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I have been eyeing the Bible curriculum from Positive Action for Christ for a couple of months, so I was felt very blessed when I found out I would be receiving their 2nd Grade curriculum, Finding God's Promise to review as part of the Homeschool Crew.
What I Received:
- Teacher's Manual for 2nd Grade ($33.95)
- Student Manual for 2nd Grade ($12.95)
- Introductory notes for homeschoolers with suggestions on how best to use the curriculum with one student, multiple grades or with a Co-op or Church (free).
- Scope and sequence with week by week details of materials covered from K – 5th grade (free).
What the 2nd Grade Curriculum ~ Finding God's Promise Covers:
The curriculum takes you from the life of Moses through the book of Exodus. You can preview the scope and sequence here.
The teacher's manual includes:
- 35 lessons (one per week)
- Target truths (objectives)
- Teaching strategy section
- Weekly character traits
- Practical applications
- Interesting stories
- Ideas for puzzles, skits, artwork, buzz groups, and discussion
- Lesson Plans for 3, 4, or 5 day schedules
- Completed student's manual answer key pages
- Reproducible weekly quizzes with answer key
- Scripture memory program
The student's manual includes:
- Vocabulary sections
- Words for songs in music curriculum
- Puzzles, artwork, and maps
- Life application sections
- Attractive full-color format
- Various levels & thinking skills
- Material usable with any Bible translation
- Scripture memorization sheet
- 155 pages
How We Used the Curriculum
I decided to use the curriculum for both my kids, Emily (2nd grade) and Aiden (preschool). The teacher's manual includes lessons plans for 5, 4 or a 3-day week. We used the curriculum plan for a 4-day week and included many of the suggestions from the introductory notes on how to use the curriculum with mulitple grades.
Since we do our Bible time in the morning, while we eat breakfast, I do the daily reading and let Emily look up Bible verses and read them. While Emily was working on the workbook pages, I let Aiden color. Emily often read and taught Aiden about the worksheets she completed.
My Thoughts
This curriculum has been the perfect fit for our family! The introductory notes were very helpful in making this 2nd grade Bible curriculum work for both my kids. I love that everything is laid out for you ~ no searching for activities and character traits to go along with our Bible reading. Emily and I were both impressed with the colorful and fun worksheets that go along with the lessons. I really can't say enough about this Bible curriculum, it includes everything I have been looking ~ character traits, fun ideas to go along with the lessons, and verse memorization!
Find Out More
You can see a sample of the teacher's manual here and the student manual here. If you would like to purchase Finding God's Promise for 2nd Grade click here. Positive Action for Christ also has available a music CD or tape to go along with the curriculum.
To see additional reviews by the Homeschool Crew click here.
This product was given to me for review purposes, and I do not have to return the product to the vendor. I was not paid for this post. All opinions expressed in this post are mine.


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Oceania Cruises announced its 2014-2015 Winter Collection, the largest winter
launch in the company's history. As Blogger-at-Large for Oceania Cruises, this is
one of my favorite times of year as the future becomes full of new opportunities
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Marina begins the season in Rio de Janeiro with two South American
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islands, including an overnight in Papeete, two overnights in Bora Bora and
calls on other idyllic isles such as Moorea and Huahine.
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with several cruises through the Panama Canal. If you have never sailed across
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All New Grand Voyages
in the unveiling of the 2014-2015 Winter Collection are 19 new Grand Voyages that
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more information on the 2014-2015 Winter Collection, visit OceaniaCruises.com
or call 800-531-5658. We look forward to welcoming you
onboard one of these fantastic sailings!

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Go Wild! Take Your Love Life Outdoors- Written by Michelle Waitzman Michelle Waitzman is the author of Sex in a Tent: A Wild Couple's Guide to Getting Naughty in Nature, and blogs at http://loveinatent.blogspot.com
If making love under the sheets is getting a bit ho-hum, consider a walk on the wild side. Going outdoors is a great way to open up your sex lives to new sensations, naughty fantasies and definite change from routine.
You don't have to be a mountaineer to take advantage of the solitude that a romp in the wilderness delivers. Even car campers manage to sneak off for some outdoor action, just by waiting until night has fallen an being a bit creative. Hiking trails are easy ways to get away from the crowds, but if you're going to strip down, stray a little way off the trail first. Check the ground for nasties like poison ivy or anything with thorns and use a jacket or blanket if you want to keep the dirt out of your privates. Making love in the open air is an incredible experience, with the wind cooling your skin while the sun simultaneously warms it.
For paddlers, you can test your sense of balance by trying to have sex in your canoe. Keep your center of gravity low by using very horizontal positions like missionary or spooning. For extra support, paddle the canoe among some tall reeds to keep it from moving too much. The reeds can also keep prying eyes away while you enjoy nature's waterbed!
Or try the old classic – sex on the beach. The crashing waves are the best soundtrack any couple could hope for. Wait until late at night, when the beach is deserted. Lay down a towel or jacket to keep you getting sand in inconvenient places. After your beach bang, you can clean up with a skinny dipping session in the water. I think the best time for a skinny dip is under the full moon, unless you can manage to do it under the Aurora Borealis (Northern Lights), which is the ultimate in romance.
People who camp in the backcountry have even more opportunities to get down and dirty in the open air. After all, the farther from civilization you stray, the more places you can have all to yourselves. You'll be able to make love beside a crackling campfire, or take a break in the middle of the day to satisfy your lust. It's time for that Tarzan fantasy to take over.
You are only limited by your imagination, and the weather forecast. If you think outdoor sex might be the new sensation you're looking for, you'll want to read more in my book Sex in a Tent: A Wild Couple's Guide to Getting Naughty in Nature.
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This is a fun way to display and organize recipes. It was a quick project and inexpensive. We put this together with the Young Women in my Ward and each shared a recipe. It was a fun activity!
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We copied our favorite recipes onto these cute cards and added some blank pages so we could add our future favorite recipes.
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The Palm House recreates a rainforest climate, a living laboratory supporting a diversity of plants from the tropical regions of the world, all under one roof.
The plantings simulate this multilayered habitat, with canopy palms and other trees, climbers and epiphytes down to the shorter understorey plants and dwarf palms.
Many plants in this collection are endangered in the wild, some even extinct. There are many species here studied by Kew scientists for research into medicines.
