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Types of Employment
When considering what type of employment you would like, it is worth exploring some of the different options that may be available. Below we describe the main types of employment available throughout Ireland.
|Full time
|Work Sharing
|Fixed Term
|Virtual Teams
|Shorter Working Year
|eWorking (Teleworking)
|Annulaised Hours
|Casual Work
|Job Sharing
|Children (under 16yrs)
|Job Splitting
|Youths (16 & 17yrs)
|Self Employment
Employee vs Self Employed?
Broadly speaking, there are two types of employment options available - you can be an employee or you are self employed. An employee is someone who works for someone else in return for payment. In Ireland there is no definition of 'employee' in employment law. Instead there is a guide (Code of Practice in determining Employment Status) that contains criteria which can be used to clarify whether a person is employed or self-employed.
The employment status of a person is generally determined by the Revenue Commissioners or the Department of Social and Family Affairs. Importantly, your status as determined by the authorities has legal implications, such as:
- The way in which tax and PRSI is payable to the Collector-General
- An employee will have tax and PRSI deducted from his or her income.
- A self-employed person is obliged to pay preliminary tax and file income tax returns whether or not he or she is asked for them.
- Entitlement to a number of social welfare benefits, such as unemployment and disability benefits
- An employee will be entitled to unemployment, disability and invalidity benefits, whereas a self-employed person will not have these entitlements.
- Other rights and entitlements, for example, under Employment Legislation
- An employee will have rights in respect of working time, holidays, maternity / paternity / parental leave, protection from unfair dismissal etc.
- A self-employed person will not have these rights and protection.
- Public liability in respect of the work done.
If you are working but do not meet the requirements set out as being an employee, then you are regarded as being self-employed. As an employee, there are many different possible workplace arrangements for employment. The following is a brief summary of those arrangements found in Ireland.
Full Time
Full time workers generally work between 35 and 40 hours per week and receive full weekly wages and conditions for working the hours identified in their 'contract of employment', which is issued automatically, regardless of whether it is written or not. This is the most common form of employment in Ireland. The majority of employees work under open-ended contracts of employment. In other words, the contract continues until such time as the employer or employee ends it.
if you are in full-time employment, you do not have a statutory right to change to part-time employment or to other flexible working arrangements such as job sharing or unpaid time off work. If you wish to change from full-time to part-time work or from part-time to full-time work it is a matter to be agreed between you and your employer.
Many people are now employed on a fixed-term basis (or on specific purpose contracts). Specified purpose contracts are contracts that are entered into in order to complete a special project or for a special purpose. They are set for a fixed period of time as determined by the employer, and agreed by the employee.
Employees can only work on one or more fixed term contracts for a continuous period of four years. After this the employee is considered to have a contract of indefinite duration (e.g. a permanent contract).
Employees working on repeated fixed-term contracts are covered under the Unfair Dismissals legislation, though they need to have at least one year's continuous service before they can bring a claim under the Unfair Dismissals Act.
Under the Act fixed-term workers cannot be treated less favourably than comparable permanent workers. You can read more about the Protection of Employees (Fixed Term Work) 2003 Act in this explanatory booklet (pdf) from the National Employment Rights Authority.
A part-time worker is an employee whose normal hours of work are less than the normal hours of work of a full-time employee (of the same or opposite sex) to whom a part-time employee compares himself/herself.
Some of the benefits of part-time employment include:
- a guarantee of regular and rostered weekly hours that should not be altered without notice
- access to paid leave (sick, annual etc) proportionate to the number of hours employed and other entitlements
- guarantee of a weekly earning that allows for budgeting and access to finance
- access to minimum notice requirements for termination, redundancy, change of hours, etc.
While many employees have a preference for working part time on a morning only basis, for example to reconcile both family and work responsibilities, many organisations may not be able to accommodate every request, as for example when they must ensure that adequate staffing levels are available to work up to and after 5pm.
The rights of part-time employees in Ireland are protected in law through the Protection of Employees (Part Time Work) Act, 2001.
The Act applies to any part-time worker in Ireland and generally includes the following:
- Someone working under a contract of employment or apprenticeship
- Someone employed through an employment agency or
- Someone holding office under or in the service of the State. (For example, An Garda Síochána, the Defence Forces, civil servants and employees of the Health Service Executive, harbour authority or Education & Training Boards (ETBs)).
- Someone sharing a job with another person.
In the case of agency workers, the party liable to pay the wages of the employee (the employment agency or client company) will, normally, be considered to be the employer for the purposes of the Protection of Employees (Part-Time Work) Act. The agency or client company are also responsible for ensuring that the part-time employee is not treated in a less favourable manner than a comparable full-time employee.
In Ireland, part-time work is by far the most prevalent form of flexible working used in both small and medium-sized enterprises.
Note: A part-time worker no longer has to have 13 continuous weeks' service and no longer has to work a minimum of 8 hours per week in order to qualify for protection under the Act
Flexible work arrangements
Broadly speaking, flexitime schemes allow employees to vary their starting and finishing times of work, outside a compulsory core-time, provided an agreed volume of hours are worked over a given remuneration period. Flexitime schemes are amongst the longest established and most widely utilised forms of flexible, family friendly working arrangements, especially in the public service.
The main purpose of flexible working hours is to provide a more flexible system of attendance for staff. The total number of hours staff are expected to work is the same as it would be for fixed time working. The difference lies in the fact that individuals on flexitime may vary their times of arrival and departure and also the times and length of their lunch break.
It can also mean that if enough hours are worked up, flexi-leave can be taken. However, flexi time must operate within the confines of a work environment and cannot reduce the overall efficiency of the workplace or the service it provides to the public.
The operation of a flexitime system has to be subject to work requirements. In general, there are flexible bands where staff may vary arrival/departure time and core hours of attendance where staff must be in attendance.
For example, the morning flexible band might stretch from 8:00 to 10:00am, from 12:00 to 2:00pm for lunchtime and from 4:00 to 6:00pm for departure time. In this situation, the core hours are 10:00 to 12:00 and from 2:00 to 4:00. Staff can arrive at any time within these bands.
Over a set 'accounting period', generally four weeks, a minimum amount of hours must be worked (generally 139 hours for full-time workers and 69.5 hours for job sharers).
There is widespread agreement that flexitime can make 'good business sense' for the employer, and good work/life balance opportunities for workers.
Flexitime can:
- enable staff to reconcile, more effectively, work and non-work commitments (including caring responsibilities),
- result in improved attendance and reduced staff turnover
- Allow staff a greater degree of control over the pattern of their working day
- offers a partial solution to the considerable commuting problems experienced by staff in the larger urban areas, such as Dublin.
- can (from the employers point of view) provide a useful means of monitoring working time.
Flexible hours and flexible working arrangements are generally at the discretion of individual employers and are not governed by specific legislation.
Annualised hours
This scheme means that an employee is contracted to work a defined number of hours per year rather than per week. Working time can be scheduled to deal with seasonal variations and fluctuations in the demands of the business throughout the year - for example an employee may work longer hours at the one time of the year and shorter hours at another.
