DAS card.
"We really needed to make this change," said a cast member at Disneyland Resort in Anaheim.
Foster parents and other guests are not required to provide proof or documentation of a disability in order to obtain a DAS card. Disney takes guests at their word.
"The program was outdated and Disney has made it a lot easier for our guests to enjoy our attractions."
The updated Disability Access Service Card program is designed to provide the "magical" experience guests have come to expect from Disney. It is in place to serve guests who truly need it.
Return times for attractions are valid until redeemed by the DAS cardholder. Cards are valid up to 14 days, and the cardholder need not be present when visiting a guest relations kiosk when scheduling attractions. Guests with a DAS card do however need to be present to use the card.
Foster parents and caregivers can give feedback about their experience using DAS cards by visiting Disney.com and learn more about foster care and adoption at the Child Welfare Information Gateway.


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Last time, we enjoyed dancing with the letter D activities. This week, we're having fun with the letter F.
Words that begin with the letter F are: Fun, friends, food, fruit, fish, feelings, funny, flamingo, frog, and flower.
- Fresh or frozen fruit
- French toast, french bread, or french fries
- Fish
Arts & Crafts:
- Print or draw a lower case letter "f". Have the children paint or color the "F", then add eyes, a mouth, and some fins for F is for Fish. See our slideshow for an example of our fish. You could also turn the letter "f" into a flower.
- Make a fairy wand using some foam or felt and craft sticks.
- Make a collage by gluing different colored feathers on a piece of cardstock. Talk about the different colors, and how soft the feathers feel.
Math & Science:
- Create a fish tank, as inspired by the book One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish, like this one at Green Olives & Ham.
- Turn your water table into a fish tank or the ocean using bath fish. Talk about the fish and their different colors and sizes.
- Make some frogs out of felt or foam. Have the children practice counting the frogs or putting them in order by size.
Pretend Play:
- Setup your dramatic play area as a farm. Make a barn using a cardboard box and include plenty of play farm animals. Take a field trip to a local farm like the Allendale Farm in Brookline.
Music & Movement:
- These flutes are a great way for the children to make music.
- Sing some of these Letter F songs at Everything Preschool.
Field Trips:
- Visit a local fire department or farm.
Story Time:
- Have fun with felt during your story times.
- Read the book Baby Happy Baby Sad by Leslie Patricelli and talk about feelings.
- The Very Lonely Firefly by Eric Carle
- Fish is Fish by Leo Lionni
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Stands for Don't Ask Me.
Nerd: How do you factor 3x^7-2(3x-1)^2+...
Me: DAM
Me: DAM
από Sid Barrett 12 Ιανουάριος 2008
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drunks against mothers
I am an official member of the group DAM
από hmm 19 Απρίλιος 2005
1.device used to block water
2.mothers against dyslexia
3.common misspelling of damn
2.mothers against dyslexia
3.common misspelling of damn
1.Im'a go check out that beaver dam.
2.I support the D.A.M foundation.
3.Ya dam fool!
2.I support the D.A.M foundation.
3.Ya dam fool!
από steve 7 Ιούνιος 2003
The same as damn only spelled dam in chat rooms and games so it doesn't regester as swearing.
Dam, that kid really sucked yesturday.
από Jesse 21 Δεκέμβριος 2004
a sheet of latex which is placed over a womans vagina mingeduring oral sex to stop STDs from spreading.
youd better but that dam over me before you put your toung near it
από Mr X 321 26 Φεβρουάριος 2009
a sheet of latex or plastic used as a barrier between the vagina (or anus) and the mouth during oral sex. Usually used for safer oral sex or more pleasure.
My girlfriend said the dam I used during oral sex tickled her.
από bgib 26 Απρίλιος 2006
Christina Hicks, Rosa Martinez, Tabitha Something, etc are all DAM!
