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The presidential election is over, and the result has been exactly what was expected : the "socialist"candidate won over the incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy, even if by a relatively small margin. All elections, however, have their share of surprises, and this one was no exception, since the far-right leader Marine Le Pen scored nearly 18%, better than her father in 2002 when he shocked the world by reaching the second round. This is by no way an isolated phenomenon. The very same Sunday Hollande was elected, the Greeks sent to their parliament 21 activists from the Golden Dawn, a fringe far-right party, complete with a svatiska-like symbol and roman salutes. Add to that Hungary, whose constitution the right wing government has recently changed in a decidedly authoritarian direction and the 17% scored in the Netherlands by Geert Wilders' Party for Freedom, and it becomes obvious Europe has a far right problem.
Marine Le Pen's National Front is no newcomer in French politics. It was founded in 1972 by Jean-Marie Le Pen to unify the then marginal French far right. The Far right has a long history in France and was at time a significant force. The nationalist leagues nearly seized power in 1934 when a corruption scandal, the Stavisky case, degenerated into riots. They had, of course, their moment in the sun when Hitler's panzers crashed through the Bulge and allowed them to rule a rump French State from Vichy. The collapse of Nazi Germany dealt them a crushing blow, however, as their leaders were killed in action, shot for treason or forced to run for the Spanish border.
The Algerian war and the confused impotence of the late Fourth Republic gave the far right a new lease of life. It proved short-lived, however, as Charles de Gaulle, who had belonged to the monarchist Action Française but had later joined the moderate right, seized power through a quasi-coup and abandoned Algeria. The far right attempted to topple him during the failed Alger coup of 1971 and, for a time, waged a vicious, but ultimately doomed low intensity terrorist campaign.
When Le Pen made his 1972 bid, the far right had been reduced to a rag-tag collection of fringe groups and intellectuals. While he managed, progressively and with much difficulty, to rally the far right around himself, Le Pen electoral results were dismal. In the 1974 presidential election he won a mere 0,8% of the national vote and failed to gather enough support to stand in the 1981 election.
The breakthrough happened in the 1983 municipal elections, and most importantly in the Dreux by election, in October of the same year, when the National Front won 17% of the vote and forced the moderate right to make a deal with it to stave off defeat. This put the National Front under the spotlights and paved the way for later successes, the most important of which was, of course, the much publicized, 2002 presidential election.
Democratic parties reacted by establishing a kind of cordon sanitaire around the National Front. Most of the time it worked. The moderate right, then dominated by staunchly gaullist Jacques Chirac, did not yield to the temptation and the 1983 deal was never repeated. It has to be said, however, that Le Pen himself did not want to take part to a coalition government. He was fully aware that his party thrived in radical opposition to the establishment and every time an alliance with a mainstream party became remotely possible, he spurted something utterly unfashionable about Jews, the Holocaust or the German army. This proved quite efficient.
Unfortunately, his daughter is more interested in ruling than he was, and knows that her only chance to get into power is by having the moderate right so soundly defeated that a part of it look to her for support, hardly an implausible scenario. The leaders of right are very much aware of the risk and have promised to expel anybody who would dare to strike a deal with the National Front. This may not be enough, however.
The problem is the National Front, like most of its Western European counterparts, is not really fascist. It is xenophobic and authoritarian, and would make France a very unpleasant place if allowed to reach power. Should this happen I am of the opinion that it ought to be overthrown by any mean necessary. Even though the most lunatic ones have been marginalized or even expelled when Marine Le Pen was given the leadership of the party, a significant part of its core membership is fascist, or heavily influenced by fascism. There is also a sizable number of catholic traditionalists and of unreconstructed pieds-noirs and even a few eccentrics, who will talk to you about their Indo-European heritage before walking away toward the nearest forest.
The ideology of the National Front, however, is closer to Cesarism – aka, the man on the white horse – than to bona fide fascism. For instance, Marine Le Pen, even though her policies would undoubtedly be highly oppressive and unpleasant, does not plan to change the constitution in any major way. It is partly due to the fact that this constitution, even though it has accumulated some checks and balances over time, has been drafted by another man on the white horse after what amounted to a military coup, but not only. Cesarism is perfectly compatible with a constitutional regime, as generations of Latin-American strongmen have shown.
Cesarism, in France at least, happens when the political system is faced with what seems to be an unsolvable contradiction. Napoleon the First had to reconciliate an unstable regime born from a radical revolution and a people longing for internal stability. His nephew had to manage the contradiction between a liberal republic and a deeply conservative population; Lastly, De Gaulle, a conservative with a monarchist background, had to solve the contradiction between an impotent parliamentarian regime and the need for decisive action during the shedding of an ever more cumbersome colonial empire.
France was lucky in that its strongmen's domestic policies have succeeded, often in sharp contrast with the disastrous results of their foreign policies. As Napoleon himself stated : "Waterloo will wipe out the memory of my forty victories; but that which nothing can wipe out is my Civil Code. That will live forever." Cesarism can however be an abject failure, especially when the contradiction it faces is not wholly political in nature.
Thus, during the last decades of the nineteenth century, the newly established Third Republic had to contend with the consequences of the defeat of 1870. To ensure its survival in face of strong monarchist opposition, the Republic needed the lost provinces of Alsace – Lorraine back, but lacked the military force to reconquer them. It was not a political problem. Germany, once united, had a larger population and resource base than France. Besides, France's low birth rate made sure the power gap would only increase with time. The only way out for the French Republic was to build an alliance strong enough to match German might – a strategy which ultimately won WWI, but took time.
A significant part of the French public opinion wanted their revenge now, however, and they found their hero in the person of Georges Ernest Boulanger, a general, who, as a war minister, stood up to Bismarck during the Schnaebele incident, nearly causing a war France would certainly have lost. This made him immensely popular and got him, and a lot of his followers elected. He let the occasion pass, however, failed to make his move, and his movement collapsed. Boulanger himself had to flee to Belgium and finally committed suicide on his lover's grave. Georges Clémenceau rightly said about him : He died as he has lived: a second lieutenant.
Had he lived as a general, however, the results would have been a unmitigated disaster, at least as far as France is concerned.
Whether Marine Le Pen will live and die as a second lieutenant remains to be seen. Her party is still a associated, despite the recent purges, with the nightmarish regimes of the thirties, and that matters a lot down here. Besides, cracking down on a significant and growing minority because it happens to have a different religion, a highly questionable idea in itself, is unlikely to make you popular in many areas.
Even if she gets elected and survive the reaction of those, such as myself, who think that her very participation to a government is a good reason to storm the prefecture and set up a committee of public salvation, she is bound to fail.
The main problem France faces is the growing impotence of politics. France, unlike America, has always relied on the State, and therefore the politicians who control it, to get things done. Yet, after the election of the socialist François Mitterand in 1981 and the great wave of reforms he initiated, the State became ever less able to do anything more than reluctantly go along a progressive but steady decline or implement purely societal reforms such as civil unions.
The result has been a general distrust of politicians, an ever lower turnout during elections and the occasional burst of enthusiasm for anybody looking like he could actually do something, for instance Sarkozy in 2007.
The problem, of course, is that this impotence is neither due to the nature of the regime – French presidents are quite powerful in practice – nor to the incompetence of the political class – the service of the State is a valued occupation in French culture, so our rulers tend to be highly experienced and educated – but to limits to complexity and lack of resource.
