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After Story Story Night's appropriately themed event, Metamorphosis: Stories of One Thing After Another, on Monday, March 25, the live storytelling series will take a break and transition into a new phase. SSN will debut Starry Story Night in April at Boise Contemporary Theater, which highlights "true life stories of local luminaries." Then, from May to September, Story Story Late-Night will bust out the bawdy tales at Visual Arts Collective for an over-21 crowd. The regular SSN format will fire up again as the weather cools, resuming its monthly series at the Rose Room from October to March.
And speaking of Story Story Late-Night, organizers are seeking hosts to open the provocatively themed shows with a blush-worthy 10-20 minute true tale on subjects like "sex, drugs and drunks, vulgarity, violence, porn and indecency, sin, breaking the law, masturbation, adultery, lust and scandal." Those interested in hosting should send their stories to firstname.lastname@example.com by the end of March.
Moving from spoken to sung stories, Boise 150's Sesqui Speaks program is offering a free lecture Friday, March 15, on the topic Opera in Boise: A Short History. From 7-9 p.m. at 513 S. Eighth St., Opera Idaho General Director Mark Junkert will explore the history of the art form in Idaho from its beginnings to today. The lecture will cover topics like "operas, singers, conductors, directors, theaters--the who and the what of it all." The discussion will also dive into operas written in and about Boise, providing musical examples.
Moving from history to the present, the Boise City Department of Arts and History and the Mayor's Office are currently accepting submissions for the biennial Mayor's Awards for Excellence in Art and History.
According to a press release: "Nominees must have demonstrated distinguished service, creative accomplishment, a record of publication, presentation, or research that enhances the artistic, historic, and broader cultural life of Boise."
Categories include Organization: Excellence in the Arts; Organization: Excellence in History; Person: Excellence in the Arts; Person: Excellence in the field of History; Business: Support for the Arts; Business: Support for History; Education: Excellence in Arts Education; and Education: Excellence in History Education.
Nominations must be submitted by Friday, March 22, at 3 p.m., and forms are available at boiseartsandhistory.org. For more info, call 208-433-5675 or email email@example.com.
A reception for the winners with the mayor will take place Thursday, Sept. 12, at the Boise Plaza.
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What is liturgy, and why is it valuable?
Blessed be God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit...
"Liturgy" means a structure of worship, and every church has one, whether the people involved call it that or not. Every service has a structure: a characteristic ordering of the songs, Scripture readings, sermon, prayers, collection, and so on. In typical usage, though, "liturgy" is usually associated with particular traditions such as the Lutheran, Anglican, Roman Catholic, and Eastern Orthodox churches, which have structures for worship that include set prayers and responses for the participants.
For those who've never attended a liturgical church, think of it this way. Every Christian knows the Lord's Prayer, and it's often included in a worship service for the congregation to say together. Now imagine that the whole service is structured around a framework of prayers and responses like this, taken from Scripture or written by great saints of the church. That's liturgical worship.
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2016 Classes & Workshops!!
Nicolet College in the beautiful Northwoods of Wisconsin!
Bringing jewelry making to the Northwoods!
If you've always wanted to make your own jewelry, these classes are for you.
In my upcoming classes we will explore the age old technique of bead embroidery jewelry making.
Bead embroidery is a type of beadwork that uses a needle and thread to stitch beads to the surface of fabric, ultra-suede, or leather. If you can pass a needle through it you can do bead embroidery!
So come join us and learn a new craft, meet new people, and have fun!
Class dates, times, and projects are listed below.
Most classes projects will have more than one color choice and
kits will be provided by me for an additional cost
(see Nicolet class schedule for details)
Lakeland High School
Minocqua, WI 54548
To register call
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Sat 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
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List of supplies (this is supplies you will need that is not included in the class kit obtained through me:
Fireline fishing line 6lb (can be found at Walmart or fishing supply store)
E6000 glue – clear (can be found at Walmart or Hobby Lobby)
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Research In Motion: The Beginning of the End
Research In Motion (NAS: RIMM) is at it again. Its shares tumbled 5% after Peter Misek, an analyst at Jefferies, predicted that there is a good chance of RIM faltering (once again!) in the fourth quarter. Shareholders of the beleaguered BlackBerry maker should brace themselves for another poor quarter when the company comes out with its earnings later this month.
Misek is known for the accuracy of his earnings estimates about the smartphone maker, and his latest prediction is hinting at the fact that RIM's march to Waterloo is set to continue. Let's see why.
BlackBerry 7 bites the dust
RIM had announced a slew of new phones running on the OS 7 last year. It looked like some sort of a stopgap arrangement for the company, which kept delaying the launch of phones based on BlackBerry 10 (previously called BBX). But what it really offered was just a minor upgrade over the BlackBerry 6 platform, something that failed to provide any relief to the company's dwindling market share.
The OS 7 phones have proved unsuccessful in reversing RIM's fortunes in the U.S. Also, the company has to now contend with strong rivals and declining sales in Europe and Latin America as well. Apple (NAS: AAPL) now has almost half the U.S. market in its bag and Samsung, powered mostly by Google's (NAS: GOOG) Android platform, is making significant headway in the European market. These developments leave RIM with little space to flex its muscles, adding more to the troubled BlackBerry maker's woes.
Out of corporate favor
BlackBerry smartphones were, at some point, the trusted companions of professionals all over the world. But now it seems they have fallen out of favor with their target audience. News about corporations and businesses shifting to other platforms such as Android and Apple's iOS is nothing new.
Take oilfield services company Halliburton as an example. The company ditched RIM and opted for Apple's offering as the iPhone was a "better fit" for its employees owing to the wide array of available applications. And again, just a few days ago the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives notified that it will also be dumping BlackBerrys in favor of iPhones. And I won't be at all surprised if more news like this emerges in the future.
Blackberry 10 may not be a savior
In one of my earlier articles on RIM, I spoke about why the company needs to fast-forward the launch of BlackBerry 10. But even that may not be a savior now. With the iPhone 5 rumored for release in fall of this year, it seems that RIM's face-saving offering won't protect it when released later this year (if there isn't another delay).
Moreover, the evolution of Apple's and Google's platforms will probably make RIM's BBX appear outdated when it sees the light of the day.
Have they finally lost faith?
It seems like RIM is now counting on others' flaws rather than its own strengths. For instance, new CEO Thorsten Heins remarked, "When the first big security flaw even happens in one of the large enterprises, you will see this turn around. Wait for the day this happens." What does he mean? Is he counting on the possibility that others may not produce a secure device? If this is the case, I believe there is something seriously wrong with the way RIM is looking to run its business. The company should look to improve user experience instead of expecting customers to come its way when other manufacturers falter.
