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I feel the HR tracker is surprisingly reasonable (I say "surprisingly" because I didn't expect it to work well at all), though I've heard others who use it for running and cycling say that it is consistently low. The distance/laps tracker is not reliable at all for pool swimming. Besides not working for kicking, if you have any kind of underwater kick then it will significantly under-estimate the yardage. But if you just do freestyle back and forth it is probably fine. I feel like the calories tracking is a little low too.
I've always liked the AW as a general-purpose device and I'm glad they added a swim workout to it. But I'm not very obsessive when it comes to fitness tracking; if you want to depend on a watch for serious tracking, I'd go elsewhere. As the review said, it would probably work well for OW swimming (and it has built-in GPS).


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A key ingredient for online learning is MOTIVATION. Because students don't have to be at a specific place at a specific time, it's easy for them to forget the online class exists. I recently read a blog post on Teaching Online where the virtual professor talked about adult learning environments being "learner-centered education that guides learners to be self-directed and independent in their learning." The desired end result in such an environment is that students and teachers become equal partners in the learning process. This to me is a perfect description of online learning
Sometimes students don't realize how reading- and writing intensive online classes are. Students need to self-evaluate to determine if this format will work for them.
One way to change the perception that online=easy is for instructors to be clear and up front about the time commitment necessary and how the way one operates in an online setting is totally different than the traditional classroom.
When instructors are clear about their expectations, serious students will be motivated to think about their schedule and how they will fit the level of interaction necessary to succeed into what is likely a pretty busy lifestyle.
I, for one, am often at the mercy of my kids and my students (and my husband, and the laundry/dishes/house, and the kids a little more). It's kind of scary to be committed to teaching and taking an online class because there will be days (like today) where I can cyber stalk the discussion boards, but there may be others where I'm so busy that I miss that 48 hour window.
Do how do students/teachers get organized?
One of the first things I tell my online students is to get a calendar and write down due dates for all assignments for not only my course and their other courses, but also their other commitments in life. There's a healthy population of young adults out there who don't know how to manage a calendar.
Weekly announcements help as well. I try to be friendly and conversational in them as I remind them of the week's due dates and to look ahead to next week.
This will not guarantee a student will be successful in an online course; however, being clear about expectations and helping students get organized are two important factors in achieving success in an online class.
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A special prosecutor was appointed Wednesday to investigate accusations of nepotism against Poplar Bluff City Council member Jack Rushin. Ripley County assistant prosecuting attorney Kasey Proctor was named to handle the case in a court order signed by Presiding Judge Michael Pritchett. Proctor said he could not comment further on the matter during the investigation. Butler County Prosecuting Attorney Kevin Barbour asked for a special prosecutor to be appointed for investigation and prosecution of possible ethical and propriety issues, according to court documents. Rushin has been accused of violating state law by voting to name his first cousin, Greg West, to the city hall feasibility study committee. The law forbids a public officer from appointing a relative of the fourth degree to any public office, including voluntary positions, Poplar Bluff lawyer John Scott said in letters issued April 20. Scott, who represents an unnamed Poplar Bluff citizen, called for Rushin's voluntary resignation. Rushin refused to resign and later said he did not feel it was wrong to vote on the appointments because the city hall committee was a temporary advisory group. The matter will have to be decided by a judicial authority.


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Purulia is easily accessible by road. It is 295km from Kolkata International Airport, which is a 4-5 hour drive west, and 119km from Ranchi Airport, 2-3 hours east by road. There are regular taxi services available from both Kolkata and Ranchi. There is also a rail link from Kolkata to Purulia. The Purulia Express runs from Howrah Station in Kolkata to Purulia Junction daliy, except Saturdays.
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Most Pakistanis have noticed the marked decrease in violence in the nation's urban areas. Analysts find it hard not to link the relative peace in Pakistani cities with the government's new found strength at confronting America regional anti-terrorism policies (aka the US led war in Afghanistan).
Surely, Pakistani law enforcement agencies, military operations and even US sponsored drone strikes in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) have dented the Pakistani Taliban's ability to operate in the Pakistani mainland. However, scores of idle NATO supply trucks dot Pakistan's landscape; sitting ducks for opponents of Pakistan's collaboration with Afghan based NATO forces. Observers may recall the severity and frequency of attacks on Pakistani trucks heading towards Afghanistan each time the Khyber Pass was closed in the past.
|Pakistani container trucks normally carrying supplies for US led forces in Afghanistan parked near Peshawar
That there have been few, if any, attacks on US and NATO supply convoys stranded on Pakistan's territory since the closure of US supply routes in late November 2011 supports the notion that Pakistani militants are consciously limiting violence. The diminished violence may allow the government to return to its primary purpose: economic and social development.
Unfortunately, Pakistani politics are never so simple. The tag team wrestling match between the military, parliament and the Supreme Court dominates the current political agenda. Certainly, power dynamics within the Pakistani political establishment have to be resolved for a smoothly functioning political system to emerge.
Each of the three state pillars, i.e. the military, parliament and the Supreme Court, must have their operational scope and relationships circumscribed. In corporate speak, detailed 'Job Descriptions' of the Prime Minister, Chief of Army Staff and Chief Justice must be reviewed, debated, amended and approved.
So, while the political elite plays its power games in Islamabad (and its twin city, Rawalpindi) ordinary Pakistanis wonder about power closer to home: electricity. Countrywide electricity shortages typify the stupor and malaise of the Pakistani political establishment. The national grid's ability to meet electricity demand has deteriorated progressively during the last two decades.
There can be little progress without uninterrupted and stable electricity supplies. Sure, industrial establishments may have back-up electricity sources but can generators power economic development in a nation of 180 million.
Pakistan's future is a debate about priorities. Which subjects deserve the state's limited resources? Engendering a compliant Afghanistan to create so-called strategic depth; becoming a US lapdog in return for the odd bone thrown by the US Congress; strengthening state institutions to improve policy implementation; developing physical infrastructure which enables economic development; or a well thought out combination of all of the above.
To build a successful Pakistan requires a reordering of the country's existing priorities. To be sure, a consensus among the country's military, parliament and Supreme Court is a prerequisite. Nonetheless, a prosperous Pakistan requires good governance of the sort only provided by sincere and committed individuals.
