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It is once again the time of year to begin thinking about winter feeding. In most areas the pastures have either slowed significantly or completely stopped growing, and stored forage will need to be fed to cows for a few months. A concern that some organic dairy farmers have expressed is the cost of organic grain, and those who are 100% grass-fed want to plan their forage inventories. What can you do that will help keep the cost as low as possible, as well as keep cows healthy and productive through the winter? To read the complete article please go to:
Local Farms Fund (LFF) is a new farmland investment fund that supports young and early stage, sustainable farmers by providing secure land access. The fund's goal is to provide lease-to-own land arrangements, with the option for the farmer to purchase the land from the fund after 5 years. LFF's lease-to-own model provides essential land security to the farmer, while the farmer is developing his or her farm business. Recently, Sonja Heyck-Merlin, NODPA News contributing writer and Maine organic dairy farmer, interviewed Kevin Egolf, Co-Founder and Manager of the Local Farms Fund. To read his responses please go to:
By Bethany Wallis, NOFA-NY Education Director
NOFA-NY Inc. announces a new program to help dairy farmers transition to organic management. With the current downturn in conventional milk pricing, many farmers who have been on the fence about transitioning to organic management practices are now taking a good hard look at the organic marketing option as a way to increase farm income. They are also evaluating an increase in marketing opportunities that organic processors are providing with new grass fed price premiums. This may be the largest transitioning group NOFA-NY has seen since farmers were trying to get in before the 1 year, 100% organic feed rule change. For more details please go to:
A cow freshened with a hot, hard quarter and a temperature of 105.6. A vet on the list determined that this would be a coliform mastitis.
Confirmed cases of lungworm in one producer's herd sent him to the list looking for alternatives to the use of conventional parasiticides, which carries a 90-day withholding for milking animals.
A farmer asked the group if there was an approved treatment to heal pneumonia scars in cattle that would calm chronic and occasional coughing.
A long discussion about one sick cow led to some good discussion about Staph aureus.
Cooler temperatures brought hordes of mice into one farmer's barns. There were the usual suggestions about adding more cats to the staff and putting down traps. A vet recommended putting up nesting boxes for barn owls or sparrow hawks. If they are native to your region, they can consume great quantities of mice. For all the detailed solutions please read the full article by NODPA President Liz Baldwin:
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The ODairy email list serve hosts robust discussions on many different issues, some practical, some on policy, some on politics and some just exchanging news on the organic community. ODairy is blessed by having so many committed veterinarians experienced in organic production who take an active part in the discussions on the list serve. There is no one way to solve a health problem in organic production. Also, Odairy is a great place to advertise animals for sale and organic feed that is available.
To join the active and informative email list serv, or to visit ODairy's archive, clicking here.
NODPA, along with at least eight other organizations, submitted partial proposals to the USDA AMS on or before July 20th, 2015 on a proposal for an organic check-off. NODPA's position in submitting the partial proposal was to ensure that there would be a democratic process in any decision on establishing an organic check-off, that all certificate holders would have a vote on such an important issue. OTA's proposal would have limited voting rights to the largest one third of certified farmers. We do not know how USDA AMS will use the partial proposals and how they will be incorporated into the OTA proposal when they publish the proposal(s) to form an organic check-off on the Federal Register for public comment. Hopefully, USDA will recognize the importance of allowing all members of the "organic commodity" the right to vote on establishing an organic check-off.
NODPA is AGAINST ANY ORGANIC CHECK-OFF and will continue to organize against it, but OTA has purchased the right to submit a proposal so we need to ensure any process is democratic. USDA AMS has questioned the support for OTA proposal so please register your opposition to a check-off (if you haven't already done so) by going to the No Organic Checkoff site or write directly to Ed Maltby, NODPA, 30 Keets Road, Deerfield, MA 01342.
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We hope your NODPA Fund Drive letter arrived in November. Thanks to all who have generously responded. If you haven't yet sent in your contribution, please take a moment to consider all the ways NODPA works for Organic Dairy farm families and those who support the industry, and send in your annual contribution today. If you already support NODPA through the monthly Milk Check Assignment or during NODPA's Field Days, we say thanks!
Do you wonder how the events happening in Washington, whether in Congress or at the USDA, are impacting your organic dairy farm? NODPA is the only independent organic dairy farmer-controlled organization that represents your interests and can keep you informed of what is happening before it is too late to act. Are you wondering how to be informed of what the different processors are paying and what opportunities exist to sell your milk? Do you want to know and understand the current retail price for organic milk? Are you interested in learning new and successful animal health care methods, new production practices, and what other producers are doing? The NODPA News print edition, NODPA E-newsletter, and the NODPA website are full of the best and most up-to-date information.
NODPA provides a wide range of resources and services, such as hosting and moderating the ODairy listserv, publishing the print newsletter (NODPA News) 6-times per year, the monthly e-newsletter, managing the resource-rich website, organizing and hosting the annual NODPA Field Days, and providing advocacy on behalf of all organic dairy farm families through membership in the National Organic Coalition. Although we keep costs to a minimum but there are still bills to pay, and your generous support is needed.
"NODPA supporters are dedicated organic dairy farmers and industry professionals; hardworking, committed to the principles of organic farming and focused on operating their businesses in the most efficient and informed way possible," said organic dairy producer and NODPA Board President Liz Bawden, "We work long hours and have come to expect reliable information delivered in the most convenient manner possible, and NODPA delivers! We know you depend on NODPA for the latest organic dairy news and education and that your support is a vote for the work we do."
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Northern Territory fire crews are fighting three large blazes believed to be deliberately lit, in the busiest start to the bushfire season in living memory.
More than 19 square kilometres of land including crops and feed lots have already been destroyed, but a total area of 136 sq km is in danger of being burnt.
Two fixed wing aircraft and several helicopters are water bombing the fires, including one that's threatened homes near Noonamah on the outskirts of Darwin.
Authorities have been battling another fire near Batchelor since Monday, but no homes have been lost thanks to back burning efforts.
The NT Police Arson Squad is investigating allegations the Batchelor blaze was deliberately lit by recreational pig hunters.
Cars and dogs were spotted in the area on Monday, leading police to believe a hunting party had been trying to flush out pigs.
The largest fire is currently burning at Darwin River, and is being fuelled by dense patches of highly flammable gamba grass.
Another at Middle Point southwest of Darwin was contained on Wednesday, which NT Bushfires believes was lit by a hoon doing donuts at a nearby airstrip.
"This is the busiest start to a fire season in living memory," NT Bushfires said in a statement.
"Just this past Monday we were dealing with five fires and needed our friends at NT Police, Fire and Emergency Services to help out with a sixth fire that we couldn't get to.
"The upsetting aspect to all this is these fires are all believed to be arson."
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In this evening talk Gen-la Khyenrab will explore mindfulness methods, meditations and ways of thinking derived from Buddha's teachings that will help us let go of anxiety, become fearless in the face of adversity and deal with our negative emotions more confidently and effectively.
About the Teacher
Gen-la Kelsang Khyenrab, International Meditation Teacher and the National Spiritual Director of the New Kadampa Tradition in Canada, is a modern Buddhist monk dedicated to helping people from all walks of life attain lasting happiness through developing inner peace, compassion and wisdom. He is deeply respected throughout the world for his powerful teachings and experience of unifying Buddha's teachings with busy daily life.
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Saturday, January 09, 2010
Cue the Jeopardy theme song
These were both fairly large "discussions" (one way the heck larger, to be sure) full of emotion and feelings. So maybe it is really just seen as a way to surrender to the other side? But I have more to say. And I am not very likely to bring the whole thing up again, with either party, so now these issues will just sit and fester, unresolved, until the next time.
Maybe I need to think faster or just remove my feelings from the situation.
Or maybe everyone should just remember what even my ex finally found to be true which is that I AM ALWAYS RIGHT!
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Tuesday, January 05, 2010
So much to say
The problem with blogs is that they are not just online journals where you can say everything you want to, people who kind of know you read this, too, and then there's that fallout.
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Monday, January 04, 2010
The doctor is in.
Ready for this fun bit of oversharing? I am having a lady problem so I called my doctor's office to order a prescription of diflucan to clear it up. (I warned about oversharing). They have this receptionist who is somewhat new (less than 6 months-ish) and irritates the living crap out of me. She's about 60 and has this reallllllly short hair which she then puts little tiny bow barrettes in.
In the bangs.
"Seriously?" You ask
So she answers the phone and I smother my dry heave when I hear her duck voice (like when someone's tongue is too big for their mouth?) and say I would like to order a prescription for a yeast infection pill. "Hmmm... Is this a prescription you normally get?"
Uh, when I need to!
"Well, when I need it, I call in and order it. It's not like it comes with refills or anything"
I can see she wants me to call and order it through my pharmacy. I also know, because I have dealt with this doctor's office more than she has, that they won't fill this prescription that way.
It took 3 minutes of discussing how I only need it sometimes and what her job should now be with that nugget of information before she moved on. (Yes, I timed it)
"Well," she said in that sensual voice of hers (seriously, you hear it from the bottom of her throat but it's all phlegmy. It's just sooo lovely), "what symptoms are you having?"
Normally this is not an out of line question, right? IF YOU ARE A NURSE!!! This lady is NOT a nurse. She is not even close to a nurse. She is a receptionist who can't, after 6 months, ask questions in the right order. (She asked my birthdate, then my issue, then my name. Every OTHER receptionist goes birthdate, name, issue. So guess how I believe the system works)
By now, my kind, patient, placating mood had worn thin.
"YEAST INFECTION type symptoms!!!"
"Oh. And what medication do you normally take for that?"
My question is, are there really NO other candidates to fire from that job? No one lasts more than a year anyway. Can't we skip ahead to the next dingleberry brained person and get rid of this twit? (I just called an old person a twit. Accurately.)
She eventually decided that I had been tormented enough and informed me that my doctor I regularly see is in today so she would forward all this to her nurse, that the forwarding wouldn't be a problem, and that the nurse would call with questions.
I felt like King Arthur, searching for the holy grail of oral diflucan, trying to cross the troll's bridge. "WHAT are your symptoms?!"
In fact, she may now be synonomous in my head with Dora the Explorer's Grumpy Old Troll song
"I'm the grumpy old trollll who lives under the [desk], Hey! I'm the grumpy old trollllll who lives under the [desk]. "
You think the fun is over? Oh no! It's only half done. Because then I had to call Alex's doctor to refill his meds.
The receptionists there are usually fantastic. Not so much, today.
First, they wanted my name. Before his name. Uh, okay.
"Holly Young"
"Hmm, how do you spell your name?"
What?!? It's reallllly hard.
"H-O-L-L-Y" pause "Y-O-U-N-G"
"Okay, and what's your last name?"
WTF is it today??? Is there some receptionist brain sucking alien out there? Because I seriously doubt they all got together and made the resolution to be significantly dumber on the phone.
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Saturday, January 02, 2010
Female Pattern Baldness
Friday, January 01, 2010
Resolutely Unresolute.
Now I just need to find something fun to say.
Last night we went to Goretti's house for New Year's Eve. The kids laid around on the floor watching movies while the adults crocheted and were, generally, OLD about the whole evening.
I have never understood the draw to celebrating New Year's. It just seems really unfair to the rest of the months. Why don't we stay up and watch a ball drop and have fireworks to welcome in any of the other months? And then? Then we take the first day of the year off. We close the stores that don't HAVE to be opened, management always takes the day off, and we set a FANTASTIC precedent for the entire new year! Oy!
Anyway, before we went to Manzo's house we were playing the Moulin Rouge soundtrack and singing along like crazy people, as per usual. Aiden told Annie she's not allowed to marry anyone until he loves her as much as Aiden loves her mom (ME!). She very reverently accepted this rule. It was funny, though, that he said that because I was thinking about how the girls won't be allowed to marry anyone who is not willing to sing Come What May to her. Or any of the other fantastical love songs. Great minds, we are, thinking alike.
Last night was the first time ever that any of the kids made it to midnight. Alex and Annie both made it. The cute part was that Ashley came and crawled up on my lap and said she was ready to go to bed. I love it when she, or any of the kids for that matter, listen to their bodies and admit they are tired.
On a completely different note, but still all about me, I lost 25 pounds, give or take, this semester. I was given a diagnosis of being pre-diabetic (stupid fat fat FAT) in September and then lost my insurance until December. So I have not actually gone to the doctor to get all my blood sugar devices yet (I go on Tuesday). Anyway, since I had gestational diabetes with Ashley, I sort of knew what I was doing without the dang finger pokes and just went to a somewhat modified diabetic diet.
For those of you that don't know, that basically means low carb. I can SOOOO do low carb. It's like a game. And while I cannot lose weight for the life of me (literally), I can win games! So I didn't weigh myself until Christmas break. And I was down 25 pounds before you account for heavier clothes and boots and stuff.
(I do my weighing on the scale at Rite Aid and was not in the mood to stand there and take off as much as possible to still be decent in public while weighing in. Hence, the boots and coat and stuff stayed ON)(which is also why this is not being posted from JAIL!)