The Palm House was constructed in 1844 by Richard Turner to Decimus Burton's designs to provide a home for the tropical plants that Victorian explorers brought back from their adventures in the tropics.
No one had ever built a glasshouse on this scale before and to do so the architects borrowed techniques from the ship building industry which may explain why the Palm House looks like the upturned hull of a ship.
Today the Palm House is one of Kew's most recognisable buildings having gained iconic status as the world's most important surviving Victorian glass and iron structure.
Palm House Parterre
In 1848 William Andrews Nesfield created an intricate geometric pattern of beds, or parterre, to surround the newly constructed Palm House finished. Over time Nesfield's designs disappeared but in the 1920s flower beds were reinstated and the bedding changed twice a year, a practice which continues today.
The sculpture in the centre of the Palm House pond depicts Hercules wrestling the river god Achelous. It was made for King George IV in 1826 and formerly stood on the East Terrace of Windsor Castle. It came to Kew in 1963.
Ten heraldic figures, sculpted in Portland stone, look out over the Palm House pond. These are the 'Queen's Beasts'. They are replicas of sculptures that stood at the entrance of Westminster Abbey during her Majesty's coronation in 1953.
Derived from the heraldry of the Queen's ancestors, they reflect her royal lineage and include the Falcon of the Plantagenets, the Black Bull of Clarence and the Unicorn of Scotland.
Many of the plants in the Palm House are of great economic importance, grown for their yields of fruits, timber, spices, and medicines. One of Kew's roles is research into the factors that make for sustainable cropping.
Look out for he Rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis), African oil palm (Elaeis guineensis), Coffee (Coffea), Pepper (Piper nigrum), and Sugar cane (Saccharum officinarum) and a Cocoa tree (Theobroma cacao). The edible properties of Theobroma cacao were discovered over 2,000 years ago by the local people of Central America living deep in the tropical rainforests. In the year 2008-2009 world cocoa production was 3,515,000 tonnes. This is equivalent to the weight of a line of double-decker buses stretching more than three times the length of Britain!
Look for young specimens of the Madagascan palm, Tahina spectabilis which lives for about 50 years, flowers once, and dies soon after.
Resembling palms, cycads were widespread over 250 million years ago, before dinosaurs and well before the appearance of flowering plants.
In the 1950s scientists discovered several chemical compounds in the Madagascar periwinkle (Catharanthus roseus) which are now used in the treatment of a number of different types of cancer.
Lauren Gardiner continues the fascinating tale of Tahina spectabilis, and recounts her journey to Madagascar to see the species in the wild, ten years after the discovery of the magnificent Madagascan suicide palm.
The Waterlily House is the hottest and most humid environment at Kew. In summer the pond is home to giant waterlilies, lotus and other exotic plants.


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Lost Season One Dvd SetReviewing: Abc Lost The Complete First Season | Rating:
The great thing about Lost is that it's such a refreshing change from mindless, slapstick sitcoms and the hideous reality trash that is so prevalent on TV lately. This show is fast-paced and compelling, and the characters are engaging and fun.
If you aren't yet caught up in the Lost frenzy, this DVD set is an excellent way to introduce yourself to the amazing characters and storyline on this show. If you are already a fan of Lost, these DVDs contain not only all the episodes from Season One, but also lots of extras like deleted scenes, and audio commentaries by the actors and the creators of the series.
Since Lost's episodes are the kind in which you can always see something you've never noticed before, it's great to have the first season on DVD...it means you can always go back and check out a clue you're just learning about, or replay some dialogue that now takes on new meaning.
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Here's a fun and unique way to have your guests save the date for a nautical wedding! Send them their very own sail! This happens to be from my wedding {again, I know, but when blog post inspiration dwindles, I've always got my own wedding to rely on!} and was an easy DIY project! But P.S... I was married almost 4 years ago, so don't judge the font choice for our names! I was a younger designer then! ;)
Broadway Paper, so check it out!
We kept the silver spray paint going, and made more masts for our sailboat place cards...
Remember... I'm always available for custom design, so if you're interested in creating your own sailboat save-the-dates or placecards, but need a little help in the design department, just contact me!
Oh, and P.P.S... The bridal shower this weekend {that I had my little helper for} went great! I took lots of pics and will be showcasing my printable party for it soon, but... I left my camera in my mom's car after the shower and she drove off with it to Green Bay {2 hours away!}... so, stay on your tippy toes a little longer! ;)
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This was the second time he really laughed. It's so fun!!
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
Kai laughs
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Yeah, I know
When Kai was a couple weeks old mom took these pics...
Ok, lets get past the fact that I'm a lazy moron and never blog anymore. Or I'm a mom....whatever! :P
So Kai is 16 weeks old now...4 months. Craziness. At his 2 month appointment he was 12 pounds. The last time he was measured was at 6 weeks, he was 22 inches. His 4 month appointment should be soon, so we'll get an update on that. He's getting big so fast!! And I can't wait to be able to start feeding him cereal! For the last couple months he's been sleeping through the night every night. Sometimes its just hard to get him to go to sleep. We rock him for a while to get him asleep, he just fights it so much.
I started back to work on October 29th, its been hard, and I miss Kai every day!
Rob's aunt passed away so we went to her funeral up north on October 30th. It was Rob's dad's sister. That was the first time I ever saw Dennis cry, it was heartbreaking. He spoke at the funeral and he's an impressive public speaker, I was humbled.
My sister, April, was kind enough to take our offer for her to live with us and to take care of Kai while we are at work. She's working for Rob in the evenings. Its so nice to have someone I know watching him, and not having to pay for daycare or a sitter. I am so grateful for it!
For Halloween Kai was a lobster...and a very cute one at that.
We took him around with my siblings and neices and nephews in my mom's neighborhood while they trick-or-treated.
Rob was...himself, Josh was a....yeah...well, he was a "special friend", April insists she was 80's, but people kept thinking she was a hooker...I was a lunch lady, Gwennie was a rock star, Brycen and Maddie were vampires, Owen was Darth Vader, and Skylar was a grim reaper? I think, and Lelah was a cheetah!...They were all very cute.
Kai's blessing was the first weekend in November, and my grandpa Lockwood blessed him. It was a very nice blessing, and of course Kai screamed through it, and then puked all down the front of my grandpa on the way back to the seats. We had a luncheon at mom's after it, and it was so nice to have everyone there. I was happy to have Grandpa bless him, because he's who blessed me when I was a baby.