από your borther 7 Ιούλιος 2009


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Articles and News Reports
Four senior leaders leave behind a thriving and visible Latino Student Alliance on campusFebruary 26th, 2016
This month saw a symbolic "passing of the torch" in the Latino Student Alliance at Eastern Mennonite University, as four comadres, their friendship forged by a common love of heritage and culture, moved out of leadership positions they have held for the past three years. The women, all seniors, are largely responsible for the visibility …More
EMU sets record enrollment with the largest first-year class in decades, while graduate programs show significant growthSeptember 22nd, 2015
Eastern Mennonite University's traditional undergraduate first-year enrollment for the 2015-16 academic year was its highest in several decades, while graduate programs recorded a 26.4 percent increase in enrollment. The data represents enrollment figures from fall 2014 to fall 2015. The 2015-16 figures were released by the registrar's office following the university's official census date of …More


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This book is also offered as an e-book. The art and poetry in this book describe the beauty of our lives in this mysterious, living cosmos.
Born in California, I traveled the world after the Vietnam War. I studied music and art in order to heal my spirit. I met my wife in Mexico and we are blessed with two wonderful children. I completed my education in art and biology with attached teaching credentials. I painted for forty years and began to write poetry at the end of this period. I was inspired by an intuition of enlightenment. The poems describe my sense of beauty and wonder at our cosmic being. We are little, but we are a part of everything.
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SAFETY ALERT: If you are in danger, please use a safer computer, or call 911, your local hotline, or the U.S. National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233 and TTY 1-800-787-3224. See more technology safety tips here. There is always a computer trail, but you can leave this site quickly.
Annotated Bibliography
Fawcett, G., Heise, L., Isita-Espejel, L., & Pick, S. (1999). Changing Community Response to Wife Abuse: A Research and Demonstration Project in Iztacalco, Mexico. American Psychologist, 54(1), 41-49. Language: English
This article describes the process of designing a multifaceted, community based intervention to change community responses to wife abuse in Iztacalco, a low-income community on the outskirts of Mexico City. The goal of the intervention is to encourage women to recognize and disclose abuse and to encourage more constructive, less victim blaming attitudes among family members, friends and the community at large. The intervention is based on the belief that the response that a woman first gets upon disclosing her situation will be critical in setting the course of her future actions. The intervention includes small-scale media (e.g., buttons, posters, events) and a 12-session workshop to train women as community change agents. The design is based on insights derived from formative research and from the transtheoretical model of behavior change as elaborated by J.O. Prochaska and C.C. DiClemente (1982) and adapted to the special case of domestic violence by J. Brown (1997). The article also illustrates the utility of adapting popular education techniques to the research setting in order to facilitate more honest disclosure of prevailing norms and attitudes about abuse.
Flores, E., Cicchetti, D., & Rogosch, F. A. (2005). Predictors of Resilience in Maltreated and Nonmaltreated Latino Children. Developmental Psychology, 41 (2), 338-351. Language: English
This article presents the results of a study conducted to investigate the effects of child maltreatment and process influencing maladaptation in Latino children. The study included a sample of 133 Latino children in New York. The sample was characterized as disadvantaged and at risk for maladaptive outcomes. The results concluded that maltreated children have fewer areas of resilient functioning. Maltreated children also displayed more internalizing and externalizing behavior problems than nonmaltreated Latino children.
Flores-Ortiz, Y., Esteban, M., & Carrillo, R.A. (1994). La Violencia en la Familia: Un Modelo Contextual de Terapia Intergeneracional. Revista InterAmericana de Psicología/InterAmerican Journal of Psychology, 28(2), 235-250. Language: English
This journal article (written in Spanish) describes an effective treatment approach used with a Central American family that has suffered severe trauma, war-torn situations, migrations, alcoholism, and severe domestic violence. The model is proposed for similar populations.
Fontes, L. A. (1998). Ethics in family violence research: Cross cultural Issues. Family Relations, 47, 53-61. Language: English
This article examines ethical issues in cross-cultural research on family violence. It suggests ways for researchers to increase understanding and avoid abuses of power. Special attention to informed consent, definitions of the sample, composition of the research team, research methods, and potential harm and benefit are considered key to designing ethical cross-cultural research. The discussion is illustrated with examples from the literature and from the author's experiences conducting research on sexual abuse in a shantytown in Chile and with Puerto Ricans in the U.S.