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TUFF SHED, Inc., America's leading supplier of installed storage buildings and garages, has opened two new retail showroom locations in Marysville, Wash. and Lacey, Wash.
The new sales lots are in the Olympia and Everett areas and increase TUFF SHED's total number of company-owned locations in the Puget Sound area to four. TUFF SHED factory-direct products sold in this market are serviced by the Seattle manufacturing and sales facility located just south of Seattle in Tukwila, Wash. TUFF SHED has been serving Puget Sound area customers since 1998. TUFF SHED's four company-owned retail locations near Seattle sell their full range of factory direct products including PRO Series sheds, garages, recreational and specialty buildings. Additionally, Seattle has been identified as one of TUFF SHED's test markets for their new PRO Studio, a modern take on the classic TUFF SHED storage building design, for those customers wanting a backyard building reflecting a post-modern architectural style. This new building is available for purchase at all Puget Sound area TUFF SHED locations, including the two new locations in Lacey and Marysville.
The first new sales lot, located in Lacey, Wash. at 6321 Martin Way East, is approximately five miles east of Olympia. To visit this site, located near St. Martin's University, customers should take exit 109 off of Interstate 5. This TUFF SHED location, which officially opened the first week of April, serves the western Washington area south of Seattle.
The second site, located in Marysville, Wash. at 9302 State Avenue, can also be accessed from Interstate 5 via exit 200. This 25,000 square foot sales lot is located approximately 10 miles north of Everett and showcases an assortment of TUFF SHED's signature Garden, Premier and Premier PRO Series sheds, garages and specialty buildings.
According to TUFF SHED's Northwest Regional Sales Manager Ken Clark, while TUFF SHED has been serving the Seattle area for many years, there has been a recent growing demand for their products in the Olympia and Everett areas.
"These new retail showrooms were opened in western Washington to offer our customers more convenience and better meet their needs," said Clark.
Founded in 1981, TUFF SHED is based in Denver, Colorado, and has 43 company-owned manufacturing facilities and roughly 800 employees providing local service to customers around the country. The company has a longstanding tradition of providing premium products and outstanding customer service. All TUFF SHED buildings include on-site delivery and installation, plus industry-leading warranty coverage. To view an assortment of innovatively engineered TUFF SHED buildings, visit www.tuffshed.com.
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WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Boeing Co. BA, -2.06% reported fourth-quarter net income of $186 million, or 23 cents per share, as the aerospace giant's revenue rose 1 percent to $13.314 billion. Excluding special charges, the company would have earned 67 cents per share in the latest quarter. Wall Street, on average, had been looking for earnings of 5 cents per share on revenue of $12.954 billion, according to estimates compiled by Thomson First Call. Revenue from Boeing's commercial airplane operations slipped 8 percent to $5.398 billion. Airplane deliveries are projected at about 320 for 2005, rising to 375 to 385 for 2006. Boeing projected earnings of $2.40 to $2.60 per share for 2005 and a range of $3.00 to $3.20 per share for 2006. Analysts' average estimates for 2005 earnings stands at $2.54 per share. Shares of Boeing, a Dow Jones Industrial Average component, added 44 cents to end Tuesday's trading at $51.04.
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It may sound counterintuitive, but although storage giant EMC Corp. plans to cut 1,000 positions over the course of 2006, the storage giant expects to end the year with a larger total headcount. EMC plans to continue hiring staff to fuel its R&D (research and development) efforts and sales and marketing reach around the world as it cuts back on positions elsewhere in its operations, the company announced Friday.
The elimination of positions will occur across different unspecified parts of the company's global businesses during the coming year, according to an EMC spokesman. It's possible that some of the 1,000 affected staff will find other job opportunities within EMC, he said in a phone interview Friday. The company is using the term "rebalancing" to describe the layoffs.
EMC plans to comment more fully on the layoffs on Jan. 24 when it's due to release its fourth-quarter and full 2005 fiscal year financial results. Some of the layoffs will be due to normal attrition or the result of performance management issues, the spokesman said. Other factors include the identification of excess management layers, he added.
EMC's headcount at the end of its third quarter of 2005 was around 25,200, according to the spokesman, and the company has been actively hiring during the fourth quarter of 2005.
The company expects to take a fourth-quarter 2005 cash charge of around US$80 million to cover the cost of staff separation benefits, EMC said in a release issued Friday.
For the fourth quarter of fiscal 2005, EMC anticipates reporting total consolidated revenue of between US$2.70 billion and $2.71 billion, the company said in the release. The quarter is set to be EMC's tenth straight quarter of double-digit revenue growth, according to the release. Diluted earnings per share (EPS), excluding a number of items, should be at the high end of EMC's previous estimates at $0.17.
The excluded items include the $80 million workforce layoff charge and a $14 million in-process R&D charge related to EMC's December acquisition of document capture software vendor Captiva. Additionally, EMC completed the repatriation of $3 billion accumulated income it earned outside the U.S. resulting in a fourth-quarter 2005 income tax charge which will impact earnings by $175 million, according to the release.
The charges related to the layoffs, the purchase of Captiva and the income repatriation are expected to be in the order of $0.11 per diluted share. EMC estimates that fourth-quarter 2005 diluted EPS, on a GAAP (generally accepted accounting principles) basis, will be around $0.06.
Consolidated revenue for fiscal 2005 as a whole should be between $9.65 billion and $9.66 billion, according to the release.


