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SAMJ: South African Medical Journal
On-line version ISSN 2078-5135
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SAMJ, S. Afr. med. j. vol.101 n.7 Pretoria Jul. 2011
NHI: State sunk without private sector help?
The biggest bonus (so far) of National Health Insurance (NHI), due for incremental phasing in from next year, is that it's forcing government to confront its dysfunctional public health sector (and, one can argue, the inflationary private sector, especially medical aids and hospitals).
Izindaba's Chris Bateman1 takes some soundings and discovers that two significant private doctor bodies are coming to the party, one at the request of national health minister, Dr Aaron Motsoaledi, and the other in pragmatic preparation for where willing members can help deliver services.
In his Health Budget speech this May, Motsoaledi confirmed that a (probably more efficient) version of the old District Surgeon system is under construction, leaning heavily on private specialists. Concurrently, independent practitioner associations (IPAs) are encouraging members with an eye on optimally positioning themselves as NHI service providers, to embraced tiered quality accreditation standards. They believe that this will put them at the front of the queue when it comes to NHI certification, not to mention enable better clinical practice. Most stakeholders agree that increased access to and equity in health care are no longer debatable. The explosive debate lies in the how - and the impending White Paper will soon light that fuse.
South African Indian genetic disorders
The Indian community recently celebrated the 150th anniversary of their arrival in South Africa. Winship and Beighton2 record their genetic heritage, based on records and experience going back more than four decades.
The first ship from India carrying indentured labourers to work in the sugar cane plantations that were being developed in Natal arrived in Durban in 1860. More than half of those who completed 10 years as indentured labourers chose to remain in Natal, and by 1886, 20 877 were free and only 895 were indentured. These were predominantly Bengali Tamils of the Hindu faith from Southern India, who came via Calcutta and Madras (now Kolkata and Chennai). Smaller numbers of Muslims from Gujarat in the Punjab arrived in South Africa from 1870 onwards on their own initiative, as did Hindus from the Surath coast in present-day Pakistan. There are currently about a million persons of Indian ancestry in South Africa, most of whom live in Durban, with smaller communities in Johannesburg, Cape Town and other centres.
The Indian people who came to Natal originated in regions where malaria was endemic, and many were heterozygous for a thalassaemia trait that protected them from malaria. It is not surprising that thalassaemia is the most common single gene disorder found in their descendents in Natal. The biological advantage of these genes is largely negated by immigration to non-malarial regions.
The authors also record a large number of diagnoses of genetic, cytogenetic and multifactorial disorders in persons of Indian ancestry. There is a high frequency of diabetes mellitus in the Indian community, and hypercholesterolaemia and hypertension are common.
In medical practice, awareness of the presence of a specific genetic disorder in a particular community is an important aspect of the diagnostic process.
Hospitals of optimal size
With the proposed introduction of a national health insurance (NHI) there will be an increasing focus on escalating public and private sector health care costs in South Africa. Dorfman and colleagues3 review the evidence on optimal hospital size and discuss the implications for the planned reconstruction of major hospitals.
South Africa has several hospitals of immense size. The authors note that there is a common misperception that a larger hospital is invariably more efficient because of economies of scale. Whether hospitals are 'public' or 'private' the most efficient mix of hospital types and sizes must be sought, e.g. a few large general hospitals, a higher number of smaller, more specialised hospitals, and several medium-sized general facilities.
A study in three South African provinces showed that only 13% of the public sector hospitals studied operated at an efficient size. Smaller and more specialised hospitals, such as the planned Nelson Mandela Paediatric Hospital of 200 - 300 beds in Johannesburg, also allow for a more focused scope of activities (economies of scope). The specific size required to optimise efficiency is context-specific, but is highly likely to be well below 1 000 beds.
Optimisation requires careful strategic planning, not only during construction or revitalisation, but ensuring maximum efficiency by adapting to ongoing changes in patient mix. We should be brave enough to change size if required.
HIV/AIDS increases use of blood products
Was a substantial increase in the use of blood products in the medical wards at Groote Schuur Hospital a result of the increased burden of HIV/AIDS? Ntusi and Sonderup4 set out to answer this question.
HIV infection is associated with cytopenias of all major cell lines. Anaemia occurs in up to 70% of patients with HIV/AIDS and thrombocytopenia, neutropenia or lymphopenia in 40 - 70%. The incidence and severity of cytopenias correlate directly with the degree of immunosuppression. The causes of haematological abnormalities in HIV infection are multifactorial. Anaemia is the commonest haematological complication in HIV and was the commonest cytopenia necessitating transfusion (69% of patients).
The authors demonstrated that the use of blood and blood products is significantly increased in HIV-infected patients. However, an encouraging observation is that patients on ART required significantly less blood and blood products compared with HIV-positive patients not on ART.
1. Bateman C. Pre-NHI clean-up; Motsoaledi enlists private sector. S Afr Med J 2011;101:438-442. [ Links ]
2. Winship WS, Beighton P. Genetic disorders in the Indian community of South Africa. S Afr Med J 2011;101:481-484. [ Links ]
3. Dorfman S, Gow J, Blaaw D, Chersich MF. Scale optimisation is important in hospital initiatives in South Africa. S Afr Med J 2011;101:458-458. [ Links ]
4. Ntusi NBA, Sonderup MW. HIV/AIDS influences blood and blood product use at Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town. S Afr Med J 2011;101:463-466. [ Links ]


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What My Son's Disabilities Taught Me About 'Having It All'
Because of her child's problems, the author will never have a tidy, peaceful life. But none of this keeps her from being happy -- as long as she asks herself the right questions.
In her July/August cover story, Anne-Marie Slaughter describes her own experience of stepping down from a high-level State Department position to teach at Princeton and spend more time with her children. In the process, she came to an uncomfortable realization: No matter what well-meaning feminists might say, women really can't have it all. "Not today," she writes, "not with the way America's economy and society are currently structured."
Have women been buying into a myth for the past 40 years? Or has the next generation simply lost touch with the ideals of feminism? How would gender equality look in a perfect world? We asked Atlantic writers from a range of professional backgrounds and family situations to comment on our cover story — and then to participate in a broader conversation with Slaughter and each other.
Because of her child's problems, the author will never have a tidy, peaceful life. But none of this keeps her from being happy -- as long as she asks herself the right questions.
On last night's episode of The Colbert Report, the host offered Anne-Marie Slaughter some sage advice.
As a Harvard student, the author collapsed on a street corner with a bleeding ulcer. Here's what she's learned after years of second-guessing her self worth.
Letting employees manage their own time can be good for a company's bottom line. Here's how one firm did it.
The author of The Atlantic's July/August cover story talks about ambition, parenting, and her teenage son in this uncut video from the Aspen Ideas Festival.
Someone with a long history in international relations surely should have a better feel for a hostile attack when it comes along
It is our responsibility as educated career women to understand more comprehensively what the quest to "have it all" really means.
The author of The Atlantic's explosive cover story shares what she's learned
In conversation with Katie Couric at the Aspen Ideas Festival, the author of the Atlantic story "Why Women Still Can't Have It All" addresses one of…
Those of us with the luxury of setting our own priorities shouldn't complain too much when our choices come with inevitable consequences.