Fontes, L.A. (1993). Disclosure of sexual abuse by Puerto Rican children: Oppression and cultural barriers. Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 2(1), 21-33 Language: English
This study was based on the interviews of psychotherapists who had experience working with Puerto Rican clients affected by sexual abuse and women who were sexually abused as children. It looked at the disclosure information they both provided relating to sexual abuse. It sets forth the pressures on children that lead them towards not disclosing sexual abuse including characteristics of society, ethnic culture, victim's family, abusive situation, and the victim itself. The findings indicated some systemic factors preventing disclosure that included: discrimination, poverty, migration and the lack of bilingual services. The study also found some cultural factors playing a big role in fewer disclosures such as childrearing norms and practices, the value of virginity, and taboos against discussing sex.
Fontes, L.A. (2000). Working with Latino families on issues of child abuse and neglect. The National Child Advocate, 3 (2), p.1, 4-7. Language: English
This article discusses the factors involved in working with Latino families on issues of child abuse and neglect. According to the author, these factors include: language barriers, family life, isolation through migration, poverty because it separates them from support, and neglect. It also mentions the hindrances to the disclosure of sexual abuse: the issue of remaining a virgin until marriage, experiences of discrimination, and respect towards adults. The article provides a list of suggestions for improving cultural competence and ways to work best with Latino families.
Alianza is not responsible for the information provided in any of the websites, books, videos or other resources published by any of the organizations or other entities listed.
Copyright © 2009 National Latino Alliance for the Elimination of Domestic Violence (Alianza), All Rights Reserved.
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Hi Sara......you did a phone reading with me about my missing cat on Friday evening and I wanted to let you know that we found her on Monday! You said she might have some sort of injury to her throat or mouth but nothing serious. Her chin is scratched up but nothing alarming :-) You said she would be back but not until after the weekend and then Monday, there she was!
Thank you so much for talking with me. The peace of mind you gave me regrading Setzer was invaluable. We appreciate your help in reuniting us with our fur baby!
October 2014
Today my friend and I (with digital photos of Moose and Murphy), came to you for a reading while you were at Woofstock………a total first for her and a first "dog reading" for me. What an unbelievably exhilarating experience!!! I wish I had my boys there for you to meet in person but what you told me about them AND MYSELF was so true, so inspirational……so hopeful and great advice that was so special to hear …..especially from someone I never met before!!!!!
We will ALWAYS remember today, will look for you again to ask you more. I am going to email both my daughters who have dogs and give them your web site. You have a gift…truly a special gift and provide such a unique service to those who are fortunate to meet with you. THANK YOU and I wish you the very best!
September 2012
My parents and I brought Rosie, our (at the time) 14 year-old chocolate lab in to see Sara at a local pet store. This was my Christmas gift to Rosie—I had recently had a friend bring their dog to Sara and after hearing what they had to say, I was skeptical but curious. No one was more skeptical than my father. Rosie was our pride and joy. We all knew she was getting older and we did not have too much time left with her. I wanted to get her to Sara so my parents and I could make sure she was still living a comfortable life. Rosie never met a human she did not like—certainly not one with hands to scratch her! She was smitten with Sara instantly. Going in to this we had said we would not ask specific questions—we wanted to see what Sara could tell us. We were absolutely blown away. When we asked Sara which couch Rosie preferred—there were numerous that she'd switch between throughout the day—she told us Rosie liked the one in her "bedroom" but wanted us to open the curtain once in a while to let some light in. (We always kept the curtain shut in the den because Rosie was usually the only one going in there.) We asked Sara if there was anything we could give Rosie to make her feel more comfortable or happy. Sara said that the heart-shaped dog treats my father occasionally gave her were her favorite. (The dog treats from the store down the street he picked up every now and then to surprise her were heart-shaped.) Most significantly, Rosie wanted to tell us that the picture of our family we have on display is her favorite and that she felt that she was with "her gang". We instantly thought of our family portrait hanging in the kitchen that has Rosie front and center, grinning from ear to eat with her tongue hanging out. It has been over a year since this happened so I unfortunately cannot remember the other miraculous things that Sara was able to tell us, but we all left as believers… including my father. We had to make the difficult decision to put Rosie down in June 2011 after 14 wonderful years as a family. One thing we are so incredibly grateful for is that we were able to meet with Sara before Rosie's passing. We knew that the time was coming, but Sara was able to help us feel more confident that Rosie was just as happy and healthy as the day we had brought her home. It has been an extremely difficult year since we lost her, but our visit with Sara brought my family peace of mind. Not only can we smile at our memories with Rosie, we can also smile knowing that all of those times we looked like "crazy people" talking to our beloved four-legged friend, she was right there, talking back to us.
