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It's been forever since I've written anything on here, but I find it hard to sit and write to a blank screen if I am not fired up about something. Seems kind of ridiculous in a way I guess, but that is just me.
The latest thing that has lit a fire under my rear is the blatant disregard for the emotional turmoil and the detrimental effects removing a child from the home has on the parents. Everyone is so quick to acknowledge what that separation does to the child, but no one focuses on the parents. No one cares how that affects the parents behavior and emotional state.
The government agencies sit there, expecting the parents to become superhuman in order to get their children back, siting how distraught the child is, but ignoring that the same is true for the parents, especially the mothers. They are so ready to blame the parents for every misstep as if they make mistakes on purpose and seem to go out of their way to make a successful reunion impossible by way of punishing the parents for every error while never offering any solution or support to the parents in achieving the goal of getting their children back.
I am not a trained psychologist, but I don't believe it takes one to recognize the blatant disregard our society has for parents. First, parents are never taught properly how to be parents before becoming one, then once they make a mistake, the most exaggerated steps are taken against them by a society and government agencies who are too quick to jump to the wrong conclusions and pass biased judgments. Once a child has been removed from the home, not a thought is spared for the suffering and depression that affects the parents of the child, while every thought is given to a misguided idea regarding the welfare of the child.
Yes, some parents shouldn't be allowed to raise their children, especially those who are abusive, but those same rules are enforced even on parents who make the smallest of mistakes in comparison to abuse. Not only is this sickeningly unfair, it comes with the detrimental effects of causing the parents to lose hope or ever getting their children back and an overwhelming sense of self-loathing, self-doubt and loss of confidence. Many parents in this position turn to alcohol, drugs or some other essentially harmful behavior or activity in the hope of escaping themselves, which in turn just makes the situation worse.
And the government agencies look on this behavior as proof that the parents are not worthy of their child and force further restrictions and eventually strip the parents of their rights to their child, instead of seeing this behavior for what it is. It is a cry for help. We are so quick to recognize that in someone who isn't a parent, someone who hasn't had their children forcibly ripped from their lives, but never do we question our preconceived notions that this must be the reason the children were taken to begin with and that the agencies were right in their decision.
Its not right, nor is there any excuse for it. Our society needs to step up to the plate and realize that if it is a cry for help in anyone else, than it is so in a parent. We are no less perfect than anyone else, yet because we are given the gift of a child to raise, we suddenly have unfair and inhuman expectations shoved on us that we are expected to measure up to.
We are as human as the next person and just like someone who has lost a significant other either to a break up or to death, we grieve the loss of our children. We don't know how to cope with the emotions roiling around inside because everyone tells us that we shouldn't have those emotions. We should only focus on the tasks set for us by the court and the agencies, without the assistance of anyone else and without any thought to our own emotional state because our children are more important than that.
Yes, our children are important, I am not denying that, but it is that very same importance they hold that drives us to the point of insanity when they are removed from our lives forcibly. We are so used to that connection with them, with knowing every little thing about them, their smell, the sound of their voice, the way it feels to hold them as they cry, that when that connection is broken, we are adrift and lost without it.
We lose our hope in the goodness of man, in ourselves and our ability to give our children the best that they deserve, and yet, we are expected to go on. To shove down those feelings that threaten to make us into screaming, violent, completely shattered basket-cases and proceed in an autonomous fashion toward the rigged goals the agencies set before us.
We are not robots. We have feelings, just as our children do and to ignore that is to ignore that which makes us human and to relegate our children to a life of being socially and emotionally stunted. To expect us to achieve the goals of being financially stable, personally stable and educated in child-rearing through a bullcrap class on parenting taught by someone who has no experience living through the hell we daily trudge through, without any assistance or understanding of our turmoil, is not only inhuman and unfair, but it is also impossible.
Psychologists and other experts whose advice the agencies employ need to open their eyes and really take into consideration the torment suffered by the parents whose children have been removed from the home. It is the responsibility of the agencies to assist the parents as it is for them to protect the child, because you cannot do one without the other and expect a satisfactory result. It is proven scientifically through studies that children removed from family homes end up being rather emotionally screwed up, even if they are adopted by a loving family.
And it is also being found that there have been an overwhelming amount of cases where the child was removed from the home when there was no call for it. Protecting children and ensuring family stability is not to be seen as a crusade. It is a duty to be taken seriously, but also not a power to be abused.
There are many cases when if the family had been provided with counseling and supportive services, that the child would have been more than safe, but that is apparently asking too much. These agencies are corrupted by the fear-mongering of our media, society and the psychologists who whisper horror stories in their ears. Not every parent who makes a mistake deserves to be crucified. There needs to be more attention brought to determining which cases require support and which ones actually do warrant a separation.
And, in my opinion, every effort should be made to assist the parent in achieving the goal of re-uniting with their child, not in providing barriers to that goal. Our society really has things backwards and it shames me to have to consider myself part of it just because I live here. I just want my kids back and I want to stop feeling like I am not good enough to raise them just because of what someone else did.
Yes, I made the decision to leave them with that person and I willingly take responsibility for that. What I don't take responsibility for is their actions. It was not me who hurt my daughter and as soon as I found out, I quickly got them out of that situation. I did what a parent is supposed to do and yet, I am the one being punished for someone else's actions.
I am being made out to be the irresponsible, evil one even though I have always done my best to take care of my girls. I had no other choice at the time but to trust that person to watch them because I had to work to keep a roof over their heads and food in their belly. And it was someone I should have been able to trust, but I guess you never really know people sometimes, even if you live with them.
If I hadn't had to have that knee surgery, then the physical therapy.... If I hadn't been going to school to further my education to better provide for my kids and to give them a good example that it is always possible to follow your dreams... If I hadn't had to work to support them, if I had had someone else to turn to, if someone in my family would have offered to watch them until I was able to find a daycare... If the CPS lady had been more supportive instead of making me feel like a horrible person for trusting someone I had been engaged to at the time... If I hadn't been so blind to the kind of person he really was and to his irritation with my children, even though he hid it from me.... If Friend of the Court had programs set up to assist parents... If, if, if....
But if's won't fix it. And I face the very real fact that I might not get my children back because the person I sent them to live with, my older half-sister, is on the same crusade as these agencies. She sees me as the demon in the situation, not as another victim. Not as a heart-broken mother who is losing hope because she can't see her girls. No, I am the monster because I can't be the emotionless shell she and the courts expect me to be. Because I suffer and make mistakes, I am the very definition of the evil parent who needs to be crucified. At least according to them.
But what kind of mother would I be if I had no feelings? What would my kids turn out to be if I didn't care for them so deeply that my heart is breaking even now just because they are not here with me? Like I have stated before, I guess this teaches me that my own family is among those I can't trust and that if by some miracle I am able to get my girls back, I will make sure they see the error of my family's and the government's ways. I will teach them what to look for and how to only give trust once it is earned, even with family.
I won't let them turn out like mine, delusional, dysfunctional and on a quest of martyrdom for no other reason than to make themselves feel better. I want my girls to be strong, well-adjusted, observant and fair, not close-minded, superstitious and given to mass hysteria over nothing like the rest of this society. Once I have them back, America can kiss my ass goodbye because I don't plan to raise my children in a social climate that is so volatile towards the parents who it should protect and support. I will give them a better environment, a place where I won't be labeled evil just because I am human and where they will grow up feeling safe and secure in being who they are. Some place, any place more tolerant than here for the humanity of others....
Fed up with society and the immense stupidity of this country? Good, cause so am I and you can read all about it here.
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Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Parents aren't emotionless robots... We are human, we make mistakes...
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Blasting the city for neglect, Bill Thompson conducts inspection at Chinatown hovel
Mayoral candidate Bill Thompson showed up outside 140 Hester Street in Chinatown Monday afternoon to investigate the conditions of the Sun Bright Hotel.
Following a horrific report in Sunday's New York Post, mayoral candidate Bill Thompson showed up outside 140 Hester Street in Chinatown Monday afternoon to investigate the conditions of the Sun Bright Hotel.
According to the Post, men are living in hellish conditions on the third and fourth floors of the building in a "human kennel."
Thompson and some first responders were able to gain access to those floors. Two female reporters and Thompson's spokeswoman were denied entry.
A disgusted Thompson later confirmed the Post's report, describing tiny chicken-wire-encased spaces about the size of a cot.
"Dirty isn't even — it is filthy," Thompson said. "It is filthy, it is disgusting."
"In Puerto Rico, we have chicken houses where we house chickens," interjected Israel Miranda, President of the Uniformed EMTs and Paramedics Union. "The chicken houses in Puerto Rico look better than what they're living in now."
"The stench is severe," Thompson added.
A 74-year-old resident reportedly told the New York Post that a dead body was left there for "about 15 days."
"Hopefully the city starts to pay attention now, after two days of attention and publicity," Thompson declared. "Hopefully they get something done here because it is disgraceful."
Thompson said the Department of Buildings must respond immediately.
"If they don't, it is an even worse outrage than what people are going through right now," he said. "The conditions up there are deplorable."
The Department of Building's response to a request for comment on the Sun Bright Hotel was: "The Department is investigating."
This is some tenth-level nation that allows its people to be treated this way," Thompson fumed. "That's not how we allow our fellow New Yorkers to be treated. Not like this."
"To let human beings, fellow New Yorkers live in conditions like this..." Thompson trailed off. "This isn't New York City."
But according to Steven Goldstein, an EMS FDNY lieutenant, this is New York City.
Goldstein said that he's been called to places like this before all around the city, including other places in Chinatown and in Brooklyn.
Mark Jack, 38, was staying at a YMCA in Flushing, Queens and had made a reservation on Expedia.com to stay at the Sun Bright, he said.
The employee staffing the front desk, however, would not allow him to see the room before he confirmed his reservation.
Watching a disgusted Thompson exit the building ruing the "disgraceful" living conditions, Jack uneasily reconsidered his reservation.
"They have my credit card," he worried. "Expedia asks for your credit card."
A man in a wheelchair outside who requested to be identified only by his first time, Michael, said he has lived there for almost 13 years.
"The roaches are tearing me up," he said, anxious that he had just run out of roach spray. "They're killing me, the flies and the roaches are driving me crazy at night."
Michael, 66, said he pays $300 per month to live there. When he first moved in, the rate was $8 per week.
He said a senior citizen program on Mott Street is trying to find him a new place to live.He is diabetic, he said, and has had both of his feet amputated. The building does not have an elevator.
Michael said Thompson shook his hand and talked to him before the candidate went upstairs to inspect the premises.
"You think he'd make a good mayor?" Michael asked. "I think he'd make a good mayor, don't you?You can vote for him, I can't vote for him. I got a [criminal] record, I can't vote."
Michael dismissed assurances to the contrary, maintaining his criminal record bars him from voting.
"I wish I could vote, but I can't vote," he insisted. "I got too many arrests."
The New York Civil Liberties Union confirmed that former convicts are legally allowed to vote in city elections as long as they are no longer on parole.
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The WOF at Sadie's
Here is the Wall of Fame at Sadie's in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The challenge is a 6.5lb stuffed sopaipilla, some tortilla chips, bowl of salsa, and a dessert-sized soapaipilla. They began offering the challenge in the middle of 2009. Since then, 100 people have tried and only these 5 have completed it in the 60 minutes.
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#2 Monson. I think the stuffed sopaipilla was "only" 5 pounds for #1 and #2.
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The Pixies > The Beatles
DiScuss? They've certainly had more of an influence on most of the bands I love...
but I can't say I agree.
For a start, I don't think there'd be a Pixies without The Beatles, but there you go.
Interesting, disagree with that proposition though.
Of 60s bands, the Velvets are more of an influence I would have that thought?
maybe. also
The Smiths > The Beatles
the beatles changed the face of popular music i cant see how anyone is more influential than that, but how far back do you have to go? i guess bach is more influential than the beatles
most people
are absolute douches.
Because people are idiots
Doolittle > every Beatles album. Not that I've heard every Beatles album. In fact I've only ever properly listened to Sgt. Pepper, but most people seem to think that that's their best, and Doolittle's comfortably better than that, so it must be better than every album the Beatles made, ever.
the beatles agreed with you, kinda. lennon once told mickey: 'you're the band we're trying to be'
Was that before or after he knew about the whole US Govt. anti-commie thing
and how they were suspicious of the Beatles?
well the monkees weren't part of the us government...sorry i'm not sure what you're on aboot!
maybe, also
herpes > the smiths
The Smiths > you
i reckon
the beatles had more of an influence on the bands you love than you perhaps realise
i disagree so much!
but i havent to got time for this, so byE!
Yeah. Definitely.
When the current phase of bands moves on, the Pixies love will also move on.
The Beatles won't move on with fads. They'll become more popular with scenes passing on. Like they had a lot of sales during Britpop, but at the mo, its pretty fashionable to say they're shit.
Pixies wrote Debaser, and the Beatles wrote A Day In The Life.
lol. Joke thread?
The Beatles>Jesus.
I wasn't saying they're shit though
Perhaps if you could read, this thread would be less entertaining for you.
Tell me about this current phase of bands who are all Pixies worshippers, maybe I'd like them...
pixies love
has lasted for nearly 20 years unabated. why would it stop. smiths love hasn't stopped.
Frank Black has said enough times for you to understand what A influence The Beatles were on Pixies?
Not enough, cleary
Next time I see him, I'll ask him to tell me again. With a megaphone pointed at my ear. That'll teach me. YEAH!
I was only sort of joking. I'm not a MASSIVE fan of The Pixies at all, it's just that I've read or heard that quite a few times and the cover of Wild Honey Pie might show that as well
I think The Beatles have
probably had more of an influence, either directly or indirectly, on more of the bands I love than The Pixies have. Cos they've been around for TIME.
That said, I would much rather put a Pixies album on now than a Beatles one. And I can't see this changing, to be honest. Dunno. Not sure. Confused. Bye!
I'm not sure
I love the Pixies, i love the Beatles. I'm not sure it matters that without the beatles there'd be no pixies either. You could say that about many bands where the influenced are better than the influencer.
I'll sit on the fence for this one.
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we RULE
at pointless replies.
Surely the team they all want to be a part of
Next stop, running around going '^this'. Zonino!
oh god :(
You're not sitting on the fence
you quite clearly impiled that The Pixies are better than The Beatles.
Or maybe
even implied
no no no
i said it didn't make any difference that The Beatles Influenced the Pixies, as the person who said that implied it made the Beatles better.
although looking at my pointless reply
it does seem like i'm saying i think the Pixies are better.
But i'm not!
nice way to rack up some replies
also you are wrong, but i'm fed up of having to explain why, and i've had a long day of shopping.
Influence schminfluence.
The Pixies PWN the Beatles.