The author of this month's controversial cover story says the public reaction to her piece has changed how she thinks about work-life balance.
The author of our July/August cover story came online this morning to answer readers' questions.
In all this talk about work-life balance, we may be forgetting how few women actually make it to the top.
It's time to support the next generation in learning what matters.
A business leader like Sheryl Sandberg shouldn't have needed to give female college graduates a pep talk about ambition. But she did -- and here's why.
In every major city, people with and without children are quietly cobbling together more flexible schedules. We can all learn from their success.
I am a single father and a work-at-home dad. The duality of my life is always with me. It's my anchor -- in many senses of the word.
It's not impossible to travel the world with the State Department and still be a devoted parent. It just takes a lot of ingenuity and hard work.
The staggering speedup of jobs at the top is not a woman's problem. It's the predictable and unavoidable result of the increasing inequality of the American economy.
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CALGARY - Athabasca Oil Corp. confirmed Friday that it is in the early stages of forming a joint venture for two of its Alberta oilsands properties.
The news followed a report in the Globe and Mail that Kuwait's state-owned petroleum company is looking to invest as much as $4 billion in an oilsands partnership.
The newspaper quotes Kuwait's Ambassador to Canada, Ali al-Sammak, as saying the deal with Athabasca (TSX:ATH) should be finalized by October.
Athabasca said it made the announcement at the behest of the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada. Trading in the company's shares had been halted on the Toronto Stock Exchange pending news.
After trading resumed Friday, the stock — which was the second most heavily traded of the day — closed up 8.5 per cent to $13.58.
"Athabasca confirms that it has signed a letter of intent that contemplates a joint venture involving Athabasca's Hangingstone and Birch properties," the company said in a release, which did not identify the potential joint-venture partner or specify the value of the deal.
Whether the proposal goes ahead depends on a number of things, including internal and regulatory approvals, Athabasca said.
"Athabasca cautions that no assurance can be given that the transaction contemplated by the letter of intent will be completed."
Some foreign investments are subject to review by the federal industry minister, who must decide whether they are of net benefit to Canada. Generally, acquisitions worth more than $330 million trigger such a review.
How exactly the assets would be divvied up in a potential deal between Athabasca and the Kuwaiti company remains to be seen, so it's not clear whether it would have to go through that process.
Hangingstone, 20 kilometres southwest of Fort McMurray, Alta., is expected to start producing oil in late 2014. Athabasca says it has the potential to produce more than 80,000 barrels a day.
The Birch property, 105 kilometres northwest of Fort McMurray, Alta., is not as far along in its development. Athabasca plans to submit a regulatory application later this year for its first 12,000 barrel per day phase. It says Birch has the potential to produce 155,000 barrels a day.
Athabasca would use steam-assisted gravity drainage technology to extract the bitumen at both sites. SAGD involves injecting steam deep underground, making it thin enough to flow to the surface through a pipe.
Athabasca has also been testing new technology using electrical cables to heat the bitumen, eliminating the need for water.
Athabasca publicly stated last month that it was looking for a partner to help develop its properties.
"The company has undertaken joint-venture initiatives during the first six months of 2012 and we are confident that an oilsands joint venture agreement may be concluded during the third quarter,'' CEO Sveinung Svarte said on a July 26 conference call to discuss the company's second-quarter results.
Athabasca is no stranger to joint ventures. In 2009, Athabasca sold a 60 per cent interest in its MacKay River and Dover oilsands lands to PetroChina.
Earlier this year, Athabasca exercised its option to sell the rest of MacKay River to PetroChina, making it the first oilsands operation to be fully controlled by a Chinese company.
Another Chinese state-owned outfit, China National Offshore Oil Company, has reached a deal to buy Nexen Inc. (TSX:NXY) for $15.1 billion, which would give it full control of the Long Lake oilsands project in northern Alberta. Industry Minister Christian Paradis is weighing whether the deal is of net benefit to Canada.
The Dover project is expected to obtain regulatory approval early next year and once it does there will be an identical divestiture option.
"You don't do JVs because you think they're fun. You do JVs because you need the financing,'' said Svarte on the July conference call.
"These are items that take time, but it's important to get them right up front because they can be very large value drivers, especially (since) some of these partners we look at are people who can bring markets and help us also to commit to pipelines in the future.''
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Now that Chewbacca has put in an appearance in Star Wars: The Clone Wars, which much-loved character from the original trilogy will be the next to show up?
After supervising director Dave Filoni showed a new trailer at Wondercon, he revealed that one classic character who's showing up in the series appeared in the above trailer. The trailer's only about 40 seconds long, so who could he be talking about?
Possibly the dashing Mon Calamari whom you can glimpse, rushing into danger as if he didn't even care that it's a trap? Yes, everybody's assuming that the newly animated original trilogy character will be a young Admiral Ackbar.
Separately, Filoni gave Entertainment Weekly some hints about what to expect from the show next, including an episode directed by Oscar-winning Apocalypse Now editor Walter Murch, and a new character voiced by Katee Sackhoff. Plus:
Right off the bat, we're going back to the actual Clone War between the Republic and Separatists, and we've planned some stories that work on a scale of battle the likes of which we've never seen before on this series. It should be quite exciting for the audience, I think, because we've been dealing with a bit of espionage in the Citadel, the hunt in this last episode, but we haven't seen the big, all-out battlefield stuff in a while. That's because, frankly, it's difficult to do. You know, A New Hope had a pretty big battle at the end of it, but what we saw on Hoth got a bit bigger than that, in terms of the number of Rebels fighting Imperials. But neither of those could compare to the battle above the second Death Star in Return of the Jedi. We're getting to that Return of the Jedi level of combatants. I think the only question for us now is, how far can we take this?
And he says to expect a lot more three-part storylines, broken up by the occasional standalone story where we check in on R2D2 and C3PO.


text: Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums :: View topic - The women brave are well or dont well? Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in The women brave are well or dont well? Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Culture View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message attanopJoined: 02 Feb 2003Posts: 4 Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2003 5:37 am Post subject: The women brave are well or dont well? In the past the Thai women are gentle and timid in the public. They have right less than men. But in present the Thai women have right to be equals to men. They are fearless more than in past. Example they brave show thinking of them in the public. They can lead many people. They can support family of them. Although the women have valorous are good because they dont annoyed from men. But if they brave in bad it will be damaged example women dressed dont covered they will be damaged. The women brave talk before with men other person will look the women that dont well. The valorous of women get influence from culture of international. Do you think that the women in present over brave? What do you think about the women talk with men before? And do you think that the women in present are conduct oneself suitable for Thai society? Back to top wingJoined: 15 Jan 2003Posts: 193 Posted: Tue Feb 04, 2003 6:21 am Post subject: Women have the right to be brave. Why live in the unfair past? Women should have their careers, independence and whatever men now have. Equailty between the sexes is of utmost importance for the world. Women have the right to wear what they like decently just like men, express what they want to say just like men and enjoy their considerable sucess JUST LIKE MEN. Such changes will only represent the advance in your society. Thai men, if don't want to be beated, must work hard before you fail. And try to take more time to judge yourself instead of brave women. Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Culture All times are GMT - 8 Hours Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Student Forums----------------ComputersCurrent NewsCultureEnglish SchoolsFamilyFilm and CinemaFoodHealth and FitnessHelp CenterHobbiesHolidaysLearning EnglishLiteratureMaking FriendsMusicOpinionsPetsScienceSportsThe Strange and MysteriousTOEFL and Other English ExamsTravel You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum Dave's ESL Cafe is maintained by the one and only Dave Sperling. Banner Advertising | Bookstore / Alta Books | FAQs | Articles | Interview with Dave Copyright © 2018 Dave's ESL Cafe | All Rights Reserved | Contact Dave's ESL Cafe | Site Map Teachers College, Columbia University: Train to Teach English Here or Abroad Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2002 phpBB Group


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Tips for Using Brain-based Research to Strengthen Teaching & Learning
Recent developments in brain research have led to many implications for strengthening teaching and learning. While the study of the way our brain learns is incredibly fascinating, the purpose of this document is to translate some of that information into tips that can be used in our classrooms. According to author Eric Jensen, there are six broad categories of recommendations.