We finally did family pictures, it had been 5 years since our last ones, and we had 4 new family members! Here's a taste of some good ones:
For Thanksgiving we had a wonderful dinner at Rob's parents. Kai was so good, he ate right before our dinner was ready, then he fell asleep and stayed asleep while we ate!
I was appointed to plan our work Christmas party, which is on my birthday, so I hope I get it all figured out and it goes well!
I finally made a birth announcement for Kai that I was ok with:
I will try better to not wait so long to post!! I also need to post the video of Kai's first laughs!!
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ĀĀFirst of all, Happy St. Patrick's Day to everyone. ĀToday always makes me think of my Grandpa McGhee. ĀSo, I would like to say hello to the entire McGhee side of my family. ĀSpring Training has been going well so far. ĀI do not do much during the day. ĀI usually go in early, about 7:30 AM, to do my physical therapy. ĀThe day starts at 9:00 AM for everyone. ĀI usually stretch with the team. ĀAfter that my day consists of watching my teammates play catch, and most of the other activities they do. ĀI do get to shag batting practice, and run though. ĀYesterday, I had to leave workouts to get a MRI for my arm. ĀIt was not a big deal, I am about a month behind schedule. ĀI am also constantly reminded that there is no such thing as "behind schedule." ĀThe MRI should let the trainers know what specifically is still holding me back. ĀThis way we can have a better plan of attack moving forward. ĀI should get the results of the MRI tomorrow. Ā I am excited about the results. ĀI will be sure to pass that information along once i get it. Ā Ā
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Good luck in your rehab Casey. There are a lot of Rockies fans pulling for you, especially all of us over at the purplerow.com
I'm glad to hear that things are still going well….even if you are "behind schedule." How was Tulopalooza??
Hey Casey – I know it can be frustrating – but take your time or else your recovery will take that much longer! Happy St. Patrick's Day!
Baseball Prospectus 2009 says about you, "The good news is that with today's medical advancements, that's now just a bump in the road." Easy for them to say. I know it's far harder on you to be the one having to do and endure all that goes with rehab. One day at a time, hope all the news is good for you.
Hi Casey: You are doing do good! It is nice to see your comments on the Irish side of your DNA. It's too bad there isn't an Italian Day to celebrate but I will keep making the spagetti anyway. I know your grandpa is looking down on you and is very proud of you as I am. Stay positive because you are doing great and will be better than ever once your elbow heals. Love, Grandma.


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Yes, planning any type of social or corporate event is never easy. There are a lot of moving parts to consider and it truly takes your complete focus, and the same goes for hosting events as well, but the work doesn't end there, or at least it shouldn't.
For some basics on following up with attendees, check out this previous post, What to Do Once Your Corporate or Social Events Have Come and Gone, but today's post is about making your follow-ups a little more personal because, trust us as veteran NY / NJ event planners, a little personalization at the post-event stage can go a long way.
Have smart conversations.
In a perfect world, the person who follows up with an attendee would be the same person who met with that attendee at the event and would therefore have some details from the conversation to work with. Unfortunately, it's not a perfect world and the person who follows up may not always be the same person who formed some type of connection with that attendee at the event.
So, you need to gather as much data about attendees as possible both before and during the event, including their basic demographic information as well as any other important details that could come in handy later on whether it's their interests, pain points, etc.
There are tools and apps available to help and taking notes is always a good idea, but the point is that you need to know what information to search for and have smart conversations at your corporate or social events in order to better personalize your follow-ups.
Make the details personal.
We've been in event planning in NY and NJ for years and take it from us, there are more ways than ever to follow up with event attendees, whether it's via social media, email, phone calls, direct mail, etc., and there are ways to add personalized details to each one.
For instance, if direct mail is part of your follow-up plan you can personalize your communication by choosing distinct stationery and/or writing a letter by hand. You can also send some type of unique object that popped up in conversation at the event, whether it's a toy, a tool, etc., just to let them know you're listening.
If you go the social media route, monitor attendees' activity and comment on their posts in addition to sending them official follow-up messages. The point is, no matter which channel you choose to use to reach out to attendees post-event, you should try to personalize as many of the little details as possible.
Throwing a name in an email isn't enough anymore.
As you can probably now tell, there's more to personalizing your post-event follow-ups than simply addressing someone by their first name or using their company name in an email. You need to gather as much information as possible, know what to listen for, have smart conversations, and personalize as many of the little details associated with your message as possible.
Because remember, getting people to come to your events is only half the battle. You also need to make sure you remain in their minds long after it's complete, and personalizing your follow-ups is one of the best ways to do that.
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I was
celebrating my 21st birthday and was looking forward to a bright future. I was
in my 3rd year at University, my partner had been offered a full time position
and life was looking great.
I guess I just wasn't feeling as normal, in
fact I couldn't stop being sick, I thought it must have been a bug because it
was all day, every day. I went to the doctors for something for my "flu"
and he asked if perhaps I was pregnant and my reaction was definitely no. All
of a sudden though it made sense. I bought a test and bingo I was pregnant.
What would I do? I lay in bed the rest of the day waiting for my partner
to return home. I told him there was something in the bathroom waiting for him
and I didn't think he would like it. He came back out and said 'ha ha' 'funny
funny'. He joked that if I was pregnant then I knew what would have to be done
- an abortion. He knew I was serious when I started to cry. After much
soul searching I went ahead with abortion. Simple. I only had to wait a week.
The night before I couldn't stop crying - hoping that my partner would say not
to go through with it. He didn't. If you can understand our lives were beginning
to go somewhere. How could I look after a baby while still at University.
When I arrived at the Hospital it was awful. I was asked 101 questions by
the midwife - made to feel dirty and that I was a bad person. The nurse who took
me into the ward was very nice and understanding. When I was wheeled up to the
operating theater I could not stop crying, somehow hoping that I could change
my mind. The nurse kept saying to me that I could change my mind and that it wasn't
too late. Before I knew it I was back in the ward. It was all over -
no more regrets I promised myself. I actually felt quite good (no more sickness
anyhow) until the midwife came in - she spoke to me like I was yet another silly
wee girl. She made me feel like dirt. I just wanted to go home. I kept asking
the nurses if my partner had phoned and they replied - No. I felt all alone.
