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As I related in my earlier posts, my family was indispensable when I made the decision to leave my husband. So I say again; if you are on good terms with you family, keep them that way despite any religious differences! If and/or when the patriarchal experiment blows up in your face (as it did in my case) it will be your family who rallies around you.
This also held true with friends. My "secular" friends were still there to help me through the rough times.
Thankfully, I had no interest in trying to convert them and as a result, my old friends still hung around.
In a similar manner, I was easy going when it came to friends that we had made while in the Patriot moment. When my husband and I started getting involved with the heavily religious crowd, the inevitable splits occurred. I remember how so many decent people who left the Bible study group after it became a church. We who remained behind said that such people weren't really interested in making a commitment to Christ. We dismissed their complaints about having a church with a pastor as opposed to an informal group.In truth, we thought they were more interested in discussing ideology and political issues than in studying and obeying the Word of God.
Yet unlike my husband who was distant with such people (he preferred the ultra religious crowd), I remained friendly. Sure at the time, I harbored similar thought concerning why such people eschewed our church, but I knew they were good people all the same.
It turned out that I was wrong in my assumptions. Having "walked the walk" I realized that the folks who were more into the "beans and bullets" than being in church actually had been turned off by the Pharisee ism of the church crowd. It wasn't so much that such people weren't really Christian it was that they didn't believe in following a myriad number of laws in order to be right with God. As a result, these folks tended to leave belief as a matter of personal (as opposed to group conviction) and thus they preferred to study political and practical issues.
At the end of it all it was the "heathen" and "hypocrites" who turned out to be the true friends. In retrospect, I realized that these folks were just as Godly in terms of basic decency. In fact many of them were in some ways a good deal healthier than the ultra religious, ultra studied out crowd. 'My bad' as they say. I am just glad that my error in judgment did not cost me my friends and family.
That wraps up the friends and family portion of the essay. I tried to cover some of the physical issues. I hope that this proved entertaining if nothing else. I hope that someone who believed as I once did can use the advice even if they don't come to the same conclusions concerning the matter that I did.
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NLQ Recommended Reading …
'Breaking Their Will: Shedding Light on Religious Child Maltreatment' by Janet Heimlich
'Quivering Daughters' by Hillary McFarland
'Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement' by Kathryn Joyce


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Space technology
The International Space Station offers a great testbed for new technology, either existing technology on Earth that could be useful for future spaceflight or high-tech equipment needed for space that could be useful on Earth.
The Principia mission will see ESA astronaut Tim Peake continue pioneering work to control robots and hardware from the International Space Station.
Space exploration will most likely involve sending robotic explorers to 'test the waters' on uncharted planets before sending humans to land and ESA is preparing for that future.
Controlling a rover on Mars is a real headache for mission controllers because commands can take an average of 14 minutes to reach the Red Planet.
A project called Meteron is developing the tools to control robots on distant planets while astronauts orbit above. This includes developing a robust space-internet, designing the software to control the robots and developing the interface hardware.
The car-sized rover Eurobot, located at ESA's ESTEC facility in the Netherlands, has been used in several experiments, steadily enlarging its capabilities as each has been successful. Tim will continue work done by ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen, who first drove the rover to perform a test from the Station in 2015 during his mission.
Tim will be another test subject for the Haptics-1 experiment that fits in the vision of astronauts controlling planetary explorers from orbit. Ideally, astronauts circling a planet would have as much feedback as possible to help control the robots exploring below them. An important aspect of this is 'haptic' feedback – transferring touch and vibrations. Most people can tie their shoelaces with their eyes closed, but try doing it when your hands are numb.
This is because your brain processes the feeling of touch and takes that into account when handling objects. Generally, a soft, fragile object is handled with more care than a hard one, and by judging how the object feels you automatically adjust your grip.
Haptics-1 is looking at developing robots that transmit touch information to the astronaut, but until now nobody has checked to see how people in space respond to force feedback. Will astronauts feel and react the same as on Earth to generated vibrations? How will the feedback feel in space, where the feedback joystick has to be strapped to their bodies to prevent them floating away?
A simple joystick can move left or right. Behind the scenes, intricate servomotors provide counterforce or vibrations. Tim will use the joystick to test the limits of feeling in experiments similar to the classic game Pong.
The 3DVit experiment will provide virtual reality training and augmented reality for tasks that Tim can study and follow in space before starting an operation.
Earlier versions of the system without augmented reality already proved their worth as refresher courses on docking Europe's space freighter, the Automated Transfer Vehicle, ATV. You can download and try excerpts from the Haptics/Interact experiment run in September 2015 from space by ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen here.

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There are 26 Special Forces soldiers in Iraq until at least October 5 acting as military advisors to the Iraqi military. I have worked with the Special Forces on two separate occasions and have friends that are members of this elite group of men and women. CSOR and JTF are some of the most trained forces on the planet and watching them work was among some of the highlights of my career. As I think back to being deployed to Afghanistan and times I spent working for these organizations, I am reminded of time when my platoon was fortunate enough to do a convoy dropping off supplies to the JTF. I can still remember dismounting and being told to go get a hot lunch at the mess. As I walked in the oppressive August heat I remember seeing the most built man I have ever seen riding a stationary bike in the sun. His beard down to his chest and the rapid pace he was pedaling did not match how easily he was breathing.
After lunch we were invited to partake in a tutorial in a range and one of the special forces operatives was gracious enough to let me use his rifle because I was carrying a C9 machine gun and would not have been able to part take had he not lent me his rifle. Any soldier that knows anything about being a soldier can tell you that letting another man use your rifle is not something that one does. You zero that rifle to your eyesight and a minor jolt can ruin the sights.
It was a week later that I was shot, I was convinced that I was going to die going in and out of consciousness, and as I was being carried to a casualty collection point I looked up to see who was carrying me. It was the JTF soldier that let me use his rifle, and I asked him if he remembered me. He said he did not and I don't blame him because at the time we met I still had a head that was not blown apart. I told him that he lent me his rifle and I thanked him for it, he realized who I was and said to me that I will be shooting before I know it. I must have lost consciousness again and lost track of him because that was the last time I remember seeing him. I had not thought of that story for years but as I hear the news about our special forces deploying to Iraq I can't help but think that some of the men I worked with could be part of that contingent.
Unfortunately my injuries prevented his prophesy to come true, and it is what has happened to me since my release that I hope no soldiers deploying in the name of this country has to endure. The department of veteran's affairs is not working, so making more injured veterans will only exacerbate the problem. A recent report released by the veterans ombudsman states that "nearly half of the country's most severely disabled ex-soldiers are not receiving a government allowance intended to compensate them for their physical and mental wounds."
There is a reason that the tactics of Veterans Affairs has often been described as callous. The No Go policy where, if denied enough times, the injured soldier will get fed up and go away is practiced widely in Veterans Affairs Offices across the country. Here is one example of thousands; a World War II veteran, a man I know, that fought in Canada's famous Devils Brigade (our first JTF), was injured in 1944 in Italy when he was hit with shrapnel from Nazi artillery. He was hit in his back and was put on light duties for the remainder of the war. When he returned home in 1946, he applied for a pension. Although initially ignored, He continued to apply for his pension into the 1950's, until eventually life got in the way, and he stopped his pursuit. He had been told "no" so many times, that he made the decision to focus on his family and life after war, rather than stay stuck in a time warp with Veterans Affairs. Fast forward to 2010 when his health began to deteriorate. He turned to Veterans Affairs once again. And low and behold, he again faces the triple D policy; the department will Delay you long enough and Deny you enough times, until you Die. Think about this man's 70-year struggle with Veterans Affairs Canada. In the same 70-year time span, there have been 11 Prime Ministers who received their life long pensions, while this 92-year-old Canadian Veteran has been delayed, and essentially, denied his.
For a more contemporary example, we can look to the Equitas lawsuit out of British Columbia in which seven plaintiffs are arguing that the New Veterans Charter infringes on Sections 7 and 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms by violating the Crown's social covenant to provide adequate care for injured veterans and their dependents. The federal government will have this tied up in the courts for years to come, appealing and delaying as long as possible. One of the plaintiffs who was injured in Afghanistan ended up losing a kidney, his spleen, and part of his pancreas. Under the New Veterans Charter, this injured hero was awarded a $41,000 lump sum payment.
"To put that in perspective, if this lump sum was to be made into an annuity every month, the pension awarded to him would work out to roughly $140 per month."
The Canadian Forces situation is dire. Our compensation system woefully decrepit. Our government spends 1 per cent of the GDP on defense on par with Lithuania and Latvia. The Army, Navy, and Airforce were told that they will need to slash an additional 4 per cent from their budget, something that only the navy says they can feasibly do. Our infantry units are lucky if they get to the range twice a year. It was reported that technicians working on a Canadian military aircraft were so strapped for spare parts that they yanked some still-working pieces out of an ancient plane on display at the National Air Force Museum.