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Turkey Removes 8,000 Police over Possible Involvement in Coup Attempt
EghtesadOnline: Turkish government discharged 8,000 police members due to alleged links with Friday's abortive coup in the country, a security source said on Monday.
"The removals were carried out across the country, however a majority of soldiers discharged were serving in major cities including Istanbul and the capital city of Ankara," the source said reporters.
According to FNA, the move comes after the Erdogan government accused US-based opposition figures of involvement in the failed coup attempt and there are concerns over a possible imminent re-coup in Turkey, as the security situation is still tense.
An attempted Turkish military coup crumbled on Saturday after crowds answered President Tayyip Erdogan's call to take to the streets to support him and dozens of rebel soldiers abandoned their tanks in the main city of Istanbul.
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On the very day that Brandin Cooks was introduced to the Los Angeles media, the Patriots were reportedly signing a wide receiver who may help fill his void.
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The Bellevue/NYU Program for Survivors of Torture (PSOT) is hosting its fifth annual Winter Concert at Printer's Alley on February 23rd. Featuring music by Casa Mantequilla as well as PSOT clients and other special guests, it will be an evening highlighting the work of the Program, including the 20th anniversary of its Francophone African supportive therapy group.
The Winter Concert is a celebration of the resilience and strength of PSOT's clients, survivors of torture and human rights abuses who have fled their home countries seeking safety in the United States. PSOT works with New York's refugees and asylum seekers, some of its most vulnerable populations, and strives now more than ever to show these communities that the United States is safe and welcoming to survivors of violent persecution.
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We then had our pre-launch Muster drill - pretty small because it was just the eight couples in the Exclusive Resort suites - the owners/residents, of course, don't need to do it.
Now, for the story. This fellow - tall and lanky - is an Englishman who lived for many years in South Africa. He and his wife and their three toddlers decided to sail around the world. After about three years (YES...THREE YEARS...IN A BOAT WITH TODDLERS!) After about three years at sea and just after they had sailed down from Galapagos Islands, Jeremy and his wife decided their kids need to be in regular schools and stopped a couple of weeks later here in Perto Montt. He bought this little restaurant in 2007 and they have been here ever since. Delightful fellow - great english, of course, and starved for conversation. We spend a long time after lunch closing visiting with him and getting a very different picture of Chile. The restaurant has had the same menu for 35 years - the prior owner had to sell because he was a drunk and pissed off all the locals. Apparently if they ordered anything other than a medium rare steak, he threw them out of the restaurant because "they obviously don't understand meat"!! We, of course like rare so the present owner let us stay!
During the Muster drills, the Rose's recognized another ER couple as friends/business colleagues from Dallas. As the wife of that couple is a person of importance in the city and needs to remain private, I'm going to respect that and not give their names. Needless to say, we spent a lot of time with them and their guests over the two weeks on the trip and thoroughly enjoyed getting to know them. It really is a small world!!
Then we went grocery shopping at a Jumbo (South America's version of a Walmart) in the city. Valparaiso is called the "San Francisco of South America" and I can see why - a bit shabbier in places - but set in the hills and at night the lights are spectacular. We bought a lot of jamon and cheese and some dinner fixings and then just went back to the apartment and for a quiet evening of cheese and crackers, lots of wine and Rummikub until close to midnight.
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Ed and I then sat on the deck watching the loading of the container ship and waiting for our midnight departure. We were warned that we were heading into large swells and high winds for two days....an accurate forecast.
Tuesday, Dec. 8.........Woke up in fairly high seas and high winds.....reported at gale force of 45 mph and by the afternoon couldn't even go out on our deck.
Spent the day inside doing some reading and working. By afternoon Joni and Jill were in the bar (shocking) and Ed went to the cigar room for a smoke (again, shocking). I joined him after finishing up some work and drank scotch while he smoked a cigar. We met an interesting guy from Palo Alto and had quite the conversation. (Apparently, Exclusive Resorts was in-part his idea!)
The day concluded with an Exclusive Resorts only cocktail reception and then back to the apartment for the evening with Jill and I cooking some chicken thighs over pasta in our kitchen and a little Rummikub and the while being rocked like crazy!
So far, we have had lots of chats with "residents" that give us a better picture of life aboard this condominium. Most folks do not live aboard full time, but come and go for a couple of months at a time. Evidently Christmas on board and going to Antarctica is a big deal because a large number of residents arrived by air today, with families in tow, to be on board for the trip and the Drake Passage crossing. There is also a family living on board full-time. he was supposedly a NASA scientist, and they homeschool their children in this environment. Met another couple from Connecticut who boarded with us and will be on board until late March when they will get off in St. Barths. The thought of living on board all that time drives all of us crazy. First, there is not that much to do between ports. They stream movies, have guest lecturers and several restaurants, but sitting in your apartment day after day with slow satellite wifi would get really old. Really fast!
But the cake goes to a woman we endured for two hours one afternoon in the bar. Joni and Jill had gone to have a cocktail and play Rummikub while I got a massage and Ed slept. When I arrived, they were deep in conversation with this woman. She is early 60's, pretty in a Jane Fonda sort of way, trim and striking. We all tried to psycho-analyze her later and after I describe some of the monologs, you can judge for yourself. Monolog, because none of us got more than a sentence in between each diatribe she launched into the beginning of an answer one of us would give to the next question, which followed. We will call her Penelope (not her real name but you SNL fans might remember Kristen Wigg's character and get a clue from it). Her story, in general, provides that she was married for may years, lived in Indonesia with her husband who died from cancer in 2009. They bought an apartment on the ship some time before his death and she has used it extensively since.
In response to Joni's question of how my massage was, we learned she is a physical therapist by training.....agreed the masseuse I had is the best on board and then proceeded to grill me on how I felt about the massage, why my muscles were tight and how I really needed to get in touch with my muscles and tendons to understand why even after weekly massages, I had tense muscles.
She is an amateur photographer and - out of her mouth - unprompted - came the story about the last crossing over the Drake Passage to Antarctica, from her apartment deck up near the bow and low down on deck 6, she would stand naked as the spray from each wave enveloped her and she took incredible videos and still photos of the waves, the spray. She volunteered that likely none of the other residents saw her because most wouldn't venture out on their decks in the cold and very rough conditions. We never did ask why she was naked or what that had to do with the photography.