My partner came for me that evening and I couldn't stop crying. Why hadn't
he phoned I asked. He had phoned on a number of occasions - the nurses just didn't
bother to tell me. I hate them for that. Never again.
Back home I started
to feel better and knew that what I had done was for the best. I know that when
I have a baby it will be right for me and my partner who I love very much. It
was just the wrong time before.
I have to say though that time doesn't
go by without me thinking of what may have been. I do worry about what happened
to the fetus I had aborted - some might think this is silly.
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This is a huge auction week for good 20th century design. Besides Phillips de Pury, which was Monday's post, I browsed the catalogs for Sotheby's, Christie's and Wright, and for Christie's Tiffany auction. The Elizabeth Taylor auctions are also this week, and her fine jewelry collection blew the doors off any previous private collection auction. I love the pieces below from Wright...these from Sotheby's...these from Christie's...these Tiffany Studios Favrile glass chain mail panels ca. 1910 from Christie's Tiffany...And one more from Christie's Liz Taylor...
Wright 1,2,3,4,5. Sotheby's 1,2,3,4. Christie's 1,2,3,4.
Thursday, December 15, 2011
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Labels: Auction, Design, Inspiration
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- A Perfect Gray said...
oh my stars. those wright pieces are fantastic.
have a wonderful christmas. donna
- December 19, 2011 at 2:50 PM
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As the U.S. Food and Drug Administration considers issuing voluntary guidelines on sodium levels in packaged food, Nestlé S.A. has taken another significant step in the company's journey to support public health priorities. Today, Nestlé announced further sodium reduction efforts and reaffirmed its commitment to help people around the world reduce their dietary intake. Specifically:
According to Paul Grimwood, Chairman and CEO, Nestlé USA, "Our food and beverages provide nutrition to people in 189 countries, and with this scale we have a powerful platform to contribute to better global health outcomes, including for heart health. We are committed to constantly improving the nutritional profile of our products, but we also recognize that effective solutions to public health challenges require broad, multi-stakeholder efforts. This is why we encourage our industry colleagues, along with others in both the private and public sector, to join forces and combine our varied expertise to help people move toward healthier eating patterns, including a diet lower in sodium."
Nestlé is diligently implementing its sodium reduction efforts in accordance with the Nestlé Nutrition Profiling System and the Nestlé Nutritional Foundation criteria (NF)* to ensure the renovated foods and beverages deliver a stronger nutritional profile without compromising taste or food safety. Recipes are tested with consumer panels and at least 60 out of 100 of these people must prefer the Nestlé products over those of our competitors to ensure acceptance. Between 2005 and 2012, the company reduced sodium by 5,950 tons or 22.7% in its food portfolio. Since 2013, Nestlé has further reduced sodium content by 970 tons compared to 2012 levels, or 8% towards our objective of a 10% reduction by the end of 2016.
In the U.S., where Nestlé products are found in 97% of households, progress to-date in sodium reduction includes:
In line with its commitment to Good Food, Good Life®, Nestlé aims to lead industry efforts to help ensure people have access to the foods, beverages and information they need to make choices consistent with the latest sodium recommendations and other dietary guidance, such as the FDA's draft sodium reduction targets. This includes Nestlé Portion Guidance™, a voluntary initiative designed to bridge international dietary recommendations (e.g. in the form of food guides) and nutrition labelling regulations.
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Scrolling in SproutCore: Part 2
Continued from last week's post "Scrolling in SproutCore". Tim presents his solution for making SC.ScrollView feel awesome.
I began discussing possible solutions to the problem with Colin Campbell, who pointed me in the direction of Cappuccino as a reference implementation. Cappuccino's scroll views were buttery smooth and offered all of the benefits that SproutCore needs. So, I began investigating.
This is what I found:
See that blue box in the center of the screen – the one that I pointed an arrow to? This is how Cappuccino applications take scroll events. Normally, you'll never see this because it has an opacity of 0, and its purpose is to swallow scroll events. Yes. This little element, which I'll call the scroll catcher for the remainder of this discussion, takes in scroll events and then creates normalized events from it.
To remove any ambiguity on how they do scrolling, here's the code that turns scrolling into cross-platform events (with some minor omissions so we can focus on the problem at hand):
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// We lag 1 event behind without this timeout. setTimeout(function() { // Find the scroll delta var deltaX = _DOMScrollingElement.scrollLeft - 150, deltaY = _DOMScrollingElement.scrollTop - 150; // If we scroll super with momentum, // there are so many events going off that // a tiny percent don't actually have any deltas. // // This does *not* make scrolling appear sluggish, // it just seems like that is something that happens. // // We get free performance boost if we skip sending these events, // as sending a scroll event with no deltas doesn't do anything. if (deltaX || deltaY) { event._deltaX = deltaX; event._deltaY = deltaY; [CPApp sendEvent:event]; } // Reset the DOM elements scroll offset _DOMScrollingElement.scrollLeft = 150; _DOMScrollingElement.scrollTop = 150; }, 0);
The scroll catcher sets its position to 150 pixels in. After that, it waits until the next event loop and then calculates the delta from the center of the element, firing off a simulated scroll event into Cappuccino using the calculated delta values. Lather, rinse, repeat.
This approach seems like it could work! When beginning an implementation that did exactly this (essentially converting the Objective-J code into JavaScript), there were a few hurdles that made it plain that this approach couldn't work well for SproutCore.
First of all, SproutCore uses the target DOM element found on native events to shoot the event off to the given view. It's really optimal for SproutCore to do this because it has a reverse hash lookup to get the view for a given element ID. Using this approach, all events after the first one will end up having a target of the scroll catcher. But we don't want that. We want the element directly underneath it.
To find that element, SproutCore needs a way to find a view given a point on the page. There's a function for that,
elementFromPoint, but I've found that it's not a satisfactory solution because you still need to toggle the visibility of the scroll catcher. If we could get this working, then this solution could leave SproutCore with solid
mouseWheel events for the whole framework. However, for optimization purposes, this solution is not the best since it requires touching the DOM a lot.
Here's the idea that I've implemented as a working replacement for the current SC.ScrollView:
- make SC.ScrollView scrollable by native events
- hide native scrollbars by making them just out of view (so we can maintain themes)
- and proxy the scroll events so SproutCore will be notified about scroll events happening
If you follow what's going on with this solution, you'll find that it runs contrary to SproutCore philosophy that "truth is in JavaScript, not the DOM".
