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For Immediate Release
August 1, 2003
The Illinois State Board of Education today announced
the names of the more than 100 organizations and centers
receiving a total of nearly $30 million in new grant funds.
The grants were awarded to 130 child care centers, community-
based organizations, social services agencies, and education
entities including local school districts, regional offices
of education and two and four-year colleges and universities
across the state.
These programs provide children with opportunities
to jumpstart their learning experiences, State Superintendent
of Education Robert Schiller said. The grant money
funds educational programs for students and parents which
is a critical element in establishing lifelong learning.
The Early Childhood Block Grant is a competitive grant
program that combines three early childhood initiatives,
the Pre-kindergarten Program for Children at Risk of Academic
Failure, Parent Training, and the Prevention Initiative.
Funds from the grant are used to emphasize the relationship
among early childhood education, parent education and
involvement, and future success in school.
The 130 programs will be funded for the 2003-04 school
year. This is in addition to the 476 programs currently
funded with Early Childhood Block Grant funds of $184
million. The General Assembly, and Gov. Blagojevich recently
signed, the appropriation of $30 million in new funds
aimed at helping an additional 8,000 at-risk three- and
four-year-olds currently on a waiting list for pre-school
programs. The increase is the first step in a three-year
plan to make preschool available to every one of the approximately
25,000 three and four year-olds in Illinois who are at
risk of falling behind when they enter school.
Eligible applicants include public school districts,
university laboratory schools, charter schools, area vocational
centers, and other entities such as child care providers
and community-based organizations.
The Early Childhood Block Grant Recipients List can be
accessed at http://www.isbe.net/news/2003/ec_block_grant_recipient.pdf.
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The eighth grade captured first in their division downing Three Rivers while the seventh B team finished second, losing to Three Rivers. Our C team lost in the first round to Three Rivers.
Our eighth grade defeated host Gervin in the first round and then went three games with Three Rivers to bring home the Championship. Our seventh B team defeated Stacey in their opening round before losing to Three Rivers in the Championship game. Our C team played Three Rivers closely in both games before falling to the Lady Bulldogs.
Team members for each team are as follows:
Seventh C - Emily Melendez, Calyssa Garza, Christabella Gonzales, Cheyenne Garza, Kayla May, Myranda Zielonka and Ashleigh Cloud;
Seventh B - Hallie Taylor, Cora Lopez, Kierse Hopes, Brooke Stahl, Charlsie Harris and Tiffani Thornton;
Eighth - Hannah Arisola, Mia Bowser, Lauren Workmen, Lily Arredondo, Mirza Bazan, Lexi De La Garza and Makinna Serrata.
These teams will finish their seasons against Charlotte and Pleasanton.

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Just wondering... is 3 weeks to early to introduce a dummy? Will my LO get confused?
He's doing a lot of comfort sucking - my nipples are in agony.
Just wondering... is 3 weeks to early to introduce a dummy? Will my LO get confused?
He's doing a lot of comfort sucking - my nipples are in agony.
Hi there... I just wantd to post quickly and let you know that some will advise against it for good reason.. primarily to not have an ill affect on your supply before it is fully established! .. but I wanted to share my experience... my LO has a huge sucking need and took one fine for nap/bed time - he also has recently found his thumb and now though I am sure some would advise against this as well, am trying to discourage the thumb! IMO I would rather the pacifer.
In any event, There is some info out there and hopefully someone with links can come by soon to give you better info that just my experience
Good luck! and congratulations on your new babe
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as someone who has experienced significant nipple soreness/pain - i say do what you have to do to continue the nursing/bonding relationship.
my 3rd baby was really hard to nurse in the first few months to where i almost quit and would cry and cry. i broke down and gave him bottles and pacifiers to give my aching nipples a break. after my healing was complete i took him off everything but the breast we have never looked back - he is now 7 mos.
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Welcome to Pearl City, a thriving town home to 47,000 people. Among them, Ruby Kaho'opi'i, who has lived here close to 50 years.
"Oh, it really changed a lot. When we moved here, there was just a small portion," said Kaho'opi'i. "My husband was a veteran so we got the veteran rights to pick up lots."
Click here to watch Moanikeala Nabarro's report.
Suburban development kickstarted here in the 1890s when O'ahu Railway and Land Company added a Pearl City station to their bustling train line.
Councilman Breene Harimoto was born here in 1954. He remembers when all of this was sugar cane fields.
"We would see these huge trucks come by and hauling all the sugar cane to the factory," said Harimoto.
Down the hill, a repair shop where the Pearl City theater once stood. For nine cents, you could catch a double feature!
This is a big, small town. It's easy to find familiar faces, like restaurant owner Harry Balatico. Ask him about Pearl City and he thinks of just one place.
"Pearl City Tavern, now everybody knows Pearl City Tavern," said Balatico. "And they had the Monkey Bar there and the Banzai showing there. It was one of the places local people would go and eat."
For others, Pearl City is about winners, especially in baseball. Pearl City has won so many titles, some still think of it as a baseball town.
But what about the name?
The traditional name for Pearl City is Manana. An old map shows Manana as one of 12 ahupua'a, or subdivisions, within the Ewa district. It sits right next to the ahupua'a of Waiawa, Waimano and Wai'au.
Through the years, the lines have been mostly forgotten and this entire area is now known as simply Pearl City.