She asked if we were going fly fishing in Chacabuco and when we replied "yes" she started, yet another, monolog about fly fishing, how incredible she is at it and how spiritual it is. She asked Jill if she had ever done it (no), then first said, "Well I'm glad I won't be on your boat." then changed her mind saying she wanted Jill to be on her boat so she could have a laugh watching Jill try to cast. She needs a laugh, she says, to get over her grief. She then asked if I had fly fished before. When I said I had, she proceeded to lecture me that the only real rod was the split bamboo type. I told her I didn't have any of those....just the modern graphite type. She concluded that I had never really fly-fished before.
Then Ed showed up (poor guy...I could tell he wasn't fully awake yet) sat down next to her in a chair, and then the fun really began!! She worked her way back to fitness, flexibility and the need for complete body looseness. She proceeded to look Ed in the eye and take her leg and place it up behind her head. Ed made the obvious comment to the obvious innuendo that she seemed not to notice. We then decided it may be time to go back to our apartment......
Wednesday, Dec. 9.........spent the day at sea......worked out, had dinner with our Dallas friends, drank wine, played Rummikub.....see the monotony we talked about??
Thursday, Dec. 10.....Puerto Montt is the beginning of the fjord region - very similar in climate to Vancouver and from here on it is supposed to just get more spectacular every day. This is a fishing town with about 250,000 people. It is also the southern terminus of the Pan American highway....the northern end being in Fairbanks, Alaska. In California, it's Route 1. Imagine that!
We hired a driver and a guide and the four of us toured the town and two neighboring vacation spots....Frutilar, which is a fabulous quaint German settled town situated on the beautiful Lago Llanquihue and Puerto Varas on the other side of Lake Llanguihue. This is called the lake region of Chile...lots of lakes and lots of volcanos. There are three spectacular ones 20 miles inland and the clouds cooperated and parted long enough to give us fabulous view of one of them. I forget the name but ut's not the one that last erupted in April! Our guide had some amazing photos on her phone of the eruption and aftermath. Put aside the volcanoes and it looked very much like a European village.
The Germans settled this region in 1850 and Frutilar looks like a Swiss village on the lake. We walked around the town taking tons of pics and stopped for some authentic German Kuchen.
We continued on with the tourist gig - really enjoyed our guide who was South African and Chilean.
We toured a fish market right on the wharf. They have a local barnacle that is a favorite. They harvest them live and the little fellows stick their tiny claws out of the barnacle and waive them around.....until they're dropped into boiling water. Comparing that fish market to the one in Bali was a hoot. We actually would have eaten the fish from this one!
We had booked a late lunch since dinner in Chile never begins before 8 pm and takes at least two hours. We chose this Chilean grilling restaurant, or Fogo, named Fogo de Cotele, that is a favorite of the ship residents. Unbelieveable....with a story by the owner worth telling. First the food....you get three choices of beef....Sirloin, Filet, or Ribeye grilled over an open fire, sopapillas, new potatoes, Chilean skewered bread and wine! One of the best steaks we've all had in a long time. The restaurant is tiny....7 tables, a small bar, in a round building with an open pit grilling fire in the middle. And like I mentioned, the menu consists of 3 kinds of steak. That's it! The tab at a nice steak house in the US with the wine we ordered would have been over $500 for the four of us. Our total in US$....$140!! We're going back tomorrow!
Now, for the story. This fellow - tall and lanky - is an Englishman who lived for many years in South Africa. He and his wife and their three toddlers decided to sail around the world. After about three years (YES...THREE YEARS...IN A BOAT WITH TODDLERS!) After about three years at sea and just after they had sailed down from Galapagos Islands, Jeremy and his wife decided their kids need to be in regular schools and stopped a couple of weeks later here in Perto Montt. He bought this little restaurant in 2007 and they have been here ever since. Delightful fellow - great english, of course, and starved for conversation. We spend a long time after lunch closing visiting with him and getting a very different picture of Chile. The restaurant has had the same menu for 35 years - the prior owner had to sell because he was a drunk and pissed off all the locals. Apparently if they ordered anything other than a medium rare steak, he threw them out of the restaurant because "they obviously don't understand meat"!! We, of course like rare so the present owner let us stay!
Friday, Dec. 11........Rainy and cold all day. Hung around the ship except for a return trip to Cotele for lunch doing laundry and just relaxing.
Saturday, Dec. 12 We left Puerto Montt at 6 pm Friday and we arrive in Castro, Chile around 1 pm Saturday. Castro is up a fjord and is in the beginning of fjord country. It is an archipelago. Lots of islands and lots of green.....green fields, pastures, you name it. Looks a bit like the English countryside in the north of England. Similar climate as well. Lots of sheep some cattle lots of fat dogs. That's always a good sign. Castro looks a bit worn and industrial from the ship. Turns out it is.
Being great adventurers, we promptly head for a restaurant lauded by previous ship visitors...Mercadito. Not much more than a small shack across from the beach. We are greeted by a mid 30's fellow with a beret....everybody wears berets in south Chile!! Broad smile, thin mustache, speaks English and we are in for a great, long, alcohol-fueled feast! Armed with bottles of white and red wine, we dig into smoked octopus grilled and served with butter, two steaming hot, hollowed-out rocks filled with surfer clams smothered in parmesan cheese and grilled and a huge bowl of mussels with broth to match and, of course, local fresh bread. By the way....two orders of the octopus were necessary...and we are talking large octopus with 6-8 inch long tendrils. Fabulous. Then more wine, more laughs and dessert.
We noticed a young couple with two young children at the table across from us and heard English and THEN heard southern drawls being slowly spoken. Of course we had to get to know them....young, married Church of Christ missionaries from Ft. Worth who had been in Castro for five years, had decided no to extend their mission as their children were becoming school age and were celebrating with a round of last meals at their favorite restaurants before heading back to the states on January 2. Nice family and fun to hear about their experiences.
We then walked the streets - very steep San Francisco type hills but really nothing interesting to see. Walked off the food, saw the local craft market and fish market, but nothing really to talk about. Ed has been trying to find Cuban cigars this entire trip and asks at every town but no luck. We were directed to this new Walmart type of supermarket at the very top of a very, very steep and long street. Of course, no cigars. Poor Ed. Patient to the fault but unrequited. Dinner that evening on the ship at East, the sushi restaurant was a blast. Lots of funny stories and conversation about Dallas, war stories from judges and lawyers alike....none to be repeated here!