Like all countries, France has greatly increased its social complexity thanks to the exploitation of fossil fuels and industrialization. The huge surplus thus created has enabled it to feed what would be an insanely complex society by medieval standards. As Joseph Tainter has shown, increased complexity is our specie's preferred way of solving problems, and at first it is quite efficient. Since it means creating corps of specialists for every possible task, however, it is costly. Besides, complexity and specialization is subject to the law of decreasing returns : at some point, increasing them becomes far more costly than it is worth and may even become counterproductive. France, whose strength traditionally lay in its efficient administration, has manifestly reached this point. The state budget has been in structural deficit for decades and massive unemployment has been a fact of life since I was born.
Increasing the already insanely high level of complexity of our society,, for instance by investing in the so called knowledge economy will only worsen the situation, as it will create new structures – public or corporate, that's not the matter – feeding off a stagnant, or even shrinking resource pool.
Resource is the other problem. France was never the richest European country and its natural resources have been strip mined during the industrial age. We never had oil, our coal, natural gas and uranium are long gone – a part of it with Algeria, by the way. We have managed to keep and expand our wealth by being a, somewhat troublesome, part of the western imperial system, funneling a large part of the world resources our way and exploiting our own mini-network of client republics, which, of course did not keep our rather embarrassing surplus of bobos from bitching about imperialism.
This strategy is now failing. We have reached the point where global energy supply is stagnating. It will soon begin to decrease in absolute value and has probably already begun to do so if we consider the net value. The result is a fiercer competition for the remaining resources, a competition a middling European state with little projection power is unlikely to win.
Besides, it seems the people we helped win their independence at Yorktown are being replaced, as world hegemon, by those whose most magnificent monument we thoroughly ransacked in an effort to force sell them opium. The chance of them allowing us to continue with our little protection racket in Africa are minute.
And even if they were so inclined... they really need the oil, and the land, and the uranium, and...
The end result is that our capacity to bring about collective change decreases with every passing year – at least the kind of collective change the French people can accept. It is quite possible to simplify the French society, but that means accepting, even embracing, poverty, not something we as a people are likely to do.
Authoritarianism is therefore bound to fail, and become more and more authoritarian with time as, unlike democracy, failure is not something it can accept. Its normal way of dealing with it is not handing power to the other side, but finding somebody to blame. After all, if it is not the Great Leader's fault, and it cannot be, it must be some traitor's, and we all know what to do with traitors.
The problem is that our newly elected president is also bound to fail. Democracy is very good at mobilizing its resources in face of a clear and immediate danger – say, Nazi Germany – but quite bad at facing a long crisis without any clear solution.
There is no solution to the crisis we face, and as long as we expect politics to change things in a constructive way, we are bound to be disappointed. At some point, this disappointment is likely to lead us to vote for an extremist who will get (some) things done. (S)he won't be fascist – fascism as an ideology is discredited – but will use the same dynamics Boulanger did, and may, by the way, come from the left; The leader of the Left Front, Jean-Luc Melenchon, is every bit as dangerous as Le Pen and a Green authoritarianism remains a distinct possibility.
It is what happened in Greece with the Golden Dawn and Alexis Tsipras' Coalition of the Radical Left. Unless we collectively accept the reality and allow our false dreams to die, it can happen here too.


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Newtown's Djonne takes second at Class LL diving meet
HARTFORD -- She is the queen of Class LL diving.
Sophomore Rachel Burston of the Westhill-Stamford girls swimming team added yet another glorious chapter to her high school diving career Wednesday night, successfully defending her Class LL diving title by conquering a field of 28 divers from across Connecticut at the Bulkeley High pool.
"It is better the second time around," Burston said proudly wearing her LL gold medal. "It means a lot to me. It is a great feeling."
Burston provided the drama Wednesday night. Her final score on 11 dives of 437.90 points was a new Class LL meet record. Charlotte Ford of Greenwich High set the old mark of 437.75 points in 2007.
"Knowing I beat the record is truly amazing," Burston said. "I didn't expect that at all."
Newtown High sophomore Kari Djonne was a distant second at 346.50 points. Maloney's Rebekah Hall (334.35 points) was third.
Newtown senior Noelle Benson (329.15 points) was fourth with Trumbull freshman Clare Hampford (322.05) in fifth and Newtown sophomore Gillian Eckwall (316.70) in sixth. The top six gain automatic entry into the State Open diving.
"We were a little iffy early in the meet. But the last three dives all our girls finished strong," said Newtown coach Ryan Cutter. "Knowing how good Burston was we weren't thinking about first place. Getting three divers in the top six. That is our program's best finish ever."
It wasn't a simple task for Burston, who finished in third place in last year's State Open finals.
In round No. 4, Burston appeared to tweak her back leading to some anxiety.
"I've been fighting back issues for the past year," Burston admitted. "It was a pain I never felt before. But some Advil and some stretching kept me going. "
In short, she had come too far to just hand over the Class LL title.
In fact, Burston was sharp on her dives, most of which carry a large degree of difficulty. It allowed her to keep extending her advantage round by round.
"Facing Rachel Burston is very intimidating," Newtown's Djonne admitted. "She's such a competitor. I'm amazed when I watch her. I can only hope to one day have a skill set like hers.I wanted to hit 11 out of 11 dives but I just tried to do my best. As a first-year diver, to qualify for the State Open is very special."
But in the end, there can be only one queen of Class LL.
"I was concerned, but Rachel wasn't in intense pain," Westhill-Stamford veteran diving coach Jim Bowser said. "For a moment, we thought bad luck was coming. But we all hung in and things turned out well."
Westhill-Stamford senior Lauren Cunningham took ninth place with 311.40 points.
"It wasn't my best. But not bad considering I've felt under the weather lately," Cunningham said. "All in all I'm happy. This is a good way to wrap up my high school career."
The trio of young divers from Greenwich, Staples and Trumbull gained great experience Wednesday night that will serve them well in the 2014 state diving meets.
"Class LL is very strong. The divers and the judges' scoring are very tough," said Greenwich diving coach Sergey Meshcherskiy. "We had some mistakes tonight but I'm so happy with our performance. Ines Villemure (313.90, 8th) and freshman Emily Murphy (287.50, 15th) did a great job."
Class LL diving championship at Middletown
1. Rachel Burston (Westhill/Stamford) 437.90; 2. Kari Djonne (Newtown) 346.50; 3. Rebekah Hall (Maloney) 334.35; 4. Noelle Benson (Newtown) 329.15; 5. Clare Hampford (Trumbull) 322.05; 6. Gillian Eckwall (Newtown) 316.70; 7. Haley Foster (Glastonbury) 316.60; 8. Ines Villemure (Greenwich) 313.90; 9. Lauren Cunningham (Westhill/Stamford) 311.40; 10. Kimberly Cortelessa (Fairfield Ludlowe) 299.35; 11. Harper Hansen (Hamden) 299.15; 12. Sophia Stanley (Staples) 291.90; 13. Kamrin Dawkins (Maloney) 291.70; 14. Kelsey Tague (Fairfield Ludlowe) 288.75; 15. Emily Murphy (Greenwich) 287.50; 16. Emma Jaisle (Glastonbury) 286.40; 17. Olivia Crosby (Staples) 277.80; 18. Eliza Donovan (Staples) 275.30; 19. Tara Oliver (Trumbull) 274.45; 20. Chelsea Marquis (Glastonbury) 271.85; 21. Natalie Poetl (Newtown) 270.50; 22. Kiley Saxa (Amity) 267.35; 23. Kyra Nordlund (Glastonbury) 257.10; 24. Kirsten Dawkins (Maloney) 242.10; 25. Elizabeth Burnett (Greenwich) 178.40; 26. Haley Creamer (Ridgefield) 177.55; 27. Tia Jones (Southington) 168.70; 28. Caroline Feldman (Westhill/Stamford) 163.15.

