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Many of us can't stay home with our pets all day long, but that doesn't mean you can't have a happy dog or cat. As with children, quality can help make up for lack of quantity, according to animal behaviorist and CALLING ALL PETS host Patricia "Trisha" McConnell. "What's really important is what happens before you leave the house and after you get home," says McConnell. In her case, McConnell's dogs get a lot of attention and exercise before she leaves for work in the morning and again when she gets home in the evening. According to McConnell. As for spending time alone, animals need more sleep than humans anyway- up to 12 hours for dogs and cats, McConnell says. They have natural energy cycles with high energy from early to mid-morning and again from mid-afternoon to late evening. So it is possible that these industrial-strength nappers may not miss us as much as we think they do? Just remember, lest you feel guilty about leaving them- you're going to work, while they're going to nap on the couch.
One of the concerns people most often mention about their pets- especially dogs- is something the experts call "separation anxiety". That's a big term that means your dog found creative ways to let you know she didn't like the fact that you left her. She could chew up something that is not her toy, or she might bark until the neighbors call the police. In extreme cases, she may soil your bed or favorite chair. None of these behaviors typically inspires us to be patient, loving and gentle. However, your furry family member is frightened and totally distressed if she is having these behaviors. She would never disappoint you on purpose.
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It has taken me months to start this post because of sheer embarrassment, but if my story can provide insight to someone else…then it is worth sharing. Last summer we went to Disney World for a family vacation. My sister had planned the trip from wake-ups to bedtimes and we had the time of our lives. That would be minus the 15 minutes of terror when I realized I had lost my two kids in the park.
My husband had taken the kids on the train-ride around Magic Kingdom and I was shopping on Main Street. We were planning to meet at the train stop at the front of the park and continue our day. When the three of them got to the train stop my husband realized he had left our empty stroller at one of the other train stops and was staying on the train to go back to get it. The kids came off the train and started walking down the ramp that they thought was going to bring them to me. As I watched them exit the train I realized that the train exit ramp and the platform I was standing on did not meet in the same location. Before I could yell to them they were gone. I ran down a set of stairs hoping it would end where the kids came off the ramp, but the ramp was nowhere in sight and neither were Nicholas and Abby. I ran around like a maniac trying to find them, but it was like looking for a needle in a haystack. I found a young "cast member" (that is what they call the people who work in Disney) and told him I lost my kids. He didn't really seem to jump with any urgency and I immediately knew I needed to find someone else to help me. The next cast member that I found was a woman who immediately sprung into action. She got on a radio and asked me what the kids looked like. She assured me that the kids would be found and that they would not get out of the park. Like a scene out of a movie I watched all of the cast members leap into action…as I kept saying "My son is 5 and my daughter is 3, they are blonde as blonde can be, she is wearing a red and white polka dot dress and he is wearing and black and red Mickey Mouse shirt." My heart raced as I cried picturing how scared my babies must have been. The woman kept me calm by telling me that she lost her own son in the park a little over a week ago and that an undercover cast member had found him. I wish I had gotten her name…she knew how it felt to be a mom who was missing her greatest blessing and hugged me as we watched the scene unfold and wait for what seemed like an eternity. After about 15 minutes I heard a voice say, "We've got them." I looked at the top of the train platform and ran to the steps to see my scared little ones walking toward me. They were holding hands and Nicholas (my mamma's boy) was crying. I hugged them and never wanted to let go.
I am beyond grateful to the cast members who went above and beyond to find my kids and keep me calm. I wish I could have thanked them all, but the moment was so overwhelming that by the time I got it together everything had gone back to normal in The Magic Kingdom and they were all scattered about doing their jobs.
When I look back on this I really can't BlAmE this on anyone. There was no way any of us could have known that the ramp and stairs didn't meet up. It wasn't like my kids had wondered off and weren't paying attention…they thought they were walking and meeting me after getting off the train. What I did learn is that there are things I could have done PriOr to this incident that could have made finding them a little easier.
Before our trip we had purchased tattoos for the kids arms that said, "If lost call XXX-XXX-XXXX." Did I have the tattoos on the kids arms that day? NO! What good were they doing in our hotel room?!!! My husband and I also realized we had never had a discussion with the kids telling them what to do if they got lost. We should have pointed out what cast members look like and told them to find one if they were lost. Someone else gave me a great suggestion to take a picture of my kids each morning on my phone so that if they are lost you can see exactly what they are wearing in case you forget and you can show the picture to anyone who is helping to find them. I also found a great idea on Pinterest where you make a bracelet with your phone number on it so that if they are lost someone can call you. Bottom line…if you ever get into the situation that I was in act fast and find someone who you feel can help you.
I hope you never find yourself in this predicament, but just in case here are some ideas to help others get your kids back to you safely.
Take a Picture of Your
Kids Each Morning
Cell Phone Bracelet
If Lost Tattoo
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When Anne Belanger received her son's grade two class photo last month, she immediately stuffed the image back into its envelope in disgust.
In the photo, the students and teacher line up neatly in three rows. But one student is missing from the group.
There, in the far right edge, her son Miles Ambridge sits in his wheelchair, separated from the rest of his classmates by an empty space on a bench. Despite the obvious gap, the seven-year-old beams for the camera, craning as far to the side as his tiny body will allow to be closer to his friends.
While she can hardly stand to look at the photo, Belanger is overcome with anger and sadness when she does.
"Look at the angle that he was in," said the New Westminster mom, her voice a whisper as she fought back tears. "He's ostracized. He wants to be part of the gang so much."
Miles has spinal muscular atrophy, a genetic disease that attacks nerve cells in the spinal cord, causing muscles throughout the body, especially in the arms and legs, to weaken. The disease does not affect cognitive abilities.
Miles was diagnosed at just 13 months, when doctors told his parents their boy would never walk.
Living in a wheelchair, Miles has already faced more challenges than any young child should have to deal with, said his father Don Ambridge. That's why it was all the more frustrating to see Miles excluded from the group in what should have been a simple class photo, he said.
Ambridge, who was the first to see the photo, said the image made him feel humiliated for his son.
"For some reason it makes me feel even worse that he's so happy in the picture," he said. "I think it's because he's still innocent ... He's still naive to how other people can treat him."
Miles' parents have decided to keep the photo from their son, who hasn't seen the picture. Belanger said Miles is "profoundly aware that he's different than his peers." If he saw it, she thinks he would be deeply hurt.
But his parents still wanted to bring attention to the photo in a bid to shed light on discrimination, which they said is still a daily reality for people with disabilities.
Belanger posted the photo to the photography company's Facebook page. Lifetouch Canada removed the photo with a message that it was taken down due to privacy laws, but that they had sent it to their head office.
Not satisfied with their response, Belanger posted the photo again with the other children's faces blacked out. Meanwhile, Miles' dad sent the photo back to his son's school, Herbert Spencer Elementary, requesting it be thrown out. When school principal Tracy Fulton received the returned photo, she said she immediately contacted Lifetouch as well.
Still, Fulton said the company didn't immediately see anything wrong with the photo. It took some coaxing until Lifetouch agreed the separation of Miles from his class was a mistake and offered to retake the photo, she said.
"You want to think that they just made a mistake and they weren't willing to correct it," said Fulton. "But in the meantime, the parents were really hurt by it."
Miles' mom said she blames both the photographer and the school for the gaffe. However, Fulton defended the school's actions and said the photographer was solely to blame.
Fulton said none of the school staff had seen the photo before Miles' father sent it back. At the photo shoot, she said his teacher, from her position, also couldn't see the distinct gap between him and the rest of the class.
The photo was retaken earlier this week by another Lifetouch photographer. In the new photo, which his parents have not yet seen, Miles was taken out of his wheelchair and supported by a caregiver on a bench beside his classmates.
On Thursday, Lifetouch admitted their photographer made a mistake.
Dean Cochrane, manager for the Lifetouch office in Burnaby, said the company teaches its photographers to build the composition of photos differently when they work with people in wheelchairs.
"On this composition, it wasn't done right," he said. "This will be a learning experience for this photographer."
Regardless, Belanger said the photo is discrimination and a reflection of a society that still attaches stigma to disability.
"Kids can be cruel but this comes from adults, which is even worse," she said. "Adults should know better."