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The police said the wife is still unconscious.
Ghanaian defender, John Paintsil, not only stabbed his wife, but assaulted a neighbour, the police have said.
Paintsil, a former Fulham, West Ham and Leicester City defender, was arrested by the police in Ghana for stabbing his wife on Friday.
The shocking development comes when the sporting world is yet to come to terms with the murder allegations against another sports celebrity, the Blade Runner, Oscar Pistorius, who only on Friday secured a controversial bail plea after it was confirmed he shot his girlfriend (albeit unknowingly) to death.
An Accra police spokesman, Freeman Tettey, in an interview with BBC Sport confirmed the assault and arrest of the Ghanaian defender.
"The information available to us is that he stabbed his wife in the upper eyelid, so we had to quickly rescue the wife and send her to hospital. For now, he is in our custody and we are in the investigation process.
"We are holding him for causing bodily harm to his wife and for assaulting his neighbour," Tettey told BBC Sport.
According to the police spokesman, the wife had scaled a fence to a neighbour's house in search of protection, but the former Fulham man followed suit and in the process assaulted the neighbour too.
"The wife scaled a wall to a neighbour's house for protection and immediately Paintsil also pursued her, came to the neighbour's house, gave him (neighbour) some slaps and threatened to shoot him.
"That scared the gentleman who rushed to the police to lodge a complaint," Tettey added.
Tettey, who made no clear statement on the health of Paintsil's wife, Richlove, said police can keep the long-standing international for no longer than 48 hours before deciding whether to charge him.
"She collapsed, which suggests she is in a critical condition but for now we don't know her current state. When she is stable, we can start taking statements from her.
"By Sunday night, we should have conducted our preliminary enquiry ahead of possibly giving a court something to look at on Monday," the spokesman explained.
The spokesperson said the woman is receiving hospital treatment for serious eye wounds after collapsing following the assault.
Paintsil was part of the Ghana 2006 and 2010 soccer World Cup squads; and also part of the team that finished fourth this month behind Nigeria, Burkina Faso and Mali at the Africa Cup of Nations in South Africa.