The Manana ahupua'a runs from the Ko'olau mountains and into the Pearl Harbor lochs.
In ancient times, the floodplains were strictly taro, but not the irrigated type. Instead, it was a ditch bed form-filled with water from the streams and surrounding springs.
The watercress farm in Aiea gives us a glimpse of what those floodplains might have looked like.
Standing across the street from the Wai'au Power Plant, you'll find an overgrown fresh pool of water, where some believed a mermaid lived.
The legend speaks of a worried mother who goes searching for her missing daughter at Honokawailani.
"As she walks toward the daughter, the daughter tells her to stop and she doesn't know why," said Lahela Igarta, the kumu at Wai'au Elementary. "She asked the daughter to come with her and as [the daughter] dives down she sees a mermaid tail. So, the mother cries because she knows the daughter can never come home with her."
Long before the attack on Pearl Harbor, the waters here were known for their beautiful pearls. But, by the 1880s, deforestation caused major runoff suffocating the oysters. By 1901, there were hardly any left.
Today, the water is still here, but so much has changed.
In the early 2000s, big box retailers like Walmart and Home Depot started to move in, but not without a fight.
"The community was clear that they didn't want the big boxes coming in. We wanted to keep it kinda local," said Harimoto. "We got the big boxes and all the traffic."
Soon, a train will change this town again. These empty homes sit on an area known as the Banana Patch. Eventually it will be transformed into a rail station and parking garage.
But, despite the ever-changing surroundings, people who live here still embody that old school Aloha.
"It's a wonderful community, even though we've grown into a big city," said Harimoto. "I think we still cherish that in our hearts -- local style. I live up the street now. I still feel that."
Give the size of Pearl City there so much more history that we didn't have time to get to -- the old Pearl City bowling alley, the peninsula in the 1920s and 1930s that was Hawaii's version of the Hamptons.


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The way the Rockets' organization has been handling Jeremy Lin, it's getting to the point where I might end up hating that organization...... Lin is in the process of being destroyed as an NBA player.
They have a coaching staff that cannot figure out that the offense stalls because nobody on that team sets decent screens. (This was never a problem with the Knicks.) They're oblivious to matchups. And tend to bench players for reasons that are beyond me. After finding out that the team's previous point guard (Kyle Lowry) wanted out as well, this is a meltdown about to happen.
Heck, the Rockets' message board doesn't even tolerate critical opinion.... The whole culture over there is F---ed............
In retrospect, I wish Lin stayed with the Knicks. Even if he fizzled and ended up on the bench like he did in Houston. (Although I don't think this would have happened if he stayed with the Knicks.) By the same token, I'm happy for Raymond Felton.
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I've been debating about whether or not to post this, but I can't get it off my mind & sort of need to vent a little...so here goes...
DD is 5 months old (tomorrow) & EBF. She mostly nurses but takes bottles of EBM while I'm at work or otherwise away from her at feeding time. She eats 6-7X per day. From 3 mos til the last week or so she rarely nursed at night (she sleeps in her crib in her own room). For the last week - 10 days she has been waking up a lot at night & nursing usually at least once. She eats just from one side, usually about 8-10 min or so, but she's pretty sleepy. She probably gets 3-4oz from that feeding. I think she may also be teething (she's been clamping down on me a lot - no teeth yet tho thank goodness!) & was pretty gassy for a few of those nights. All those are reasons that I think she's been waking up more at night.
DH and I have lost a lot of sleep in the last week (she almost always needs to be rocked back to sleep when she wakes up) & everyone is telling us that if we start giving her solids she'll sleep thru the night. I'm not buying it...I've heard conflicting things about that & I don't think that's a good reason to start solids. She doesn't really have any of the signs of "solids readiness" (according to KellyMom site). Our pedi told me to start rice cereal w/her around 5 months, so I was planning to start it soon, but I was hoping to wait til she was closer to 6 months. My gut feeling is that she's not quite ready, but maybe it's more that I'm not quite ready, KWIM? Her weight gain has slowed (birth was 6.14, 9.6 @ 1mo, 12.2 @ 2mo, 14.3 @ 4mo), so maybe she does need a little extra something? She's also gotten way more active in the last month or so, so I think that's why her weight gain has slowed. She's a happy, bouncing girl & seems perfectly satisfied after nursing. She usually goes 2.5-3hrs between feedings.
Anyway, my MIL watches her for us on Mondays & this last week she just kept saying stuff about solids (DD was not even officially 5 months yet)...it was driving me nuts & really making me question what I'm doing. She was a pediatric nurse but did not really breastfeed herself, so I'm not sure how much she really knows about BF babies. I was tired & put on the spot, so I didn't explain my reasoning as well as I could have, but I hate feeling like I have to explain/defend what I'm doing. She's not the only one, my parents & others have said the same thing about solids.
So...finally getting to my actual question...should I start the rice cereal sooner rather than later? Will it actually help her to sleep better? Is the night waking really a sign that she's not getting enough to eat?
So sorry this is so long...just needed to vent a little I guess. Like I said, this has been bugging me all week. Just want to do what's best for my baby girl...
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Earlier today, Dries committed a patch that adds two Symfony2 Components to Drupal: ClassLoader and HttpFoundation.
On its face it's a fairly simple patch; the new code in it is maybe a dozen lines. But it's an important part of a larger shift within Drupal to better embrace the modern web, on the server as well as the client.
