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I recently read the interesting claim that there no longer is a monolithic "Catholic vote," but that Catholic voting matters nonetheless because Catholics are a large group that mirrors major trends in the electorate at large.
I think the first part is quite true. There no longer is a unified (one-time Democratic Party line) Catholic vote. As I think about it, that pro-Democratic vote among traditional, even non-Hispanic Catholics, ended for two reasons. First, the Democratic Party is influenced by one dominant form of feminism and went dogmatically and ideologically "pro-choice." The Republicans then gradually tried to gain among conservative Christians by becoming at least rhetorically anti-abortion.


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Unfortunately, applying lashes is something I need to master (when I have time, I do get a sneaky practise in!).
My favourite lash applicator tool (I've tried so many) is one by Shu Uemura. It's really excellent for fixing down the corners of a fake lash without poking yourself in the eye.
However I keep losing it. At the time of writing, my Shu Uemura Lash Applicator is indeed, lost.
So I picked up this cheap alternative from Eylure when I did a haul from ASOS:
The idea behind this, I think, is that it's like tweezers was better. I tend to find that my fingers get in the way when I am applying lashes with my hands or with a normal tweezer.
The Eylure lash applicator is long handled, the idea being that you can see what you're doing. The tip of the applicator is pointy like tweezers – I think this is a weakness because they're pretty sharp – they would be far better rounded off.
Then I got to actually using the lash applicator and realised, that it has some kind of spring mechanism in the middle. So you press the top of the lash applicator so that opens up the bottom part so you can pick up the lash and use it…
Like this:
The spring mechanism (which isn't very light to touch – I found it needed a good push to get it open and shut) basically makes lash application really….really….really…..really……really……HARD.
When I picked up the lash, I couldn't control the amount of pressure used because the spring mechanism means that it just shuts – with a normal pair of tweezers, I can adjust how I hold the lash and angle it appropriately.
Once I went to do the application bit, I had to open up the applicator to place the lash onto the lashline but it was too hard! I just had to drop it and even then it was so hard to adjust the edges and really stick them down like I normally would.
Also, the applicator is really straight on – a curve somewhere would've made it easier to see what you're doing.
Verdict: I can't believe I bought this when I could've bought a croissant and a cappuccino.
I bought mine from ASOS for £5.


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We've Entered The Age Of 'Fiber To The Press Release'
from the make-believe-bits deptGoogle Fiber's entry into the broadband market has done a lot of great things, especially if you're one of only a few people who can actually get a 1 Gbps connection for $70 a month. While the actual launch is slow moving and small, Google's intention was always to create a louder national dialogue about the fairly pathetic state of broadband competition, and the sorts of protectionist laws incumbent ISPs have managed to pass in more than twenty states. That's not to say Google fiber doesn't have problems, like Google's decision to back away from offering an open access model where multiple ISPs are invited in over the top to compete. Google Fiber also isn't answering the age old question of how you get broadband to lower income neighborhoods.
While Google Fiber has managed to get ISPs to compete in the areas it's deployed, the project has also managed to spawn a new, misleading but entertaining phenomenon I've affectionately labeled "fiber to the press release." In a fiber to the press release deployment, a carrier (usually one with a history of doing the bare minimum on upgrades) proudly proclaims that they too will soon be offering 1 Gbps broadband. The announcement will contain absolutely no hard specifics on how many people will get the upgrades, but the press will happily parrot the announcement and state that "ISP X" has suddenly joined the ultra-fast broadband race. Why spend money on a significant deployment when you can have the press help you pretend you did?
One case in point is AT&T, which soon after Google Fiber's launch announcement in Austin, declared that it too would be offering 1 Gbps in Austin under the GigaPower brand. Taking things one step further, AT&T proclaimed that it had always planned to offer 1 Gbps fiber in Austin (most customers remain on 6 Mbps DSL, and a select few can actually get their top speed of 45 Mbps) and that the timing of its announcement was just a coincidence. Hard details of actual deployment stats are impossible to find, outside of the fact that AT&T wants to charge users a $30 premium if you don't want to be spied on by its deep packet inspection hardware. AT&T this week proudly proclaimed its fiber to the press release efforts would be expanding into Dallas:
"We are redirecting VIP investment to fiber to the home deployment, and in fact we are going to launch the service in Dallas this summer," stated Stephenson. "...You are going to see other communities as we begin to deploy this technology emerge around the United States," said the CEO, adding that the company was going to be a "little more aggressive and assertive in deploying that technology around the country."When? How many customers? Timelines? Who cares! The fun part is that while AT&T's CEO is using words like "aggressive" and "assertive" when describing the effort publicly, he's also on record publicly telling investors that these efforts should have "no material impact" on CAPEX and spending. How is that possible? Because all AT&T is really doing is bumping speeds to select high-end development communities where they've already run fiber during construction, but kept those lines capped at DSL speeds. Bump a handful of those users to 1 Gbps, maybe run a few lines to large apartment complexes, hold some PR junkets, and you look like you're on the cutting edge of broadband deployment and aren't being out-performed in your home state by -- a search engine company.
AT&T's fiber to the press release, however dismal it is, is actually more substantive than many I've seen. Hoping to grab some Google Fiber buzz, Alaska cable operator GCI launched a new brand called "fiber re:D" that, according to their FAQ, might actually result in somebody getting 1 Gbps broadband sometime in 2015. To prove it, they've got a supposed deployment map that shows you absolutely nothing. CenturyLink is another company that is happily crowing that it's offering 1 Gbps service to "select communities" (check out their ads), hoping you'll ignore the fact that the vast majority of its customers are "lucky" to have 3 Mbps DSL with a 150 GB per month cap -- and likely won't be upgraded any time soon.
Generally these efforts all now follow the same pattern: deploy actual fiber to a handful of businesses and a few high-end developments (if that), dress the effort up in a layer of public relations paint that makes it look like an aggressive, significant deployment (how about some Google-esque videos!), then pretend that you're not actually lagging horribly on broadband upgrades courtesy of limited competition. Most companies have taken some PR cues from Google as well, usually pretending that communities can "vote" democratically on who gets upgraded next (like Google's "fiberhood" rallies), even if, unlike Google Fiber, the upgrade locations are usually determined well in advance based on which upscale communities already had fiber buried in the ground.
For minimal effort, fiber to the press release generates a huge amount of national press about how cutting edge your company is, at a tiny fraction of the cost required to actually upgrade your network. Publicly, your company gets to look like it's a highly flexible, competitive juggernaut, while privately the company gets to remain apathetically and comfortably ensconced in the same, uncompetitive duopoly market it has always enjoyed.