Job sharing
This is an arrangement to divide one full-time job or to share work between two people with the responsibilities and benefits of the job being shared between them. The job can be shared in a number of ways for example:
- on the basis of a split week; (e.g. 2 and 3 day weeks);
- on the basis of a split day
- on the basis of week on, week off.
Good management and communication are essential to effective job-sharing and this can be assisted where the job-sharers can build and operate close working relations.
The advantage of a job-share to the organisation is that the job continues to exist in its fulltime format and a full-time employee can be moved into it at some later stage if desirable. A further advantage is that there are always two people to provide cover - particularly in emergencies. Depending on the needs of the organisation holidays can be taken at the same time or staggered with each job-share partner providing holiday cover for the other. The biggest potential difficulty with job-sharing is finding a suitable partner. This is likely to be easier in large organisations than in small.
Job Splitting
This is an arrangement similar to job sharing except that the tasks involved in a full-time job are split between two people and each has responsibility for their own tasks rather than being equally responsible for the whole job. The need for co-ordination is, therefore, reduced. An advantage of job splitting is that a job can be split in such a way that certain tasks requiring particular skills can be grouped together. In addition, in certain situations the working times of those who have split a job can also overlap.
Work Sharing
Work sharing is a development of the job sharing/job splitting concept which attempts to achieve business tasks while allowing for a wider range of attendance patterns. This arrangement requires a high level of employer/employee co-operation with a view to achieving the tasks that make up the job. It is important that the tasks are clearly defined, targets identified and the level of service decided upon before the workload is divided up. At this stage the manager and jobholders can agree on a system of work attendance to complete the work that best accommodates the staff.
In the Civil Service, current examples of attendance patterns include: mornings only, afternoons only, three days per week, four days per week, 9am to 3pm each day, week on/week off and three weeks out of four. Worksharing staff are paid on a pro rata basis.
Virtual Teams
A further development in this area is the putting together of teams of e-workers to work in a mutually supportive way. The members of the team may never meet and may not even be in the same country. This form of teamwork may be suitable in certain situations but the lack of personal interaction and human contact will render it inappropriate in situations where these factors are considered important.
Shorter Working Year
Shorter Working Year (previously known as Term Time) leave allows working parents or primary carers to match their working arrangements to the main summer holidays of their children, or to care for a person who resides with them and who has a disability which gives rise to the need for care on a continuing or frequent basis. Departments/offices have discretion to refuse term time applications.
In the civil service, Term Time leave can be taken for either thirteen, ten or eight weeks between the beginning of June and the end of August. You may not take leave (paid or unpaid) in the four weeks immediately prior to and following the period of Term Time. The normal arrangement when on unpaid leave is that you do not receive your salary during the leave. A major advantage of Term Time is that you can apply to have your full years salary spread across the year so that you received a reduced amount all year including while on leave.
To be eligible, a member of staff must have a child or children up to 18 years of age, be acting in loco parentis, or be the primary carer for a person with a disability who needs care on a continuing or frequent basis. [See Organisation Profile: Public Service Jobs]
eWorking (Flexiplace/Teleworking)
eWorking is defined as any business function that is conducted away from the office using modern communications and information technologies. It can also include a combination of e-Working and office based work. It is well suited to performing information technology tasks and works well in certain situations where the employee has a high degree of autonomy, eg: Architecture,Journalism. Difficulties to be overcome can include issues of control, lack of face to face contact and consistency of service provision.
In the private sector, some organisations are actively using eWorking at an increasing rate for the following reasons:
- increased productivity - estimates suggest that without distractions common to most offices, workers manage to increase their productivity by between 10% and 40%;
- the costs of teleworking are lower, e.g. commuting time and costs are abolished;
- high rental charges for offices in the city are reduced;
- location of potential employees becomes unimportant;
- companies can increase employment without having to increase office space or incurring relocation costs, and can plan accurately the space they require;
- employees are able to strike a better balance between work and family life by choosing a working week combination which best suits their family circumstances;
- the teleworking scheme is voluntary;
- different types of teleworking are provided - multi-site teleworking; tele-homeworking; telecontractors/freelance teleworking; telecommuting/mobile teleworking; telecottage and relocated back-office working.
eWorking clearly benefits both employers and employees. With current advances in technology, in which virtual call centres are possible and work can be contracted out, greater opportunities are emerging to include a greater number of job types in the teleworking area. eWorking will be an important option for family members who wish to improve the trade off between hours worked and family/leisure time.
Casual Work
Casual workers are people employed as required without fixed hours or attendance arrangements. There is no definition of 'casual employees' in employment law in Ireland. However, these workers are employees, and some legislation will apply, for example, the right to receive a pay slip.
In other instances where a set period of employment is required it will be unlikely that a casual employee will have sufficient service to qualify, for example, two years service is required in order to be entitled to statutory redundancy.
Some of the disadvantages of casual employment may include:
- no access to paid sick leave
- no guarantee of hours to be worked
- no requirement to be given a roster or to receive notice of roster changes therefore making it difficult to plan time for personal reasons
- no guarantee of regular income so it can be difficult to plan a budget and can limit access to loans from financial institutions
- no paid annual leave: while a casual worker may receive a payment in lieu of annual leave, this is often spent at the time it is paid, not saved for a period of leave
- no access to paid public holidays
- no access to personal or carers leave
- no notice of termination or access to redundancy entitlement
- can have limited access to training, career development, access to workplace information and a feeling that their work inputs may be less valued than those of permanent staff.
Children (under 16yrs)
Children (aged 14 and 15 years) may be employed on light work as follows:
- Children aged 14 or over may do light work during the school holidays where the hours do not exceed 7 in any day or 35 in any week.
- Children over 15 but under 16 may do light work up to 8 hours a week during school term time.
- Children under 16 may work up to 8 hours a day and 40 hours a week if they are on an approved work experience or educational programme where the work is not harmful to their health, safety or development. Approved work experience or educational programmes for people under 16 are work experience, training or educational programmes approved by the Minister for Education, the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment or by Solas
- Children under 16 must have at least 21 days off work during the summer holidays.
- Children can be employed in film, cultural, advertising work or sport under licences issued by the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment.
Maximum weekly working hours for children under 16
|14 years of age
|15 years of age
|School term-time
|8 hours
|35 hours
|35 hours
|Work experience
|40 hours
|40 hours
Time off and rest breaks for children under 16
|Half hour rest break
|after 4 hours work
|Daily rest break
|14 consecutive hours off
|Weekly rest break
|2 days off, to be consecutive as far as is practicable
Employers may not require children to work before 8am in the morning or after 8pm at night.
Youths (16 & 17yrs)
The Act sets the following limits to the working hours of young people aged 16 and 17. If a young person under 18 works for more than one employer, the combined daily or weekly hours of work cannot exceed the maximum number of hours allowed.