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Guess What I Did?
pleasant like writing your name in the snow
with my foot in giant letters. There
were lights on in apartments, all
warm and yellow and inviting. I ran
past the corner we kissed because
that corner might have bits of us
pressed into the sidewalk, so much
as a hair fell and is still there from one
of us, so I kept thinking of that. All my parts
are intact. Stooping to say hello to a
little buddy all clownish and bracketed
by affection. A street can mean so much
more when we give it meaning we dilly
dally for days until the seasons change
and what was once cold and unforgiving
is now sticky and solid. My word, what
I said was I just so adore you and that's
good you know that big time. It's all falling
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Look at this.....
This piece of dirt is the garden bed that runs down the side of our shared driveway. The lady we now share the driveway with recently suggested we should clear it out of the random trees and ugly box hedging and use it for a veggie garden.
So we promptly did just that.
Actually, she and hubby did it as I was heading out just as she came and suggested we make a start right then. The lady seems to have a knack for finding me when I'm busiest.
So, we have since dug in about 5 bags of composted cow poop and planted some tomatoes, capsicums, cucumbers which I hope to get climbing up a trellis, spring onions and an asparagus plant. Still waiting to see if that's growing or if it rotted during the rainy spell that happened right after I planted it.....
I'm waiting for some yellow capsicums and chillis to sprout and my own baby toms to grow a bit bigger before I put them in the ground. Oh, and there's baby spinach and lettuce there too.
A while before all this went down, I had shot off an email to a local community garden I had found through Landshare Australia. The boys and I will go and check it out tomorrow morning, it's a permaculture garden run on the grounds of a local high school and in return for a few hrs work a week all workers get a share of the produce. They have 55 heritage fruit and nut trees planted, compost, chickens and water tanks, and I was told they would be delighted to have children around. It's fairly newly established from what I can tell and they are still very much in need of man/woman/people power.
Updates on how that goes later, a balmy 25c is predicted, and I'm really looking forward to checking it out!