This is not your father's Internet. When the Web was first emerging onto the scene, it was simple. Individual web pages were self-contained static blobs of text, with, if you were lucky maybe an image or two. The HTTP protocol was designed to be "dumb". It knew nothing of the relationship between an HTML page and the images it contained. There was no need to. Every request for a URI (web page, image, download, etc.) was a completely separate request. That kept everything simple, and made it very fault tolerant. A server never sat around waiting for a browser to tell it "OK, I'm done!"
Much e-ink has been spilled (can you even do that?) already discussing the myriad of ways in which the web is different today, mostly in the context of either HTML5 or web applications (or both). Most of it is completely true, although there's plenty of hyperbole to go around. One area that has not gotten much attention at all, though, is HTTP.
Well, that's not entirely true. HTTP is actually a fairly large spec, with a lot of exciting moving parts that few people think about because browsers offer no way to use them from HTML or just implement them very very badly. (Did you know that there is a PATCH command defined in HTTP? Really.) A good web services implementation (like we're trying to bake into Drupal 8 as part of the Web Services and Context Core Initiative </shamelessplug>) should leverage those lesser-known parts, certainly, but the modern web has more challenges than just using all of a decades-old spec.
Most significantly, HTTP still treats all URIs as separate, only coincidentally-related resources.
Which brings us to an extremely important challenge of the modern web that is deceptively simple: Caching.
As people spent the weekend trying to memorialize the 9/11 terrorist attack's 10th anniversary, I was reminded not of 9/11/2001, but of 9/11/2002.
For the first anniversary, a friend of mine asked me to write something for a memorial web site he was putting together. I do not know if that site still exists, so I have replicated it here in its entirety:
My article from the inaugural issue of Drupal Watchdog is now online. Design Patterns of Drupal is based on my original session from DrupalCon Paris. Although Drupal-centric, it serves as a great introduction to the concept of design patterns in general.
If you're going to be at DrupalCon London, watch for Watchdog issue #2 in your swag bag! It looks like I may have as many as three articles in it, discussing mobile web design, Drupal 7's improved node access system, and how to approach the "Drupal stack" when planning a new site. I'll also be on stage talking about Code Smells and how to avoid stinky code, plus teaming up with Peter Wolanin to talk about what it means to work with Free Software.
See you in London!
Any time a given Drupal core development cycle is more than six months old, people start asking "When will Drupal X be released?" The answer, of course, is always "When it's ready. Please help us finish it." That's well and good, and I don't propose that we change that position. Volunteer labor and fixed release calendars do not mesh well.
However, knowing when Drupal will come out, at least in a vague sense, is increasingly important for core developers. The web is changing rapidly, even more rapidly than it has in the past, and knowing what the web will look like around when Drupal 8 is released is critical. Not only so that we can target the right features to get ahead of the curve, but so that we even know what our available tools are.
Session submissions are open for DrupalCon London, in case you hadn't heard. But what should we be talking about?
Once again, I'm going to solicit ideas from the community (that means you).
Naturally my main work these days is the Web Services and Context Core Initiative for Drupal 8. However, that probably won't be main-track session material by London, and I am already slated to present an update on that front as part of London's Core Conversations track.
In recent years, I've been developing an ongoing "Architecture Series" at DrupalCons. My intent is to help Drupalers around the world raise the bar in terms of software architecture and design. So far, I've covered:
If you haven't been living under a rock, you know that AT&T is trying to buy T-Mobile. This is a generally bad thing, as we already have far too much consolidation in the wireless carrier market as is, but that doesn't mean it's not still likely to happen. The only blocker is approval from the FCC, who is, per policy, soliciting public feedback. (It's 11-65.)
I would encourage everyone to sign in and voice their opposition. More carrier consolidation is not what we need. I've included my own public comments below for reference. Feel free to borrow liberally.
At DrupalCon Chicago, Dries announced that the development process for Drupal 8 would be a bit different. Rather than a vast dog pile of efforts to improve Drupal in ways big and small, Drupal 8 will feature a number of major "core initiatives". These initiatives highlight major areas of work that represent not just a patch or three but major changes to Drupal's plumbing. Each initiative will have one or two initiative leads who have the ability to coordinate and make decisions relating to that initiative while working closely with Dries. In a large sense, it is a way for Dries to scale; Rather than Dries having to keep track of 1000 ongoing conversations himself, initiative owners can coordinate related changes while Dries coordinates the initiative owners. It also gives a clear indication of what work is happening and what to expect out of Drupal 8.
The first initiative for Drupal 8 has already been announced; Greg Dunlap will be leading the charge to overhaul Drupal's configuration system to provide more robust, performant, and deployable configuration and change management. That will be critical for Drupal's future as we push further into the corporate and enterprise sphere, as well as enabling more robust and unified configuration handling in the first place.
Today, I am pleased to announce Drupal's second core initiative: The Web Services and Context Core Initiative (WSCCI).
Drupal's CVS repository was pronounced dead this Thursday 24 February at 6:08 pm US Eastern Time. Cause of death was reported acute age combined with an inability to properly merge. CVS is survived by approximately 7000 Drupal projects and a new farm of Git repositories.