And when a government organization (i.e. the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives) decided to move away from its secure system to the iPhone, the security bit he was harping about must have blown up in Heins' face.
The Foolish takeaway
The odds are stacked heavily against RIM. I haven't even told you about the Playbook fiasco and the speed at which Samsung and Apple are selling their phones. All these factors taken together may completely take down the remnants of the mighty empire that RIM once was. A lot of hope is pinned on the "make or break" BlackBerry 10, but even then the chances of a bounce-back remain quite slim.
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I do hope all my friends, visitors and followers don't feel neglected. Life has been very busy while the plans I have fall into the abyss. It's getting colder here and the floor heating is ON. I'm thoroughly enjoying walking around bare-footed which I prefer, mostly indoors that is. Snug as a bug in a rug.
This week I've been playing with water-soluble inks, mostly Distress or Kaleidacolour applied to a foam sheet and picked up with stamps or directly onto the paper. I've used the technique to help 'salvage' some poor things in a lamentable pile that didn't make it to the finishing line.
|Centre is the nautilus shell "By the Sea".
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|Some high-lights added with white gel pen to the nautilus, the sea star and the interstices of the net.
Using a yellow/gold metallic matt enlivens it too. Watch for the finished article.
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If you're just starting out on your web performance journey, it's easy to feel overwhelmed by how much there is to learn about something as "simple" as making pages faster.
When I started this blog three years ago, if you wanted to learn about optimizing performance, the pickings were on the slim side — though generally you could count on any resources you found to be pretty solid. These days, things are different. There's a massive number of blog posts, videos, and slide decks — but the problem is that there's a lot of redundant (or to be frank, not super great) information out there.
In this post, I'm going to separate the wheat from the chaff and offer my opinionated guide to the links you should check out if you're a dev who's new to the performance scene.
The Manifesto
The Vanilla Web Diet
Despite years of development and performance advocacy, the internet has a serious obesity problem that's hurting application and page speed. This is a great piece from Smashing Magazine that discusses the reasons behind this trend and finishes with a bold declaration.
The Essentials
If I were teaching a course about performance, these would be required reading/viewing on week one.
Steve Souders's 14 Rules for Faster-Loading Web Sites
Like Mecca, all web performance roads lead back to Steve Souders's original performance rules. If you do your job right, one day you'll have these committed to memory.
Faster Websites: Crash course on web performance
As I mentioned in last week's podcast, what Google developer advocate Ilya Grigorik doesn't know about performance isn't worth knowing. In this three-hour video, he gives an awesome overview of the subject.
The Basics
Make sure you're taking care of the easy stuff before you dive into the hard stuff. How to pluck the low-hanging fruit from the performance tree.
Waterfalls 101: How to read a waterfall chart
First, you can't be in this business unless you know how to read a waterfall chart. Our VP Product, Hooman Beheshti, breaks it down really well in this recorded webinar. (If you want the written version instead, there's a post here.)
Let's Do Simple Stuff to Make Our Websites Faster
Four easy things you can do to make your website faster.
Slow website? Five ways to speed it up
Five more ways to speed up your pages.
If you want to still have a job in performance in five years, I suggest you bone up on mobile.
15 things you can (and should) do to make your site faster for mobile users
Mobile devices and browsers pose some unique performance challenges. There are a number of fundamental and advanced tactics that you can use to take on these challenges and win.
Mobile HTML5
Maximiliano Firtman created this awesome table that illustrates HTML5 compatibility across major mobile and tablet browsers.
Responsive Web Design
Technically, RWD belongs with mobile, but it's such a hot-button topic these days that I wanted to give it its own section.
Creating a Mobile-First Responsive Web Design
Really, you should just read pretty much everything Brad Frost writes about RWD. This is a good place to start.
Responsive Responsive Design
You may have heard that responsive design means poor performance. Tim Kadlec discusses why this doesn't need to be true.
Images are one of the single greatest performance problems, but they're not sexy so they don't get the attention they deserve. I'm working on a separate post about this, but in the meantime, check out these links.
Optimizing Web Graphics
Good introduction to image optimization from the folks at the Google Dev Blog.
Progressive jpegs: A new best practice
Photos are the main culprit when it comes to slow rendering. Eye-opening stuff about the adoption of progressive jpegs and how well progressive jpegs load across different browsers.
Third-Party Scripts
Third-party scripts are a huge potential point of failure. You need to know how to mitigate this.
Has your site's third-party content gone rogue? Here's how to regain control.
This post will help you understand the third-party problem and how to get a handle on it.
Social button BFFs
Good tutorial from Stoyan Stefanov explaining how to make your social buttons load asynchronously.
Complete asynchronous ad loading using DFP and LABjs
You can't optimize the ads that appear on your site, but you can at least ensure they're not blocking the rest of the page. Sajal Kayan explains how to use DFP's iframe tagging, combined with LABjs and little bit of JavaScript hackery, to make any ad load asynchronously with negligible impact on rest of the pageload.
Security is an increasingly urgent issue. You need to know what impact it has on performance.
Speed vs. security: Four ways that security solutions can cause performance problems (and what you can do about it)
Security solutions can be performance bottlenecks, but this doesn't get talked about very much so I wrote this post about it.
5 easy tips to accelerate SSL
Some folks believe that we just have to suck up the fact that SSL is slow. Not true. Here are some relatively simple workarounds.
SSL Performance Case Study
SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) optimization is extremely complicated, but as William Chan argues, "There's low-hanging fruit everywhere" for site owners willing to try. In this article, William takes us through an in-depth case study of SSL optimization.
Web Font Performance: Weighing @font-face Options and Alternatives
Great collection of tips for making sure your web fonts aren't slowing down your pages.
WebPerfDays: Performance Tools
At WebPerfDays London, Steve Souders asked attendees to name their favourite web performance tool. This is a great roundup of tools that smart folks are using.
Improving site performance with YSlow
YSlow is one of the most commonly used tools for helping you analyze the performance of a website based on performance best practices. It's available as a plugin for all major browsers except Internet Explorer, and it offers usable insight into real-world performance. This tutorial is a great introduction for anyone using YSlow for the first time, or for those who want to learn to use it better.
Configuring an 'all-in-one' WebPageTest Private Instance
Using WebPagetest to test a private instance –- i.e. an application that isn't publicly accessible -– is reasonably straightforward save for a few small differences. Andy Davies walks us through the process.