March 2012
I adopted Fawn 11 months ago. She was extremely timid, afraid of everything: fast movements, loud and not so loud noises, wind, rain pelting the roof, snow falling off the roof, etc. She spent a lot of time under the kitchen table and in her crate. It took 3 months for her just to go look out of the french doors. I wanted to do all I could to help her overcome her fears. When I heard about Reiki for dogs, I decided to give it a try.
After Fawn's first session, I noticed a difference on the ride home. Fawn was actually sitting up in the seat, looking around and smelling the air, enjoying the ride by the look on her face! She previously would just lie down with her head down and stay very quiet. Fawn has now had a few sessions and I feel that they have helped her calm down. She no longer needs her crate and sleeps in front of the french doors basking in the sun. It's still a work in progress, but Fawn has come a long way and I believe Reiki has been instrumental in her progress.
November 16, 2009
Maggie is my obedience dog and I have been showing her in Rally and in Obedience. She is a Flat Coated Retriever with tons of energy and can get over stimulated and loose attention easily. I took her to Sara for Reiki before our shows and Reiki seemed to settle her and help her focus. I think it also helps her physically with the rigors of training. On Maggie's first visit she would not settle for Sara, but by the second visit she was more willing to let Sara work on her and more receptive. In addition to the energy work, Maggie seemed to communicate with Sara, telling her things that I instinctively knew but affirming those things so I would be more aware and incorporate the knowledge in my training. I was boring Maggie with training that was too repetitive. She already knew the tasks according to Sara. She was getting bored. And she reminded me through Sara how important praise and recognition is to Maggie. All in all, my experiences with Reiki for Maggie have been great. Sara seems to also have some ability as an animal communicator. Something I did not expect, but a great bonus. I will continue to take Maggie to see Sara regularly. I think it makes her feel better and consequently act and perform better.
November 2009
Corey is doing SO much better. He will now tolerate me putting the ear medicine in his ear as long as I warm it up first and do it while he is eating. What a huge improvement over the fights we use to have! I feel that the ear still needs a little more "drying" out, but the bright pink color is gone and now it just seems uncomfortable - but not painful.
November 2009
Allie is our 9 year old yellow lab mix. I learned so much about Allie's needs and wants after taking her to Sara. Sara told me Allie had a problem with her left ear and to have it checked next time we visited the Vets. I took her for a check-up and sure enough, Allie had a yeast infection in her left ear. She is now on ear drops and is improving. Allie communicated to Sara that she wanted her food more moist and with carrots on top. I do put warm water in her food (now I make it more moist) and carrots are her favorite! Allie loves Ritz Crackers and peanut butter. Sara got the vision of Ritz Crackers and peanut butter by just communicating with Allie. I was blown away by this. There was no way Sara would have known about that prior to meeting Allie. She is amazing when it comes to communicating with pets. I highly recommend her to anyone that has issues with their pets.
Cindy K.
December 2009
Sara has worked on Blizzard both at my house and at Telling Tails, and each time he has fallen into a completely relaxed state. He calls her "hot hands" and when she begins doing Reiki he dozes and often twitches and dreams. I have worked with Sara to "negotiate" what Blizzard has to do during competitions as well as what would make him a happier dog. After reiki he is calm and peaceful, which I attibute to Reiki.
Nanci H
Kelly is a retired hunting/puppy mill dog. For the most part she seemed thrilled to just be living indoors with us, but had issues with men in general and my adult son in particular. After seeing Sara, I tried all of the things that she suggested. Kelly is much more likely now to approach people, and is much better with my son. Sara described, through Kelly, many things in my home that Sara would have no way of knowing. She also confirmed my fears that Kelly's puppies were taken away from her sooner than they should have been. Sara gave Kelly the voice to express her sadness over this. Since seeing Sara, Kelly is much more content and settled in our home. I think she now realizes that she is with us for good. I would highly recommend Sara as an animal communicator, especially with a pet that has a history prior to living in your own home. Time and patience helps, but having an idea what your pet went through before can give such important insight. Don't hesitate!