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Grammy nominated artist Robert McDuffie has appeared as soloist with most of the major orchestras of the world, including the New York and Los Angeles Philharmonics, the Chicago, San Francisco, National, Atlanta, Houston, Dallas, St. Louis, Montreal, and Toronto Symphonies, the Philadelphia, Cleveland, Minnesota Orchestras, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the North German Radio Orchestra, the Düsseldorf Symphony, the Frankfurt Radio Orchestra, the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, the Hamburg Symphony, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Santa Cecilia Orchestra of Rome, Venice Baroque Orchestra, Jerusalem Symphony, Orquesta Sinfonica Nacional de Mexico, Orquesta Sinfónica de Mineria, and all of the major orchestras of Australia.
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The California Healthy Foods Coalition recently announced that the California Restaurant Association (CRA) and several additional agricultural organizations have joined the farm coalition's efforts to promote the benefits of biotech crops and oppose efforts to ban agricultural biotechnology in California.
California's $51 billion restaurant industry is dependent on California's family farmers for a safe and reliable source of foods and fresh produce.
"California is home to the finest restaurants in the nation and this is due in part to our access to locally grown produce," said Jot Condie, president/CEO of CRA. "With the number of consumer food dollars spent away from home growing, restaurants will be even more dependent on California's family farmers to get the finest and most affordable foods and produce from their fields to our dining tables."
A statewide poll conducted in May 2005 revealed that 54 percent of California voters think farmers should be allowed to grow biotech crops. The survey also revealed that support grows to 68 percent in the agricultural communities of California's Central Valley. To date, 14 California counties stand with California's family farmers in opposition to banning biotech crops in California.
It is estimated every $1 spent in restaurants generates more than $2 in business for other industries. The total economic impact of restaurant sales in California in 2005 is projected to be more than $103 billion. California is home to more food chains than any other state in the country.
The farm coalition also announced several new additions to the coalition: California Cotton Ginners and Growers Association, California Floral Council, California Poultry Federation, California Tomato Growers Association, Sacramento Valley Landowners Association, Sonoma County Grape Growers Association and the Ventura County Agricultural Association.
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Behind the Scenes: Christmas Shoot
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how exciting to hear all the behind the scenes details that took place. Have a wonderful holiday season.ReplyDelete
I enjoyed seeing and hearing about your behind the scenes of last years CL Christmas issue. I was so excited to view my 2012 Country Living December issue, thinking I would see your guest house. I soon realized it comes out in February.ReplyDelete
Merry Christmas . . . may your days be filled with joy . . .
Fabulous photos, thanks so much for sharing. Happy Christmas!ReplyDelete
How fascinating to read about the "behind the scenes". What an amazing experience! I'm a huge fan of Country Living, and while I adore every magazine, I have to say that this particular issue was one of my favorites. Happy holidays!ReplyDelete
That was very interesting. I love how you style your kitchen shelves, (compared to Lili) I've always loved how you arranged everything on your shelves. Merry Christmas!!! donnaReplyDelete
Photos look great !!! Hope you can post a lot coming up can't wait to as your decorations ! Have a great start to your week !!!ReplyDelete
I just came across this magazine again during my weekend deep clean....so happy you filled us in on the scenes! I love your home and can't wait for the new article!!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 3, 2012 at 7:37 AM
Imperfection is what I love to see when I'm gushing over a beautiful home in a magazine. It makes me think "I do that, too!"ReplyDelete
Wow that was neat. I love the behind the scenes tour. I love your taste and I am glad the photos reflect that.ReplyDelete
What a great behind-the-scenes story of your previous Country Living shoot. Thanks for sharing the details -- what a fun read! I'm glad to know that the stylist wanted your natural personality and decorating style to come through. Sometimes I wonder when I look at magazines what is "real" and what isn't. Your style is so great that it doesn't need any changes!ReplyDelete
Can't wait to see the guest house featured in Country Living (the Feb. issue, right?). We'll await a fun post about its behind-the-scenes tales, too.
Love the images on this post, thanks for sharing. The Christmas tree is just fab. Roll on crimbo!ReplyDelete
Gorgeous and inspiring, thanks for sharing! XO ~LizReplyDelete
Loved seeing your take on all the images! I LOVE the inside of the drawer shot!! Love ALL of them!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 3, 2012 at 10:15 AM
Thanks for sharing! So fun and exciting to see and hear what happened during the shoot!ReplyDelete
Stunning shots! And so fun to read all the behind the scenes details!ReplyDelete
The behind-the-scenes glimpse was very interesting. The story in Country Living was beautiful - I saved the issue. But I'm glad you didn't have the time to fuss more in preparation. In my opinion, everything WAS "just right."ReplyDelete
I commented a while ago but for some reason it didn't register. I love this post and hearing about your photo shoot. But I must say, even after hearing about how Lilli shipped things in and moved things around, your home is naturaly the epitome of "simple elegance". From your drawers to your dresser all is absolutely lovely. My husband is a film producer and has his own company and films documentary's and commercials and he tells me all the stories about how they work on changing and perfecting things for a shoot. I can honestly say from being a long time follower of your blog, your home is a beautiful as your family is an there is no need to change anything. God bless so glad to hear you guys are well.
Thanks for this post. It was fun to read of your reactions to the input from various stylists, designers, etc. I've spent many years on advertising sets, magazine shoots, and tabletop shoots and I am always amazed at how skilled these professionals are. For the record, I'm with Lili-- imperfection is so much more interesting, inviting and confident than rigid perfection. So I enjoyed her input to these shots. Everything looks lovely.ReplyDelete
I loved reading this post. It was so fascinating to hear how the photos were set up, as your house photos were some of my favorite in Country Living magazine. I think the reason I liked them so much was because it seemed to have a lived-in *home* feel, not a model house. Thank you for sharing. :)ReplyDelete
Beautiful pictures Trina! I love looking at your Christmas decor year after year!ReplyDelete
This is such an interesting post about the behind the scenes work of a home photo-shoot for a magazine. I can't imagine the work it takes to produce something like this. Now I must go look up my issue of the magazine from last year and review the article. Blessings, PamelaReplyDelete
What a beautiful family and home.ReplyDelete
You are truly blessed!
Your home is just so beautiful!ReplyDelete
Best regards from a countryhome in Sweden,
It was lots of fun to hear your behind-the-scenes stories. The only thing I ever noticed was the droopiness of the tree and I just thought it was a variety we don't have around here. I do like the effect of the droopy ends.
I can't even tell you the number of blogs on which I've seen your bedroom!
Hope you and Mike and the kids have a wonderful holiday!
This was so much fun, thanks for the behind-the-scenes look, Trina!ReplyDelete
I don't think I would get any sleep for weeks knowing there was a magazine crew on their way to shoot our home. You did so well, and with twins to take care of to boot!
Such a bright, lovely home.
Nice to have you back, I've missed your posts!
xo Dawn
hi trina!!!ReplyDelete
thanks so much for sharing this fascinating post. so many interesting things going on behind the scenes. i loved that lilli always wanted your touch in the photos. that is so sweet and she's smart b/c it's your touch that made your home soooooo beautiful.
merry christmas!
Wow love your blog.ReplyDelete
Of curs i will follow you.
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I love this post! Thank you for sharing your stunning home and such awesome "trade secrets" with us!ReplyDelete
That was great! I still have that issue and will re-read it again this season. Have a lovely holiday! KitReplyDelete
I have been a fan since the magazine spread. It is funny you mention the drawer shot, we redid our kitchen at that time and I was inspired how it was pulled together and tried to replicate it. Merry Christmas to you and your family.ReplyDelete
wonderful to see this behind the scenes post! your home and style are just perfectReplyDelete
So fun to see!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 4, 2012 at 10:49 AM
Trina, I absolutely adore your home and love your blog. Thank you for sharing! I too live in a home with all wood floors and I love your understated floor coverings in the bedrooms and dining room. Are they actual rugs or are they bound squares of carpet? I would love to know as I am hoping to put something down before my family stays for the holidays but I don't want to spend too much money..ReplyDelete
Thank you!!