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ELF Pout Perfecter!
- I made some delightful, easy little appetizers for a potluck-style party on Friday night. Click here to see the recipe for Jalapeno Popper Crescent Bites! (thank you, Pinterest)
- On the topic of food- check out my apple pie video with mom!
- Still on the topic of food... I did some grocery shopping today & the store was eerily calm... it was so nice.
- I am drinking the Vitamin Water that called Glow that claims to give you good skin (Vitamins A, C, & E). Who knows if it really will, but it tastes awesome!
- I really don't know how I lived without the Turbie Twist. It gets tons of moisture out of my hair after a shower, and it stays on my head sooo much easier than a giant towel.
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How to Clean a Stroller
Baby Deserves a Clean Stroller: How to Get Yours Looking Like New
Your stroller is probably one of the biggest investments that you made in the baby gear department, and for good reason. Your little one's first set of wheels is a daily workhorse, cruising through everything from rain and snow to dirt and mud to get you and your baby where you need to go. Protect your precious ride by giving it a thorough cleaning every few months. It will prolong the stroller's life and ensure that your baby is riding in sanitary style. Here's how:
- Assemble Your Arsenal: You'll want buckets of both regular and soapy, warm water, a few old dish towels or rags, a soft brush, a vacuum, WD-40, and a bottle of stain remover like BuggyLove or OxiClean Baby.
- Break It Down: Take apart whatever pieces of the stroller that you can disassemble. If you can remove the bassinet or seat, do so. Also remove any accessories (cup holders, organizers, etc.).
- Vacuum Away: Use your vacuum's nozzle attachment to suck up dirt and crumbs on all fabric surfaces.
- Wipe It All Down: Use a soft towel and lukewarm water to clean your stroller's chassis, then dry it off with a dry towel.
- (Not-So) Squeaky Clean: Spray some WD-40 on the brakes to prevent squeaking, and keep your stroller riding smoothly.
- Brush Up: Use a soft brush to clean dirt and sand from your stroller's tires and any other mechanisms that may be dirty.
- Suds Up: To clean a foam handlebar, gently rub it down with soapy water, then wipe away any residue with a dry towel.
- Stains Be Gone: Following the directions on your bottle of stain remover, spray away any trouble spots.
- Or, You Can Cheat: You'd take your dirty car to the car wash, and now you can take your dirty stroller to one of the many stroller cleaning services that have popped up across the country in recent years. Check out CleanBeeBaby or Stroller Spa to find a location in your area.


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Cobb residents vote to extend education SPLOST | News
MARIETTA, Ga. -- Voters in Cobb County have voted to extend the county's Special Local Option Sales Tax (SPLOST) for education.
57 percent of Cobb County voters voted YES while 43 percent of voters voted NO. The one percent sales tax will be used to fund earmarked capital improvements at county schools over the next five years.
Opponents to the tax contested that taxpayers had paid enough, and that school system expenditures should come from existing property tax revenues.
The school system points out that the tax differs from a bond issue in that there is no interest to be paid back on SPLOST funds, since they are generated by taxes. Prior versions of the SPLOST have been used to pay off the school system's overall debt.
Cobb officials said there is a proposed expenditure of more than $717 million that would be paid for by the SPLOST. They point to replacements for two high schools -- Osborne and Walton -- one middle school and two elementary schools that would be funded by the new taxes. Other major construction projects at eight high schools, one middle school and five elementary schools would be tied to the new tax.
The school system has released a list of projects that would be tied to the SPLOST.


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Salary continuation
Salary continuation allows you to pay your injured employee's full salary and benefits after a workplace injury or illness occurs. This potentially reduces your workers' compensation costs and future premiums.
Salary continuation also is called wages in lieu of temporary total (TT) compensation.
An injured worker has the option to accept or reject your salary continuation payments, unless there is a collective bargaining contract that states otherwise. If the injured worker rejects salary continuation, BWC may pay him or her TT.
Completing the Salary Continuation Agreement (C-55)
Use the Salary Continuation Agreement (C-55) to acknowledge that you agree to pay your employee's regular salary and benefits in lieu of TT, i.e., as if the employee was working.
- BWC is not a party in this agreement.
- You or a company representative, and the employee must sign the form.
- Submit the signed form to BWC by faxing or mailing it to your local BWC service office.
Important: You must submit a C-55 or equivalent information, signed by your company's representative and the injured worker, for each period of salary continuation to be paid. This does not mean for each pay period, but for each period of disability as identified on the C-55. Base the end date of the salary continuation payment on the expected disability period as supported by medical documentation, not to exceed 45 days. Do not list "until return to work" or a vague future date on the form to avoid submitting additional C-55s.
Paying salary continuation
As the employer of record, you can pay the injured worker salary continuation until you or the injured worker terminates payments. At that time, if appropriate, BWC may pay the injured worker TT.
If BWC finds at any time you are not paying the injured worker's regular full wages, we may begin paying TT if the injured worker submits a signed Request for Temporary Total Compensation (C-84), along with the supporting medical evidence.
Getting help
For more information, refer to the Salary Continuation fact sheet.
If you have questions regarding our salary continuation policy, contact the assigned claims service specialist or your assigned account representative.