Virginia K
February 2010


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LOS ANGELES (LALATE) – Gropegate, the allegations by Elaine Stockton, Anna Richardson, and four others against Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2003, are being revisited this week. Schwarzenegger battled Gropegate just before his 2003 gubernatorial election. Later, Rhonda Miller would sue the Governor for alleged conduct as well. Today details of that scandal are being reexamined.
Schwarzenegger had initially denied any wrongdoing during Gropegate. The Miller suit was allegedly then dismissed. But the the scandal was far from other. Schwarzenegger alleged admitted to "behave badly sometimes" but said that "a lot of what you see in the stories is not true".
Stockton was the wife of bodybuilder Robby Robinson; Richardson was a British television presenter. Richardson would eventually sue Schwarzenegger as well and reportedly settle the case in 2006.
Arnold Schwarzenegger Other Alleged Mistress Pictures
Alleged Mistress Photo 1
In October 2003, Schwarzenegger told news that "most of it [news reports] is not true". "I don't remember things that I've done or said 20 years ago. I don't remember things that I've done 30 years ago."
He added "And I said that many of the things that are in there are not true because that's not my behavior," he told news on October 3 that year.


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Archer Home Center: Des Moines One-Stop Remodeling Shop
From Margaret Everton on September 24, 2010 in Des Moines
Looking for that one place you can go for all your home's needs? We've got just the placea store with the flooring, cabinetry and appliances you've been looking for, without draining your bank account. It's called Archer Home Center, and its taking Des Moines home improvement by storm. Heres a sneak peek.
Quality Wood Flooring
Theres something about wood flooring that makes people fall in love with a space. Luckily, Archer Home Center has enough to choose from so everyone can walk away happy. I, for one, love the Cambridge Maple pictured to the left.
Hardwood not in the budget? They have plenty of other flooring options as well, from carpet and laminate to tile and stone.
New Kitchen Cabinets
Most people gather in the kitchen, which means that your kitchen cabinetry may just be the top focal point of your entire home design. Thats a lot of pressure, right? Not if you have plenty of beautiful cabinet designs to choose from.
These cabinets from Holiday, a top brand offered at Archer, really brighten up the space. And those frosted glass cabinet doors? Perfect.
Energy-Saving Appliances
If a new washer, dryer, refrigerator, or stove is on the top of your list, then chances are, Archer has just what youve been looking for. They even carry Energy Star appliancesand who doesnt like the idea of dropping those utility bills? This particular model is the Energy Star 4.2 IEC Cu. Ft. Colossal Capacity Frontload Washer with Steam from GE.
You now have the perfect one-stop shop for everything home improvement. Oh, how I love convenience.


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On Saturday June 14 2014, the city of Montreal witnessed a funeral procession honouring the sentient beings killed by human gluttony. More than 200 people made the decision to be part of the international protest calling for an end to the slaughter of animals. It is the first year in which the animal rights group Kebek Animal Rights Association (KARA) takes on the task on making this event a powerful message to the masses on veganism.
The March to Close All Slaughterhouses brought together a group of mourners made up by celebrities, authors, intellectuals, activists, children and even a vegetarian dog. The bodies of hens, chickens and baby piglets found dead in local Quebec farm factories were at the front of the martyr's cortège. At the close of the procession, the bodies of the animals were respectfully displayed for the mourners. Christelle Baccigotti presented a eulogy. The honorary pallbearers of these victims were Marion Achoulias and Marie-Claude Gagne, cofounders of KARA. They used megaphones to express in English and French to the spectators of the funeral march what was the motive of their activism.
"Silent about animal rights: No More!"
According to a press release by KARA, "the group intend[ed] to open the eyes and hearts of people worldwide to the suffering of animals in slaughterhouses, and to stress the urgency of adopting stronger laws to protect animals killed for food."
"There is no suffering that we inflict on animals that we do not inflict on humans," notes event spokesperson Dr. Stevan Harnad, Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Sciences at the Université du Québec à Montréal. "But the vast difference is that the suffering we inflict on humans is seen as wrong by most decent people worldwide—and it is also against the law. Not so for animals. They are not protected by the law and most of us are not only unaware of their agony in slaughterhouses, but also actively sustaining it as consumers."
The cameras of local news media were there to capture and document the event. However, at the end of the day, the effort of the animal advocates was the victim of media bias. Social Media and the "sharing" of photographs and comments illustrated to those not present what happened at the March. The Broadcast Media gave animal activist spokesperson Dr. Stevan Harnad, air time to explain the motive of the march. This was a successful and productive way to reach out to listeners about the purpose of the march and about animal rights.