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Twas the Night Before Christmas at the MLB Blogs
Twas the Night Before Christmas and in every house
All good MLB bloggers and readers were clicking their mouse
They hung all their stockings, decorated their trees
and now it was time to sit down and see
What everyone posted on this Christmas Eve.
A nice break to read a bunch of good bloggers
Was just what they needed, but Oh no! the buggers!
When they went to the MLB site, none could be found.
"Oh no, we're afraid Mark went out of town
Is the server down the reason we cannot read?
How could he do this in our time of need?
The bloggers all panicked, they shivered in fright,
They pined for their read/write and settled in for the night.
"Could we have misspelled the link? Did we hit the wrong key?
Did it go to LALA land?" Oh such misery!
And then in a flash, with a stroke of a key,
One by one, they discovered their Christmas Eve reads.
Their eyes how they twinkled, they laughed and smiled.
And they settled into the chair to read/write for a while.
Their hearts were delighted, they felt just like kids,
But it's still such a mystery where the MLB links had hid.
Was it there all the time and they just didn't see?
Or did Santa step in and do a good deed?
Good baseball fans are on Santa's list
And good MLB bloggers and readers he vows never to miss.
It's been a long night, time to climb into bed,
So they shut down their computers and laid down their heads.
But in a quiet of night, before things came to an end,
They heard "Thanks for reading and writing with me,
Its great to read and write with baseball friends!"
I wish you peace and joy!
Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!
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Too cute! Merry Christmas to you too. Well done!
Now dash away, dash away, dash away all…to sleep that is.
Dear Emma,
Wondelful post !, thank you for delight us with your writing and great pictures. Merry Christmas you you and your family .
Glad you liked that. I'll dash away, dash away soon to sleep 🙂
Hey Bluedog! Hope Santa y el nino Dios is good to you.
Holy Moly,
Emma it seems that everyone is writing their version of "The Night Before Christmas" this season.
But what is cool about each version is the local and team oriented difference that makes it all seem brand new every time you read one of them.
Hopefully we will all be here clicking our mouses tonight.
Feliz Navidad, Merry Christmas and Buno Natale to you and your family.
Rays Renegade
What a cool poem, Emma! It brought a big smile to my face. My very best to you on this Christmas eve! Hope Santa is good to you.
Feliz Navidad! Mele Kalikimaka, Frohe Wiehnachten, Buno Natale, and Nadolig Llawen. Now I want to hear the Welsh melody "All Thru the Night." It is beautiful!
Glad that made you smile!
I am going to go to your blog. Need to ask you something about wineries in Santa Barbara.
I am looking forward to midnight mass at our local church.
Emma: Whoa that was really good hahaha! You're so sweet. Hope you had a holly-jolly Christmas🙂
Merry Christmas to you too Jenn!
Virigina! I was thinking about you when I saw a picture of Andre Ethier! haha. I hope you guys never get him.
Thanks Jeff!
That certainly lifted the spirits this weekend, Emma! Thank you!
– Randy
Emma, excellent as always. I hope you and your family had a great Christmas and will enjoy an even better new year….
Thanks Randy. Right now my spirit needs lifting. I've been working since 5 with problems at work when this week should be a holiday week for me since the company is shutdown. The problems of IT do not know is a holiday. On top I got plumbing problems at work with someone that came in to do work and is now worst, left that he can't fix and now I find myself looking for another plumber while I need to fix problems at work.
Hi Peter,
I did have a nice vacation. Just hope after today, things will be better.


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On October 1, 2009, the Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story was established, the first Joint Base in Hampton Roads. Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek – Fort Story is the country's premier installation for housing and training the nation's Expeditionary Forces. It is one command with two properties: Joint Expeditionary Base Fort Story and JEB Little Creek. The Joint Expeditionary Base is comprised of the former Naval Amphibious Base Little Creek and the Army Post of Fort Story. Fort Story witnessed the humble beginnings of our country at the 1607 first landing site. Little Creek began as a dynamic training ground for World War II amphibious forces. Together they comprise the crown jewel of America's military bases.


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I was a late bloomer, meaning it took me about twice as long as the average human to stop fucking around and grow up. There are all kinds of reasons for that, but one thing that always stood in the way was fear: fear that once I flipped the magical switch that lit up the adult bulb, it would turn out to be the garbage disposal instead, shredding through childhood like week-old chili. I don't think that's an uncommon fear -- we tend to build up these preconceived notions about things we've never experienced and then just sort of blindly deal with those false impressions when we get there. Right, sex?
I can't eliminate those fears -- that's something that comes from experience, not sermons. But I can give you a heads up on some beliefs that turned out to be wrong when I made my own transition. For instance ...
4Adulthood Is Nothing but Work, Work, Work
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When You're a Kid ...
"I've seen my parents rushing around, trying to get things done, and they look miserable. Mom's carrying a full-time job on top of trying to keep the house in order and everyone fed. Dad is on the fifth year of his 'sleep until 4 p.m. and then drink until he passes out' scientific study. Watching them operate is exhausting. If I ever get that way, just put a gun in my mouth and end my misery in a merciful expulsion of crimson mist and matted hair. I am 9 years old."
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"Do not test my patience again, Father."
But When You're an Adult ...
Adulthood isn't about the job ... it's about contribution. We automatically know that the dad in that psychotic 9-year-old's example isn't a true adult, even though we know nothing else about his life. Why? It's not because he drinks. Plenty of well-adjusted, respectable people drink. It's not because he doesn't have a job. There are millions of at-home parents across the globe who sure as hell aren't considered social strap-ons. They contribute by making a better environment for their children and taking pressure off of their spouse's back.