The Back End
Speeding Up Your Website's Database
We tend to focus on the front end (and for good reason), but sometimes it's the back end that's at least partially to blame. This is a good how-to piece from Smashing Magazine that explains how a database can slow down your site, and how to speed it back up again.
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This is skimming just some of the cream off the top. I'm sure I've missed a few links, so feel free to suggest them in the comments and I'll update this list. If you want to really dig deep, we have a massive Web Performance Hub on the Strangeloop site where we post every great link we find, and I definitely encourage you to check it out.


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"We recognize that treating cancer is expensive and our industry needs to find new ways to ease the financial burden on cancer patients, their families and society," said Kevin Sharer, chairman and chief executive officer at Amgen. "Our goal is to create the most comprehensive oncology access program in the industry, and we are starting with Amgen Oncology Assistance. To ensure patients have access to Vectibix, we have priced it at approximately 20 percent less than the other antibody on the market and created the Vectibix Cap, which is the first of its kind for colorectal cancer patients."
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Kona have released details of their latest bike, the Entourage. Billed as a "short-travel DH / Big Mountain / FreeRad mountain bike", it's the successor to their classic Stinky freeride rig. This low-slung new machine has 170mm (6.7in) of suspension travel, ultra-short (415mm/16.3in) chainstays and a slack 65° head angle.
The Canadian company are quick to insist that it's no pedalling-friendly all-mountain bike, instead describing it as "an enabling mini downhill bike which absolutely rips turns, blasts jumps and rallies steeps at the whim of the rider". They say it also makes an ideal downhill bike for smaller riders.
The size large prototype shown here is said to weigh 36.6lb (16.6kg), while team rider Graham Agassiz's rig comes in at 33.5lb (15.2kg, small frame). The Entourage shares many features with Kona's new Operator downhill bike, including its four-bar suspension design, tapered head tube, oversize round down tube, 150x12mm rear end and 83mm bottom bracket shell.
Kona's gravity product manager, Chris Mandell, says the Entourage grew out of conversations with Agassiz and his desire for the ultimate 'big mountain' bike. "Much of what Graham was looking for came from his time pushing the limits of the legendary Kona Stinky," says Mandell. "The virtues of that bike (nimble, quick to turn, good pop on jumps, solid on steep lines) incorporated into an entirely new bike focused on the needs of today's gravity rider made sense to us."
The result, according to Mandell, is a bike that offers the best of all worlds – flickability in the air and in corners, combined with "plush, deep travel" on technical terrain. We'll bring you more news on the Entourage as soon as we get it. For now, check out the video below:
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The past few years, I've been in awe of how Saudi girls style themselves. I love the idea of Jalabias. I don't like to fuss over outfits too much so they perfectly fit my effortless style goals : just throw on a well fit dress and you're ready to go.
Ramadan is all about festive but comfortable dressing ( Given all the food you'll be stuffing, you need that extra room. & I'm all about that life! )
So this year, I finally decided to give Jalabias a try for my blog. The ones I pictured for this post are all from the local souk. They look loose on the hanger but they are designed in such a way that they fall pretty nicely from your shoulders, making you look and feel SO elegant!
I also love wearing a robe or simple abaya over jeans & a tee! Can't get any prettier than this white one by Perla Idanah ( perlaidanahofficial ) SO beautifully crafted with the perfect fabric and floral motifs at the bottom, giving it some texture.
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I was trying to think of which board I should post this under, and I decided on Retirement investing, since that's the end goal of my discussion.From speaking with co-workers, sisters, aunts, uncles, etc, it seems that a large portion of the population is very "investment dumb". Now that's not an insult towards them, since I will happily admit that I am "car dumb". The fact of the matter though is that the average level of understanding of how investing works is incredibly low.I also realized that before college, I don't believe I received a single class/lesson in investing. My only finance course in high school was about balancing checkbooks, calculating tax on purchases, and other consumer related requirements.So my thoughts were that high schools really should add some type of investing / money management class to their general curriculum. If you are viewing a high school as a place to get a general education, I certainly think some general class about money management would fit in. I would prefer that my children received a money management class, than US geography personally. I admit I forgot my geography pretty quickly, and what I remember isn't all that useful.While I am unlikely to take this further, does anyone happen to have information on how public schools choose their curriculum? I assume there are certain subjects which are required by law, and others that are optional. I know a few people who work in school administration at the local high school, and I'm almost inspired enough to actually talk to them about this.In either case, I thought I would bring up the issue with you people. Obviously the people posting here found out about investing in some manner. How did you find out about investing? Did a school class at some point in time give you the basics, did your parents/relatives help, or did you "stumble" upon it yourself?For myself, I was already out of college and managed to stumble upon it on my own, so I just count myself lucky that I found out about investing in my 20's, rather than my 50's or 60's. I still have co-workers that don't contribute to their 401k's because "they're too young to worry about retirement yet"
As a parent, I don't want the schools doing financial education or else make it an elective. My 3 kids were taught Bout finances at home and at 17,21 and 23, they have started to save for retirement.rad
In GA it will integrated into the high school curriculum state wide. I think it is about time because while the previous poster may have met their parental fiscal education responsibilities, the large majority spend as much time talking to their kids about saving as they do about the birds and the bees.FuskieWho thinks it is partly because they do not know, or they do know but are not following their own advice and do not want to be called on it...
Greetings,While I am unlikely to take this further, does anyone happen to have information on how public schools choose their curriculum?http://store.ncee.net/lei.html may have some information for you about economic education. IIRC, in the US, education is regulated at the state level and so I wonder if you could ask some in a local school board how they select courses.About 15 years ago I remember signing up for a Geology course in my sophomore year in high school that since only 6 people wanted it, it wasn't offered and I had to choose another course. I mention this as this could be an issue you'd face in trying to get such a class going.In either case, I thought I would bring up the issue with you people. Obviously the people posting here found out about investing in some manner. How did you find out about investing?Mostly as something to do with the money I was saving back when I started working. I had been saving and thought there should be something I can do with this money other than leave it in a bank savings account. This lead me to learning about investing from various folks and introduced me to more than a few web sites and as this was the late 1990s, everything was in a boom about how this time it was different. Definitely an interesting time to learn about investing. There were also stock options from the dot com I worked at that also led to some learning about investing since I wanted to make sure I handled these appropiately. Needless to say those options expired worthless as my strike price was way above the current trading price of the stock when I left the company a few years back and wasn't in good financial shape.Did a school class at some point in time give you the basics, did your parents/relatives help, or did you "stumble" upon it yourself?Twas more of something I actively sought out in a sense since I had this nice growing bank account and did believe I should get more bang for the buck in a sense.Regards,JB
As a parent, I don't want the schools doing financial education or else make it an elective. My 3 kids were taught Bout finances at home and at 17,21 and 23, they have started to save for retirement.I'm not sure I follow your logic, you thought financial education was valuable enough to teach at home, yet not important enough for the school curriculum?Personally, I've thought financial education (time value of money, effects of CC interest, basics of mortgages, etc.) is more valuable than trigonometry (how many truly use sine & cosine anyway). My daughter will definitely learn about this stuff before she leaves my care.-murray
I'm not sure I follow your logic, you thought financial education was valuable enough to teach at home, yet not important enough for the school curriculum?I suspect that what we taught our kids might not be the agreed upon curriculum for the school course. I am also of the opinion that kids learn best by example and I want us to be their example.My kids, my choice. There are also other courses I'd rather them take at school than this.Personally I learned it by reading books.This isn't a popular view, I'm sure but it's mine as a parent and a taxpayer.radP.S. Did I mention my 23 year old daughter bought a house last year ?