1. Enrich Learning Environments
Learning is improved in enriched environments and diminished in impoverished environments. Enriched environments are established through:
- appropriate challenge. As you introduce new content, increase the difficulty over time, vary the resources, and provide novelty in your instructional strategies.
- timely feedback. In order for feedback to enrich the learning environment, it must be specific and learner controlled whenever possible. Toward this end, there are several possibilities, such as having posted criteria for performance, using a written checklist, checking against personal goals, etc.
2. Get and Maintain Attention
Every moment, there is a myriad of stimuli to which an individual could attend. In order to get and maintain attention to the learning environment, it is important to:
- switch gears with a strong contrast from what you were just doing. For example: if you were having students engage in quiet, reflective work, switch to a group activity with lots of movement.
- provide students time to process the material you've just covered. Brain research indicates that you can either have the students' attention or you can enable them to make meaning, but not both at the same time.
3. Stimulate Emotions
Emotions are important in learning situations because they drive attention, establish personal meaning and have their own memory pathways. Introduce emotions in your classroom by:
- creating a safe environment to express emotions
- helping to create positive emotional states through classroom success, friendships, celebrations, music, fun, acknowledgments, etc.
- using debates or dialogs to address controversies
- engaging students in a personal way through journals, discussion, sharing, personal stories, etc.
4. Motivation and Rewards
Teachers everywhere talk about their students' motivation or (seemingly) lack thereof! Research strongly suggests that intrinsic motivation stems from having compelling goals, positive beliefs and emotions about your abilities, and striving to relate new learning to former learning. Intrinsic motivation is more likely to emerge when you:
- eliminate threats by establishing ground rules, describe expectations, etc.
- promote positive self-images and self-confidence in students. You might encourage the use of affirmations, acknowledge students' successes, teamwork, etc.
- provide feedback. Again, this is accomplished in many ways, including developing rubrics and sharing them with students, engaging in peer editing/review, etc.
5. Make Meaning
To make meaning, the brain needs relevance, emotion, context, and patterns. Further, the greater the number of different links and associations, the more dendrite pathways are formed. To help the brain make meaning:
- link new learning to "old mental hooks" through the use of examples, stories, etc.
- use cooperative/collaborative learning strategies
To assist the brain in developing patterns:
- use hands-on, experiential, and relevant activities
- ask "how" questions, because they draw out the patterns as the student relates the steps in the process
6. Engage Memory and Recall
A primary way to trigger recall is by association, which includes the corresponding sights, smells, sounds, places, and emotions. To promote memory and recall:
- chunk/group ideas versus covering material in a "piecemeal" way
- conduct oral/written reviews often
- intersperse coverage of material with intervals for reflection
- arrange the information in a structured and meaningful way
- cover the whole, then the parts
Jensen, Eric. Teaching with the Brain in Mind. Alexandria, VA: ASCD, 1998. Print.
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Futures rebounded a bit overnight but are back under pressure again with the latest economic releases:
The PPI (Producer Price Index) came in with a month to month change of -.9%, much larger than expected, but the important number is the year over year number and it was down a stunning 6.8%!!! None of the articles I read this morning even mention the yoy figures:
Inflation at the producer level in July declined sharply on both declines in food and energy. And the core rate was nudged down by lower motor vehicle prices. The overall PPI dropped 0.9 percent after spiking 1.8 percent in June. The decline in July was greater the market forecast for a 0.3 percent dip in the headline PPI. The drop in the latest month was led by a 2.4 percent decrease in energy with food prices declining 1.5 percent. Meanwhile the core PPI rate eased sharply to 0.1 percent dip, following a 0.5 percent surge in June. The consensus had expected a 0.1 percent rise.
With energy prices rising in recent weeks and auto credits ending soon, the July PPI may be the best we see for a while.
Notice how seemingly benign the month over month chart is? It's trending down, but look at the effect on the year over year chart
And, get a load of this… According to the BLS, "From July 2008 to July 2009, prices for finished goods fell 6.8 percent, the index for intermediate goods decreased 15.1 percent, and crude goods prices dropped 44.8 percent, all of which are record 12-month declines."
Did you catch that? RECORD DECLINES. Yes, energy is a large reason for the decline, but those who exclude energy costs, a very important and underlying engine for the economy (and demand is way down), are simply deluding themselves if they try to eliminate it like the government and media does.
I believe these numbers do mean that we have entered a deflationary spiral. I need confirmation of that from Jim Shepherd's model, but I should know more soon. I will also have the updated charts from the Fed soon and will post them when they are updated.
It's important to know that a deflationary spiral does not necessarily mean that stocks are going to plunge immediately. It may take time for it to translate, but it most assuredly will. More later - this is a very big development, one that I'm sure the media will ignore and pretend is not happening.
Housing Starts are down more than forecast. This is actually a good thing from my perspective as there is still too much inventory. Of course bad is good and good is bad as far as the sheeple and twisted media are concerned. Here's Econoday's spin:
Homebuilding in July slipped from June's gain but remained above recent lows. Also, the single-family component continued its uptrend. Housing starts in July decreased 1.0 percent, following a 6.5 percent boost the month before. The July pace of 0.581 million units annualized was down 37.7 percent year-on-year and was lower than the market expectation for 0.605 million units. The decline in July was led by the multifamily component which dropped 13.3 percent after plunging 26.1 percent the month before. However, the single-family component rose another 1.7 percent after gaining 17.8 percent in June. Single-family starts have risen five months in a row.
By region, July weakness in starts was led by a monthly 16.3 percent drop in the Northeast. Starts in the West and South also slipped, by 1.6 percent and 1.4 percent, respectively. The Midwest posted a 12.9 percent gain.
Housing permits also slipped on the multifamily component while the single-family components rose further. Overall permits edged down 1.8 percent, following a 10.0 percent boost in June. Permits in July were issued at a pace of 0.560 million units annualized and were down 39.4 percent on a year-ago basis.
Today's starts report is better than suggested by the headline number. Multifamily starts are notably more volatile that the single-family component. It is good news for many homebuilders that the single-family component has been on a moderate uptrend for five months.