But just from those few sentences, we know that this dad is a piece of shit, because he sits back and just exists while the mother does all of the major work, both in and out of the house. I can remember only a handful of years that my dad didn't live with his mother. Even when he had a job, he spent all of his money on booze and personal bullshit. He worked his ass off but contributed virtually nothing to his family or society. He went to his grave never having reached the status of "adult." But, man, could he draw a mean cartoon penis on an Etch A Sketch.
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He never figured out how to erase them, though, so he just bought new ones.
On a more literal note, does being an adult mean that you have to physically work more than when you're a teenager? It can mean that. It depends on the career you choose and how much of your life you want to devote to it. But looking back on my own high school years, I don't think I work any harder now than I did back then. Think about it: Your day doesn't end after eight hours at school. You still have homework to do. Tests to study for. Projects to complete. Do you play sports? Are you in the school band? Chorus? Drama? Fight Club? If so, you're probably putting in more hours a week than I am.
Contribution is the key. Does that mean you have to have a family or become some life-saving community volunteer? Hell no. Contribution comes in many forms. But being able-bodied and able-minded and choosing to just exist while others take care of you isn't it. That's more garden than human.
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3Responsibility Means Being an Uptight Asshole
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When You're a Kid ...
"Why do I have to eat my dinner before dessert? It's all food, and it's all going into my body. What difference does it make what order I eat them? It's just dumb, arbitrary bullshit. And while I'm at it, please get off my nuts about being 20 minutes late to grandma's dinner. I wasn't that hungry to begin with, and it wasn't like I was late for school or work. It was just laid back family stuff. I understand about responsibility, but holy Christ, if being an adult turns me into a meticulous bean counter, I'll just become a Time Lord so I can flip off the world forever."
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I said "Time Lord," not "blurry clock baby."
But When You're an Adult ...
This is extremely hard for a lot of kids to grasp, because teaching responsibility is such a slow process. In the early years, we hammer home the idea to "just be a kid." Play, have fun. Your responsibility begins and ends with "don't set anything on fire." Then, as you grow up, we add little bits at a time. Make your bed. Then clean your room. Then we add dishes or yard work or replacing all of the sewer pipes.
Eventually, we hit a tipping point where the parent realizes, "Holy poop, she'll be on her own in just a couple of years, and we still have so much to teach her about taking care of a house and herself while maintaining a job and college classes!" At the same time, the teen thinks, "I'm going to release snakes into this house if they don't let up. I only have a couple of years left before I have to do all of this crap on my own -- why can't they just let me relax and enjoy what's left of my teenage years?"
It's panic on both sides, and each is justified. Human nature makes us repel each other, and the adults can easily start thinking of their kid as lazy, while the teen thinks of the parents as pointless drill sergeants who are getting out of chores by dumping them on the kids. Which is totally an awesome side effect of what we're doing, but it's not the goal.
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"Hahahaha! Look at those stupid assholes! Thanks for the free work, douchefucks!"
Adulthood hasn't made us slaves to responsibility; it's made us teachers, working under a very defined deadline. So whether you know it or not, you're already well on the road to responsibility. Being an uptight asshole is totally up to you, though.


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"The troubles of Fatherhood"
A good book. Not as good as The Good Earth, but worth your credit. The writing is just as flawless, but instead of a rag to riches story we have a bunch of unhappy rich people. Since the characters are not as easy to love, the book is not as good as the first. If you have not read The Good Earth, read that first.
Nepotism is studied in detail and of course the results are not good. There are some good lessons for parents about raising children and trying to steer their lives in certain directions. Matter of fact the book ends with a surprise for a father about his son. This leads you to want to read the third book, which I hope to do some day.
Years ago I used to play a game called, Romance of the Three Kingdoms and this book, made me want to go back to that game. It seems one of the sons may even be in the game, I am not sure. The book Romance of the Three Kingdoms is mentioned in this book.
The Good Earth was the best selling book in 1932 and 1933 and won a Pulitzer. This book can not compete with that, but it is a great historical fiction.
I am an avid eclectic reader.
"The 2nd generation"
This is book two of the "Good Earth" trilogy it was copyrighted in 1932, the trilogy won the Pulitzer prize. The Good Earth won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Peal S. Buck was the first American woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature. The "Sons" picks up the story from the end of the "Good Earth" at the death of Wang Lung and follows the lives of the three sons. The book lacks the passion that Wang Lung had for the land that drove the "Good Earth."
These sons grew up rich and lived a rich spoiled life each a bit different, the educated son is Wang the Landlord, the money maker is Wang the Merchant and Wang the Tiger is the war lord. The story is about the son's rising against their father and the bitter struggles to the death between the old and the new China. Buck brought many real life situation into a story of a old and foreign culture to us. She writes of love, suicide, loneliness, greed and the drive for power. She demonstrated the role of women in the old China. It is a story of love, tragedy and war. Anthony Heald did a good job narrating the story. Buck is a master story teller.
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"Not what I expected"
This second book was very draw out and to me was too much details about the power struggle in war and the brothers and class differences. I was expecting something more from the story of the whole family's struggle with the fathers influence of being a land owner and farmer with strong family values. It was a disappointment.