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Part owner and former CEO Avinash Rachmale of Lakeshore TolTest Corp. claims $100 million damages in a lawsuit against several of its private equity stakeholders and senior executives — claiming their recent mismanagement has led to a U.S. Department of Justice investigation of the company.
Rachmale, who resigned from the company's board of directors on April 2 and is president and owner of Detroit-based Lakeshore Global Corp., contends he still owns about 27 percent of LTC and alleges shareholder oppression, unjust enrichment, civil rights violations and breaches of contract, fiduciary duty, good faith and fair dealing, in a lawsuit at Wayne County Circuit Court.
Targeted as defendants are Grant McCullagh, who became president-CEO of Lakeshore TolTest in 2012, along with CFO-Treasurer Jeff Miller, Connecticut private equity firms Gridiron Capital LLC and Starboard Capital Partners LLC, current Starboard managing director Marc Bergschneider, former Starboard managing director Thomas Stocks III and several other companies that hold Lakeshore stock.
"(Rachmale) has not been in a management position nor had any control over day-to-day operations since on or before July 2012; current management has taken actions and made decisions that have brought LTC to the brink of financial ruin…," the lawsuit filed late Friday alleges.
"As a result of (the owners and executives') wrongful actions and illegality, including defendants' financial frauds and mismanagement, the United States Department of Justice is currently investigating LTC and exploring various potential wrongdoings by (the civil lawsuit) defendants."
McCullagh and Audrey Knight, strategic communications adviser to Lakeshore TolTest at Holland & Knight LLP, did not immediately respond to requests for comment late Monday. The company is awaiting word within days as to whether two competitors will protest two contracts with the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department, totaling $60 million.
The Board of Water Commissioners last week awarded Lakeshore two three-year sewer lining and repair contracts worth $30 million each, for the city's east and west sides, and a separate authorization measure to assign those two contracts from LTC to Rachmale's company, Lakeshore Global. But a previous award for $21.8 million to Lakeshore Global is currently on hold before Detroit Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr.
Lakeshore Global, an entity that shared a corporate address and some principals in common with Lakeshore TolTest until recently, remains based in Detroit and is managed by Rachmale. Lakeshore TolTest, or LTC, informed vendors in January it had relocated its headquarters to Chicago.
Gerard Mantese, partner at Troy-based Mantese Honigman Rossman and Williamson PC and attorney for Rachmale in the case, said his client contends he still owns about 27 percent of Lakeshore TolTest, and its fortunes have reversed sharply since Gridiron became a co-owner more than three years ago. Gridiron acquired a 35 percent stake in LTC for $50 million, according to the lawsuit.
Since then, Rachmale alleges, Gridiron had Miller appointed CFO in 2011 and the defendants later had McCullagh replace Rachmale as CEO. He claims Gridiron had "directors from Rachmale's group" on the company board replaced with its own appointees, and removed "all persons of Indian descent" from senior leadership, according to the lawsuit.
He also blames the Gridiron-led management structure for the loss of at least three construction contracts with the U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force in Afghanistan, and claims that McCallagh "was not, and is not, competent to run LTC and several lacks the required technical expertise" to be CEO.
Gridiron co-founder Eugene Conese and Managing Director Joseph Saldutti did not immediately respond to voicemail messages and email requests seeking comment. Bergschneider also could not be immediately reached at Starboard late Monday.
"Part of the problem is, my client has been shut out of getting adequate information," Mantese said. "When my client ran the company, it was a vibrant and thriving company. Crain's actually listed it as one of the fastest-growing a few years ago. Since then it hasn't been the same."
Lakeshore TolTest in 2013 reached a settlement valued at about $5.1 million with the DWSD, terms of which included transferring the deed to property it had acquired adjacent to a department wastewater treatment plant.
The company was also one of 14 to be suspended in December 2011 from contracting with DWSD as non-responsible bidders, based on their connections to an alleged corruption and kickback scheme that landed former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick in federal prison. But Lakeshore challenged that decision, and later agreed towithdraw from DWSD bids for one year. Rachmale was a prosecution witness in that federal court case.
Mantese would not elaborate on the current Justice investigation referenced in the lawsuit, but confirmed it is unrelated to the former Kilpatrick administration. David Porter, a spokesman for the FBI in Detroit, said the bureau could not confirm or deny any pending investigation of the company.Michael Jacobson, an attorney for Lakeshore competitor Inland Waters Pollution Control Inc. at Southfield-based Jaffe, Raitt, Heuer & Weiss PC, said Monday the company had not yet finalized its decision on a bid protest..