Working hours, time off and rest breaks for young people aged 16 and 17
|Maximum working day
|8 hours
|Maximum working week
|40 hours
|Half hour rest break
|after 4 1/2 hours work
|Daily rest break
|12 consecutive hours off
|Weekly rest break
|2 days off, to be consecutive as far as is practicable
Limits on night work and early morning work
In general, young people aged 16 and 17 are not allowed to work before 6am in the morning or after 10pm at night. Any exceptions to this rule must be provided by regulation.
The Protection of Young Persons Act 1996 permits young people employed on general duties in a licensed premises to be required to work up to 11 pm on a day that does not immediately precede a school day during a school term where the young person is attending school.
Self Employment
Choosing self employment, or to run your own business, is something many people wish for. In 2017, 22,304 new companies were incorporated in Ireland. This represents an increase of 6.4% over 2016 volumes. New company incorporations have been increasing steadily and by 2017 the figures for incorportations were 50% higher than in 2012. This is an average of 1,859 new companies registered per month and is the highest number of new company registrations ever in the history of the State. Click here for more information.
Self-employment is not for everyone. It is not an easy option, but the rewards can be substantial - in terms of financial gain and of self-esteem.
Self-employment requires:
- total commitment
- willingness to work long hours
- physical and mental strength
- help from your family
Besides the above skills and supports you also need:
- to have identified a market opportunity
- to have practical skills or expertise to do the job (for example, bricklaying, gardening, printing, computer programming, consulting)
- to have some business skills to enable you to run a business.
If you have not got these skills, you will need to learn them - fast.
Benefits of being Self-employed
- you are the boss - your own master
- you can work whatever hours you wish
- you can go on holiday when you want
- you will learn more about business in your first year than you have ever learned before
- you will deal with different people and situations
Down side of being Self-employed
- if you are not working, you are not earning
- you may not be able to take a holiday during the first two years at least!
When considering setting up your own business, you have a choice of three different types of business - Sole Trader, Partnership, or Limited Company.
1. Sole Trader
This is the most common status for a new business. Being a sole trader means just what it says - you are running the business alone, and are responsible for every aspect of it. You need to ensure you get your money in, pay your bills, deal with the bank, advertise, keep books, ensure your tax and VAT returns are sent in on time, as well as physically work in the business.
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Old married couples, rejoice. You now have your very own country song — Lady Antebellum 's brand new single "Downtown." The hook is just this simple: "I don't know why you don't take me downtown anymore." Hillary Scott sings about how she has platforms and a dress ready to go, but he just won't take her out on the town. It's infectious because of the melody and the exact thought that has been running through nearly every woman's mind since the first marriage ever. Charles Kelley told EW.com he likes the song because "more than anything, I just think we, as a band, were just ready to show a different side of us musically" and that they "just wanted to stretch our sound a little bit." And bandmate Dave Haywood concurs. "We got to a point in our career where it was like, we can either continue and just keep doing the same thing we've been doing, or we can take a left turn," he said. "This song was a 180 for us, and we fell in love with it." From what I've heard of the song so far, I like that left turn. But I hope for Haywood's wife's sake, that's the turn you make to get downtown.


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Monday, March 3, 2008
MC Learns to Sew
She wants to learn to sew, just like that! Maybe she got more enthusiastic because she saw the result of our neighbor's creativity when it comes to sewing because from scraps of cloths, MC got a princess dress from her (see photo above).
Well, I gave in after a number of proddings from her. I gave her a needle and a thread and she got to experiment on an old pair of stockings with holes on them. Her goal? To make those holes disappear using the thread and the needle.
I told her to be very careful with the needle because it pricks. So I showed her how to slowly and carefully insert the needle and pull it out; without her hurting herself. But first, she made sure that IC is nowhere near her; she's afraid that IC would get hurt! What a sweet big sister. Now, those in and out movements came easier to her as she's got this toy wherein she gets to sew shoe ties in and out.
After getting the hang of it and finding that she's enjoying it, she asked for more. I decided to let her work on a pair of mittens for her doll. After cutting out the cloth for the mittens, she patiently sew them together.
It didnt take a lot of time and she was finished with both pair of mittens! Look at them on her doll's hands:
In this case, MC and I both were learning together. She wanted to learn how to sew and I was learning how to assist her, support her when she is enthusiastic about doing something; even though at first I was a bit doubtful about it.
PMN: Fam Pics March Theme is Learning.
14 comments:
- ScroochChronicles said...
Wow, she is definitely talented for her age. I learned to sew in high school na. Galing ni Ate Clea (yan na ang name nya according to my hezzies) :)
- March 3, 2008 at 4:57 PM
- PINAY MOMMY said...
your daughter looks very cute and very devoted in her sewing session.
i hope you can visit mine at:
Pinay Mommy
- March 3, 2008 at 7:14 PM
Nakakatuwa naman at nakabuo ng mittens si MC! That's a big accomplishment for someone so young.
- March 4, 2008 at 12:53 AM
- Vk-mahalkaayo said...
mabuti pa si MC wants to learn sewing....
ako, bumili nga ako ng extra sewing maschine, yon lang sa Aldi, para ma-practice ako.
hay naku, wla nga, pati yon pagputol ng pantalon, laging nabali ang neddles kaya, suko na ako.....lol
bye and regards to all
- March 4, 2008 at 11:49 AM
- Vk-mahalkaayo said...
ang ganda ng princess kleid ni MC....bagay sa kanya at pink pa.
really, cute nya sa princess na kleid na yon......
ganda pa nya.....
- March 4, 2008 at 11:51 AM
- Abigail said...
the look she has talagang interested.
i never liked sewing
- March 4, 2008 at 3:01 PM
Daig pa nya ako hehe!
- March 4, 2008 at 4:19 PM
- Unknown said...
Very nice :-)
I hate sewing so much I used to pass my Lola's works as my Home Economic projects. I regret that now because paying for simple alterations can cost you a lot over here. I hope MC retains the interest until her grown up years.
- March 7, 2008 at 12:05 PM
- Christianne said...
MC and IC, you've been tagged by Annika! :) http://bochie.livejournal.com/
- March 9, 2008 at 9:20 PM
- Heart of Rachel said...
Wow, those are lovely mittens. Great job MC! She surely learns fast. I'm sure she will create more lovely clothes for her dolls soon.
- March 10, 2008 at 10:22 AM
- Wenchie said...
Hi Racquel, wow ang galing naman. Please tell MC that I find her so cute while sewing her doll's mittens. And she really has the patience noh...My kids haven't experienced doing that yet. Am the one who's scared that they might prick themselves, he he. Paranoid momma...
- March 14, 2008 at 2:01 PM
- Analyse said...
she really looks serious with the task! and hey, she did a great job!
- March 14, 2008 at 10:38 PM
- haze said...
Very patient learner ! Keep it up and her creation is just simply beautiful ;)! Does that mean she will be a future top class designer ?
- March 21, 2008 at 4:12 PM
- raqgold said...
hi moms - MC did enjoy doing that mittens. in fact, she's been the one urging me to sit down more on the sewing machine so she would learn how to use it. but i told her she better learn with the hands first. her next project? a doll's dress! let's wish her luck!