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184.108.40.206 Uncertainty
Projections of climate change are affected by a range of uncertainties (see also Chapter 14) and there is a need to discuss and to quantify uncertainty in so far as is possible. Uncertainty in projected climate change arises from three main sources; uncertainty in forcing scenarios, uncertainty in modelled responses to given forcing scenarios, and uncertainty due to missing or misrepresented physical processes in models. These are discussed in turn below.
Forcing scenarios: The use of a range of forcing scenarios reflects uncertainties in future emissions and in the resulting greenhouse gas concentrations and aerosol loadings in the atmosphere. The complexity and cost of full AOGCM simulations has restricted these calculations to a subset of scenarios; these are listed in Table 9.1 and discussed in Section 9.3.1. Climate projections for the remaining scenarios are made with less general models and this introduces a further level of uncertainty. Section 9.3.2 discusses global mean warming for a broad range of scenarios obtained with simple models calibrated with AOGCMs. Chapter 13 discusses a number of techniques for scaling AOGCM results from a particular forcing scenario to apply to other scenarios.
Model response: The ensemble standard deviation and the range are used as available indications of uncertainty in model results for a given forcing, although they are by no means a complete characterisation of the uncertainty. There are a number of caveats associated with the ensemble approach. Common or systematic errors in the simulation of current climate (e.g., Gates et al., 1999; Lambert and Boer, 2001; Chapter 8) survive ensemble averaging and contribute error to the ensemble mean while not contributing to the standard deviation. A tendency for models to under-simulate the level of natural variability would result in an underestimate of ensemble variance. There is also the possibility of seriously flawed outliers in the ensemble corrupting the results. The ensemble approach nevertheless represents one of the few methods currently available for deriving information from the array of model results and it is used in this chapter to characterise projections of future climate.
Missing or misrepresented physics: No attempt has been made to quantify the uncertainty in model projections of climate change due to missing or misrepresented physics. Current models attempt to include the dominant physical processes that govern the behaviour and the response of the climate system to specified forcing scenarios. Studies of "missing" processes are often carried out, for instance of the effect of aerosols on cloud lifetimes, but until the results are well-founded, of appreciable magnitude, and robust in a range of models, they are considered to be studies of sensitivity rather than projections of climate change. Physical processes which are misrepresented in one or more, but not all, models will give rise to differences which will be reflected in the ensemble standard deviation.
The impact of uncertainty due to missing or misrepresented processes can, however, be limited by requiring model simulations to reproduce recent observed climate change. To the extent that errors are linear (i.e., they have proportionally the same impact on the past and future changes), it is argued in Chapter 12, Section 18.104.22.168 that the observed record provides a constraint on forecast anthropogenic warming rates over the coming decades that does not depend on any specific model's climate sensitivity, rate of ocean heat uptake and (under some scenarios) magnitude of sulphate forcing and response.
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Mind games
My son Isaac works part-time as a stock person in a grocery store, and he sometimes talks about "cranky old people". Usually, he's frustrated that they've scolded him about things that are totally outside his control.
At my job today, I met one of Isaac's "cranky old people". I asked a white-haired fellow if I could help him with anything, and he launched into a passionate complaint about my misleading labels.
My labels? I was taken aback, but when he paused, I spoke as politely as I could. "I'm sorry it's confusing, sir," I said. "I will pass along your complaint, but the store really has no control over that product's labels. The packages and the information that's printed on them come from the manufacturer."
My words only made him angrier. He spat out a few more paragraphs about "my" labels and "my" sizes and "my" products and "my" store, and I stood there meekly and heard him out. Finally he bought the only thing we had that resembled what he really wanted, and strode away, a thin, stiff, angry, elderly man.
This incident reminded me of my mother-in-law, who is now in her mid-90s. For the past few years (since breaking a hip), Mama N. has lived in an assisted-living home. She doesn't go out to shop anymore, which is probably just as well. The last few times I shopped with her, she had conversations with clerks that were quite similar to the one I had this morning.
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If I make it through another decade or two, I hope that I don't go paranoid in the process. Being suspicious all the time surely must be exhausting. And it makes a person cranky, which certainly is hard on other folks.


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Mobile Web Apps: Where Are We Now?
Awhile back I wrote an article for CodeTalk called Web Apps As First Class Citizens in which I advocated use of tools like PhoneGap to build web-based multi-use iPhone and Android applications instead of the richer but client-specific native toolkits (where appropriate).
Well, it's been almost a year since I wrote that, and native applications still rule the roost in both the iPhone and Android camps. And it doesn't look like the situation is going to change any time in the near future, either. But that's not to say that we're entirely without hope that mobile web apps will one day stand shoulder to shoulder with their native counterparts!
As I mentioned in the original article, toolkits like PhoneGap and jQTouch already exist and can help ease some of the pain that mobile web app developers experience when trying to build native-quality web apps for the iPhone. However, numerous problems continue to make this impractical for many. For example, MobileSafari's lack of support for fixed position CSS elements, overall responsiveness, access to certain important hardware features, and mostly, missing native _feeling_ behaviors. In many -- perhaps most -- cases, struggles with these problems ultimately force serious app developers to pursue a native client approach, even though it comes with an expensive learning curve and of course the problem that it's an app-specific interface that needs to be maintained in addition to an existing web presence.
So will mobile web app developers ever be able to overcome these seemingly insurmountable odds? Well, maybe. I'm still holding out hope, anyway. Technically there's no reason that many of these features can't be made available through WebKit, if only the powers that be at Apple (and their Google equivalents in the Android world) saw fit to emphasize this.
And then again, maybe they already are.
John Gruber of Daring Fireball fame recently wrote about PastryKit, a framework that eases a lot of the pains for iPhone web application developers. You can see a PastryKit-based application in use at the iPhone user guide site (change your user agent to MobileSafari before clicking that link if you're visiting it from a desktop web browser). This resource has actually existed for quite some time. So it's nothing really new per se, but I certainly hadn't heard about it or noticed it before. And the creator of the toolkit? Apple. Interesting, indeed.
Gruber provides more technical analysis of the kit over at Daring Fireball and I'd encourage you to check out the article, as well as its followup, which includes more information and open questions about Apple's possible motivations and strategies. Of chief concern: why has this not been officially released yet? Is it a threat to downloadable pay-for applications in the app store? Or is there some other reason they're holding out? It remains to be seen.
In the meantime, if you're interested in tinkering, an industrious developer from the obligatory Hacker News thread about the topic has yanked the PastryKit source and pushed it up to a GitHub project repository for your hacking / browsing pleasure. And David Calhoun has an even more thorough dissection of the JavaScript itself.
