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January 30, 2008
Increasingly of late I have been wondering what this child of ours will look like. In most ways, Robbi and I look nothing alike, and yet we share certain similarities. Neither of us is seven feet tall, for example, and both of us have roundish faces.
Three of this baby's four grandparents were born with hair as fair as corn silk. The fourth had hair as black as coal. Robbi is firmly opposed to the idea of a blond child, and threatens to love it less if it comes out towheaded. Given the genetic likelihood of this result, however, I do hope that she summons the generosity of spirit to change her mind.
When I was home for Christmas this year, I rooted through some old pictures, looking for clues. I scanned a few favorites.
Here's the classic. Dad and me enjoying a relaxing morning in bed.
And here I am on the occasion of my first kindergarten graduation.
There was a second kindergarten graduation because, upon completing my first year of kindergarten, I was deemed not to be emotionally ready for the hard-hitting rigors of first grade. I was allowed to don the cap and gown so as not to feel excluded from the fun when all of my classmates actually graduated. I don't think I was emotionally astute enough to notice when I showed up in kindergarten again the next fall.
The second graduation did the trick, and I eventually did reach first grade.
The operative point remains, however. I was a very blond little sucker. Robbi beware.
Posted by bogenamp at 11:14 PM
January 29, 2008
Larger than Life
Some of you have been clamoring for belly updates. Sometimes words are insufficient. Or simply unnecessary.
Perhaps the wide-angle lens on our camera paints a slightly misleading picture. This is perhaps truer to life.
And as we step back just a bit more from Mount Ribbu, we see the long view of Her Majesty.
We went to the doctor yesterday and the various measurements were right on par. Robbi is getting vigorously pummeled of late by our child. S/he has been displaying what we can only interpret as extreme enthusiasm at the prospects of its looming birth.
According to the Web site I have been consulting, the child is in roughly this position right about now.
I, too, would be looking forward to liberation.
Posted by bogenamp at 05:13 PM
January 26, 2008
When Robbi and I first proposed to teach our Winter Study class at Williams, we were mostly curious to know if others would be interested in trying their hands at producing the kind of books that we have been working on. We were pleased that enough students were interested to meet the minimum enrollment numbers. But we arrived on campus in early January with decidedly low expectations. A number of factors were working against us.
First off, Winter Study is really only three weeks long. Not enough time, we worried, to generate collaborative creative content with a partner one had never worked with before. Surely not enough time to piece together an attractive, interesting, coherent narrative.
Also, the general idea of winter study is to provide a low-key, low-stress outlet for students between two intense academic semesters. Many of the courses are neither rigorous nor time-consuming. To work according to plan, ours would have to be both.
Finally, collaboration between writers and artists is a pretty novel concept. Typically, especially in college, writers workshop with other writers and artists critique with other artists. We had no idea how quickly our students would be able to adjust to the mixed media aspect of the course.
We had 12 students, evenly divided between guys and gals. We had a fairly even mix of class years. We had six writers and six artists.
Given the short time frame, we had sent our students homework to complete over the break. We emailed them three paragraphs and three images. The writers were instructed to "respond" to the images and the artists to the paragraphs. On the first day of class we looked at the responses together as a group. It was interesting to see how stunningly various were the responses to the same prompts. Our hope was that it would give our students, and us, a good sense of aesthetics and interest to the end of helping us come up with compelling collaborative pairs. We gave our students the opportunity to write us an email that night letting us know who they might like to partner with, not along the lines of who they liked personally, but along the lines of creative compatibility. We took this info, added our own judgment, and assigned pairs. The next day we spent most of the class period looking through an anthology that was the course text, looking at and discussing the work of established indie comics makers. At the end of the class, we announced the partner pairings and sent them off to spend the weekend starting the conversation about a collaborative project.
The rest of the course was essentially a workshop to discuss and develop their works. We met three times a week for two hours as a group, and each pair met independently with Robbi and me for an hour long tutorial session.
Our biggest worry was that the groups would have difficulty getting off the ground with the initial idea from which to depart. Not a single group struggled in this respect. Their ideas were interesting and surprising. The creative direction seemed drawn from a place of genuine collaboration, not from one person's aesthetic or agenda overriding the other.
I'll cut to the quick:
Our students were amazing. They worked their butts off. They took risks. They articulated their ideas with passion and eloquence.
We were so pleased that we took them bowling. Writers versus artists. In a match to the death.
Here is Robbi's crew.
And here are some of mine.
It was a well-contested match, but I am happy to report that the writers prevailed by a slim margin. Our victory can be attributed to a general lack of will among the artists. I cite this example: at one point one of our more audacious writers, name of K-Town, stole the 8-pound pink ball that many of the artists had been using. The act was overt and witnessed by various members of the artist camp, but beyond minor protest, the theft went uncontested, the result of crumpled spirits. From that point, my people cruised to easy victory. We aren't above a little necessary sabotage.
Perhaps the highlight of the evening was the purchase and consumption of the "cod roll", a curious item from the snack bar that fascinated one member of my team.
The month continued and the work continued to exceed our wildest dreams. We had hoped for not much more than good thinking on the topic of cross-media collaboration. But complete narratives were emerging, complete with strong, thoughtful syntheses of writing and images.
The six projects were, in a nutshell:
1) a mock-academic piece on Emily Dickinson that gradually but unflinchingly pilloried the life and work of the misunderstood Belle
2) the tragicomic tale of the dawning of consciousness of Moshe the "just add water" Tyrannosaurus Rex, complete with questions of ontology and the premature onset of epistemological gloom
3) a process piece on the inner narrative of a superhero/assassin, who, in the end, is revealed to be just like you and me, an honest average Joe who goes to bed in his suburban house each night
4) the quiet, yet powerful story of a disabled woman trapped in her upstairs apartment, taking the voyeur's long look at the world passing by outside her window
5) the story of two college lovers poignantly reunited on the occasion of a wedding told in an alternating narrative of photograph and prose
6) a quirky, knowing voicing of male insecurity that unfolds across a 96-inch accordion-fold dreamscape of self-aggrandizement and surreal fantasy
Further, our students seemed motivated to actually produce finished books, formatted in InDesign, the professional page layout program we use for our books. Robbi did a two-hour seminar on the software and expected that the students would be overmatched by the new technology. Instead, each group created sophisticated layouts, which would enable them to print and assemble multiple finished copies of their book.
We set up a bookmaking lab in our classroom and spent a full day printing, trimming, folding, scoring, gluing, and stapling.
They were tireless and amazing.
In spite of the usual fare of errors and delays on the part of the printer.
It was incredibly gratifying to see the care they took in assembling their finished books.
And the pride they obviously felt in beholding them.
On the last day of class, this past Wednesday, we had an open house for the public. I would have been happy with a dozen or so visitors. Instead, over the course of two hours, 50-60 people came through to see the finished books, students and professors alike.
Perhaps it was the spread of delicious cheeses that drew the crowds, but our students' work spoke for itself. They were absolute stars.
Inspired by the spirit of collaboration, one of our artists penned the following illustration, which I may have made into a poster for the benefit of generations of collaborators to come. It speaks volumes, I think.
I am reluctant to ever teach another course for fear that no other group of students could match up to the ones we had this month. For those of you who care about the place, it seems that Williams is in very good hands.
Posted by bogenamp at 10:05 AM
January 22, 2008
Live Free or Die
I haven't been writing because we have been busy of late. Last Friday night I played a gig with Misty Blues at Liston's roadhouse in Worthington. We played loud and long and my ears rang for two days after. There are no pictures of the event because we lost the cord that recharges our camera. But Robbi went to Radio Shack and fixed the problem. Saturday we drove north and east to Hebron, New Hampshire, home of the Connor Brothers, the manly trio who fishes up in Bristol Bay with us each summer.
Here they are in full Alaskan glory, on the deck of the good ship Charisma.
Paul, the brother on the lower right, had invited us up to visit his homestead, a house he built by hand in the middle of 60 acres of New Hampshire wilderness. Being as close to Hebron as we're likely to be for quite some time, we decided to make it a day trip.
It took about three hours to get there, the roads we traveled getting progressively smaller and snowier. When we arrived, we wouldn't have known we were in Hebron except for the post office.