- March 23, 2008 at 4:40 PM


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Most of my regular readers will know about a closed group on FaceBook called Mama's Comfort Camp, but for those of you that haven't, allow me to share some things about the group with you.
Essentially this group is what we call a refuelling station – a safe haven of self-care and self-kindness for mums – the much needed space & place to visit at the end of a hard day, during nap time or first thing to help you get moving! We have all sorts of threads like the 'tell me something good' thread we start each month, to the 'I wanna' thread where we dare to dream big or just wish we all had a maid. The 'I don't wanna' thread is also our lighthearted attempt to whinge about the groundhogness (i.e. monotony) of some days & knowing that you're not alone. And mostly, we support each other on the hard days & with personal issues with the utmost respect & understanding. On these posts, we post 'PT' which stands for 'potential trigger' thereby warning others in the group that the content may be triggering or painful to them.
There are many more heartfelt & uplifting threads & posts, like 'Flashback Friday where we post pictures of ourselves/our kids/partners & also our own Google map where most of us have placemarked where we're from which brings us all even closed even though some a millions of miles apart.
The group was the brainchild of my friend Yael Saar (from www.ppdtojoy.com) & together with the Den Mothers (myself, Jaime Harker (@jamesandjax, jamesandjax.com), Melissa Hogan (@story3girl, hardtomommy.blogspot.com, Jennifer Pody Gaskell (@jenrenpody tranquilamama.wordpress.com & Jenna Farelyn (@frelle, jennafarelyn.blogspot.com) & Robin Farr @FarewellStrangr, www.farewellstranger.com), we've just celebrated our six month anniversary.
To describe this group, using Yael's words, 'over 200 moms from around the world come together to nourish ourselves and each other by sharing our ups and downs, our joys as well as our doubts. In this safe space we are free to give ourselves permission to feel all of our feelings and disarm what is painful by conscious interaction with our fears and demons. We'll be sharing experiments in self-kindness and self-care without "shoulds". We also talk about ways to disarm the inner critic that lives in the head by finding and befriending the inner wise woman who lives in the body'.
Because Mama's Comfort Camp is a closed FB group, only members can post & read posts & nothing you post there will be visible on your regular FB newsfeed – keeping your rants about your MIL or step family private from them!
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Fairly Legal Season Finale Review: Courage Is An AngelChristine Orlando at .
A year ago it broke my heart when Justin walked away from Kate at the end of the season. My, how things have changed.
The Fairly Legal "Finale" resolved an issue that Kate's been battling all season. She finally found her own apartment and in another surprise twist, I believe Lauren will actually miss her.
Speaking of Lauren, was she really planning on informing on Robin Archer to the FBI. Double crossing a billionaire seems rather risky but getting involved with Archer may be more so.
I was happier when Lauren followed her instincts about him. Dating him could be fun for a while but it could also be disastrous for both her heart and her career. Kate was right. He's not a good man.
I'd actually prefer to see Lauren end up with Justin but that's a long way off, if it ever happens at all.
Right now Justin's still hung up on Kate. These two will always have a bond but the passion that was there in season one has dwindled. Justin and Kate love one another but are they compatible over the long haul? As Kate said, they've been down that road and we know where it ended up.
I was proud of Kate when she finally had the courage to recognize that heavy feeling in her chest that she's been fighting for weeks. Justin was mistaken. That wasn't fear. Fear, I believe is what drove her back to him. That feeling was her heart telling her something was very wrong when her head kept trying to convince her it was right and it was making her miserable.
As for Ben, I loved the scene where he noticed the heart shaped rock on Kate's desk that he had found in last week's episode. It definitely gave him hope but to Ben's credit I'm not sure he ever completely lost it.
When he told Leo that this is a marathon, not a sprint, he meant that he's willing to fight for Kate. He wants to be the guy she ends up with over the long term.
Thirteen episodes ago, Ben annoyed the heck out of me. He came across as a selfish, arrogant jerk. But by season's end not only did I find myself rooting for him and Kate, I was simply looking forward to the scenes he was in. Ben's the guy who make me laugh, as in this Fairly Legal quote where he asks…
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And a quick side note on that reporter…Are we suppose to believe she spent a year working on a career making story and never backed up her files? If that's the case then that's what she should have gotten fired over.
But back to the heart of our story. As much as I think Ben is the right guy for Kate and I laughed when he ended up being her new neighbor, I hope they don't get together right away.
Kate Reed needs some time to get to know herself. Plus I think it will be fun to see Ben and Kate flirt and banter and work on a solid friendship before diving in for more.
Of course that's if we get a season three. If you love Fairly Legal and want to see Kate Reed's story continue, let USA know it because I'm definitely hoping for more.
And I want to know if you were rooting for Ben or Justin? Am I the only one who wants to see Kate take it slow and am I crazy picturing a Justin / Lauren hook up in the future?
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With only a one day break on Sunday after two days of Redsfest, the Winter Meetings will be up and running at full speed on Monday in Indianapolis. Reds GM Walt Jocketty was hopeful that his team would be involved in some activity.
"I'd say I'm hopeful that something will happen. It makes the week a lot more fun," Jocketty said on Saturday.
Jocketty confirmed recent reports that the Reds were interested in free agent infielder Jamey Carroll and left-handed starter Noah Lowry.
"We haven't discussed him at length," Jocketty said of Carroll. "He's gutty and a tough player, a gamer-type of guy that's hard-nosed."
Carroll would be a possible choice for shortstop where Paul Janish currently plays. But that doesn't mean the Reds are souring on Janish, although they've made their interest in adding someone there known.
"If there was somebody that stands out as a good defensive player and a better offensive player, we'd have to be interested," Jocketty said. "But both Dusty and I would be happy with Janish as our shortstop because defense is so key."
Carroll spent the last two seasons with the Indians but did not play shortstop there. He did play second base, third base and both corner outfield spots.
As for Lowry, who has been with the Giants for all of his five big league seasons, he could be someone for the vacant fifth spot in the Reds rotation.
"If he's healthy, yeah," Jocketty said.
Lowry hasn't pitched since 2007 because of a myriad of injuries. He had forarm surgery two years ago and in 2009, had a rib removed to relieve soreness in his shoulder and neck brought on by a condition called thoracic outlet syndrome.
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On June 10, Kate Middleton and two of her adorable royal brood, Prince George and Princess Charlotte, spent a picture-perfect day at the park where they watched Prince William participate in the Maserati Royal Charity Polo Trophy.
WATCH BELOW: Kate Middleton offers sympathies for victims of London attack
But despite being widely admired for her $70 Zara dress and her hands-on interaction with her children, which drew inevitable comparisons to Princess Diana's loving parenting style, the Duchess of Cambridge was also on the receiving end of heaps of criticism for allowing Prince George to play with a toy gun.
Onlookers were shocked that the young prince was allowed to play with the fake weapon, citing rising rates of gun and knife violence in the U.K., along with the ongoing epidemic of gun violence in the U.S.