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Thursday, June 10, 2010
It looks like a bomb has exploded in my room. Plastic from a new bed pad and box from Chacos litter the floor while the majority of my stuff still is laying by my hiking backpack. I have been getting organized but still have stuff to do! I started the malaria pills today and while it hasn't hurt the stomach it has made me a little bit dizzy, but oh well! I just finished packing two big ziplocks full of food- when I say food I mean small cups of peanut butter and Nutrigrain bars- to hold me over if I am in need desperate need of normal food. I am about to take an hour long shower in honor of how dirty I will be and the extreme lack of water and long showers I will have while in Tanzania. I can't believe we leave tomorrow! I am incredibly excited and strangely, not at all nervous. Oh, and for those who know me well, the title of this entry has more than one meaning. Good night!
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August 2010
An Intimate Look
Although He Loves Me He Loves Me Not! was completed in late 1998, the road to publication took ten years, a ton of rejections, a lot of self-doubt, and a few detours. I still remember the day I held my first proof in my hands. I could not believe that was my name staring back at me on an actual book. Once the awe wore off, the real work began. Trust me, I had no clue what lay ahead. Things like, forming a readership, defining my true audience, promoting, marketing, and getting on the road are only a short list. Here it is two years later and I am still learning, making adjustments, and so much more. To get an idea, I invite you to read my on-line travel journal.
After the release of my first novel I thought this was a cool hobby but since then I have become one of the 15 million Americans who have found themselves amongst the nations unemployed. The past seven months have been a period of self-discovery and renewal. If I could find that perfect formula, and make that one connection; I would love to make writing my new career. Until then, I must continue to pound the pavement for that next steady paycheck.
When people learn I am a published author, they want to know if I am traditional published or self-published - I prefer the title Independent Artist, which means everything you see is my own creativity at work.
Next they ask, how long does it take me to write a book - on average, about a year or so; how do I come up with the topic, title, do I research, etc?
In the case of He Loves Me He Loves Me Not! I was inspired by a speech given by Dr. Gwendolyn Goldsby-Grant, at the same 97' Essence Festival. She opened her dialog with the childhood game, by the same name. Once I wrote down the excerpt from her speech the story just followed. I thought it only natural to title the book after the game. I believe life in general was the best research for the book, and not necessarily my life, as many have assumed; but the life of women in general who constantly say to me that this book is their life story.
The title, Love...Like Snow In Florida On A Hot Summer Day is somewhat of a metaphor. It represents the awesomeness of falling in love, but under the wrong conditions it isn't destined to last. The inspiration for this novel came from the influx of infidelity in the workplace, on television, the radio, and everywhere else you tune in. It is a realistic approach to the topic, straight with no chaser, so to speak.
A lot of writers require an outline before they can begin writing, but I do not write from an outline. Once I have my subject, the words begin to flow and I develop my outline as I go. This has its downsides but it works for me. I write best at night, once I get a good flow I can go for hours. During the daytime, there is a favorite spot of mine off Tampa Bay that I love to venture to in order to get my thoughts in line. The most challenging part of writing for me is adhering to self-imposed timelines. Once I reach the last page of a manuscript I hope to have believable characters, an interesting plot, a storyline that flows smoothly and with resolution. I prefer a full story that may take 400 pages to tell, to a 250 page book that turns into multiple sequels that simply rehash the same storyline.
Some people will tell you that your work is good because they don't want to hurt your feelings. I believe my family and friends know me well enough to know that I expect nothing less than their honest opinions. There are times when I feel that I am going on and on and wearing them down abut so far no one has told me to just "shut-up already!"
Oftentimes, I receive pre-interview questions and on the list they always ask what books have influenced my life the most, is there an author that I would consider a mentor or idol, and who are my favorite writers.
I really want to come up with a great piece of literature that is profound and everyone will want to run-out and purchase. In most cases, the question is left blank, but as I think about it more and more I realize, the answer is the Holy Bible. I read it often; it inspires me, encourages me, and contains the answers to the things that perplex me the most in life. In terms of a mentor I draw a blank. Every now and then I can catch someone on Facebook who will answer a question or two but so far, no one has offered to read my work or take me under their wings to show me the tricks of the trade. It could be due to the competitive nature of the publishing industry. Personally, I will help anyone I can.
Now, for favorite authors, I could go on and on. If you have written a book or two that I truly loved, then you are on my list. When forced to name a name, I have to go with Eric Jerome Dickey. I have a love-hate but mostly love relationship with Mr. Dickey. I love his characters and the awesome flow of his stories. His writing style pulls me into the characters, the scenes, and I can visualize myself in the story. I appreciate books that take me on a journey and ignites my imagination.
My last two books read are Ghetto Resume' by Freddie Simmons, and Pleasure by Eric Jerome Dickey. My current reads are The Last Juror by John Grishom, and Dream Merchant by Erroll J. Bailey. In the past year I have read a lot of books by independent authors and new authors in general but find myself migrating back into mainstream fiction with those whose writing I am more familiar with. It's not that the talent isn't out there, it is more about learning what's out there. It is so important for avid readers, book clubs, and authors themselves to write reviews, create listmania's, and tell others about great books they have discovered.
Currently, I am working on my third novel, tentatively titled The Red Bear Circle. The premise of the book deals with the HIV/AIDS epidemic facing youth ages 13 - 24. This is turning out to be my most challenging work to-date but that is a good thing. I believe to stay viable in this business I have to step out of the box and deliver stories that do not mirror everything else that is being written. Someone told me that there are only 15 topics that a writer can write about but a million books are published every year. So to stand-out and be noticed I must push my imagination to a whole other level.
While I am writing, I post my my random musings on my blog, and you can also follow my column, Tracy's Point, in the West Orlando News.
My brother once said to me that he was praying for my success but I would need to determine what success meant to me. To-date I haven't sold a million books, nor have I made it to any best-seller lists. However, I have received numerous accolades from people known and unknown who have taken a chance on an unknown writer and were pleasantly surprised by what they found. It feels good to have your peers say they enjoy your work but when a complete stranger takes time out of their day to write an email stating they enjoyed my books or to share how the stories impacted their life, it takes me to a whole other level of gratitude.
I love and appreciate all the kind words, the encouragement, prayers, and support that I have received along the way. It only reaffirms what Tavis Smiley said that July day in 1997. We must pursue our dreams and develop our talents; otherwise we'll never know our full potential.


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This was our first night on the Panorama Route of our South African vacation. Our room was huge, really a bungalow. We had views of Lone Creek from our bedroom and living room. The bathroom was huge and we look advantage of the sunken tub...More
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Province of Bologna hosted the peer week!
The Province of Bologna has hosted the peer week activity from the 5th to the 9th of November 2012.
The peer review in Italy has involved experts representing the Council of Tampere Region and New Factory from Finland, experts from the Patras Science Park from Greece and experts from Veneto Region and Veneto Innovazione (IT).
The Bologna peer week has been focused on the "New Innovative and Creative Enterprises" which has leaded the selection of key local stakeholders to be interviewed. The peer week review started at the beautiful premises of the Province of Bologna with a welcoming speech from the Councillor for the Department of Business and Tourism, Mr Graziano Prantoni.
The first day was dedicated to brainstorming among the peer experts to discuss about the planned activities and the methodologies to carry out. The day after the experts started the interviews with representatives of different Regional Bodies: CNA Innovazione, Emilia Romagna Region, ERVET- Regional Agency of Territorial Dev. and some innovative SMEs. Day 3 included interview with the Chambers of Commerce, with CGIL Trade Union and the most relevant representatives of the associations and institutions operating in the area. Day 4 concentrated on startup companies and incubators from the enablers point of view (projects / institutions who help startups) and from the startup companies' point of view. On the final day the preliminary findings and outputs of the peer review were represented to Mr Prantoni.


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It's that special time of year again and the hustle and bustle that the holidays bring doesn't mean that your love life needs to come to a halt. There are plenty of ways to ensure that you have someone to smooch under the mistletoe and The Real Matchmaker has a few gifts of their own to share to make your dating life merry and bright!
One reason that people have a hard time meeting people is because we're too shy to strike up a conversation when we see someone we like. So don't hesitate…you might just snag a great date! Conversation starters when you are out shopping are endless . If you see someone that catches your eye, strike up a conversation by asking for some advice. Buying wine for a party? Choosing a gift for mom? People love to help each other, so asking for a little guidance will make the other person feel special. Wrap it up (har har!) by saying "Wow, you have really great taste. I know a great wine bar near by if you'd like to grab a drink sometime!" You can even increase your chances of bumping into the kind of person you'd like to date by perusing stores that they would shop in. Guys, are you looking for a woman who is really feminine and classy? Go to the accessories and fragrance section of department stores. Any other time of year you might risk looking like a creeper, so take advantage!
The other thing that complicates dating during the holidays is that schedules can get hectic with travel to visit family, company Christmas parties, etc. These can be great for chatting up someone new, but what if you just started dating someone great and it's too soon to tell if they're relationship material.
When dating someone new around the holidays, avoid inviting them to a family get together or church service unless you have been out a few times and are ready to take things to the next level. The holidays can be a wonderful time to segue way into becoming an official item, but jumping the gun could make the other person uncomfortable and make for awkward conversations later when your friends and colleagues ask about that nice person you were dating-yikes!
Instead go on a date that is fun and festive. Go ice skating and have a hot toddy afterward or grab some hot chocolate and go for a drive to look at Christmas lights. If things go well, these could turn into traditions that you will share for a lifetime.
When it comes to gift giving, be subtle. If you just started dating, being too extravagant could make your date feel awkward and you might regret it later if things fall through. Keep your ears open for ideas. If they have a favorite band, go to the webpage and buy some fan gear. Make a list (and check it twice-Oh!) If they mention a book they have been wanting to read, a wine they want to try, etc. Being thoughtful will get you major brownie points.
If you want to make sure you have a honey for the holidays, the time to start looking was, like, yesterday. The Real Matchmaker will set your search into high gear by scouting dates personally for you. The holidays are stressful enough, don't let a lackluster love life make you feel like a Scrooge. Join our free, confidential Singles Social Network and start dating before the snow starts falling!