The equipment that soldiers use is in such a poor state that the probability of sustaining casualties is much higher. Casualties that veterans affairs can't possibly handle given the current state the department is in. The truth of the matter is Canada is about as ready for another war as the Hapsburgs were in 1914. I implore upon those deploying to Iraq to take care. I understand how much you want to deploy. You must understand that the current government support to you are hollow promises and even though you have given a blank cheque for this country the feeling is far from mutual if you return home missing pieces.
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Obituary: Peter O'Toole
Actor Peter O'Toole (b.1923) died on December 14. O'Toole was best known for his roles as T.E. Lawrence in Lawrence of Arabia and two very different portrayals of King Henry II in Becket and The Lion in Winter. Some of his genre films included Stardust, Supergirl, High Spirits, Creator, and episodes of The Ray Bradbury Theater. He also played a British lord who thought he was Jesus in The Ruling Class.


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On Being a Female Composer
Sonia Eckhardt-Gramatté faced many challenges throughout her daily life as a female composer and artist. One very poignant example of this was when her first string quartet was premiered in Dusseldorf in 1939 by the Silesian Quartet. Sonia had grown accustomed to signing her scores 'S.C. Eckardt-Gramatté', so that she would suffer as little discrimination by the fact that she was a woman as possible. Therefore, the audience at this particular concert had no idea that the composer of this music was a woman, and naturally assumed it had been written by a man. The quartet, both the music and its performers, was met with rapturous applause; it seemed that the audience had fallen in love with the music that they had heard. However, when Sonia got up on stage to take her bow at the end, the hall fell completely silent. The audience was so shocked that the composer was a woman that they even felt moved to stop clapping! Imagine how awkward it must have been in that moment for Sonia, taking her bow to a silent hall and shocked audience!
Sonia's Wedding Rings and the Russians
At the end of WWII, when Vienna was liberated by the Russians, Sonia and Ferdinand Eckhardt (Sonia's second husband) waited with baited breath for the inevitable visit to their apartment from the Russian soldiers. The Eckhardts knew what to expect; stories of robbery and plundering had not escaped them, and they very much feared the event. When the time eventually came and the Russians came into their apartment in the middle of the night, the soldiers demanded a few valuable items; Ferdinand was ordered to hand over his gold watch and chain, which he did so immediately and with no objection. They then asked Sonia for her two precious gold wedding rings. These had been a gift from Sonia's first husband and love of her life, Walter Gramatté, and she wore them constantly. Sonia plainly refused to hand the rings over, to which the Russians replied, 'Fine, then we will just take off the finger'. Ferdinand recounted Sonia's response to this as a 'blood-curdling scream', which was enough to send the Russians away and leave the Eckhardt's be, Sonia with all of her digits and rings in tact!
Sonia and Opera
Sonia was apparently never much of a fan of opera. According to Ferdinand, she appreciated the music of Wagner for its complexity, construction and instrumentation, but she absolutely could not handle the style of typical Italian opera. Once, in 1942, Sonia and Ferdinand decided to attend a production of Tosca in Dresden, conducted by Karl Böhm. At the very climax of the opera, that fatal moment when Tosca watches her lover, Cavaradossi, be murdered, Sonia finally could not stand to watch it anymore and she ordered that they both leave immediately. They scrambled over the legs of furious audience members in their same row, to the exclamations, 'Stay at home then, if you are not musically inclined!'.
These anecdotes have been largely drawn from and are largely inspired by the biography of Sonia Eckhardt-Gramatté, 'Music From Within', wirtten by her second husband, Ferdinand Eckhardt. It is a wonderful, personal and intimate retelling of her life and I really recommend giving it a read!


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The Surya Trilogy: The Wheel of Surya
The Surya Trilogy: The Eye of the Horse
The Surya Trilogy: The Track of the Wind
This fine trilogy set in India covers a quarter of a century form the period leading up to WWII, Independence and the more immediate horrors accompanying the partition. There is a complex interweaving of different lives, different cultures, sounds and voices. In The Eye of the Horse, for example, Doctor Silbermann meets Marvinder. He is deeply scarred by the loss of his family in the holocaust; she has recently escaped from the religious genocide unleashed by partition; both are united in their love for violin music.
In the final volume, Gavin takes the story forward in time and back to India, as Marvinder, Jaspal and their father Govind return from England and renew their lives in Deri with their mother. Much of the pain of the past seemed to be redeemed by their coming together at the end of the second book but in this final part there is too much discord from the past for resolution. The characters increasingly bear their own scars. Jaspal 'learned to hate when he was in England' and that now becomes moulded through religion. Marvinder carries the strains of the past and the two cultures she has lived in and she must deal with the pressure for an arranged marriage. The final book, like the other two, is full of striking scenes where the people live within a rich weave of history, geography, myth and religion. The tone is darker as the characters age: youthful optimism and promise seem to fade along with the fictional promise of happy endings. Each novel plays its part in a complex and fine sequence offering the richness of quality fiction to teenage readers fittingly in a year which marks 50 years of Indian independence.


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Skip to 0 minutes and 32 seconds Good evening. So, whilst I know my daughter loves the arts, I think she needs a proper job! I want her to study law or accountancy!
Skip to 0 minutes and 52 seconds Hi there, so I'd think I'm going to take a vocational course, because it'll guarantee me a job when I graduate. What do you think?
In this step, we will consider some of the myths about higher education that can impact on students' engagement with their future options and adversely impact on student choices.
To start, watch this video and note down how you, as an adviser, would respond to each of the three statements made.
We will be discussing these further in the next step and exploring some of the myths and misconceptions which students may have.
There are many influences and preconceptions which frame how young people approach and consider their education and career choices.
Misconceptions about studying at university have a long history and still persist today. For example, some students still believe that only those with high grades in A levels can go to university or that it is only for the rich. As the previous step has shown, the reality is that universities accept many qualifications and levels of attainment. Entrants to university are from all backgrounds. Students include single parents, retired grandparents, young people straight from school or college, as well as career-changers and those who have taken a year out working or volunteering.
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Kuala Lumpur (Malaysian pronunciation: [ˈkwalə ˈlumpʊr]), sometimes abbreviated as K.L., is the federal capital and most populous city in Malaysia. The city covers an area of 243 km2 (94 sq mi) and has an estimated population of 1.6 million as of 2012. Greater Kuala Lumpur, also known as the Klang Valley, is an urban agglomeration of 5.7 million as of 2010. It is among the fastest growing metropolitan regions in the country, in terms of population and economy.
Kuala Lumpur is the seat of the Parliament of Malaysia. The city was once home to the executive and judicial branches of the federal government, but they were moved to Putrajaya in early 1999. Some sections of the judiciary still remains in the capital city of Kuala Lumpur. The official residence of the Malaysian King, the Istana Negara, is also situated in Kuala Lumpur. Rated as an alpha world city, Kuala Lumpur is the cultural, financial and economic centre of Malaysia due to its position as the capital as well as being a key city. Kuala Lumpur was ranked 48th among global cities by Foreign Policy's 2010 Global Cities Index and was ranked 67th among global cities for economic and social innovation by the 2thinknow Innovation Cities Index in 2010.
Kuala Lumpur is defined within the borders of the Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur and is one of three Malaysian Federal Territories. It is an enclave within the state of Selangor, on the central west coast of Peninsular Malaysia.
Since the 1990s, the city has played host to many international sporting, political and cultural events including the 1998 Commonwealth Games and the Formula One Grand Prix. In addition, Kuala Lumpur is home to the tallest twin buildings in the world, the Petronas Twin Towers, which have become an iconic symbol of Malaysia's futuristic development.
Kuala Lumpur has its origins in the 1850s, when the Malay Chief of Klang, Raja Abdullah, hired some Chinese labourers to open new and larger tin mines for tin prospectors. The miners landed at the confluence of Sungai Gombak (previously known as Sungai Lumpur, meaning "muddy river") and Sungai Klang (Klang River) to open mines at Ampang, Pudu and Batu. These mines developed into a trading post which became a frontier town.
The tin prospectors settled in Ampang, and formed gangs within themselves. The two largest Chinese gangsters, the Hakka-dominated Hai San and the Hokkien-dominated Ghee Hin, frequently engaged in warfare to gain control of tin production in the town. The incessant warfare between the two factions brought tin mine production to a standstill, prompting the British, who ruled Selangor as one of the Federated Malay States at the time, to appoint a Chinese Kapitan (headman) to administer Kuala Lumpur. Hiu Siew, the owner of a mine in Lukut, was elected as the first Kapitan. As one of the first traders to arrive in Ampang (along with Yap Ah Sze), he sold provisions to the miners in exchange for tin.