Did I mention my 23 year old daughter bought a house last year ?Got me beat! I bought my first house when I was 25.Congratulations!-murray
I'm not sure I follow your logic, you thought financial education was valuable enough to teach at home, yet not important enough for the school curriculum?But the magic question is where does the funding for such additional coursework come from? Today, the Federal government has an entire host of mandates, mostly unfunded, some of which are generally grouped under the umbrella of No Child Left Behind. And they keep adding more and more mandates and continue to provide less and less funding. Then, of course, there are the mandates provided by each state. In MA, the state tells us what the curriculum is with very little room left for electives of any sort. The funding formula here for what the state requires is so skewed that the state recently lost a lawsuit about regarding its inability to live up to its own legislation and fund the education that they require. I don't know yet what that will do to our funding, but I bet it still won't meet the level needed to do the mandates they require.In addition, I agree with reallyalldone that I am not convinced that this is the best subject for the schools to teach, though I can be convinced it could be an elective provided that the funding is also put into it and not have yet another unfunded mandate. In fact, I saw an announcement this week from the MA DOE that they have partnered with the MA Office for Consumer Affairs in providing what they call a free program to teach finances to high school students. Being well-acquainted, however, with what MA considers to be 'free' [it usually translates to not costing the state a penny but all being passed on to the districts/municipalities], I am dying to see what they've come up with.However, I find that the general basics are already taught in school. They still teach percentages and how those can compound. They teach how to read graphs and understand economics data. They teach quite a lot that should provide the foundation for a child to be able to have some reasonable understanding of how things like credit card interest and mortgages work.My 13-year-old twins can already tell you how compound interest works. They know what stocks are and how they can help you to grow your nest egg. They have brokerage accounts, Roth IRA's, DRP's, and savings accounts. We will move on to checking accounts and credit cards as they get older.But I do still consider financial education to be much more something that belongs to the parents to be teaching their children just as with most of the life skills they need to be out on their own, quite a few of which are not taught in schools nor do I expect them to be. Things like cleaning their rooms, doing their laundry, mowing the lawn, shoveling the snow, doing the dishes, cooking, and managing their own finances.So no, I do not believe that this should be required in school, and I am most certainly not willing to give up core subjects and other programs to get it in there.
In MA, the state tells us what the curriculum is with very little room left for electives of any sortMy school taught trigonometry. Can you honestly tell me that trigonometry is more useful/important than finances?!? FWIW, my engineering education covered time value of money in no less than FIVE courses.I think it should be taught as part of the math curriculum, the basics could be covered in just a couple weeks IMHO.-murray
Why do so many investors have such poor judgment? When you think about it the answer is obvious: lack of education. We spend umpteen years in school without a single hour of instruction on financial matters. Our brains are stuffed with calculus and Chaucer, but not capital gains. We emerge as adults able to graph cosine waves and answer Jeopardy trivia, but unable to pay our credit card bills. Just as children who aren't formally taught sex education pick it up from peers through locker room hearsay and whispered half truths, we learn about investing piecemeal via the media, our friends and our family. An uncle passes on a hot stock tip; your financial advisor talks up a new type of annuity; a Newsweek columnist suggests you invest in bonds. A few financial whizzes with the time and desire to educate themselves manage to wind up with reasonable financial planning strategies. But most of us do not. Financial ignorance is a silent disease. No internet ad will note the dollar amount you wasted this year through misinvesting. St. Peter will not announce what you could have been worth as you pass through the Pearly Gates. You'll just look back one day and wonder how you could have so little wealth after working so hard for so long. http://www.esiguide.com/invest/why_invest.htm
.... I am not convinced that this is the best subject for the schools to teach, though I can be convinced it could be an elective provided that the funding is also put into it and not have yet another unfunded mandate.I admit to being absolutely dumbfounded by this discussion! We all seem to agree that we need to teach our own kids the "big picture".....agree that they already learn the underlying math principles (compounded interest and such).....but we don't think a couple of weeks bringing the basic principles together into meaningful correlation relative to lifelong financial security is valuable in the public schools? What the heck am I missing here?!?Our (social) security net will be significantly different when today's highschoolers want to retire. How do we sleep with a clear conscience if we don't provide them the basic aggregate concepts of investing when they need it most.....when they are young? Not what to do, but how it all comes together.Perhaps I need to go back and reread this thread.....Rick
I am also of the opinion that kids learn best by example and I want us to be their example..Learning by example works both ways. I'm sure most of the people on this board are good examples for their kids. My parents had problems with their finances, much of it their own doing. Their financial problems sometimes became their children's problems.I decided I wasn't going to live like that so I started saving as a child. I've tried to teach my children about financial responsibility. They may not yet have fincancial and investing savvy (freshman & junior in college), but they know how much money they have and they're careful about how they spend it.Do I want schools teaching our children about finances? I don't know that I would want a whole semester or year-long class devoted to it. But there are certainly a lot of financially irresponsible parents out there raising the next generation of adults. Planting some seeds of financial responsibility in the schools in my opinion would be a good thing.My $.02.Salecat
reallyalldone:<<<<I'm not sure I follow your logic, you thought financial education was valuable enough to teach at home, yet not important enough for the school curriculum?>>>>"I suspect that what we taught our kids might not be the agreed upon curriculum for the school course."The people who would be most interested deermining the content, and the most willing to donate money to control it, would be the Wise (and not the Foolish). Good money management skills are not very exciting. Pay yourself first. Minimize expenses. Minimize use of credit. Charles Dickens sometime durnig the 19th century wrote:"Annual income 20 pounds, annual expenditure 19.6... Result happiness.Annual income 20 pounds, annual expenditure 20.06... Result misery." That covers LBYM"Never spend your money before you have it." Thomas Jefferson - that covers credit"If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting." Benjamin Franklin - saving and investingAll from http://utahreach.org/ppay/quotes.htm"Neither a borrower nor lender be. For loan oft loses both itself and friend." W. Shakespeare in Hamlet http://www.iabusnet.org/templates/main/articleprint.cfm?ID=721It does not take long to teach the basics. After that, there is much dispute about the "best" methods and much depends upon personal risk tolerances and personal likes and dislikes.Regards, JAFO
And one more quote from Ben Franklin:"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest"
What the heck am I missing here?!?A way to fund it.Seriously, if you want to make a change to any school curriculum, go down to your School Committee meeting [I just left ours of which I am a part] and listen to what they have to fund based on the mandates from the state and federal government. Then watch all the taxpayers cringe because the required increase in school budget simply to teach the additional students in the district at the exact same level as today will require a tax override that the overburdened taxpayers already cannot afford.So once again I will ask. Where does the money come from for this? Where does the time in the school day and curriculum come from to add this? I'm accustomed to people asking for things to be added, but no one ever seems willing to actually foot the bill.