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Plans for a Hereford bypass have yet again been put on hold after government officials refused funding for the project.
Acting on behalf of the council, the West Midlands Regional Assembly was applying for at least half of the estimated £130 million for the road.
But Herefordshire Council had failed to even decide upon a route for the road before asking the government for funds.
In a letter leaked to the Hereford Heckler, the Department for Transport told the WMRA that plans for the 'outer distributer road' are premature.
"The promotor should … expand its current study work and investigate a full range of options for addressing the transport challenges in the area." In plain English, go and do your homework, roads aren't the only option!
Government funding for the bypass has been refused several times previously because of the severe consequences it would have on the local environment. Current plans will either take the road west through the village of Breinton or east around the Lugg Meadows; both will be problematic.
Herefordshire Council plan to raise the rest of the funds by selling off land to developers, who will be building an estimated 8,000 new homes in the city.
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Day 89 Appalachian Trail, VA Miles Hiked to Date: 870 Hiked yesterday: 14 Trail Miles, Miles to Katahdin: 1314
First, welcome to our new readers who may have found our website after reading the news article published in the Sarasota, FL Herald-Tribune, http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20130629/ARCHIVES/306291010/-1/TODAYSPAPER?p=3&tc=pg
Here's a brief overview of Chipmunk's hike adventure: Chipmunk left Springer Mountain, GA (the Southern start of the Appalachian Trail) on April 1, 2013. She has hiked over a third of the trail and is in very good condition physically, especially compared to her fellow hikers. Although she is a "solo" hiker (meaning she hikes without her parents or a constant adult companion), she is seldom completely alone on the trail. She spends most nights in a truck camper with me, her mom; I meet her at trailheads, mountain gaps, road crossings, etc. She carries a SPOT GPS Satellite tracking device both for her safety and my peace of mind. We are often asked if she carries a gun or knife; she does carry a camping multi-tool (w/knife) and like most hikers, has pepper spray ... but no gun. Although this hike is a big adventure, Chipmunk has lots of experience for her young age (see "RIDE THE NATION BLOG" tab at the top of this page). My husband, daughter and I researched and prepared for this hike which was Chipmunk's idea; we are on board to help her reach her goal safely and wisely. And for the record, if she decides to end her hike now or before reaching Katahdin, she will have our love, support and respect for every mile she has hiked so far. I hope you find inspiration in her story.
Second, Thank you to Steve G. and Ed C. who both sent wonderful messages to Chipmunk after reading the Herald Tribune news article. She reads all the messages that are sent to her and likes words of encouragement.
Third, to Amey H. in Vermont ... got your facebook message and Chipmunk is looking forward to seeing you out on the trail when she gets to your neck of the woods!
Yesterday morning, we returned to where Chipmunk left the trail the day before and she hiked away from the Blue Ridge Parkway and towards Shenandoah National Park. She and I have patiently been counting down to her Skyline Drive area hike for many reasons. Hikers who are ahead have messaged us to say that the hiking improves and that the views are terrific. Plus, Shenandoah is the last leg of the Virginia section of the Appalachian Trail. Many hikers feel like they are just never going to get past Virginia. Chipmunk entered Virginia mid-May and will have hiked over 500 miles (a quarter of the entire Appalachian Trail) in the state before she exits en route to Harpers Ferry, WV.
Cool! I did not know about "Talus" before this journey! I've also been fascinated by the number of trees I see growing out of what appears to be solid rock. It makes me think about the times in my life when I felt like "Talus" and somehow pushed through to make a tree sprout from
Before long, it was time to re-connect with Chipmunk at our pre-designated spot along Skyline Drive. I drove the truck there and parked in the shade. Since Chipmunk would have to take an access path from the A.T. to the parking area, Chocolate Chip and I decided to hike down the access path and see how far she had to come to meet us. It was only about 1/10 of a mile but Chocolate Chip enjoyed the tall grass she walked through along the way. I came to the junction of the path and the Appalachian Trail and saw the concrete markers that denote which direction key spots are via metal bands that are engraved with trailhead names, mileages, etc.
When Chipmunk came in around 6:30 pm, she said she loves the concrete markers. She said they feel "old" and "established"; she fantasizes that it's "way back in the 60's and she's on a family hiking vacation"; she said she pretended she'd emerge from the woods and climb into a 1960's station wagon, painted mint green and white ... her first choice for a car when she starts driving. She made me chuckle as I listened to her tell this.
I asked about her hiking day, as I usually do and she gave me a few details before reminding me that I, too, will have to wait for her book to be written to get all the details. She never ceases to amaze and tickle me.
If you enjoy reading the story of our adventure, and you'd like to send some "Trail Magic" to Chipmunk, click on the "Donate" button at the upper right corner of today's blog post. Chipmunk maintains a twitter account: @openlymtngoat where a common hashtag is #GoChipmunk . She (or we) will try to answer any questions you may have about her hike and this family adventure.
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Mama Chip, Papa Chip, Chipmunk and her dog, Chocolate Chip
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Surrounded by large canopy of trees, this one acre property has plenty of space for the kids to run around. You can really embrace this beautiful retreat. Sit on the verandah at the end of the day exploring the High Country, and enjoy the sounds of the river running pass, the birds in the trees and the peace that comes with this property.
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I have thoroughly enjoyed BYM and have particularly appreciated the sense of purpose that comes with the blog.
The blog 'hat' has pervaded my entire experience and meant that I could wear it with whichever other hat I was wearing at the time (the Friend, Young Quaker, Young Friends General Meeting, Colchester & Coggeshall Monthly Meeting, QCEA conference goer, Young Friends appeal for Rewrite, former QPSW peaceworker etc).
I spent a lot of time striking up conversation with people I didn't know and other times scrabbling around inside my brain trying to recognise people who I have met before when their name escapes me. This time around, it was mostly people who went to the Quaker Council for European Affairs conference in Brussels last year.
In the last few years, I have had no trouble going up and talking with people that I don't know and during the weekend I met some wonderful people who are new to me.
I was pleased to finally make it to a main session and writing up the Salter lecture for the Friend was in the back of my mind for a long long time until I worked out what needed to be written.
Working (very briefly) with the 7-11 year olds was fantastic and I have total respect for the adults who gave up their weekend to work with them, as well as Simon Best, the coordinator and all his staff and helpers.
Making the George Fox videos was really great too. I valued Wess's get-on-and-do-it attitude when it came to putting my idea into reality and Simon's willingness to speak on camera from the heart about us Quakers.
We were looking for George Fox
Led by the light
I also really enjoyed time that I spent with Lizz Roe, who was working the Woodbrooke stand. She introduced me to those of her Woodbrooke colleagues that I didn't already know and she was the eptiome of patience as she explained things and helped people who stopped by.
My biggest regret: I didn't spend any time in the Friends House library. The staff there are always really helpful and friendly and as with people, I love finding new books (or old ones that are new to me!)
My second biggest regret: Only taking a handful of photos with my lomo camera.
On Friendlink, there is a great love/hate thread, so in honour of all the great people there. Today, i hate that BYM is over and my tiredness. I love my happiness, the shining sun, continued fellowship with Simon and Wess and I love that BYM is over at last!
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With the fax machine still cooling off from last week's signing day, the Michigan State football program landed its first recruit for 2013.
Both Rivals.com and 247Sports report that Flint Carman Ainsworth running back Gerald Holmes verbally committed to the Spartans after an unofficial visit Sunday, which included Michigan State's men's basketball win over Michigan.
"After the basketball game, I told coach (Mark) Dantonio I wanted to be a Spartan," Holmes told 247Sports' Sean Scherer. "I just knew Michigan State is the right place for me."
Holmes missed most of his junior season with an ankle injury.
"Not having the stats — being injured — the (Michigan State) coaches still gave me an offer," Holmes told Rivals.com's Bill Kurelic. "That tells me they see my potential."
Rivals reports Holmes had scholarship offers from Toledo and Central Michigan at this early stage.
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Southwest and AirTran Airlines: Mergers and Aggravations
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The wedding of Southwest and AirTran airlines is now in its third year. For many of the carriers' regular passengers, the honeymoon ended long ago.
As the two airlines, which combined carry more domestic passengers than any other, have started splicing together their flight schedules this year, travelers say Southwest Airlines agents struggle with AirTran Airways tickets and vice versa, sometimes leaving passengers who have been delayed and need rebooking in the lurch....