There was a lot of snow on the ground, and snowmobiles are a primary form of transportation. Hence, this machine that grooms the various trails.
Paul's house is about a mile from the closest road that can be accessed in the winter, so Paul met us with his snowmobile and drove us up to his place.
The trail through the woods was steep, but Iggy kept pace.
For the most part.
Paul's house is a work in constant progress.
Situated in the middle of 60 acres of New Hampshire wilderness, the house is not on the grid. Paul runs generators to charge the batteries that run the electricity in his house. Water comes from a well. The fridge, stove, and hot water heater run on propane.
He adds to the house as need be. For years, he lacked a bathroom. Eventually, his wife Kathleen persuaded him of the virtues of indoor plumbing.
The interior is cozy and beautiful. Kathleen made us some delicious soup.
Our good friends Josh and Kay drove over from Boston for the day. Josh also fishes in Alaska in the summers.
Josh plays the banjo.
Kay plays with dogs.
Paul and Kathleen have two kids, Cian and Cullem. Cian was sick and remained understated throughout our visit.
Cullem, on the other hand, was anything but shy. Throughout our first half hour or so in the house, we were treated to five or so different personas. Here are a few.
Being the incredibly manly type, Paul is a blacksmith and has a lot of powerful metalworking tools in the unfinished barn beside his house.
Like this sucker, which adds tremendous force to one's hammer blow.
The hammers in question.
Another piece of indiscriminately masculine machinery.
This one is instrumental in heating the metal. I do not know its name.
One of Robbi's many virtues is endless curiosity.
In addition to the metalworking barn, Paul has a shed/tent structure for woodworking. Notice the open end. Nothing like subzero New Hampshire temperatures to compliment one's woodworking.
In addition to all his tools, Paul has other essentials on hand. Like a PA system for playing music.
Paul has a beautiful voice and plays a nice guitar. I brought my harps, and we played a bit.
Eventually, it came time to go home.
We piled back onto the snowmobiles and drove through the dark woods back to our car.
For years, Robbi and I have listened to Paul and his brothers talk about their homes on the lake in Hebron, NH. For years we have dreamed of our own cabin in the woods, away from it all.
And although we were inspired by the loveliness of the setting and the romance of their lives, the visit helped us feel thankful for the amenities of our barn. Our plumbing, our electricity, our well-manicured roadways.
Perhaps someday we will feel ready to truly set out into the wilderness to make a life among the trees. But something tells me that we won't.
We're home now, back from Massachusetts, looking forward now to Idiots'Fest, mere weeks away.
I have some catching up to do here that will be posted in the days ahead.
Posted by bogenamp at 10:22 PM
January 17, 2008
There was a foot of snow on the ground when we got to town two weeks ago. The temperature was hovering around zero. Then there was a period of sudden thaw. Temperatures soared into the mid-60s and all the snow melted. About a week ago, we reached a comfortable middle ground that felt appropriate for January in Williamstown. We've been getting lots of snow, but not so much accumulation. The kind of snow you can brush off your car instead of having to scrape.
In other words, all the beauty without the hassle.
On the way to class the other day, we stopped to admire our surroundings. Here, for those of you who know the Williams campus and are interested in the enormous changes currently underway, is the substructure of the new academic building now occupying the green space that had existed between the Congregational Church and Hopkins Hall.
Here is Robbi, mugging with the Williamstown sign.
Here she is wretchedly sulking along the byways as she is known to do.
And here she is standing at the famous gates of West College, the original building from which Williams has grown over the past 200+ years.
Later that afternoon, we took a walk in Hopkins Forest.
It was cold and the snow was falling.
Iggy was in high cheer. She loves to run around in the snow and tries to eat as much of it as possible. Her newest trick is catching snowballs lobbed her way.
Some times of year, the Hopkins Forest lower loop is full of joggers, walkers, dogs, families, student researchers, tree sap collectors. But, for the moment, we had the place to ourselves.
Posted by bogenamp at 01:02 PM
January 13, 2008
Only in New England
After class on Friday afternoon, we piled into the car and headed East. Though the snow had melted in the valley, as we climbed the pass outside of North Adams, ice hung in the trees.
It was foggy as we drove through Savoy and just on the edge of starting to snow.
We were on our way to Andover to visit my mom and Dean.
Because they like us, they took us to a Japanese restaurant. It was one of those menus with hundreds of options, all of which seemed very delicious.
Robbi got some udon, which pleased her.
I was torn. Sushi or noodles? Sashimi or teriyaki? I was scanning the sushi menu when something caught my eye. Red Sox roll? My fandom was piqued. Patriots roll? My mind was made up.
Here are the glorious foodstuffs in question.
The Red Sox roll (upper right) is topped with tuna. The Patriots roll, lower right, is a bit more puzzling, since their colors are not white and orange. But the white fish is blue marline, apparently, which is one of the Pats' colors. In any case, they were delicious.
The other two rolls on the plate?
The Celtics roll and the Bruins roll, of course.
Very full of raw fish, we turned in. The next day, we went to see Juno. I hope that I do not ruin anyone's fun by revealing that Juno deals prominently with pregnancy. At the end there is a delivery. Watching it, I wept like a small boy whose candy has just been stolen.
After the movie we went grocery shopping with mom. Perhaps the citizens of Lawrence, Massachusetts know something we don't, but people were crammed in there like the end of days were nigh.
Safely back at mom's house, we started mixing the batter for popovers.
For those who do not know, popovers are a light and fluffy pastry thing which, though tasty in their own right, are mostly a vehicle for putting enormous quantities of butter and jam into one's mouth.
I used to spend my boyhood summers on Mount Desert Island in Maine. My favorite day each year was when mom took me to high tea at the Jordon Pond House, where I ate popovers, butter, and jam in enormous quantities.
My mom is a wizard in the kitchen. I love my mom.
Robbi, on the other hand, kept sneaking bites of things she was not supposed to be eating.
In spite of better judgment, I love her, too.
The occasion for the popovers was a high tea we were having for our friends Bill and Betty Lychack. Bill is Andover's artist in residence and an incredibly talented writer. If you have not read The Wasp Eater, you really ought to.
Though we like Bill and Betty quite a bit, our real motive in inviting them over was the fact that they had twins six months ago. The popovers were mostly a bribe to ensure that we got to spend some time with Burgess and her brother William.
William was a very good natured little boy, though he wasn't quite sure what to make of us.
Burgess just seemed embarrassed to be seen with me.
I was delighted to learn that it is perfectly fine to put your baby on the floor.
And that, if you have two babies of approximately the same shape and size, it's a good idea to vary the color of their packaging.
We were inspired by the babies. "We can do this," we said to each other. "This is going to be easy."
Five minutes later, we fell into a profound late afternoon slumber.
Mom says it has something to do with the babies, but I blame the popovers.
Posted by bogenamp at 08:26 PM
January 09, 2008
Roadhouse Revival
In just four days it has gone from 1 degree to 65 in Williamstown, Massachusetts. At the far extreme, Iggy was refusing to pee on account of the cold. She would go outside, pretend to pee, and then lunge for the door and the promise of warmth within. Back inside, she'd still have to pee and get antsy. So we'd make her go outside again and the crisis would repeat itself. Eventually we had to exercise some tough love. Now it's warm and Iggy is having no problem taking care of business, but the world is a muddy soup. I took a run in Hopkins Forest today and came back with soggy feet. It is unnatural to walk around Williamstown with no jacket in the heart of January.
Roadhouse Revival, the album I recorded last weekend with Misty Blues, my friend Gina's band, has been recorded and mastered and is currently in production. If you are interested in hearing a cut from the album (featuring yours truly on harp), visit the band's MySpace page. The song posted, Down By the Riverside, is a jaunty, happy tune.
The second day we were in the studio, Gina laid down a few more vocal tracks on this very attractive microphone.
And Jeff, who had not been able to make it the night before, added his guitar throughout the album. As I was preparing to take this photo, he wanted to make certain that the World of Warcraft shirt would be legible.
And this is Greg, who recorded and produced the album, with his very large mixing board.
Though it is difficult for the mind to grasp, apparently Greg knows what to do with all of these knobs.