So once again I will ask. Where does the money come from for this? You cut something less important. It would take about 30-40 hours of classroom instruction to teach the basics of debt, saving, investing, etc. That's about how much time the average kid spends studying rocks in Earth Science class. So we swap rocks for stocks ("Rocks for Stocks"...catchy huh?). 20 years later, the average person doesn't know basalt from granite. But they're all set financially- their kids have good lives, our national savings rate goes up, crime goes down as street gangs become investment clubs...ok maybe that's a stretch. Maybe more creative forms of education are needed. How about requiring all hotels to have a simple investment book in every room? Then you're there with the kids in the summer and have some free time and that's what you end up reading. Who wants to thumb through the Bible on vacation anyway?Nick
>> Maybe more creative forms of education are needed. Sesame Street topic perhaps? Those fuzzy muppets should be nearing retirement age by now.qaddy
Sesame Street topic perhaps? Those fuzzy muppets should be nearing retirement age by now.Yes! Big Bird: Do you know why Mr. Hooper had to work in the grocery store until the day he died?Group of Kids (in unison): He didn't max out his Roth IRA!
So once again I will ask. Where does the money come from for this? You cut something less important. Nick,I happen to agree that this is something that should be taught to people. I haven't figured out how, yet.However, what is less important? Boy, is that an explosion waiting to happen. As I look at school systems, there is a lot of things that are being taught, that I don't feel should be. However, someone thought that the school should teach those topics. So, how are you going to decide what is less important? I feel that anything other than Math, Science, History, and English grammar/writing is very much a waste. Have you seen a math book lately? At least in grades 3-6, they do projects, like coloring and finding matches and such, but very little math is done. By this I mean, adding numbers together often, to learn the basic skills of math. Other people would argue with me. fredinseoul
There's a related discussion on the LBYM board on the effects of teaching a young individual the basics of time value of money and how it applies to IRA's: http://boards.fool.com/Message.asp?mid=21977568&sort=whole30 minutes of "teaching" this person could change his life. Explain to me why these basics couldn't be fit into math class?!? -murray
30 minutes of "teaching" this person could change his life. Explain to me why these basics couldn't be fit into math class?!? What's been your experience with your children ? Have you shared your expertise with boy scouts or girl scouts in badge work ? How about at a Boys' or Girls' Club ?rad
What's been your experience with your children ?My daughter is only 4 so it's not sinking in yet :) I've thought of "volunteering" my time to her school or other clubs in the future since I've got a plan to "retire" in 10-12 years.Has anybody else had experience with this?-murray
Has anybody else had experience with this?I've done badge work with boy and girl scouts. I also did a workshop for faculty & staff at a community college which led to me doing a similar workshop for a group of workforce trainees.rad
My daughter is only 4 so it's not sinking in yet :) I've thought of "volunteering" my time to her school or other clubs in the future since I've got a plan to "retire" in 10-12 years.Has anybody else had experience with this?My kids already owned stock by that age, and when we went to McDonald's, they'd ask things like how much of it they owned. It is not too early for you to start with such basic concepts, and then expand as she gets older.Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts both have badges dealing with personal finances. I've done the Girl Scout one, and as I recall, it covered a reasonable amount of material, but we didn't have to do much with it because my daughter already had done most of that already. My son is now working on the Family Member Badge, or whatever they call it, for Boy Scouts, and one of the requirements is a section on personal finances, but again, that will be a piece of cake for him.I know that they did talk about compound interest in their English class, of all places, this year [my kids are in the 8th grade], and my DD was the only one who knew what it was. I understand she gave a great explanation to her class. Seems her teacher thought that one of her parents must be an accountant, but that's not the case. We are just very interested if finances, and my kids are doing quite well managing their own at this age.Maybe, though, it is because my kids have been learning and progressing all along that I prefer the parents to be teaching such things because it is such a basic life skill. But there are other ways avaiable as well such as through Scouts or even your local bank. Our credit union has all sorts of programs for children to teach them about basic finances. They also offer little seminars on mortgages and car loans and how to manage your own finances that seem to be worthwhile judging from the material I have seen.But if you are interested, I think you could easily volunteer your time for financial training for something like Scouts or whatever is popular in your area.
As an update, I researched a bit the school district I went to high school at. I found the education board website, and also managed to find out who the current chair of the curriculum board, who also happened to be the assistant superintendant of education.In either case, with those fancy titles, I thought they were worthy of an e-mail, I so I briefly explained my purpose for writing, the lack of education that graduates from their schools have (and I would know, since I am a graduate), and a proposal for a class that could teach basic money management along with investing basics.The person actually wrote back and we exchanged a few emails. They said that they already had a consumer education class, but that more information may be valuable. I said that I remembered the consumer education class, but that it was geared towards consumers. It seemed to teach how to balance a checkbook, write checks, calculate taxes, but nothing about saving money and not being a consumer.It ended up that he said their next curriculum meeting is coming up very soon, so he will be printing out my e-mail and will present it to the other board members.If nothing else, at least I tried :)
If nothing else, at least I tried :)As I like to say, complaining about something you can do something about is a waste of time. Complaining about something that you can't do something about is a waste of spirit.-murray (wastes spirit more than I should :)
It ended up that he said their next curriculum meeting is coming up very soon, so he will be printing out my e-mail and will present it to the other board members.By law, these are public meetings, so you might want to attend and let him know that you will be there to address your suggestion. Ask that you be put on the agenda. They don't have to do it, but at least you will have done what you can to effect some change.