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A new advertisement from H&M has the public, including some very high profile celebrities, crying foul.
The ad, which showed an adorable black boy modeling a hooded sweatshirt that said "coolest monkey in the jungle," was met with widespread derision.
The Canadian singer, The Weeknd, tweeted the offending image and this: "[W]oke up this morning shocked and embarrassed by this photo. i'm deeply offended and will not be working with @hm anymore.." The singer, whose name is Abel Tesfaye, had previously collaborated with the Sweden-based company on a collection and modeled their clothing.
LeBron James edited the offensive language out of the image and posted a new one on Instagram, with the child wearing a "King James" crown. "African Americans will always have to break barriers," he wrote.
The company rushed to apologize yesterday.
"We sincerely apologize for this image. It has been now removed from all online channels and the product will not be for sale in the United States," H&M said in an email statement to Fortune.
The issue is not just a cute kid in a bad hoodie.
The animalization of black people has roots in slavery, a strategic gambit to justify the abuse of other human beings that is impressive in its simplicity and endurance.
Neal A. Lester, an English professor and the founding director of Project Humanities at Arizona State University explains how the ugly underpinnings that inspired the backlash live on today, in an essay on TeachingTolerance.org:
As always, when incidents like these happen, it is correct to call for diverse teams and better processes that screen out racist and culturally insensitive concepts. But this monkey business isn't expertise. It shouldn't be the domain of a select few. This is us, our shared history. Unless everyone knows it and owns it, we are all doomed to repeat it, one image at a time.
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|Also, everyone is mad at CES
|It's not just the lack of women speakers on the main stage. "Oh they're pitting the human strippers against the robot strippers now in the spirit of innovation," tweeted tech/culture reporter Taylor Lorenz, reporting live from Las Vegas. The robot dancers, named R2-DD and Triple CPU, gyrated alongside human dancers at a CES-themed party at the Sapphire, a Las Vegas strip club. The robots were flown in from London, said the club manager, in a bid to attract more women and CES attendees, who might enjoy the robotic dance-off and the club's silicone valley jokes, and oh my God, I can't even finish this sentence.
|The Daily Beast
|James Damore is mad at Google
|Famous memo-writer James Damore has sued his former employer citing allegations that Google discriminates against white men. "Google's management goes to extreme — and illegal — lengths to encourage hiring managers to take protected categories such as race and/or gender into consideration as determinative hiring factors, to the detriment of Caucasian and male employees and potential employees at Google," the suit reads. Damore is joined by another former Google engineer in his suit.
|Everybody is mad that every other body wants Oprah to run for president
|Will she or won't she? She shouldn't either way, says Ira Madison III. Oprah's story is inspirational and aspirational, he says. But "being a celebrity shouldn't be a prerequisite for running our country," he says. Get a grip, says Paul Waldman. "Politics has never been immune to other brands of magical thinking, and there are few more powerful ideas among voters than the notion that there's really nothing to being an officeholder," he says. I'll give Dahlia Lithwick the last word. The debate we're having about Oprah's possible run is a side note to what she told us to actually do. "What I heard in her speech wasn't a bid to save us all, but rather a powerful charge to the young girls watching at home to tell their own stories, to fight for their own values, and to battle injustices with the certainty that they will be seen and heard," she writes.
|New Jersey state prisons reverse a ban on "The New Jim Crow" book after the ACLU got mad
|After lots of people, including the ACLU, raised a serious fuss, the state's Department of Corrections reversed its ban on Michelle Alexander's 2012 book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, a definitive look at the link between racism and mass incarceration. According to the ACLU, New Jersey has the worst black-white incarceration in the U.S. "That the very prisoners who experience the worst racial disparity in incarceration in the country should be prohibited from reading a book whose precise purpose is to examine and educate about that disparity adds insult to injury," they said in a statement.
|Huffington Post
The Woke Leader
|Weirdly, nobody is really mad at Don Lemon anymore
|In this latest edition of Gimlet's juicy podcast, The Nod, culture writer Ira Madison III weighs in on a fascinating topic. Remember when CNN's Don Lemon, the host of CNN Tonight was all about the respectability talk – lecturing black folks to pull up our saggy pants, stop using the N-word, respect where we live, speak proper English, etc.? Well that Don Lemon seems to have transmogrified into someone else, namely a person who has smart takes on the Confederate flag and NFL knee-taking. So what happened? Madison starts with a Magneto reference (X-Men) and then says that in part, Lemon shifted because it suddenly works to be political. "It's a slow transition," he said. But host Eric Eddings isn't so sure it's a good one. "It's kind of late, bruh," he says. Is Don Lemon good for black people or nah?
|The Nod
|Kids in the U.S. are 70% more likely to die before adulthood than kids in other wealth countries. You mad yet?
|The research, published yesterday in the journal Health Affairs, finds that the U.S. lags behind other wealthy, democratic countries on a variety of factors, leading to increasingly poor outcomes for kids. "In all the wealthy, democratic countries we studied, children are dying less often than they were 50 years ago," said the study's lead author. "But we found that children are dying more often in the United States than in any similar country." Since 1961, that accounts to roughly 600,000 deaths that wouldn't have occurred if the children had been born and raised elsewhere.
|Meet Rebecca Aguilar, the journalist behind Latinas in Journalism
|Yes, she's mad, but mostly she's determined. The Dallas-based former television reporter's answer to the pipeline problem, namely, finding qualified Latinas in media, is a Facebook page with more than 1,400 members sharing stories, job notices, news stories, and advice. It's filling a real gap: The 2017 RTDNA Women and Minorities in Newsrooms report shows that Latinas make up 8.7% of the workforce in English-language television and less than half of the 87.6% of the Latino workforce in Spanish-language television. Latinas comprised about just 2.47% of the workforce in U.S. newspaper newsrooms, according to the 2017 ASNE, Google News Lab Diversity Survey.
|Media Shift