Here is Misty Blues proper, minus the "special guest" harp and piano players.
In other news, Robbi ate a baked potato for dinner.
And just tonight we prepared the volume 12 mailing.
Subscribers, keep an eye on your mailbox.
Posted by bogenamp at 11:36 PM
January 06, 2008
Idiots'Fest Web site
Friends, it is time to make your travel plans. Idiots'Fest 2008: Subscribers that Rock is a mere six weeks away.
Robbi has built a rather nice festival Web site. Check it out by clicking here.
It can also be seen here.
Or here.
If you must, you can see it by clicking here, but if you click here, consider yourself unwelcome at the festival. We try to be reasonable, accommodating people but we do have our limits.
Know this: Idiots'Fest is going to be a pretty wonderful thing, if only because of the extraordinary cast of characters who will be strutting their stuff for your enjoyment.
It may not seem convenient to travel to Chestertown in the middle of February, but if I were a betting man, I'd wager that you would not regret it.
Unless you dislike things that rock. If this is the case, you might be better served by clicking here.
Posted by bogenamp at 02:47 PM
January 05, 2008
The Village Beautiful
We have been absent but not idle. Since returning from Missouri, a number of things have happened. As part of our ongoing research into small, young people, we hung out with "Baby Joe" on New Year's Eve.
Baby Joe is the son of our friends Yarwen and Hsu. Baby Joe is two months old. He was not much of a conversationalist, but he was awfully cute.
He gave small but very nice hugs.
Also on New Year's Eve, we opened our Christmas presents from Bob and Seiko. The Berhs don't do anything the "normal" way.
Robbi got a very special shirt from her Aunt Mimi. At first it seemed too small.
But further investigation revealed it to be quite expandable. And so I had to try it on.
We came to the conclusion that it is really more of a lady garment.
After the New Year's Eve Christmas party, Robbi finished putting together the layout for Volume 12.
The next day, I trimmed and stapled 200 copies.
Then we had a traditional Japanese New Year's Day lunch with Bob and Seiko.
We packed. We drove to Baltimore with our cats in a box. We dropped off the cats with Supi Loco, ate some pizza, spent the night with Chris and Emily, and the next day drove to Williamstown, Massachusetts, where we will be living for the next three weeks. Williamstown, also known as the Village Beautiful, is home to Williams College, where Robbi and I went to school and met so many years ago.
We are teaching a class on collaboration between artists and writers. Over the next three weeks, we will do our best to help them think about the possibilities inherent in combining pictures and words. We had our first class on Thursday, our second on Friday, and I am pleased to say that we have an outstanding group of students.
To celebrate after our first class, we went downtown to the thriving hub of Williamstown's pulsing commercial district. Our destination, Papa Charlie's deli.
All of Papa Charlie's sandwiches are named after famous people. Quite a few of them are actors who have acted in the Williamstown Theater Festival over the years.
Many of these people have actually designed the sandwiches that are their namesakes. You can either order your sandwiches as a show of solidarity for your favorite actor or because you like the ingredients. I usually go the ingredient route. Which means I usually order the Zonker Harris. Not a real person, I realize, but still the inventor of a damn good sandwich.
After class yesterday, we met my sister Andy for coffee.
Andy lives in Haiti, where she is doing good for the world. Should you want to keep tabs on her goodness, you may do so by reading her blog.
Her Christmas present to us was this Haitian object, which apparently has something to do with our child. I'm not sure what it's for or how it works.
However enigmatic it may have been, I was pleased by the gift.
But Robbi was unimpressed.
Later that day I headed to Dalton, Massachusetts with my good friend Gina Coleman, who in addition to being a Dean of Williams College, the Executive Director of an educational nonprofit, head coach of the Williams women's rugby team, and mother, is also the lead singer of Misty Blues, a band of which I am lucky to be an occasional member. We were heading to Dalton to Derek Studios (a recording studio where the likes of Arlo Guthrie and David Crosby have recorded albums) to record Misty Blues' new album.
On the way, we dropped Gina's son Diego off at his grandma's house.
He spoke with great passion about the virtues of "Shrek Third", which he had just seen, even sharing the titles of some of the songs from the movie in a spirited attempt to persuade me to watch it.
The hills along Route 43 were covered with snow.
In the studio, I caught up with the band.
Bill, our bass player, is also a stained glass window maker and electrical engineer.
Jason, who does things with a guitar that can only be described as "tasty."
Bassie, who firmly believes that a man's drum kit is a reliable measure of his manhood.
And Gina, our leader and spiritual core.
Here is Bob, not a full-time band member, joined us on the piano. The album is a kind of honky tonk gospel/blues record with a loose and carefree sound meant to suggest a bar show. Bob's playing added a lot to the gospel side of things.
And here am I, in my lonely isolation booth.
It is a well-established fact that harp players get no respect.
There were a number of small vintage tube amps of the variety that are highly sought after by harp players looking for that fat blues tone.
I tried them all but decided to go with my own, a Gibson GA-5 from 1951. I spent a long time being very geeky on Ebay to get it. I love it. If you come to my barn, I will gladly play it for you.
Last night we laid down the recordings and today we added a few solos, tweaked a few endings, and did the mastering. The disks will be available in time for our gig at Liston's roadhouse in Savoy, MA on January 18. If you are anywhere near Savoy that day, do drop by. We'll also be playing the Williams Faculty Club Martin Luther King, Jr. event on MLK day, but I think that you have to be employed by Williams to attend. This gives you about two weeks to contact HR with your resume.
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Madame Marissa wanted to send a message to a group of guys that was at loggerheads with her crew. She wanted to show them that she would not hesitate to do anything to humiliate them if they did not stop bothering her crew. She hunted down the leader of their pack and degraded him by making him lick the soles of her high heels and posting the video to their group.
This guy was in deep shit. He had bullied and messed with these mistresses' sister. They could not let him go scot-free. So they hunted him down and when they had their chance, they pounced. They tortured him by kicking him hard in the balls, kicking him all over, trampling him and making sure he was in lots and lots of pain before they let him go and told him to stop being a bully or they would do worse.

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|The National Association of Democratic Lawyers (NADEL) welcomes the South African government's withdrawal of the repeal bill on the Rome Statue of the International Criminal Court (ICC). The withdrawal comes after the High Court of South Africa Gauteng Division, Pretoria ruled that:
"(i) the notice of withdrawal from the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, signed by the Minister of International Relations and Cooperation on 19 October 2016, without prior parliamentary approval, is unconstitutional and invalid;
Although Minister Muthambi, Acting Minister of Justice and Correctional Services, has stated that the withdrawal of the bill is not an indication of the abandonment of the process, we compliment her and other key role players for the respect and speedy execution of the court order.
While we remain cognisant of the challenges and imperfections of the ICC we are not convinced that a withdrawal from the ICC is the best solution. That being said, we do however look forward to a series of serious and robust debate on the pros and cons of our membership to the ICC. We pause to say that paramount in all discussions should be the promotion and protection of human rights, especial those of the poor and vulnerable. We can never protect dictators and other cruel leaders who engage in acts of crime against humanity, genocide and gross violations of human rights which result in the highest risk to women and children who are often the first casualties in war and terror. If such murderers rule in the West, East and Europe and remain untouched, it does not excuse us in our beloved continent of Africa from excusing such dictators and murderers, who have caused such mayhem and destruction against masses of people , from facing the full wrath of the law, be it under the ICC or similar institutions.


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Karen has never been sweeter about this and I really needed her to be around for this ruckus. She is a lot of things I am not and most certainly did not deserve to have been the target of that pot-shot (Mum was incredibly careless there). All this extra time with her has undoubtedly gravitated me along the Blue Nile but my initial reservation for unfathomable reasons is still not completely dissipated. That bothers me no end, although I think I am getting there.
What was truly unfortunate was that Zurich and Geneva and all the splendour of an Alpine autumn had to happen before November 6th. The trip was not meticulously planned but there had been mumbles to join in Willi's big 80th celebration since I left Boston. As expected, mum was not keen, egged on by her bowels which were even less keen. However the magnificence of the crystal lakes bathing the banks lined with rows after rows of golden grape vines, blooming into variegated splashes of orange, red and gold was certain to have made impact on the positive side. As we witnessed the expanse of Lake Geneva proudly sprawling out, shimmering in the evening glow, gently caressing the torsos of bold swimmers (or dippers) and lapping at the feet of swans so overfed that they were practically cripples on dry land, we breathed in a deep sigh of Switzerland.