Some also came to the defence of the royal mom, pointing out that George is merely a child playing with a water pistol. While others brought up the fact that the royals have a long history of serving in the military and the monarchy upholds traditions like royal gun salutes — both of which would expose a child to guns within a controlled and safe context.
Then there's the reality that Prince George comes from a hunting family.
In 2016, Prince William said in an interview with ITV News: "There is a place for commercial hunting in Africa as there is around the world. It's not everyone's cup of tea, but the arguments for regulated, properly-controlled commercial hunting is that the money that goes from shooting a very old infirm animal goes back into the protection of the other species."
All of this points to the distinct possibility that regardless of his toy gun, there's a good chance that Prince George is already aware of firearms and their purpose in the right context.
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But this still calls Middleton's decision to allow her son to play with a toy gun into question, some experts believe.
"I completely understand the perspective of the critics in terms of not wanting to promote or glamourize gun violence," says Dr. Jillian Roberts, founder of Family Sparks and associate professor at the University of Victoria. "The state of gun violence in the United States is heartbreaking and I flinch every time I open my news feed, worrying that there might have been another school shooting or mass shooting of some sort."
While it's normal for many parents to shy away from allowing their children, especially young boys, to play with guns for fear of normalizing violence, studies have shown that there's no link between boys who play with guns and aggression.
In an interview with WebMD, Michael Thompson, a child psychologist and author of It's a Boy! Your Son's Development From Birth to Age 18, said that there is "no scientific evidence suggesting that playing war games in childhood leads to real-life aggression."
Thompson went on to say that gender play preferences emerge naturally from children by the age of two or three, and in general, that means more aggressive play among boys.
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"As a little boy, you're not very powerful. With a gun, you feel powerful and heroic," he said, emphasizing that it comes down to being the winner or the good guy, and not the perpetrator of violence.
While Roberts doesn't condone violent video games, she promotes a balanced approach to controversial toys for children, emphasizing the importance of allowing kids to be kids while also monitoring how they view or play with toys of this nature.
"Refrain from buying toy guns for your child, but don't freak out if your child plays at the park with another child who brought water pistols," she said. "If a toy gun is given to your child, accept it gracefully. Let your child have fun running around in the backyard spraying water, but once the initial fun is over, hide or somehow get rid of the gun."
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Trisha welcomes Kelly Clarkson, Wendy Williams, Nadia Comaneci, Bart Conner, Art Smith and Kurt Warner to the kitchen
Trisha Yearwood's Emmy-winning series "Trisha's Southern Kitchen" returns for a fourth season this fall with new, family-inspired recipes, music and special visits from relatives and famous friends, including Kelly Clarkson and Wendy Williams. From corn salsa with Kelly and ribbon meatloaf with Wendy, to a lightened up "un-fried" chicken with chef Art Smith, Yearwood shares meals for any occasion - all packed with her own twist on southern flavor.
Other episodes include a perfect-10 meal and trip to the balance beam with Olympic gold medalists Nadia Comaneci and Bart Conner, and a tailgate feast with NFL star Kurt Warner and his wife, Brenda.
New episodes begin airing Saturday, Nov. 9, at 10:30 a.m. on Food Network.
"Season four delivers everything our audience loves about Trisha: her passion for southern cooking and devotion to family and friends have charmed viewers since she joined Food Network," said Bob Tuschman, general manager and senior vice president at Food Network. "With more music and visits from famous friends, the new episodes are fun, intimate and uniquely entertaining."
"In my family, cooking has always been a collaborative effort that brings everyone together," Yearwood said. "Including the 'whole family' has always been a part of the show, and that's why I've invited even more friends to join me in the kitchen this season, along with my usual crew."
In the season premiere, Yearwood finds herself nostalgic for the days of black and white television and retro TV dinners, so she invites her sister, Beth, over to transport back in time 1950s-style. While dressed in clothes from the era, they whip up chicken potpies, chocolate pudding-frosted cupcakes and green beans with cheese sauce.
The new season also features holiday-themed episodes for Thanksgiving and holiday brunch, a ladies night complete with cocktails and small-bites.
Yearwood, who has won three Grammy Awards, two Academy of Country Music Awards, three Country Music Association honors and has 19 Top 10 singles, released her first best-selling cookbook "Georgia Cooking in an Oklahoma Kitchen" in 2008. Her second book "Home Cooking with Trisha Yearwood" followed in 2010. Both books debuted on the New York Times bestseller list in the advice, how-to and miscellaneous category.


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WANT to buy a gown like the vintage Dior worn by Jennifer Aniston at the Emmys?
Better yet, want to buy that very dress?
It's for sale – along with the Ralph Lauren gowns worn by "Alias" star Jennifer Garner and "West Wing" winner Allison Janney – for big bucks in an Internet charity auction.
Someone from Cape May, N.J. was the high bidder ($8,500) last night for the vintage creme-colored gown now made famous all over the world because Aniston was photographed in it Sunday night accepting the award for best actress in a comedy.
But there are two weeks to go before the auction ends Oct. 7, so the gown could fetch far more.
The auction on the Web site, http://www.ubid.com, also includes 16 other outfits worn by TV stars at the Emmys.
The proceeds from the sales of each of the 17 Emmy outfits will go to a variety of charities ranging from UNICEF to Cure Autism Now.
Tuxedos worn by "West Wing" stars Martin Sheen, Brad Whitford, Richard Schiff and the dress worn by best drama actress winner Allison Janney were among the most sought-after items
Other tuxedos on sale include the one worn by "The Shield" star Michael Chiklis (high bid: $500), "Everybody Loves Raymond" stars Ray Romano ($1,000) and Brad Garrett ($800), and "Will & Grace" star Sean Hayes ($550).


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National Meatloaf Appreciation Day: Fresh From the Oven
It's National Meatloaf Appreciation Day, and we've had such a strong response to our call for loaf that we're breaking coverage into a few posts—so you can have meatloaf for breakfast, lunch and dinner!
You may recall that we declared today National Meatloaf Appreciation Day to celebrate the unique combination of comfort and innovation that meatloaf embodies. We asked readers—and the Serious Eats team—to make a meatloaf, document the process and share their results.
The first 15 meatloaf submissions, after the jump.
We were thrilled to get a raw food meatloaf recipe,and a gorgeously vibrant one at that, thanks to The Daily Raw. She showed us that you can eat raw AND enjoy comfort food.
Add More Wine went with more of a meat dome than a meatloaf, and relies on Heinz 57 Sauce as a go-to ingredient.
Inspired by Alton Brown to freshly grind chuck and sirloin, Eye of the Rabbit submitted a step-by-step photo essay.
One Musical Mom says she's not a meatloaf fan but it looks as though that doesn't hold her back from baking up a mean one. Her husband, a meatloaf lover, must be eternally grateful for her sacrifice.
Not content with one food blog event entry, What Smells So Good worked on her curried meatloaf at the same time that she made a Black Forest cake for Pinktober. All this on top of Canadian Thanksgiving!