For a better idea of how this is working, here's a picture:
I've made SproutCore's scrollbars transparent so you can see how this is working. You'll see that the native scrollbar here is hidden behind SproutCore's. You can guess that, from here it works like normal scrolling. The only difference is that the DOM notifies SproutCore that it scrolled and therefore reality must be a duality. SproutCore holds the same truth as the DOM through syncing.
Here's what the syncing looks like:
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/** The current horizontal scroll offset. Changing this value will update both the `contentView` and the horizontal scroller, if there is one. @field @type Number @default 0 */ horizontalScrollOffset: function (key, value) { if (arguments.length === 2) { var minOffset = this.minimumHorizontalScrollOffset(), maxOffset = this.get('maximumHorizontalScrollOffset'), layer = this.getPath('containerView.layer'), offset = Math.max(minOffset, Math.min(maxOffset, value)); this._scroll_horizontalScrollOffset = offset; if (layer && layer.scrollLeft !== offset) { layer.scrollLeft = offset; } } return this._scroll_horizontalScrollOffset || 0; }.property().cacheable(), /** The current vertical scroll offset. Changing this value will update both the `contentView` and the vertical scroller, if there is one. @field @type Number @default 0 */ verticalScrollOffset: function (key, value) { if (arguments.length === 2) { var minOffset = this.get('minimumVerticalScrollOffset'), maxOffset = this.get('maximumVerticalScrollOffset'), layer = this.getPath('containerView.layer'), offset = Math.max(minOffset, Math.min(maxOffset, value)); this._scroll_verticalScrollOffset = offset; if (layer && layer.scrollTop !== offset) { layer.scrollTop = offset; } } return this._scroll_verticalScrollOffset || 0; }.property().cacheable(),
The properties for
verticalScrollOffset and
horizontalScrollOffset are changed, so they will set
scrollTop and scrollLeft. This is done so we don't end up recursing forever when we want to scroll (something that I've encountered when trying to proxy scroll offsets properly).
When the user scrolls, I've set up an event handler for scroll events, which ends up in the following function:
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/** @private Notify the container that the scroll offsets have changed. */ scroll: function (evt) { var layer = this.get('layer'), scrollTop = layer.scrollTop, scrollLeft = layer.scrollLeft, parentView = this.get('parentView'); // I'm using `verticalScrollOffset` and `horizontalScrollOffset` // as proxies for the the actual scroll offsets. // Since we know what the offsets are (we got the event), this // needs to set the cached value, and let properties know that // the offset changed. if (parentView._scroll_verticalScrollOffset !== scrollTop) { parentView.propertyWillChange('verticalScrollOffset'); parentView._scroll_verticalScrollOffset = scrollTop; parentView.propertyDidChange('verticalScrollOffset'); } if (parentView._scroll_horizontalScrollOffset !== scrollLeft) { parentView.propertyWillChange('horizontalScrollOffset'); parentView._scroll_horizontalScrollOffset = scrollLeft; parentView.propertyDidChange('horizontalScrollOffset'); } return parentView.get('canScrollHorizontal') || parentView.get('canScrollVertical'); }
This is a bit tricky right here. There's a manually cached value for the scroll offsets that gets updated on sets, but also sets the scroll offset for the element. I don't want to set the scroll offset- I just want to notify the ScrollView that its value updated. So I change the internal cached value and notify SproutCore that the value changed. And voilà- scroll events proxying between SproutCore and the DOM seamlessly!
There's another benefit that comes along with this approach. Since I'm syncing the DOM and SproutCore, you can use native scrollbars. You can do so using a flag called
wantsNativeScrollbars, which will use native scrollbars instead of rendering Ace's scrollbars.
There is a downside to this approach. When rendering collections, SproutCore can't update the views fast enough to make sure that that the list always seems complete. With sufficiently complex item views, scrolling can be full of hitches. In the end, this means that incremental rendering will be a bit more noticeable than with the previous approach. SproutCore has no "heads-up" when scrolling is about to happen, just that it happened. We've encountered this in an application we're working on and are trying to think up some ways to make scrolling work better.
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|TRON: Evolution - Battle Grids (2010)
|Hannah Montana: The Movie (2009)
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|Star Wars: Battlefront - Elite Squadron (2009)
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|Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (2008)
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O. Reg. 381/15
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Noise is a serious health hazard, and if worker exposure is not eliminated or controlled, it can cause permanent hearing loss, physical and psychological stress, reduced productivity, and significant interference with communication causing further accidents and injuries. The Ontario Ministry of Labour has released a revised noise guideline in December 2016 to accompany Ontario Regulation 381/15. Regulation 381/15, effective July 1, 2016, sets out requirements for noise protection in all workplaces in the province.
Three popular articles this week on HRinfodesk
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Sun Luqing founded Home for Hemophilia Patients in 2004 alongside a group of his peers living with Hemophilia. As the biggest organization working on Hemophilia issues in Shandong Province, China, Home for Hemophilia has filled a gap in the region for over a decade. The organization has 3 staff and 4 key volunteers, serving more than 400 community members.
After Sun Luqing completed Asia Catalyst's Yearlong CBO Training Program in 2014, Home for Hemophilia Patients crafted an advocacy plan to respond to changes in Shandong Province's Rural Cooperative Medical System (RCMC). China began the RCMC in 2002 to strengthen its rural health system, improve access to health care, and reduce the financial burden of medical costs for the rural population. By the start of 2013, the System is said to have reached 805 million rural dwellers (98% of the total rural population). However, certain restrictions to the System–and Province-level policies–left some marginalized groups without appropriate coverage. (more…)


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Panzar Arena Action MMO Hands OnBy: Scion Storm posted at Jun 20, 2013 7:20 am
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Sometimes you get games to look out you never expected. I remember briefly seeing this game and saying what is that? Most people call this a MMO Arena game. A few games have tried to survive like this. Most of those games were shooters are heart. This one has shades of Warhammer, WoW, and GW2. All smashed into a nice mix of simple fun.
First thing you notice is how outstanding the game looks on high settings. But on the flip side it can scale down and be played on a toaster if you wanted to. Which means mostly anyone can enjoy it always a plus. Means a greater number of gamers may get enjoyment out of this title.