It is almost unimaginable that I grew up a little bit here (from 5 to 6 and a half). Mum and dad wanted to revisit what they remembered. The communal place up in the mountains of St. Cergue where the Migros bus chugged up weekly for our grocery; the low wall along the primary school in the tiny town of Moudon where I tried (and failed miserably) to fight off the local kids; the creaking attic with the lonely looking windows overseeing the baker's across the street where I ventured daily to get our baguette that measured longer than I was tall; the stony deck on the ground floor with slabs so smooth that I learned roller-skating on… It's unimaginable how 25 years just sped right past us without ever looking back. We could not recognise everything as much has since changed. But I could tell that it was a good trip from the gleam in their eyes, and that was enough.


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Monday, May 01, 2006
Here are my latest desgin.I had a lot of fun making them but i struggel with the dog making the legs and positioning them was difficult.They are on sale at my esty shop jennipoh esty shop.
i hop u like them!!!!
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Parys Sharp
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35244, Alabama, AL, Bessemer
About Parys
"Smile and treat people the way you want to be treated. Simple!"
Parys joined Barfield, Murphy, Shank & Smith in 1999. As a billing & receivables specialist, she is responsible for generating and distributing invoices to clients, processing payments, preparing reports for coworkers and clients, and managing and maintaining the firm's collection software (TermSync). Parys assists clients with questions regarding invoices and payables. She is the "go-to" person for client calls and provides assistance to her coworkers with billing, client payables or collections questions.
Many of her colleagues and clients would describe Parys as a helpful and knowledgeable resource. Her kind and genuine personality and willingness to do all she can to help make her a strong member of the administrative team. Parys attributes much of her success in her field to her optimistic attitude and her willingness to learn new things to stay ahead of the curve.
Parys grew up in Helena, Alabama and continues to reside in her hometown. She has one son who is attending Mississippi College on a football scholarship. In her free time, Parys enjoys reading and watching television.
- Administrative Professionals
- Notary Public/State of Alabama
- National Association of Credit and Collections Management
- Herzing University of Business and Technology – Top Tier Graduate Associates Degree in Business Administration


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Protecting Employees Abroad
Medical Contingency Planning
A U.S. company is opening a flagship retail store in Moscow. A group of 50 North American and European employees will be spending four weeks in Moscow, working 16-hour days, prior to the official store opening and launch party. The team is under intense time and performance pressure in a city with an unfamiliar medical care system.
A comprehensive Medical Contingency Plan is developed to identify the highest quality medical facilities and providers in Moscow as well as direct points of contact and immediate actions to be taken in the event of a medical emergency. A VIGILINT emergency physician is also detailed to coordinate and provide on-site medical care to the group, including the security team protecting the associated VIPs.
The store opening and launch party occur without incident. During the four weeks prior, there were 22 medical events managed on-site with minimal disruption to workflow. The employees saved 80 to 100 hours in downtime and left with a high degree of satisfaction.


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For Part II of our of this week's Weekend Miscellany, Vincent and Matt prove that they were indeed English majors — their picks are all articles and essays, no podcasts.
Vincent's Picks
- "Mister Lytle: An Essay" by John Jeremiah Sullivan. I read this essay as a part of writer John Jeremiah Sullivan's excellent collection Pulphead, and among many stars, this one shone the brightest to me.
- "The White Album" by Chuck Klosterman. Chuck Klosterman's profile of the Rockets' Royce White, unlike the 30 for 30 short released around the time of the NBA draft, is not overly sympathetic to White. Instead, after reading the essay, you get a sense of just how weird the entire situation is, something Klosterman does well without being dismissive of White's illness.
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It should be among the easiest promises the candidates for Louisiana governor could make: "I will rein in the vultures who run payday lending operations and stop them from preying on the working poor."
Every day across Louisiana, hundreds of people fall upon hard times. As the saying goes, they have more month left than paycheck. Imagine your car breaks down. If you can't make it to work, you'll lose your job, but you don't have $100 for repairs. Instead of going to friends or relatives, you enter a payday loan office to borrow the money until you get paid again.
That's your first mistake because most payday lenders impose outrageous interest rates compared to traditional lenders (banks that don't make small loans or that won't lend to someone with poor or no credit). According to Credit.com, "In most cases the annual percentage rate (APR) on a payday loan averages about 400%, but the [effective] APR is often as high as 5,000%."
However, it's not the hideous interest rates that most hurts borrowers; it's their abuse at the hands of lenders who know – and hope – that these loans will not be repaid within the usual 14 days. The real money is the rollovers or "loan churn," as the lenders call it. According to a September 2013 report by the Center for Responsible Lending, "borrowers on average take out nine loans per year, paying back $504 in fees alone for $346 in non-churn principal."
But, back to that $100 you need to fix your car. Once inside a payday lending office, here's what often happens, according to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC): You write a check for $115 (the extra $15 is the fee to borrow the money). "The check casher or payday lender agrees to hold your check until your next payday. When that day comes around, either the lender deposits the check and you redeem it by paying the $115 in cash, or you roll-over the loan and are charged $15 more to extend the financing for 14 more days."
These loans are usually rolled over several times because borrower often cannot repay the loan and the fee. Thus begins a vicious cycle. "The cost of the initial $100 loan is a $15 finance charge and an annual percentage rate of 391 percent," the FTC says. "If you roll-over the loan three times, the finance charge would climb to $60 to borrow the $100."
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When Ida B. Wells-Barnett died in 1931, after a life spent in the trenches of the battle on behalf of African Americans and women, many of her courageous efforts to expose the epidemic lynching of blacks at the turn of the twentieth century went largely unheralded. By then her groundbreaking work had been eclipsed by the fetes of feminists and black luminaries alike who quietly benefited from her work.
In 1970, nearly four decades after her death, Wells-Barnett's daughter, the late Alfreda Duster, did her part to restore her mother's rightful place in the annals of history with the publication of Crusade for Justice, the autobiography that Wells-Barnett had begun several years before. Published by the University of Chicago Press under the guidance of the recently-deceased John Hope Franklin, the book inspired renewed interest in this larger-than-life figure who actually just stood five-feet tall.
However, it took nearly four more decades before scholars built on this essential work, taking stock of a woman who during the height of her anti-lynching crusade was celebrated far and wide by the likes of Frederick Douglass. Within the past year, two eagerly-awaited biographies have been published that finally insert Ida B. Wells-Barnett into the foreground of American history.
First came Ida: A Sword Among Lions by Paula J. Giddings, author of several works, including When and Where I Enter: The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America. In this biography of Wells-Barnett, Giddings gives us the most definitive account yet of the journalist who, under the pen name "Iola" transformed the grotesque instances of lynching of blacks from an unpunished American pasttime to the international disgrace and barbaric crime that it was.
Wells-Barnett, a product of Victorian-era patriarchy, nonetheless challenged white and male supremacy with her defiant and uncompromising campaign for justice. And throughout her life she managed to juggle her consuming career as a journalist, orator and civic activist with marriage and motherhood.
In a detailed and poignant account that spans Wells-Barnett's remarkable life, Giddings begins by settling a score for her subject by naming many of her legendary contemporaries-including Carter G. Woodson, W.E.B. Du Bois, Mary Church Terrell and Walter White-who in accounts written during her lifetime helped keep Wells-Barnett on the margins of history.
"Even books about lynching published in the 1920s and 1930s, including Walter White's Rope and Faggot and Arthur Raper's The Tragedy of Lynching-two widely cited reference texts on the subject-failed to mention Wells-Barnett," writes Giddings. She adds that several NAACP documents about the history of the anti-lynching movement give Wells-Barnett little if any credit. "Subsequently, the NAACP marginalized Wells-Barnett's contributions, even while it adopted her strategies and perspectives."