Hahaha, always a reason why it's better than it appears in their eyes! What nonsense. Just look at that chart. Anybody see inflation there? Remember, consumers used to use never ending increases in home value to finance their spending via refinancing and second mortgages. That path to "wealth" is gone and is not coming back. This is one of the primary reasons that consumer credit is contracting, and that is going to get worse.
The Redbook same store sales decreased 4.5% yoy in the prior week. I believe that to be understated and I won't even report Goldman's delusional ICSC anymore.
Yesterday was a 90% down day – hey, I told everyone to buckle the heck up! It's going to be a wild ride and I believe that we are entering or have entered a deflationary spiral that is going to grind the excesses out of the economy. It's a GOOD THING. Nations can survive deflation, it is usually hyperinflation that kills currencies and nations. It will present a window of opportunity for REAL change, not just accelerated more of the same manipulation and twisting of the rule of law.
The short term stochastics are mostly now oversold. We are coming up on an area of support and I expect that it may take some time to work through it, but believe that we eventually will with the occasional attempt to manipulate the markets afloat. I believe that with deflation firmly in control that attempts to manipulate the market will fail as they are overwhelmed with deleveraging pressure and higher volumes.
990 is now the overhead pivot, 970 has support, 961 is the next lower pivot and after that it's 935…
Have a great day, I'll update more on the PPI and what I think is the beginning of a deflationary spiral later as I get more information.
Deflation is going to grind the economy back to reality. We as a nation are now faced with another choice… to accept reality and to let the cleansing process work, or to fight it tooth and nail which will be suicidal in the long run for our nation.
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Wrap Upby Brad Samuelson on October 2, 2013 at 8:26 am
Well, that's it.
I just wanted to take a minute to write a little something. First, I wanted to say a giant THANK YOU to my wife. Without her this comic would literally have never happened. The support and encouragement alone were huge, not to even mention the ideas she gave me for it. Also to everyone who has ever taken the time to read it, that really does mean a lot. People will tell you that they'd keep making their comics just for themselves even if no one cared or ever looked at it. I find that really hard to believe and for me it's not the case at all. I really enjoy making comics, but when you tell stories or jokes without an audience you might as well be that crazy guy on the street corner who smells like pee and talks to his invisible friend. So what I'm trying to say is thank you! The support, kind words and criticisms really kept me going on this and meant a lot.
Just a quick note on the ending. I've actually had this idea in mind all along. Way back since the second comic (yeesh, sorry about the art back then). I wasn't quite sure of the exact details of how I thought it should end at the time, but I knew the general direction I wanted it to go and I'm really glad I got to end it like this.
As far as what's next for me, I'll be taking a little time. The first story arc of my other comic just finished up as well, so I'm going to spend time getting caught up on some other things before getting back into comics (hopefully not too much time, though). If you want to keep up on what I'm doing, please follow me on twitter.
It's been a good journey with Gnorm and Jack and I feel like I've really grown a lot artistically and in my story telling ability. These guys will always be a big part of me and I hope you've had as much fun reading about them as I did creating them. As always, thanks for reading.
Finding Your Focus and An Announcementby Brad Samuelson on August 21, 2013 at 6:00 pm
This was a tough post to write. Today's comic marks the start of something but I'll get to that in a minute. First I wanted to let you know where my head is right now. Big life events often come with a reality check. If you're lucky, things change in a positive way and you grow. If you're unlucky it can drop you in a funk from which it can be difficult to recover. When my son was born in 2006, reality slapped me in the face. Before then I had no idea how much time I was wasting, which can happen when you go from having hours and hours of "me time" to none at all. But that reality check made me grow, pushed me to get serious about creating a comic and after a good bit of fretting over time management, As the Grass Grows was born.
Fast forward to 2011. My daughter was on the way and while I was having a lot of fun doing AtGG, my mind kept going back to a different story I wanted to tell. Having the experience of one time-sucking kid under my belt (I really do love my kids and wouldn't trade them for anything ), I felt the push to work on this other story. So As the Grass Grows went on hiatus and Sector Four began.
Once that got going and was humming along smoothly, I started to miss some of the jokes and freedom of an unconfined comic. So, feeling all confident and slightly delusional, I decided it was time to bring back Gnorm and the guys.
Things were moving along… the schedule for Sector Four was slipping, but I felt like that was ok since the page-a-week installments weren't a great reading experience anyway. So whenever I could finish a page, I would put it up.
Here's where reality came to smack me in the face again. A few weeks ago, I had surgery to fix a hernia. While I was laying around in horrible pain afterwards, I couldn't sit up to draw, I was super unproductive and had a lot of time to think. I read back through a lot of the comics I'd done and realized that there were aspects of them that I would have loved to have done differently. The main problem I was seeing was that I was spread too thin. Between my day job, my freelance work and my comics, I didn't really have time to sit back and take a critical look at what I was doing. I'd just finish one thing and move on to the next. This is a problem. Then I heard this on a podcast and it struck a cord:
"Do one thing and do it the best, and when that thing is a success, add a second thing." – Dan Benjamin
I'm still not sure what I would consider "success" to look like for my comics. But I know one thing. I'm not doing either of them to the best of my abilities. I don't think they're bad, but I know I could do better. After looking at both of them, and with other ideas piling up in my head, I've made a pretty difficult and pretty big decision.
As the Grass Grows will be coming to an end.
The main reason is because I feel like I've been through a lot with these guys and I don't really have any more stories to tell about them. I love these characters too much to give them a half-hearted effort and more and more I feel like my focus is shifting elsewhere. I've written an end to their story that I'm pretty happy with and I'm ready to move on and give my complete focus to Sector Four for a while to make that story the best it can be.
I can't tell you how much I appreciate the support that I've been given for As the Grass Grows and I'll be forever grateful to each and every person who has read, commented, enjoyed, hated, and sometimes purchased the work that I've done here. You guys have been awesome to me and I hope you'll continue to check out Sector Four and whatever lies beyond.
Thanks for reading,
A little scheduling newsby Brad Samuelson on June 24, 2013 at 8:56 am
Just wanted to give a quick update on some of the things going on that will affect the comic, but first an announcement. Unfortunately, I'm going to have to go back to one As the Grass Grows strip a week for a while. This wasn't an easy call since I really like the momentum of more than one comic a week, but life – as it's known to do – tends to get in the way sometimes. If you read my other comic, Sector Four, you'll notice that it hasn't updated in quite a while. This really bothers me, especially since I'm so close to finishing out the first story arc. So in order to handle the other commitments in life and also get back to a comic that I'm still really excited about, I decided that I had to cut back my time on As the Grass Grows.
One of those life things I need to handle will be having surgery in July. Nothing serious, thankfully, but I'll definitely have some miserable down time where I'm not going to be productive at all. And there are also some good things that have been going on lately that have just taken more time than I expected.
So new plan… starting this week (6/26) As the Grass Grows goes back to weekly Wednesday updates. On
July 15th August 5th (had to push it back a little bit), Sector Four will be back to a weekly schedule until the first story wraps up. Then it'll go on hiatus while I work on the second story arc and finalize my plans for a new format for the comic.
Also somewhere in there, websites will be redesigned and some other things I've been working on will launch before As the Grass Grows settles back into it's multi-comic per week update schedule.