During the early times, Kuala Lumpur had many problems, including the Selangor Civil War; it was also plagued by diseases and constant fires and floods. Around the 1870s, the third Chinese Kapitan of Kuala Lumpur, Yap Ah Loy, emerged as leader, and became responsible for the survival and subsequent systematic growth of this town. He began to develop Kuala Lumpur from a small, obscure settlement into a booming mining town. In 1880, the state capital of Selangor was moved from Klang to the more strategically advantageous Kuala Lumpur.


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Chatbot Development for Slack
Slack is a great corporate messenger, which is suitable for communications within the team and business correspondence. On this platform, you can create two types of bots: custom, and application bots. A custom bot will exist within the messenger, it can be added to groups and dialogs. A bot applications, can be outside the messenger.
The first type acts as communication assistants, it is focused on help precisely in the internal environment of the company. The second is a separate mobile application with a Slack interface and integration with the messenger.
Now there are useful Slack bots that talk about the capabilities of this platform. Most of them automate the work of managers and company management. For example: Relay and Birdly - monitor the activity of users, and collect information about them; Nikabot - conducts a survey of employees on the performance of tasks, and draw up a report on current affairs; Meekan is a bot organizer, when scheduling meetings and meetings it takes into account the schedules of each participant, chooses a convenient time for everyone, and creates a meeting; and many others.
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Tammy, I have Photoshop Elements 7. From what I'm seeing, most features are still there (like Photoshop), you just have hunt around for them or learn alternative steps/ techniques.
Last week, I was watching a video from Phlearn (they teach photoshop & photography) and it was talking about channels. I know that Levels, has Channels, but he had a preset of options that my version doesn't. I ended up figuring out another way of creating the look I wanted, on a different video.
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Episode 121: New Relic
In this episode Nick Harris and James Baker are joined by Nick Floyd, an Agent Developer at New Relic. In this episode, Nick will walk through:
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I tried to get this working but after I clicked Add-ons, New, Store, I got this message;
The subscriptions you selected are not currently available for purchase in your region. Additionally, the Store is not available to users who have an Enterprise Agreement...
Is there a way for me to try out New Relic? This error message does not make sense to me.
Got the same error trying to add new relic as add-on in the azure portal.
But I'm sure you can go to newrelic.com, get an account there and add your license key to the web.config.
We've been using new relic (pro) for a year now, it's really amazing.
Hey John,
Deef is spot on. You can signup @ http://newrelic.com/azure, after that you just click on your account name in the upper right corner, choose "account settings" and you'll find your license key on the right.
Then in the azure portal, under your WebSite >> Configuration >> Developer Analytics choose "custom" | New Relic as the provider and then paste your license key in the provider key field and "save"
A little more footwork than if you were able to go through the store but it will net you the same result.
We continue to improve the user experience with Azure engineering. Should you have any issues through the store at all, please visit us at www.newrelic.com/azure. Also, feel free to shoot us a note to our Partner Response Center, email@example.com. We'll make sure you get all the support you need to get up and running with New Relic.
Just to let anyone out there that cares - there is a small C# query wrapper api for New Relic at https://github.com/rhysc/linqtonewrelic
Fell free to add or extend it.
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John and deef, at this time the Store does not support EA accounts (billing). Store is still in preview, and EA support is on our roadmap.
We are using New Relic since couple of month. When I'm using dashboard I can see a method called application begin request takes a lot of our cpu and tones of weight lifting.. we want to trace it even further to go and check which part of our code is really causing this issue.
And it happen only when we deploy the app on azure instance and only at app-pool warm-up process for the application. I understand we can do use other custom file based logger to write individual timestamp. -Just wanted to know if new-relic can help up to investigate?
Hey Sandeep,
The BeginRequest slowness is sometimes related to thread agility or thread locking issues. Given that it only happens for you when you deploy / on warm it's most likely related to the startup of the ASP.NET process and JIT compilation.
The New Relic .NET Agent works by leveraging the CLR profiling API. When a profiler is attached, the CLR will JIT compile all methods in the .NET Framework when they are first used. This is different from normal runs where precompiled versions of the .NET Framework libraries are used in order to optimize application startup times. This cost is is something that will generally occur once per process, plus a little bit per application domain (Web Application for IIS). As the process is spinning up for the first time much of the JIT compilation for the application will probably happen at that time.
Normal warm up delays, though, is one of the reasons Microsoft introduced Application initialization in IIS. Since you cannot configure native modules (like Application Initialization) on Azure Web Sites they have provided a way for us to be able to gain some of the benefits "warming" through the always on configuration in Azure Websites.
Other than that you can always use the normal set of things to help speed up the loading of your Web Application (regardless of it being an Azure Web Site like): enabling compression, enabling caching, minify your JavaScript and CSS and so on.
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Facebook, the world's biggest social media platform, has a new feature to help its users get rid of posts they don't wish to see on their News Feed without the need of unfriending people, unfollowing pages, or leaving groups. The Snooze button, available alongside the Unfollow button, will let you pause updates for up to 30 days.
Facebook had started testing out this new feature in September this year, and made the official announcement on Friday. The company claims that the Snooze feature will give users the option to temporarily unfollow a person, Page, or group for 30 days. The Snooze button can be found from the top-right drop-down menu of a post.
"With Snooze, you don't have to unfollow or unfriend permanently, rather just stop seeing someone's posts for a short period of time. The people, Pages, and groups you snooze will not create notifications or posts in your News. You will be notified before the Snooze period is about to end and the setting can also be reversed at any time," said Shruthi Muraleedharan, Product Manager - Facebook in a blog post.
Facebook already features options like Unfollow, Hide, Report, and See First for managing content that you view from different sources on the platform. Snooze essentially gives users a 30-day window to rethink their decision that becomes permanent with the Unfollow option.
A former Facebook executive had recently talked about the negative effects of social media and mentioned how he uses Facebook as little as possible. Facebook, in a corporate blog post, had rebutted by mentioning that social media can be good for people's well-being if they use the technology in a way that is active.
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We heard from a president with a moral compass every bit as sophisticated and powerful as Bill Bennett's, and who possesses a remarkably subtle understanding of the American psyche, but who knows only one way to fit all that wisdom into his current job description–use it to justify seemingly endless calls for more and more government.
First, the good stuff.
At the outset, Obama reminded us that our virtues will be our salvation:
The answers to our problems…exist in our laboratories and universities; in our fields and our factories; in the imaginations of our entrepreneurs and the pride of the hardest-working people on Earth. Those qualities that have made America the greatest force of progress and prosperity in human history we still possess in ample measure. What is required now is for this country to pull together, confront boldly the challenges we face, and take responsibility for our future once more.
Later, Obama read from an uplifting letter he received from a young school girl from South Carolina. "We are just students trying to become lawyers, doctors, congressmen like yourself and one day president," she wrote. "We are not quitters."
"These words," Obama explained, "tell us something about the spirit of the people who sent us here. They tell us that even in the most trying times, amid the most difficult circumstances, there is a generosity, resilience, a decency, and a determination that perseveres; a willingness to take responsibility for our future and for posterity."
So far, so good.
But after capturing so beautifully the essence of American exceptionalism, Obama somehow transformed it into his call for more government. Uncle Sam, not Americans as individuals, must jump in and assume responsibility to make things right. That little girl's concerns must be "our cause," he said to resounding cheers from the packed House chamber. The collective "our," of course, is the royal "our" of Big Government.
This pattern was on display throughout his discussion of domestic policy issues. Loftily appeal to our sense that we are an exceptional nation. Stroke the competitive spirit that pushes us to want to be the best in the world. Paint a picture of an America being left in the dust by wily foreigners in China, Japan, Korea and Germany. And then tell us the only way out of our pickle is to hand over more and more of our freedoms to Washington.
Here are some examples:
· Energy. "We know the country that harnesses the power of clean, renewable energy will lead the 21st century. And yet, it is China that has launched the largest effort in history to make their economy energy efficient. We invented solar technology, but we've fallen behind countries like Germany and Japan in producing it. New plug-in hybrids roll off our assembly lines, but they will run on batteries made in Korea.
"Well I do not accept a future where the jobs and industries of tomorrow take root beyond our borders….It is time for America to lead again."
· The auto industry. "As for our auto industry, I believe the nation that invented the automobile cannot walk away from it."
· Health care. "In the last eight years, premiums have grown four times faster than wages…. It is one of the major reasons why…corporations ship jobs overseas."
· Education. "We have one of the highest high school dropout rates of any industrialized nation. This is a prescription for economic decline, because we know the countries that out-teach us today will out-compete us tomorrow."
In every instance, new government programs are the answer. And therein is the fundamental challenge Obama faces. The American exceptionalism he invoked generates precisely those character traits–personal responsibility, hard work, sacrifice, entrepreneurial creativity, resiliency, decency, and fairness–that will enable ordinary Americans to resist and, ultimately, defeat the suffocating Big Government that Obama seeks to impose on us.