Giddings' absorbing and meticulous 659-page work is as much a record of Wells-Barnett's incomparable crusade for black and women's rights as it is a compelling history of racial and gender politics during the course of her life. Time and again, Giddings introduces women in journalism, politics, and the like whose names and deeds were also obscured by the double-bind of race and gender.
Giddings paints a vivid portrait of Wells-Barnett's birthplace, Holly Springs, Mississippi, a town of many skilled blacks, among them her father, who was a carpenter. There, amid whites who were more paternal than violent, she was born into slavery in 1862 and raised against the backdrop of the Civil War, Emancipation, and Reconstruction.
From Holly Springs, the site of the regional Freedman's Bureau, young Ida witnessed the stunning rise of former slaves to unimaginable heights. In 1872, when she was ten, Hiram Revels, an AME minister and Holly Springs resident, become the first black U.S. Senator when he filled the unexpired term of Confederate President Jefferson Davis. James Hill, a family friend born two miles from Holly Springs, served as Mississippi's secretary of state from 1872 to 1878.
Elsewhere in the state, forty African Americans were in Mississippi's Reconstruction legislature, including Blanche Kelso Bruce, a member of the U.S. Senate; John R. Lynch, the Speaker of the House; and A.K. Davis, the state's lieutenant governor. Giddings places Wells-Barnett in the vortex of the period, providing a panoramic view of the events, people and ideas that informed her worldview, sense of possibility, and future activism.
For a more distilled account of Wells-Barnett's work with less historical nuance, To Tell the Truth Freely: The Life of Ida B. Wells-Barnett by Mia Bay, author of The Black Image in the White Mind. While far less ambitious than Giddings's, Bay's book manages to be a useful primer on Wells-Barnett's activist life and work, particularly for those who are less familiar with her achievements.
Like Giddings, Bay points out how Wells-Barnett, by the end of her life, had become a victim of gender bias and the ways in which her edgy personality was magnified by gender.
Both books trace the extraordinary arc of Wells-Barnett's upbringing in Holly Springs, the tragic loss in 1878 of her parents and siblings to yellow fever; the sixteen-year-old orphan's noble struggle to help raise her surviving siblings on her teacher's wages; her move to Memphis at age eighteen; her successful discrimination lawsuit against a railway company; her discovery, by the age of twenty, of the pen as a weapon against racial and gender injustice and her rise to international fame as a journalist, orator and civic organizer.
We witness the rifts, slights and alienation that by the end of her life seem to have taken their toll on a warrior who nonetheless continued to fight. Her landslide defeat as candidate for president of the National Association for Colored Women to Mary McLeod Bethune in 1924 was followed by other campaigns, most notably an unsuccessful run for an Illinois state senate seat in 1930.
Before her sudden death in 1931 at age 68, Wells-Barnett expressed regret that her pioneering anti-lynching efforts during a pivotal period in history had been all but forgotten. Thanks to her daughter's devoted work and now the addition of these two important biographies, Wells-Barnett can rest assured that her legacy is fittingly secured.
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A DEA agent and an undercover Naval Intelligence officer who have been tasked with investigating one another find they have been set up by the mob -- the very organization the two men believe they have been stealing money from.
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Asiana Airlines has been taking all kinds of measures to recover its profitability since December 2015, including eliminating first-class seats on some of its routes. The measures paid off in the first half this year as operating profit rose 23.9 percent to 60.4 billion won from sales revenue of 2.741 trillion won, up 6.8 percent YoY, the air carrier said in the First-Half Management Report issued by the Strategic Planning Team.
The report said the normalization measures helped to boost the operation of the air carrier overall and improve the figures for the period. The report said the three key measures included the readjustment of its flight routes, streamlining its operation and upgrading its planes.
At the end of the 2015 operational period, the air carrier did not do well. Its net loss amounted to 81.5 billion won for the year, plunging the entire company into a crisis.
Tough competition from the LCC and foreign airlines were blamed for the dismal results of Asiana, and the air carrier has been taking measures to improve the operation. The air carrier reduced the number of branches around the country to 14 from 23, while 128 overseas offices have been cut to 92.
The airline also increased the number of seats on its 15 planes by 366. The air carrier did away with all first-class seats on those planes, including six A320s, and four B777s to increase the economy-class seats.
Asiana Airlines, in partnership with its employees, will conduct its business in a manner that ensures the health and safety of its employees, customers, associated companies and the general public, while meeting its obligations under all applicable regulations. Asiana Airlines will accomplish this through a Safety Management System and take utmost care to apply the following principles ensuring the highest level of safety.
* To comply with and, wherever possible, exceed, regulatory requirements and standards.
* To ensure that skilled and trained human resources and sufficient material resources are available to achieve safety objectives.
* To monitor and measure the safety performance of our system continuously through the safety performance indicators and to provide feedback to all employees.
* On-going training of employees in flight and ground safety issues.
* There are no restrictions to the reporting of flight and ground safety issues.
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* To identify causes of hazards and to take preventative measures.
* To continually improve our safety performance through management processes that ensure relevant safety action is taken and is effective.
"No compromise on safety issues" is Asiana's core management philosophy, it says. All levels of management and all employees are accountable for the delivery of this highest level of safety performance.
Asiana Airlines Inc., South Korea's second-biggest passenger carrier, is struggling to improve its business amid an ongoing diplomatic row over the deployment of a self-defense missile system here and increased competition with budget carriers.
Under its three-year restructuring plan that ends in December 2018, Asiana Airlines has cut costs, incorporated redundant business departments, and reorganized its fleet and routes. The airline announced the plan in December 2015 after it had performed poorly in the previous three years due to challenges from low-cost carriers.


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Anna Katharina Margaretha Hasstedt (1887-1938)
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Succumbed Soon After Suffering Stroke. Survived by Her Parents, Other Relatives
Funeral services for the late Miss Anna Hasstedt were held Thursday, July 7, at 2 p.m., at the home in Harrison Township where the pastor of Trinity Lutheran at Boone, the Rev. O. Erbe addressed the family in German.
Many friends and neighbors had gathered at St. Paul's Lutheran, at Mackey, at 2:30. A quartet, Alma Murken, Dorothy Moeller, Martin Michel and Albert Moeller, sang: "Asleep in Jesus" and "Abide With Me," Miss Margaret Lutjen in charge at the organ. The pastor addressed the audience from the text I Thess. 4, 17: "And so shall we ever be with the Lord."
The casket was borne to the grave by George Michel, George Peter, Emil Ahrens, Christ Lutjen, Louis Leininger and Louis Blaess. The many beautiful floral tributes were in charge of Miss Hilda Krug and Mrs. Glen Sayre.
Interment was made at St. Paul's church cemetery.
Confirmed in 1901
Anna Katharina Margaretha Hasstedt, third child of Martin and Mattie Hasstedt, was born April 12, 1887, in Harrison Township, Boone County, Iowa. She attended the schools of that community, joining St. Paul's by rite of confirmation March 31, 1901.
The following years were spent in the parental home where she ministered to the needs of the household and her aged parents.
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Early in the morning of July 4, while at work she was stricken with paralysis which terminated her life soon after. She reached the age of 51 years, 2 months and 22 days. She is survived by her aged parents, Martin and Mattie Hasstedt and two brothers, Charles and Christ Hasstedt of Boone County.
Of a quiet and unassuming character she endeared herself to a large circle of friends. A consecrated Christian woman, she put into practice the faith which was hers. The sympathy of a host of friends and neighbors is extended the bereaved family.
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A double-blind, placebo-controlled intervention trial of 3 and 10 mg sublingual melatonin for post-concussion syndrome in youths PLAYGAME: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
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First Online: 07 July 2014Received: 31 March 2014Accepted: 17 June 2014DOI: 10.1186-1745-6215-15-271
Cite this article as: Barlow, K.M., Brooks, B.L., MacMaster, F.P. et al. Trials 2014 15: 271. doi:10.1186-1745-6215-15-271
BackgroundBy the age of sixteen, one in five children will sustain a mild traumatic brain injury also known as concussion. Our research found that one in seven school children with mild traumatic brain injury suffer post-concussion syndrome symptoms for three months or longer. Post-concussion syndrome is associated with significant disability in the child and his-her family and yet there are no evidence-based medical treatments available. Melatonin has several potential mechanisms of action that could be useful following mild traumatic brain injury, including neuroprotective effects. The aim of this study is to determine if treatment with melatonin improves post-concussion syndrome in youths following mild traumatic brain injury. Our hypothesis is that treatment of post-concussion syndrome following mild traumatic brain injury with 3 or 10 mg of sublingual melatonin for 28 days will result in a decrease in post-concussion syndrome symptoms compared with placebo.