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The game play in this game is simple. Kill or be killed is the name of the game here. You have a base left mouse click normal attack. And a right mouse click power attack. A weaker attack can lead into a power attack. But not vice versa in fact you will kinda just stand there if you try that. Not good in a pvp game extremely not good. You can also block with the
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A biracial teen seeks justice for her murdered father in Prohibition-era Oregon
The daughter of a white woman and an African-American man whose marriage was not recognized by the law, 16-year-old Hanalee has few legal rights during the 1920s, an era of extreme intolerance exacerbated by the ever present specter of racial violence from the Ku Klux Klan. Hanalee's father, "the last full-blooded Negro in Elston, Oregon," was struck and killed by a drunk-driving teenager a year earlier. When the teen is released from prison, he tells Hanalee that the doctor who tended to her father the night of the accident is the real killer—the doctor who just happens to be Hanalee's new stepfather. With clear parallels to Hamlet, Hanalee struggles to uncover the truth about her father's death, hoping the truth will protect her and those she loves and put her father's wandering soul to rest. A fast-paced read with multiple twists, the novel delivers a history lesson wrapped inside a murder mystery and ghost story. Winters deftly captures the many injustices faced by marginalized people in the years following World War I as well as a glimmer of hope for the better America to come.
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where we must give the values 1, 2, 3 to and .
The gravitation energy lying within a closed surface consists therefore of two parts, the first of which is
while the second can be represented by surface integrals. If namely are the direction constants of the normal drawn outward
In the case of the infinitely feeble gravitation field represented by (§ 57) both expressions and contain quantities of the first order, but it can easily be verified that these cancel each other in the sum, so that, as we knew already, the total energy is of the second order.
From and the equations of § 32 we find namely
so that we can write
The factor is of the first order. Thus, if we confine ourselves to that order, we may take for all the other quantities these normal values. Many of these are zero and we find
Here we must take ; , while we remark that for the expression between brackets vanishes. For the integral becomes do, which after summation with respect to gives
representing the normal to the surface. If and differ from each other, while neither of them is equal to 4, we can deduce from (110) and (109)


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How important is it that I be able to afford little luxuries when I crave them? Such as the list of cooking gadgets that seem to be forever growing - cast iron pans, ice cream makers, fancy cake tins and molds etc etc. Not that I actually would use them. I just WANT them. My food processor is a good example of my bad hoarding habits. It's still in its box after so long. I've yet to bake another batch of macarons after I rushed out to buy the food processor cos I really needed to have one to grind my tant-pour-tant.
But I digress. The point I was trying to make is about material comfort. I find myself stopping me from buying the above things (more often than not!) simply because I think I should save. Not that I can't really afford it now, but I think maybe my money would be better stashed somewhere in case I become poor. But that begs the question, if I don't buy it now when I can actually afford to (and enjoy the benefits of it for longer!), when would I buy it? Definitely not when I'm penniless either! Such is the irrational nature of consumer behaviour.
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I've recently read a couple of articles I want to share.
The Christian Science Monitor printed a piece in May entitled For Indie Filmmakers, the Trick is Finding an Audience that nails the challenges faced by filmmakers like me and films like The Hollywood Librarian.
Then the delightful Mary Pols at the Contra Costa Times (a fine paper, imo) wrote this article about the dearth of women directors in Hollywood's movie machine that I think is both true and disgusting. I'm, once again, outraged by the endlessly Fixed Games men play. [Note: It's not that I'm interested in being a filmmaker — I made a film — I'm disgusted as a woman because once again, the boys make it so they get to keep all the money and all the prizes.]
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Ukip has suffered a frustrating election after gaining about 12 per cent of the national vote but only one MP.
Farage spent much of his campaign denying his right-wing party were not racist following series of racist gaffes by members and candidates.
The anti-immigration party, which wants Britain to leave the EU, came under fire for various comments made in relation to race, such as telling comedian Lenny Henry to leave the UK and live in a "black country" and calling Nigerians "bad people".
The series of gaffes have overshadowed UKIP's publicity drive to present itself as an acceptable, modern party without racist elements.
However, the various controversial social media and online remarks have led some to label UKIP as racist and xenophobic.
Farage told activists that those comments came from only a "handful" of thousands of UKIP candidates and that their views do not truly represent the party.
He said: "There will always be in any system a few people that creep over the line and cause us embarrassment."
Farage went on to attack the British press for picking up the comments and claimed they were doing so to help the mainstream parties, and said the views "have been lifted up and presented to the Great British public as if they represent the view of this party, which they do not".
He added: "I don't care if you disagree with us, I don't care if you think we're better off being governed by [David] Cameron, [Nick] Clegg or [Ed] Miliband, I don't care if you think uncontrolled immigration is good for Britain, I don't care if you criticise us for wanting to be a free independent country, and not under that flag, anthem and preposterous president whose name no one knows.
"I don't care what you call us. You can call us right-wing, left-wing, you can call us small minded - I don't care what you call us.
"But from this moment on please do not ever call us a racist party. We are not a racist party."
A number of UKIP candidates were suspended for comments made about ethnicity and the party said it investigates any remarks that fall foul of its values regarding race.


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Artist's description:
In keeping with the artist's practice of making minature 'bottle-top' paintings (tiny paintings inside beer bottle crown caps) the series of lithographs incorporated a repeated bottle cap motif. Crown caps are visible in both the final image and were also incorporated into the printmaking process. Central is a subject/image that is easy to find, often discarded and produced in multiples in coinage and stamps; the monarch's head - an image familiar, mundane and yet charged with history, politics and ideology.
The series is a playful reflection of our under- and over-valuation of common currencies, and the ideas and ideals the represent.
Materials used:
Three colour lithograph on Fabriano Tiepolo
Lucky Six Pence (2017)
Lithograph by Nancy Isherwood
$97.16 Sold
- Lithograph on Paper
- From a limited edition of 25
- Size: 8.27 x 5.91 x 0.12 in (unframed) / 4.13 x 2.76 in (actual image size)
- This artwork is sold unframed
- Signed and numbered on the front
- Style: Unspecified
- Subject: People and portraits
This artwork is sold by Hole Editions from United Kingdom


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The Hive
The Hive is a Los Angeles based hair shop with locations in Highland Park and Silver Lake.