But if our friends on the Left ever succeed in suffocating that exceptionalism and extinguishing those character traits, they will ultimately prevail.


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Lovely Alyssum
Ever since I was a wee little lass, I've loved alyssum. It's always had a spot in my garden and it always will. There's something about this little flower that I adore, it's perfect in just about every way. Generally I buy my plants at a the local greenhouse since I've never had much luck starting it from seed. That never stops my from trying, each year I buy a pack of seed and give it another try.
This is 'Gulf Winds' alyssum from Renee's Garden and I'm a huge fan of the color mix. Usually I buy plain white, but this mix is perfection. Last night I transplanted them around the garden, filling in holes where I harvested lettuce or where other plants died. I'll definitely be trying this variety once again next year.
Have you had an annual that you've loved for your entire life? Do you still grow it in the garden?Filed under Around the Garden, Flowers, Seed Sowing | Comments (3)
3 Comments to "Lovely Alyssum"
Susy, I turned over the page to a new month on the calendar. I said goodbye to Tara and hello to what looks like a peony and some black eye Susan (my favorite plant). I'm still in process about flowers. I have mastered planting the the "Poor Man's Living Patio" but that's about as far as I go with flowers. Every year is going to be the year of more flowers but it just doesn't seem to happen as the gardening year unfolds. My favorite flowers are hollyhocks, black eyed Susan, and really any thing purple. In Nebraska Alyssum is planted in the cracks and crevasses of rock walls. It seems to thrive well in that environment and beautify the wall with it's display of flowers. The beautification of using living flowers is a great way to bring nature into a landscape, don't you think?
Have a great alyssum planting day.
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My favorite, life long annual has to be Alyssum too! I just simply love it! You couldn't of said it better my sentiments regarding Alyssum…
I think my love affair with it is because it was the go to annual that my mother and grandmother planted in the midwest and just one whiff of it's intoxicating scent takes me back to my childhood in Michigan. I love it underplanted in my rose bed and just anywhere it likes to go!
Luckily mine re-seeds itself here in the Pacific Northwest and it's a great plant for the tiny pollinators.
It's just such a sweet plant…hence I guess the name Sweet Alyssum! :)
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The two plants that a always buy are Lantana any color and Penta the color red it draws hummingbirds my favorite bird. Have a great day.
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Discover the best collection of solitaire card games ever created for android devices. Intuitive, simple, friendly, beautiful... just great.
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The game has a menu and user interface simple, fast and intuitive, with graphical impeccable quality and adapted to all types of devices (phones and tablets), regardless of the screen.
Designed to become a referent of android games, comes with many options and a huge variety of games that will offer hours of fun.
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- Android 8.1 Oreo support
- Small file (only 3,6 MB)
- Languages: english and spanish
- Share in Facebook
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More options and a lot of games coming very very soon.
If you like solitaire card games, this is your definitive collection.
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Important note: Please, rates and comments on google play are welcome and will help me to continue improving the game even more, including more and more solitaire games and new options. Any suggestions, new games to incorporate, improvements... can be communicated to me by email and will be attended.
My work is your fun!
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The SnapRays Guide Light takes less than 20 seconds to install and requires no wires or batteries, says the company. Designed to look like and replace the standard outlet cover plate found in many homes, the SnapRays Guide Light provides ambient lighting by night and is unnoticeable by day, while keeping both outlets available for use, adds the company. It is designed to be installed over the standard electrical outlet, says the company, and when installed the patented "Power Extractors" on the back side of the plate slide into the electrical box and around the outlet receptacle making contact with the sides of the outlet. The proprietary technology enables the device to extract power from the receptacle without having to hardwire, plug into, or occupy an outlet, says the company. The SnapRays Guide Light is UL approved.
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Is nuclear power the path to energy independence or a deadly danger?
Ahead of the 9pm ET premiere of CNN Films' Pandora's Promise, host Newt Gingrich and our guest host, former Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer, explore the topic of nuclear energy tonight at 6:30pm ET.
Joining the debate is consumer advocate Ralph Nader, who opposes nuclear power, and Michael Shellenberger, a nuclear energy supporter featured in the film.
We want you to weigh in: Are you afraid to live near a nuclear power plant?
Vote by tweeting with yes or no #Crossfire or comment on our Facebook post. View results below or through our Poptip results page if you are on a mobile device.
Don't forget to tweet along with the show using #Crossfire.
Newt Gingrich and Brian Schweitzer weigh in on today's question:
If the RNC wasn't for nuclear power, than most of the left would be for it. All forms of power have risks – this one has the least risk and the most reward. Make it happen.
Not true at all. I was a Republican for years – went to the local caucus meetings and everything, but I was always against nuclear power because of the problem with the waste. The term 'risk' doesn't even apply to waste. That's something we know will happen – waste getting released. It already has three times and, of course, will again many times during the next 250,000 years.
Here are the facts:
Solar 1): Olmedilla Photovoltaic (PV) Park, Spain 60 MW (or 60×10^6 or 60E6 W) Peak Power, average of 87.5E9 Wh/year, 700 acres
Solar 2): PS10, Spain 11 MW Peak Power, average 23.4E9 Wh/year, 150 acres
Wind: Alta Wind Energy Center, California, 3000 MW Peak Power, average 2.68E12 Wh/year, 9000 acres
Nuclear: Bruce Nuclear Generating Station, Canada, 7276 MW Peak Power, average 35.4E12 Wh/year, 2300 acres
Nuclear: Gravelines Nuclear Power Station, France, 5706 MW Peak Power, average 38.5E12 Wh/year, 2000 acres
Just to equal average power output of one nuclear power station:
Solar 1) needs 283,200 acres or 30% of Rhode Island
Solar 2) needs 226,923 acres or 24% of Rhode Island or all of New York City and then some
Wind needs 118,881 acres or 13% of Rhode Island just over half of New York City.
Nuclear needs 0.2% of Rhode Island just 3 square miles or 1% of New York City
New York consumes about 159E12 Wh/year = Delaware for Solar = 63% of Rhode Island for Wind = 5 Nuclear Plants (15 square miles = 5% of New York City)
We are destroying the world with coal plants, fracking and the burning of fossil fuel. Embrace all forms of clean energy: solar, wind and nuclear. Instead of fighting against nuclear, US politician need to stop approving military actions in every conflict around the world. That money need to go to our schools so our kids get affordable education. Our kids are smart and they can make solar and wind a reliable source of energy, if they have the proper education and research money. The US has a good record with nuclear and our kids can make it even better.
Chernobyl was an unsafe plant from the begging. It did not have a containment building. Fukushima was an act of nature and as we know nature can be devastating. Nature will be more devastating if we do not stop global warming. The world is moving backward Japan is opening more coal plant.
Read about AP100 reactor. Also, batteries and super capacitors for wind and solar energy. This is what we should strive for. Better technology and a cleaner world.
I hope my kids and grandkids have the chance to enjoy the world because we are shortening the earth life.
Anyone who still doesn't understand how filthy and dangerous nuclear energy is should go to the highly recommended site called ENENEWS and read the past headlines.
There is no perfect solution but Nuclear is the best option. It is far (FAR) from filthy. Have you ever been to a plant? They are extremely clean. It is people like you that are make fossil fuels more prominent and make the world more filthy.
Fukushima fuel rods are scheduled to soon begin being removed. "Overall, more than 11,000 fuel assemblies are scattered around the Fukushima site. According to ...former Department of Energy official Robert Alvarez, there is more than 85 times as much lethal cesium on site as was released at Chernobyl. Source: Global Research We are now (approaching) what may be humankind's most dangerous moment since the Cuban Missile Crisis." Harvey Wasserman.
During recent days Extreme solar flares released Coronal Mass Emissions. Fortunately, they struck only glancing blows to our geomagnetic field. Had any scored a direct hit, many if not most of the planet's power grids would have failed for months. After two weeks a nuclear plant without grid power is a meltdown candidate. Hundreds of Fukushimas would become possible.
Nuclear power is capable of ending human life on earth much faster than Global Warming.
And we have a new alternative: "The thermal energy content of the atmosphere, ocean, and upper crust is estimated to be more than 10,000 times that of the world's fossil fuel reserves, making it a potentially inexhaustible reservoir of green energy." Daniel P. Sheehan University of San Diego
AESOP Institute is prototyping THE LITTLE ENGINE THAT COOLS. This engine will run on atmospheric heat, a form of solar energy.
See the AESOP Institute website to learn more about this NO FUEL ENGINE.
A 24/7 inexpensive power producing alternative to radioactive and fossil fuels.