Sex education. Do you remember the controversy of teaching this in schools and how parents thought this should be taught at home? Yet, no one was doing it, and we were finding that teen pregnancies and STD's were off the charts. AIDS brought an entirely new threat to our children. Through many difficult meetings it was approved. I believe this has had a very positive impact. I'm fairly young and remember my sex education teacher, Mrs. Vanilla. She would say, "You can call me Mrs. Chocolate or Mrs. Strawberry." She was a ton of fun and a class everyone looked forward to. Yes very embarrassing at times but still take with me some of the learnings from it. I was 12 years old.The average American is saving 1% of their income...isn't it about time we do something about it?
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Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) has decided that an independent advisory panel's suggestion to scale back mammogram recommendations is the front lines of government-controlled health care. This is roughly 100% poppycock. First off, said advisory panel has no authority to change anything. Second, there's a decent amount of evidence that the panel's right anyway. The US of A has high cancer survival rates. But we also diagnose more cancers. If you look at the death rate due to breast cancer (as opposed to the survival rate among diagnosed patients), the US isn't really a world leader. In the United Kingdom, regular mammograms start at age 50 and continue once every three years. The new recommendations suggest starting at age 50 with screenings every 2 years. Mammograms have a notoriously high false positive rate, especially in the United States, where one in seven patients returns for further testing, as opposed to less than one in ten in the UK. That's a lot of women who have to sit through several weeks thinking they might have breast cancer, and a lot of money spent on testing.
Thankfully, Ms Blackburn is not a Senator, so she can't force the executive branch to bend to her wishes by placing a hold random nominations.
Also, in the interest of gender equality let me add that the same thing goes for prostate cancer. As with breast cancer, the survival rate among diagnosed patients is very high, but the survival rate among the overall population is average. One read is that Americans are more cancerous and better treated. Another read is that Americans are overdiagnosed, with a number of patients receive treatment for "marginal" cancer that isn't life threatening.


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In an unusually blunt and plain-spoken segment on Friday night's "The Rachel Maddow Show," host Rachel Maddow tore into Republicans for claiming that they care about jobs numbers when all they actually do on Capitol Hill is try to pass more and more laws restricting abortion, even when they know those bills are doomed to fail.
Thursday saw the release of disappointing jobs numbers, which has been a blow to the Obama administration. Republicans seized on the news and responded with a PR blitz, criticizing President Barack Obama and his economic policies.
A closer look at the numbers, however, shows that the jobs being lost are government and other public sector jobs, losses that are coming about as a result of Republican austerity programs and budget cuts. The very drop in jobs numbers that the GOP is decrying is a result of its own policies, said Maddow.
And yet, for all their talk about jobs, their only consistent legislative focus has been anti-abortion legislation. According to Maddow, after all the Thursday morning jobs ballyhoo, Republicans hurried to the House floor "to get to work on what it is they actually work on, which is yet another Republican anti-abortion bill."
For Republicans, Thursday's work day was all about trying to pass an expedited anti-abortion bill that, as a result of its being placed on a legislative fast-track, needed a two-thirds majority to pass. When it didn't, and Democrats voted it down, Republican devoted the rest of their day to crafting an non-expedited version of the same bill, one that could pass with a simple majority.
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June rolled his tractor yesterday while maintaining a massive leaf pile burn. Thankfully he wasn't hurt, but this is something you hear about, people getting injured or killed in tractor accidents. I know that Doc Watson's son, Merle, went that way.
Wild vegetables.
There is talk of planting onions in the coming weeks. There is now an empty plot of land where the leaf pile once stood. It gets a lot of sun. I'm pushing to plant sorrel there. I like the name and I've seen it growing in the medieval herb garden at The Cloisters, near the espaliered pear tree. How to keep the deer away from the sorrel?
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This month, I'm kind of cheating, and I'm going to do three books.
So what was your favorite book that you read in August? Visit YA Highway to share!
This month, I'm kind of cheating, and I'm going to do three books.
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Hex Hall is on my list. I put it there after I read the author;s post at Writeoncon!
Still waiting for my copy of Mockingjay..
..and going nuts! :(
I really, REALLY want to read Angelfire after reading your review at YA Highway and here. And I have been on the waiting list for Hex Hall at my library for apprx 2 months. WTH. Might just have to go get it!
Hex Hall! *adds to list*
Four times, damn.
I have got to get Hex Hall! It's been on my list for a while.
Got ot go with Mockingjay. But September will be more difficult to choose, I fear. I've already got Paranormalcy, and soon Personal Demons to read!
Four times? I should have stolen that ARC from you while you were sleeping.
I would've hunted you down, Kate. :P
*squeals* I have a signed ARC of Angelfire heading my way, I'm so pumped! What an awesome selection, I'm jealous! :D
Ooo! Hex Hall looks really good!
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As we have covered before (Here and Here) there are many reasons why people blog under a name that can't be directly tied to their professional life. You can check the links if you want my extended thoughts on that and links to posts elsewhere that are more eloquent, but it's why the following exchange bothers me:
Hypothetical ?: does career/grant/paper advice from a pseud twitter/online person mean anything if it isn't possible to know their record?
— Joshua King (@AntLabUCF) July 27, 2015
Nope, not much. https://t.co/uq0GS77XUG
— Matthew Hahn (@3rdreviewer) July 27, 2015
Academia is a very hierarchical enterprise. Trainees slot in at different, defined, levels. PIs have defined structure to advancement. There's university rankings, journal rankings, h-index, and on and on. We really love to define people by a variety of metrics and context.
All of these pieces of information provide a matrix where we, consciously or unconsciously, can form an opinion on the authority or each individual. As reviewers of proposals and manuscripts and as humans interacting with, and through, the literature or at meetings - whether you are "known" caries significant weight.
And that's where social media goes and screws it all up.
Giving people the option to post comments and interact without those all important identifiers takes the context that many academics rely on IRL, away. And that has opened the door to provide a voice to those who might not be heard 10 or 20 years ago. Ironically, this gets to the point:
@ProfLikeSubst @AntLabUCF @SpeciationLab Probly true. I prefer shortcut.
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@AntLabUCF @SpeciationLab @ProfLikeSubst Yeah, we're just having a semi-anonymous conversation about social norms.