Part 3 starts tomorrow.....one final day in and around Castro then on to Chacabuco and some flyfishing in Patagonia!!


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Just days before 11/11/11, voters turned over the town council's odometer.
ORIGIN UNKNOWN – Precinct 3 council candidates Michael Hersey and Ryan Richardson both volunteered to a reporter that this sign was already up near the senior center when they arrived to greet voters Nov. 8. (Said reporter didn't ask the third candidate, Councilor Jim Munafo, Jr., who voted to buy out the former town manager's contract). The sign was still there the morning after the election. See page A:3 for vote totals and candidate comments.Klimm critics now a tiny minority
Just days before 11/11/11, voters turned over the town council's odometer. While it wasn't quite a Khmer Rouge Year Zero, the Nov. 8 town council election reset Barnstable's political clock.
Of the four incumbents up for election who voted for the buyout of former town manager John Klimm's contract, only Precinct 1 Councilor Ann Canedy survived, besting Peter Leveroni.
Newcomer James Cote swamped Councilor Jim Crocker, a former council vice president, in Osterville's Precinct 5. Michael Hersey of Hyannis outpaced Councilor Jim Munafo, Jr., and another challenger, Ryan Richardson, in Hersey's second run for the office; and June Daley won a battle royal with Councilor Hank Farnham, a former council president, for West Barnstable's seat.
At 25, Cote is the youngest Barnstable councilor ever elected. Klimm was the same age when he became the town's youngest selectman ever.
Precinct 9 incumbent James Tinsley, who was not present when the buyout vote was taken but who said he supported the town manager, far outpolled Greater Hyannis Civic Association President Bill Cronin, while Sea Street Market owner Jen Cullum did even better against former council vice president Bob Jones in Precinct 13.
In a contest between two first-time council candidates, the Precinct 7 seat was won handily by Jessica Rapp Grassetti over Peter Prygocki.
The results give Klimm supporters what might be called a super-super majority. When the revised council is seated in December, only two members – Canedy and Precinct 12's John Norman – will be on record as opposing the former town manager's return.
Town Clerk Linda Hutchenrider noted what appears to be a first: the new council will have a majority of women. Daley, Cullum, and Grassetti will join Canedy and councilors Janet Joakim, Debra Dagwan, and Jan Barton on the dais.
Over the next few weeks, the council will settle its leadership for the new term. Currently vice president, Barton is a likely candidate for the presidency but has not said whether she will seek it. Joakim has served as president previously.Changing the Political Landscape
Landscape company owner Christopher Joyce staked out plenty of political turf by rolling up the greatest vote total of any candidate running for office Nov. 8. He'll join incumbents Pat Murphy and Fran McDonald on the new board. Challengers Frederick Bsharah and Michael Edwards finished out of the running.
Town Collector Maureen Niemi and housing authority commissioner Deborah Converse were elected without opposition, as was new housing authority member Hilary Greene.
All elected and re-elected officers will be sworn in by Hutchenrider on Nov. 21 at 4 p.m. at town hall. The current town council membership will hold its last meeting on Nov. 17.


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Tuesday, 4 April 2017
Harry's Runner bean
Parc Eglos School Helston sent the children home for the Easter break this week . My grandson came home clutching a beautiful Runner bean seed wrapped in wet cotton wool inside a little plastic bag .
Already germinating !
The children had been told to pot it up and grow it on during the school holiday .....so Grandma helped out with a pot and some compost . Here it is already to go on his bedroom windowsill .
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I'm up very early this morning , and thought to myself that while its quiet that I would check my mail. Whats this I,ve received mail from my followers filled with disappointment, not that its my fault Iwould like to add!
I believe yesterday was the launch day at Craftrange for the new stamps that I had designed "Molly Blooms" prior to me leaving in January. I agree that an email should have been sent or a quick message on thier blog posted to say that a few problems had occurred and that the stamps being launched this weekend were not available at present.I am sorry some of you had wasted journeys,but since leaving I have not had contact with anyone at Craftrange about the stamps. No the "wonderful"samples! were not my work.
Unfortunatley at present this new range of stamps is only avialable here...
All I can say is watch this space!
Molly may Blossom!


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It will be easier if I approach CCSS with a list rather than trying to organize all thoughts at once. So don't expect this to be a thorough well-rounded view.
I'm not excited about CCSS because I'm not excited about national or state anything when it comes to education. Any time some bureaucrat in an office hundreds/thousands of miles away wants to tell me best way to teach the student who's sitting six feet away from me, I'm not interested. You aren't here, and you aren't a teacher. You don't know. And the fact that you don't know that you don't know just further convinces me that you really, truly don't know.
I get the appeal of standardization, of lining up all the ducks in one big efficient row. But there's one thing you must have for Central Planning For Everyone to work-- you have to have somebody at the center of things who knows what to do. If you're going to get everyone in line behind One Right Answer, then somebody has to be able to reliable provide One Right Answer every time.
That person does not exist. Central Planning fails. It always fails. And it always fails because it creates a brittle, non-robust system that wastes energy making people line up behind an answer that is often wrong, because nobody can be right all the time.
Read chaos theory. Read information theory. What we know is that the one "right" answer always emerges and fights its way through a sea of many and varied answers, and you have to have that sea of chaos for the right answer to emerge.
It's seductive to think, "Can't we just skip all the wasted wrong answers and go straight to the right one." The short answer is, "No, we can't."
Edison famously observed that he got the right light bulb by eliminating all the wrong ones. He couldn't skip the process.
The same philosophy would lead us to conclude that since only a couple of games really decided the NFL championship last year, this year we should only play those games that matter. Which is, of course, impossible.
Central planning will always fail. Central planning by people who aren't experts in the field will certainly fail (no, despite what you've been told, no teachers helped write the CCSS). Central planning for a process which involves millions of distinct individuals, each with distinct and specific needs, weaknesses and strengths will extra-super for-sure fail.
Note: Yes, I know that one of the S's is supposed to stand for "State" and thereby help the fiction that CCSS is not a national standard, but that IS a fiction. CCSS is federal-level central planning.


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April 28 — Federal Communications Commission and Federal Trade Commission officials indicated a desire to work together to regulate and enforce future rules governing how consumers' online data is collected, stored, used, and shared under the new regime resulting from the reclassification of broadband Internet services under Title II of the Communications Act.