All this talk about nuclear reminds me of a story I heard. (not mine)
Some roman guy in antiquity make up a wood bridge by falling a tree over a river. Not very good as a bridge, round, people fall down. Then he makes improvement, cut the top half to make it flat, had a cord left and right as a railguard. But people seeing the GEN 1 bridge , call for banning of that "newflangled and devilish" bridge technolgy as it is dangerous. Worst the gen 1 round bridge start rotting and become dangerous so people point finger at them and say they are inherently unsafe. By the time the engineer come up with the stone arched bridge, despite being very very safe in comparison to a simple tree felled over a river, it is too late, when people hear the word "bridge" they are running in circle like chicken little and screaming on top of their lung "the end is neigh". And at the same time since people STILL need to cross river, they swim across and drown in mass. But hey, at least they are not dying falling off a bridge.
That's a good argument for solar and wind, but a poor argument for nuclear. The big difference is the level of risk to large populations.
i was disappointed that the film assumed that those of us who have fought the nuclear power industry are all stupid. Many of us have fought concentration of plants far from where the power is needed. Many of us have proclaimed that conservation is essential to the future of the earth. Many of us hope to decommission existing plants when permits expire.I know no one who thinks human error won't happen. I live less than ten miles from three aging plants with problems. I know what can happen, and I know what has happened; and I know the government does not acknowledge the truth.
The so called environmentalist on the show who supports nuclear power was making irrational arguments. He dismissed Three Mile Island by saying that he was only 8 years old when it happened, so he shouldn't be blamed for it! Does that mean it didn't really happen in his mind? Then he dismissed solar by saying that Nader has been promoting solar since the 70s.. so what's his point? That a technology can never get better and become viable? If so, we must not have air travel, home computers or telephones in our pockets. The worst part is, no one called him on any of these major flaws in his logic. The show could be interesting and valuable if they kept to guests who used ration and logic to make their points.
that should have been 'reason and logic'
I don't understand why nuclear power has to be a bad thing. We use this kind of power in US Navy vehicles and they don't have to worry about refueling issues around the world unlike surface ships and airplanes. Could we transfer the technology used for this program and make it civilian on a large scale? I can see issues with disposal of the waste since it won't be "safe" until long after our lifetimes. Maybe use desert areas that are not earthquake prone?
Yes, the only problem with nuclear is the fuel and the waste. Both of them are extremely dangerous and will remain so for around 250,000 years. Rome's rule ended and Christ lived around 2,000 years ago. The first city states were around 5,000 years ago. How can we commit to contain waste for even that long, let alone a quarter of a million years? Well, we've made just such a commitment. Only a tiny portion of that waste getting out could spell doom for those exposed, and if a larger amount gets out, like what's going on in Japan, we could be in for calamity all around the Pacific (See David Suzuki's recent talks along with many other information sources). So, we have made a 250,000 year commitment and we've already had 3 major incidents in the first 50 years...
Yes I am afraid of Nuclear Power. My name is Stephen Comley Sr. & founder of We The (WTP) People in 1987 a national whistleblower organization to investigate cover-ups by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. (NRC & the unsafe conditions at U.S Nuclear Plants. I am also a nursing home administrator who am licensed by the State & Federal Governments to provide adequate evacuations at our family owned & run Nursing home in MA. .My investigations started after the fo0rmer executive director of the NRC informed to leave special needs residents behind at our Nursing Home & administer potassium Iodide to drink in the event of ta nuclear disaster at the nearby Seabrook nuclear plant in NH. I learned early on the NRC & the Nuclear Industry are willing to make a certain segment of our population expendable to protect the profits of the Nuclear Industry instead of the people's safety. The more I investigated the NRC & the Industry the more alarmed I got.. In 1987 I was given evidence by NRC informants the existence of counterfeit substandard parts which are present now in most U.S. nuclear Plants nationwide. Instead of the NRC requiring the I(industry to replace these bogus parts they downgraded the parts in order to save the cost of a million dollars a day to find & replace these parts.. WTP's work has been featured on the COVER of TIME & on CNN's Earth Matters entitled INSIDE THE NRC INTIMIMDATION OR REGULATION. In the interest of fairness & balanced reporting for you listeners Crossfire did not touch on any of these issues & I would like very much a opportunity to at least speak with someone at Crossfire. I know CNN would much rather help to prevent a nuclear accident in the US instead of reacting to one. Please contact me by my e-mail address firstname.lastname@example.com or by my cell # 904-206-3114.
Albert Einstein warned about the defamation and elimination of the world from nuclear power.
Albert Einstein warned about the defamation that nuclear power will do within the world. A vast number of people don't focus upon World War II & why Einstein warned about losing the world.
Nobody mentioned the huge mass of radioactivity in the Pacific Ocean that is making its way across from Fukushima towards the west coast of the US? Will people be able to swim off Hawaii? and later off California?
CNN should broadcast a more factual and balenced documentary about Nuclear Power. Pandora's Promise is very questionable and it makes CNN look as if they are promoting antiquated, dangerous, expensive technologies that are generaly not accepted by most Americans.
Judith Kaufman
I think nuclear power is relatively safe and clean and would support the building of more plants. Of course I have the nimby stance: not in my back yard! I live in a congested urban/suburban area and think such plants should be built in uninhabited areas just in case a Chernobyl happens.
Yes, I would be somewhat nervous living next to a Nuke plant. Also worried about the impact on the environment if a leak. Not for coal either.
Why do we need to use Twitter or Facebook to respond to vote? I am not on Twitter and don't trust Facebook. You should allow for anonymous voting.
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FBI Director James B. Comey notified key members of Congress Sunday afternoon that after reviewing all of the newly discovered Hillary Clinton emails, the agency stands by its original findings against recommending charges.
Comey wrote that investigators had worked "around the clock" to review all the emails found on a device used by former congressman Anthony Weiner that had been sent to or from Clinton and that "we have not changed our conclusions expressed in July."
The conclusion from Comey provided one last twist to the 2016 presidential campaign and came just two days before Clinton will face Republican Donald Trump on Election Day.
Comey had upended the campaign just over a week ago, when he alerted Congress that new emails had been located that were related to Clinton's use of a private server as secretary of state.
The emails came from a laptop owned by Weiner, the estranged husband of top Clinton aide Huma Abedin, and had been seized by the FBI on Oct. 3 as part of an investigation into lewd text messages Weiner is alleged to have sent to a 15-year-old girl.
Comey had come under fire for inserting the FBI into the campaign's final days with the announcement. Department of Justice policy discourages the agency from taking steps in days before an election, to avoid the perception that the FBI is trying to the influence the outcome of the vote.
A spokesman for the FBI declined to comment beyond Comey's letter.
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Seasonal Staff Positions
So, you want to be a Staph* member…Here's what you need to know and do.
Programs in 2020
- The NYSFoundation plans to operate the National Youth Science Camp (NYSCamp) in 2020 at Camp Pocahontas.
- STEM Academy – To be announced.
Position Vacancies
- Seasonal positions for the NYSCamp are described here. The NYSCamp Director reserves the right to combine or change positions as needed based on the skills and experience of potential staff, job duties will be defined for position offers.
- Read the application information below and then fill out the required NYSCamp Staph Application.
Review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until all positions are filled. Applications submitted after January 31, 2020, might not be considered; however, you are encouraged to apply. Applications will continue to be accepted until all positions are filled. If you have any questions, please send E-mail to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Application Requirements
- NYSCamp Staph Application
- Criminal Background Check – This will be completed after you have been offered a position on the staff, but your final hiring will be contingent upon a satisfactory report.
Position Expectations
Most staph positions are considered cabin/residential staph and will also serve as counselors. Because NYSF programs emphasize the development of close-knit communities, cabin staph will maintain the same hours as the delegates in order to minimize fatigue and cabin disruption and to maximize cohesiveness and community spirit between delegates and staph. Additionally, most staph positions will serve as overnight trip staph for the programs' outdoor activities.
As staph positions are filled, slight adjustments will likely be made in job responsibilities. All staph positions provide general support and frequently assist in other areas; program directors can assign additional duties. The use of alcohol and illegal drugs is strictly prohibited – throughout the entire employment period. The National Youth Science Foundation strives to offer programs that meet the highest standards of fairness and sensitivity with respect to sex and gender, age, race, religion, national origin or physical condition. Behavior that contributes to the creation of an unwelcoming or hostile atmosphere of any kind will not be tolerated.
Pay Scale
While salaries are admittedly modest, there are significant fringe benefits. Meals and lodging are provided free of charge; laundry service is provided at the NYSCamp. Travel expenses will be reimbursed up to $500 (more if the budget allows or as the market requires as determined by the director). A successful applicant's experiences are sure to be memorable and opportunities for other intrinsic rewards are directly proportional to each individual's level of creativity, energy, objectivity, knowledge, and good humor.