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This year I have been able to utilize mini-inquiries in our math workshop. It has allowed me to find the balance between skill building and discovery. My most successful lessons are when we work on a question of the day that can have more than one answer or a topic that they have yet had direct instruction on. Students have time to talk at the carpet and give each other ideas. They then return to their seats, work independently for a few minutes then return to the carpet to share with a different partner what ideas they worked on and where they are in solving the problem or how many ideas they have come up with. The students then talk as a class and sometimes we have an anchor text that we read together and question as we go. I have found that the level of questioning in my class is beyond where I expected. When we were doing our measurement unit, one of my students asked the questions "Is there measurement in space?". At first I really, really wanted to just say 'Of course!' but instead I opened it up to the class and the discussion that ensued was amazing. We had an amazingly authentic debate that was respectful and insightful. They had me thinking about all sorts of things…When are specific measurements important? When are estimates better? On this specific day we had so many questions coming up that I decided we should do an exit ticket with one question they still had or something new they learned. Their questions were so outstanding that I decided to use a few of them for our question of the day-and they LOVED seeing their own questions being used that they started asking more and giving them to me on post-it notes 'in case I needed more ideas'!! Here are a few examples of their questions:
I'm still unsure how to utilize inquiry on a larger scale. Although we are using it most days, as I said earlier we are doing the mini-inquiries and they only take 1-2 days. We have done them each week and I think the level of understanding in our units is far more than what I have seen in previous years. Students are able to provide feedback to each other, and it's not just 'You did great', it really is useful. They give each other ideas and aren't afraid to try things that they are unsure about. It has been amazing to see the classroom transform!


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[Doreen Virtue's Intro: A professional angel therapist named Sophia Fairchild needed immediate and extreme help from Archangel Michael to clear away negative energies and earthbound entities from her home.]
Many years ago I bought a ramshackle house on a hill overlooking the ocean. It was badly run-down, but it was the only place I could afford at the time. I suspected something was very wrong with this house when in spite of its beautiful location and low price, nobody else showed any interest in buying it.
Looking back now, I see that it was glaringly obvious what the problem was. At the first and only open house, the few prospective buyers got no farther than the entry hall before the blood drained from their faces. Most of them bolted back to the safety of their cars and sped away. The real estate agent stood well off to the side, meekly pointing out the ocean views and apologizing for the fact that the house had stood empty for some time.
I, too, sensed the cold, clammy atmosphere emanating from the house, but I carefully ventured inside. I tried not to wince at the broken vintage plumbing, holes in graffitied walls, decades-old junk piled up to the rafters in the grim garage, and personal items abandoned in haste, strewn like confetti across the yard. Yet the lovely ocean view and glimpses of what must have once been a magnificent garden, now lying buried beneath weeds and trash, gave me some confidence that I could make a thing of beauty from this wreck of a house. And besides, this was all I could afford.
At the auction I was the only bidder, except for a man I suspected was a stooge, positioned there by someone to deliberately jack up the price. Fortunately, I called his bluff and was thrilled to secure the house for a sum even lower than I'd expected. It seemed like a miracle to own my own place at last! My son, however, was not so thrilled.
Shortly after we moved into the house, I began to hear strange stories from my nervous neighbors about the previous residents. An old woman who'd survived the Nazi death camps had lived alone there for many years before dying in my bedroom. A tormented soul, she took aimless bus rides crisscrossing the city every day, apparently to get away from someone or something that was always chasing her. It was sad to think that after all she'd been through, she was so frightened of her own home.
The house had then fallen into disrepair through years of neglectful tenants and an absentee landlord who'd bought the property merely for its land value. The last occupants had been a group of occultists who must have enjoyed the parade of ghosts that nightly streamed through that windswept house—until they left in a big hurry. Even my cats knew that this house was truly haunted, but I still managed to gloss over that detail.
I enlisted the aid of a well-known feng shui expert to begin work on clearing the house of its dank, cloying energy. He doused the property and pointed out a couple of powerful ley lines that intersected below the house. We hammered copper pipes into the ground across them, hoping this would calm the energy down, and we moved furniture around in my son's bedroom. When the man had done all he could, he left me with a recommendation to call in a specialist to perform an exorcism. A what?! Okay, an exorcism. But who do I call? He didn't know. This wasn't something that could easily be looked up in the yellow pages.
Right then I began firmly telling myself that I had to get a handle on this situation. I simply pushed aside the feeling that I was totally out of my depth, yet I didn't know where to turn. I kept getting an image in my mind of a stained-glass window in an old Gothic cathedral. This was my only association with the term exorcism at the time. With nothing else to go on, I decided to search among the dusty shelves of antique bookstores for anything I could find on medieval exorcisms.
It was in one of these bookstores that I happened upon an illustration of Archangel Michael in a brilliant stained-glass panel of an English church. The gilt-edged book mentioned prayers for calling upon the archangel's assistance when dealing with "daemons." I noticed I'd been holding my breath for a long time and was starting to sweat. This was the nearest I'd come to a description of how to exorcise a haunted house.
The book said: "Michael is the prince of the heavenly armies. The faithful call upon him in all dangers of soul and body and implore his intercession at the hour of death that their souls may by him be brought before the throne of God."
As I jotted down these words, I could no longer deny the reality and extent of the haunting, and I understood how truly helpless we were. I'd been thinking that I somehow had the power to make a stand to protect my family amid the swirling legions that moved at liberty through our house each night. I was in way over my head, but Michael was throwing me a lifeline.I began to breathe through my tears.