During an April 28 workshop, FCC officials noted a tension between between ISPs' desire for regulatory certainty and consumer advocates' call for strong and evolving rules that can adapt to emerging privacy challenges.
The FCC is in the preliminary phase of determining how to apply rules designed for the type of data collected by telephone service providers under Section 222 of the Communications Act of 1934, and apply them to the Internet ecosphere. Indeed, the commission may contemplate creating new regulations specific to online data and consumers' expectations of how their data is safeguarded and used across a network.
The line between the type of online information traditionally considered as content and as metadata will only continue to blur as data use increases, said technologist Matt Blaze, an associate professor for computer and information science at the University of Pennsylvania. For consumers, metadata increasingly feels like content, which is afforded greater legal protections; meanwhile, natural market pressure for ISPs and edge providers to monetize consumer data and thus push more information to the side of metadata will only increase, he said.
AT&T Inc.'s Chief Privacy Officer and a senior lobbyist, Bob Quinn, called for the commission to factor into their decision-making that numerous content providers collect as much, and in some cases, more data than ISPs do.
"Entity-based regulation is a last-century approach to privacy," he said. Regulations imposed solely on ISPs on how their customers' data is used and shared by them could inhibit their ability to compete with new entrants whose business models are entirely driven by advertisement, said Quinn.
"If we can't compete on an ad supported model, we're going to end up with the opposite" of the agency's policy goal of further deployment of broadband services, he said.
Although Section 222 could provide strong rules and a good model for the FCC to follow in its rulemaking, the agency has an opportunity to establish new rules to serve as a model for baseline principles that apply to other actors on the Internet, said Erik Stallman, director of the Open Internet Project and general counsel for the Center for Democracy and Technology. "This is an opportunity to pass some of the most significant privacy regulation in years," Stallman said.
Other consumer advocates questioned, however, whether an ad-driven model of Internet infrastructure is in need of protection. Trillions of dollars have been invested in Internet infrastructure, such as with voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) calling, without the need for an ad-based model, said Harold Feld, senior vice president for Public Knowledge.
Another panelist said ISPs are fundamentally different from edge providers in their role as a gatekeeper to an essential service, and ought to be held to a higher standard. Broadband providers have a unique ability to view personal communication and track all of a user's online movement, said Laura Moy, senior policy counsel for New America's Open Technology Institute.
Several panelists said the FCC could balance stakeholders' concerns by implementing strong consumer notice and consent requirements depending on which role an ISP is playing in its interaction with a user.
Consumers have the right to know which information is collected, how it is used, and receive assurances that the data will be reasonably protected, said Joshua Seidemann, vice president of policy for NTCA-The Rural Broadband Association.
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France urges early UN vote on tough Syria resolution
French President Francois Hollande called on Sunday for a U.N. resolution on Syria backed by the threat of punitive action to be voted by the end of this week.
French President Francois Hollande called on Sunday for a U.N. resolution on Syria backed by the threat of punitive action to be voted by the end of this week.
Speaking on French prime-time television, Hollande added that while a political and diplomatic solution to the wider Syrian conflict was possible, the option of military strikes must remain on the table.
Hollande called the Russia-U.S. deal this weekend on removing Syria's chemical weapons an "important step" towards a possible political solution to its civil war.
He said the foreign ministers of France, Britain and the United States would already start to shape a resolution based on the accord at talks scheduled in Paris on Monday. French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius is then due to discuss it with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov on Tuesday.
"We can vote on this resolution before the end of the week," Hollande told France's TF1 television, noting: "It must include the threat of sanctions - that there is some kind of sanction if it is not applied."
Hollande defended his country's readiness to envisage strikes against Bashar al-Assad's forces as part of an international coalition including the United States - a prospect that has subsided in recent days.
"We can now seriously think of a diplomatic solution, but the military option must remain. Otherwise there is nothing to stop Syria."
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So, with that in mind, the objectives of this study were to determine differences in the digestibility, fecal characteristics, urine characteristics, and serum chemistry of 9 domestic cats fed 3 different diet treatments. The dietary treatments were the raw beef-based diet that we feed to our cats at the zoo (Raw); the same diet but cooked (cooked) and a high quality grain-free kibble cat food (kibble).
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What suits a nudist?
Warm air and obscure sun.
Absence of thorns, mosquitos,
prurient minds.
Unpredatory companions.
Best: privacy,
when surface to surface
seams self to Time.
Wear it well.
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Wednesday, 11 April 2012
What suits a nudist
Posted by Martin at 06:00
Labels: Lois Bassen, poem, police
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Sorry about this, but it is obvious that a nudist is suited by the same tailor who made the Emperor's New Clothes!ReplyDelete
Now we are over that, I liked the idea of 'surface to surface seams self to time'.
- L.S.Bassen20 June 2012 at 16:58
"Sorry about this, but it is obvious that a nudist is suited by the same tailor who made the Emperor's New Clothes!" Well, sure, Stafford, that's where the metaphor was born ... But thanks for noticing ... now I'm working on "fraying seems..."ReplyDelete
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just a bit of patchwork…
Well, well! Every year around this time I start exclaiming because it's suddenly green and pretty outside – perfect for taking photos of quilts, but then I find myself without any quilts to photograph because it's too nice outside to … Continue reading
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two shirts in (the same) double gauze…
You might remember somewhat recently when I showed a photo of some lovely double gauze fabrics I had picked up at Jones & Vandermeer. Emily of J&V provided me with this Sevenberry anchor print, and I love it, but couldn't … Continue reading
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a hug from a marshmallow (a Cotton + Steel Bespoke quilt)
I say it a lot, but this one is definitely my new favorite quilt. I love a soft quilt, and with all this double gauze, this one is extremely soft! I've spent some time with it wrapped around me, so … Continue reading


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Nestled in the corner of the eighteenth century Walled Garden of Houghton Lodge & Gardens in Stockbridge, Daisy's of Houghton is an exciting new feature for the 2015 season.
Opening on the 14th March the newly refurbished Tea House and Orangery, the venture between Houghton Lodge & Gardens and The Daisy Cake Company in Romsey will provide visitors with fresh homemade food and refreshing drinks.