This is all pretty interesting for those of us who've been hoping for native-quality web dev tool support on the iPhone. I mean, if you're a web developer, already familiar with the tools of the trade, and you could build web apps that looked and felt like native mobile applications, why wouldn't you, after all? Perhaps this battle isn't completely lost yet after all.


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FF fella, Billy, checks out this year's Art Basel and brings back some images of his favorites.
featuring: yoon lee, michael velliquette, timothy tompkins, travis somerville, michael waugh, marcel dzama, rachell sumpter, brendan monroe, travis millard, ernesto caviano, randall sellers, edward del rosario, amy bennett, josephine taylor, andy diaz hope, loretta lux, aaron noble, jennie smith, vik muniz, kenichi yokono, taravat talepasand, libby black, joseph stashkevetch, david maisel, aaron plant, megan greene, mario maffei, taylor mckimens, kent henricksen, tucker nichols, bill adams, ben peterson, mitzy pederson, barry mcgee, chris oliveria, clare rojas, tavares strachan, ward shelley, caroline hwang, saelee oh, os gemeos, tauba auerbach, jacob macgraw michelson, jessie rose vala, chris duncan, adrianne colburn, will yackulic, tucker schwarz, shaun o'dell, paul wackers, casey jex smith, mary elizabeth yarbrough, makoto aida, ryan pierce, matthew cusick, jason middlebrook, evah fan, russell nachman, coop, dalek, david choon lee, ethan murrow, andrew schoultz, dan witz, jeff soto, mars-1, shawn barber, doze green, anne faith nichols, travis louie, sas christian, colin christian, ron english, jonathan weiner, jim houser, alex gross, shepard fairy, andrew brandau, curve, richard colman, others @ pulse, nada, pierogi, aqua, bridge, and artcenter art fairs (art basel had a mandatory camera check) dec. 6-10, 2006
i went to a bunch of the art fairs in florida on friday and sunday of last week (taking saturday off to check out the everglades). the fairs were packed with art galleries (and art), collectors, artists, gawkers. it looked like work was selling and the fairs generally went well for all involved. my understanding is that these fairs are very helpful for galleries in cities like san francisco - where the locals generally do not buy much art - to find buyers from around the world. i saw a lot of work from artists i know and a lot from artists who are new to me. below are some highlights (in the order that i saw them).
a 10'x4' yoon lee (at dckt contemporary, yoon lee posted a nice detail photo here)
timothy tompkins (also at dckt)
travis somerville (above at trillium press, also at nathan larramendy gallery)
michael waugh (illustration with text reminds me of a brilliant piece i saw in the national museum in taiwan from some time back)
marcel dzama (at richard heller gallery)
rachell sumpter (at richard heller)
brendan monroe (at richard heller)
travis millard drawings from his class picture day at the school for hairy faced children zine (at richard heller)
josephine taylor (at catherine clark)
taravat talepasand (at heather marx gallery )
libby black (also at heather marx)
joseph stashkevetch (conte crayon on paper)
aaron plant (at catherine clark)
taylor mckimens' fecal head
bill adams
ben peterson (at ratio3)
barry mcgee (all 26 parts are one work - at ratio3)
chris oliveria (at lizabeth oliveria gallery)
clare rojas (also at lizabeth oliveria)
ward shelley (at pierogi)
caroline hwang (at new image art)
saelee oh (also at new image)
os gemeos (also at new image)
tauba auerbach (also at new image)
jacob macgraw (motel gallery has better pictures here. check washout)
chris duncan (at motel and others)
adriane colburn (at traywick contemporary)
will yackulic (at gregory lind gallery)
tucker schwarz (also at gregory lind)
casey jex smith (at eleanor harwood gallery)
mary elizabeth yarbrough (also at eleanor harwood)
ryan pierce (at lisa dent gallery)
evah fan (at sixspace)
david choong lee (at bucheon contemporary)
andrew schoultz (at jonathan levine)
dan witz (at dfn gallery)
jeff soto (at artcenter, featuring work from the shooting gallery, merry karnowski, and jonathan levine)
doze green (also at artcenter)
a big jim houser window (at artcenter)
a big shepard fairy (at art center)
a big richard colman window (at art center)
my photo set and slideshow features 144 photos, with more artists (identified at the top of this post) and more work.
words and photos by billy o'callaghan {moscomment}
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The inToAsia Festival opens this week.
Without further ado, here are more selected events, exhibitions, and deadlines this week, all culled from Rhizome Announce.
Artist Opportunities
Sunday, August 11:
The AND 2013 Fair in Liverpool, UK, inspired by the World's Fair of old, calls for submissions from artists, hackers, technologists, and makers all over the world. A £500 bursary will be offered to emerging practitioners to support their participation.
The Hungarian Multicultural Center seeks emerging artists to apply for their 2013 Artist Residencies in Budapest.
Culturia invites aritsts interested in researching the artistic process to apply for a six-week residency in Berlin, beginning in November 2013.
Friday, August 9: opening of Uncanny Visions 4, featuring a range of performance and video works which address the elusive medium of poetry. Performers include such luminaries as Bunny Rogers and Ann Hirsch. Organizers describe it as follows:
Uncanny Visions IV tackles that most persistent and elusive medium "poetry." Specifically, we will feature a range of performance and video artists who function as self-styled "poets" in the most open mic sense of the word, but not.
Specific, but not. We are intrigued.
New York
Thursday, August 8: inToAsia begins, a new festival focused on time-based works by new media artists based in Asia. (Pictured)
Saturday, August 10: NAISA launches (E)scapes, an exhibiton of two interactive sound pieces intended to explore the sonic relationship between body and space.
Saturday, August 10: EMPAC at RPI seeks applicants for the position of Graphic Designer.
Thursday, August 15: SAIC seeks a part-time faculty member in advanced 3D modeling for animation.
Saturday, August 24: The New Media program in the School of Film & Media Studies at Purchase College seeks candidates for a full-time, Assistant Professor beginning in the fall of 2014.


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Why is it only August?!
So the biggest news in Jazzland is that Boozer has finally (hopefully not temporarily) shut his trap. Did the Jazz FO threaten him? Did the Jazz FO threaten Pelinka? Maybe FB hit his head on his foot while it was on the way to his mouth and he's suffering from amnesia. Or maybe it was my digital voodoo. I posted one example previously, and here's the entire collection–featuring methods ranging from duct tape to pacifiers to facial chastity belts. Whatever it takes.
It's been pointed out that Utah and Miami are the only teams that have yet to sign a veteran free agent this summer. No trades seem imminent on the Jazz front, and it seems like a very real possibility that Boozer will start the season in a Jazz uniform that he really doesn't deserve to wear (being the antithesis of a Jerry Sloan player and all). I'm therefore trying to recapture my optimism from this time last year, when I thought that this roster was so deep that it had a really real shot of going far in the Playoffs and maybe even all the way.