— Matthew Hahn (@3rdreviewer) July 27, 2015
Though this was said tongue-in-cheek, the reality is that what is a social norm for some is another's shut door. Having people entrenched in the upper tier culture view voices they can't place in their social context as not worthy of attention only re-enforces the echo chamber and excludes the same people who have been excluded for decades. I'm not here to chastise anyone, but I think it's important that we recognize that this is exactly the attitude that has gotten us to the point of being a largely white and male dominated profession. In the vast majority of cases, good science flows more from having the opportunity ($$$) to do science, rather than the individual brilliance of those doing it. Recognition and opportunity are inextricably tied together, and systematic exclusion (conscious or unconscious) has consequences.
But advice abounds everywhere, good bad and otherwise. To pretend like there is a universal correlation between the source and the value of the advice is ridiculous. I have gotten both good and bad advice from people I respect. Same goes for those whom I would not normally seek out. If you want examples of well-established PIs doling out terrible advice, just pick up Science Careers at some point and flip through. Or maybe you have a senior colleague in your department who got a job out of grad school 30 years ago and has renewed the same R01 for all that time. I'm sure he's got valuable advice for the grant scene these days.
We all get loads of advice throughout our careers, and whether the source is someone you know or someone writing under a pseud online, you need to evaluate it and decide whether it works for you. No one is out there faking their status to try and feed out bad advice, but your situation might not suit what they have to sell. We do this all the time IRL, so making the arbitrary distinction online is something that is curious, at best.


text: On 2017-12-31 8:28 AM, email@example.com wrote: > Obama, a real POS. > > > > We have one of our former presidents set up a group called > "Organizing for action" (OFA). > > OFA is 30,000+ strong and working to disrupt everything that our > current president's administration is trying to do. This organization > goes against our Democracy, How are they doing that, Michael? > > OFA is behind the strategic and tactical implementation of the > resistance to the Trump Administration that we are seeing across > America, and politically active courts are providing the leverage for > this revolution. OK. So? > > OFA is dedicated to organizing communities for "progressive" change. > Its issues are gun control, socialist healthcare, abortion, sexual > equality, climate change, and of course, immigration reform. OK. So? > > Paul Sperry, writing for the New York Post, says, "The OFA will fight > President Donald Trump at every turn of his presidency and the > ex-president will command them from a bunker less than two miles from > the White House." OK. So? > > > Sperry writes that, "The ex-president is setting up a shadow > government to sabotage the Trump administration through a network of > non-profits led by OFA, which is growing its war chest (more than $40 > million) and has some 250 offices nationwide. The OFA IRS filings, > according to Sperry, indicate that the OFA has 32,525 (and growing) > volunteers nationwide. The ex-president and his wife will oversee the > operation from their home/ office in Washington DC. Seems like a lot of people agree with their goals, doesn't it?


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Outdoors In: 9 Ways To Bring In Nature's Rejuvenating Qualities
For many of us, nature is an endless source of rejuvenation. A place of peace we can escape to when the horrors of the modern world get to be too overwhelming. A place that recharges us, alights are senses, ignites our imagination and gives us the energy to dive back in. Why wouldn't you try and emulate some of that majesty and wonder in your own home? Here are nine ways to try and bring some of the power and beauty of nature into your home this year.
1. Get representational with images
Is your favorite place in the world walking through a forest of tall and mighty red wood trees? Could you spend the rest of your life on the edge of the ocean? The images of those beautiful places — places you've been to before or only dreamed of and drooled over — are powerful, and placing them in your home will evoke their peace. Perhaps not as strongly as if you were in that natural spot, but still enough. The bigger you go with the image, the more power it'll have, as will an image of a place you've actually been to before, too. But don't just stop at photographs, bring in statues of birds, nests and other objects — all things to add to a more natural mood.
2. With plants, think "jungle"
While the effects of one plant are widely known and loved, if you really want to harness nature's calming power, you kind of want to go the opposite with plants: go jungle. Incorporate a lot of different types of leafy, wild plants in differing heights. Bring in a variety of leaf shapes and colors. Spread plants throughout your home, but focus on concentrating a lot of plant power in one particularly nice corner or nook so you can retreat to it when you need to slip into nature.


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Important tasks were completed in 2013.
Hundreds of trees were removed to help maintain the courses (less shaded areas help the grass grow).
The latest new equipment purchased for faster and better maintenance.
Removed a few bunkers to make more time for other items.
Moved yardage markers to the sides for faster cutting of grass.
Installed Billy Bunkers with enhanced drainage.
Cart signs remain 150 yards from the greens (less maintenance).
Installed new Bermuda greens to save on the budget in the long term.
Starting to reduce the number of Marshals while purchasing a GPS system to monitor cart locations and slow players.
Reduced outside fees to entice more golfers.
Bring in more outside tournaments to enhance the budget.
Hole No. 10 at Magellan, No. 8 Santa Maria and Nos. 6 and 7 at Balboa remain swamps in front of greens. Why?
I guess this does not qualify as worthy maintenance. Why so many enhancements for maintenance or outside golfers and not for Village golfers?
I'm tired of slopping around those holes. The Magellan No. 10 and No. 11 creek keeps eroding away at the fairway.
Does anyone realize cart signs moved back slows playing time?
Is that grass more sacred than the rest?
Fewer bunkers don't translate to maintained bunkers as usual. If we track slow players then admonish outside players also.
The golf department always has an excuse why something can't be accomplished. The golf committee works for the golf department and rarely petitions for golfers' needs. The word eviscerate comes to mind when dealing with the committee or golf department.
We require synchronicity between the golfers, golf department and the golf committee. Sad to say we have very little in going forward.
Lastly, we rarely make our budget targets because of our erratic weather. Stop chasing budgets and adapt better targets.
Bill Krautkramer
Hot Springs Village


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City of Palmdale
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Palmdale, CA 93550
Open Monday-Thursday
7:30 am-6 pm
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Celebrate the achievement of black authors the third Tuesday of each month, 6:45 pm.
The Palmdale City Library is open seven days a week. Hours of operation are Monday through Thursday from 10 am to 8 pm; Friday and Saturday from 10 am to 5 pm; and Sunday from 1 to 5 pm.
For more information, please call the Palmdale City Library at 661/267-5600 or TDD 267-5167, or visit www.cityofpalmdale.org/library.


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This post is a draft of an introduction for a new academic paper aimed at a graphic design journal. Feel free to comment but questions on how or what next will be answered in future posts as I construct my paper.