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'The Age of Empathy'
By Fraans de Waal
Chapter One: Biology, Left and Right
Are we our brothers' keepers? Should we be? Or would this role only interfere with why we are on earth, which according to economists is to consume and produce, and according to biologists is to survive and reproduce? That both views sound similar is logical given that they arose at around the same time, in the same place, during the English Industrial Revolution. Both follow a competition-is-good-for-you logic.
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"The number of Palestinian buildings demolished in the first week of January 2017 is almost four times as high as the weekly average for 2016: 20 structures. In 2015, the average was 10 structures a week, according to the records of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). In Area C, which is under full Israeli civil and security control, between Monday and Thursday the Israel Defense Forces' Civil Administration demolished 65 structures in Palestinian communities, and seven rainwater cisterns. The Jerusalem Municipality demolished another two homes in East Jerusalem. Some 151 people, including 90 children, lived in the buildings that were demolished." (thanks Amir)
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First week of 2017: Israel demolishes homes of 151 Palestinians
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Today, to complete the series introducing an expanded idea of the 'Word of God', of Logos, I am going to talk about the journey of the word itself. I'm hoping the journey serves a double purpose, both for the information about the word and its meanings, and for the illustration of Logos that the word itself provides.
It was in the Hellenistic layer of Logos which I introduced last week that the word logos (λόγος) arose. It did not mean language, though the word dialektos, which does mean language, is based on the same stem as logos: lego (λέγω), 'I say'. Yes, that's right, all of this is made of lego.
Importantly logos did not ever mean 'word' in the sense of 'a word in a sentence'. The term for that was λέξις (lexis), but yet again you can see the common stem.
Originally it seems to refer to the internal thought behind the externalised utterance - a sort of perfect platonic form (albeit before Plato) of that which we are attempting to say. My trusty Liddell & Scott Greek dictionary has a long list of meanings (and there are longer ones - no doubt there are books written on the word), but its very first definition is, "The word by which the inward thought is expressed," and this seems to be close to the original meaning of the twist on lego.
Heraclitus (early 5th C BC) was the first to make a special fuss of the term, though without changing its meaning particularly. Interestingly to pantheists he said, "Listening not to me but to the logos it is wise to agree that all things are one." Possibly he was the first to suggest that logos was an independent, universal entity.
It was a slippery word. But its importance increased with its variegating meanings. For Aristotle it was part of an elaborate system and meant something close to 'logical argument' (as contrary to emotional arguments - pathos - or arguments appealing to the morality of the speaker - ethos). By the time the word got to the Stoics and to Philo it had been divided up into types or aspects of logos, one of which was the creative principle of the universe, and hence was a philosophical challenge to traditional religion.
It was Philo of Alexandria who, pretty much contemporaneously with the Jesus saga to the East, first introduced logos into Jewish philosophy though, to be sure, he did it in Greek and probably couldn't read Hebrew. And here meaning dances between the languages for in the Septuagint, the Greek translation of the Old Testament that Philo (and the Hellenistic world, though there were other Greek translations) referred to has the Hebrew for 'word' in 'the Word of the Lord' translated not as lexis but as logos, in several places. Philo fully celebrated this apparent harmonising of Greek knowledge with the very breath of his Hebrew god. And so logos entered the Bible through translation.
And the Jews were to hurl logos right back at the Greeks, ironically not as a transcendent principle as we might have expected vis-a-vis Yahweh but in Greek form, incarnated as a god-man. An author I read recently heavily used the metaphor of ideas having sex and producing progeny. In my imagination this is an ideal example as we see a new meaning emerge from this Greek word entering a foreign belief system and bearing the Hebrew-Greek baby Jesus. (Incidentally one of the stoics' logoses was logos spermatikos, the universal law of generation.)
One of the most compelling, seductive verses in the New Testament is the opening verse of the Gospel of John, written in the second century AD. It's with its living world of meaning of the word logos in mind that we should read it if we want to gauge its full impact. "In the beginning was logos and logos was with God, and logos was God. The same was in the beginning with God." So far we have pretty much a Stoic/Philo conception incidentally, which would have been familiar to the whole Hellenistic world. The radical bit which was to steer the meaning of logos for the next two thousand years, is in verse 14: "And logos became flesh and dwelt among us."
In my mind, this verse, or this idea anyway, won the ancient world to this hybrid Judai-Hellenism called Christianity. There was a bit more to it of course, but this was the philosophical fit, without which the practice and teachings of the early church would not have taken in the Greek cities. It was in these Greek cities that Jewish communities had themselves already been seduced by logos after all, through the Greek translations of their own literature along with their rich philosophical environment. And the Greeks themselves, great consumers of others' wisdom, were exposed to these extraordinary ancient writings of the Jews through the same translations, with its transcendent, rather Platonic God and its universal narrative that now included them.
If you've read my last few sermons about Logos you'll know that like John, I do see logos as a creative principle that is implicit in the universe even before the origin of humans or language. It is a generative principle in the universe itself, of which neurology, consciousness, language and story are sequential flowerings. But of language it is not the words themselves - which are merely shared symbols, matters of religion - which are Logos but the mechanics of language, the innermost grammar and rules, just as with consciousness it is not the meat of the brain which is logos but the mechanics of the neurological system.
Logos then is a word for a universal generative principle, a principle by which symbolic expression between agents might collect, store, accumulate, trade, transmit and develop information systems. It is also the sum total of that accumulated system. It is not a mystical idea as it is being properly researched in my view by neurolinguists and many other fields, but it is full of mystery, as well as being a critical and a universal idea. It is an idea that theology needs to thoroughly re-examine if it is to be relevant.
For the big picture is that Logos has become flesh, and furthermore that through it, the child of Everything if you like, Everything has become flesh. Through the symbolic, metaphoric world of language and story we are harbingers of the generative principle of the universe. Logos has ballooned beyond the capacity of our collective living minds of course and is stored and constantly rearticulated with revision in books and on the internet. But we remain its living conduits through time, without which Logos would become dust. We are the steppingstones along logos's pathway, and it is bigger than us. We are born with the legacy of Logos and die leaving it a bit further along than it was, whether we play a part in that or not.
And so where does this leave Jesus? Obviously a man can't be Logos, and I've talked about the danger of idolatry elsewhere, but am I saying he wasn't special, that he wasn't in any particular way logos incarnate? This is where I am going furthest onto a limb I think, because I think Logos has a sort of directionality and logic whereby a very new way of seeing something - a new constellation of words and ideas - can coalesce inside a human brain subconsciously and appear to leap ahead of itself. These days I think this normally happens to thousands of people fairly simultaneously with your average new idea, but it's the best explanation I have for the idea of the prophet, the muse, or of genius, and thereby yes, I think Jesus may have been a particular incarnation of Logos, but no more than Socrates or Charles Darwin. He was inspired, if you like, and if I ever use the word, this is what I mean by inspiration. It doesn't leave any idea immune to ongoing scrutiny.
Way back among the earlier Hellenistic writings so many of the meanings of logos - a proposition, an argument, a ground, a plea, a position, an expectation, an account, a reason - might be summed up as an active packet of language, an utterance meant to have an impact. Another word for that is 'spell', and there is a sense in which the word is permeated by a sense of active power. The reason I bring this up right in conclusion is because my final proposition is that understanding language is the key to breaking the spell, whether it is the spell of propaganda or advertising, of persuasive individuals, of group think; the spell of the logo. It is also the key to our own power, individually and collectively.
Logos is such that we may be wholly passive to it, and it will control us almost entirely, or we may be very active in it, which we should see as an enormous responsibility. It is our bigger self, our higher collective purpose. However inadequately I have presented the idea in these past four sermons, the least of my hopes is that I cause readers to consider this idea anew. The Logos has not finished with logos.


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Why is this important? Well, my sister has suggested we (my brother, sister and me) do the 30K Around the Bay relay in March. (10K each)
I am not physically close to running 10K. I feel out of shape right now and probably couldn't even run a 5K. How did I let myself get to the point where I can't run 5K anymore?
I'm doing the CIBC Run For A Cure again which will help get me into 5K shape again. I would like to be able to run 10K. So, I am going to start training and blog my running progress at least once a week.
I'm going to ask you for 2 things to help motivate me:
- I am on a hunt for a good 10K training schedule. If anyone has any suggestion of a training program comment below. I'll try it out and let you know how it is working for me.
- Someone very close to me had breast cancer and had a severe reaction to the chemotherapy. She is still suffering from neuropathy as a side effect of the drugs. The good news is she is currently cancer free. I'm participating in the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation CIBC Run for the Cure on Sunday, October 6, 2014. I have 66 days left to raise $300 for Breast Cancer research. If you would like to make a donation, of any size, please visit http://www.runforthecure.com/goto/madeline
I look forward to your comments and motivation. :)