(The only real difference between last year and this year is the upgrade from Brev Brev to Maynor. Meanwhile, Collins' most recent tweet was "maybe I don't have to move" so take from that what you will.)
Anyway, recapturing past optimism is no easy task, because this time last year Boozer was merely a thorn in my side, whereas now he is a mutantly gigantic thorn in my side. We'll see (not soon enough) how things shake out…
Onto some random odds and ends:
1. Three retired Jazzmen made this "NBA players that would of [sic] been awesome wrestlers" list:
1. Mark Eaton – Yes he would of killed people and buried them in the mountains.
19. John Stockton – Elbows of steel.
20. Karl Malone – He has done it before but he should of been tag team partners with Stockton. They would be called Pick & Roll of course.
2. The '09-'10 national TV schedule for NBA games is out. You know what's noteworthy? No UTA-NO game will be nationally televised. Is CP3 such a Stern darling that he can't ever be allowed to look bad? Is this kinda like the whole Nike-LBJ-dunk tape fiasco? (Speaking of that: LBJ's explanation is that it was Nike policy and he had nothing to do with it. Boozer isn't the only one that makes things worse the more he talks. What can you expect? Those two grew up in the NBA together.) Anyway, back to the topic at hand. There are no UTA-NO games on the schedule even though I bet this is a "rivalry" that even casual NBA fans would want to watch. (I say "rivalry" with quotes because, well, it's really not much of a rivalry when the record is 11-2 in favor of our boy.)
3. If Fes is really the answer in our quest to find the next Big White Hope, shouldn't he be tearing it up against the other EuroBasket bottom feeders? Maybe I'm wrong about this, but I'm going with the assumption that since he's the only semi-NBA player on the team, he should be "the star." Fes went for 13 and 7 against Hungary in the Relegation Round (which determines which of the bottom feeders get dropped from Division A to Division B) and his team lost by 24. Next up: games against Estonia and Czech Republic.
4. Meanwhile, at the Hellas of Justice, the Koof looked about ready to bust out of his clothes, Hulk style. First look at his new 20 lbs. of muscle since his appearance on the Summer League bench:
Some interesting facts: The Koof is one of four "Konstantinos" on the Greek national team. There are also also three Ioannis's, two Dimitrios's, and two Nicholas/Nikolaos's (including Nick Calathes). It appears that the creative baby naming trend (e.g. Carmelo, LeBron (which does NOT mean "the strength" in French), Dwyane, and of course, Deron) has not yet reached Greece. KK2 is also the youngest and and tallest of them all. (source)
5. China accuses Rick Adelman of destroying its national treasure:
"You can't say that it's because Yao Ming came back to China and played a few games in the Olympics that he went out and injured himself," [Vice Minister of Sports] Cui said. "It was because he played in over 100 games in a row in the NBA. In using Yao, the Houston head coach played him too much, so he was injured." (source)
Hilarious. If you're so concerned about protecting your property, maybe you shouldn't have let him out of the country in the first place. But if you hadn't, you wouldn't be collecting half his salary now, would you? Yao Ming is a person, NOT property!
6. The NBA recently announced that it is now allowing corporate sponsorships for practice jerseys. Fanhouse proposed specific advertisers for all 30 teams, the Jazz's being "The Supreme Court. In honor of Jerry Sloan: On the bench for life."
If Matty retires, I think the Jazz would be perfectly represented by Charmin. Obviously, I'm talking about Charmin Ultra Soft and NOT Charmin Ultra Strong, which has "outstanding durability."


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Sassy but always classy. Well, almost always.
Have you ever been told that you're sassy?
Maybe someone said it to you in a negative way to make you feel like it was something you needed to change.
Being that fierce and feeling like a savage queen is just not okay with everyone all the time. But, ummmm … who asked that person anything anyway?
Sometimes it's good to just be in a … mood. *shrugs*
If you are sassy, own it.
Look, everyone in life has their vices and you are no exception. Sure there may be some correlation with attitude problems and being sassy but you don't have to be a mean person to be strong-willed in that way.
It can come off a little strong, but sometimes that savage kind of attitude is necessary.
Being sassy means you know how to stand up for yourself. You have got a backbone and you are not afraid to use it. Honestly, that is quite noble.
As long as you're not seeking to make people feel bad, then who cares if you are reacting to some jerk who insulted you in the first place?
You've got to show the world you are not someone who can be walked all over.
"Are you free tomorrow? No, I'm expensive."
Life is tough enough as it is, and having a spark to be able to hit back (not physically, of course!) with spunk is dang cool. When all the chips are down you don't give up. You come back and you come back better than ever.


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'Crimmigration' has become a critical "catch all" concept for legal scholars, criminologists, and sociologists alike. The concept describes the way two previously separate state control spheres – border control and crime control – influence each other and are part of the same control mechanism experiences and developments. This concept, for example, helps understand Trump's effort to legitimize the tightening of immigration policy. It refers to both the protection of American economy and jobs and the explicit intent to protect American citizens from terrorists, rapists, and gang members. For this IMER lunch seminar, Synnøve Jahnsen from Rokkansenteret will talk about the usefulness of crimmigration as a concept in other settings. She will draw on empirical examples from her research on prostitution and human trafficking, Norwegian labour market crime policies, and the policing of outlaw motorcycle clubs and youth gangs in Australia and Europe. She will also use the opportunity to promote her new co-edited book "Criminal Justice in the Era of Mass Mobility" and highlight some of the methodological challenges faced by researchers in her field.
A light lunch will be served. All welcome!
Synnøve Jahnsen is a postdoctoral research fellow at Rokkansenteret where she specializes in the sociology of law and criminal justice.
The question of migration is a multifaceted one. It impacts upon individual and social life long before a person's departure or the crossing of borders. Tuning in with pre- and post-departure perspectives from the African-European border zone, this seminar will argue that migration cannot be understood if addressed as a series of events or movements in the here and now. On the contrary, it must be seen in relation to the experiences and ideas that predate and at the same time reach beyond the temporal settings in which they unfold. For this IMER seminar, Knut Graw from the Institute for Anthropological Research in Africa at the Kathlieke Universiteit Leuven will elaborate on this argument in relation to Senegal as a case study.
Knut Graw (PhD) works at the Institute for Anthropological Research in Africa (IARA) and the Interculturalism, Minorities and Migration Research Centre (IMMRC) of the University of Leuven and, as associated researcher, at Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO), Berlin. His current research focuses on the situation of Senegalese migrants in Southern Europe and the cultural dynamics and transfers in the African-European borderzone.
Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) work closely with refugees by providing services and assistance. However, refugees might also be subjected to misconduct by NGOs. In such a scenario, how can NGOs be held accountable for wrongful acts?
For this IMER lunch seminar, Marianne Nerland from the Faculty of Law at UiB will present preliminary findings from her PhD project which explores recourses available to refugees seeking justice against NGOs. By drawing on interviews conducted with refugees as well as aid workers in Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya, Marianne will argue that there are serious legal obstacles that refugees face when wanting to file complaints against NGOs. This case highlights the need for an enhanced structure for NGO accountability in refugee camps.
A light lunch will be served! All welcome!
Marianne Nerland is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Law, UiB


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I'm not writing my Politics Live blog today but, as an alternative, here's Politics Live: the readers' edition. It's intended to be a place where you can catch up with the latest news and find links to good politics blogs and articles on the web.
Please feel free to use this as somewhere you can comment on any of the day's political stories - just as you do when I'm writing the daily blog.
But it would be particularly useful for readers to flag up new material in the comments – breaking news or blogposts or tweets that are worth passing on because someone is going to find them interesting. A lot of what I do on my blog is aggregation – finding the good stuff and passing it on - and you can do this, too (as I know, because it happens every day when I'm blogging).
All today's Guardian politics stories are here, and all the politics stories filed yesterday, including some in today's paper, are here.


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Hi all,
I've desperately been trying to track down a copy of Electronic Arts Music Construction Set. If anyone has a working image, please could you post it here? I have a whole pile of stuff I wrote in it way back and I'm unable to find anything to extract it with.
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|Tribute in Light (please take time to view the description and acknowledgement below)*
September 11th, 2011. The day the world seemed like it was coming to an end. Where were you? Where was I...
I was a Staff Sergeant in the Army. Stationed with the 25th Infantry Division (L), 125 Military Intelligence Battalion. We were in the field. Training exercises. It's what we did. My husband was playing single dad with our almost 8 month old son while I played Soldier and got dirty for the week. At least that was the plan.
The evening of September 10th (Monday) my squad and I got in our vehicles and went out to our site. It was my first time as a squad leader. I'll admit I was nervous. I always wanted to impress. To show people that I was good at what I did. It didn't start out well. It was dark and we were having difficulty finding the site we were supposed to set up at. It took awhile, but we eventually got there and set up.
I jumped into the back of our "system" after it was set up. I then proceeded to block all news and music stations that I could find. Our job was to "Find the Enemy" and I didn't want people distracted and not looking for OPFOR (Opposing Forces). We were a squad of 4, Newsom, Cash, Jefferson and me. Newsom was my Assistant Squad Leader and he took first shift. Jefferson took guard shift. Cash and I racked out in the back of the chase vehicle (the vehicle that follows our system with all the gear in the back).
Around 4:30am I was woken up by Newsom. He told me, "Two planes crashed into the World Trade Center and there were fears that other planes may have been hijacked."
I sat up straight and just looked at where his voice came from in the dark. "What?" I said as I processed the information, although I really didn't need it repeated. Then I asked, "Did you report it to the TOC (Tactical Operations Center)?"
"Do it." Newsom left and got on the radio. I got on my cell phone. I called my husband. He had already been called by his oldest sister and his unit. He was watching the news. It was bad. There was a lot of confusion in the news. He was getting our son ready for day care and was taking him in as soon as it opened. He was needed at work. It was going to be a long day. I told him I loved them both and needed to go. I had to call my aunt and uncle that were living in Hawaii. My Uncle Jeff's family was from New York.
I called and Uncle Jeff answered. I could tell I just woke them. "Turn on your T.V.," I said, "Two planes crashed into the World Trade Center and more may have been hijacked. We're under attack." He said he had to go and hung up. I understood. He needed to make sure his family was safe.
I got out of the vehicle and went to the system where Newsom was still listening. I asked him what the TOC said. He replied that they claimed it was all a part of the exercise. When that happened however, Cushman, a team leader from one of the other dismounted teams, popped up on the radio with the reply, "Bullshit!" and explained that they intercepted it too and it was a news station reporting. They were now reporting that another plane hit the Pentagon. Then one went down somewhere in Pennsylvania. My home state. How many more? That's all I could think of.
Eventually the TOC pulled their heads out of their asses and realized that this was real. Another platoon member who was back at the TOC had brought a portable T.V. with him. He was from New York. Fiorelli was his name. A good ol' Italian boy from the city. He turned the portable on just in time to see the first Tower collapse. I can't imagine what that was like for him.
All four of us were standing in or around our system. There was no one pulling security. We just weren't "playing Army" anymore.
"It's bin Laden," I stated. Something that wouldn't be repeated on the news until later. Most people in MI knew who Osama bin Laden was, even if we weren't "active" in the intel field. It was no secret that he hated America. It was no secret that he would do anything within his power to strike at America if given the opportunity. I had no doubt that it was him. There was no reply to my statement. There was none need. I guess we all already knew it was probably right. Knowing doesn't make anything better.
|Pentagon Flag **
"We're going to be pulled back in." I don't know how I knew that. Maybe it was because I wanted it to happen. I needed it to happen. I wanted to get home to my husband and son. I was terrified that a military day care would be targeted. He didn't care who he attacked. Unrealistic fear? There are no unrealistic fears to a parent.
I continued, "There are too many people that need to find out how their families are. I can't imagine them keeping us out here much longer." And then there was the unspoken fact that we were now at war. Attacked at home and would be needed to defend our home. We didn't know how bad this was going to get, but we knew everything was about to change.
There was only one set of headphones for the system. Only one person could listen at once, but we all wanted to be that person. We did take turns and whoever had the headset would relay any new information to the rest of us. Eventually my Platoon Sergeant, Stege, came out to the site. To see how we were doing. To tell us to break down because we'd be going back in. No surprise there. It took several hours before we made it back to the company area.
Our company was in a quad. Four buildings facing inward. That's just pretty much how the majority of Schofield Barracks was set up. When we returned to the quad it was surrounded by triple-strand concertina wire (razor wire) with a guard at each entry point checking IDs. The entire post was like this. Not only was the post at 100% ID check, vehicle inspection (complete with looking under each vehicle for bombs), but once you got on post you had to show ID to get into your quad. If anyone doubted that this was serious, that ended any doubts.
I got home later that evening. Talked to family and held mine. We watched the TV until I don't know how late. My husband worked one of those "active" intel jobs. I knew he knew stuff. And I knew he couldn't tell me. I accepted that. I understood. I wouldn't ask. Didn't really need to. I mean, how bad is bad? It already was.