text: Carbonation: A Review of Sensory Mechanisms and Health EffectsPelchat, Marcia L. PhD; Bryant, Bruce PhD; Cuomo, Rosario MD; Di Salle, Francesco PhD; Fass, Ronnie MD; Wise, Paul PhDNutrition Today: November/December 2014 - Volume 49 - Issue 6 - p 308–312 doi: 10.1097/NT.0000000000000010 Nutrition and the Senses Abstract Author InformationAuthors Article MetricsMetrics Carbonated beverages (sweetened soft drinks and beer) are undeniably popular, accounting for nearly ¾ of packaged beverage sales in 2005 despite recent inroads by still drinks such as bottled waters, sports drinks, and teas.1,2 At its peak in 1998, consumption of carbonated beverages was 207.7 L per person per year in the United States.3 Effervescent libations can be quite complex with ingredients including sugars, alcohol, high-intensity sweeteners, and acids. However, the main purpose of this review was to summarize scientific information on the perception and health effects of their 1 common ingredient, dissolved carbon dioxide. Marcia L. Pelchat, PhD, is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, with a BA in nutritional psychology and a PhD in physiological psychology. She now studies food selection and the chemical senses at the Monell Center in Philadelphia. Bruce Bryant, PhD, is a senior research associate, Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He studies transduction processes and coding mechanisms involved in chemical irritation. Rosario Cuomo, MD, is a professor in the Gastroenterology Unit, Department of Clinical Medicine and Surgery, "Federico II" University, Naples, Italy. Francesco Di Salle, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Medicine, Salerno University, Italy, and at the Department of Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, the Netherlands. Ronnie Fass, MD, is a professor of medicine and director of the GI Motility Laboratory at the University of Arizona Health Sciences Center, Tucson, and head of the Neuro-Enteric Clinical Research Group. Paul Wise, PhD, is a sensory psychologist at Monell Chemical Senses Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He received his PhD in psychology at the University of California, San Diego. This review is based upon the proceedings of a workshop on carbonation held on December 1, 2010, funded by the Coca Cola Company and organized by the Monell Chemical Senses Center. The Coca Cola Company provided funding for the conference, including travel and/or honoraria for all authors. Dr Pelchat received salary support from the Coca Cola Company for preparation of this manuscript. All of the authors may have received grant money and/or consulting fees from food or beverage companies, including the Coca Cola Company. Correspondence: Marcia L. Pelchat, PhD, Monell Center, 3500 Market St, Philadelphia, PA 19104-3308 (firstname.lastname@example.com). © 2014 Wolters Kluwer Health | Lippincott Williams & Wilkins


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From the kickstarter:
Sidekick Quests: The Secret of the Sewer Wizard is James Stowe's very first Kickstarter and the first time Sidekick Quests the webcomic has been collected in a print Graphic Novel. With your help this Kickstarter will create a 96 page book that collects the first comic storyline, The Secret of the Sewer Wizard, and also provides game rules allowing you to play out Secret of the Sewer Wizard as a roleplaying game campaign adventure. The print version of the Secret of the Sewer Wizard has revised artwork throughout with updated colors, dialog and text. There will also be 10 bonus pages of never before seen comics that show what happens after the original adventure ended. The book will also serve as Sidekick Quests the Roleplaying Game's very first adventure module. The adventure consists of three quests and two encounters that can be played together as one complete story or separately as stand alone games sessions. Anyone that backs the PDF or print versions of the book also get a digital bundle of all the Sidekick Quests rules, quests, characters and advancements that have released online already. that have released online already.
Sidekick Quests is an all ages webcomic that follows children in a fantasy world and the trouble they get into when their adult mentors go off adventuring and live them home alone. Not only is Sidekick Quests a comic, it is also a roleplaying game designed to introduce kids how to play roleplaying games. Sidekick Quests the comic has been available digitally for four straight years. It has seven complete storylines and releases three times a week. The Secret of the Sewer Wizard was the very first story, released back in 2012. In it four sidekicks, a squire, an apprentice, a scout and an amateur jester discover the existence of a monstrous wizard dwelling in the sewers underneath the dungeon they use as a clubhouse. The secret he holds about the history of their kingdom change their lives forever. Sidekick Quests the Roleplaying Game is designed to be played by kids and adults. Children as young as 6 can play squires, scouts, wizard apprentices, jesters in training and even the Game Master. It is a simple system that can be used as an introduction to more complex roleplaying games or can be played as a rules lite alternative for adults looking for something different, colorful and above all...fun. Up until now everything you needed to play Sidekick Quests the RPG has been available online in easy to download print and play PDFs. Anyone that backs the PDF or print versions of the book also get a digital bundle of all the Sidekick Quests rules, quests, characters and advancements that have released online already. By backing the Secret of the Sewer Wizard you will get everything you will need to play this campaign and more. Like comics, the Secret of the Sewer Wizard has pages upon pages of all ages appropriate story to discover. Like games, the Secret of the Sewer Wizard tells a complete multi-session roleplaying game adventure that can be played by the whole family.
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The information I am about to share is disturbing and may be unsuitable to younger viewers. Reader discretion advised. The Nuclear industry would like us to believe that radioactivity is not a problem. Nuclear energy is not a problem they say. The environment is not harmed they say. I would like to believe all of their information, however I cannot respect the nuclear industry and I use that term loosely, since they are essentially a consortium, thanks to the Bush Administration. I have my problems with this crowd. The government since 2001 has been very untrust worthy. I never really trusted them, I am disturbed by the fact that hubris is infected into our culture, our economy, and the world around us. The pollution due to Fukashima Nuclear Plants reactors 1,2,3,4,5,and 6 have new meaning to what pollution is. E=MC^2. The power of the sun. I must say pollution on this magnitude is very much what the China Syndrome predicted. A realistic implication by which human loss of life has led to a very hard cold reality for us all. The end of the nuclear age. J. Robert Oppenheimer was a mad scientist as it is reported. The destructor of worlds. The very nature of the is age old technology we claim to be the end all be all sources of energy, I define it as craziness with a twist in society, in this moment I shall give true assessment on what I think the world has come to.
In order to understand what is being said here we must go really far in history, the thirty years war. The powers at the time understood that the decline of empire is what creates the transformational moments set foot on the planet. Karl Marx spoke of these very situations. The ample dialogue in which examines communal ways of life. The utopia that is created unto the continent. The systemic realization that humans are forever changed for the better when not exploited. It seems fitting when people actually heed that philosophy. I speak of exploitation as an adversarial component here. The game that is being played is destruction of life and community. The revolutions throughout history have been germane in mostly when these nations have been exploited to the extent their imagination has disappeared. The sexual revolution realized what women in their ordinary circumstances can do under intense pressure from their master(husbands). Lesbian and Gay rights have been circumvented by the religious right in a very intense discussion of conservative robber barons suggesting the rightful place for these human qualities called sexual pleasure are for the socially conservative. These methods of ideology insist on fascist tendancies. You probably are asking what does sex and gender have to do with history. Its simple. Everything. It maybe a very difficult subject matter for some due to the explicit language I speak of. Sex is by its very nature a human trait. It goes back to the beginning of time. Love is secondary to sex. The Nazi regime in the 1930s were ultra-conservative and understood the very nature of this fact. Their abuse towards women and in the social degradation in general is very grim. Homosexuality was attacked and denied to be practiced by anybody that dared become part of their humanity. They also created groups that were attempting science that was almost pseudo-scientific. Sir. Francis Galton was a Eugenist. He wrote very racist and condescending opinions on man. There were people like this in the twentieth century with this culture in mind. "The question is not whether socialism is eugenics, for instance, socialists but rather eugenics is socialism." A very germane disturbing picture emerges when we deal with the Nazi German third Reich. This regime was one of the most horrific in history. The holocaust was a form of great peril and genocide. The loss of loved ones was a very ugly episode befallen on to human kind. All in the confines of the nation state. This radical concept emerged out of the thirty years war. The radial belief in colonial oppression grew and then it led to industrialization. Out of tyranny of absolutism a new form of tyranny emerged. The power of Christianity that hijacked the faith and claimed as its own. Jingoism has its origins in the birth of empire. The kings and queens of Europe understood that and the basis for oppression under the shroud of majestic symbolism created a new dawn. This mindset would last for hundreds of years until a man in England who was catholic. A very protestant British royal government created very difficult situations as their empire grew. Guy Fawks was this very man. His opposition to the tyrannical nation state created the gunpowder plot that has been emphamise throughout Great Britain. The conception of militancy expanded under rebellious Fawks. He was fighting the corporate adoption of these ideas that were instituted by world powers. His legacy is still mirred by the United Kingdom as a symbol of terrorism. I ask then what is terrorism. As the age of terror in the 21st century has been defined as Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda the over reaching grasp of the nation state has lied out right in suggesting a shadowy enemy cannot be stopped. The terror threat hyped and cynical as it is does nothing but malign and decrease the power of the individual. Where does sex and radical ideology come in? In the midst of George W. Bush and the War of Terror he had suggested the criminal intent by his own government in labeling anyone that was picked up on the battlefield as an unlawful enemy combatant. The diminishing suggestion gives the communal aspect to sex as an evil deed. Or in than everything is evil and must be refined in order to prove ones self worth. This a dangerous paradox and very serious problem in order to feel pleasure and enjoyment of others. Nazi Germany in the midst of World War II banned contraception from the public and demonizing gay and lesbians in the midst of an intense war in Europe. Society pressures everyone to be open and free of normalcy it seems. Fetishism was a contradictory and perhaps normal practice in the early part of European development. The idea that by scientifically changing the culture of one's self will change the very fabric of the betterment of all. What Dagmar Herzog as a professor of Sex History would suggest the evil intent by the religious right as a legitimacy factor grows to a reverse psychosis. Banning pleasure to better their rule is just an assault.