Sticky, Gooey, Creamy, Chewy lassoed her family into participating by trying out no fewer than three meatloaves before settling on a sophisticated (and tasty sounding) rolled meatloaf filled with cheese and salumi.
Our most far-flung submission came from Lima, Peru, where Canela y Comino made mini loaves and wondered whether she could recruit Peruvians to try cold meatloaf sandwiches the next day.
An even mix of lean turkey breast, buffalo, and pork in combination with veggies and olive oil makes for a healthy meatloaf and is a great way to disguise an disliked food for a toddler, as we learn in the Expatriate's Kitchen.
Lamb, feta, mint, rosemary, served with a dollop of tzatziki; all that was missing from Seriously Good's Greek Lamb Loaf post was a glass of retsina to wash it all down!
Mera Pyaar says she's new to foodblogging but her lovely photo makes us think otherwise. She made her meatloaf after a visit to a farm to pick up apples and pumpkins—a perfect end to a lovely autumnal activity.
How's this for a title: Bacon Wrapped Molasses Glazed Individual Meatloaves with Corn and Cilantro Mashed Potatoes and Blackstrap Gravy! That's what A Sofa in the Kitchen submitted, borrowed from a favorite Seattle restaurant, The Icon.
And at the opposite end of the spectrum, Lewandowski adapted the mother of all published meatloaf recipes, the classic from the Betty Crocker cookbook, for moist, meaty, traditional results.
There are plenty more meatloaf submissions to read, so check back at lunchtime for second helpings of our food blog event!
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The Brookhaven Courier Published Oct. 15, 2015Within two seconds, former London Metropolitan police marksman Anthony Long, known as "The Eliminator," allegedly shot eight bullets from an unmarked vehicle. Six bullets struck and killed Azelle Rodney, a suspected drug trafficker. Ten years later, Long is on trial for Rodney's murder.
One of the first things the 13 students of Brookhaven College's new Criminal Justice Club did while visiting London in June was listen to testimony from the pathologist on the police shooting case.
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Griggs, an attorney at the Law Office of Wendel A. Withrow, and Michael Freeman, visiting scholar and Dallas police officer, are co-advisers to the Criminal Justice Club.
Building Cultural Connections
Members of the club went to places such as the New Scotland Yard, home to the London Metropolitan Police Department; the Metropolitan Police Museum; Inns of Court, where future lawyers study; the Central Criminal Court of England and Wales, commonly known as Old Bailey, and several other landmarks relating to the history of criminal justice.
Griggs said the club chose London because it is where criminal justice began. "Sir Robert Peel was considered the father of modern policing," he said. "He was the one that convinced the British parliament to create a police force." Freeman said one of the most interesting moments of the trip was holding Peel's cane at The Crime Museum while students were trying on bobby uniforms. British police officers are commonly called bobbies.
Griggs said they were taken to a boardroom and met with top people in their terrorist department. "We had a briefing on terrorism in London [and] the ISIS threat," he said.
Learning through Experience
Griggs said the students will remember the fundamentals of criminal justice they learned on the trip. "The best way to learn is to actually go somewhere and experience the history," Griggs said. "The students who went on this trip will never be the same because they got to see the true beginnings of policing and democracy."
Anthony Spencer, a student and president of the Criminal Justice Club, said watching the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace was an honor.
Griggs and Freeman said they hope to have another trip in summer 2016. For interested students, an organizational meeting of the Criminal Justice Club will be held at 6 p.m. Oct. 26 in K248.
To read more news pieces from student writers at Brookhaven College,
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Gray Whale
•Order: Cetacea
•Sub-order: Mysticeti
•Family: Eschrichtiidae
•Genus: Eschrichtius Species: robustus
A young western gray whale off the coast of Sakhalin Island, Russia (Photo: D. Weller)
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Gray whales are easy to recognize by their mottled gray and white coloration and dense clusters of a host-specific barnacle that is commonly infested by masses of orange-hued cyamid crustaceans (called "whale lice") growing on various places on the body, particularly on the head. The unique gray and white coloration pattern, which also extends onto the flippers and flukes, has been extensively used to photo-identify individual animals and to follow them over time, in some cases for decades.
Gray whales are primarily suction-feeders, although not exclusively, consuming a wide range of benthic (sea floor) and epibenthic invertebrates, such as amphipods, that occur in dense colonies in shallow shelf or coastal waters during the summer. When foraging, whales typically roll on their right side with the head slightly above the bottom and swim slowly while suctioning sediment into the side of the mouth and filtering out the prey with their baleen. This feeding behavior creates long trails of water-borne sediment called "mud plumes" which are clearly visible in the water column and on the surface.
Once common throughout the Northern Hemisphere, the gray whale became extinct in the Atlantic by the early 1700s. Gray whales are now only found in the North Pacific where there are two extant populations. Recent genetic studies suggest that these two populations, called the "eastern" and "western" North Pacific populations, are discrete. The eastern North Pacific gray whale population was rapidly depleted by commercial whaling but has successfully recovered from low population numbers and supports a major whale-watching industry along the west coast of North America. The population is presently estimated at about 20,000 animals. In contrast, the western gray whale population, which was also decimated by whaling, remains highly depleted today and its continued ability to survive is of concern. The most recent assessment of this population suggests that about 130 individuals exist. The eastern North Pacific population is listed by the IUCN as "Least Concern". The western North Pacific population is listed separately as "Critically Endangered".
The eastern North Pacific gray whale population summers and feeds mainly in the Chukchi, Beaufort and the northwestern Bering Seas. Although most gray whales utilize their Arctic feeding grounds, a small number (100s) of whales summer and feed along the Pacific coast between southeast Alaska and northern California. The population migrates south along the coast in the autumn to wintering grounds on the west coast of Baja California, Mexico, and the southeastern Gulf of California. During winter, large numbers of whales, particularly females with newborn calves, utilize coastal lagoons on the Pacific coast of the Baja peninsula. Gray whales undertake one of the longest annual migrations of any mammal, traveling some 9320 to 12500 miles (15,000-20,000 km) round trip. By late November, most gray whales are moving south from summer feeding areas to winter calving areas.
Both gray whale populations are subject to anthropogenic threats such as entanglements in fishing gear, environmental degradation including exposure to contaminants and disturbance by shipping and noise (e.g. seismic surveys) related to offshore oil and gas development. In addition, the consequences of climate change on gray whales and their habitat, especially the notable reduction of sea ice and increasing water temperatures in the Arctic, are yet to be determined.
Weller, D.W. 2010. Society for Marine Mammalogy - Gray Whale Species Account
IWC 2010. Report of the International Whaling Commission Scientific Committee from its Annual Meeting in 2010, Agadir, Morocco.
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Teenaged Amar Bose built a successful radio repair service out of his family's home. "We put up signs in all the little hardware stores where my father used to sell his imported goods", Dr Bose once told an interviewer. "The signs said, 'We repair radios'. So people would drop off their radios at the store and I'd take them home and repair them, and we'd give the store 10% of the invoice. I had a little pact with my father that if my grades remained good, I could go to school only four days a week, and he would write an excuse saying I had a headache or something. The teachers all knew this; it was always on a Friday and so on Monday, they'd ask me, 'How many radios did you fix, Bose?'"