Base pay rate is $65 per day, plus lodging and food. This daily rate is increased by the sum of the following increments to recognize education, training, and experience working in NYSF programs:
- Education Increments (Single increase for highest attained***)
- Undergraduate Student:
- Completed Freshman Year: Base pay rate
- Completed Sophomore Year: $2/day
- Completed Junior Year: $4/day
- Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent: $6/day
- Graduate Student: $8/day
- Master's Degree or Equivalent: $10/day
- Doctorate: $15/day
- Undergraduate Student:
- Relevant Professional License/Certification:
- Current Teaching License: $3/day
- Registered Nurse: Variable
- Other: Variable
- Experience Increments (Cumulative, including all Foundation program experience)
- $1/day per year of NYSC Staph experience
- $0.50/day per year of WV GSMS Staph experience
- $0.50/day per year of WVYSC Staph experience
- Positional Increments:
- Additional increments may be assigned by the director to reflect program responsibilities.
*** If you have more than one degree at a particular level, you will be recognized at the next highest level. For example, if you have both a B.A. and a B.S. then you would receive the increment for having a Master's Degree. Please note that increments are not cumulative.
Example: A staph member who has worked 3 years at NYSCamp and 2 years at GSMS, and who holds a bachelor's degree and teaching certificate, would be paid $78/day:
- $65 base
- $6 bachelor's degree
- $3 teaching license
- $3 NYSCamp experience (3 X $1)
- $1 GSMS experience (2 X $0.50)
Important dates for 2020:
National Youth Science Camp:
Dates are approximate and subject to change. Please do not book any travel until you are hired and receive confirmation of date and location!
- Applications submitted after January 31, 2020, might not be considered.
- Initial employment offers to be issued no later than early March 2020.
- Select office staph arrive in late May to early June.
- Outdoor staph may arrive in early June.
- All other staph arrive on June 11, 2020.
- NYSCamp delegates arrive on June 22, 2020.
- NYSCamp delegates depart on July 15, 2020.
- Most staph depart on July 22, 2020.
STEM Academy:
Ok, now that you have read it all, go to the Staph Application
* Staph is a traditional spelling for "Staff"; our enthusiasm and energy are infectious!


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NEWSLINK: "He dared to speak the truth: Alexey Yablokov, scientific hero of Chernobyl" – The Ecologist (UK)/Chris Busby
"Alexey V. Yablokov (1933-2017) was a scientific giant of the post-Chernobyl age, writes Chris Busby. It was he who brought together the work of dissident Soviet scientists and revealed to the world, in English language, the true health impacts of the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe. …."» Read more


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Jersey Dress from Old Tees!
I've returned!!! Cue the trumpet fanfare! 🙂 So…wow I haven't posted in a while! Without a daily deadline pushing me along, I'm beginning to understand those of you who have told me that they've pulled their sewing machine out, but just don't know where to get started.
That's right. I've been experiencing a big mondomclargehuge case of refashioner's block! :/ I think it goes back to the old adage said to writers who ask, "How can I make myself write every day?". The answer is "Write every day." I really need to get back to doing a least a little sewing every day to keep in a groove. 🙂
To get out of my funk, I've been surrounding myself with as many creative and inspiring people as possible. That's right…when my creative energy gets low, I like to feed off the creative energy of others (Mwahahahaha!!!)…not unlike a leech or a vampire bat.
Today's refashion is a departure from a lot of what you've seen me do. I started with 6 XL men's Tshirts that were donated to me.
I actually only had five donated shirts. As some of you have suspected, I'm seeing a new gent. New Gent lives out of town, so we mostly just see each other on the weekends…Juuuust like that lady on the food network in the Hamptons!!!
Anywho…Gent left a tshirt behind in his last visit that he mentioned he didn't like very much– so I snagged it for my own nefarious purposes. Seriously…never trust a refashionista! 😉
I took each Tshirt, and cut it under the arms, like so:
I cut them open at the torso as well. Then, I stitched them together in threes, using a zigzag stitch!
When sewing these together, I made sure they were all facing the same way, so some of the tees wouldn't stretch more than others.
This year is all about expanding my skills and trying new techniques. As most of you guys know, I don't really sew with any patterns. I've always found them tedious and a pain in the ass…
Til now! 🙂 I'm actually getting bored with my usual refashions, so It's time to branch out a bit! I found this pattern for pretty cheap on the BurdaStyle website.
I almost didn't choose this one. Usually in fashion photography, if someone is standing weird or is covering up the garment they're trying to sell, there's something wrong with it. I don't know why they chose to put a vest on this chick and hide what the top of the dress looks like. I went ahead and chanced it!
First, I assembled my pattern.
I cut out the pieces and pinned them to my Tshirt panels. This is a really simple pattern, so there were only two main pieces. 🙂
I followed the instructions provided as to the order in which everything needed to be sewn together.
Next, I needed to use bias tape around the neck and arm holes to keep everything from getting stretched/worn out. I used the leftover bottom hems from my Tshirts instead!
This saved me a good bit of time, as I didn't have to iron them down. 🙂 Since it's cotton jersey, it doesn't need to be cut along the bias to make it stretchy. I decided to leave the outside edges of my non-bias tape raw.
I sewed my unbiased tape around the neck and arm holes, then I stitched down the sides!
Do you like my new machine? 🙂 It's a gift from my mom. 🙂 This is the very sewing machine I grew up watching her sew on! It's as old as I am, and it is AMAZING! Don't be fooled by its age…this machine is a HUGE upgrade from my old (er…new) one! I plan on keeping it forever! 🙂
Now my Tshirt dress is all done!
The back looks pretty spiffy too!
I think I actually like my version better than the original! 🙂
Cheers! 🙂
56 Comments
Lisa Hamel
New favorite! Which makes me wonder how many "favorites" I have now? 🙂
This pattern would work well with cotton jersey sheets, too–if you ever found a set for cheap! Brilliant use of t-shirts–I never would have thought to join them like that. 🙂
Thought of you the other day…..,.shreikkkkkkk…and you're back!! So glad!
Looking forward to whatever you throw in the mix! Just keep those ideas coming!!
Just so you know, I have spend DAYS going through your blog when I really should be working (since that is what the Boss-Man pays me for). But this refashion has to be my FAVORITE. Well done 🙂
Oh no! Be careful! 😉 Thanks! 🙂
Oh, this is the best dress of yours! Love the colors and yay!! your first pattern!
ps I agree, the vest on the model was a big but Why?
You, my dear, are a genius. And you've inspired me to actually get up off my arse and DO something with that pile of rejected t-shirts in my Sewing Bag O' Nightmares.
Bold Wandering
I like your color blocking and structure way better than the original.
kaila mo
oh my gosh this is awesome!!! it looks soo cute, you are so creative and talented! i just started taking sowing classes, i hope to be able to make cute stuff like you do!
Hope Musick
Your dress turned out so cute. Much better than the original!
Larry B
The 'New Guy' shares her enough already!!! So much that I only see her weekends and holidays. But he also makes sure that she is working to keep her many fans around the world happy with new and interesting posts!!!
The dress is great. However…the goofy face should used on the before pix. Cute face in the after pix.
Oh my gosh, that dress looks awesome! Definitely better than the original! This is a great idea for thrift store t-shirts, and it gives me lots of hope because I keep finding that jersey knits in fabric stores are…more expensive than I'd like them to be! Congrats on the new machine, new projects, and the new gent!
I like yours better than the original too!
OK it took me 3 weeks but Im finally up-to-date on your blog! Im so freakin addicted to it! My husband thinks Im crazy! But, in other good news, Im adding my sewing machine into the plans for my new walkin-closet-transformed-into-a-craft-room. YAY!
Welcome back – I've missed you! And VERY cute dress – I want to try this myself! AND congrats on the new guy 🙂
AMAZING. Really great! (nothin else comes to mind 🙂
Oh, I love this re-fash! I think it's one of my favorites. It definitely looks way better than the original. Love the color blocking. Great job!
Nice to see you again ! Very swanky dress and love the blue bias tape !
you are friggen awesome! thank you SO much for all your inspiration!
You ALWAYS look better in your clothes than the poor models. She looks like she's missing half her dress! I think it's because the bottom of yours is a different color in the back, which makes it look much more intentional. Hers looks like her kid took a pair of scissors to it. They should fire their models and hire you!
~Kat in Sweden
Nina Wum
Hi Jillian, I'm so glad You're back. Thanks to You, I've become a refashionist of sorts myself.
Still afraid of patterns though. Keep up the amazing work!
I am so excited for this new chapter in your blog. Taking more time opens the doors for you to be so much more creative. The sky is the limit and these refashions are going to continue to inspire. Love that you have your mother's machine! And a new man whoo hooo!
Your so adorable!