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The benefits claimed by BPM (business process management) software sound almost too good to be true. Proponents crow about lower app dev costs, shorter time to market, improved compliance enforcement, and new points of leverage for optimizing business performance.
BPM software can't improve anything by itself, of course -- but it can be a powerful weapon when combined with business-oriented documentation and analysis. Within its own controlled, high-level app dev environment, BPM wraps IT solution development within business-driven modeling and performance measurement.
At the least, BPM provides an effective new medium through which the business side can communicate its requirements to IT. At best, it can distill functionality from existing applications and free business logic from the bonds of existing infrastructure to enable unprecedented agility.
One persistent problem for potential adopters, however, has been abject confusion. BPM solutions come in so many varieties that only a handful of consultants seem to know which solution is best for the task at hand.
Today, clarity is emerging in the form of the BPM suite, an integrated set of tools and runtime components designed to create software analogs of business processes. Together, these elements allow customers to model, deploy, and monitor BPM systems without having to staple together bits and pieces of technology from different vendors.
Properly utilized, BPM suites account for the fact that the internals of elemental process activities -- particularly those implemented by existing business systems -- may be difficult to modify. Instead, BPM suites enable IT to optimize business performance by changing the process logic that interconnects them. Process design in a BPM suite is akin to a flowchart, annotated with the necessary implementation detail. It requires little code, and the process logic is easily changed, qualifying BPM as a style of agile application development.
The basic BPM flow
BPM begins with process modeling, a business-driven exercise in which current and proposed process flows are documented in detail, linked to quantifiable performance metrics, and optimized through simulation analysis.
These optimized models automatically generate the skeleton of the IT implementation in a BPM suite's process designer, a graphical development tool that integrates human workflow, application integration, and business rules to create an executable process solution. Completed process designs are then deployed to the process engine and other components of the BPM suite runtime, where they route and track tasks, integrate with external business systems, and enforce business rules.
As process instances complete each activity, the process engine generates an event to mark the occasion. Those events are collected by the BPM suite's performance management component, which aggregates them into metrics that measure business performance.
Performance management dashboards graph metrics versus their target values, with drill-down analytics via OLAP queries. They also provide real-time alerts and automated escalation procedures when KPIs (key performance indicators) go off track, a capability of the BAM (business activity monitoring) component often bundled with a BPM suite. Actual performance data can be fed back to refine process models and begin a new cycle of incremental process improvement.
Process wars
Tally all that functionality, and you end up with quite a stack: software for business modeling, simulation analysis, human workflow, application integration, data mapping, business rules, performance analytics, BAM, and Web portals. All of these originated as independent tools from specialized vendors.
But today, within the BPM world, the trend is toward wrapping all these components inside the BPM suite, whether through mergers and acquisitions, OEM, or integration partnerships. This shift has created conflicts between BPM suite vendors and suppliers of modeling tools, BAM, and integration middleware, each of which tends to describe BPM in its own way.
Perhaps the greatest source of confusion, however, has derived from the two competing technical architectures for BPM. The one that has gotten the most media attention is based on the BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) standard, which implements processes by orchestrating Web services within an SOA environment. This is where the large infrastructure vendors play, including IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, and SAP.
On the other hand, most pure-play BPM suite vendors -- such as Fuego, FileNet, Pegasystems, and Savvion -- use an architecture that evolved from the workflow systems of the 1990s, one better suited to incorporating human tasks in the process model. In these offerings, SOA and BPEL play a more limited role and focus on application integration, rather than describing the end-to-end process.
The bottom line is fairly simple. The big-vendor solutions that emphasize BPEL work best for composing Web services into applications that involve little human workflow -- that is, without multistage handoffs to various users in various roles in an organization. Pure-plays have long emphasized implementation without programming, so their BPM solutions tend to provide the straightest line to a practical BPM deployment. The downside is that, as opposed to their big-vendor competitors, pure-plays' offerings can be more difficult to integrate into an existing application environment.
Modeling reality
Whether from a big vendor or a pure-play, modeling tools have one main purpose: to describe business processes in terms of their elemental activities and tasks, the resources required to perform each task, and the business rules interconnecting them -- all using a graphical notation understandable to business users.
Models play a critical role in aligning process design with quantifiable performance objectives and optimizing expected results through simulation analysis. By annotating each process activity with performance-related parameters such as expected time to perform, resource costs, availability, and branching ratios at forks in the flow path, models can be analyzed in a variety of scenarios using a simulation engine built into the modeling tool. In advanced modeling tools, the KPIs that will be used to measure the performance of the process implementation determine the parameters required in the model, ultimately closing the loop of performance improvement. This requires models that go beyond simple descriptions of activity flow to include modeling of organizational resources, process data, and process performance metrics.
For years, these capabilities have been the exclusive domain of business process modeling tools from vendors such as Casewise, IDS Scheer, Popkin (now Telelogic), and Proforma, often as part of a broader suite of enterprise architecture tools. Now, however, vendors such as Global 360, IBM, and Savvion are implementing the process modeling functions of these tools within the BPM suite itself. At the same time, modeling vendors are improving interoperability among BPM suites by leveraging BPMN (business process modeling notation), a standardized graphical notation from the Object Management Group.
Where once the output of process modeling was a business-oriented specification intended to guide IT in any implementation efforts that might be needed, BPM assumes an automated process implementation will be executed on the process engine. Modeling standards such as BPMN and interchange formats such as CIF allow the output of a modeling tool to be imported into a BPM suite's design tool and a skeleton implementation design to be generated. This skeleton design lacks the implementation detail to be executable off the bat, but it creates a business-specified starting point.
The closed-loop problem
Even with standard BPM design languages such as BPEL, each vendor's process design tool is specific to its own runtime environment. Today, there is no such thing as a portable process design that can be executed on your choice of process engines -- unless, of course, you consider human tasks, business rules, and complex data mapping to be "external" to the business process design.
Most BPM suites today provide a unified design environment that hides the complexity of combining human workflow, application integration, business rules, and transaction management within a single executable design. The benefits this provides over treating these process components as independent entities in the enterprise architecture stack are a common data model and common state management over the entire end-to-end process.
Like modeling, process design is mostly graphical. The tool provides a palette of activity types from which the designer selects, configures, and assembles the process steps. Unless custom activities need to be created, process design involves minimal programming. Behind the graphical design metaphor, the tool creates an executable process implementation in the BPM suite's particular process execution language.
In BPM suites based on workflow architecture, the language is typically proprietary but compliant with the XPDL (XML Process Definition Language) standard from the Workflow Management Coalition. Process activities may be one of several predefined implementation types (Web service, user task, integration activity)' each assigned to a resource, such as a human task role or an integration adapter. The configuration dialog for each activity depends on its type.
By contrast, BPM suites based on service orchestration rely on the BPEL language standard. BPEL provides a single activity type -- Invoke -- to call a Web service, human task, or integration adapter, all of which must be implemented as a service, with an interface described by WSDL. But Invoke must be addressed to a service end point -- a URL, not a task role. To accommodate human tasks, what gets invoked by BPEL is not the user task itself but a task manager service, which handles the workflow details.
Another difference is that workflow-based BPM suites support the notion of a subprocess, a reusable process fragment that shares context data and state management with the calling parent. BPEL provides no such concept. A subprocess is another BPEL process; data sharing and state synchronization must be explicitly defined in the process logic. To address these real-world limitations, IBM and SAP last summer outlined optional extensions to the BPEL standard, but the specs are not yet complete. In the end, regardless of architecture and coding differences, BPM suites tend to accomplish the same set of core functions.
Rolling out process-driven apps
The completed process design is then deployed to the process engine. As each instance of the process is triggered, the engine routes it through the defined sequence of activities, integrating external applications, routing workflow tasks to human participants, and managing deadlines and exceptions throughout the process. In offerings from app server vendors such as IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, or SAP, the process engine leverages unique capabilities of the app server and its associated middleware. Offerings from BPM pure-plays tend to run on the user's choice of app server platforms.
The process engine also reports snapshots of instance data and state, usually in the form of events, for the purposes of performance management. The performance management component of the BPM suite collects those events and uses them to update KPIs and other performance metrics defined in the modeling phase. Typically, metrics are aggregated in OLAP cubes, which can be charted and queried by users in management dashboards. OLAP-based performance management provides historical and "near-real-time" reporting and drill-down analytics, as updates are performed on demand by re-crunching the collected data set. Some BPM suites, including those offered by Adobe, FileNet, IBM, Intalio, and Savvion, support true BAM, providing real-time update of selected KPIs with rule-triggered alerts and escalation actions.
Metrics computed from running processes can be used to refine the model parameters used to generate expected values of those metrics, making the effect of process changes more predictable and stimulating additional rounds of process improvement.
The BPM choice
Picking the right BPM suite is a real challenge. Although virtually all the vendors promote the same list of capabilities in their brochures and Web sites, each offering is actually tuned to the requirements of a fairly narrow set of process types or use cases.
For example, a BPM suite designed for transactional, "straight-through" processes involving complex application integration but little human interaction might not be the best choice for collaborative, human-centric processes with minimal integration. Document-centric processes and production workflow processes where pools of users draw tasks from shared queues at high speed have their own unique requirements addressed by some, but not all, BPM suites.
Such complications aside, BPM is offering real return on investment to users today. When presented as an architectural stack, it can sound like a tangled mess. But the new generation of integrated BPM suites is untangling BPM and providing a new middle ground for business-IT collaboration.


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I got this recipe from my mother in law who is always trying something new and delicious. Instead of sauteing the spinach, she uses the hot oil from frying the garlic to wilt the spinach. The result is a delicious "salad" spinach. This technique also leaves no room for "spinach soup", which can happen from sauteing the spinach for too long a period. I usually serve the spinach as a salad at room temperature before the main course, or as a side dish to a salmon or steak. And I always eat the leftovers for lunch the next day.
Kosher Ingredients
Two bags Baby Spinach leaves refrigerated (I use the pre-washed bags and then wash and dry it very well one more time.)
4-6 Cloves of garlic sliced thin (I use a mandolin and put it on the medium setting)
Kosher salt or sea salt to taste
4 tablespoons Good quality extra virgin olive oil
Before you begin, make sure to have washed and dried the baby spinach leaves. Place the spinach in a large heatproof bowl, such as pyrex. Refrigerate the spinach (the spinach must be cold prior to pouring the oil onto it).
In a medium sauce pan place the olive oil and sliced garlic cloves and season with salt-Do not over salt because you will add salt onto the leaves themselves after you pour the hot oil.
Heat oil and garlic on a medium to high flame. Cook garlic in oil until just golden, and pour mixture (very carefully) into the pyrex bowl. Toss gently so that the oil is well coated on the leaves. More salt can be added at this point if you prefer.
Leaves will slightly change in color and will wilt. Serve immediately or at room temperature. Can be refrigerated once cooled and served later that day.
Note Do not over cook the garlic slices as they will turn bitter if cooked too well done. Using a mandolin is preferred so that the garlic will cook evenly.


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NEW YORK — New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and officials in the Long Island counties of Nassau and Suffolk have decided to start an even-odd gas rationing plan beginning at 5 a.m. Friday.
The plan means that gasoline will be available to drivers with licenses plate numbers ending in an odd number Friday, which is Nov. 9.
Saturday will begin days for gas services for drivers with plate numbers ending in an even number.
Bloomberg says at a briefing that only 25 percent of the city's gas stations are open. He estimated the shortage could last another couple of weeks.