Rugs are seagrass or jute and come from Pottery Barn, Home Decorator's or the Company Store!ReplyDelete
I enjoy your blog very much. Your home is beautiful; you have a wonderful sense of style.ReplyDelete
These pictures are stunning and your home is gorgeous. Thanks for all of the details!ReplyDelete
How interesting to read behind the scenes! I have always loved your home - so simple and calm. I have to admit your drawers are my favorite - I've been on the lookout for dividers ever since I've seen them. Your twins are so sweet and I wish you all a happy holiday.ReplyDelete
What a great tour! The styling for the shoot was beautiful, but I have to say that I really love your styling of your kitchen shelves/counter (in the 2010 photo updates). The crisp whites with the contrasting metals and small pops of warm wood tones--perfection! Can't wait to see the new article in CL!ReplyDelete
Thanks for posting this behind the scenes view! I love the Oregon grape and wonder if it could grow on the East Coast -- Zone 6?ReplyDelete
I thought the concern about the Joan of Arc picture was very curious -- I can't imagine anyone would be offended by having that on your dresser! Sheesh!
- AnonymousDecember 5, 2012 at 9:09 AM
I enjoyed reading all of this. Very interesting! I look forward to seeing how you decorate this year and of course ,pictures of the twins. My they have grown! Adorable!ReplyDelete
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I popped over here from Hooked on Houses. I loved hearing the insider scoop on this photo shoot. I also really enjoyed the pictures. I am always curious to understand more about how photo stylists work. I think it is so interesting so I appreciated the detail. Clever and the house looks great.ReplyDelete
It all looks gorgeous and that family photo on your porch is precious. Happy holidays to you and your sweet family!ReplyDelete
Your home is so beautiful and cozy! I love everything from the stockings hanging to the fresh garland.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 7, 2012 at 10:44 PM
Thank you so much for sharing the behind-the-scenes stuff. Isn't it fun to see what someone else does with familiar things? You keep saying that you were surprised that Lili wanted things as authentic as possible, but you shouldn't be, because your sense of style is lovely, just the way it is. Take good care, EmReplyDelete
I just love this blog =) And beatiful pictures. I will be back. Have a lovley day. Hugs from me.ReplyDelete
Fabulous photos,ReplyDelete
Your home is so beautiful!
Very interesting to read behind the scenes :)
Country Living magazine is one of my favorites, and I can find it in almost every shop i my town, here i Finland.
Can't wait until the February issue of the magazine. I will be sure to pick one up. How exciting!ReplyDelete
Enjoy your holidays!
- AnonymousDecember 10, 2012 at 5:38 AM
"Lili removed Joan of Arc due to her religious connotations" ... for a Christmas shoot?ReplyDelete
I've been following your site for awhile, but not written. For some reason today is different! It was such fun reading the "behind the scenes" activities for the photo shoot. Your home looks (looked) beautiful.ReplyDelete
I love looking through the photos of your little ones. (I have a Graham, too!)
Loved reading about all the "behind the scenes" secrets! You have such a lovely home.ReplyDelete
i did really enjoy the walk around your home - so beautiful! cheers from ireland, elianeReplyDelete


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SHANGHAI (AP) — A Briton and an American were sentenced to prison on Friday on charges of illegally trading in the personal details of Chinese citizens after they testified they bought such information to help companies combat fraud.
Peter Humphrey and Yingzeng Yu, a married couple, operated a firm in Shanghai that helped companies screen potential business partners and employees. Their arrest last August sent a chill through foreign businesses. It came as Beijing tightened controls over information and prompted warnings that investigation of legitimate matters might be curtailed.
After a one-day trial, Humphrey was sentenced by the Shanghai No. 1 Intermediate Court to 2 1/2 years in prison to be followed by expulsion from China. Yu was sentenced to two years.
Humphrey was also fined 200,000 yuan ($32,000) and Yu 150,000 yuan ($25,000). The maximum possible penalty for illegally selling or providing personal information about Chinese citizens is three years in prison plus fines.
The judge, Yu Jian, said the defendants have 10 days to appeal once a written verdict is issued.
"Very sad about the court's verdict, but I hope that the authorities will take into account their poor health condition," the couple's 19-year-old son, Harvey, told reporters outside the courthouse.
Humphrey and Yu acknowledged having obtained personal details about Chinese nationals but said legal restrictions on such information were unclear.
Testifying in court Friday, Yu said 90 to 95 percent of the data they obtained came from household registrations that list family members and their birthdates.
Yu said such information was useful in revealing misconduct such as an employee setting up a competing company under a relative's name. She said the firm was paid 20,000 to 200,000 yuan ($3,200 to $32,000) per case.
"The purpose of our obtaining individual information was to help prevent and fight corporate internal corruption," Yu said, according to a transcript released by the court.
Shanghai police have said reports prepared by Humphrey and Yu for clients "seriously violated the legitimate rights of citizens." They contained home addresses and information on family members, real estate and vehicles. Clients included manufacturers, law firms and financial institutions.
Such information can make clear who controls a company or reveal family ties that might lead to conflicts of interest in a secretive Chinese business world dominated by behind-the-scenes connections. But the ability of investigators to reveal such links might alarm political leaders who want to hide wealth amassed by their family, and business figures who profit from ties to the ruling Communist Party.
In 2012, Communist leaders were embarrassed by news reports that disclosed details of the family wealth of Xi Jinping, the new ruling party leader, and Wen Jiabao, who was premier at that time.
Humphrey and Yu worked under contract for British pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline, which is accused in a separate case of bribing Chinese doctors and hospitals to use its products. Authorities have not indicated whether the two cases are linked.
Earlier Friday, Harvey Humphrey criticized GSK, which he said made trouble for his parents by hiring them for an investigation that "trod on several powerful toes."
"The root of the problem really from where I'm sitting is the way GSK behaved in this matter," he told London-based broadcaster Sky News.
GSK has said it hired the couple to investigate a security breach but not bribery allegations.
In July, Humphrey said on state television that he felt "betrayed and used" by Glaxo. He said he found out during his investigation that the bribery claims were true and said he would not have carried out the probe if he had known about them earlier.
A conviction appeared almost certain after state television showed Humphrey last year saying he used "illegal means" to obtain information.
Humphrey and Yu's firm, ChinaWhys Ltd., said on its website it specialized in "discreet risk mitigation solutions" and investigations "walking multinationals through the labyrinth of opportunity, risk and unfamiliar cultural environment."
At the time of their Aug. 16 arrest last year, Shanghai police said they were investigating 126 people on suspicion of improperly gathering personal information and had detained 35. Few details of the other cases have been released.
Beijing began tightening control over corporate information in early 2012 after Chinese companies were hit by disclosures about possible financial misconduct.
Possibly in response to that, regulations issued in February 2012 prohibit government agencies from disclosing financial or commercial information about a company without its permission.
That made it harder for companies to investigate potential partners or acquisition targets to find liabilities or conflicts of interest. Known as "due diligence," it is a common practice in other countries.
Friday's verdict identified three Chinese investigators from whom Humphrey said he purchased information. He said they obtained it from law firms and other sources.
Yu said that since 2011, the firm had significantly reduced the amount of personal information it gathered.