The principal sponsors of the event were the French animal rights group L214 and LUSH Handmade Cosmetics. On a website created especially for this event, are displayed the different organizations that support the ideals of the event. The profound effect of the Montreal March to Close All Slaughterhouses resonated a call for activism and an awaking of love towards animal advocacy.


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You can read Michelle Obama's life two ways. In the first version, she is the quintessential modern woman success story: intelligent, articulate, and accomplished, with two Ivy League degrees, a pair of charming children and, by her early 40s, a slew of career achievements. But the trajectory of her life can be read quite differently, as a depressingly retrograde narrative of stifling gender roles and frustrating trade-offs. In significant ways, it is her husband's career, his choices — choices she has not always applauded — that have shaped her life in the last decade. For Toni Irving, a Notre Dame university assistant professor who's a friend and admirer, Michelle's story epitomizes many women's fate. "She's just as well-prepared" as her husband, Irving says. "A comparable educational background, a community-based career, an active life, an agile mind — but she is also the primary caregiver, the one who manages so much in their lives." Now his grand ambitions have pushed her into a harsh and unforgiving limelight, where every sentence she utters is parsed for error and every public moment is a minefield. The very qualities that make her an icon of 21st-century womanhood — her strong opinions, her frankness in expressing them, the confidence born of bootstrap triumphs — make her a rich target for those who still believe that outspoken woman and first lady should never be synonymous.
Two weeks after the Montana primary we meet again, this time at a downtown Chicago hotel. I ask how it feels to be characterized and mischaracterized by all manner of strangers and to have new identities constantly thrust on her. (Not that all these identities are negative. Her Secret Service code name is Renaissance, a handle resonant of quattrocento elegance and hip Harlem nights. To the Crow Nation, she is Arrowhead Woman, a name given to her by a tribal elder, in honor of her flinty strength.)
Obama lets her long-fingered hands fall open in her lap in a kind of gentle shrug. "This might be a confusing journey if I were 30 or 20. But at 44, fortunately, I'm more comfortable with who I am and I'm more clear about who I am. Had I done this 10 years ago, I don't think I could have done it with as much enjoyment. It would have been more painful. Now all the hard stuff really just rolls off your back." What has helped, she says, is feedback from people who actually saw and heard her on the campaign trail. She says their message has been "'Don't change.' People, women particularly, say: 'Be who you are.' And my husband and my children don't want me to change, and they're the people I listen to the most."
And yet she has changed, not only in her swift mastery of campaigning but also in the newfound canniness of her public utterances. It's hard to imagine the Obama of today making the statement she did back in February: "For the first time in my adult lifetime, I'm really proud of my country."
The Transformation
Some women are watching Obama's transformation with mixed feelings. It can be "heartbreaking'' to see her "navigate this new world of utter spousedom, when she's so much more than that," says Connie Schultz, a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist for the Plain Dealer of Cleveland and the wife of Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown. Schultz, author of And His Lovely Wife: A Memoir from the Woman Beside the Man, left her newspaper job briefly to help her husband campaign in 2006. When Barack went on the road with them "and heard me making some crack backstage, he'd say, 'You've got to meet my wife. You would love Michelle'; it was never when I was being warm and fuzzy," Schultz says. Last summer, Schultz and Senator Brown saw Michelle's appearance on The View together and watched as the camera panned over Obama's legs while she talked about not wearing pantyhose. "And my husband said, 'I can't believe she has to do this.'"


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With summer heat soaking sun-kissed bodies, our attention was turned to South Beach as statuesque models paraded designer swimwear during Mercedes Benz Fashion Week Swim 2011. The event which took place in Miami on July 15-19 included many of the top names in designer swimwear including Trina Turk, Beach Bunny Swimwear, Mara Hoffman, True Religion Swimwear, Tyler Rose, and Nicolita to name a few.