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While at MIT, Dr Bose amassed a number of patents, but instead of licensing them to another company, he decided to keep them and start a company of his own.
"Dr Bose came up to me one day and said, 'So why don't you come to work for my company?' I said, 'What company? What are you talking about?' And he said, 'Well, I don't have a company now—but I'm thinking of starting one'".
As the company was being formed, there was much discussion about what to call it. Finally, in his typical "2+2" fashion, Y. W. Lee, one of Dr Bose's mentors from MIT, said, "Well, let's think about the characteristics we want in the name. We don't want to be tied to a specific technology or industry because we don't know what we'll do in the future. The name should be pronounceable in many different languages and easy to trademark. And ideally, it's one syllable". Everyone laughed because they knew what he was suggesting without saying it: "Bose".
The first Bose employee was one of Dr Bose's students, Sherwin Greenblatt. He would go on to become president of the company from 1985 to 2001. "In the early years", Greenblatt said, "Dr Bose would spend time at MIT with his teaching duties and we would work on our government contracts, and then at night he would come out and we would put in what we called the 'second shift'—when we would start working on all of the audio ideas".
Psychoacoustics is the study of how sound is perceived. It's at the very foundation of how Bose creates its audio products and, in fact, goes all the way back to the inception of the company. Dr Bose saw that other speakers had specs that only measured how they made his music sound, not how he heard it.
In a lecture at MIT, Dr Bose once gave the following example: "You can put engineers in a room and give them the task of lowering distortion, and they will do this merrily for years. But there's a basic question: does this mean anything with respect to perception? The distortion—though you can read it on meters—maybe isn't audible. Well, if it isn't audible, what are you doing that's worthwhile here except achieving some particular engineering goal?"
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AFGHANISTAN: Maladies of Interpreters
In counterinsurgency, the most
important thing is winning over the local population. Gen. Stanley
McChrystal, the commander in charge of all NATO forces in Afghanistan,
was right to warn that a "crisis of confidence among Afghans" imperils the effort to rebuild the country.
For most American troops, however, the only connection they have to the
locals - whether soldiers in the Afghan army or villagers they're
trying to secure - is through their interpreters.
United States Army doctrine describes interpreters as "vital," which
is fairly obvious given the bevy of languages spoken in Afghanistan:
Dari, Pashto, Tajik, Uzbek and others. Yet the way the military uses
translators is too often haphazard and sometimes dangerously negligent.
Many units consider interpreters to be necessary evils, and even those
who are Americans of Afghan descent are often scorned or mistreated for
being too obviously "different."
Mission Essential Personnel, the primary contractor providing
interpreters in Afghanistan, has basic guidelines: interpreters need to
be given a place to sleep, for example, and fed. But beyond that, how
they are treated is often left up to the individual unit. Many times,
they are treated the way they should be: as vital members of a team.
Sometimes, however, they are shockingly disrespected.
Earlier this year, I traveled through central Afghanistan as a
civilian member of an American Provincial Reconstruction Team. We had a
translator - we called her Brooklyn - who had been born and raised in
California. During the initial briefing before our convoy set out,
however, the team's commander, an Air Force colonel, demanded that
Brooklyn leave the briefing area, referring to her as "that local
The briefing slides were marked "SECRET," which caused the colonel
understandable alarm. Brooklyn, however, had a security clearance
allowing her to be present. Perhaps the real problem was that she wore
a headscarf, as one would expect a pious Muslim woman to do.
The next day, as we were driving between two bases, we ran into a
traffic snarl at a bridge, with dozens of Afghan soldiers and police
officers milling about. Our colonel, who had left his own translator
back at his base, got out of his Humvee and asked Brooklyn to begin
translating for him. After discussing the issue with the Afghan forces,
she explained that they had found several bombs underneath the bridge,
and were waiting for an American bomb disposal team to arrive. They had
likely saved our lives, but we got that message only because we had an
interpreter, the one the colonel had treated like an enemy spy the
night before.
"Your interpreter is way more important than your weapon," Cory
Schulz, an Army major who led a tactical team embedded with Afghan
troops in Paktika Province, told me. With an interpreter, he explained,
you can command hundreds of Afghan soldiers; with a gun, you can only
defend yourself.
Interpreters do more than talk and listen. Eight years into the war
in Afghanistan, United States troops receive only minimal cultural
training before they deploy. Thus interpreters often serve as cultural
advisors - helping Americans learn the nuances of typical Afghan
Major Schulz said of his "terp," as they're often called, "he saved
my life more than once." Once the interpreter helped his unit identify
a suicide bomber in a large crowd before the man could activate the
explosives in his vest. The would-be bomber was acting nervously in a
way that Afghans could recognize but that Americans were oblivious to,
and the translator picked up on it.
American troops in some isolated parts of Afghanistan have little
hope of such guidance. In March I met some officers at Bagram Air Force
Base, north of Kabul, who were trying to find an interpreter who spoke
Pashai; the Pashai represent only about 1 percent of Afghanistan's
population, but live in some of the most violent and insurgency-ridden
areas of the country's northeast.
Mission Essential Personnel couldn't supply anyone who spoke the
language, the officers told me, yet they felt that being able to speak
to the Pashai could prove important for the war effort. So they went to
the camp on the outskirts of Bagram where many interpreters live and
found one who could speak the rare language. (Later I was told that he
had been assigned to a battalion in Khost, 100 miles south of any
Pashai-speaking areas, because he also spoke Pashto.)
American officers and enlisted soldiers repeatedly told me how
vital interpreters are. Yet there remains no standardized way for units
to use them, which can lead to insulting incidents like the one
Brooklyn had to endure.
Often, the insults are more subtle, but more personal. In Khost
Province, I met an interpreter named Afzal, who worked for a team of
Army civilians doing economic and cultural research. Afzal had helped
this team for several years, through three rotations of leadership and
personnel. He had been trying for a long time to get a visa from the
State Department to come to the United States, something many
interpreters hope for because of threats to their families. Eventually,
extremists began posting threatening letters on his door overnight.
Afzal told me that two years earlier, the team's leader, a
lieutenant colonel, had promised to submit the paperwork for the visa
and vouch for his status as an interpreter, but he apparently never
did. The next team leader, another officer, made the same promise, but
also apparently never followed through. It was not until the arrival of
the third team leader, a civilian, early this year that Afzal was able
to submit his application. The delay has complicated the procedure -
for this year the State Department cut the number of available visas
for interpreters from Afghanistan and Iraq to 50 from 500.
Brooklyn told me that the occasional grumpy officer wasn't her only
problem. She also complained about Mission Essential Personnel's sloppy
management, saying that the company tended to hire elderly
interpreters, unsuited for rough travel in a war zone, just because
they passed a language test. She said the contractor was unresponsive
to complaints of sexual harassment and mistreatment.