Already a popular visitor attraction with picturesque gardens, stunning views over the River Test and over 15 acres of meadows and walks, Sophie Busk, daughter-in-law the owner at Houghton Lodge, is excited to see the venue blossom, "We are thrilled that The Daisy Cake Company is coming to Houghton Lodge & Gardens. Whilst our self-service system has been enjoyed by many over the years, we have had a lot of requests via our visitor feedback forms for something more substantial for lunchtime visits and comments that visitor's miss a friendly face."
"The tea room has been renovated and looks absolutely beautiful and along with the new patio area, which is currently being built, we are working hard to greatly enhance the visitor experience at Houghton Lodge & Gardens."
Daisy's of Houghton will be revolutionizing the tea rooms with a new range of homemade cakes, specialist tea and coffee, freshly made soup, toasted sandwiches and Panini's using fruit and vegetables from the walled garden.
Houghton Lodge & Gardens opens to the general public on 1st March 2015.


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Auckland based professional mobile makeup artist and hair stylist Stacy Lee Ghin, specializes in bridal, fashion, and commerical photography. This blog showcases my just wedding work which is featured editorially in New Zealand's top wedding magazines. All photographic work shown is DONE BY ME. Also available for special events and school balls. Please have a look at my website: www.stacyleeghin. com. Feel free to email me: email@example.com Thank you for looking!
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This was our second Auckland bride for our wedding shoot in Herne bay. The bridal makeup was soft muted warm tones with a slight matte finish.
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New Study Finds Positive Return on Investment if New York Invests in Quit Smoking Treatments
For every $1 spent on helping smokers quit, New York could see a $1.34 return
ALBANY, NY (09/14/2010)(readMedia)-- A new study released today by the American Lung Association, and conducted by researchers at Penn State University, reveals that helping smokers quit not only saves lives but offers economic benefits as well. The study, titled Smoking Cessation: the Economic Benefits, provides a nationwide cost-benefit analysis that compares the costs to society of smoking with the economic benefits of states providing cessation (quit-smoking) coverage. The report finds that in New York, smoking costs the state more $20 billion annually in direct health care expenditures, workplace productivity losses and premature deaths. It also finds that by providing smoking cessation treatments, the state could potentially save more than $58 million per year and earn a return of $1.34 on every dollar invested.
"This study clearly demonstrates that money invested in smoking cessation not only benefits public health, but is cost effective," said Scott T. Santarella, President and CEO of the American Lung Association in New York. "Helping people quit smoking is not only the right thing to do; it's the fiscally sound thing to do."
Key findings of the study for New York include:
* Smoking costs the state more than $20 billion annually including more than $3.9 billion in lost productivity, $6.8 billion in premature death and $9.8 billion in direct medical expenditures.
*For every pack of cigarettes sold in New York, the cost in direct medical expenses and lost productivity totals more than $36 per pack (per pack losses in productivity $18.97 plus per pack losses for medical care expenditures $17.28)
*Comprehensive smoking cessation treatments could save the state $58 million per year.
*For every $1 spent on smoking cessation, New York could earn a return on its investment of $1.34
Santarella noted that in the American Lung Association's 2009 State of Tobacco Control Report released in January gave New York earned an "F" when it came to covering smoking cessation treatments.
"We know that coverage for smoking cessation treatment in New York could be vastly improved," said Santarella. "Now is the time for the state to act by providing comprehensive cessation benefits to New Yorkers so we can reduce the terrible toll from smoking and save dollars that will benefit all New Yorkers. We hope this compelling study will give state policymakers the data they need to close the loopholes that New Yorkers currently face regarding cessation coverage."
The Lung Association is advocating for comprehensive cessation coverage. A comprehensive cessation benefit includes all seven medications and three types of counseling recommended by the U.S. Public Health Service for tobacco cessation.
The study notes that some of the highest rates of smoking are found among people enrolled in Medicaid, the joint federal and state health program for low-income people. In New York, Medicaid coverage for the seven recommended smoking cessation medications varies by plan and only pregnant women on Medicaid receive individual counseling, a key component of comprehensive coverage. At present, only six states now provide comprehensive coverage for Medicaid recipients: Indiana, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, Oregon and Pennsylvania.
When it comes to private insurance plans and employers, New York state has no requirement that cessation coverage be offered. Seven states, Colorado, Maryland, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon and Rhode Island, require private insurance plans and employers offer comprehensive cessation coverage.
For New York state employees, coverage for medications and counseling varies by plan as do barriers to coverage. At present, five states provide comprehensive coverage for state employees: Illinois, Maine, Nevada, North Dakota and New Mexico.
"New York State has an opportunity to save residents' lives by passing legislation that gives them the coverage they need and deserve," said Santarella. "New York should begin its move toward comprehensive cessation coverage by offering the benefit to all Medicaid recipients and state employees. Ultimately all private plans should be required to cover tobacco cessation. With 25,000 New Yorkers dying every year as a result of smoking, we need this coverage in place now so we can help people quit this deadly addiction."
The study comes at an important time, as important cessation benefit provisions are being implemented at the federal and state levels as a result of healthcare reform legislation.
The study derives these economic benefits by considering lower medical costs due to fewer people smoking, increased productivity in the workplace and reduced absenteeism and premature death due to smoking.
About the Study
Researchers at Penn State University with expertise in health economics and administration performed this cost-benefit analysis using government and other published data. The analysis compares the costs of providing smoking cessation treatments (including price of medications and counseling and lost tax revenue) to the savings possible if smokers quit (including savings in health care expenditures, premature death costs, and productivity losses).
Funding for the study was provided through an unrestricted research grant from Pfizer Inc.
About the American Lung Association in New York
Now in its second century, the American Lung Association in New York is the leading statewide organization working to save lives by improving lung health and preventing lung disease. With your generous support, the American Lung Association is "Fighting for Air" through research, education and advocacy. For more information about the American Lung Association, or to support our work, call 1-800-LUNG-USA (1-800-586-4872) or visit www.alany.org.


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Why I don't give my kids an allowance.
I have a confession. For years I've been hiding the full extent of my parental negligence. No more. I'm letting the cat out of the bag.
I do not, nor have I ever, given any of my five children an "allowance".
Years ago when I was a much greener, wet behind the ears, parent I assumed that I would eventually put my children on the dole and that this would be proof my parental provision for them. They would learn to take care of the money entrusted to them and we would all be happy with the arrangement.