We offer killer hairstyles, unique local retail items and an atmosphere that will get you buzzing.
Our flagship location in Silver Lake opened in 2008. This location serves our current clientele and opens up our schedule to provide service to new clientele and a growing North Eastern LA community.


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—Shieneran saying
External summary
|<<< In the Mirror of Darkness >>>
|Setting: Mirror World
Point of view: Rand al'Thor
Rand, Hurin and Loial travel through the mirror world. In the distance they see a spire and decide to investigate. In the real world it would have been the monument to Artur Hawkwing's victory over the trollocs, but in this world the monument indicates a trolloc victory. Later they come upon a woman who is fighting a creature, later identified as a Grolm. Rand steps in to save her, and realizes that she is beautiful. No, not beautiful...more than beautiful, her beauty takes his breath away. She is wearing white and silver, she has black hair, and introduces herself as Selene, a Cairhienin noblewoman. Rand agrees to let her come with them on their journey, so he can help protect her, since she's lost too. Hurin thinks she is beautiful, too, and he and Rand proceed to tell her all about their journey. Rand tells her about the Void. She says in order to use it properly, one must wrap oneself in it at all times. Hurin talks about the Horn of Valere. They continue on their journey, and more Grolm appear behind them.


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Saturday, 16 March 2013
Meece And Men
Meanwhile, Mt GP informs me that there are two "late" 'meece' awaiting my attention in the garage. Ugh!
He also seems to have developed a minor obsession with ironing. Odd, very odd.
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Good to hear from you again, but don't get up and go TOO vigorously - you've inspired this visitor (I THINK I'm real) to spend time with books, blankets and hotties.ReplyDelete
Another Franciscan connection of mine says his wife apologises to late meece before disposing of them - reverently, one assumes. I'm sure you have your own suitable rituals!
Glad to hear it's inspired you. Sounds a great idea.ReplyDelete
I fear my only ritual will be (to quote someone else's words) : "In the name of The Father and of The Son, and into the hole he goes!" I can see a gap in the market crying out to be filled. Maybe I could write "Liturgy for Perplexed Franciscans?!"
Welcome to my blog. I always love receiving comments; do feel free. If you're visiting from the A-Z challenge (or even if you're not!) could I thank you for your patience in using the dreaded captcha verification thingy. It's a pain, I know, but I've had problems with spam in the past and would rather keep Greenpatches as a junk-free zone.


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Here is a teaser page from Fire On The Velvet Horizon, Scrap and I's stat-less monster manual/art book.
The Bugs were one of my favourites because they ended up so bonkers and because scrap arranged them tearing apart their own description, which is exactly what they would do.
(Posting has been light recently, I think probably because I feel dead inside and that might be because my job is eating me but its highly likely that I will be fired tonight sooo, thing might improve?
Anyway, FOTVH is still good because I wrote it before the job ate my soul.)
Here is the trailer again:
I should try to say something intelligent and penetrating about this work that we have done.
It is unlike other things and it was made unlike them too.
Scrap would draw things, then I would look at them, then I would write down what I thought they were, then I would try to get the writing good, then she would assemble them into an image with things that she photocopied or stole and sometimes (often) hair or blood. There were also strange scanning and glitch artifacts that sometimes we tried to get rid of and sometime incorporated into the design.
The whole thing is kind of a glitch artifact built on strangeness and mistakes, there are characters in there who appeared and made one comment then slowly grew throughout the entries until they have an entire life lived in the background of the monsters.
There is a setting in there too (everything we make ends up being half a setting book) with its own geography and strange history, perceived also though the background of the description of monsters.
Here is the blurb I wrote for the back. I couldn't be bothered doing a normal one so did it as a riddle instead:
"I am like no other thing,
A gem not famed for brightness.
Dead, but only listen and I live.
Voiceless, I speak.
Thoughtless, I lie.
Deeper than dark water,
Sharper than a swift sword,
Stranger than a drugged dream,
I serve in ordered ranks that never change.
Till night,
When a gallery of shadows paints your thoughts,
with more colours than a careless artists hand.
Lose me or be lost in me.
I am a place you may not go,
Once there I will not let you leave.
Though made of broken things I am yet whole.
And guard one hundred murders.
Lets kill your friends for fun."
Oh, hey, heres my intro for the front, that should simplify things:
Who writes the Monster Manual? I mean exactly who? Anyone who has read a D&D monster manual (especially some of the early ones) will be familiar with an assumed point of view that is best described as omnipotent-dementia. The writer of the D&D manual sometimes seems like a scholar reading from a range of sources and describing a creature in the manner of a medieval bestiary, sometimes they appear to possess the knowledge of god, someone observing an entire world from outside the flow of space and time telling you, for instance, what a Gnoll is likely to have in their pockets or on their mind, sometimes disclosing the secret origin of a forgotten deity, or the nature of reality itself in an idle aside, yet in the same breath they will point out a mystery, the answer to which 'no-one knows'.
Not only that, but the same voice will often cite 'Sages', apparently academic sources from inside the described world, describing what they do or do not know, or disclosing what they suppose to be the case.
Added to this, in many Monster Manuals are fragments of what are supposed to be first person and third person recollections of actual events.
This imagined point of view makes perfect sense when creating a monster manual, it gives players and DM's exactly the right balance of hard information, soft suggestion, inspiring possibility and potential mystery that they need to create a monster in their own mind and use it in the game. It makes sense in no other place or time.
I have taken to calling this unique fictional voice 'M'th Person'.(As in 1st Person or 3rd Person.) So if you want to be really fucking pretentious, if someone asks you what you are reading, you can say "A new form of experimental fiction written in M'th person, the point of view Barthes described as 'Inconsistent Omnipotence' or that Robert Mckee called 'The Unreliable God Voice'", and you will be almost telling the truth. (Apart from the bits about Barthes and Mckee, I just made those up.)
There was a long description here of the events leading to the creation of the book but I condensed it into this thrilling one-act drama.
SP - God this is dragging on. Promise me when this is done we can do a simple easy monster book where I draw the monsters and you write them.
PS - Sure. Hey, you have drawn some monsters.
SP - Just pick the ones you like.
PS - Lets do exactly 100!
SP - It is now 6 months later.