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still moving those trees around...
We continue to check joints throughout the 'bent', which takes a long time due to the sizes of logs we're working with, and the surface area we're on.
It takes two of us to move one of the logs into position, to shove it in the notch, and sometimes we're at strange angles, such as Melissa here working down the hill while we checking a particularly long one.
Within the house foundation, we have to build a sort of scaffolding for the logs, so as to have them reach over the foundation walls AND be all on the same plane, to check those notches. This sometimes takes some acrobatics.


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It's the hottest day of the year so far here and getting hotter, and it's not even noon yet! The humidity is making things feel closer to 40 C. So I'm thinking about eating frozen sweet treats. I don't have the patience to get a bowl out - I want cold food right this instant! I have no qualms about eating right out of the carton, and neither does my husband. Of course, if we were sharing with others we wouldn't do that, but we're not. Lol.
So have you eaten ice cream right from the carton? (Yes you do, everyone has done this at some point in their life 😂).
- I have
- I haven't (come on now, I said be honest!!!)
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Mainly because if it's good it's not worth wasting the time scooping it into some other serving device - that implies sharing - and everyone can fuck off and leave my good chocolate and or mango ice-creams alone...
seriously, I will cut you! And just remember, All I have is a spoon, it's bound to hurt!!
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Yup I have. Many times before. In fact, I hardly ever eat it from a bowl lol


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It had been on Henry's mind, since the very beginning. Well, when he found out Josie was pregnant.
The Onesie. It didn't take him long to come up with a pattern when he heard the news about a baby girl. He took an old T-shirt and made one. But it wasn't quite right. So he did another and so on. Until he got it the right weight and fit, like one from the Dollar store. He hoped it would fit.
Finally, he had something to do, besides worrying about the epilepsy. So he started sewing. A lot.
"Why don't you make curtains, or something." Josie thought he was making too much, even if she said early on, that he was on to something.
"You, want curtains? Where?" He'd taken care of that, a while ago.
"Its just..you can go crazy, doing this stuff." She looked at him as if he needed to slow down.
"You know, its kind of like you and those hats, you crochet. You, won't stop, because you're afraid you'll forget the pattern." He looked at her as if she should be happy he'd found a way to recycle and create.
"OK. I said that, but..I..I don't want you to burn out..on this." She told him she wished she was good at sewing, like he was. After all, he'd sewn up most of her maternity clothes. Although, she'd complained, he was trying to dress her up like a little girl.
Sometimes, there just couldn't be anything done right. Maybe this thing with her mother wasn't entirely her mother's fault, but he would never mention it. He'd keep busy with the DIY project.
"You, need to take a break." She unplugged the sewing machine. For a moment, he thought he might lose it.
"OK." What did this mean?
She sighed as she took his hand and found the Dr. Seuss book in the livingroom. She got him situated on the couch with her.
"Read. Read to the baby." She instructed.
"Oh." How could he forget? He'd told her long ago, he'd do this everyday. Better late than never.


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Property Location
With a stay at Shamrock Lodge Hotel in Athlone, you'll be minutes from Athlone Castle and St. Peter and Paul's Church. This hotel is within close proximity of Athlone Leisure World and Rose Island.
Make yourself at home in one of the 52 guestrooms. Complimentary wireless Internet access keeps you connected, and satellite programming is available for your entertainment. Bathrooms have shower/tub combinations and hair dryers. Conveniences include safes and desks.
Relax and unwind with body treatments and facials. Additional features at this hotel include complimentary wireless Internet access and wedding services.
Grab a bite to eat at the hotel's restaurant, which features a bar, or stay in and take advantage of room service (during limited hours). Quench your thirst with your favorite drink at a bar/lounge. Full breakfasts are available for a fee.
Business, Other Amenities
Featured amenities include laundry facilities and a safe deposit box at the front desk. Event facilities at this hotel consist of a conference center and a meeting room. Free self parking is available onsite.