No. I am listening to the whole trilogy, and as much as I like it I want to move on to something else.
I'm not crazy about his narrative, but that may be because the first book- The Good Earth's - narration by Anthony Herold was sooo much better!
"Not as good as "The Good Earth " but still a very"
I loved "The Good Earth" and this book is the 2nd generation of those characters.
Pearl Buck's writing is suburb. I loved finding out what happened to the characters especially Pear Blossom.
The narrator was great but I do not think it was better than just reading the book for yourself. I just enjoy listening to books as I am driving around for my job.
Pear Blossom and "the Poor Fool"
I think that although this book is not as good as "the Good Earth" , it is worth the credit.
"The Sons"
This audiorecording was great. It was not quite as good as the first book but it is well worth the purchase . I would highly recommend it.
Reading, the arts and physical activity clarify, explain, illustrate, and interpret life's goods and bads.
"How Societies' Norms Can Blind Us"
Sons, by Pearl S. Buck, is the second in her series of allegorical tales of Pre-WWII accounts of China. The other books in the trilogy are "The Good Earth" and "A House Divided." This book tells how the children (and wives) of Wang Lung a Chinese farmer in old agrarian China, fared after they took over his heritage and fortunes which Wang accumulated in his lifetime. Lung may have acquired his affluence through fortuitous circumstances but the sons (and other heirs) are demonstrations of gross frailties of beings; and we are left to consider whether they are worthy of their opportunity. Whereas The Good Earth, examined the same societal morals, it concerned itself with Lung's life and how his wealth came into being. This novel is centered on his son's and their relationships to their sons.
The epitome of the teaching is how societal ethics can blind us as to of what is truly occurring in our relation with others. It is worth mentioning the same ignorance portrayed between fathers and sons was also found between husbands and wives.
One needs to ask, are we really as ignorant of others as Pearl S. Buck instructs. Do we really only hear what we want to hear?
"Great story, Painful Narration"
I enjoyed Pear Buck's first book, "The Good Earth" and Anthony Heald's excellent narration so much that I couldn't wait to get right to the second book. I wish I would have noticed that Anthony did not narrate the second book. Adam Verner would make an excellent GPS turn-by-turn voice guidance narrator about five or ten years ago. Very matter of fact, robotic, and completely strips the life out of the rich characters that Pearl Buck created in the first book. It got a wee bit better towards the end, and I enjoyed the book overall, but I'll be avoiding any book narrated by Adam in future, for sure.
"Loved it!"
I would definitely read this book again because it shows the rise and fall of family lines both financially and in relationships in a very frank and detailed manner. The family dynamic is very interesting and the lessons in Buck's books can be applied to one's life over and over.
You have to compare it to The Good Earth because that is its predecessor. The first book is a little more likeable with more sympathetic characters, but this one is just as engaging.
"This is a great addition to the Good Earth"
The characters are a compliment. to the Book the Good Earth. I have enjoyed each of these books many times. Along with the nwxt book A House Divided
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Wednesday, March 9, 2011
etsy shop......
I don't know if you noticed in my left sidebar... I (finally) opened a little etsy shop! I've had my shop for AGES, but finally listed a small handful of things this week, including a few red Angry Birds. I definitely don't promise to keep it stocked, but when the urge hits me and I make something in bulk (which tends to happen with fleeting obsessions!) it will most certainly show up in my shoppy shop.
11 comments:
- Tammy said...
How fun! I love those letters! I *hearted* your shop. :)
- March 9, 2011 at 9:06 AM
- Joanne Munro said...
LIKE it! I'm just working on a banner for my Etsy shop (what a hassle that turned out to be) and then I'll have one too - I'll look for you on tee. To be honest I've been so busy with my 'pays-the-bills' freelance job that I haven't had the time to post on my blog OR make anything lately so it's going to be as scant as yours!
Love the Angry Bird though!
- March 9, 2011 at 10:15 AM
- Lorena O'Neal said...
yay! excited to see what you list!
- March 9, 2011 at 10:26 AM
- mckay said...
- March 9, 2011 at 10:30 AM
- jacque4u2c said...
Awesome - I am on my way to check it out.....
- March 9, 2011 at 12:21 PM
- Jen said...
Congrats for taking the plunge! I've already hearted your shop :)
- March 9, 2011 at 1:54 PM
- susan@tickledpaisley said...
Yay! Love those angry birds : )
- March 9, 2011 at 3:05 PM
- Cammie said...
Yeah! Good job Care!!!
- March 9, 2011 at 7:13 PM
- Anna said...
- March 9, 2011 at 9:25 PM
- Melody said...
Love the Angry Birds
- March 10, 2011 at 8:00 AM
- Katie said...
This will definitely be a hit - next you should make farmville stuff. .hahahaah
- March 11, 2011 at 9:43 AM
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Greet the bride and groom with a wonderful paper craft explosion box from Craftwell. This beautiful box is easy to make with the eCraft machine and can be coordinated with the wedding colors.
- eCraft Cutting Machine
- Jen Allyson Celebrates SD Image Card
- Jen Allyson Designs SD Image Card
- Fundamentals 1 SD Image Card
- Red Cardstock
- White Cardstock
- Black Cardstock
- Black Glitter Paper
- Ribbons
- Rhinestones
- Greetings
- Adhesives
Inside Box
- Using a 12" x 12" sheet of white cardstock, score and fold 4" from each end.