One of the weeks highlights was Beach Bunny. Label designer Angela Chittenden showed a cohesive collection of strong feminine pieces with a sexy lingerie feel including many cut outs, bandages, and lace. Many of the models walked the runway as if they were in a Victoria Secret fashion show with lace eye masks and thigh high stockings; it comes as no surprise that the line was designed in collaboration with the Kardashian sisters, Kim, Kourtney, and Khloe. "I was just in awe of everything on the runway," said Khloe in a statement released by the brand."Now we all need to work out a little bit harder to flaunt it!"
Here in Boston, one of the area's most fashionable designers took a trip to check out the beat of Miami and network for the launch of her very own swimwear collection. Daniela Corte is one of Boston's lead up and coming designers; her ready to wear collection is made up of statement making pieces suitable for upscale events yet versatile for everyday, multi-seasonal wear. She designs with a vision of a woman, taking characteristics she most admires and are true to her which results in a collection representative of her heart and soul. With the success of her apparel, Daniela is taking a leap into swimwear with her signature line officially launching in time for Resort 2011. Her line will include smoking hot bikinis including some hand sewn "couture" swimwear which will feature metal hardware accents for a strong meets feminine feel.
As a fashion industry insider, it was interesting to hear Daniela Corte's take on what she experianced during Miami Fashion Week; she shed light on Mara Hoffman's collection and favored its innovative style. "I love her new take on tribal prints. The accessories were the perfect element to complete the amazing shapes she showed," Daniela stated after returning to Boston. Daniela Corta is not alone in her admiration of Mara's collection; seen as a visionary, Mara sought inspiration from jungles, crystal caves, oceans, and tribal women. Her line was color soaked, raw, and sensual. With an ever growing knowledge and presence of Daniela Corte, it makes sense as to why she spoke so highly of one of the most innovative shows of the week. Corte's own design asthetic mirrors innovation in each garment she creates, constantly challenging the image of the demure woman while giving her fire, edge, and femininity at the same time.
View Daniela Corte's website here and make an appointment to visit her showroom located at 211 Newbury Street in Boston.


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Jolla Sailfish OS launching as a launcher to invade Android
This week the folks behind the smartphone hardware and software brand Jolla have decided they'd be invading the world through Android. Before Sailfish 1.0 is launched across the whole world with smashing success, the company has decided they'd be rolling in a way for users on Android (the most common OS out there today for phones) to test their Jolla-made bits. This test will come in the form of a launcher.


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It's no secret that many hopeful runners didn't get registered this year with the new lottery registration system. Anyone can still participate in a way (and score a T-shirt) by volunteering to help out. The Houston Marathon Committee has just announced openings for course safety guards, finish line medal distributors, water table help, and more.
This is a good way to give back to the running community here in Houston, and who knows, perhaps build up some good karma to redeem in next year's lottery. To get involved, go to the volunteer sign-up page.
The 2012 U.S. Olympic Marathon Team Trials are coming
Houston will be hosting the Olympic trials. This is a huge nod to Houston's growing prominence and importance in the elite road racing world. It's also worth noting that an event this big will funnel a large amount of cash into the local economy during these rough financial times.
To get involved and volunteer for the trials, and possibly rub shoulders with the stars, send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com. They will add your info to the database and contact you when they get closer to the event.
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LOL, it's funny to us because it's so true huh?
Here's my rant for the day:
Everytime I go there to see what's new it's like: "Here is my new skin. It's Darth [random name here]." And it's always a Jawa painted black or grey (maybe desaturated, or maybe painted solid with MS paint) with a vibrant green or red glowing eyes. Then of course there is also the multitude of reborn models with the intitials of the clans painted on the ass flaps, also done with MS paint, normally in a bright green color or preferably some bright yellow or orange. Lately- and here is one that is really starting to bother me: there have been a lot of Quinlan Vos re-skins! And I'm not talking about re-skins of the Quinlan Character himself. I'm talking about everything from Quinlan in chainmail to Quinlan in clown make up. He's becoming the new reborn. Then, I go to upload my skins or a pack and guess what...it's FULL!!!! Grrrrrr....
Okay, phew...I feel like Peter Griffin doing the "You know what really grinds my gears..." segment. I just needed to vent...
Anyhow, back on topic for me lol
Is it working okay for you? I've only had bugs with the ghost qui-gon on 2 custom maps. (coruscant heights 2.0 and mygeeto- which I think might be due to custom shaders)
Let me know if you guys spot any other bugs- I want it to be PERFECT!
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