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A TQM (Time-Quality-Money) Approach to Managing Projects in Health Care Andrew Booth, Reader in Evidence Based Information Practice, Director of Information Resources & Programme Director - FOLIO Programme (email@example.com) For most people TQM = Total Quality Management
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6. Lack of attention to project planning.
7. Mismatch (or dislocation) between costs and benefits ("bangs for your buck")
8. Insufficient funding and incorrect budgeting to meet expectations.
9. Absence of appropriate project management techniques.
10. Lack of knowledge transfer of lessons learnt ("passing the baton")
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Nicholas Rostow, Laurie Blank and Others Discuss National Security at ABA Conference
I recently attended the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Law and National Security 22nd Annual Review of the Field of National Security Law in Washington, D.C. While there were many interesting panels, I want to highlight those from the second day of the conference, specifically, "National Security Law and International Law," and "The Law of Armed Conflict: Past, Present and Future." Panelists for the former, moderated by Robert F. Turner, Professor and Associated Director for the Center for National Security Law at University of Virginia School of law, included Nicholas Rostow, Jeremy Rabkin, and Ruth Wedgwood, who offered their perspectives on the topic.
Nicholas Rostow, Distinguished Professor and Senior Director for the Center for Strategic Research at the National Defense University, defined three important points that he believes briefly describe the state of our current international affairs. First, sovereignty, according to Professor Rostow, is defined in international law and we are told how to exercise that power domestically by the United States Constitution, and internationally by international law. Next, while the power to make and declare war is domestic, Professor Rostow explained, the power to conduct military operations is largely governed by international law. Lastly, since 1945, the fundamental United States strategy in foreign affairs has been to prevent a "huge" and likely nuclear war between great powers. Our international experiences—including both World Wars—have shown us that this strategy should work.
On the other hand, Jeremy Rabkin, Professor of Law at George Mason University, offers a non-lawyer perspective. He invited the lawyering community to "look behind the law." By this Professor Rabkin meant that lawyers often operate under the assumption that the law has all the answers. However, according to Professor Rabkin, the law is of secondary importance in national security. Professor Rabkin explained the role the law plays according to his interpretation when he invited the audience to think about Article 13 of the League of Nations, which reads "The Members of the League agree that whenever any dispute shall arise between them which they recognise to be suitable for submission to arbitration or judicial settlement and which cannot be satisfactorily settled by diplomacy, they will submit the whole subject-matter to arbitration or judicial settlement." What dispute, he inquired, is not "suitable" for arbitration? The answer, he suggests, includes those disputes that result in an answer that cannot be accepted by the point of view of the particular nation at issue. The importance of the law in this area then, presents an open question and countries will respond to a range of incentives that do not necessarily represent a nation's respect for law.
Ruth Wedgwood, Edward B. Burling Professor of International Law and Diplomacy and Director of International Law and Organizations Program at Johns Hopkins Law School, took a different approach to the issue discussing the assertion of retroactive jurisdiction. For example, some have argued that the International Criminal Court (ICC) should retroactively apply the Rome Statute, to which the United States has not joined, to Gaza. Professor Wedgwood, however, asserted that application of retroactive jurisdiction might allow for dangerous opportunistic behavior.
Later that afternoon Judge Scott L. Silliman of the U.S. Court of Military Commissions Review moderated a panel on the law of armed conflict (LOAC), which provided an interesting continuation of the conversations from the panel on international law and national security from that morning. Panelists David E. Graham, Executive Director of the Judge Advocate General's Legal Center and School for the U.S. Army, and Hays Parks, former Senior Associate Deputy General Counsel on International Affairs for the Department of Defense, described the past and current state of LOAC, respectively. Sean Watts, Associate Professor of Law at Creighton University School of Law, offered an interesting discussion of LOAC as it applies to Cyber Warfare. Here, however, I want to focus on the contributions of Laurie Blank, Professor of Law and Director of International Humanitarian Law Clinic at Emory University School of Law, who provided ways to extrapolate LOAC to deal with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).
Professor Blank began by describing the foundational questions that must be addressed: 1) Are UAVs "lawful weapons"? And, 2) is their use lawful? As to the first question, Professor Blank answered unwaveringly "yes," these are lawful weapons under LOAC. The more important part of Professor Blank's discussion emphasized the second question. To answer this question, Professor Blank described the requirements under LOAC that the use of these weapons must meet: distinction, proportionality, and precautions.
First, the principle of distinction and identification of legitimate interests is satisfied, according to Professor Blank, by the ability of UAVs to track individuals and determine the legitimacy of the target based on many days or weeks worth of collected data. The concept of proportionality, she explained, is violated if the civilian casualties caused by the targeted strike will be excessive in light of the military gain. This, however, is not problematic in regards to drone strikes. Again, the surveillance capabilities offered by UAVs are in real time and those monitoring the surveillance may determine, among other things, who and what is in the area of concern, when certain people come and go from the area, and develop a "pattern of life analysis" that is instrumental in the ability to design a specific moment to strike in accordance with LOAC. The choice of weapon, Professor Blank explained, is a component of precaution. In other words, there are different types of weapons that can be fired from or by a drone and those engaging in a targeted strike must gather information and adjust the mission through the surveillance capabilities to ensure the necessary precautions are taken.
Professor Blank then moved on to discuss the consequences in terms of how we think about LOAC based on our use of UAVs. This concept calls into question a number of smaller and more difficult questions. How much gathered information can even be processed when administering a mission? Is there such a thing as too much information? Can the information be processed quickly enough to obtain relevant information? The proportionality test, Professor Blank notes, uses prospective language, which assumes imperfect information to account for the answers to these questions.
Overall, the conference offered useful insight and a forum for productive dialogue about the current and pressing issues surrounding our national security. Here, I highlight only a few that were of particular interest to me.


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By Jason Graziadei
I&M Senior Writer
With the Sconset beach nourishment plan on the shelf, the Board of Selectmen is forging ahead with the preparation of a coastal management plan that would address erosion-control efforts around the island and a host of other water-related issues.
Harbormaster Dave Fronzuto briefed the board on possible topics that such a plan might include, and said he will present a draft to the Selectmen later this month.
The management plan, which would be the first of its kind in Massachusetts, had been discussed over the past year, but Town Meeting voters mandated its development with the passage of Article 67, a citizen�s petition put forward by Town Clerk Catherine Flanagan Stover.
The article called for a moratorium on all coastal-erosion projects along the eastern shore of the island until a coastal management plan is drafted and approved by the town, a proposal which was approved without debate.
Fronzuto said last night the plan will deal with the island�s shoreline and coastal waters up to three miles off Nantucket, where federal regulations take over.
�This is an enormous area we�re talking about,� Fronzuto said. �It�s a large study area, larger than anything else this town has taken on as far as managing resources.�
Fronzuto presented a list of possible issues that might be included in the plan, such as water quality, habitat, coastal hazards, public access and offshore resources. He added that he was looking for input from the board on a number of technical matters, such as the selection of a consultant, a decision on whether to submit the plan to the state for approval or review, and funding sources.
�We all know we have an erosion problem,� Fronzuto said. �But what do we do about? Do we actively manage it? Do we dredge and put the spoils there?�
Selectmen Chairman Michael Kopko said the recently-completed Harbor Plan process should be the model for completing the coastal management plan, and suggested that the board appoint a committee similar to the one that drafted the Harbor Plan with the town�s consultant, The Urban Harbors Institute.
One of the vocal opponents of the Sconset Beach Preservation Fund�s nourishment project, D. Anne Atherton, said the plan should include a method to address erosion projects that �create public safety hazards,� a reference to the SBPF�s ongoing erosion-control efforts that have left island beaches littered with coir and jute bags in recent years.
�It�s an accident waiting to happen,� Atherton said. �That should be on the list and be prioritized.�


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Exterior Amenities
Davis, West Virginia 26260
- Lot Size
- Irregular
- Lot Acres
- 311.27
- Lot Type
- Level,Views,Open,Horse Property
- Tax
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- School District
- Dry Fork District
Davis, West Virginia 26260
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Montauk offers something for everyone. Pristine beaches with World famous surfing. year round fishing on charter or party boats and surf casting too. Fabulous restaurants, shops and spas right in town. There are hiking trails and the famous Montauk lighthouse. Public tennis and golf within walking distance of house. There are ranches offering horseback riding.
This property is located between Montauk lake and Montauk Downs golf course. It is a few minutes from the harbor, town or ocean beaches.


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Introducing Gillian Pratt
Gillian Pratt
Team Leslie Bike Shop/Bikers Boutique
2013 was my best season so far finishing 1st in all Scottish series SXC races which lead to my 2nd year being master's Scottish champ.
I also won 3 national races in nps series master ladies and was first in a pair at ten under the Ben.
I was then 2nd at the national champs in Glasgow very proud to add a silver British medal to my collection. Nothing makes me more proud than wearing my team kit and doing my best for my fab sponsors. I am so grateful for all the support.
I am stepping up a category to Expert which will bring new challenges and experiences and put me up against some very good females. I plan to race all SXC races in Scotland and as many NPS XC races I can manage. I hope to do well at 10 Under The Ben this year my first solo 10 hour event.
I am also mixing it up a bit this year with some Enduro races with my new Haibike Heet and maybe even something on the road, you never know! I will continue to train hard and achieve the best results possible for Team Leslie Bike Shop/Bikers Boutique.
I am looking forward to another exciting season and hope to get some good results. I am delighted to ride Haibike and cant thank Leslie Bike Shop/Bikers Boutique, Raleigh & Haibike enough!!
For Enduro Gillian will be riding the Heet SL – "Absolutely ideal bike for enduro races – kept me safe for my first race can't fault it. Perfect travel adjustable seat post all the extras you need!"
For XC Gillian will be riding the Greed SL – "XC race weapon! It's light and perfect for XC racing. Can't wait to race it!"