Amy C
Awww I love that! I so wanna make one for myself and my oldest daughter. I got some super great finds from my local goodwill this week. As I was scanning the aisles of clothing and trying to keep my curious two year old in check, i was thoroughly enjoying myself! Each time I picked up an item I would think hmmm…what would Jillian do with this?? What CAN Amy do with this? I ended up with a perfectly fit American eagle sundress, an A & E top that will need a little work, a perfect fitting and gorgeous White House Black Market top, some polka dotted capris that I may or may not need to remove a bow from, a sheer Max Studio top, a brand new pair of adorable wedges, and some leather flip flops. Perfect shop I'll say. Reading your blog has done for me exactly what you claim at the top of your page. You've changed my thinking, and I am way more courageous when putting together outfits.
Seriously, the man-friend will have to learn to share more. We had you first! 😉
Jen Bailey
So Glad you're back, I've missed you! I love this dress and will be very definitely making my own version. I've been having the same problem and need to get back to blogging, you're inspiring me to start again, Thanks!!!
Joyce Love
Such a cute dress, Jillian, & I agree with the others, it is better than the one shown on the model! If you haven't already, you should do this as a pattern review on patternreview.com. I've missed your posts, glad you're back!
Fun and cute…..fantastic recycle of old T's
Kim T
AMAZING!! Love your posts and glad you're back!
Very cute dress! What are some helpful tips for sewing on T-shirt fabric, I don't do so good with them 🙁
I enjoy your blog, thanks for posting again!!
The best thing I can tell you about sewing tshirt fabric is to make sure the stretchy part is going side-to-side, not up and down. When sewing the stretchy part, sew with a zigzag stitch so it can continue being stretchy and not bunch up. If you're hemming jersey, use a straight (and wide) stitch, and stitch slowwwwwly so it doesn't stretch out. For the non-stretchy parts (Vertical), just use a straight stitch. A lot of it is just paying attention to which part of the grain you're sewing and what the proper stitch is for it. 🙂
Thanks, I'll try to pay closer attention next time!
Very cute!
AND I'm waiting for the day my mom will give me her sewing machine.
I LOVE this machine! It's so funny, when I was a kid, she'd never let me touch it!!! 😀
Anne Davies
Very cool!!!
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one of the items on my 40 things to do in my 40th year is to sew a dress for myself. i've overcome my fear of my sewing machine … for crafting, at least. now it's time to really pull up my big girl panties and overcome my fear of patterns and sewing clothing. and i totally understand about your mom's sewing machine – i covet my mom's sewing machine. they just don't make them like that anymore. at least not affordably for hobbyists like myself. great job!
Yay! What a cool challenge! You should totally make a dress for yourself. What made this one easy was that I split it up into two days. Take your time and enjoy the process. If you rush yourself, you'll get frustrated and sloppy! 🙂
I love this! I want one!
Your refashion is much better than the original…and definitely better than the T's. Nice to see you back. And I love, love, love the sewing machine.
Your version is indeed much better than the original! Well done on your first pattern achievement, I have a feeling we will be seeing more pattern use from Refashionista in the future, yes? 🙂
Thank you! Oh yes…I've got another dress in the works riiiight now! 🙂
Cute! I love it! And I am SO happy to have you back 🙂
Amy Kalbster
I have been stockpiling t-shirts from garage sales to make a knit dress, and I am totally stealing this idea. It has everything I have been wanting in a dress – color-blocking, a high-low hemline, comfort. I love your color combination and the use of the t-shirt hems for unbiased tape! Glad to have you back!
YAY! She's back! Very cute dress, might try something like this myself.
What a great dress! Perfect reuse of soft comfy tshirt cotton — the colour blocking makes it into a really extraordinary piece. (ps – love the unbiased tape…)
Definitely like yours better than the original. Great job…and on the new guy, too. 😉
That turned out so cool. You inspire me to want to try and sew but the little bugger inside my head keeps reminding me how awful I am at it. lol
Hey girl – how I've missed your daily blogs! LOVE love love this dress – amazing – looks fantastic on you and is even better than the original! Hair, makeup and shoes are all faaabulous too! Well done – and congrats on the new man and the new/old sewing machine! Keep mooching off those artistic friends of yours as we are all awaiting your refashions and living vicariously through you. Well done!
Jennifer Peterson
cute!!! love your blog!! now if I could sew better:)
Katy Stryker
Definitely like it better than the original! I did some refashioning of my own today – One of my favorite shirts (which sadly has stains) now is a cute new skirt for my daughter. You've inspired me!
I think your goofy faces are cute, your writing is entertaining and your talent is admirable. Keep it up! Oh yeah, GOOOOO "Cox"! 🙂
Victoria S Andrews
Dyno-mite!!! That sure is a fantastic dress. I would like one in every tshirt color in my closet! Glad to have you back, I was getting the shakes from lack of seeing your creativity.
I really like it!!! 🙂
Way to go on the branching out into the "previously uncharted" territory of patterns! Patterns intimidate me. I admire your courage, woman! Can't wait to see what creativity you mooch off artistic friends will yield next! 😉 love your work!
That is adorable!!
Cheers to you too! Or as we say in Scotland, Slainte!


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On February 16, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, at its annual meeting in Boston, honored Jim Hansen of NASA with the AAAS Award for Scientific Freedom and Responsibility, and former IPCC chairman Bob Watson with the AAAS International Scientific Cooperation Award. Both have been targets of the Bush administration's politicization of climate science.
This post is by Rick Piltz.
Jim Hansen and Bob Watson have had a great influence on my thinking about climate change and about the role of the scientist vis-à-vis policymaking and society. I have been attending the AAAS meeting and was able to get to the award ceremony yesterday and congratulate each of them on these richly-deserved honors. Perhaps the next administration in Washington will have the wit to communicate with such leaders, instead of ignoring or seeking to undermine them.
The AAAS news release on the Hansen award praises "his outspoken advocacy on behalf of scientists' responsibilities to communicate openly and honestly with the public on matters of importance to their health and welfare." It notes also that "Dr. Hansen has drawn attention to the broader issue of political interference in scientific communication, a process that he warns is 'in direct opposition to the most fundamental precepts of science.'" Thus the nation's largest science association and publisher of its leading science journal calls attention to the need to restore integrity to the relationship between political officials and the science community:
AAAS honors climate scientist James Hansen
BOSTON — James Hansen, a government scientist who has spoken forcefully about human influence on global climate despite pressure to alter his message, is the recipient of the 2007 AAAS Award for Scientific Freedom and Responsibility.
Hansen, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City, has become a familiar and determined voice in the ongoing national conversation about climate change. The AAAS award citation credits Hansen for "his outspoken advocacy on behalf of scientists' responsibilities to communicate openly and honestly with the public on matters of importance to their health and welfare."
Hansen is a pioneer in the use of computer models that have helped document a discernible human influence on global climate due to the production of heat-trapping greenhouse gases. There has been one degree Fahrenheit of global warming during the past 30 years, Hansen says, and another one degree Fahrenheit in the pipeline due to greenhouse gases already released into the atmosphere. There remains a large gap in what is known by scientists about global warming, he argues, and what the public and policy makers need to know about it.
In a memo supporting Hansen's selection, the award committee wrote that he "has faced pressure, and sometimes outright opposition, from highly placed individuals in the past four administrations" who have urged him to alter his message in one direction or another. The memo adds, "in consistently fighting to keep his scientific opinions free from political influence and revision, Dr. Hansen has drawn attention to the broader issue of political interference in scientific communication, a process that he warns is 'in direct opposition to the most fundamental precepts of science.' "
One of the fundamental precepts of democracy, Hansen says, is that the public should be honestly informed about research findings and their implications for public policy. In a talk last year before the National Press Club, Hansen said, "I don't think the framers of the Constitution expected that when a government employee—a technical government employee—reports to Congress, his testimony would have to be approved and edited by the White House first." That has been the case under both Republican and Democratic administrations, he said, although "the problems are worse now than I've seen in my thirty years in government."
In January 2006, Hansen told The New York Times that the Administration had tried to muzzle him after he called for prompt reductions in the emissions of greenhouse gases during a talk at a scientific meeting. He also released data showing that 2005 was probably the warmest year in at least a century. Hansen said he was warned there would be "dire consequences" if such statements continued. A NASA public affairs officer rejected a request by National Public Radio to interview Hansen. But he continued to speak out, and NASA Administrator Michael Griffin issued an agency-wide statement clarifying that the role of public affairs officers was not "to alter, filter or adjust engineering or scientific materials produced by NASA's technical staff."
The Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award is presented annually by American Association for the Advancement of Science to honor individual scientists and engineers or organizations for exemplary actions that help foster scientific freedom and responsibility. The award recognizes outstanding efforts to protect the public's health, safety or welfare; to focus public attention on potential impacts of science and technology; to establish new precedents in carrying out social responsibilities; or to defend the professional freedom of scientists and engineers.