That day never came. For one reason or another I found other things to spend every last cent of our family's income on. I squandered it on things like food, shoes that fit growing feet, and keeping the power from being shut off.
Still, I assumed I would give them an allowance someday. Someday when we had a little more cash left over. Someday when I'm not such a flake. Someday when I actually have some sense of stick-to-it-ness, consistency, and follow through. Sadly that day never came...and then it just didn't seem to matter any more. We still have no cash left over at the end of each month, I'm still a huge flaky space cadet...and somehow my kids have always had everything they need.
I started thinking about it the other day and I realized that what may have started as an unintentional circumstance became something that has actually been quite valuable. I no longer don't give an allowance by accident...I don't do it on purpose. If that makes any sort of sense.
I shall preface my reasoning by saying my intention isn't to publicly shame "allowance" giving families, make you feel all icky inside, but rather add perspective to this non-debate and share some observations. In the end I really don't give a flying squirrels fuzzy hiney what other families do with their money. There is more than one way to skin a cat....or a squirrel. You parents are quite competent enough to figure out what works for you and your kids.
First of all, not being on a parental dole has taught my kids that they are not entitled to what we have. Our money is not their money. This is a lesson best learned before they are expecting us to pay their phone bill when they're 30, or fighting over our inheritance when we croak (or worse yet long before we're dead)....not that there will be one, but you get the point.
They don't, by merely existing, have the right to expect a fistful of dough to be given to them on a regular basis. I want to teach my kids the opposite of entitlement, and it would seem that giving them an allowance would work contrary to that goal. At least it would make achieving that goal more difficult.
My kids trust that we will look after their needs. I've told my kids, from the time they could whine, that when they need something we will get it for them. I ask them if they've ever gone without something they needed and if they trust that we take care of them. Often we have purchased what we know they will need (or even just sometimes want) before they even know they need or want it. Sometimes we treat them to something "extra" just because we delight in their delight. We enjoy giving them good things, but I want them to be grateful for what they have. I want them to carry a simple sense of contentment and gratitude into adulthood with them.
They learn to value money and work for it. I've noticed something evolving in my oldest kids. Their rare whine for an allowance, has been replaced with complaining that they need a job. They are constantly coming up with ways they could make a few extra bucks. They have been known to scour the ditches for beer cans they can return, or sell lemonade on a hot summer day. Now that my daughter is 12 she has been babysitting regularly. She saved up money to take a babysitting course and viewed even that expense as a strategic investment into her budding childcare career. She is working several hours per week...in fact she was out late babysitting tonight and will be babysitting all day Saturday. She is a hard worker, she's great with kids, and she doesn't text her friends while she's on the job. She realizes that if she does a job well it will lead to more jobs. In the last couple months she has saved up nearly $300 by working hard, proving herself responsible, and not wasting what she did earn. She now adds up the value of things by asking "how many hours would I have to work to pay for that?". She doesn't ask us for things she wants, she sets a goal and then goes out and works for it. Sometimes that goal is just a new pair of jeans.
My 10 year old son is slightly jealous of his sisters success and is insisting I let him advertise his own lawn mowing business this summer. I'm not so sure about that one yet, but he is chomping at the bit. I keep reminding him that if he can prove himself responsible in the small tasks the larger "jobs" will gradually start coming.
One nice thing about the big kids bringing in their own money is that they can buy the things that are "wants". There is no way on God's green earth that I will buy them a smart phone, or an ipod touch...but I'm more than eager to encourage and cheer on their efforts go buy one themselves. This may sound stingy but mostly it's just reality. When you live off of one income, have five kids to feed, and have some odd priorities like "mission trips" to Mexico and international adoption, the budget gets whittled pretty narrow. We've been forced to allow them to struggle and "go without" certain things, but now I'm realizing that that struggle is actually a really good thing. I have also noticed that they are generous with the money they earn. Aili's babysitting money has at times been completely spent on sibling Christmas gifts, and donations to help fund adoptions.
When you work for something you appreciate the value of it, and take care of it. When you learn to be content you are freed up to be more generous.
I suppose you could trade an allowance for household chores and create a points system in which an allowance is earned. I'm just not that organized.
I also think that "chores" are just part of being a family. I do occasionally pay a child to do an "extra" sort of a non-routine job but for the most part I want my kids to learn that being part of a family, or a community, or a Church means that you serve others. You don't serve in order to get. You serve your family out of love, and because that's what keeps everything running smoothly. "Chores" for us constitute anything that needs to be done at any given time. I really try to avoid the "That's not my job!" scenario. In this house everything is everyone's job...sometimes certain jobs just get assigned to certain children depending on ability level.
Here's the big idea. I desire that my kids develop a sense of personal and civic responsibility. I want them to appreciate what they have and learn what real contentment is. I want to encourage virtues like ingenuity, creativity, tenacity, and work ethic. As far as I can tell, not giving them an allowance is just one way to make teaching those things a little easier.
If I'm wrong, they can save up their money to hire a therapist who will sympathize with them as they describe the details of their deprived childhood.
Soli Deo Gloria,
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- Karen said...
"Our money is not their money."
This is not only something that our children need to learn, but sometimes as a parent I feel... obligated? To, like you say, make sure they know how to use money wisely, but I don't think anyone ever learns that until they start using their OWN money. Excellent points Carla, I appreciate that you wrote about this. :)
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This week we are sharing the experiences of four Golden Key members that participated in internship programs through our partnership with Dream Careers. On Monday, we told you about Jennifer's experiences and yesterday we wrote about Ashley's experiences. Dream Careers is the world's leading internship program provider and Golden Key has partnered up with them to provide our "Global Internship Initiative." Golden Key members that participate in a Dream Careers program get several special benefits such as $500 grant toward Dream Careers tuition (for members who enroll before December 6). If you're interested in being placed in an internship through Dream Careers, learn all about the program and the special discounts for GK members.
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Austrian Economics Forum Spring 2011 #2--Prologue
This past session was one of the more exciting for me because it dealt with one of my favorite topics, Capital and Interest Theory. There were about 10 of us in attendance this week (Cordato, myself and about 8 students). There were two readings for this session: Frank Knight's book review of Mises' Nationalökonomie, "Professor Mises and the Theory of Capital," and Israel Kirzner's response to that article, "Ludwig von Mises and the Theory of Capital and Interest."