FCBD 2013by Brad Samuelson on April 29, 2013 at 8:49 am
On May 4th, I'll, once again, be at Comix Connection in the West Manchester Mall in York, PA for Free Comic Book Day. The guys at Comix Connection really do a great job with this event so if you're in the area I strongly urge you to come check it out. They're also working to support the Central Pennsylvania Food Bank and the York Rescue Mission, so they're giving away an additional free comic for every non-perishable food item you donate. Not to mention the great guests they have for you to come and meet (ahem, yours truly). Check out more details here.
I'll have copies of Gnonsense on hand for $10 and I'll be giving out free sketches and postcards. I'd love to see you there.
Welcome Back!by Brad Samuelson on February 1, 2013 at 8:00 am
It seems like it's taken so long to get to this point, but I'm really glad to be back drawing and posting strips on a regular basis. Getting back into these characters has been so fun. Part of that fun has been allowing them to develop since we've seen then last. There are going to be some pretty big changes but at their hearts these characters are still the same and I didn't realize how much I missed them until I started hearing their voices in my mind again.
So let me fill you in on the plan. Today's comic is up right now and there'll be two more next week, Wednesday (2/6) and Friday (2/8), then we'll settle into our regular weekly schedule every wednesday. This is only temporary, though. I'm planning to continue to make at least 2 comics per week and once I have a nice stock pile, I'll start posting them every Wednesday and Friday. I'll probably take me a couple weeks or a month to get to that point, though, so for now we'll just stick to weekly.
Also, Sector Four isn't going away. I've gotten a little behind on it but now that things are rolling here at As the Grass Grows, it'll free me up to get back to Sector Four as well. As of this post, there are 9 more pages of chapter two that will close out 'book 1′ and then it'll go on a little hiatus while I try to get a big chunk of chapter 3 done.
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Friday, December 23, 2011
'tis the day before Christmas
As you all probably know, Christmas for me is on the 24th and we are pretty well set around here.
The parcels are wrapped and placed under the tree,
The table is set, almost,
The critters are decorated,
The live critters are being lazy enjoying the warmth of a fireplace,
The human critters have some more baking and lots of cooking to do,
but most important of all,
Wishing you a very merry Christmas and Peace on Earth in 2012!
Cheers peeps
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Today something sort of big in my little perfume world happened; I made the decision to cut loose Tocade. It's not the first downsize I've made, but it is the biggest.
At the beginning of summer I decided to do some streamlining, as I wasn't excited about much of my summer wardrobe and couldn't justify fluffing it up when I had over-half full bottles of stuff I liked but did not love lying around. So I went after the fruits of last summer's vintage bender and sent some obscure
There's a thread on the Female Fragrance board on scents and personality that I began rambling on. I felt like it was becoming too introspective and long, so I cut it and pasted it here.
I noticed somewhere along the line what my favorites definitely aren't. I wear orientals well and am drawn more to exotic, darker scents. I'm really a happy, down-to-earth gal who dreams of adventure.
I think chemistry and id, if you will, determine scent insofar as we have
I first heard of Chanel No. 5 at age 13, when I began to read YM, Seventeen, and Sassy. I was not born of high circumstance, and my sisters and I went to private schools my parents made sacrifices to send us to. These magazines, while entertaining enough to read, had very little in common with middle- and high-school life as I knew it. Chanel No. 5 was spoken of as the ultimate in preppy, popular, prom-going sophistication, something that they needn't advertise because any teenaged girl who was
Two of my most highly anticipated niche samples, Borneo 1834 and Aomassai, have recently slapped me in the face and in no uncertain terms told me that no, we can't be friends, and no, we don't even want to hang out.
On the other hand, my very first blind buy, Mitsouko, hooked her arm through mine and said, 'Hey, we've actually got a lot in common! Let's take a walk and chat.' So we did. And here's what I learned.
Three of my five very favorites (Mitsy became a
Dominatrix in a bottle! Dead sexy. Is it supposed to be sexy? Is it the leather? I've never worn anything I perceived to be in-your-face sexy, but I never would have guessed it smelled like this.
I did, however, sense that I should proceed with caution on this one, so I wore to work a loose-fitting light turquoise colored crewneck sweater and minimalist makeup. But next night on the town with DH, I just may have to rock this one with the form-fitting black dress, knee-high stiletto
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This functionality requires the application of AEM 6.3 Service Pack 3 (22.214.171.124).
Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) content fragments are created and managed as page-independent assets.
They allow you to create channel-neutral content, together with (possibly channel-specific) variations. You can then use these fragments, and their variations, when authoring your content pages.
Together with the updated JSON exporter, structured content fragments can also be used to deliver AEM content via Content Services to channels other than AEM pages.
Content Fragments and Experience Fragments are different features within AEM:
- Content Fragments are editorial content, primarily text and related images. They are pure content, without design and layout.
- Experience Fragments are fully laid out content; a fragment of a web page.
Experience Fragments can contain content in the form of Content Fragments, but not the other way around.
This page must be read in conjunction with Working with Content Fragments (and related pages) as it introduces basic terminology and concepts, together with creating and managing fragments.
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Future of Work at the Human-Technology Frontier: Core Research (FW-HTF) NSF Wide Programs
The Future of Work at the Human-Technology Frontier: Core Research program (NSF 20-515) will host two virtual office hours sessions in preparation for the upcoming March 9, 2020, proposal submission deadline.
Session 1 Wednesday, February 12, 10 AM – 12 noon EST
WebEx information: https://nsf2.webex.com/nsf2/onstage/g.php?MTID=ec2f198bb9d65905be213b87b5852cb0f
Session 2 Thursday, February 13, 4 PM – 6 PM EST
WebEx information: https://nsf2.webex.com/nsf2/onstage/g.php?MTID=e01dcc6a7475d65f18779827f84f19207
These sessions offer the opportunity to ask FW-HTF program officers questions about the FW-HTF program, the current solicitation, and the merit review process.
The sessions are free of charge and open to the public; however, registration is required to join the WebEx meetings. You may follow the links above to register.
Before you join the FW-HTF virtual office hours:
- Familiarize yourself with solicitation NSF 20-515 and watch the FW-HTF orientation video.
- Submit questions by e-mail to firstname.lastname@example.com. Preface the subject line with "Office Hours Q&A Session 1:" or "Office Hours Q&A Session 2:" as appropriate. Questions may also be asked during the session through the session moderator or by using the WebEx chat feature.
- Register at the appropriate WebEx link above to avoid delays.
We look forward to hearing from you at the office hours!
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PROGRAM GUIDELINESSolicitation 20-515
Important Information for Proposers
A revised version of the NSF Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG) (NSF 20-1), is effective for proposals submitted, or due, on or after June 1, 2020. Please be advised that, depending on the specified due date, the guidelines contained in NSF 20-1 may apply to proposals submitted in response to this funding opportunity.