In a recent Tweet from Nico MacDonald (a commentator on design communication, facilitation, and research) he quoted ex-BMW designer Chris Bangle's provocative comment from a Creatives Morning lecture that "Designers are good at visualising possibilities but we are not showing possibilities to people" (MacDonald, 2011). This statement struck a chord as my current research is focused on expanding the resources of Visual Communication, through a hermeneutic visual discourse, to aid the design of better interactions. To unpack that thought further my interest lies in how Visual Communication itself can influence the design processes within Interaction Design beyond the mere artifice of skinning code.
The visual possibilities of how the interaction's interface will look (the aesthetics of surface) is not the only point in a design process that Visual Communication design can contribute to. I wish to not only propose a thesis that Visual Communicators can and should be brought into a multidisciplinary team for designing interactions much earlier in the design process; but also to propose a new visual methodology that will demonstrate how this can be achieved. I will build an argument for the embracing of Visual Communication by Interaction Design teams as an ideal facilitator of not only behavioural change in the audience (Frascara, 2004), but also an actual contributor to the design of the aesthetics of use (Dunne, 1997).
My main thrust to this thesis is the argument that within the design discipline of Visual Communication it can and does help to reveal things "from concealment" (Palmer, 1969, p129) and this process falls within hermeneutic phenomenology. I will discuss how a fusion of Visual Communication and techniques of interpretative phenomenology can be adapted to reveal the structure of an experience, which can then be visually captured and interpreted as themes of an experience - in turn "showing possibilities to" interaction designers of how people experience interactions. This may go some way to reassure Bangle that design, especially Visual Communication, can contribute more than what is usually expected of a designer.
DUNNE, A. (1999). Hertzian Tales: Electronic Products, Aesthetic Experience and Critical Design. London: RCA CRD Research.
FRASCARA, J. (2004) Communication Design: Principles, Methods and Practice. New York: Allworth Press.
MacDONALD, N. (2011) @Nico_Macdonald Chris Bangle @London_CM: Designers are good at visualising possibilities but we are not _showing possibilities_ to people #CreativeMornings. Twitter [online] Posted: 9:44am Tuesday 6th September. Available from: https://twitter.com/#!/Nico_Macdonald/status/110996796733534208, [Accessed on: 6th September 2011]
PALMER, R.E. (1969) Hermeneutics: Interpretation Theory in Schleiermacher, Dilthey, Heidegger, and Gadamer. Evanston: Northwestern University Press.


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German classes in Antwerp?
Hi, this may be strange since I'm living in Antwerp, but I was wondering if anyone knew of language schools that taught German classes (at night)? I googled and was only able to find German language classes for native Dutch speakers. (the reason is because my boyfriend is German and I will eventually be moving there, and I would like to start now). I know there are a lot of online/self-training options, but I really need an in-person class to motivate myself!
Thanks for any tips,


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True joy comes from God, not materials! :)
Color Blocking: Mint & Cobalt
True joy comes from God, not materials! :)
19 comments :
- AnonymousOctober 2, 2013 at 11:35 AM
contentment is priceless.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 2, 2013 at 1:41 PM
I love you color combos! So creative. Very true about being content with what we have. Thrift stores have been my best friends when it comes to affordable and modest apparelReplyDelete
Loving this outfit! There's nothing wrong with clearance rack shopping. More power to ya for being able to find such cute items all the time!!ReplyDelete
That's a cute, simple outfit, and contenment is an excellent lesson to learn at a young age!ReplyDelete
Hello Mrs. Lauren!ReplyDelete
I am a new follower of your blog, and I wanted to let you know what an encouragement your blog has already been! I love your style, but more than that, that you dress modestly! May the Lord bless you! Oh, and that you buy stuff on clearance and at thrift stores is great!!! I love doing the same thing, and it is amazing how many good deals you can find! :)
Keep serving Christ!
Love this necklace and the outfit is perfect for it!ReplyDelete
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And also, your comments are so true and encouraging!
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TORONTO — Mayor Rob Ford rejected suggestions on Tuesday that late-night TV comedian Jimmy Kimmel had humiliated him, and denied needing help for substance abuse.
Speaking at city hall after his foray to Los Angeles, an upbeat Ford sloughed off Kimmel's reruns of several embarrassing videos and his suggestion the mayor find someone to talk to about his addictions.
"I don't have any personal issues," Ford said.
"We've gone down that road a number of times."
For much of his 15-minute appearance on "Jimmy Kimmel Live" late Monday, the mayor looked uncomfortable as the comedian razzed him over a serious of incidents that have garnered Ford worldwide attention.
"Our first guest tonight has tripped, bumped, danced, argued and smoked his way into our national consciousness," Kimmel said by way of introduction.
Ford said he had received a "lot of support" following his appearance and denied that Kimmel had made a fool out of him.
"I knew I was going into a lion's den but I held my own," the mayor said.
Kimmel drew laughs from the studio audience by playing several videos that have gone viral, including ones from a meeting in which Ford mimes a drunk driver, dances in council chambers and almost knocks down a fellow councillor.
"This has become old news," Ford said of the videos.
At one point, Kimmel played a cellphone video of Ford ranting about wanting to kill someone.
Ford indicated he had no idea who the target of his wrath was.
"You have that many enemies that you don't know which one this was?" an incredulous Kimmel asked.
The comedian quizzed Ford on the numerous occasions the mayor has had to apologize for behaviour that includes smoking crack in a drunken stupor and uttering profanities on national television.
Time and again, however, Ford trotted out his mantra about how he saves taxpayers money and how hard he works for his constituents.
When they say jump, Ford told Kimmel, he only asks, "How high?"
"Realistically, how high can you jump?" Kimmel interjected.
Ford described himself as a "normal, average, hard-working politician that's real."
"You are not the average politician my friend," Kimmel retorted.
The comedian cited an email from one Toronto resident, who wrote that Ford's appearance on the show was "a slap to all Torontonians," and referred to "domestic abuse, drunk driving, racism, homophobia and inability to tell the truth."
"Is that all I got?" Ford responded.
Ford's councillor brother Doug Ford, who accompanied the mayor on the trip to L.A., said Tuesday that the late-night TV show was like a "church picnic" and seized on Kimmel's pronouncement that Ford was the "most wonderful mayor" he had ever witnessed.
"Jimmy Kimmel, as he said, 'You're the best mayor'," Doug Ford said.
"He was sincere when he said that."
Coun. Ford insisted both the studio audience and "unbiased" Americans they met on the trip to Los Angeles thought the mayor a great guy.
"They went bananas for Rob," he said. "Every person we talked to was positive."