- Using the fold lines as guides, cut the squares from the corners on 3 sides only.
- On the last side, draw a pencil line ½" and cut this line to the corresponding fold line.
- Attach to the outside panel of the box. Repeat with the other 3 panels.
- Fold over the ½" strip and glue it to the inside of the neighboring side panels.
- To make the lid, cut a piece of white cardstock 6" x 6". Score ½" in from each side, snip corners and secure with glue.
- Using the eCraft, cut a 4" glitter paper 'Image 9 Frame 3' as before and attach to the lid of the box.
- Decorate with hearts or flowers as desired.
Outside Box
- Using the eCraft and the Jen Allyson Designs image card and the same frame image as before, cut a 4" frame from black glitter paper, two 3½" frames from black.
- Cardstock and two 3" frames from white cardstock.
- Glue the 4" glitter paper frame to the center square.
- Join the black and white cardstock frames together and glue them to the two front inside panels.
- Using the eCraft and the Jen Allyson Celebrates Image card, select the scalloped heart used previously. Cut two 1" red and two 2½" black scalloped hearts.
- To decorate the outside of the box, use the eCraft and the Jen Allyson Designs Image card, Category 2, Frames. Cut four 4" Image 9 'Frame 3' from black cardstock.
- Using the same design card and image, cut four 3½" frames from white cardstock.
- Using the same design card and image, cut four 3" frames from black glitter paper.
- Using the Jen Allyson Celebrates Image card, Category 2 'Weddings', cut four 2½" red cardstock and four 2½" white cardstock 'Scalloped Edge Heart Cut Outs'.
- Using the photo as a guide, adhere one 4", one 3½", and one 3" together with preferred adhesive. Add the center from the white heart and the scalloped edge from the red heart to the center of the panel. Retain the red heart centers for the inside of the box.
- Separate the hearts from the scalloped edges and glue the 1" red hearts onto the front inside panels.
- Glue one red heart center and one black scalloped edge onto the corners of the back panels.
To Make The Cake
- Using the eCraft, Fundamentals 1 Image card and white cardstock, cut two 3½" circles, two 2 ½" circles, and two 2" circles.
- Attach ½" strips of white cardstock across the center of one circle and then bend over at the edges of the circles. Bend this strip again so that it measures 1" high and glue the other circle to the strips. This makes a platform to glue the cake sides on.
- Using a 12" x 12" piece of white cardstock, punch a decorative edge along one side and then cut it so that the edge will sit up above the edge of your cake platform. Glue all the way around your cake. Repeat this step with the other two cake platforms.
- Glue the three cakes together and decorate as desired.
- Glue to the inside center of the box.
- Simply add any rhinestones and greetings as desired.
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Feb 19, 2014
Maybe a video tutorial or more step by step pice
Feb 19, 2014
This is so cute. This would be great as a save the date invite, wedding invitation or for a Bridal shower. You can change the design and use this exploding box for any occation .. love it
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Feb 08, 2013
I find direction #4 in the inside box hard to explain. If I cut out the corners on the other 3 sides as in #2, I don't have them to attach to the 1/2 inch to attach to the other sides. Could you please verify that I have to cut the three corners and only glue the 1/2 inch on the back/cake side. Thank you Candi
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With the collapse of the stock market in 1929 and the Great Depression that followed, America saw more than 45 million citizens cast into abject poverty. In the midst of staggering hardship, the Great Depression also generated a tremendous outburst of creative energy in America's photographic community. At the center of the photographers documenting rural conditions, migrant workers, suffering families, and ravaged landscapes was Dorothea Lange, whose photographs from this era have become icons in American cultural history. This remarkable exhibition examines Lange's strikingly empathetic photographs along with the work of other important socially conscious photographers of the period.
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Home List of Titles Excitation spectrum of bosons in a finite one-dimensional circular waveguide via the Bethe ansatz
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- Excitation spectrum of bosons in a finite one-dimensional circular waveguide via the Bethe ansatz
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- The exactly solvable Lieb-Liniger model of interacting bosons in one dimension has attracted renewed interest as current experiments with ultracold atoms begin to probe this regime. Here we numerically solve the equations arising from the Bethe ansatz solution for the exact many-body wave function in a finite-size system of up to 20 particles for attractive interactions. We discuss the features of the solutions, and how they deviate from the well-known string solutions at finite densities. We present excited state string solutions in the limit of strong interactions and discuss their physical interpretation, as well as the characteristics of the quantum phase transition that occurs as a function of interaction strength in the mean-field limit. Finally we compare our results to those of exact diagonalization of the many-body Hamiltonian in a truncated basis. We also present excited state solutions and the excitation spectrum for the repulsive one-dimensional Bose gas on a ring.
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- 0202 Atomic, Molecular, Nuclear, Particle and Plasma Physics; 0204 Condensed Matter Physics; 0205 Optical Physics
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- Bethe ansatz solution; Boson systems; Bound states; Circular waveguides; Excitation energy; Excitation spectrum; Excited states; Finite densities; Hamiltonians; Many-body problems; One dimensional; Phase transformations; Phase transitions; Quantum theory; Wave functions
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State Plan For Vocational Rehabilitation Services And Supplement For Supported Employment Services
On December 17, 2007, RSA issued Information Memorandum 08–02, which transmits the State Plan for Vocational Rehabilitation Services (Plan) and Supplement for Supported Employment Services and provides state vocational rehabilitation (VR) agencies with instructions for the completion and submission of the Plan for fiscal year 2009.