In 2016, the National Science Foundation (NSF) unveiled a set of "Big Ideas," 10 bold, long-term research and process ideas that identify areas for future investment at the frontiers of science and engineering (see https://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/big_ideas/index.jsp). The Big Ideas represent unique opportunities to position our Nation at the cutting edge of global science and engineering leadership by bringing together diverse disciplinary perspectives to support convergence research. As such, when responding to this solicitation, even though proposals must be submitted to the Directorate for Engineering (ENG), Office of Emerging Frontiers and Multidisciplinary Activities (ENG/EFMA), once received the proposals will be managed by a cross-disciplinary team of NSF Program Directors.
The Future of Work at the Human-Technology Frontier (FW-HTF), one of the Big Ideas, is one mechanism by which NSF is responding to the challenges and opportunities for the future of jobs and work. The overarching vision is to support convergent research to understand and develop the human-technology partnership, design new technologies to augment human performance, illuminate the emerging socio-technological landscape, understand the risks and benefits of new technologies, understand and influence the impact of artificial intelligence on workers and work, and foster lifelong and pervasive learning.
The landscape of jobs and work is changing at unprecedented speed, enabled by advances in computer science and engineering, deeper understanding of societal and environmental change, advances in the learning sciences, and new conceptions of work and workplaces. This technological and scientific revolution presents a historical opportunity to the Nation and its people, in the creation of new industries and occupations, enhanced productivity and quality of work life, and the potential for more people to participate in the workforce, ultimately yielding sustained innovation and global leadership. But, as history teaches, such changes also come with risks. Some risks are immediate, such as jobs lost to automation or demand for skills not met by current educational pathways. Other equally important risks include new security threats, algorithmic biases, unanticipated legal consequences including privacy implications, dependence on technology and erosion of human knowledge and skills, inadequate workplace policies and practices, or undesirable impact on the built environment.
The specific objectives of the Future of Work at the Human-Technology Frontier program are to (1) facilitate convergent research that employs the joint perspectives, methods, and knowledge of computer science, design, engineering, learning sciences, research on education and workforce training, and social, behavioral, and economic sciences; (2) encourage the development of a research community dedicated to designing intelligent technologies and work organization and modes inspired by their positive impact on individual workers, the work at hand, the way people learn and adapt to technological change, creative and supportive workplaces (including remote locations, homes, classrooms, or virtual spaces), and benefits for social, economic, educational, and environmental systems at different scales; (3) promote deeper basic understanding of the interdependent human-technology partnership to advance societal needs by advancing design of intelligent work technologies that operate in harmony with human workers, including consideration of how adults learn the new skills needed to interact with these technologies in the workplace, and by enabling broad workforce participation, including improving accessibility for those challenged by physical or cognitive impairment; and (4) understand, anticipate, and explore ways of mitigating potential risks arising from future work at the human-technology frontier. Ultimately, this research will advance understanding of how technology and people interact, distribute tasks, cooperate, and complement each other in different specific work contexts of significant societal importance. It will advance the knowledge base related to worker education and training and formal and informal learning to enable all potential workers to adapt to changing work environments. It will advance our understanding of the links between the future of work at the human-technology frontier and the surrounding society, including the intended potential of new technologies and the unintended consequences for workers and the well-being of society.
For the purposes of this solicitation, work is defined as mental or physical activity to achieve tangible benefit such as income, profit, or community welfare. The Future of Work at the Human-Technology Frontier is, in turn, a conceptualization of work in the future that will be enabled or improved by advances in intelligent technology and their synergistic integration with human skill to achieve broad participation in the workforce and improve the social, economic, and environmental well-being of society. To reach this goal, research is sought that is anchored in work. Proposals must clearly define the work and work context addressed by the research. Technological innovations should be integrated with advances in the learning sciences, research on education and workforce training, and social, behavioral, and economic science perspectives. Potential results should contribute to fundamental advances in optimizing the human-technology team, the science and technology of future workforce development and education, work environments, and positive work outcomes for workers and society at large. Proposals are encouraged that are oriented toward the future of work at the human-technology frontier and that are not overly couched in current technology or work practices.
A proposal for a research grant in this program must focus on advancing fundamental understanding of future work, and potential improvements to work, workplaces, workforce preparation, or work outcomes for workers and society. It must be convergent research that addresses the human and societal dimensions as well as the technological innovation and their potential impact on future work. In doing so, the research should make significant contributions to both intellectual merit and broader impact. Achieving this goal requires integration and convergence of disciplines across behavioral science, computer science, economic science, engineering, learning sciences, research on education and workforce training, and the social sciences. A convergent perspective is essential to understand and shape long-term social and economic drivers, so that advanced intelligent technology will strengthen the social fabric. A convergent perspective also provides insights into education and re-skilling, so that the benefits of emerging technology can be conferred upon both current and future workers.
Proposals in which one discipline or set of skills is mainly in service of the others are not appropriate. Ideally, the research will be interdependent, integrated, and will contribute novel understanding and impact on the Future of Work at the Human-Technology Frontier. Such integration and impact may require extra effort in leadership, regular communication, and cross-training.
What Has Been Funded (Recent Awards Made Through This Program, with Abstracts)
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Stocks open sharply lower as job growth stalls
The Dow Jones industrial average fell sharply in early trading after the U.S. government reported a sharp slowdown in hiring last month.
The Dow gave up 151 points shortly after the opening bell Friday, moving down 1 percent to 14,456. Other indexes were also lower.
The Standard & Poor's 500 index was down 19 points, or 1.2 percent, to 1,540 and the Nasdaq composite was down 51 points, or 1.6 percent, at 3,174.
The Labor Department reported that U.S. employers added just 88,000 jobs in March, the fewest in nine months. It's a slowdown after a period of strong hiring and the latest troubling sign for the economy.
The yield on the 10-year Treasury note fell to 1.70 percent, its lowest of the year, as traders bought low-risk bonds.


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NORTH BERWICK, Maine — The Noble High School community is in mourning after Collin Evans, a junior, took his own life on Friday, Jan. 18. A notice has been sent to parents informing them of the student's death and explaining a grieving process that should be discussed with their children.
Signs of a grieving adolescent are also listed in the letter, such as tearfulness, irritability, whiny moods, physical complaints, change in appetite, inability to concentrate, temporary dip in grades or more pronounced fears of dying. Book recommendations such as "The Grieving Child" by Helen Fitzgerald, "Talking about Death to Children" by Earl Grollman, or "The Grieving Teen" by Helen Fitzgerald are suggested in the notice.
"Offer them loving, touching support. Allow them to be sad and cry and it's OK to let them see you be sad and cry as well. Let your child ask questions and answer them as simply as you can. If you need to, it's OK to say, "I don't know how to answer that. Perhaps we can find someone who can help us." Talk about dreams as they happen. If you wait until morning they may be forgotten. Reassure your child you are healthy, you are careful when you drive, and you will be around for a long time," states the public notice sent to parents of students at Noble High.
The High School is providing a number of grieving resources in the guidance office and encourages the students to feel free to stop by. They have also have trained their guidance counselors for crisis response by the Center for Grieving Children and have posted some resources on the Noble High School Guidance website. Counselorss are available to assist students one-on-one or in support groups. Parents have been asked to email their child's counselor if they have any questions.
For more information or questions on how to help your child deal with loss, contact on The Center for Grieving Children at 775-5216 or call 777-HELP, if you feel your child needs immediate assistance.