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In the Discipleship House this week, Memes have become a new and creative way to have an entire conversation.
A conversation that follows me on the road. I'm traveling and speaking at a Woman's conference and finding out that I'm miss the students already. Fitting I guess when I'm speaking on Spiritual Motherhood!
Thanks to group chats, my phone continues to go off as the meme conversations roll in. I wish I could give you a picture of the hilarity, sarcasm, creativity and wit these young adults have! While I can't share their stories, I can share some of the memes they've made of me. The humility to laugh at One's self is so freeing!
Join me? I mean look – it's like I'm the many faces of Chuck Norris or something! 😅
While I may have intentionally set my phone away from the podium while preaching, there isn't anything I would trade to not have the "mime's" (as I may have referred to them at first, ahem) roll in.
I am blessed Yawl!
Tombs to Wombs
With the power of the Gospel, the only thing that should be empty is the grave. How often do we say to Jesus, I'm gonna go out put some grave clothes on and go hang out back in the tomb ok? And pick up a few burdens and chains while I'm at it? K? Cause that's easier than trusting you today. "- Ellie Holcomb
Ouch! I'm afraid I'm guilty of returning to the tomb somedays. Life and freedom can feel naked and vunerable after the confines of the cave tomb.
Much a like a baby gets comfortable in the womb – we too find safety in the tomb. One of God's graces in the wilderness times is to turn our tombs into wombs. The places of death and surrender also become the place where He begins to grow new life.
Once a baby is born if the ambilical cord isn't removed, what once fed comforted, and grew the baby, now becomes a chain. And keeps the baby connected to the dead placenta.
New seasons of growth may be scary and it's not that we want to return to the tomb, but we want to cling to the grace we found there. Cling to the familiar.
But there is new mercy every morning. In learning to trust in freedom and new seasons, there will be the process of learning what grace looks like in growth as much as we learned it in surrender and in the wilderness.
His grace is consistent. Embrace that today – in any season. Your tomb will become a womb, and Again you will find grace.
"Thus says the Lord: "The people who survived the sword found grace in the wilderness; when Israel sought for rest, the Lord appeared to him from far away. I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you. Again I will build you, and you shall be built, O virgin Israel! Again you shall adorn yourself with tambourines and shall go forth in the dance of the merrymakers." -Jeremiah 31:2-4 ESV
Invited In
We were swinging on the swing enjoying the fall breeze when he kept pointing to the tree branches above. The little monkey – he was always so curious.
During our afternoon walks we would often explore the different tree leaves. Today was different. He wanted to do more than just finger and feel the crunchy leaves or bark, he wanted to climb the tree. For not being able talk much yet, he could communicate quite clearly what he wanted.
Why not? Climbing trees was one of my favorite past times as a child. Sure, he was young, but here was an opportunity for me to invite him into one of my past joys. (Ok maybe I STILL love to climb trees).
Tomorrow I'm scheduled to speak at a conference on what discipleship and mentoring as a lifestyle looks like. One of the things I'll be sharing is that the best way we can learn to love people is by loving them the way Christ loves us.
And He invites us in. Much like I invited this little guy to experience what I enjoy so much, Jesus invites me into His joy as well.
Into His death and pain yes, but also into His resurrection and life and joy. Sharing life together is being invited in to others joys and sorrows.
"Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. For if we have been united together in the likeness of His death, certainly we also shall be in the likeness of His resurrection," Romans 6:4-5 NKJV
Small Things
I often notice the small things. And it annoys me at times. Life is so big, and so meaningful. I love connections between things – and struggle when I don't see if something has a purpose.
Today at work as I weighed out the coffee beans to make a large pot of coffee, I was struck by how beautiful the dark oval beans looked in the crisp white filter. The fluted edging of the coffee filter made the beans appear to look like the center of a flower. So simple and so beautiful.
The moments pause to notice the small thing of coffee beans in a filter stuck with me all day. Why? Why was I so drawn to a simple picture? I delighted in the beauty of those coffee beans. They were meaningless and about to be ground into powder with boiling water shot through them until they were a goopy mess. And yet, here I was excited about the way coffee beans looked in a filter.
To me purposeless, but maybe not to Him.
What if I'm drawn to the small things because He is? I've been praying to understand not just in my head, but in my heart, a Father who delights in me because I'm His, and not just in what I can do for Him. Perhaps I notice the small things and delight in them because He's showing me the way He delights not just in my big wins, but in my small quiet moments too.
Shifting Shore Lines
They say 'opposites attract'. I'm no longer certain of that as a blanket statement, but I do know that others can have the same heartbeats and passion as each other while at the same time being completely opposite in approach or personality.
My "bestie" Meg, shares a lot of the same passions and heart for Jesus and people as I do, but she is SO different from me. So different. She is as introverted as I am extroverted, short as I am tall, fair skinned as I am brown, and smirks inwardly as much as I do outwardly.
When the Lord is changing her, He works in her slowly and steadily. It will be months sometimes before she can put a concept into words as she grows. But she grows oh so beautifully. If she was an ocean shoreline, the Lord is the lapping waves. Come back in 10 years and you will have noticed how the shoreline has changed shape dramatically.
When the Lord is working in me, it's more like bursts and spurts, and loud explosions of 'ah ha' moments. I can almost immediately articulate what the Lord is showing me. If I was an ocean shoreline, then the Lord would be the breakers that crash against the shore. In 10 years, my shoreline all have changed just as much as Meg's as the waters shape our hearts.
Sometimes waves lap, and other times they break, but what matters is that shorelines change. It's been easy for me over the years to either get frustrated with Meg's process, or envy it. And hers with mine. There have also been times since when the Lord has worked in my life like a lapping wave, and Meg's example has helped me to not fear the Lord's quiet working. He isn't a God to be put in a box, and in different seasons He speaks and works differently in us and in others. The key is not expecting others journeys to look like our own. As believers, Jesus is the journey we all say 'yes' to. The evidence of His work is what we should be looking for in each other – not our similarities or differences.
We have each been woven together by the Lord – He knows us deeply. And He knows how we can best hear Him. He puts friends in our lives that are different from us so that we can learn about and meet a different side of how the Lord works and loves. Differences are not for comparison or frustration, but for appreciation and stretching. If the world were filled with people who all related to life just like you, how boring would that be?
Unity doesn't come from uniformity, but diversity. You don't get unity by combining two of the same things. You create unity by connecting diversity with a common thread. For Meg and I, that unifying thread has been Jesus. I need her diversity and she needs mine.
You need diversity, and the world needs yours.
Shifting Shore Lines is Day #20 of "In Deep" a 31 Days Series
It Feels Like Hope
To do list and to remember lists, room diagrams, run sheets, menu's and staff team lists cluttered my phone, clipboard and brain. The only way I was going to take on the day and thrive in it was to sit and be quiet, to set it all aside for a few minutes. I snuck away to my favorite coffee shop. I thought about blogging for tonight but instead poured over Jeremiah 31 and 32.
One thought chased another as I looked out the coffee shop window at the early fall snow. Something about those verses and looking out the window got me thinking about hope as Sara Grove's song lyrics reverberated through my heart and mind.
You do your work the best that you can
You put one foot in front of the other
Life comes in waves and makes it's demands
You hold on as well as your able
You've been here for a long long time
Hope has a way of turning it's face to you
Just when you least expect it
You walk in a room
You look out a window
And something there leaves you breathless
You say to yourself
It's been a while since I felt this
But it feels like it might be hope
So instead of a blog today, you're getting an excerpt from my journal as I pondered fall leaves, dead branches, hope. And how that hope connects with the way the Lord both scatters and gathers things in our lives as He did in Jeremiah with the people of Israel.
Before Hope can live, before it can be birthed, it must be conceived. Hope begins when things still look bare and barren, it's starts in the grey before the light of dawn. Before any tangible reality comes into sight – hope breathes quietly first.
When it's still dead and seemingly barren, when the snow is starting to fall, and spring is far off, hope. Look out the window and let the broken sticks leave you breathless, for the God who scatters also gathers. The Father who allows death also beckons life. Hope beckons life instead of despair as it calls out:
"Keep your voice from weeping,
and your eyes from tears,
for there is a reward for your work,
declares the Lord, (Jeremiah 31:16)
The Lord who scatters, still values what was scattered or lost, and will once again gather. And this feels like it might be hope. (Jeremiah 31:10)
"It feels like hope" is Day #19 of "In Deep" a 31 Days series


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The Holmby Hills campus looks quite different from the architecturally unified site that opened in the 1920s. Over the years, earthquake-damaged buildings have been razed and new structures have been built for classrooms, athletics and performing arts. Much of the campus is hilly and wooded, with stone benches and fountains where students meet to have lunch or study.
Plans call for increasing space by 85,000 square feet, to a total of 225,000. Once it is built out, the campus would consist of about 15 acres, half of it usable for buildings and athletic fields. (By contrast, a public middle school with a comparable enrollment would be required to have about 18 acres of usable space, said William Delvac, an attorney for Harvard-Westlake.)
Subdivided in the 1920s, Holmby Hills was billed by Janss Investment Co. as "the ultimate in real estate development," straddling Sunset Boulevard west of Beverly Hills. Many homes feature tennis courts, swimming pools, guesthouses and sloping lawns on lots ranging from 1.5 to 9 acres.
The campus predates the residences. In 1928, Janss granted the property for $10 to the founders of the Westlake School for Girls, a day and boarding school that had been established in 1904 across from Westlake Park (now MacArthur Park), near downtown Los Angeles. Later that year, the school moved into its new home, operating in a cluster of buildings designed in the Spanish Colonial Revival style.


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Here's a temptation you (probably) don't encounter every day: the temptation to have your picture taken with a movie star. At the time this particular temptation presents itself, it does not seem like a temptation. It seems like a no-brainer. Of course you want your picture taken with the movie star! I mean, hey, how cool is that? You've not only met a movie star, but said movie star has actually conversed with you – at least to the extent that you have said, "Um, can I take your picture?" and the movie star has responded in the affirmative.
You are about to experience a rude awakening.
This seemingly-harmless encounter – and the pleased realization that you have your camera with you – is a trap. Do not fall into this trap. Resist the temptation to have your picture taken with that movie star.
You think you are going to want the picture, to prove to people that you met the movie star. You toy with the idea of blowing it up and framing it. You are quite certain that you want to post it on Facebook, probably with a jocular caption containing the term "BFF." Until, that is, you see the picture … and hear the echo of Lucifer and all his imps having a good laugh at your expense.
See, here's the deal. You were surprised to discover that the movie star looked just like a regular person, weren't you? But this, my friend, is an illusion. Movie stars look like regular people when viewed through the human eye. Through a camera lens, they look like movie stars.
And here's the cruel truth: in your no-longer-so-cherished photograph, the movie star still looks like a normal human being. It is you, Gentle Reader, who appears far from normal. Standing next to a movie star, you look like the unnatural offspring of Freddy Krueger and The Blob.
You will stare at the photograph in horror and disbelief. You will cringe. You may weep. But one thing you will never do is show that photograph to another human soul. Your near and dear are going to have to take your word for it that you met the movie star. Sad but true.
Consider yourself warned.