My uncle's family was safe. My family was safe. Why then did it seem like none of us were safe and that we all had lost someone dear to us? Was this how it felt after our innocence was taken at Pearl Harbor? I was certain it must have been.
I was a Soldier. I knew we were now at war. We all knew it. There was no cheering. No stupid smack-talk about going out and killing bin Laden. We all wanted him. We all wanted to go, but this was an indescribable moment and there was no juvenile posturing like you see today. No one prays for peace more than the Soldier that has to fight the war and lose their brothers and sisters in arms.
Looking back I find it amazing at how calm and incredibly somber we were. There were no tears shed from my squad. It didn't even occur to me to cry. We were in shock. Perhaps if we had seen rather than heard what was happening there would have been tears. There certainly were many since. There will continue to be many in the years to come. Osama bin Laden is dead. This is the first anniversary of the attacks that we can say that. It damn well took us long enough...but you know what? It doesn't lessen the pain.
Members of my unit experienced what I can only describe as Divine Intervention on September 11th, although we would not hear of it until later. My former Platoon Leader, CPT Meyer, had left the military and was working at the World Trade Center. He was one of those insanely hard-core-ranger-tabbed-dudes that would walk 10 miles with a broken leg because it was nothing big. He'd never go to sick call. He'd be in a hospital only if forced. He wasn't at the World Trade Center on September 11th....he was in the hospital. He was sick and his family made him go.
Writing this post was extremely difficult as I'm sure it was for many who have written posts for today. I never saw the original footage of the attacks with the newscasters talking. I saw the sanitized images. The footage of the images without any human reaction. Just analysis. There was something about seeing the video and hearing their reactions that is just so gut-wrenching. It made it feel as though it had just happened.
The website I watched this video on is a page at the National Archives called "Understanding 9/11". The video is toward the bottom of the page and they list a chronology and description of the footage you'll watch. There are broadcasts from Mexico, Japan, Russia, Iraq and Britain as well as the U.S. A unique international perspective, and you really don't need to understand the different languages.
I'm a disabled veteran of the United States Army, and I'm a hippie-chick to boot. Crazy combination. Crazy chick. Hippie chick or not...I can't listen to Darryl Worley's, "Have You Forgotten?" without tearing up. Some scars don't heal that easily, and these scars dug at our country deep. It truly felt like the world was coming to an end that day.
*Tribute in Light - The "Tribute in Light" memorial is in remembrance of the events of Sept. 11, 2001. The two towers of light are composed of two banks of high wattage spotlights that point straight up from a lot next to Ground Zero. This photo was taken from Liberty State Park, N.J., Sept. 11, the five-year anniversary of 9/11. (U.S. Air Force photo/Denise Gould)
**Pentagon Flag - WASHINGTON -- Military members rendered honors as fire and rescue workers unfurled a huge American flag over the side of the Pentagon during rescue and recovery work following the Sept. 11 terrorist attack. The attack came at approximately 9:40 a.m. as a hijacked commercial airliner, originating from Washington, D.C.'s Dulles International Airport, was flown into the southern side of the building facing Virginia Highway 27. (U.S. Navy photo by Michael W. Pendergrass )
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8:01 am - American Airlines Flt 11 takes off from Boston heading to Los Angeles. There were 92 people on board.
8:14 am - United Airlines Flt 175 takes off from Boston heading to Los Angeles. There were 65 people on board.
8:21 am - American Airlines Flt 77 takes off from Washington D.C. heading to Los Angeles. There were 64 people on board.
8:41 am - United Airlines Flt 93 takes off from Newark heading to San Francisco. There were 40 people on board.
8:46 am - Flt 11 crashes into the North Tower of the World Trade Center
9:03 am - Flt 175 crashes into the South Tower of the World Trade Center
9:40 am - Flt 77 crashes into the Pentagon
9:59 am - The South Tower of the World Trade Center collapses
10:07 am - Flt 93 crashes into a field in Shanksburg, Pennsylvania
10:15 am - Portion of the Pentagon collapses. Approximately 200 people died in and around the Pentagon.
10:28 am - The North Tower of the World Trade Center collapses
4:00 pm - CNN reports that their are indications that Osama bin Laden is responsible for the attacks.
5:25 pm - Number 7 World Trade Center collapses
8:30 pm - President Bush addresses the nation


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Rita D was a love child with an elusive, larger than life father. In an attempt at understanding, she embarks on a quest to visit the Intentional Community her Father lived on at the time of her conception, and to ask him a few burning questions.
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Deloitte ServiceNow Implementation Consultant in San Jose, California
ServiceNow Implementation Consultant
Customer & Marketing is creating a new model for a new age-we re an agency and a consultancy. Understanding the digital space and preparing for what s next is at our core. We help clients reimagine how profits are made, how relationships are created and managed; we reshape how work gets done, and rewire the competitive fabric of entire industries. That s the power of driving disruption. That s Customer & Marketing.
Work you ll do
A Consultant at Deloitte works within an engagement team and is responsible for identifying business requirements, requirements management, functional design, prototyping, process design (including scenario design, flow mapping), testing, training, defining support procedures and supporting implementations.
The team
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Our Digital Customer team focuses on designing and implementing sales and service experiences, capabilities, and architectures to bring customer strategies to life. Our ambition is to be the best in the world at driving customer transformation through the development of clever commercial strategies, distinctive experiences, and the application of digital technologies. We help make the creative digital consultancy real and in doing so, make new markets.
Professionals will serve our clients through the following types of work:
Sales Excellence & Service Excellence | delivers sales and service strategies and plans, operating model definition, incentive design and implementation, and operations support for digitally-enabled sales, channel, and customer service capabilities
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1 years of experience
Understanding of system development lifecycle, major development methodologies (e.g., Agile development)
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Desire to build technical skills in developing and deploying one or more platform technologies
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Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.
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I have been watching recently some documentaries about software development, including the classic Triumph of the nerds (available in YouTube in three episodes, 1, 2 and 3) and Indie Game: The Movie. They are both very good and I'd recommend them not only to developers, but to people interested in technology and/or entrepreneurship in general.
But they are very good exponents into something very present on the software scene, which is presenting crunch mode, working insane hours, in some sort of glamourised way. It is part of the usual storytelling and, and probably, part of the hard work -> ??? -> profit logic.
Let me told you something. When I was starting my career, on my first long term job, we once had a very strong deadline. This made us work in crunch mode for a long time (around 2 months). That meant working around 12 hours or more per day, 6-7 days a week. The very last day (a Sunday), I started working at 9:00 AM and went home the Monday at 6:00 PM, only stopping for eating something quick and going to the toilet. The rest of the team did similarly.