Yu went to the United States in 1981 at age 28 and later became an American citizen.
Humphrey, a former reporter for the Reuters news agency, has worked as an investigator for the past 14 years in Asia, according to his company's website.
It said Yu has worked for or advised companies in the United States, Hong Kong and China over a 25-year business career.
AP researcher Fu Ting and AP video journalist Wayne Zhang in Shanghai, AP writer Sylvia Hui in London, and AP researcher Zhao Liang in Beijing contributed to this report.


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Hey Rudy. I'm around a 3.0 player, and would like to know if you are down to play at RCC sometime.
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So my 10 month old is a very distracted baby. Everything captures his interest and attention. This is fine, unless it's eating time.
I was working ft outside the home, so I pumped at work, and nursed at night.
So for the past 6 months, in evenings and weekends / we've been nursing in the bedroom, with the blinds closed and usually the door closed. No noise, no distractions, low light.
If the cat comes scampering through, it's game over.
I quit my job (woo hoo!) and am going back to the heaven of ebf (hate the pump!).
Does anyone have experience with babies who are so distractible? I knew it was normal once they started "discovering the world" around 4-5 months, but he's 10 months now, and seriously it's not any better.
He will refuse to eat when we're out and about - nursing covers are a joke.
so I basically have to make sure I'm home every couple/few hours for him to eat.
I have gone the approach of "He'll get hungry enough to eat" on a couple occasions only to go out to the in-laws. I'd take him to a quiet room and after quite a bit of exploring, he would resort to a quick feed...but I dont prefer that approach, and he gets crabby when he's hungry (of course) when we're out shopping, etc.
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BRIDGEWATER, MA – The Alfred University football team stormed back from an early 10-point deficit to hand host Bridgewater (MA) State a 41-10 defeat in the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Northeast Bowl championship game Saturday afternoon.
Alfred's 41 unanswered points gave the Saxons their fourth ECAC bowl title in the last seven years. It also marked the second time AU had defeated Bridgewater in an ECAC bowl; the Saxons beat the Bears 30-27 in the 1989 ECAC North Bowl championship.
AU (8-3) played well on both sides of the ball, producing 289 yards of offense (137 rushing, 152 passing) and converting four of 10 third downs, while holding the Bears to 254 yards (83 passing) and allowing only one third down conversion in 14 tries. AU was solid on special teams as well, allowing only 77 net return yards on five punts and seven kickoffs. The Saxons also blocked two punts, scoring a touchdown on one.
The host Bears (7-3) took an early 10-0 lead before the Saxons responded with six straight touchdowns. With 1:19 left in the opening frame, Bridgewater's Jarred Diorio booted a 34-yard field goal to cap a 10-play, 53-yard drive and give the Bears a 3-0 advantage. On Alfred's ensuing possession, AU senior quarterback T.J. Kilcarr was intercepted by Justin Cruz at the Bridgewater 33-yard line. Three plays later, the Bears' Justin Fuller scored on a 55-yard run to give his team a 10-0 lead.
Bridgewater's advantage was short-lived, however, as Alfred scored two unanswered touchdowns to go ahead, 14-10. After Fuller's long TD run, Bridgewater attempted an onside kick, which AU recovered at the Bear 42-yard line. Bridgewater was called for being offsides and the Saxons began their drive at the host's 37-yard line with 12:45 left in the half. Alfred would lose possession on a fumble but regain the ball near midfield on a Bridgewater punt. Seven plays later, Kilcarr connected with junior tight end Adam Schutz on a five-yard TD pass to make it 10-7 Bridgewater with 7:14 left in the second.
The Saxons took the lead for good with 5:34 left in the half when freshman defensive back J.R. Britton blocked a Mike Pettis punt in the Bridgewater endzone, which junior defensive back Andre McCloud recovered at the 9-yard line and returned for a touchdown and a 14-10 Saxon lead.
Alfred upped its advantage to 11 points on its next possession, taking over at its own 46-yard line after a punt and driving 54 yards in five plays, with Kilcarr tossing his second TD pass of the day to Schutz, from seven yards out with 1:30 left before intermission. Bridgewater took the ensuing kickoff and drove from its own 13-yard line to the Saxon 49, but Bear quarterback Mike McCarthy's long pass toward the AU endzone was intercepted by senior cornerback Roland O'Brien at the Alfred 10-yard line as the first-half clock expired.
AU forced Bridgewater kick the ball away its first two possessions of the second half, taking over at the Bear 46-yard line after the second punt midway through the third. The Saxons then marched 46 yards on six plays, with senior linebacker Nick Clark capping the drive with a one-yard TD plunge that put his team up 28-10. The Saxons' drive was aided by a facemask penalty on Bridgewater after AU came up short on a pass play on third-and-14 at Bear 39-yard line. The penalty gave AU a first down at the Bridgewater 24-yard line.
The Saxons took a 24-point lead on the second play of the fourth quarter when AU junior free safety Jon Jackson intercepted a McCarthy pass at the Saxons' 37-yard line and returning it 63 yards for a touchdown. The extra point missed and AU led 34-10. The Saxons pushed their lead to 31 points, at 41-10, on their next possession when Clark scored on a two-yard run to cap an eight-play, 60-yard drive with 8:13 left in the game. The touchdown was set up by Kilcarr's 29-yard pass on third-and-6 to sophomore wideout Josh Phillips to the Bridgewater 2-yard line.
Bridgewater had a chance to cut into Alfred's lead on its next possession, driving to the Saxons' 5-yard line before turning the ball over on downs. The drive was aided by a 25-yard pass from McCarthy to Jake Scott on fourth-and-11 from the Bridgewater 39. But after a four-yard run, McCarthy tossed two incompletions. An offside penalty on AU made it fourth-and-1 at the Saxon 5 but McCarthy again misfired and the Saxons took over with 3:20 left and ran out the clock.
Kilcarr was 11-of-20 for 152 yards, two TDs and an interception. Phillips had a big day for the Saxons, catching five passes for 102 yards. Junior tailback Tyler DeRosa ran 12 times for a team-leading 79 yards, while sophomore tailback Austin Dwyer with 47 yards on 15 carries.
Fuller led the Bears with a game-high 111 yards rushing on 17 carries. McCarthy, who ran for 51 yards, completed nine of 24 passes for 91 yards and a pair of interceptions.
Senior linebackers Wes Smith and Dan Haasis had a game-best seven tackles for the Saxons, while junior end Chris Steeves (blocked punt) and Clark each had five.
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Auto Manufacturers: Background
Auto manufacturers monitor a host of legislative issues in Washington, including trade rules and fuel efficiency and safety standards for the latest models of cars and SUVs.
Car manufacturers, including heavy hitters like Ford and GM, generally don't contribute as much as car dealers, with their large number of mom-and-pop showrooms. Dealerships contributed $6 million in 2012, while auto makers gave a comparatively paltry $2.2 million.
Car manufacturers spent $43.5 million in lobbying in 2013, up from 2012 but down from a peak of $58 million in 2007. The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers was the biggest spender, to the tune of $6.3 million.
Auto makers go to battle with enviornmental groups each year, to mixed success.
The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers and Enviornmental Working Group lobbied on opposite sides of the Safe Chemicals Act, lobbying reports suggest. Auto makers, with fellow opponents in other industries, successfully killed that bill. The Auto Alliance also fought for a more lenient Clean Air Act that year, along with Ford, but did not succeed in securing looser regulations.
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An event planned for this weekend in Surf City began with a goal of bringing people to town during a quiet winter month in the beach town.
SURF CITY � An event planned for this weekend in Surf City began with a goal of bringing people to town during a quiet winter month in the beach town.