Methods-DesignNinety-nine youths with mild traumatic brain injury, aged between 13 and 18 years, who are symptomatic at 30 days post-injury will be recruited. This study will be conducted as a randomized, double blind, placebo-controlled superiority trial of melatonin. Three parallel treatment groups will be examined with a 1:1:1 allocation: sublingual melatonin 3 mg, sublingual melatonin 10 mg, and sublingual placebo. Participants will receive treatment for 28 days. The primary outcome is a change on the Post-Concussion Symptom Inventory Parent and Youth. The secondary outcomes will include neurobehavioral function, health-related quality of life and sleep. Neurophysiological and structural markers of change, using magnetic resonance imaging techniques and transcranial magnetic stimulation, will also be investigated.
DiscussionMelatonin is a safe and well-tolerated agent that has many biological properties that may be useful following a traumatic brain injury. This study will determine whether it is a useful treatment for children with post-concussion syndrome. Recruitment commenced on 4 December 2014.
Trial registrationThis trial was registered on 6 June 2013 at ClinicalTrials.gov. Registration number: NCT01874847.
KeywordsConcussion Traumatic brain injury Melatonin Placebo Pediatric Randomized controlled trial AbbreviationsACHAlberta Children's Hospital
ANOVAAnalysis of variance
BASC-2Behavioral assessment system for children
CHEOChildren's Hospital of Eastern Ontario
CHQChild health questionnaire
CHREBUniversity of Calgary Health Research Ethics Board
DSMBData safety monitoring board
EDEmergency department
mTBIMild traumatic brain injury
PCSPost-concussion syndrome
PCSIPost-concussion symptom inventory
PCSI-PPost-concussion symptom inventory-parent
PCSI-YPost-concussion symptom inventory-youth
PTHPost-traumatic headache
TBITraumatic brain injury
TSCTrial steering committee.
Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article doi:10.1186-1745-6215-15-271 contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
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Thursday, August 3, 2017
Things I Didn't Buy 47
I liked these two prints by Margo Alexander. They were framed (and rather banged up), but the art was really pretty. Very 1950s. I liked the colors and the brush strokes.
A couple of Kentucky Tavern ads.
I like that this ad has this line at the bottom: There's only one better buy in bonds…savings bonds!
An Old Dutch Cleanser ad from The Ladies' Home Journal from 1924.
And a Pepsi ad from the 1950s. On your wedding day, choose Pepsi over champagne. Okay, the ad doesn't say that, but it does want you to have a "light" refreshment with fewer calories. [Pause.] It's my opinion that counting calories is the last people want to be doing at a wedding.
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The best teacher at gray academy just don't be a Vikings fan and he will love u
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Mr. G. is a wonderful person and teacher. However, it seems that he always gets the worst courses to teach. The Admin. should give Mr. G. better courses to teach, both he and the students deserve it.
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Mr.G is a JWC icon. Very friendly and yet very easy. But who said easy was a bad thing?
Since when did u become such an unfair marker? Since when did you stop explaining the assignments well? Can't find the words. Disappointed.WeWant old Mr.G back.
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Mr. Golstine is a great guy, although I do not learn alot.
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text: NCPA: Daily Policy Digest 12-01-2009 Get link Facebook Twitter Pinterest Google+ Email Other Apps December 01, 2009 National Center for Policy Analysis Daily Policy Digest Tuesday, December 1, 2009 There are more than 500,000 subscribers that receive the Daily Policy Digest. Help us hit 1 million by Forwarding to a Friend. Yes, I want to support Daily Policy Digestand contribute today! Regulatory Issues OBSTACLES TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING Local government policies that increase building costs and/or restrict the supply of housing are one of the primary reasons for the lack of affordable housing, according to researcher James Franko... NATIONAL CENTER FOR POLICY ANALYSIS Health Issues WHAT'S AT STAKE WITH OBAMACARE Once you cut through the budget gimmicks, ObamaCare will have a 20-year price tag of more than $4.9 trillion, say observers... HERITAGE FOUNDATION Health Issues OBAMACARE TO HIKE STATE TAXES New Medicaid spending required by ObamaCare will cost Texas ($2.8 billion in extra state spending), Pennsylvania ($1.5 billion), California ($1.4 billion) and Florida ($909 million), say authors Dick Morris and Eileen McGann... JEWISH WORLD REVIEW Global Warming CLIMATE CHANGE: THIS IS THE WORST SCIENTIFIC SCANDAL OF OUR GENERATION Our hopelessly compromised scientific establishment cannot be allowed to get away with the "Climategate" whitewash, says author Christopher Booker... THE TELEGRAPH Global Warming CLIMATE CHANGE DATA DUMPED Why would scientists at the world's leading climate and temperature research institute throw away much of the data used to show a long-term rise in temperature over the past 150 years?... THE TIMES Social Issues THE MILITARIZATION OF SEX Temporary marriage has recently become popular in Lebanon, notably within Hezbollah strongholds in Beirut's southern suburbs and in southern Lebanon, says journalist Hanin Ghaddar... FOREIGN POLICY About the DPD NCPA's Daily Policy Digest brings you the most wide-ranging public policy findings five times a week at no charge. DPD knows your time is valuable, so we find and summarize the most topical public policy issues from today's newspapers, magazines, websites, government reports, scholarly journals and think tanks. Visit the DPD Archives Visit the NCPA website The John Goodman Health Blog A new Consumer-Directed Health Care Blog. Forward this to a Friend Subscribe to the Daily Policy Digest. Unsubscribe: If you received this email in error, you can unsubscribe here. Connect with the NCPA on: Please do not reply to this email address as it is not monitored. For a list of NCPA departments and corresponding email addresses, please visit www.ncpa.org/contact. We depend on the financial support of individuals. We need your help to continue our work. Join the NCPA today! Dallas Headquarters 12770 Coit Rd., Suite 800 Dallas, TX 75251-1339 Phone: (972) 386-6272 Fax: (972) 386-0924 Copyright 2003-2009 National Center for Policy Analysis - All rights reserved Get link Facebook Twitter Pinterest Google+ Email Other Apps


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As a real estate professional, training is always ongoing. Most of the time, I train a staff of agents. But recently, I found myself training a young neighborhood boy, as described in the following article from the Houston Chronicle....
October 21, 2007
"Having had a successful career in the Houston real estate industry, Roger Martin, broker/owner of Roger Martin Properties, feels that it is good training to start working in the industry at an early age, and recently guided a young boy in that direction.
"Such a situation occurred when Martin listed a vacant home for lease in a Houston suburb far from his office in West University.
"He installed a lock box so other Realtors could show the property, but because of traveling time it was difficult for him to keep the flier box filed with information about the home.
"So Martin decided to hire a neighborhood kid to keep the box filled with fliers.
"At his first open house Martin met Noah, age 5, and his mom, who lived next door to the listing.
"The three of them held a long discussion of what was require (Noah was to practice his counting skills and put five fliers in the box when it was empty) and a serious discussion of what was forbidden, which was not talking to other Realtors – they were officially "strangers" and besides, that was Martin's job.
"They settled on $5 a week in wages. Martin provided Noah with a stack of fliers. The big thrill was a bundle of official Roger Martin Properties business cards that listed Noah's job title as 'Marketing Assistant.'
"Happily, Noah performed his job to perfection. The house was leased, the real estate signs came down, and the new neighbors moved in. This was a time of transition for Noah. He lost his first job, but the 'termination' occurred on his first day of kindergarten, so he has been busy furthering his educational goals ever since.'"
By Jude Patronella, the Houston Chronicle
Thank you, Noah! Math skills and a good work ethic will take you far!