Robert Watson is probably best known for his extraordinary leadership during the past 20 years in the development of the leading international scientific assessments of climate and global environmental change. He served as chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for the IPCC Third Assessment Report, and co-chair of the IPCC Working Group II 1995 Second Assessment Report on climate change impacts and adaptation. He has co-chaired the scientific assessments of stratospheric ozone depletion and other major studies. The development of the institution of the "scientific assessment" during the past few decades has been an extraordinarily significant advance in linking science to decisionmaking. Probably no individual has made a greater contribution to this essential activity than Bob Watson.
In 2001, following a recommendation in a memo to the incoming Bush administration by an ExxonMobil lobbyist, the administration withdrew its support of Watson for a second term as IPCC chairman. The political motivation was obvious. Watson was an articulate and high-profile communicator of the essential findings of the IPCC on the reality of global climate disruption, its likely harmful impacts, and the viability of mitigation alternatives for reducing emissions of greenhouse gases. This was a connecting-the-dots discourse that the administration did not want to hear, acknowledge, or support, whether from Watson and the IPCC or from Hansen. Dr. Pachauri has been a worthy successor to Watson as IPCC chairman, but the sandbagging of Watson in 2001 was an early indicator of how the new administration was aligning itself with the global warming disinformation campaign.
The AAAS news release on the award to Watson:
2007 AAAS International Scientific Cooperation Award
BOSTON — The American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world's largest general scientific society, has named a pioneering climate scientist from the United Kingdom as winner of the 2007 AAAS International Scientific Cooperation Award.
Robert Watson, chair of environmental science and science director of the Tyndall Centre at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, was cited for his outstanding contributions to promoting international scientific cooperation in scientific research, communication, and training and his work on environmental and sustainable development. Watson also holds the position of chief scientific adviser to the United Kingdom's Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
Although he has had numerous positions on various scientific committees and panels, Watson is best known internationally for his role in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which he served as chairman from 1997 to 2002. IPCC reports and assessments have changed the way the world looks at climate change and have led to important policy changes on local, regional, national and international levels to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
From 1996 to 2007, Watson held various roles at the World Bank, including service as chief scientist and director for environmentally and socially sustainable development. He led the effort to revitalize support for science in the Bank's program. In line with the Bank's goal to help countries alleviate poverty and attain sustainability, Watson's efforts helped strengthen science in developing nations and enhance collaborative activities with other international scientists.
"Dr. Robert Watson has been for a decade the world's foremost promoter of international scientific cooperation," wrote John A. Daly, a consultant on issues of technology and science for developing countries, who nominated Watson for the AAAS award. "His efforts chairing panels of thousands of scientists who described and documented our current environmental crisis have been unparalleled and have contributed greatly to the consensus on the nature on that crisis."
Watson's expertise includes managing and coordinating national and international environmental and research programs, establishing scientific and environmental policies and communicating scientific, technical and economic information to policymakers. As associate director for international activities in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy from July 1993 to April 1996, Watson encouraged the U.S. government to increase its support for international scientific cooperation. Vice President Al Gore described Watson as his "hero of the planet" in a letter written to Watson's former boss, White House science adviser John H. Gibbons.
During his 13 July 2007 farewell speech at the World Bank, Watson said that one of his most interesting experiences at the Bank was the development of the Clean Energy Investment Framework, which brought together those working with energy and infrastructure and others working with social scientists. He also mentioned the challenge of making sure that environmental policy is based on sound science.
Watson has testified many times before committees and subcommittees of the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives on ozone, global warming, and other global change research topics. For example, in March 1996 testimony to the House Committee on Science, Watson discussed the effects of human activities on climate and the possible consequences for human health, food security, and ecosystems.
Watson received his bachelor's and Ph.D. degrees in chemistry from London University, London England. He did postdoctoral studies at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Maryland and held a variety of positions at NASA from 1980 to June 1993 before joining the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy in July 1993. Watson is the 1993 recipient of the AAAS Award for Scientific Freedom and Responsibility.
Established in 1992, the AAAS Award for International Scientific Cooperation recognizes an individual or a limited number of individuals for making extraordinary contributions to further international cooperation in science and engineering.
For more information on AAAS awards


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On September 24, 2016, East Georgia State College will host their annual Parents, Family, Friends and Alumni Day at their Swainsboro campus. Beginning with registration for the Dash With a Splash for Community Health at 7 a.m., campus will be humming with activity all day long!
The Dash With a Splash for Community Health will feature a 5K race beginning at 8 a.m. and a one mile Fun Run at 9 a.m. All races will begin at the Luck Flanders Gambrell Building, and the awards ceremony will be at 9:30 a.m. following the Fun Run.
Following the Dash, the excitement will move to Ezra Pond for the annual Duct Tape Regatta. Check in begins at 10 a.m. and the race begins at 11 a.m. Awards will be presented to the fastest and overall winner of the race, the most creative/best use of theme (to enter for this award, the boat must go along with this year's theme of "artist," where boat teams pick an artist and design a boat around them), and the Titanic Award presented to the boat that sinks the most dramatically. Deadline to register for the Regatta is September 23. Questions can be directed to Taylor Edenfield at email@example.com or Dabney Edenfield at email@example.com.
Once the Duct Tape Regatta has concluded, attendees can enjoy a free lunch of pizza, a soda and cookies and enjoy the booths scattered around the Swainsboro campus. There will be carnival rides, art activities, tours of the Nature Trail, nitrogen ice cream and much, much more. As always, PFFA Day is free and open to all, so don't miss out on this fun-filled day at EGSC!


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A crisis has enveloped the Jewish Community Relations Councils around the country, according to David Bernstein, the executive director of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, the umbrella body of JCRCs around the country; and according to a number of JCRC directors quoted in a JTA report on the crisis at the beginning of May.
JCRC directors from Richmond, Dallas, St. Louis, Miami and the San Francisco Bay Area were quoted as representative of the dilemma faced by the 125 JCRCs. The dilemma, as they see it, is this: Consensus is no longer possible in many Jewish communities on hot button issues, such as Israel, guns, health care and immigration.
As a result, JCRCs are ducking many of these issue. "I need to spend my time in the realm of the possible," one director is quoted as saying. The director can only work on issues around which consensus is possible, and they are often strictly local issues, or issues of secondary importance.
Another JCRC director avoids debate on the immigration question by helping the immigrants already in the city. That is a worthy effort, but for a body whose raison d'etre is to address public policy issues (the very name, "Jewish Council for Public Affairs," has always meant this), the avoidance of the politics of the immigration issue is an admission of defeat.
"When we speak out on established policy issues, we still risk creating a backlash," said another director.
The risk is avoidable. The risk is a function of the archaic, alternative-universe methodology of JCRCs: consensus. Congress does not work by consensus as an exclusive methodology. Nor do state legislatures, the Supreme Court of the US, PTAs or synagogue boards. Actually, votes are taken! Some positions are majority positions and some are minority positions.
This apparently is a modus operandi that JCRCs have not considered. But why? Is it any secret that long before the current polarization in American politics, Jews were divided on religious and political lines? Have JCRCs not heard of two Jews, three opinions? Is there anything wrong with this? Is not consensus, as an exclusive methodology, artificial and unrealistic?
"Consensus," in the calmest of times, often means watering down a position so as to include by some stretch very different points of view. We believe that JCRCs would be more effective, more representative of the Jewish community, and more able to address any issue, however divisive, if, instead of pursuing consensus exclusively or avoiding critical issues, JCRCs simply issued majority and minority opinions. Then, as to the predominant, but not the exclusive, view of any given Jewish community, let the majority represent the community. But let the minority view be publicly expressed, too; and let it be characterized by its dimensions. There is a world of difference between a 51-49 vote, and an 88-12 vote.
This is in the nature of Jewish communal reality. If, on any given issue, there is consensus, fine. But if not, also fine. We cannot imagine the effectiveness of a JCRC being undercut by advocating before a lawmaking body a point of view that is characterized as the majority view of the Jewish community.
We believe it is better to have all views around the Jewish table on even the most controversial issues than to avoid them. For this simple reason: The advocates of both the majority and the minority views on a critical issue, such as guns (just to take one example), are going to go out and advocate their position anyway. So let the discussion be central in the JCRCs, let all views be heard, let all controversies be addressed, and let all positions be officially and openly expressed. Then: Majority rules. Minority still talks.
It's a much better option than consensus, and a much more realistic one. Rather than JCRCs tying themselves up in knots of frustration over not being able to take a stand on many of the controversies of the day, let them do away with consensus as an exclusive goal and embrace, to quote Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, the dignity of difference.
We think that by issuing majority and minority opinions (unless there actually is consensus), JCRCs would gain in relevance, and the credibility of those of its views that do reflect consensus would skyrocket.
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