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Subpart B—Authorizing Home-to-Work Transportation§102-5.35 Who is authorized home-to-work transportation?
Subpart C—Documenting and Reporting Determinations§102-5.110 Must we report our determinations outside of our agency?
Authority: 40 U.S.C. 121(c); 31 U.S.C. 1344(e)(1).
Source: 65 FR 54966, Sept. 12, 2000, unless otherwise noted.
(a) The questions and associated answers in this part are regulatory in effect. Thus compliance with the written text of this part is required by all to whom it applies.
(b) The terms "we," "I," "our," "you," and "your," when used in this part, mean you as a Federal agency, an agency head, or an employee, as appropriate.
This part covers the use of Government passenger carriers to transport employees between their homes and places of work.
This part covers Federal agency employees in the executive, judicial, and legislative branches of the Government, with the exception of employees of the Senate, House of Representatives, Architect of the Capitol, and government of the District of Columbia.
This part does not cover:
(a) Employees who use a passenger carrier in conjunction with official travel, including temporary duty (TDY) or relocation;
(b) Employees who are essential for the safe and efficient performance of intelligence, counterintelligence, protective services, or criminal law enforcement duties when designated in writing as such by their agency head; or
(c) Employees who use a passenger carrier for transportation between places of employment and mass transit facilities (see, e.g., 41 CFR 102-34.210).
[65 FR 54966, Sept. 12, 2000, as amended at 75 FR 41995, July 20, 2010]
Each Federal agency using Government passenger carriers to provide home-to-work transportation for employees who are essential for the safe and efficient performance of intelligence, counterintelligence, protective services, or criminal law enforcement duties should issue guidance concerning such use.
The following definitions apply to this part:
Agency head means the highest official of a Federal agency.
Clear and present danger means highly unusual circumstances that present a threat to the physical safety of the employee or their property when the danger is:
(1) Real; and
(2) Immediate or imminent, not merely potential; and
(3) The use of a Government passenger carrier would provide protection not otherwise available.
Compelling operational considerations means those circumstances where home-to-work transportation is essential to the conduct of official business or would substantially increase a Federal agency's efficiency and economy.
Emergency means circumstances that exist whenever there is an immediate, unforeseeable, temporary need to provide home-to-work transportation for those employees necessary to the uninterrupted performance of the agency's mission. (An emergency may occur where there is a major disruption of available means of transportation to or from a work site, an essential Government service must be provided, and there is no other way to transport those employees.)
Employee means a Federal officer or employee of a Federal agency, including an officer or enlisted member of the Armed Forces.
Federal agency means:
(1) A department (as defined in section 18 of the Act of August 2, 1946 (41 U.S.C. 5a));
(2) An executive department (as defined in 5 U.S.C. 101);
(3) A military department (as defined in 5 U.S.C. 102);
(4) A Government corporation (as defined in 5 U.S.C. 103(1));
(5) A Government controlled corporation (as defined in 5 U.S.C. 103(2));
(6) A mixed-ownership Government corporation (as defined in 31 U.S.C. 9101(2));
(7) Any establishment in the executive branch of the Government (including the Executive Office of the President);
(8) Any independent regulatory agency (including an independent regulatory agency specified in 44 U.S.C. 3502(10));
(9) The Smithsonian Institution;
(10) Any nonappropriated fund instrumentality of the United States; and
(11) The United States Postal Service.
Field work means official work requiring the employee's presence at various locations other than his/her regular place of work. (Multiple stops (itinerant-type travel) within the accepted local commuting area, limited use beyond the local commuting area, or transportation to remote locations that are only accessible by Government-provided transportation are examples of field work.)
Home means the primary place where an employee resides and from which the employee commutes to his/her place of work.
Home-to-work transportation means the use of a Government passenger carrier to transport an employee between his/her home and place of work.
Passenger carrier means a motor vehicle, aircraft, boat, ship, or other similar means of transportation that is owned (including those that have come into the possession of the Government by forfeiture or donation), leased, or rented (non-TDY) by the United States Government.
Work means any place within the accepted commuting area, as determined by the Federal agency for the locality involved, where an employee performs his/her official duties.
By statute, certain Federal officials are authorized home-to-work transportation, as are employees who meet certain statutory criteria as determined by their agency head. The Federal officials authorized by statute are the President, the Vice-President, and other principal Federal officials and their designees, as provided in 31 U.S.C. 1344(b)(1) through (b)(7). Those employees engaged in field work, or faced with a clear and present danger, an emergency, or a compelling operational consideration may be authorized home-to-work transportation as determined by their agency head. No other employees are authorized home-to-work transportation.
No, the agency head may not delegate the authority to make home-to-work determinations.
Yes, determinations should be completed before an employee is provided with home-to-work transportation unless it is impracticable to do so.
Yes, determinations may be made in advance when the Federal agency wants to have employees ready to respond to:
(a) A clear and present danger;
(b) An emergency; or
(c) A compelling operational consideration.
Note to §102-5.50: Implementation of these determinations is contingent upon one of the three circumstances occurring. Thus, these may be referred to as "contingency determinations."
Determinations must be in writing and include the:
(a) Name and title of the employee (or other identification, if confidential);
(b) Reason for authorizing home-to-work transportation; and
(c) Anticipated duration of the authorization.
Initial determinations are effective for no longer than:
(a) Two years for field work, updated as necessary; and
(b) Fifteen days for other circumstances.
The agency head may approve unlimited subsequent determinations, when the need for home-to-work transportation exceeds the initial period, for no longer than:
(a) Two years each for field work, updated as necessary; and
(b) Ninety calendar days each for other circumstances.
Agencies should consider the following when making a determination to authorize home-to-work transportation for field work:
(a) The location of the employee's home in proximity to his/her work and to the locations where non-TDY travel is required; and
(b) The use of home-to-work transportation for field work should be authorized only to the extent that such transportation will substantially increase the efficiency and economy of the Government.
The following circumstances do not establish a basis for authorizing home-to-work transportation for field work:
(a) When an employee assigned to field work is not actually performing field work.
(b) When the employee's workday begins at his/her work; or
(c) When the employee normally commutes to a fixed location, however far removed from his/her official duty station (for example, auditors or investigators assigned to a defense contractor plant).
Note to §102-5.75: For instances where an employee is authorized home-to-work transportation under the field work provision, but performs field work only on an intermittent basis, the agency shall establish procedures to ensure that a Government passenger carrier is used only when field work is actually being performed. Although some employees' daily work station is not located in a Government office, these employees are not performing field work. Like all Government employees, employees working in a "field office" are responsible for their own commuting costs.
Examples of positions that may involve field work include, but are not limited to:
(a) Quality assurance inspectors;
(b) Construction inspectors;
(c) Dairy inspectors;
(d) Mine inspectors;
(e) Meat inspectors; and
(f) Medical officers on outpatient service.
Note to §102-5.80: The assignment of an employee to such a position does not, of itself, entitle an employee to receive daily home-to-work transportation.
If positions are identified rather than named individuals, your determination for field work should include sufficient information to satisfy an audit, if necessary. This information should include the job title, number, and operational level where the work is to be performed (e.g., five recruiter personnel or, positions at the Detroit Army Recruiting Battalion).
Note to §102-5.85: An agency head may elect to designate positions rather than individual names, especially in positions where rapid turnover occurs.
Yes, situations may arise where, for cost or other reasons, it is in the Government's interest to base a Government passenger carrier at a Government facility located near the employee's home or work rather than authorize the employee home-to-work transportation.
No, the comfort and/or convenience of an employee is not considered sufficient justification to authorize home-to-work transportation.
No, you may not use home-to-work transportation for other than official purposes. However, if your agency has prescribed rules for the incidental use of Government vehicles (as provided in 31 U.S.C. note), you may use the vehicle in accordance with those rules in connection with an existing home-to-work authorization.
Yes, an employee authorized home-to-work transportation may share space in a Government passenger carrier with other individuals, provided that the passenger carrier does not travel additional distances as a result and such sharing is consistent with his/her Federal agency's policy. When a Federal agency establishes its space sharing policy, the Federal agency should consider its potential liability for and to those individuals. Home-to-work transportation does not extend to the employee's spouse, other relatives, or friends unless they travel with the employee from the same point of departure to the same destination, and this use is consistent with the Federal agency's policy.
Yes, you must submit your determinations to the following Congressional Committees:
(a) Chairman, Committee on Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, Suite SD-340, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington, DC 20510-6250; and
(b) Chairman, Committee on Governmental Reform, United States House of Representatives, Suite 2157, Rayburn House Office Building, Washington, DC 20515-6143.
You must report your determinations to Congress no later than 60 calendar days after approval. You may consolidate any subsequent determinations into a single report and submit them quarterly.
Your responsibilities for documenting use of home-to-work transportation are that you must maintain logs or other records necessary to verify that any home-to-work transportation was for official purposes. Each agency may decide the organizational level at which the logs should be maintained and kept. The logs or other records should be easily accessible for audit and should contain:
(a) Name and title of employee (or other identification, if confidential) using the passenger carrier;
(b) Name and title of person authorizing use;
(c) Passenger carrier identification;
(d) Date(s) home-to-work transportation is authorized;
(e) Location of residence;
(f) Duration; and
(g) Circumstances requiring home-to-work transportation.