Seven years later, Surf City Parks & Recreation�s annual Women�s Expo has become a popular event that showcases area businesses and services and serves as a fund-raiser for a community project.
The expo will run from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at the Surf City Community Center. Admission is $3 per person.
�We like it and it�s for a good cause. A lot of hard work goes into it but the payback is even better,� said Kristie Grubb, the town�s director of parks and recreation.
Grubb said they started the Women�s Expo to help increase the winter activity in the town and it has continued to grow.
�When we first started we didn�t have many events in the area this time of year so we felt let�s try something,� she
Despite bad weather that had them wondering if they should cancel the first year, the event drew a crowd of 125 people and received good reviews.
The next year had good weather and the crowd grew to 200 or so, and they now average a crowd of 300 to 350 each year.
�We have steadily grown. We�re excited so many people have been interested,� Grubb said.
This year�s expo will feature 55 businesses and services of interest to women, including gifts, fashion, jewelry, health and wellness, lawn care, cosmetics, interior design, artists and authors.
Grubb said the exhibits include local businesses as well as home-based businesses.
Some have been with the expo from the beginning, including Surfside Sportswear & Gifts and others are new, such as Bellavie Boutique, which has opened in the Hampstead area since last year�s expo.
Surfside and Bellavie are event sponsors, along with Topsail Advertiser and D�s Interior Design.
Grubb said they have the biggest variety of goods and services they have ever had and look forward to seeing a good crowd on Saturday.
All money raised from the event will go to the Community Holiday Assistance Program, which provides Christmas presents for children in the area in need.
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How would you describe Jesus' speaking style? It's a question worth pondering for a bit, especially as we hear and contemplate some of the four dozen or so parables recorded in the Synoptic Gospels.
German Scripture scholar Father Gerhard Lohfink wrote in "Jesus of Nazareth: What he Wanted, Who He Was" (Liturgical Press, $39.95), "It is impossible to talk about Jesus without mentioning his language." By this he isn't referring to Hebrew, Greek or Aramaic, but to Jesus' "speaking style, his way of putting the reality of the reign of God into words." He offers this observation: "Jesus' language was accurate. It was specific and precise. It was concise and pointed. There was not an ounce of extra fat on it." Father Lohfink then makes a point that is somewhat obvious, yet a bit unexpected. Jesus "must have had an extraordinary command of language; it comes through everywhere." That command is demonstrated, repeatedly, in the parables, which "betray a deep love for reality."
Then there is this essential point, one often ignored by those who rather mindlessly chatter about Jesus as if he were a greeting card in sandals and a cloak: "Jesus wants to disturb his listeners." Jesus used paradox to provoke a reaction and a response. His words are not meant to mindlessly comfort, but to confront the comfortable.
However, Jesus' parables were not filled with rebuke and fury, but with revelation and fulfillment. Which is why St. Matthew notes that Jesus spoke to the crowds exclusively in parables, and did so to "'announce what has lain hidden from the foundation of the world.'" Matthew quotes from Psalm 78, which examines the often disappointing history of Israel and God's long-suffering love for the chosen people: "But God being compassionate forgave their sin; he did not utterly destroy them."
The parable of the weeds among the wheat focuses on the mystery of evil and how it grows alongside what the Son of Man has planted in the field of the world. In explaining it, Jesus distinguished between the children of the kingdom and the children of the evil one. Those who hear the word of God and reject it are the children of Satan; having been offered light, they choose darkness (cf. Jn 1:9-11; 3:19-20). Rather than assuring listeners of their established place, the parable warns against the temptations that can overcome those who are complacent and distracted. As St. Augustine observed, what is currently wheat can become a weed, and what is a weed can still become wheat "and no one knows what they will be tomorrow." This is a warning, then, against presumption, which is either a man's arrogant belief that he can save himself or his belief that God will be merciful no matter how he lives (CCC, Nos. 2091-92).
It is easy to see the sins, flaws and failings of others, including those next to us in the pew! But we must not be blind to our own weaknesses and to the fragility of the human condition in a fallen world.
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An Orchard Park, N.Y., family has filed a civil-rights lawsuit against a local police officer, Lt. Joseph Buccilli, for barging into the family's home without either a search warrant or permission.
There was no emergency, as the officer reportedly had responded to the house on an anonymous call asking about the welfare of Fred Puntoriero, who suffered dementia and was living with his daughter, LuAnn Batt, and her husband, Timothy.
The case was filed by attorneys connected to the Home School Legal Defense Association, which normally focuses on homeschooling issues. However, the group takes on cases when there are constitutional issues at risk that affect homeschooling families, and one of those issues is the integrity of the family home.
The lawsuit explains that because of Puntoriero's dementia and other age-related infirmities, he never was left alone. It was in April that Joseph Batt, 23, the grandson of Fred Puntoriero, was with his grandfather, who was visited several times a week by a registered nurse as well as a home health aide.
Shortly after LuAnn Batt had argued with her brother about her father's property, "Upon information and belief, on Tuesday, April 17, 2012, a worker from the Erie County Department of Social Services received a false report regarding the welfare of Mr. Puntoriero."
The grandson shortly later noticed two police officers "leaning against their cars" and talking in the family home's driveway with "no sense of urgency in their demeanor."
When he approached the officers and asked what they needed, Buccilli "demanded that Joseph show him a driver's license" and provide his name and birth date.
Buccilli said he'd been asked to meet a social worker there, and Joseph Batt told him that his grandfather had been seen just hours earlier by a nurse's aide and was fine.
The policeman demanded to enter the home and threatened Joseph that he would enter with or without permission and with or without a warrant.
Buccilli threatened the man with arrest.
When Joseph said he wanted to call his older brother, who is in law enforcement, Buccilli threatened again to arrest him.
When Joseph went into the home to make the call, he told the officers, "Please don't come in, I am making a private call. You do not have permission to come in."
But Buccilli "put his foot in the way, forced the door open, and stepped inside," according to the complaint.
A social worker arrived a short time later, spent a few minutes there, and left, saying things were fine. As he was leaving, Buccilli stated he would be back inside the home if he needed to be, and scolded Joseph that he should not "pretend to know the law."
The actions of the officer, entering the home "without a warrant, probable cause, or exigent circumstances," violated the family's Fourth Amendment right to be secure against unreasonable searches, the complaint said.
HSLDA Senior Counsel James R. Mason profiled the case, filed just days ago, in his online column.
"Here is what we do know: the Fourth Amendment does not permit the police to enter anyone's home without a warrant unless there is a real emergency – even if it's called a 'welfare check,'" he wrote.
He said the family, longtime HSLDA members, holds the rule of law in high regard.
"They understand that police must respect citizens' rights, and that when they don't, they should be held to account," he wrote.
"In the early days of the homeschool movement, homeschooling was (wrongly) assumed to be illegal in many states," he continued. "Homeschooling as an educational option was not as well-known as it is now, and far fewer children were being homeschooled back then.
"Too often, early homeschoolers found an investigative social worker at their front door, often accompanied by uniformed police officers. These authorities were typically investigating anonymous tips that didn't have much to do with homeschooling itself – often something like this: 'The children are always home, they don't go to school, and the family seems really religious.'
"Homeschoolers soon learned that front-door encounters with an investigative social worker could be traumatic for both parents and children alike. Protecting our member families from such unwarranted investigations was what drew HSLDA into what we call 'the battle for the front door' – defending Fourth Amendment rights," he said.
"Now, as many homeschooling families are beginning to care for aging relatives, we are seeing new challenges in the battle for the front door."
The action seeks compensatory and punitive damages, as well as costs and fees.