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Hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) is the intravenous infusion of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells designed to establish marrow and immune function in patients with a variety of acquired and inherited malignant and nonmalignant disorders. These include hematologic malignancies (eg, leukemia, lymphoma, and myeloma), nonmalignant acquired bone marrow disorders (eg, aplastic anemia), and genetic diseases associated with abnormal hematopoiesis and function (thalassemia, sickle cell anemia, and severe combined immunodeficiency). HCT is also used in the support of patients undergoing high-dose chemotherapy for the treatment of certain solid tumors for whom hematologic toxicity would otherwise limit drug administration (germ cell tumors, soft tissue sarcomas, and neuroblastoma).
Hematopoietic Stem Cell Sources
Since the advent of HCT in the 1960s, several different methods of transplantation have evolved. At present, the hematopoietic progenitor cells used for HCT are obtained from either bone marrow or peripheral blood. The decision to use a certain type of HCT is dictated by the patient's age, disease and condition, and the availability of a donor. In some cases, more than one approach is possible. Table 1 summarizes the characteristics of each stem cell source.
Donor Source
Allogeneic HCT, Match Related
This method involves procurement of bone marrow from a human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-identical sibling of the patient. In some cases, a partially matched sibling or family donor (one antigen mismatch) can be used for HCT.
Allogeneic HCT, Match Unrelated
Given that there are a limited number of alleles of the HLA system, typing of large numbers of individuals has led to the observation that full molecular matches for patients exist in the general population. Tissue typing is performed on the patient's blood, and a search of the computer files of various international registries is made to determine whether a patient has a match with an unrelated individual.
Haploidentical Transplantation
This technique usually involves the transplant of large numbers of T-cell–depleted stem cells from a donor, usually a sibling or a parent, who is half matched to the patient. Although these are the most difficult transplants to perform successfully, there is great interest in this approach, because most patients will have a donor in their family who is at least a 50% HLA match. Most transplants will engraft, and few patients will have significant graft-vs-host disease (GVHD). However, the relapse rate is high, and the process of immune reconstitution is slow, with patients often having troublesome infections for a long time after transplant. Recently, the Johns Hopkins group developed a method of haploidentical HCT using post-HCT cyclophosphamide as prevention of GVHD, which showed promising results.
Cord Blood Transplantation
The blood in the umbilical cord of newborn babies contains large numbers of stem cells, which have been shown to be capable of long-term engraftment in children and some adults after transplant. Similar to unrelated-donor registries, cord blood banks have been developed to store cord blood cells that can be used for unrelated-donor transplant. Given the immunologic immaturity of cord blood cells, these transplants can be accomplished even when there are disparities (mismatching) in the HLA typing between the donor and recipient. Cord blood transplants are generally used in situations in which the patient does not have a sibling donor and an unrelated adult donor cannot be identified through the international registries.
Autologous HCT
Autologous HCT allows a delivery of myeloablative high-dose chemoradiotherapy, since the infused hematopoietic progenitor cells provide hematopoiesis and immune reconstitution. The source of HCT is usually peripheral blood stem cells in autologous HCT, mobilized with granulocyte colony-stimulating factor (GCSF) sometimes following salvage/priming chemotherapy. The peripheral blood stem cells are harvested and then cryopreserved before administration of chemotherapy and/or high-dose radiation therapy.
Syngeneic Transplantation
In this form of transplantation, marrow or peripheral blood stem cells are procured from an individual who is a genetic identical twin to the patient. This method is essentially the same as autologous HCT, with no concerns about potential tumor contamination within the graft.
Allogeneic Transplantation
HLA Typing
Finding a related donor
As noted previously, matched related allogeneic HCT involves a donor who is an HLA-matched sibling of the recipient. The formula for calculating the chances of a particular person having an HLA-matched sibling is 1 − (0.75)N, where N denotes the number of potential sibling donors. In general, a patient with one sibling has a 25% chance of having a match. The average American family size usually limits the success of finding a family donor to approximately 30% of patients.
HLA typing is performed on blood samples or from buccal smears obtained from the patient and potential donor. Molecular methods are now used for more refined matching of both class I (A, B, C loci) and class II (DR, DQ, DP loci) antigens. A match is noted when the major class I antigens, as well as class II antigens, are the same as those of the donor. Each sibling receives one set of antigens (A, B, C, DR, DQ, DP) from each parent (chromosome 6). Genotypic identity can be confirmed by testing the parents and determining the inheritance of each set of antigens.
Finding an unrelated donor
In cases in which the patient needs an allogeneic transplant and a donor cannot be found within the family, the identification of a matched unrelated donor is accomplished by searching the computer files of the National Marrow Donor Program as well as other, international registries. Through international connections, the National Marrow Donor Program searches more than 18.5 million potential donors. Because there are multiple alleles of any given HLA locus, serologic identity does not necessarily imply genotypic identity, such as is the case among sibling donor-recipient pairs. The development of oligonucleotide probes has greatly increased the precision of HLA typing and has allowed for more specific selection of bone marrow donors by matching molecular alleles of the class I and II antigens.
Advantages and Disadvantages
The major advantages of an allogeneic graft include the absence of malignant cells contaminating the graft; the potential for an immunologic anticancer graft-vs-tumor effect; and the ability to treat malignant and nonmalignant disorders of the bone marrow, including genetic and immunologic diseases.
The disadvantages of an allogeneic transplant include the difficulty in finding an appropriate HLA-matched donor and the development of GVHD after HCT, which contributes to the morbidity and mortality of the procedure.
Reduced-intensity transplant has allowed older patients (up to 75 to 80 years of age) to undergo transplant to treat their disease when clinically indicated.
Autologous Transplantation
Advantages and Disadvantages
In autologous transplant, the reinfused stem cells come from either the patient's own bone marrow or peripheral blood. These cells do not cause GVHD, and thus, autologous transplant is associated with less morbidity and mortality than is allogeneic HCT and increases in the number of patients who can undergo the procedure in the upper age limit.
The disadvantages of autologous HCT include the possibility of tumor cell contamination within the graft in many diseases, which can cause relapse; the lack of a significant therapeutic graft-vs-tumor effect; and the limited ability to use autologous stem cells to treat patients not in remission or with inherited nonmalignant lymphohematopoietic diseases. Table 2 summarizes the advantages and disadvantages of these two approaches.


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HUNTERS were in defiant mood yesterday as they met in Chipping Norton for the latest Heythrop Hunt.
The hunt has been meeting for 177 years but the one held on Boxing Day was the first since it was prosecuted by the RSPCA.