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AJ Daulerio's Cultural Oddsmaker runs every Friday. Let him know what you think of him.
Everybody loves an underdog story, and apparently, Hollywood loves a South Philly underdog story more than once. And I've always been a mess when it comes to movies like Invincible: I break out in hives everytime I watch Hoosiers. The Rookie made me want to hug somebody. And Rudy ... well, shit — full nervous breakdown.
Even as a Philadelphia Eagles fan, I'll admit to never having heard of Vince Papale until the movie was being made. So, this'll be two-times the fun for me. And for others too — next week the movie should prove to be a box office draw for the lucrative sappy dad demo and racially insensitive loudmouthed housewives everywhere.
And I can always go for more of these films. So, in this week's Cultural Oddsmaker, I'm making a list of long shot feel-good sports movies that'll soon be coming to a theater near you. I figure autistic three-bomber Jason McElwain is most likely being shot right now with that kid from Jerry Maguire set to star, so he's exempt from this list, as 1/5 favorite.
For now I'm putting on my Brian Piccolo jersey, having my buddy Radio make me a sandwich and straining the eyelids to pretend I'm not crying.
Weep with me, after this jump.
High Five: The Jim Abbott Story: 5/1
Nothing's more inspiring than people with disabilities: My Left Foot. Murderball. The Ringer. And what could be more heartwarming than a one-armed pitcher? Who throws a no-hitter, no less! And through the magic of CGI, they won't even need to actually go out and find a guy misssing his right hand. Well, if they found a left-handed one armed guy who could pitch, they could do that whole reverse-the-screen trick. They did that for Anthony Michael Hall as Whitey Ford in 61, I think.
No Legs Up: The Willie McQueen Story: 8/1
Follow the gimpy path of eight grade football player Willie McQueen, a 3' 1 inch nub who was a terror of a nose tackle on his local football team. Also another great CGI candidate. And would also be a marketing department's dream. Think of all the possibilities — maybe a bobblehead doll. Or a chew toy for pets.
My Name is Jim...ShitFuckChineseWhore!: The Jim Eisenreich Story: 9/1
Jim Eisenreich twitched his way through 10+ major league seasons and proved himself a clutch pinch hitter despite suffering from Tourette's. But what was it like growing up for Jim? Did he get teased? He had to. This could be a real life Forrest Gump-type movie.I wonder if Eisenreich played ping-pong?
There's a Dead Guy With a Mustache on the Roof: The Bo Diaz Story: 12/1
Sure, not many people remember Bo outside of his mediocre catching career, his nappy fro and his Fasano-esque mustache of yore. But did you know Bo Diaz is one of the most highly regarded Venezuelan baseball players in history? But, sadly, his life was cut short when he was crushed installing a satellite dish. (Just another reason why the NFL should be ashamed of itself.) Couldn't you just imagine Paul Thomas Anderson directing this movie? Or at least reshooting Magnolia to add Bo's death in the intro?


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Gibson accepted assistant coach offer for Waratahs
AFTER having his role at the Crusaders downgraded, former All Black centre Daryl Gibson has accepted an offer as an assistant coach at the New South Wales Waratahs for the 2013 Super Rugby season.
Gibson, presently assisting Jamie Joseph on the New Zealand Maori tour of England, resigned from the Crusaders last month after his role was reduced to defence coach after a review of the 2012 season.
He said he was attracted to the role in Sydney after talking to new head coach Michael Cheika about his vision for the Tahs.
"His passion and commitment to turning the Waratahs into a winning team made it an easy choice.
When you get a group of people committed to being better every day then winning becomes a by product," Gibson said.
Cheika said Gibson had excellent skills in the areas the club was targeting for big improvement next season - continuity of attack and around the ruck.
"He also has a very rounded approach to the game, having coached in Super Rugby and in the UK and against teams from Australia, South Africa, New Zealand and all over Europe," Cheika said.


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A measure of corporate debt levels is reaching worrisome levels, says Joseph Lavorgna, chief economist at the investment bank Natixis. In a note to clients Tuesday, Lavorgna said that the ratio of non-financial corporate debt to nominal GDP growth has risen above 45 for the last few quarters, roughly the same level reached before the last two recessions (see the chart below, with recessions marked by shaded areas).
While this doesn't mean that recession is necessarily imminent, it does suggest that when the economy turns, "it is likely to come from the corporate sector whose balance sheet is relatively stretched compared to history," Lavorgna wrote. Household debt, by comparison, is in much better shape.
One of the main drivers of elevated corporate debt levels is interest rates, which have remained low even as the economy hits what appears to be a cyclical peak. When a recession does come, it will likely be shallow, Lavorgna says, due to the relative strength of consumer balance sheets. At the same time, however, the recovery could also be weak due in part to the recent massive increases in the budget deficit, which could limit the ability of policymakers to respond with fiscal stimulus.


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To join: Check the lists below to see if there is an opening for your state, then send me an email me at adventuresandpursuits (at) gmail (dot) com.
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North Dakota
Please let me know if you need a back up for North Carolina. This seems like it would be so much fun.
My son would love to do this if you end up needing another Indiana. He's only 4 but loves Geography. He's done his United States puzzle about a thousand times and will sit and look at our globe and type the names of countries into Google to find pictures of them. And of course, like all kids, he loves to get mail. Please consider adding more groups! : )
I would love to do a Washington state Postcard for a group (or even two groups if you need it). Let me know if I can be a part of this fun swap!
I would love to be a back up for Oregon if someone backs out. What a great idea!!
Please let me know if you need another Texas.
I would love to be a back up for Georgia. I'm so bummed I missed this!
Oh shucks I was so hoping Georgia was still around but it isn't...I would love to join in on this fun!
I'm sure that Utah is always gone in a heartbeat but I would love to do it.
This is so much fun! If you open new groups, I would love to have my girls represent IOWA!
I do child care in my home so this would be so fun!! Im in California if you need a back up.
I would love love love to do an Idaho one! :)
I would love to do it! I am in Washington.
Florida please!
Iowa back-up here!
This is a great idea. If Utah becomes available--I would love to have our family do this.
Please add us for a Tennessee spot if one opens up! THANKS!
Such a great idea! I wish I had seen it sooner! I'm here in Nevada, if you happen to do this again or create any more groups!
I'm IN!! So exited! My daughter is gonna love getting postcards!
Oh MAN, I would LOVE to do this with my kiddies, so bummed we missed it! We are California, so if you decide to do it again... :)))
We were so disappointed to only get 5 postcards back. Is that about the average you have gotten? Why would someone sign up for this and then just not follow through? I can't imagine disappointing kids like that. Should I try another batch?
The swap is supposed to take almost a full year to complete. You should be receiving one postcard a week for 50 weeks. If you will check the mailing list I sent you it includes a schedule of when each state should be mailing their postcards. So don't worry! Your postcards will come!
If you need another Marylander, please let me know. Heather
Please let me know when y'all need another TEXAN.
I saw group 2 needs a Kentucky...I'm across the river in Ohio, but I'd be happy to purchase Kentucky postcards. I'd also be happy to be West Virginia in Group 3 since we're going home tomorrow. (I'm from West Virginia.)
Also...I'd be happy to share this on my blog if you're interested.