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Guest List: Imran Khan, Farhan Akhtar, Avantika Malik, Zoya Akhtar, Dolly Thakur
Venue: Olive, Bandra, Mumbai.
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Sept. 2, 2013 -- Fishing with Emmett
Sometimes the simplest things in life are the most fun and the most rewarding, and that was the case a recent Saturday afternoon when my grandson, Emmett, and I set out to go fishing.
This was a first, really. Normally, one sister or two and one uncle or two accompany us as we head for the big farm pond on our property.
He was insistent that he and Grandpa go fishing to see what we could catch. I didn't have my new rod and reel ready for fishing, the one my daughter Jessica gave me for my birthday. But I did have two smaller rod and reels ready to go, the hooks cleaned, and the line perfectly attached. We set out with no bait -- only the lures that Jessica included with my birthday rod and reel.
It was an almost perfect afternoon. The skies were azure. Temperatures were in the upper 80's. The humidity was pretty strong, but we rode my John Deere Gator to the banks of the pond. With lots of bubbles in the water, you could tell the fish just might be hungry and be biting.
We put one of Jessica's lures on Emmett's rod and reel and almost immediately he had a good bite. The fish got away. But next time, he landed a nice big mouth bass. Seconds laterm I had a good bite. This one turned out to be a small bluegill. Emmett knows how to catch-and-release bluegill and bass. He doesn't like to touch catfish and sunfish because of their stickeries.
Next, Emmett pulled out a nice sized bigmouth bass. It was perfect size for filleting, but we kept to our catch-and-release plan. Then, he caught three more bass and sunfish. You could hear us squealing a mile away. I was afraid anyone at the house might be worried we were drowning.
It really was a fun couple of hours. We didn't bring any food or drinks, so we headed back home after Emmett caught his five fish and I caught one. "We have to do this more often," he told me on the way back to the house.
It made me realize how time gets away. Sometimes we are just too busy to break free and go fishing with your grandson. You learn a lot about things that really are important in life.
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A desire to reach more children propelled Heather Wimer from in-home childcare provider to college graduate and teacher. For her and others like her, the University of Wisconsin-River Falls offers a smooth transition from an associate's degree to a bachelor's degree in early childhood education.
In 2010, Wimer was one of the first to complete the Early Childhood Transition to Degree program and is now a kindergarten teacher in Dresser, Wisconsin. Like many working parents, the prospect of returning to school was daunting for Wimer. After receiving her associate's degree through Wisconsin Indianhead Technical College, she heard about the UW-River Falls program. A transfer agreement between WITC and UWRF further simplified her move into this baccalaureate completion program.
The program is uniquely designed for individuals with an associate degree in early childhood and who are seeking their teaching license and a bachelor's degree. Students take classes either part time or full-time using distance-learning technologies and some Saturday workshops on campus.
"I had heard about the amazing faculty at UW-River Falls," Wimer said. "But I was surprised and impressed with their dedication to both the students and to the program." The hands-on learning through the practicum brought clear benefits when she worked as a four-year-old kindergarten teachers' aide at a St. Croix Falls elementary school. Teaching early childhood education with a child-centered approach made sense to anyone with a childcare background.
The program was developed partly in response to the need to license childcare providers who become part of a school district's four-year-old kindergarten program. The state was also calling for Head Start employees to have bachelor's degree. Because the courses are offered at times and in ways convenient for working adults, the program responds to UW System's need to grow graduates in Wisconsin. In its third year, the program has 29 students actively enrolled and is showing slow but steady growth each year.


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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican governors bent on rejecting the healthcare law's expanded insurance coverage for millions of low-income Americans may see their gambit backfire if their party fails to sweep the November elections.
Five governors have vowed to opt out of the Medicaid expansion for low-income people since the Supreme Court's June 28 landmark healthcare ruling let states decide whether to participate in the program. Several others, saying the program will be a huge financial burden on states, are leaning toward the same action.
Others hope the November 6 ballot will give Republicans the power to repeal President Barack Obama's signature law altogether, if the party, which currently controls the House of Representatives, gains control of the White House and the Senate as well.
But analysts say if the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act survives to take full effect in 2014 - a major election year for governors - the hard-liners could come under fire for denying their own residents health benefits that are also worth billions of dollars to healthcare providers and insurers. The results could be dramatic.
"It could change the political dynamics so that the ideologues are no longer running the show," said John Holahan, director of the nonpartisan Urban Institute's Health Policy Center.
A big enough backlash could also raise hurdles for governors with presidential aspirations in 2016.
Gubernatorial rebels on Medicaid include Bobby Jindal of Louisiana and Nikki Haley of South Carolina, young Republican stars viewed as potential vice presidential material. Taking a hardline stance in the short term may help attract the attention of Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, who has vowed to repeal the healthcare law, and appeal to large numbers of voters who dislike the law.
Texas Governor and former presidential candidate Rick Perry on Monday joined the chorus that also includes Rick Scott of Florida and Phil Bryant of Mississippi.
"I will not be party to socializing healthcare and bankrupting my state in direct contradiction to our Constitution and our founding principles of limited government," Perry said.
Medicaid is currently a national healthcare program for the poor that is jointly funded by federal and state governments, with Washington covering about 57 percent of the cost. In many states, benefits are available to working-age parents and pregnant women with incomes well below a federal poverty level of $22,300 a year for a family of four.
The Affordable Care Act would expand coverage to families with incomes of up to about $30,000, aiming to provide health insurance to an additional 16 million people nationwide. The federal government will pay 100 percent of the cost of benefits through 2016, declining to 90 percent by the end of the decade.
In Texas, that could cover as many as 2 million uninsured residents, according to the Austin-based Center for Public Policy Priorities.
"Democratic candidates will undoubtedly use this against Republican incumbents who won't take the federal money," said Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia's Center for Politics.
Just three Republican-held governor seats are up for election this year. But in 2014, Republicans will try to hold on to governor's seats in more than 20 states including Texas, Florida, South Carolina, Nebraska and Iowa - nearly a year after states that embrace the law reap federal money for healthcare benefits in earnest.
The prospect of losing billions of dollars in Medicaid payments could also anger healthcare and business interests in those states and lead them to campaign against the "rejectionists."
Large commercial insurer WellPoint Inc last week said it would buy Medicaid specialist Amerigroup for $4.5 billion, the latest sign of private sector interest in reaping profits from running government health plans. Amerigroup's top Medicaid markets include Florida and Texas.
Some analysts also point out that governors would turn down benefits funded by taxpayers from other states, while leaving their own residents to pay federal taxes that fund reform elsewhere.
Regional income disparities also mean the new Medicaid benefits would be available to more of the population in southern states that are now at the forefront of opposition.
In nine states that have decided to opt out of the Medicaid expansion or are considering the idea, about 29 percent of the population below retirement age have incomes that would qualify for new benefits, according to the Urban Institute.
Florida is a case in point. One in five Floridians is uninsured. Meanwhile, 30 percent of state residents earn annual incomes that would qualify for a Medicaid expansion that would bring an estimated $4.4 billion per year in new federal money to the state, the Urban Institute says.
Numbers like that could spell trouble for the state's governor, Rick Scott, whose job approval rating stands at 39 percent in a recent Quinnipiac University poll.
"He's going to be very vulnerable in 2014. At a minimum, Democrats will see the healthcare issue as a big plus for them," said Susan MacManus, political science professor at the University of South Florida.
But Scott, a political maverick who has already rejected $2.4 billion in federal funds for rapid rail development, could survive by appealing to the state's legion of elderly voters worried about the federal budget deficit.
"There are countervailing arguments including that it would further burden constituents by having to raise taxes, etc., because there would be new costs," said Edmund Haislmaier of the conservative Heritage Foundation.