Knight's article was published in Economica in November 1941, and instead of actually reviewing the book he launches into a large discourse on Austrian Capital and Interest Theory. It is rather bizarre for a book review to focus on only one issue, but this is not the only instance of Knight doing this. Knight was asked to write the introduction to the English translation of Menger's Principles of Economics (1950). It was one of the most vitriolic introductions I have ever read, or even heard of. Instead of praising Menger and his unique contributions economic science, he launched into another attack on Austrian Capital and Interest Theory. (Subsequent editions have jettisoned this introduction in favor of a laudatory piece by Hayek.)
Before jumping into the articles, some background is necessary. Austrians and the mainstream have clashed on this topic several times before 1941. In 1889, Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk published his second of three volumes on capital and interest, The Positive Theory of Capital. It was translated into English in 1891. He argues in favor of the use of heterogeneous capital in model formulation and a theory of interest rates, which are the product of time-preference and the productivity of capital. (The influence of the productivity of capital on interest rates is still a topic of debate in Austrian circles today.)
In response to Böhm-Bawerk, John Bates Clark wrote an article called, "The Genesis of Capital" in November 1893. In it, he argued that capital should be considered as a homogeneous fund. Imagine a self-perpetuating pool of water that has some water flowing in and some water flowing out. The difference of these two flows determines if the level in the pool rises or falls. Instead of focusing on the actual water in the pool, all that is needed is for the economist to focus on the height of the water level. The same should be done with capital, we simply measure the volume, the inflow and outflow; and determine if we are accumulating capital or depleting it.
Böhm-Bawerk replied to this position in January 1895 and argued that production has a structure, which is based upon the complementarities and substituabilities of the capital goods. When the types of capital goods change, the structure of production must also change. So capital must be modelled in a heterogeneous manner. Clark responded in April 1895, to which Böhm-Bawerk countered in July 1895, which was then rebutted by Clark in October 1895. Neither side yielded and the divide remained. The debate cooled-off for about 10 years and then in November 1906, it cycled through another very similar round of back and forth without really settling the issues.
The other major point of debate between the two sides centered on the nature and formation of interest rates. This debate has changed because the modern Austrian position is no longer represented by Böhm-Bawerk, but rather by Fetter, Mises and Rothbard. We'll come back to this discussion in the next post.
For a second time, the debate died down, for about 20 years. It wasn't until the 1930s, that the debate reemerges between Hayek and Knight. Hayek argued that heterogeneous capital is the best way to examine economic phenomena, while Knight agreed with Clark's position that heterogeneity is completely unnecessary. (One of the best articles representing the Austrian side during this exchange is Hayek's "The Mythology of Capital.")
Earlier in 1941, Hayek published his The Pure Theory of Capital. While it is just pure speculaiton on my part, I think that Hayek's book must have been weighing on the mind of Knight as he wrote his review of Mises' book. (Knight even mentions Hayek's book in a footnote--p. 420.)
In the light of this background, we now come to the focus of this forum. We started by asking the questions, "What is necessary and sufficient for the formation of interest rates?" "What determines the height of interest rates?" and "Can productivity influence the height of interest rates?" At the outset, only Cordato and I argued that productivity cannot influence the height of interest rates. By the end, several more joined our side.
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At approximately 12:30 PM on November 15, 2003 we arrived as a class to Gold Creek Canyon. Just off the 118 freeway one can find a protected part of land that provides a habitat for many species of plants and animals. It is just minutes away from the gridlock traffic of the 405 and the 101 freeway. As we took the route toward this sanctuary, we began to see horse ranches and mountainous regions. These mountain first appeared to be in the distance.
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The venue is a perfect place to start – warm and cosy and intimate – and Gareth and I are already aware that we will be moving to other spaces – bigger and less easy to manage. But we have two more nights and four more experiments at Noah's Yard yet to come.
I'll blog every day so hopefully my thoughts will coalesce a bit more but here's some initial concerns and worries and ideas:
How nice is too nice? How open is too open? How much do I talk about what is happening whilst it's happening? How honest should I be about how I feel? How much should I perform and how much should I let that go? Is it that important that people should feel comfortable throughout? How will I cope with genuine anger and disagreement?
It's very hard to hang on to the lesson I learnt with John Dawson about expecting blank faces and assuming support – I need to manage my adrenalin better which I suspect only doing it more will deal with. I feel I need to be able to let things hang a bit more and leave space for people to engage and share – I also need to worry less about those people who seem quiet and unengaged. Last night, after sitting silent for a good portion of time, one of the audience spoke up and shared something incredibly personal and profound. People need their own processing time and thinking time – and if they don't want to engage with the work openly then that is absolutely fine too.
The thing that strikes me the most about what happened – with very little hindsight – is how my initial belief that offering a space for people to talk about issues and concerns in life using theatre techniques and practices is something that people can and do want to engage with.
The experiments now continue and I'm sure will evolve and change and grow. If this blog makes it sound very po-faced then nothing could be further from the truth – there was much laughter and joy to be had in the small room above Noah's Yard last night. And I'm sure there will be tonight.
Now if only I could calm down and enjoy it ...
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I thought the fabric pattern polka dot and the polka dance would turn out to have some convoluted history that linked them, but it turns out it's ultra simple. There was a craze for this dance in the nineteenth century and when the dance reached America, manufacturers jumped on the bandwagon, naming all sorts of products after it. It seems that polka gauze, polka hats and polka cakes aren't with us any longer, but the dots are.
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The polka was such a hit in the 1840s that the word polka was attached to the names of many products sold. There was no connection to the dance at all, and nothing very different about them, but entrepreneurs saw a good way to make a buck from its popularity by adding the word "polka" to an array of goods. There were polka hats, polka fans, polka cakes, polka hairstyles and polka curtain ties. A new fabric print was introduced that featured symmetrical placement of dots throughout the material. This was dubbed polka dot style and it is the only one of these "polka" products to have maintained its name to the present day, undoubtedly due to the fact that it was a new, unique product. The name polka dot stuck.Everybodyeverywear has an overview of the history of this fabric, and includes interesting information from Martha Stewart and Christian Dior.
I've missed out on being fashionable by only twelve months. This time last year, seemingly, polka dots were featuring on the catwalks. But I'm too old to be fashionable, anyway - old enough to remember when we were all singing about that itsy bitsy yellow bikini.