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1991, the first of two "missions" began where scientists were sealed
inside the Biosphere and they conducted research (and they were part of
the research) into "self-sustaining space colonization technology". Does
that sound sci-fi enough for you? These missions captured national
attention and many visitors to the Tucson area, as those locked inside
lived in the Biosphere for over 2 years!
It's a fascinating place to
visit and what they have learned will serve to further understanding of
the fragility and beauty of the planet and the desert we all call home! Today,
it is now known as Biosphere 2 and is run by the University of Arizona.
They continue to conduct research and their current interest is global
warming. NOTE: The guided tour requires a total of 150 stairs throughout
the tour area and we want to be sure to mention this to you as it is
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Moab Regional Hospital (MRH) is one of 11 critical access hospitals in the state of Utah. A critical access hospital is a designation by the federal government in order to reduce the financial vulnerability of rural hospitals and improve access to healthcare by keeping essential services in rural communities.
"MRH is proud to serve the members of Moab and Grand County by continually working to improve operations and open new service lines," said Sarah Shea, the hospital's director of community relations. "The mission of MRH is to put the patient first, deliver quality cost-effective healthcare and promote wellness to all who are served. In alignment with the mission and values of the hospital, MRH has projected that it will provide $4.7 million in uncompensated care in 2017, primarily to the residents of Grand County. Uncompensated care includes charity care, bad debt and uninsured patient discounts."
MRH serves the growing community of Moab by delivering an average of 100 babies annually and also providing obstetric and primary care services with eight family practice providers. On Jan. 1, Moab Family Medicine merged with MRH to create better healthcare stability for local residents. Along with primary care services, MRH hosts a variety of visiting specialists. In 2017, MRH has added two podiatrists and a gynecologist to its growing list of visiting providers, and is also looking to add a urologist by the end of November. In addition, Shea said MRH is working on bringing in specialists for dermatology. General surgery and orthopedics are available full time at MRH for community members.
As a non-profit hospital, MRH uses a community health needs assessment to help drive growth and expansion to ensure that it is meeting the needs of the community. In 2017, MRH began its addiction medicine clinic in response to the community need for substance abuse services as highlighted in the 2016 Community Health Needs Assessment carried out by The National Rural Health Resource Center. The clinic currently serves patients with opioid addiction or opioid dependency. A specialized team, including physicians with suboxone waivers, a medical assistant and a social worker staff the clinic. The addiction medicine team is looking forward to increasing its patient load and diversifying services in the next year.
On Sept. 1 MRH opened Moab Regional Urgent Care, which is an after-hour alternative to the emergency room for acute, non-life-threatening medical issues. "Urgent care has proven to be utilized even more than what was originally anticipated by both visitors to Moab and community members alike," Shea said. "The urgent care clinic is a line of service that community members had been requesting for years, and MRH was thrilled to answer the need."
For more information about MRH and its services, call Shea at 435-719-3683.


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Crazy weekend trip to visit family in the Central Valley. The older boys and their dad had gone off white water rafting on the American River until Saturday. Talked with my daughter, their mom, and we decided it would be a good time to take the two littles to visit Nana and the rest of the family. We decided to head out Friday evening after I got off work. We were on the road by 6 pm and everything and everyone was good to go. Baby girl decided she was hungry about an hour into the drive, so we stopped in Bakersfield to feed her and grab a bite to eat and then we were back on the road, this time with Gaga driving. It was an easy drive until I noticed a light come on the dashboard... low pressure on the right front tire. Pulled into a gas station in Delano and found a large screw in the tire. Not quite how we wanted to start the weekend.
Short version... I discovered I can still change a tire! I do have to admit that I did have some help from the young man at the gas station where we turned to check the tire. He helped put the spare tire on and tighten the lug nuts. I also had help from the tow truck driver when he FINALLY showed up. He helped get the damaged tire back under the car and then followed us up to Tulare where we stayed the night. Yes, we stayed the night in Tulare.
There is more to the tale and much of it providential (ok, all of it providential...) and there may come a time where I share more, but suffice it to say that we did finally get up to Oakdale the next day after getting a new tire in Fresno and we had a lovely time visiting with family. All too soon, though, we were back on the road heading home.
On the way home I heard this song. I've heard it before, but tonight I felt it needs sharing. The words hit home, particularly during this season of politics, this season of the world, this heartbroken, heart-hurting, mad world.
Hit rewind and
Click delete
Stand face to face with the younger me
All of the mistakes
All of the heartbreak
Here's what I'd do differently
I'd love like I'm not scared
Give when it's not fair
Live life for another
Take time for a brother
Fight for the weak ones
Speak out for freedom
Find faith in the battle
Stand tall but above it all
Fix my eyes on you, on you
"He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?" (Micah 6:8)


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Planning a trip to Mexico?
There are some adventures in Mexico that you may not think of. There are some excellent native ruins in Mexico. There are even some pyramids. You can hook up with a local tour group or go on your own. You can always have a taxi take you and arrange for them to pick up later. You will want to be geared up for ruins and pyramids. You will need hiking boots, a body that is in relatively good shape for a physical adventure and plenty of water and snacks. You will need to hike in just to see them. This is a bargain of an adventure for any vacation.
Another fun thing to do in Mexico is parasailing. It is relatively inexpensive compared to other beach destinations. You can take off and land directly on the beach for your convenience and safety.
If you have some extra cash to spend, you can try your luck at deep sea fishing. The fish of choice is a Marlin (swordfish). This is a very popular sport in the area.
Ocean view golfing is another great excursion for all golfers young and old. Some of the most beautiful golf courses in the world exist in places such as Cabo San Lucas, Cancun and Acapulco.
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The Deepest Truth of Human Existence – Eckhart Tolle
Filmed at Parmath Niketan Ashram, Rishikesh, India
Thursday 15 November at 11am
At Simon's Town Museum
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Ticket R20
Running time 84 minutes
Accessing deeper than the stream of mind
|Beside the sacred Ganga River in Rishikesh, India, Eckhart Tolle talks about the timeless topic:
the deepest truth of human existence. Talks 'about' is appropriate – because words are not the truth, says Tolle. They can only be about the truth; they can only point to the truth. But they are not the truth, which is why Tolle asks us to listen to the gaps between his words as well as to the words themselves.
Do we know ourselves? Some of us think we do. But what we really mean, says Tolle, is "I know a lot about myself." We know facts, information; we know the contents of our minds. We then identify with those thought forms. The difference between identifying with your BMW ego and your nice spiritual ego is just a matter of subtlety, he says. Form = limitation. The only solution is to live in inner alignment – no matter what the form.
Speaking earnestly and directly to the heart, Eckhart inspires us to know ourselves at the deepest level. He takes us, step by step, from the ego position of the mind to surrender to the Now. "What grace to see the very thing that seems to be limiting you on all sides is the doorway to presence."
Disidentification with forms and our own thought forms
Eckhart Tolle One of the most popular and profound of contemporary wisdom teachers, Eckhart Tolle was born in Germany and studied at the Universities of London and Cambridge. At the age of 29 a profound inner transformation radically changed the course of his life. The insights he gained he has been sharing with the world is his best selling books such as The Power of Now (currently in 33 languages) and A New Earth – discussed with Oprah on her show. He also has become a sought-after public speaker, overcoming initial shyness.
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} Analyst sees lower iMac price tags By Brenon Daly, CBS MarketWatch Last Update:
CUPERTINO, Calif. (CBS.MW) -- Shoppers who want to take home one of those cute iMacs won't have to pay as much, one analyst said. He said he expects the price of older machines to be cut to $999.
Michael Kwatinetz, who tracks the resurgent Apple for CS First Boston, said the move would help move the iMacs out of the way for newer, faster machines. Apple's (AAPL) AAPL, -3.57% interim chief executive, Steve Jobs, announced a new series of iMacs earlier this week at Macworld Expo in San Francisco. See related story.
Jobs also used this week's annual West Coast hypefest to show off the five new "fruity" colors for its iMac. In typical Apple style, the new hues are blueberry, grape, lime, strawberry and tangerine. "Collect all five," quipped Jobs.
Kwatinetz said he expected the price cut to be announced by Apple or CompUSA, a major retailer of Apple products. "This is a normal procedure, and we believe channel inventory is at target levels," Kwatinetz said in a research note.