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On May 16, a bullish pullback towards 1.3000 (61.8% Fibonacci level) was expected to offer a valid signal to sell the USD/CAD pair. However, a lack of a significant bearish rejection was manifested during recent consolidations.
On May 18, temporary bullish fixation above 1.3000 (61.8% Fibonacci level) opened the way towards the 1.3180 level where significant bearish pressure was originated.
Bearish persistence below 1.3000-1.2970 (61.8% Fibonacci level) is needed to enhance bearish momentum in the market.
However, on August 18 signs of bullish recovery were manifested around the price level of 1.2830 which led to the current bullish breakout above 1.3000.
This week, daily persistence below 1.2950 (61.8% Fibonacci level) will be needed in order to enhance the bearish side of the market. Initial bearish targets are located at 1.2670 and 1.2580.
Otherwise, the USD/CAD pair remains trapped between the price levels of 1.3000 (61.8% Fibonacci level) and 1.3360 (50% Fibonacci level) until breakout occurs in either direction.
Note that the USD/CAD pair is currently challenging the upper limit of the depicted flag pattern around 1.3360-1.3400 which constitutes a prominent resistance level.
Bearish rejection should be anticipated around the current price levels (Primary Scenario). However, bullish breakout above 1.3360 will probably liberate a quick bullish movement towards 1.3650 (Low probability scenario).The material has been provided by InstaForex Company - www.instaforex.com


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Despite mixed reviews, documented lag issues, and a heap of criticism from players, Splash Damage's Brink is estimated to have sold around 2.5 million copies. According to CEO Paul Wedgewood, the Bethesda-published multiplayer shooter made some pretty damn good cash.
"With Splash Damage, we finished Brink, and it's estimated to have sold more than 2.5 million units worldwide, which at retail would mean that it's generated around $120-140 million in revenue," he told Gamasutra. "But of course, as an independent video game developer, we don't earn that kind of revenue, as we're not the publisher of the title ... but we could see there was the potential to serve our fans content directly, and while we don't want to take anything away from what Splash Damage does, we wanted a vehicle that we can dedicate exclusively to that pursuit."
That "vehicle" is the free-to-play model, which Splash Damage has moved into. The studio founded its own publisher of F2P games, WarChest, and release a new iOS strategy game, RAD Soldiers, in June.
Despite its notable problems, I enjoyed Brink and I am glad it did well. Still, it's clear from the game's setup that the studio was definitely interested in freemium models, so it seems Splash Damage has found its calling. Best of luck to 'em!


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Last week, newsreel archive British Pathé uploaded its entire collection of 85,000 historic films, in high resolution, to its YouTube channel. This unprecedented release of vintage news reports and "cinemagazines" is part of a drive to make the archive more accessible to viewers all over the world.
"Our hope is that everyone, everywhere who has a computer will see these films and enjoy them," says Alastair White, General Manager of British Pathé. "This archive is a treasure trove unrivalled in historical and cultural significance that should never be forgotten. Uploading the films to YouTube seemed like the best way to make sure of that."
British Pathé was once a dominant feature of the British cinema experience, renowned for first-class reporting and an informative yet uniquely entertaining style. It is now considered to be the finest newsreel archive in existence. Spanning the years from 1896 to 1976, the collection includes footage from around the globe – of major events, famous faces, travel, sport and culture.
We selected a few mountain- and outdoor-oriented clips below:
Czechoslovakian Snow Sports:
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Write Letters on Copper "Paper" (Feb, 1933)
Wow, it's pretty hard to imagine a time when copper was cheaper than paper.
Write Letters on Copper "Paper"
ARIZONANS have thought up a clever idea for getting rid of the surplus copper mined in the state. They are making the metal do duty as paper, and writing business and personal letters on it. The sheets are one-thousandth of an inch thick, and according to testimony make very substantial material for typing. Below is shown a steno inditing a letter on one of the copper sheets of business stationery.


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Bust out the champagne! Ustream just broke a World Record!!
From the Guiness World Records Site:
"The most content ingested by an online video service is an average of 70.49 hours per minute, achieved by Ustream, as verified on 29 June 2011.
This average figure is based on a total of 37.05 million hours of content ingested by Ustream in the 12 month period of June 2010 to May 2011. Peak content ingestion was in May 2011, with 3.721 million hours ingested, or 83.36 hours per minute. This is close to double that of YouTube, which announced on its 6th birthday in May 2011 that its users upload 48 hours of content onto the site per minute."
John Ham, our CEO and Founder, had this to say: "Achieving this Guinness World Record is an amazing milestone for Ustream. Much of our success is procured by our dedicated broadcasters and viewers who enjoy sharing LIVE content with the world. As users broadcast more memorable moments on Ustream, we look forward to touching more lives and making more records."


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Not sure I understand! Im starting to get stronger and more honest around other people; still, its hard! all of it!
Saw the girl that liked me a few years ago! she wants nothing to do with me! she's written me of as an idiot. This pisses me off! Im confused. I suppose I was dealing with a limited based person! to bad. She has changed her mind about me and does not care either way!
I will never see her again, and this is hard! All that she did for me!
She is responsible for the effect upon my mental condition. Because of her, I started to trust the outside world, and began work, to come out of Dissociative disorder! will I ever be able to tell her! I doubt it! She would never want to hear it! Im not in her life anymore, Ive been forgotten and replaced. What a ######6 bitch!
I hated when right is wrong and wrong is right! I get thrown away for a pathological lier! I am shunned as if weak! Im forgotten and never talked to again!
This girl tried to get close to me several years ago! I could not respond. Now, Im scum and not good enough! yet, Im the one that has gotten better in my recovery process; go figure! What the f#ck! Nice!~
Now what! I keep preying and letting go!
I have this problem of projecting! I think something is going to happen or suppose to happen! Im accepted! Im not accepted.
I have to keep going and keep working through things until all of me shows up!