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Promising Practices
The Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA), as part its monitoring of state employment and independent living programs funded under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended, together with state vocational rehabilitation agencies and their stakeholders, have identified promising practices. These are practices developed and implemented in each state for the purpose of enhancing employment and independent living outcomes for individuals with disabilities. These practices provide useful samples of programs and services and each practice is unique, based on the needs and resources available in that state. The practice may work differently or produce different results in your state if you choose to replicate it.
(September 20, 2007)
State Plan for Independent Living
Title VII, chapter 1 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended (the Act), establishes the State Independent Living Services (SILS) program and the Centers for Independent Living (CIL) program. The purpose of these programs is to:
promote the independent living philosophy, based on consumer control, peer support, self-help, self-determination, equal access and individual and systems advocacy;
maximize the leadership, empowerment, independence and productivity of individuals with significant disabilities; and
promote the integration and full inclusion of individuals with significant disabilities into the mainstream of American society.
To receive federal funding for the SILS and CIL programs, section 704 of the Act requires states to submit a State Plan for Independent Living (SPIL) and obtain RSA approval of a SPIL every three years. The SPIL encompasses the activities planned by the state to achieve its specified independent living objectives and reflects the state's commitment to comply with all applicable statutory and regulatory requirements. In states with a separate agency or unit that administers the SILS program for individuals who are blind, the director of that agency/unit, along with the director of the DSU are required to jointly develop and sign the SPIL and cooperate in its implementation.
SPILs were due to RSA by July 1, 2007.
Comments Invited on Draft VR Strategic Performance Plan Goals and Objectives
RSA is developing a Vocational Rehabilitation Strategic Performance Plan for the vocational rehabilitation (VR) program in order to ensure a long-term strategic focus on program performance, performance improvement, and outcomes for individuals with significant disabilities. RSA will use this plan to guide its administration of the VR program and address its basic challenges. By identifying goals and objectives linked to specific populations and high priority outcomes, the plan will assist RSA in monitoring progress of the VR program and provide appropriate, targeted support to state agencies toward the achievement of desired outcomes.
The plan will identify long-term performance goals and objectives that RSA will monitor in cooperation with the VR agencies. These goals and objectives and related performance measures will provide RSA with the foundation to begin documenting practices that lead to successful outcomes for individuals with significant disabilities and transitioning youths, identify factors that may inhibit success, and identify effective practices that help accomplish the program's mission of providing high quality vocational rehabilitation services that are tailored to the needs of individuals with disabilities. RSA will use the plan to assist state VR agencies to focus their mandated planning activities on practices that will assure progress in providing high quality services for individuals with significant disabilities. Overall, the plan will promote results shaped by careful planning, monitoring of results, and implementation of strategies designed to improve performance.
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Comments Invited on the RSA Rehabilitation Training Program
RSA is considering whether to redesign the RSA Rehabilitation Training program and solicits comments and recommendations concerning the program. The Federal Register notice that contains more specific information on this request and how to submit comments can be found at the following Web site.
The RSA training program is soliciting applications to fund one project to establish a National Rehabilitation Leadership Institute that will focus on developing the leadership skills of top-level managers and administrators in state VR agencies. The project must have plans for addressing the leadership needs in all VR agencies funded under the Vocational Rehabilitation Act (Act) and programs funded under section 121 of the Act. More information can be found at the following Web site.
The RSA training program is soliciting applications to support regional continuing education programs (RCEPs) that serve federal regions II, IV or X. These centers must provide for a broad integrated sequence of training activities that focus on meeting recurrent and common training needs of employed community rehabilitation program personnel throughout a multi-state geographical area. More information can be found at the following Web site.
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NATTAP and the Pass It On Center are cataloging programs that help consumers and families "reuse" assistive technology. If you want your program to be included, you simply need to take a few moments and respond to the questions in an on-line survey being conducted by NATTAP. This information, once collected and compiled by NATTAP, will be used to promote reuse of AT devices, connect reuse programs to each other and, most importantly, connect consumers with AT reuse programs.
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Federal Independent Living Program Notice of Proposed Priorities
On March 6th, 2007, the Notice of Proposed Priorities for the Training and Technical Assistance for Centers for Independent Living and State Independent Living Councils was published in the Federal Register for public comment through April 5th, 2007. The notice contains information regarding the process for providing comments and can be accessed by clicking here. Applications for this grant competition will be available by mid-summer 2007. A teleconference for entities who may be interested in applying for one or both of the grants will be scheduled shortly after applications become available.
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State Plan For Vocational Rehabilitation Services And Supplement For Supported Employment Services
On Feb. 2, 2007, RSA issued Information Memorandum 07–02, which transmits the State Plan for Vocational Rehabilitation Services (Plan) and Supplement for Supported Employment Services and provides state vocational rehabilitation (VR) agencies with instructions for the completion and submission of the Plan for fiscal year 2008. A brief description of the changes in the Plan and the instructions for its submission can be found here, along with information concerning trainings that RSA will be conducting for the staff of state VR agencies and members of State Rehabilitation Councils to assist them with this process.
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