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HSTE Board
Nathaniel Evslin - President
Nathaniel is the technology coordinator and high school computer science/digital media teacher at Island School. He received his B.S. from Oregon State University with an emphasis in elementary education. Nathaniel also has an associates degree in computer networking. Prior to becoming the technology coordinator he taught 4th grade for 6 years at Island School and another 3 years as the middle school and high school technology teacher.
Melissa Handy - Past President
Melissa is the Educational Technology Director at Le Jardin Academy in Kailua where she energizes her colleagues to find an impactful role for technology in the classroom. Melissa enjoys working with students and is currently teaming to expand the robotics program into LJA's high School. Previously Melissa held the posts of Technology Director and Schools of the Future Team Lead at Island Pacific Academy in Kapolei.
Shane Asselstine - President Elect
Shane Asselstine is the Technology Integration Specialist at Momilani Elementary School, a game-based educator, and the Code.org Facilitator for Hawaii. Minecraft has been part of his classroom for the past four years with lessons that range from math to social studies and everything in between. He has been presenting internationally on technology in education for the past three years with a focus on Minecraft as a virtual learning environment. Shane was awarded the ISTE Making It Happen Award in 2015 and is a PAEMST 2015 nominee. He is active in the Minecraft Community and a Microsoft Minecraft Mentor focused on helping teachers integrate Minecraft into the classroom.
Cecilia "CC" Chung - Secretary
CC currently works as the Instructional and Technology Coach for Grade 3 at Ka`imiloa Elementary School. She has taught 3rd and 4th grade in the past three years and continues to find passion and inspiration working with students, teachers, and community members. CC received her Bachelor's Degree from the University of Southern California and her Master's Degree from the Johns Hopkins University in Elementary Education. She loves to connect with other educators to brainstorm ideas for technology integration and student empowerment. CC is a self-proclaimed foodie that is hooked on Twitter and Snapchat filters.
Mapu Quitazol - Treasurer
I have been the Program Manager for WIT for 9 years. My background is in business administration. I primarily run K-12 STEM outreach activities/events statewide as well as support and plan logistics for our 29, K-12 STEMworks labs across the state. I am also the main planner/coordinator of the Hawaii STEM Conference. Our program's primary goal is to provide our students and teachers with cutting edge technology tools to help them succeed in today's and the future job market. Our program has just been selected to serve as Regional Partners for code.org.
George Carroll III
As Program Chair for the College of Education at University of Phoenix, Hawai'i Campus I provide local oversight of our NCATE-accredited, state-approved teacher education program (SATEP) in Hawaii. My primary focus each day is to ensure academic quality in our local campus and online classrooms. My previous work experience includes 20+ years in sales/marketing in the advertising and financial services industries. I am a U.S. Air Force veteran with service in North Dakota, South Korea and Virginia. I am a Charter Member and the VP-Education of Phoenix Rising Kapolei Toastmasters. I also serve as Director of Community Engagement for ""Allies of Pride"" the University of Phoenix LGBT Employee Resource Group.
Rebecca Eldredge
Rebecca joined the Hanahau`oli Faculty in 1991 where she has taught Science, Computers and 2nd/3rd grade multiage. She also served as Technology Coordinator and Integration Specialist for many years. She enjoys being back in the classroom, teaching in the 4th/5th grade multiage classroom. She launched the 'Hour of Code' with several classes at Hanahau`oli, having older students teaching the younger ones coding. In addition, she coaches an afterschool robotics club. She has a Master's in Education with a focus in Educational Technology. She has been a member of ISTE since 1993 and was nominated for ISTE's Make IT Happen Award in 2016. Her interests include: traveling, hiking, quilting, baking and playing disc golf.
Michael Fricano II
Michael graduated from the University of Hawaii with a Bachelors Degree in Elementary Education in 2007. He has been in the teaching profession for more than 7 years. Michael was a Technology Coordinator and a Robotics coaches for 4 years at Mililani 'Ike Elementary School. Now he serves as a Technology Integration Specialist and FabLab educator for 'Iolani School's Education Innovation Lab. Mike is a co-founder and member of the planning committee for Edcamp Honolulu and #edchatHI.
Elizabeth Garrison
Elizabeth has spent the last seventeen years teaching technology to working professionals and students as an Adobe Education Leader, Adobe Certified Expert, and a member of The Training Associates. Currently, she is the Program Manager for Connecting for Success. Connecting for Success is one of the middle school components of the Hawaii P-20 Partnerships for Education and is funded through the Hawaii Community Foundation and administered through The University of Hawaii. The program is designed to identify students as being off track based on the Hawaii Early Warning System (HEWS). They are then provided with interventions intended to reconnect them to school and keep them on track in order to increase their chances of retention and completion. Elizabeth manages the community of learners, which consists of the ten middle schools grantees. She creates opportunities, online and face-to-face, that promote collaboration as well as providing technical support for planning and implementation of interventions and data use.
Greg Kent
Greg is the Technology Coordinator at Kailua Elementary School and an Ultimaker Education Pioneer. He has been an educator for 16 years, 15 of those years as a Technology Coordinator for the Hawaii Department of Education. He is passionate about growing the "maker mindset" and Design Thinking by focusing on effective technology management and on meaningful integration of technology into school curriculum with support from faculty, staff and community. Greg has a bachelors degree in Elementary Education and a masters degree in Educational Technology, both from the University of Hawaii.
Dr. Kimble McCann
Kimble is currently serving as a Sr. Instructional Technology specialist for Kamehameha Schools, where he researches and integrates instructional technologies with educational faculty and staff. As a former special education teacher for LAUSD & HDOE for a number of years, Kimble also has experience as an instructional designer and researcher with the University of Hawai'i, online instructor for Project Inspire, and as an independent education consultant. His research interests and expertise focus upon universal design for learning (UDL) to support all learners and developing technological-pedagogical-and-content knowledge (TPACK) for educators.
Carrie Miller
Carrie is the Computer Science/Multimedia Arts Resource Teacher at Holualoa Elementary on the Big Island. After exploring architecture and fine arts post baccalaureate programs she became a certificated teacher. She is a 2011 graduate of High Tech High's Graduate School of Education Leading Schools Program, and a HSTE board member residing on Big Island.
Dr. Lisa MirelesLisa is currently a School Renewal Specialist on Kauai for the Department of Education. She is also the lead facilitator for the Kaua'i Educational Leadership Alliance (KELA). Lisa has been in education for 28 years as a teacher, IB program coordinator, principal, assistant superintendent and consultant. She was part of a team that started the 1:1 laptop program at the American School of Bombay from 1998-2004 and has keen interest in Deeper Learning pedagogical approaches. Lisa received her doctorate in Learning Technologies from Pepperdine University. Her dissertation explored the Schools of the Future Networked Learning Community here in Hawai'i.
Deborah Orlik
Deborah is a graduate of UC Berkeley and UC Hastings College of Law. She was a pioneer in the use of technology in the law office and in teaching law. She wrote the curriculum for teaching future lawyers how to use technology in their practice for Whittier Law School in the 1980's. In the early 2000's, Deborah became a co-owner of a computer store where she learned, and subsequently taught, building and maintenance of home computers. She took her knowledge of mid-sized business computer systems and networks and became Director of Technology at Bridges Academy (a private school for Twice Exceptional children) where she discovered her love for middle school age children. Deborah officially became a middle school teacher in 2007 when Leigh Fitzgerald gave her a teaching position at Maui Preparatory Academy. She brought her love for all things technology to middle school, teaching students how to use computers for reading, writing, researching and discovering the world. In recent years, Deborah expanded her geekiness into engineering and design thinking. Director of The IDEA Lab at The Rhoades School, Deborah built out that school's engineering and design thinking curriculum K-8 as well as a equipping the physical lab with Arduinos, 3D printers, CNC carvers, robotics, sewing machines and woodworking equipment. She now shares her love for all things futuristic by integrating technologies of all types into her English/Language Arts classes at HTA.
David Randall
I believe in preparing our students for a positive future by creating a learning environment that allows students the freedom to use technology for collaboration, critical thinking, problem-solving, and creating. HSTE has been working toward this same goal since 2011 and I believe my experience at the school, district, and state levels of education can help further that journey. It would be an honor to support this effort.
Bobby Widhalm
Previous HSTE Presidents:
2017 - Melissa Handy
2016 - Michael Fricano II
2015 - Elizabeth Garrison
2014 - Mike Travis
2013 - Brett Tanaka
2012 - Mark Hines
2011 - Phil Bossert
Board Member Emeritus:
Dr. Phil Bossert
Dr. Mark Hines