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- Listen, watch, dance and sing with Sam and Pam.
- Play a vocabulary game to practise the words from the song.
- Print out the words, an activity sheet and flashcards for the song.
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QueenCreamBamboo replied on Vietnam Permalink
I like this video
BronzeGoldJellyfish replied on Russia Permalink
Yes, my coat has zip. I like playing HIDE AND SEEK outside.
BronzeGoldJellyfish replied on Russia Permalink
Yes, my coat has zip. I like play HIDE AND SEAK outside.
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omg I need help to view vidio
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Hi RunningKickingBelt,
Unfortunately some of our videos don't work on mobile phones or tablets.
If you're using a computer you may need to enable Adobe Flash Player.
I hope that helps.
Best wishes,
LearnEnglish Kids team
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good I am level 1
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SmilingPixelCycling replied on Romania Permalink
that song is so nice and funny and i like it... I think everybody like it .. And how i can downoald that song beacuse i lovee itt...<3
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Hi SmilingPixelCycling,
We're happy you like this song! I'm afraid you can't download it, but you can download some of our other songs. If it is possible to download something, you will see a link under it in 'Documents', for example like this one under the song 'Ten little aeroplanes':
You can also ask your parents or guardians to download our apps, which have lots of our songs and stories!
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Even though women may be joining big, mahogany-redolent law firms with less zeal than in the not-so-distant past, those already working at such law firms are being promoted to equity partnerships at the about the speed at which a spoonful of old honey travels from the ass of a little plastic bear to its nose. Still, progress is progress, and, according to data the National Law Review gathered from over 200 firms in 2011, women make up 15 percent of equity partners across the country. Good, yes?
Actually, that number hasn't changed much since 2006, except for one sliver of a statistic — among the top 18 firms with profits of $2 million or more per partner, 11 have women that account for more than 15 percent of equity partnerships, and some firms even exceed 20 percent. That might not seem like cause to buy streamers, silly string, noisemakers, and a cookie cake emblazoned with "Congratz 2011 Lady Lawyerzzzzzz" (more z's mean more delicious icing, duh), but it does help demonstrate that firms with only one track for leadership positions (single-tier partnership firms) are better at promoting female employees than firms with different tracks for equity and non-equity partners. Female representation in all partnership has also risen to 19 percent, so there's also that for all of us to get excited about, although maybe it'd just be nice to know that people who spend all that time and money toiling through law school will still be able to get jobs that don't involve reviewing the local pop-up Christmas store's live reindeer liability insurance in between rearranging the Pointsettia displays.
Big Law And Women: Closing the Gap, Very Slowly [WSJ]
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Just watch a child play blissfully in the street. It's evidence of how life is designed to be lived. Playfully loving each moment without the preoccupation of anything other than the present. We are love, peace and joy. These aren't emotions. They are aspects that define our being. There is nothing more we need. We already have everything. But our mind often makes too much noise for us to notice. In Sicily, my mind was quiet long enough for me to feel that union. That was what I had confused as magic, but maybe that's what magic really is? My presence with every moment and my firm connection with myself, as One, drew me closer to my truth. This truth connected me to that pureness and joy. But we sometimes confuse joy with pleasure. Pleasure is always derived from something outside of ourselves. It can be here today and gone tomorrow. And that thing that we oftentimes call "love" may be pleasurable today, but it might cause tremendous pain tomorrow.
We each have a story. We each have a voice. And although our stories are unique, our desires are the same. We all want to smile with our entire body. Using my personal journey,let's start a forum where we can all meet to raise awareness - about ourselves as individuals and as a society. Bringing light to our world and creating a safe place for each of us to connect. "The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes."~ Marcel Proust.
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Everything We Need, We Already Have
Just watch a child play blissfully in the street. It's evidence of how life is designed to be lived. Playfully loving each moment without the preoccupation of anything other than the present. We are love, peace and joy. These aren't emotions. They are aspects that define our being. There is nothing more we need. We already have everything. But our mind often makes too much noise for us to notice. In Sicily, my mind was quiet long enough for me to feel that union. That was what I had confused as magic, but maybe that's what magic really is? My presence with every moment and my firm connection with myself, as One, drew me closer to my truth. This truth connected me to that pureness and joy. But we sometimes confuse joy with pleasure. Pleasure is always derived from something outside of ourselves. It can be here today and gone tomorrow. And that thing that we oftentimes call "love" may be pleasurable today, but it might cause tremendous pain tomorrow.
13 comments:
- Jason Meaux said...
Beautiful post Val!
Makes me want to go home and roll in the grass with my kidlets.
Liking the blog.
- June 28, 2011 at 11:33 AM
- The Political Mutt said...
At dusk each night, Italians come out and sit on their front stoops and talk until the last light of twilight disappears. Go to the Piazzas and you will see children playing, dogs running free, and the elders all catching up on the day's news. Then, it's time for dinner. What a life!
- June 28, 2011 at 11:41 AM
- Rene said...
I heard about your blog on Petes show and I'm impressed. Great article.
- June 28, 2011 at 3:02 PM
Val, you are so eloquent in class and your writing tells many stories. What a great experience to be able to share. I am always searching for more...for better. I cannot relax and rarely do i smell the roses. i wish i could remain in the yoga class all day sometimes
- June 28, 2011 at 5:46 PM
once again, i am not only impressed by your writing but touched by what you have to say. keep up the good work. i wish i could hire you as my private mentor... :)
- June 28, 2011 at 6:06 PM
- Patrick Bauer said...
I guess we were both writing about Italy today in my blog... You and Pete sound like such neat people. I know you from afar through your blog and his show yet I feel like you are both such a gift. If I could I would buy Pete a beer and you a wonderful bottle of Italian red.
- June 29, 2011 at 11:45 AM
I love the way u right. This brought me back to when I was a child growing up n scotland and visiting relatives n Ireland. Mine was a different experience usually cold n raining n my relitives were overwhelmbed with their own children so didnt feel the love that u spoke of with grandpa However I still have very warm memories of those summers and made some great bonds with my cousins. Italians have it right think I may come back n my next life as italian.
love kathleen
- June 30, 2011 at 12:18 PM
- Valerie Vendrame said...
Comment Written By: Sala
Posted By - Valerie
Namaste dear friend. I abide in infinite gratitude for you as I hear
your words, share your remembrance of peace & joy and observe the
evolutionary flame you are igniting in the world. It has a been a
delightful treat to accompany you into the pristine Sicilian waters
and experience the joy you held there. I am grateful for the
prompting to recall, in more vivid detail, the lush green mountains
and magical hummingbirds of my childhood visits to the island of my
grandmothers birth. A joyous journey that is NOW urging our minds to
accept more and more of the peace that is always available to us
embedded in the timeless evolutionary pulse of all human beings.
Although our surface minds may observe war and violence in the world,
calmly and quietly, at the same time, something wonderful is always,
consistently happening in Reality. An inner revolution is taking place
and we are being called to a higher light. It is the silent powerful
evolution of humanity.
"Love is the new religion of the 21st century.
You don't have to be a highly educated person.
Or have any exceptional knowledge to understand it.
It comes from the intelligence of the heart."
- June 30, 2011 at 5:37 PM
- Rev Kate said...
The Journey
One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice--
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
"Mend my life!"
each voice cried.
But you didn't stop.
You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations,
though their melancholy
was terrible.
It was already late
enough, and a wild night,
and the road full of fallen
branches and stones.
But little by little,
as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice
which you slowly
recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper
into the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do--
determined to save
the only life you could save.
© Mary Oliver.
- July 2, 2011 at 10:44 PM
I am very impressed with the blogger's ability to recall her feelings, both past and present, and put them into words that flow seemingly without effort. I feel like I was going to the store with the pack of kids for candy and smokes. I feel like I could actually smell the citrus fruits growing in the hot Italian sun. Your gift is grand. Furthermore, while reading I was reminded of my own "Sicily". It was not as romantic as the Island, but it did provide me with a safe, loving and stable place that felt like home, or the idea that I thought home should be. It was in the middle of a busy city street and a city alley that was traveled by cars, trucks and the occasional spray painting youth trying to fit in. It was my grandmother's backyard. It was a small, extremely well manicured lawn with a small garden of tomatoes, green onions, garlic and basil. The best smelling basil that ever existed. My memory of this place as a safe haven did not strike me until years later when I was at a market and smelled fresh basil again for the first time since I was a small boy. Once the familiar smell reached my nose the memories flooded my mind just as quickly. I remember never wanting to leave for home. A home that I did not particularly care to spend any time. I did not want to leave the food, the relatives, the stories and most of all I did not want to leave the feeling of belonging. Years have past and my own backyard now lies between a busy city street and an alley. My yard is not as manicured and the garden does not boast as many wonderful foods as my grandma's did. However, it is where my basil grows and it is where I hope that my family will always feel like they belong. I hope we all can figure out a way to bring our own "Sicily" back to our lives every day. Thanks you blog.
- July 3, 2011 at 11:50 PM
This reminds me of a trip I took with my friend's family in the late 80's. At the time, I worked long and distress filled hours in a job that was joyless. Worse yet, I had colitis-like symptoms without the solace of a diagnosis or a solution. Test after test yielded nothing. I wondered whether I could even go on my planned trip to rural Istria, a region on the Adriatic sea immediately east of Trieste, Italy in what was then Yugoslavia. I decided to go and packed medications with flip flops, departing for two weeks.
The first morning there, I was awakened by the "pitech" (rooster) who complained that we were bound to sleep away the day. A walk to the ancient village much like the one you described was a sensual delight of Mediterranean wild flowers and farm houses that ultimately led to the town square, markets and cool, winding alleys. In the afternoon, time was suspended in the buoyant waters of the deep blue Adriatic. My friend's extended family embraced me as one of their own (but for the jealous fiance of one of the cousins) and I partook in festive evenings, finding laughter at being "man handled" by my friend's elderly grandmother as she grabbed me into a vice gripped dance. Within about a week, I didn't need my medications any more. Soon, I didn't even need to think about what I ate. And nights staring through the grape vines at the inky sky washed me clean of all the "what if" and "what for" ills that had accompanied me at the start.
Thanks for reminding me to find my inner Istria.
David from Premier yoga.
- July 5, 2011 at 11:17 AM
- Judy said...
I feel sad for your father...something must have happened in his past which caused him to feel that life was for suffering...probably religion...
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ST. PAUL, MN – The Toronto Rock (5-7) needed overtime to defeat the Minnesota Swarm (2-9) by a score of 9-8 at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minnesota on Sunday evening. Rock captain Colin Doyle was the hero netting the game winner.
Needing to set the tone from the opening faceoff, the Rock were perfect in the opening 15 minutes holding Minnesota off the board. Toronto got 5 goals from 5 different players showing no signs of playing less than 24 hours prior.
The Swarm used a 3-goal run in the second quarter to begin to close the gap, outscoring the Rock 4-2 in the frame. The Rock held a 7-4 lead at the half with Nick Rose stopping 23 of the 27 shots he faced.
Toronto pitched their second shutout of the game keeping Minnesota off the board once again. The Rock's lone goal came from Garrett Billings early in the quarter and increased their lead to 8-4 heading into the final 15 minutes.
Minnesota returned the scoreless favour and tallied 4 times to tie the game 8-8 and force overtime.
Following a couple of possessions each, Doyle found himself all alone behind the Minnesota defenders and ended the game at 2:54 of the extra quarter.
Doyle led the Rock in scoring with 3 goals and 3 assists while Rob Hellyer (0G, 5A) and Billings (2G, 3A) each had 5-point games.
Rose had a sensational night allowing a season-low 8 goals and made 50 saves to earn his 5th win of the season.
Next up, the Rock travel to Philadelphia next Saturday to face the Wings in another big East Division matchup with serious playoff implications for both teams. Toronto's next home game is Sunday, March 30th against the Edmonton Rush at 3pm. For more information, please visit www.torontorock.com or phone 416-596-3075 to speak with a ticket representative get your hands on the BEST ticket in town.