There is also a growing number of stories of local interpreters who
have been denied medical treatment. According to CorpWatch, a group
that monitors military contractors, an interpreter named Basir Ahmed
was fired for "failing to show up for work" last year when he was
recuperating from shrapnel wounds to his leg received from a homemade
bomb that exploded while he was on patrol with American forces near the
Pakistani border.
In winning hearts and minds, how we treat Afghans as individuals
matters more than how many Taliban we kill or how many roads we build.
If we cannot treat our military interpreters with basic respect, why
should Afghan civilians trust us to help them remake their nation?
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A while back, I posted some fault photos from a large exposure of Eureka Quartzite. Today's fault photos are from that same large outcrop, this time, from a part of the outcrop that exposes two sets of overlapping slickensides.Here, above, is the overall dual-slick exposure, with AA batteries for scale. You can easily see the slightly oblique dip-slip slickenlines (nearly vertical) in the dark brown surface against which the batteries are leaning, along with strike-slip slickenlines (horizontal) in the golden yellow area above the batteries.A close-up of the lower part of the exposure shows both sets of slickenlines more closely. Now, my finger is running parallel to the slightly oblique, mostly dip-slip slickenlines, and the horizontal strike-slip slicks can be seen right above in the golden yellow area.
The next two photos are close-ups of the upper part of the exposure.
My finger points to and runs somewhat parallel to the mostly horizontal strike-slip slickenlines. Now my finger is running parallel to the mostly dip-slip, darker brown slickenlines, from the same area as the previous photo.
This fault plane has had at least two directions of movement, dip-slip and strike-slip, with the slickensides somewhat overlapping each other on the rock surface. I wasn't really able to tell which set of slickensides was older than the other, and I'm not sure I would be able to tell from this one exposure, though maybe carefully made thin-sections would help.
Friday, January 30, 2009
Friday Fault Photos #11
Posted by Silver Fox at 1:27 PM
Labels: faults, friday, nevada, sedimentary rocks
5 comments:
- Ron Schott said...
Impressive slickenline juxtaposition. And the battery charger for scale is a hoot!
- Friday, January 30, 2009 at 2:51:00 PM PST
- Silver Fox said...
Thanks, Ron. I always have a camera and usually a battery charger with me - even more often than a rock hammer!
- Friday, January 30, 2009 at 2:57:00 PM PST
- Crystallizations said...
I am the same way about the battery charger. Mine always goes everywhere with me!
- Friday, January 30, 2009 at 8:38:00 PM PST
- GeologyJoe said...
im supprised that one didn't erase the other. pretty cool.
- Saturday, January 31, 2009 at 4:29:00 AM PST
- Silver Fox said...
I usually look hard for indications of more than one slickenline orientation, and often there is more than one. Sometimes it's possible to tell which one is most recent. This example just jumped right out!
- Saturday, January 31, 2009 at 10:51:00 AM PST
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1 large angel food cake or large pound cake
For the custard:
1 (8-ounce) package pareve tofutti cream cheese, softened
1 (14 ounces) can cream of coconut (not coconut milk)
1 container of pareve whipping cream, whipped
For the glaze:
1 cup sugar
3 tablespoons cornstarch
3 tablespoons strawberry kosher gelatin
1 cup water
2 cups fresh strawberries, cut in ½ (if berries are extra large, they can be cut into quarters)
Whole fresh strawberries and mint leaves, for garnish
Slice cake, using a serrated knife, horizontally into 3 equal layers.
For the custard:
Mix together tofutti cream cheese, cream of coconut, and pareve whipped cream in a bowl; set aside.
For the glaze:
In a medium saucepan, stir together sugar, cornstarch, and kosher gelatin; add water. Cook stirring over medium heat until thick. Remove from heat and allow to cool completely. Fold in strawberries.
For assembly:
Place 1 layer of cake in a large clear bowl. Top with a layer of glaze, followed by a layer of custard mixture. Repeat layering in this order for remaining cake, glaze and custard. Top cake with 3 whole fresh strawberries and fresh mint leaves.


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This week we met James Hough, a.k.a. Jim Public. Class began with an overview of the upcoming weeks. The project we are working on consists of 3 stages. The 1st stage, which we began this week, focuses on Line, Shape, and Space. Before getting started on our art-making, we spent some time as a group in the gallery. We looked at works from the permanent collection as well as the Diebenkorn exhibition.
After returning to the class room, we discussed Stage 1 in more detail. The process began by creating a pencil drawing on canvas, with the idea of not necessarily having a plan, but working in a more impromptu style. Though most people work this way when sketching or doodling, starting a big, white canvas like this can be intimidating. Everyone rose to the occasion and brought their own personalities to their work. Even though we were working in a similar style as Diebenkorn, the idea was that each person's work would look very different.
Another great thing about this week was having the option to work on easels. This was a nice change of pace. There were a lot of conversations throughout the drawing process. It was nice to have people up and about, looking at each other's work, and giving feedback during the creation period.
Last week, I posted a link to the Open Studio website, where contemporary artists are creating lesson plans for Kindergarten – 12th Grade Teachers. This page, 17 things you need to know when you are a 17-year-old student who wants to become an artist, (with a reminder for ways teachers can help!), in particular is a great one for EVERYONE to read!!


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When do you mark a TB or coin "missing"? The icon stays on a cache long after the item has disappeared. I waited 2 months on one, e-mailed the person who took it (their e-mail address no longer existed), posted a note, but still people kept coming to "find" the coin. In another case, I adopted a cache that had a TB missing for 2 years. Is there any way to get an icon off your cache other than marking it missing? Should only the owner of the item in question mark it missing? :confused:


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I have been planning your party since to moment you were born. I love parties. I love planning them. I love the stress of them. I love the small details. I love the big impact. I love the outcome. I love when they are through.
I knew I wanted to do a pink and yellow party. I didn't know the theme, but we had picked up a new book for your sister{Pinkalicious and the Pink Drink}, and so your Party Theme was born. Sweet B's Pink Lemonade Party.
{Photo Collage Idea: Pinterest}
Party Favors in mason jars, Koolaid Playdoh!
They smelled as good as it looked!
Since it was a Lemonade Party, I went for a Picnic Style lunch. {PB & J}
{Turkey & Cheese}
I made little chalkboard food labels(and will continue to use them for other gatherings)
B's Sweet Treats
I wanted to make an impact above the buffet table and saw this idea on Pinterest to simply hang balloons in a cluster above the table, simply beautiful!
Balloon Wreath! A classic, I couldn't go wrong!
For a few activities I choose to do a Ring Toss{I found this off another blog, and I wish I could remember the name of it, but they used embroidery hoops wrapped in fabric, but since I had ton of tops left over from all the mason jars, I wrapped those in extra fabric!}
My Sweet husband came up with the idea to do Corn Hole! So him and a friend got together and build it! {My sweet friend Megan, made and embroidered the bean bags for me! Love her!}
And ofcourse, you can't have a lemonade party without a lemoande stand! Again my husband and a friend build this as well. I ofcourse painted it! ;)
Our Sweet B! {Outfit: Etsy}