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Security Officer
BOSSIE DEE GUARDS: worked as a security officer for period of four months.: 3 months of attachment on different departments, Front office, Housekeeping, Kitchen and Restaurant. COMPUTER SKILLS Ms Word, Ms Excel, E-net and general computer usage COMPETENCIES I have strong sense of urgency and responds positively to change and pressure. ability to work with people of all levels, team player, work without supervision, ask for help and appreciate guidance, good communication skills, good nature and friendly, self-motivated


text: This Large 1151sqm Stand is situated in The Islands.The Islands Estate, situated on 102ha of prime land on the southern banks of the Hartbeespoort dam. It is referred to as South Africa's inland Riviera. The property developed as a marina, came about as result of the culmination of many ideas by a creative development team. A key feature of the project is a system of canals - 6km of canals on which you can meander through the estate, with islands and jetties to accommodate boats. Access from the canals to the Hartbeespoort Dam is made possible by means of bi-directional water locks, with a similar system connecting the lower and upper canals. The bi-directional water lock allows for lowering or rising of six boats at a time (three up and three down) at the two water locks. The transfer time of boats in the water lock is kept to less than ten minutes. Freeboard between the canal water level and lower arch of the bridges is three metres or more, thus catering for most sized power boats used on the Hartbeespoort Dam. The water in the canal is continuously circulated through an artificial wetland system consisting of a series of interconnecting dams covered with water-loving plants and reeds to ensure water quality of a high standard.A wealth of bird life making this haven heaven. Close proximity to Pretoria, Johannesburg and Rustenburg. Please call today to make an appointment!


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Victorian Doll Mourning Bonnet, modeled on a doll with a 10 1/2" head, needs a hatpin to keep it on. I am sure it will fit a head much smaller as the inside is 7 3/4" around. Some of the trim is missing and some of the velvet edges show wear but it is still a beautiful and early bonnet. The hat brim measures 7 1/4" across.
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How to Send Postcards with Direct Mail Manager and Batchbook
Adam White, CTO of Postcard Services, was kind enough to share a webinar he hosted about how to use their tool, Direct Mail Manager, with the Batchbook integration.
There are lots of useful ways you can use the Direct Mail Manager integration, from sending one-off postcards to getting a highly relevant message to a targeted group of contacts.
Check out the webinar for all the details!


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From M Zulqernain
Lahore, Jun 22 (PTI) Nearly 450 Sikh pilgrims from India have arrived here in Pakistan to observe the 177th death anniversary of king of the first Sikh empire Maharaja Ranjeet Singh and to participate in a series of events.
Officials of theEvacuee Trust Property Board (ETPB),which looks after the holy places of minorities in Pakistan, greeted the 448 Sikh pilgrims at the Wagah Railway Station yesterday.
"We are happy to be here to visit our holy places. We receive love from the people here. We are thankful to the board for taking care of our holy places," group leader Sardar Govinder Singh told reporters.
He said there should be a soft visa policy for the citizens of both the countries so that people could easily visit their holy places.
The government of Pakistan has made all arrangements for comfortable and secure stay of the Sikh pilgrims, said Khalid Ali, ETPB Additional Secretary for gurdwaras.
Ali said special arrangements have been made for their travel to different gurdwaras in Punjab province.
The main event will be held at Gurdwara Dera Sahib in Lahore on June 26 to observe the 177th death anniversary of Maharaja Ranjeet Singh, he said.
The pilgrims will also visit holy places including Gurdwara Janamasthan in Nankana Sahib between June 22 and 25, said ETPB spokesman Amir Hashmi.
They will return to India on June 28. PTI MZ MRJ AKJ MRJ


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I got a DL error!
I'm euphoric!
Lift aims to make a Mech based multi-player game, doesn't just LOOK like the anime its based off of, but feels like the anime its based off of. You will fly thought the sky and battle for your life, in over the top action packed mech battles. Battle on the ground or in the sky on Reff boards that give you control over crazy amounts of power and speed. Keep an eye on Lift, and check out our forums to get the full story on what this mod aims to do, as well as up to date news!
We love our new 606! This wallpaper is due to the efforts of Doug, Jewel, and myself.
I got a DL error!
I'm euphoric!
Euphoric eh? thats impressive! I will contact the admin to see whats up.
Sounds nice, will check it out
if any part of this mod makes me have a view like this i will die a happy man 2 questions
1.This is prerendered isn't it ?
2. has this been photoshopped ?
this is indeed pre rendered, however it has not post effects added so this is how the model looks in game as well.
It has indeed been photo shopped. The clouds and sky are from a pic I took from a plane a few months ago and the trappar trail was made by hand by our artists jewel jones.
In game visuals will blow this pic away :P
sick pic XD
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Lemon Grass Sale
Lemon Grass – Cymbopogon citratus. Type: Perennial. Hardiness zones: 8 – 11. Height: To 6 feet. Spacing:
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cuisine, teas, beverages, herbal medicines, soups. Brush the plant before quest
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taller and bushier than the one pictured. While supply last. Click to Order.
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Days of Respect: Organizing a School-Wide Violence Prevention Program
By Ralph Cantor with Paul Kivel and Allan Creighton and the Oakland Men's Project
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Flowers are not just Nature's amazing bounties that elate us with their magnificent beauty but also play a vital role in treating us in other ways. Long known for their meaning and significance, flowers have also been one subject of study to decipher their importance on Earth.
It was Dr. Edward Bach who came out with 38 Bach Flower Remedies around 80 years ago, that treat emotional imbalances and negativities of mind like depression, fear, anxiety and so forth.
Grief and sadness are few emotions experienced by everyone at some point of their lives. In the present times, every other person is evidently suffering from depression and rushing to random therapists for the cure. But one effective way that has been discovered to reduce depression is Flower Therapy.
Flower Therapy is one of the oldest known therapies that use scents of herbs and flowers to treat people suffering from depression. Here are some flower remedies to restore joy and happiness in your life.
- Lavender
Lavender essence is the fastest known ways to cure depression. Add 2 or 3 drops of lavender essence in the bath water or pour some into the aroma lamp. Lavender shows immediate effects in the cure of depression.
- Mustard
If you or anyone you know is suffering from hopelessness and depressed for no obvious reasons, mustard flower can do wonders in lifting your spirits and treating your sense of discouragement.
- Wild Rose
Feel refreshed and revitalized with bath water consisting of rose petals. It will help you in keeping relaxed and thinking positively.
- Sweet Chestnut
If you are suffering from bad feelings about yourself and cannot stop those negative emotions from coming up, try the aroma of sweet chestnut. This has been known to cure people suffering from depression arising out of tiredness.
- Borage Flower
Have a drink spiked with borage essence to feel calm and relaxed. You can also go for dropping few drops of borage essence in your bath water. It is known to help people feel good and become clearer in their thoughts.
- Peach Flower
Peach flower scents are used to improve metabolism and energy level. It is known that lack of energy causes slow metabolism and peach flower fragrance helps people to cure sleeplessness and feel revitalized.
- Willow Flower
It cures people who are grumpy and resentful about their lives and others. Willow flower essence and fragrance helps people to accept their misfortune and generates the rebirth of faith and positivity.
- Sunflower
Sunflowers are known to bring in a lot of positivity, brightness and good thoughts. Growing sunflower can help one cure depression. If you find growing them a hassle, having a vase of sunflowers at home or office works effectively for the well being too.
- Genetian
Dr. Bach says, "Those who are easily discouraged. They may be progressing well in the affairs of their daily life, but any small delay or hindrance to progress causes doubt and soon disheartens them." He suggests that by consuming genetian essence everyday with warm water can help them feel better.
Healing is not an overnight process. It is the daily cleansing of the pain and daily healing of life. And with these effective Flower Therapies, throw a little more light, a little more positivity in your life.
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