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This week I'm blogging lite because I'm working on a bigger holiday gift guide than I originally had planned. I had this grand idea the other day at work and I want to see it through, so it'll need a bit more focus that I can give with daily posting. My goal is to get the guide on the blog by Monday, just in time for Cyber Monday shopping deals!
If you have a person that you're specifically looking for something for you can always email me at firstname.lastname@example.com and I'll get back to you as soon as I can.
Happy Holidays!


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Ever dream of driving that special vintage car that you've seen at a national car show? Lane Motor Museum can make your dream come true with our Rally for The Lane - an annual fundraising event for Lane Motor Museum where participants get to drive one of our cars as part of an all-day rally! This car is one of several cars that are offered for the Rally. Scroll down the page to learn more about this car!
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Specifications for the 1978 Citroën 2CV Voisin:
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Rating Scale:
1= Handles and drives like a Model T
10=Handles and drives like a modern car
|France's Volkswagen Beetle of the 1950s-1980s. Somewhat of a quirky design but really a well-done car
|625cc, 2 cylinder, 28hp. Top speed 70mph- modest acceleration and hill climbing ability
|Rating= 5
|Very good. 4 wheel hydraulic brakes with disc brakes up front
|Rating= 7
|Handling is good, the ride is very soft and quite a bit of body roll, cornering ability is amazingly high
|Rating= 7
|4-speed manual, shifts very well except that the shift lever comes through the dash
|Rating= 7
|Very good
|Front seats have 3 point seat belts and rear seats have lap belts
|Climate Control
|Has heat, also has a sunroof.
|None really.
|Driver Position
|Left-hand drive
|Overall Rating
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Barack and the bear
Jim Mahoney
about "the bear".
While the adversary then was the USSR, one of the responses to the threat
portrayed in the ad is identical to our current President's reaction to Islamic
murderers. First, we had his response to Major Hasan's wanton murder of
fourteen Americans, and now to the murder of the two airmen in
Despite help from outlets like CNN that presumably took their
cue from the Oval Office and reported the German attack without mentioning
Islam, or the too familiar battle cry preceding the "heroic" attack on unarmed
people, the word is leaking out to anyone paying attention. Unfortunately, too
many Americans will be taken in again, accepting the assault as mysterious,
spontaneous, isolated case of "gun violence".
The White House has
developed a clear pattern when responding to Islamic attacks on Americans. We
now see them and the rest of the left extending to Islam the same delusional
cover traditionally granted ghetto violence. As Reagan's ad says, "…for some
people the bear is easy to see; others don't see it at all…"
Reagan never conducted a foreign policy based on see no evil, hear no evil,
speak no evil. He had no trouble seeing the bear, calling it evil and going on
to defeat it.
Mr. President, we knew Ronald Reagan. Ronald Reagan is an
inspiration to us.
You sir are no Ronald Reagan.


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