Jonathan Oberlander at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine agrees: "It depends on how the issue is framed. If they look like they are being fiscally conservative, a rejectionist governor could win."
And hard-line stance may not be about ideology or fiscal discipline. Instead, it could be a bargaining tactic.
Governors may be hedging against an Obama re-election - rejecting Medicaid expansion now to gain a stronger position for future negotiations with the administration in which they could seek to reduce the size, scope and cost of the expansion.
"The political maneuvering and negotiating between the federal government and the states is really just beginning," said Michael Sparer, a health policy expert at Columbia University.
"And a state puts itself in a very good negotiating position if it says to the federal government that we're not adopting the expansion at this point."
(Editing by Michele Gershberg, Vicki Allen and Sandra Maler)


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Weight and size matters in the data center. As we speak, there's an obesity epidemic taking place in the data center that has the potential to challenge the health and well-being of data centers throughout the world. In the networking world, there's been a steady increase in weight and rack sizes, leading to unhealthy consequences like decreased reliability, increased complexity, and higher requirements for power and cooling.This week's contestant, the Cisco MDS 9710, hails from Tasman Drive. Over the past couple of years, the MDS 9710 has had the opportunity to train under the guidance of the Brocade DCX 8510 with Gen 5 Fibre Channel. The DCX 8510 has been the market leader and industry role model for data center directors since its introduction in 2011. Its efficient and powerful design has raised the bar for reliability, performance, and scalability.
The MDS 9710 finally emerged from training and made its data center debut in April, 2013. Curiously in the transition between MDS generations, the MDS 9710 went down the design path of more complexity and fatter is better…At the weigh-in, the MDS 9710 tipped the scales at a whopping 415 pounds, 40 pounds more and 144 ports less than the previous generation MDS 9513. It also grew 6 inches in depth, now measuring a massive 34 inches deep.The MDS 9710 was run through a series of challenges to find out whether it is fit for deployment or needs to go back to the drawing board. The Brocade DCX 8510 with Gen 5 Fibre Channel was used as the benchmark for ideal design.Challenge #1: Weight and SizeWeight and size are indicative of design efficiency and system complexity. In this case, less weight and smaller size equals more efficient use of space and more simplicity.
Results of Challenge #1: Cisco MDS 9710 FailsThe MDS 9710 is an unfortunate example of data center obesity at almost twice the weight and nearly 50% greater in size (depth) than the DCX 8510. The MDS 9710 requires special handling with heavy-duty hydraulic lifts capable of handling upward of 500 pounds and racks capable of holding its excessive size.Challenge #2: System Complexity ChallengeSystem complexity is a function of the total number of assemblies (fabric cards, power supplies, fan modules, etc). The overall serial reliability of a system decreases as the assembly count increases. While a system can be made highly available through redundant assemblies, this will lower overall system serial reliability due to the additional number of assemblies.
Results of Challenge #2: Cisco MDS 9710 Fails By definition, a director-class switch requires redundant hardware. Adding additional redundant hardware assemblies come at the expense of lower system reliability and additional complexity. It's a tradeoff that has little value based on the incremental improvement in availability. Challenge #3: Component Complexity Challenge Component complexity is a function of the total number of electrical components (ASICs, integrated circuits, transistors, etc.) on an assembly. Nobody says it better than Cisco in describing the relationship between the number of components and spacing between the components as it relates to reliability and heat dissipation (at 22:25 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkP5EJiPSC8 ), "… that the more components you have on a board, the more failure points that you have. Any good design is going to try and limit the amount of components here and give you a lot of nice green space…"
Results of Challenge #3: Cisco MDS 9710 FailsUsing Cisco's definition, the MDS 9710 port blade has significantly more components and much less green space than the DCX 8510 port blade. Given the number of heat sinks, it's also likely drawing more power and generating more heat, both contributors to lower reliability.Final VerdictRather than adopt the training provided by the Brocade DCX 8510 with Gen 5 Fibre Channel, the MDS 9710 turned out to be an overweight, oversized, and over-engineered product. Cisco designed the new director with the intention to drive new customer benefits, but does it? Reliability and availability continue to be the most important attributes of why customers continue to buy Fibre Channel technology. Cisco makes the dubious claim that the MDS 9710 is "the industry's most reliable storage director". However, based on the results, it's clear that the MDS 9710 failed in every challenge. Reliability is proven over time in the data center, not on paper. Even on paper, it's is obvious that their system has not been designed with high reliability in mind. Final Recommendation: Brocade DCX 8510Clearly, if you are considering new storage infrastructure or replacement of legacy SAN technology, the Brocade DCX 8510 with Gen 5 Fibre Channel should be at the top of your list, especially if reliability and availability are important to you. It is an efficiently designed, elegant, and time-tested director that is purpose-built for data center storage. In addition to hardware design advantages, the DCX 8510 with Fabric Vision software technology will further enhance reliability and availability through advanced monitoring, management, and diagnostics.
So, to summarize, "late, overweight, fat, and expensive". To paraphrase a gallows humor quip, "So, other than that Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?"
In my experience, a product with these "qualities" indicates a lack of passion and committment to the market and/or a product team that's lost it's way.
A few quick observations here:
Just some practical observations from the floor of my datacenter customers.
Evaluator Group recently completed testing of storage networking connectivity between blade servers and solid-state storage, evaluating Fibre Channel (FC) versus Fibre Channel overEthernet (FCoE).
Within the report Evaluator Group outlines their results, showing that Fibre Channel connectivity is required in order to achieve the full benefits that solid-state storage is able to provide.
The tested configuration showed the following results:
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Cricket is an autonomous robot that walks around by moving all six legs using three motors. He avoids objects when touched by the feelers, chirps randomly, and blinks his lights. After touching an obstacle he makes various sounds depending on which feeler sensed the object. All his functions are under control of the on board Stamp II controller. Cricket is designed to be made from readily available materials. The body is made of Lexan used in glass window replacement. The legs are made from aluminum tubing, a rubber grommet, a hinged standoff, and some plastic wire cover. Brain power comes from a Parallax Stamp II module which can be re-programmed by the user. A infrared sensor enables Cricket to respond to commands from a Sony remote control which overrides his autonomous behavior. Pushing the remote control buttons 0 - 9 causes Cricket to make various sounds and other buttons can steer his direction and actions. Power comes from nickel-cadmium batteries mounted inside his battery pack but he can also run from AA batteries.
Cricket Features
6 Motorized moving legs (3 motors)
controlled by Stamp II
3 Cirrus CS-60 servo motors ( but any hobby servo will work)
---- (used for airplane and car models)
2 Antenna feelers (right and left)
2 Blinking LED Eyes
2 Light Sensors (right and left)
Stamp II Controller with autonomous program and remote control response
Blinking red LED heart beat
Infrared transmit and receive capability
Responds to Sony TV Remote Control or universal remote programmed for Sony TV
---- you probably have a remote lying around that will work with Cricket
Speaker with 10 Cricket/insect sound effects (you can also add your own sounds)
STRONG Lexan Body - easy to build
4 spare ports for other sensors, servo motors, or external devices
Onboard 5V regulator can supply up to 1.5 amps!
Powered by rechargeable 7.2V Nicad battery
----battery pack made from radio control car battery and deodorant container
Stamp II download connector, compatible with Parallax download software
Cricket Robot size is 12" X 10", the controller PC board is only 2.5" X 3"
Cricket is made from common materials available from your local home repair store and hobby shop. He can be built with basic tools like a hack saw, drill, and files. Controllers assembled and in kit form are available from me or you can build your own.