Jobs lowered the price for the upcoming iMacs by $100 to $1,199. But to really move the older machines, which have a slower processor and smaller drives than their replacements, Kwatinetz figures the prices will have to dip below the psychological level of $1,000.
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The iMac, which is aimed at easing users onto the Internet, has revitalized the once-moribund Apple. The cute little computer outsold all other personal computers in November retail sales, market researcher PC Data said recently.
Since the iMac hit the shelves in mid-August, more than 800,000 units have been shipped, Jobs said in his keynote address. That works out to one every 15 seconds, he added.
The expected price cut comes as analysts project strong sales for PCs in 1999. PaineWebber analyst Don Young said Thursday he sees PC demand increasing 17.5 percent this year.
But not all the news from computer retailers has been bullish. CompUSA (CPU) CPU, -2.92% said earlier this week that second-quarter same-store sales fell 4.7 percent. The computer retailer said that while unit desk-top sales increased by 50 percent, average selling prices dropped by 20 percent from last year.
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CompUSA shares dipped 7/16 to 14 3/16 -- down about two-thirds from their 52-week high. Apple stock reached a 52-week high of 46 7/8 Friday before settling down to 44 11/16 in late-session trading. Apple shares tripled last year.
Jobs also said Apple will report a profit for its fiscal first quarter when it releases those figures next Wednesday. He didn't elaborate.
Analysts expect earnings of about 70 cents per share, or twice what the Silicon Valley company earned in the same quarter last year. Sales are expected to be about $1.67 billion, up from $1.58 billion in the same quarter last year.
Apple's sales peaked in its fiscal 1995, topping out at $11.1 billion. Since then, revenue has tailed off, with sales of $9.8 billion in fiscal 1996 and $7.1 billion in 1997. Revenue dropped to $5.9 billion in the most recent fiscal year, which wrapped at the end of September.


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lørdag den 4. juni 2011
Borin did shopping for the kids today
Per 1. of June we started a new arrangement, the aunt of Rotha and Chanty will make dinner for all the kids so they don't need to buy from outside and we hope that for the same money they can get better and more food.
The portion you see in photo is for one month, for June, for 6 kids so it is not much.
Borin is writing:
I bought today somethings like you see in the pictures. Sophal got his small present (for his good results in school) included a pair of new shoes, pen and extra soybean milk. His shoes were loosed so far, and Kosal's shoes were broken too, not the shoes to school but the shoes they wear in the temple everyday. It is dirty to walk without shoes in the bathroom, and spread dirtiness to my room as well, but they don't have so much habit of wearing shoes all the time.
MILO (cocoa drink) is for them and Coffee is for me. I do need coffee in the coming time (because of exams at medical school), and it might be only at mid-night time that could be always peace and quite for me...
You see a lamp in the picture, the aunt, Rotha and Chanthy could us if they need, like you wish, but they now have dinner in my room, so normally they don't need it, but I need it when i study at night as the light I am having is too bright when people are sleeping.
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How much will the new health care law cost? That was a matter of particular dispute during the debate of the Patient Protection and Affordability Act. The bill's authors monkeyed around with the numbers, delaying some benefits, creating new revenue raisers, and pushing off known, needed reforms, so that the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) could come up with a score below the $900 billion target.
Only the most naïve failed to recognize that those numbers were meaningless: Ultimately, they would have no relationship to how much the legislation would add to taxpayers' burdens and bloat the federal budget. CBO has since been revising its estimates upward: Another $115 billion for additional administrative costs associated with the new law. In addition, Congress now struggles to pass a change to the Medicare reimbursement rates, which will cost $23 billion just to patch the problem over for two years.
Taxpayers must be warned that these are just the first of many upward revisions by CBO. As Congressman Paul Ryan pointed out during the health care debate, the CBO score was based on ten years of increased taxes and Medicare cuts, and only six years of benefits. Former CBO Director Douglas Holtz-Eakin just released his own analysis of the law and found that, far from reducing the deficit as the President and Congressional proponents promised, thelaw will add more than $500 billion to the deficit during the first ten years and another $1.4 trillion in the decade after that.
Yet the program's cost for taxpayers are just a small part of the costs that will be borne by American citizens. Speaker Pelosi explained that only when the bill passed would Americans know what's in it, and she was right. Since the bill became law it's consequences for businesses and the medical system is becoming more obvious. Several large companies reported that they would suffer multi-million dollar losses due to the law's new taxes. Companies are also noting the incentives created by the law to drop insurance coverage for their employees. As Holtz-Eakin wrote: "Caterpillar recently noted that it could save 70 percent on health care costs by dropping coverage and paying the penalties; AT&T's $2.4 billion cost of coverage would drop to just $600 million for penalties." Altogether, Holtz-Eakin estimates that as many as 35 million Americans could lose their employer-sponsored health insurance.So much for being able to keep your insurance. Americans are also learning how other provisions will drive up insurance costs. This year, "children" up to the age of twenty-six will become eligible for their parents' health insurance policy. Analysts estimate that this change
One percent itself isn't a big deal, but it's a reminder of the relationship between mandated benefits and price. The federal government will soon foist numerous new mandates upon insurance companies: free preventive care services, an end to benefit caps, limits on price differentials for those with pre-existing conditions, and many more to come. Far from freebies, these are expensive benefits and their costs will be spread around the insured population, driving premium prices up.
The law also gives government new powers to dictate how much insurance companies operate. As a result, insurance companies will have to find new ways to make ends meet, such as by reducing payments to doctors. And those doctors will also find ways to trim back costs, by consolidating practices to reduce overhead and taking on fewer patients.
The debate about how much this new health care law will cost Americans is far from over. Undoubtedly, as more of the law is implemented, we will learn more about its many hidden costs and consequences. But one thing is for sure, this new law will cost more, and like much, much more than the law's proponents promised.


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"We Believe it's Relationships"
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The Washington Post interviewed former Redskins Coach Joe Gibbs about his amazing success in running his business operations at Joe Gibbs Racing. According to the Post article, Gibbs has had remarkably little turnover among the corporate sponsors that pay the bills in the 19 years since he started his NASCAR team. The article points out that Gibbs has rewarded his backers handsomely, collecting three championships (2000, 2002 and 2005) and more than $190 million in winnings – reaching the elite ranks within NASCAR.
Quoting Gibbs, "A lot of people will say in the business world, 'Hey, its business!' But he has a different take on what lies behind his success. "We believe its relationships."
Of course, at Engagient we could not agree more. Most of the really important accomplishments in business are the results of effective relationships. And to put a finer point on it – the vital role of emotional connection. Great CEO's, like great coaches, understand the so-called "soft stuff" drives real business value.
And now we know how to measure the key drivers that lead to better relationships and higher levels of employee engagement. Imagine being able to actually measure the quality of relationships throughout the organization. It offers every CEO and senior leader an opportunity to more strategically align their company around proven drivers of high performance and employee well-being.
This is just one more example of how truly great leaders understand that great organizations begin with great relationships. But there is very little out there in the business literature that lays out how to make that happen. "Relationships" seems to some to be too "soft" in the hard knocks world of business to strategic or even — actionable. The good news is we know a lot about the need for human beings to connect with one another, and the field of attachment theory offers significant insights to savvy business leaders.
BEST PRACTICE: To learn more, check out our High Performance Culture Assessment tool and check out additional posts in the Attachment Theory category.


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Ryan Reynolds & Anna Faris star in this restaurant worker comedy. Abita is well represented with Light, Turbodog and Purple Haze. There's also Heineken bottles, a bar runner and a neon sign with the lovely Emmanuelle Chriqui. Dane Cook, David Koechner and Andy Milonakis also abbeer.
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Ryan Reynolds stars as the wise cracking hero in this action comedy. There's a nice six pack of Olympia cans and some good bar signage including Budweiser, Coors Michelob and a Miller High Life pool table light.
Ted (2012)
Mark Wahlberg stars with his fuzzy friend and plenty of Budweiser product in this outrageous comedy. Ryan Reynolds and Patrick Warburton (Puddy from Seinfeld) make a cameo with a bottle of Stella Artois and "Flash Gordon" star Sam J. Jones also appears.