If ever you start again and need a COLORADO, please please let me know! SO FUN!
Jessica Reynolds
I'd love to be an Arizona backup! PLEASE let me know if someone starts another group!
if you need another one from Missouri I would love to be included, thanks
I read about this at tidy moms blog
We would love to be involved in something like this. If you do another round and need a California person please let me know. Thanks.
Would you be willing to start another group? I would love to participate. We live in Arkansas.
Please let me know if you start another group and need someone from Texas. We would LOVE to do this!
This is so much fun! If there's another group, we will love to participate. We're from New Jersey-New York!


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Burke is a town in Caledonia county, Vermont. It was formed in 1782 in Vt. from the following county/ies: Orange. The probate and court district for Burke is Caledonia. For more information, contact the town at 212 School St., West Burke 05871. On the attached map, Burke is shown as 4 in Caledonia county.
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As regular readers know, Greg Bedard is one of our favorite Packer beat writers, so it pains me to point this out. Bedard begins his blog item on Mark Murphy's trip to Mississippi this way:
The Green Bay Packers are attempting to bridge the divide between themselves and estranged quarterback Brett Favre.
Ummmm, no they're not. If the Packers were to "literally" bridge the divide between between "themselves and Brett Favre" it would be an unparalleled feat of engineering. The job would require building a span that covers some 1, 102 miles between Kiln, Mississippi, and Green Bay. The longest bridge today — if you don't count bridges that use pilings — is the Akashi Kaykio Bridge in Japan, which is only 6,532 feet.
(To be technical, if the Packers were to "literally" build a bridge between Favre and "themselves," there would be more than 80 bridges – do we count front-office staff? – connecting the quarterback to individual Packers. More problematic is the fact that people move around a lot.)
Sorry, this has literally bothered me for years.
AT SOME POINT in the near future I will become a bratwurst. I owe this startling realization to Naomi Judd. The singer-actress-philosopher sat down with Larry King recently to promote Naomi's Breakthrough Guide: 20 Choices to Transform Your Life. Not content to mimic the mawkish language of the self-help set, she promised to take the conversation to the "neuroscientist level." Then she declared: "We literally become whatever we think about all day."
Judd also speaks of "literally looking in the Mirror of Truth," and has told a national television audience, "I literally take you by the hand in this book."
I'm not sure how that works. But it is not nearly as evocative as the question actress Jamie Lee Curtis posed recently in an appearance on Canadian television. Curtis, fresh from the success of her own book, I'm Gonna Like Me: Letting Off a Little Self-Esteem, was making the rounds to promote her follow-up work, It's Hard to Be Five: Learning How to Work My Control Panel.
"How many college students," she wanted to know, "do we hear in their freshman year literally explode? They explode with drugs and alcohol, they explode with sex, they explode with eating, they explode with not being able to get work done on time. . . . These people are exploding."
The misuse of the word "literally" is a problem not limited to female entertainers. It has been the subject of debate for decades. The literal meaning of a word or phrase, according to Merriam-Webster's Dictionary, is one that adheres to "fact or to the ordinary construction or primary meaning of a term or expression" and is "free from exaggeration or embellishment." But the word has been misused for so long that most lexicographers have simply given up. Many dictionaries now recognize "literally" as a generic intensifier–thus justifying the use of "literally" when its opposite, "figuratively," is intended.
It is easy to see why the authorities are throwing in the towel. During lunch with an old friend, he told me about a comedian who was "literally side-splitting." And then a concert that "literally knocked my socks off." He was "literally on the fence" about gay marriage and had spent so much time at work he had "literally become one with my computer." By the end of the meal I literally had to hold my tongue to keep from saying anything. I got several strange looks.
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Try to recall who God was for you when you were a child. List key concepts you learned about God when you were growing up. What or who was the source for your information – parents, friends, TV, religious education?
Take one minute and write any word association that you now have with the word "God." Try not to think, just write whatever comes to your mind.
Can you remember a time when you felt jealous, angry, or resentful toward God? Can you take those events and reframe them into more positive feelings and meaningful lessons?
The name in the Bible that unfortunately has been translated as "God" is comprised of the Hebrew letters yud, hey, vav, hey and is written out in English as "Y/H/V/H." It is important to know that "Y/H/V/H" is not a word at all, but a Tetragrammaton – the Tetragrammaton as there is only one – standing for "was/is/and/will be."
How can a human mind grasp Y/H/V/H? How can the human mind imagine the Ultimate Timeless Reality? This is a very difficult idea to grasp because it surpasses our minds. It's like a drop of water in the ocean, trying to grasp the ocean. Indeed, the best we can say is that we each embody an aspect of reality, but we are not reality. Like the drop of water in the ocean, we exist within reality. Because reality is Y/H/V/H.
When Jews celebrate Passover, they sing a song from the Haggadah: "Blessed Is the Place." One of the terms used to describe Y/H/V/H is the "Place," Why "the Place"? Because it suggests Y/H/V/H is the place in which we exist, is the reality within which we exist.
If you believe in the Big Bang theory – that the word came into being as a primordial explosion with masses of hot, whirling gases that eventually condensed into stars and planets – you would still have to ask: Where did all this happen? What place was this in which the explosion took place? "Who" or "What" facilitated this event?
The answer is Y/H/V/H, the Ultimate Reality – the One who embraces all time, all space and all beings.
Ultimate reality is beyond all names, all terms, all images. We can't stuff something as vast and abstract as that any rigid concept or image. When we say "God", we realize that we only possess a simplistic, limited, inadequate understanding of the Ultimate Reality, the Source of All Being, the Place or the Context of All That Exists.
God is dead; it is a lifeless concept, a dead word.
Recently Ron, a computer engineer, Hebrew by roots, but an atheist, visited the Western Wall in Jerusalem, the last remnant of the Temple, which stood over two thousand years ago. He thought, "I am an atheist. What the heck, here I am at the Wall, I should do something spiritual." So he turned to a religious fellow next to him and asked, "Well, what does one do here?"
The fellow responded, "Why don't you recite some psalms?" and he handed him a book of psalms. Ron thought that seemed appropriate and he began to read some verses. Sure enough just within the first few words, he hit upon the "God" word. Although he felt annoyed, he decided to continue. But again the "God" word appeared. Now he was getting very frustrated. How can I say this if I don't believe in God? He asked himself. Do I have to believe in God to have a spiritual experience?
He decided to relate to his predicament as if it were a computer problem. When there is a computer data that he can't use, he creates a buffer zone and puts it there. Ron decided, I'll put the "God" word in a mental buffer zone and simply disregard it so I can continue reading the psalms without getting aggravated. And that is what he did.
Ron then continued reading and suddenly felt overwhelmed by a flood of inspiration released by the moving poetic words of King David. He was stuck by a profound spiritual experience, which he had never felt before. It was as if he were surrounded by light. Only when he got rid of "God" he was able to understand the Ultimate Living Reality.
It is interesting to note that Nietzsche, besides proclaiming that God is dead, also said that unless we experience an infinite whole working through us, our lives have no meaning. Nietzsche didn't believe in "God." And neither do I. I believe in the infinite Whole, the One who was, is, and always will be.
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