Last week the Heythrop Hunt – which began in 1835 and is Prime Minister David Cameron's local hunt – along with members Julian Barnfield and Richard Sumner, admitted at Oxford Magistrates' Court a total of 12 charges of unlawful hunting with dogs.
The case was the first where a hunt has faced corporate charges and the first taken by the RSPCA involving the prosecution of a hunt itself.
Hunt chairman Mikey Elliot said: "They are going out to hunt legally so I don't see it as a provocative act. There is a huge sense of community here today.
"There were 52 cases brought against us and they had set aside 30 days for the case. We didn't have the funds to defend ourselves. It was corporate bullying."
Despite the recent case there was no high profile protest in Chipping Norton's market square, where hundreds of people gathered.
Hunter Peter Trotter said: "The ban was done entirely for political reasons and has not saved a single animal.
"We didn't have the money to fight the case and we had to plead guilty."
Spectator Mary Sunderland from Woodstock said: "I don't like animal cruelty but it is just to have a go at what they perceive to be toffs, which is not the right way to go about making laws."
Referring to the recent case against the hunt, RSPCA spokesman Klare Kennett said: "Our prosecutions department is given footage on a regular basis and in this case the evidence was overwhelming."
A group of hunt monitors did attend the event. However, Penny Little, who runs the Little Foxes sanctuary near Thame, was unable to attend.
She said: "I think it is unacceptable them meeting in Chipping Norton as if nothing had happened."
Speaking yesterday, Environment Secretary Owen Paterson said it was unlikely a vote on repealing the fox hunting ban, introduced in 2005, would be held in Parliament next year despite it being a coalition agreement.


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Monday, August 19, 2013
Handwriting Without Tears Spanish Sample Pack {GIVEAWAY}
I'm pretty excited about today's giveaway because several months ago, someone asked me on Facebook about resources in Spanish for teaching cursive. It wasn't easy to find many (more about that next month), but one of the companies that had the best materials was Handwriting Without Tears. This company is nationally known among homeschoolers, as well as public teaching circles for their curriculum which teaches handwriting (letter recognition, print & cursive), but who knew they offered materials in Spanish, too?
How progressive is that? Their Spanish line is actually one of their newer ones and includes teaching materials for children in pre-K through 4th grade. The best part of HWT is that they not only provide the teaching workbooks, but also the tools that help your child master their handwriting skills more quickly.
I've used their English books with my own children and found them to be fantastic. But you don't have to take my word for it. When you look at the materials on their website, you can also download sample pages (I love it when companies do that because I like to flip through books before I buy them).
At any rate, the lovely people at Handwriting Without Tears have put together this sample collection of their materials. You will not find this set for sale on their website, though you can certainly purchase the individual items.
TWO (2!) lucky MommyMaestra readers will receive this custom set of El poder de la imprenta y más (Printing Power Plus) which includes a book for printing mastery and introduction to cursive, as well as a double line blackboard, little chalk bits, and little sponge cubes. This set is best suited for students in 2nd grade, though you know your child's/student's level best. Go and download the sample pages for this set of books from their website (I love them).
To enter the giveaway, just use the Rafflecopter below.
Remember that the only mandatory entry is to leave a comment! And yes, I do check to see if you have done so and if I don't see the same name that appears in my Rafflecopter when I pick the winner, I draw another name.
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Disclosure: This is not a compensated post. I bought and used similar products with my own kids and asked the company to donate items to my annual Back-to-School Fiesta! giveaway month. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
27 comments:
My kids have been wanting to learn cursive writing badly!ReplyDelete
Anything that teaches cursive is great and in Spanish, awesome! I would like to add these to my collection and to the DL school my children go to.ReplyDelete
Oh Monica your give aways are getting better each day! I would love to use this! Thank you for giving people the chance to get a hold of something so good!ReplyDelete
I LOVE Handwriting Without Tears, but I had no idea they had a Spanish line! How awesome is that?! So glad to find this out, and hope we can win one. :)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 19, 2013 at 12:54 PM
I would love this for my daughter, email@example.com
I would love these materials to teach my son to write in Spanish! They seem fantastic.ReplyDelete
My girls are in first grade and I would love to use this to teach them to write in print and in cursive in Spanish!ReplyDelete
mi hija va a comenzar preescolar este año y nos va a servir mucho.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 19, 2013 at 3:32 PM
I used it last year for my niece who was in 1st and I hope to use it again this year. firstname.lastname@example.com
- AnonymousAugust 19, 2013 at 5:15 PM
Me gustaria usar esto para me nieta le estoy ensenando espanol y tampien doy cuentos bilingues en la biblioteca y enseno escribir y hablar el espanol a muchos...email@example.com
I have always loved handwriting without tears...but this is great news - now in Spanish, that's awesome!...thanks for sharing:)ReplyDelete
I've heard so many great things about this program! Maybe I can convince my Principal to invest in this for the Primary Grades. =)ReplyDelete
Just the school year my son starts this year!ReplyDelete
- Faith Little ClarkeAugust 20, 2013 at 12:59 AM
I love Handwriting Without Tears and I would love to win this to teach my children cursive.ReplyDelete
This is so cool! I'd love to use this with my daughter this year!ReplyDelete
Thanks for the info...
~Teaching Español
- JenelleAugust 20, 2013 at 2:28 PM
This would be awesome for my kinds and their DL classrooms!ReplyDelete
I'd love to teach my kiddo to write in cursive!ReplyDelete
We love HWT! It has helped my son who used to hate to practice writing his letters. He would be thrilled to win the cursive book.ReplyDelete
Awesome!! My daughter is just starting to write and she would love this!ReplyDelete
Awesome giveaway! Me encantaría tener la oportunidad de ganármelo para mi niño. Gracias!ReplyDelete
I would love the opportunity to try out Handwriting without Tears Spanish!ReplyDelete
As a future soon to be bilingual teacher and a mom, this material would be perfect to build to my collection of materials and incorporate it at school and home! Spanish all the way!!!!!ReplyDelete
- Laura S.August 22, 2013 at 1:50 PM
So glad that Handwriting Without Tears exists - and now in Spanish too - double the greatness! Would love to use this with my first and fourth graders! Thanks again for such great giveaways.ReplyDelete
- JustineAugust 22, 2013 at 11:49 PM
We speak exclusively in Spanish in our home with our boys, and I intend to homeschool but am just beginning to research what materials are available in Spanish. This would be a great kick-off!ReplyDelete
I didn't know HWT comes in Spanish! My students would love love love to use this resource!ReplyDelete
- Laura P.August 23, 2013 at 5:02 PM
I definitely prefer handwriting without tears!ReplyDelete
My girl really wants to learn cursive, so why not in Spanish too?!ReplyDelete


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