Over time what was intended to be simply a list of animals generated its own cast of sages, with their own careers, life paths and stories, and its own geography, it created around itself a suggested world, from the black towers of Jukai, up the golden Or, through the Melanic Moors and the Pyrrhous Plains, with hints of its own history. As well as a strange obsession with colour.
Almost all of the colour is in the words and it bleeds through onto the page in the monsters or in a halo around the monsters. So they are bright things in a very dark, rich world.
I will let Scrap talk about the art because I suspect she will do it better but I would encourage you to look not just at the monsters or the rich treacly strange backgrounds that are like blurred windows into another world but at the combination between the two and the relationship between them over the whole of the work.
Writing is easier to write about than art, or seems to be so for most people because it is made of words and we assume that the blocks of its being can be converted easily enough into the blocks of its analysis. So people will probably talk about my contribution more than they should, and pay less attention to Scrap than they should.
I hope this makes you feel a little like you felt when you opened a Monster Manual for the first time and saw arranged in neat block, a world of strange encounters and a compilation of living things, each carrying its own fragmentary history, a little like a story and a little like a tool lying in a box, with its handle arranged towards to, asking to be picked up and used in some work of your own.
For an OSR book there is a sad lack of tables, therefore let me both remedy that now, and also address any worries and critical queries you may have about the writing style.
WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON WITH THIS SENTENCE (roll a d6)
1. It is a brilliant piece of grammar-twisting experimental writing that you simply fail to comprehend. (roll again on sub-table A)
2. successive arguments over they use of commas and the exact arrangement of words have lead to an uneasy truce and a no-mans land of both punctuation and meaning.
3. The proof readers missed this bit.
4. The proof readers caught this bit but the writer carefully undid all their alterations (roll a d3)
1. For deep artistic reasons (roll again on sub-table A)
2. Out of rage and spite
3. He can't really remember why
5. The proof readers caught this bit but probably shouldn?t have.
6. No-one really knew what they were doing.
(Sub table A)
DEEP ARTISTIC REASONS YOU FAIL TO COMPREHEND (Roll a d6)
1. The rhythm of the sentence lends a deeper structure that punctuation would not (THE STRUCTURE OF SOUND, OF ORAL TRANSMISSION, OF HOMER AND SHAKESPERE YOU IGNORANT GRAMMAR-OBSESSED FUCKING COMPUTER PROGRAMMERS!)
2. The sentence was better with an apparently-inconsistent mish-mash of words which produce a powerful poetic effect when combined rapidly in the mind (AN EFFECT MUCH GREATER THAN YOUR MERE 'REASON' COULD EVER COMPREHEND!)
3. It is clarified by the context in which it is placed. (A WORK OF ART MUST BE CONSIDERD AS A WHOLE YOU DISGUSTING SURGEONS OF THOUGHT, THERE ARE NO DIVISIONS IN NATURE BUT ONLY AN ENDLESS FLOW OF ONE THING INTO ANOTHER!)
4. It is an impish provocation or grammatical flight-of-fancy, indulged in for the pure joy of it, in the same manner that a happy boy would skip down the street. (A JOY YOU WOULD NO DOUBT STRANGLE FROM THE WORLD WITH YOU 'STYLE GUIDES' AND ENDLESS WHINING YOU MEEK DRONES!)
5. The word-progression, taken as a whole, creates an impetus of moral, aesthetic or imaginative force which piles into the next sentence in an onrushing flow of words. (YOU FUCKING GOT THE GIST OF IT ANYWAY DIDN'T YOU?)
6. See result six on the previous table.


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Ah the joy of the grey water planter! You have a shower, do a load of washing or the dishes, and all that lovely dirty water swills down the drain to your indoor botanical cell, running through gravel, plant roots and peat moss until it collects, pretty much cleansed of odour and gack, in a small well to be pumped into your toilet cistern instead of using perfectly good, precious in fact, drinking water to flush.
That is the theory anyway. We have been having a little bit of trouble with our planter. The water doesn't flow as serenely as it ought and we are ending up with very wet soil, an overflowing entry point and only just enough water for the toilet. Somewhere, something is slowing things down a bit too much. Not a disaster but a bit of a bother.
We are absolutely loathe to dig the whole planter up - the plants as you can see are gorgeous, lush, healthy, flowering, fabulous. But I have the sneaking suspicion that we put too much sand and soil on top and it is somehow getting down into the gravel and clogging the planter. Argh.
Any suggestions?


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About Amandla Development
We work at building capacity in effective grassroots organizations in order to maximize impact. Due to a fluctuating population, severely high crime, and grinding poverty, learning at school is a major challenge for the Philippi community of Cape Town.
We know that what happens outside of school greatly affects a child's ability to learn. It is important that the various actors in the community share a common vision for the success of their young people and work together towards that. This way teachers aren't forced to play so many roles (like social worker, doctor, parent); it can't all fall to the schools.
Amandla is facilitating a community stakeholder-driven approach to improving education and opportunity. We have engaged stakeholders across sectors and convened a collective committed to an inside-out approach to supporting an environment both in and outside school that's conducive to the success of Philippi's youth.
Investing in capacity is investing in results and in rigorous, transparent evaluation of results.
Restoration of dignity stripped by decades of discrimination is key to empowering individuals to succeed.
Crucial to real reconciliation is opportunity creation for previously disadvantage populations.
Collaboration and knowledge sharing are integral. Cooperation between government, funders, civil society, and communities is a necessity. The responsibility for development transcends borders.
The Philippi Team
Scott Clarke
Taona Tsopo
Bongiwe Radebe
Thandi Gaji
To empower the community of Philippi we need to build strong networks and work towards a common vision
Flohmarkt / Flea Market for a Chance
Den Kleiderschrank ausmisten und das für einen guten Zweck. Zum Soli Flohmarkt auf dem Freilandgelände Potsdam haben sich im Juni 2018 eine Gruppe Studierende getroffen und ihre ausgemisteten Kleidungsstücke verkauft. Josi, Anna x2, Linda, Dana, Jana, Lena, Franzi, Gesche, Carla, Katharina, danke für eure tatkräftige Unterstützung. Bei der Masse an Shirts, Pullovern, Jacken, Hosen usw. Read more about Flohmarkt / Flea Market for a Chance[…]
Township – Bar
Making friends through one coincidence after another. The road that lead us to the Township this Sunday was already known to us. A road that we used every day. A road that we know well with all its corners and edges, bends, junctions and bumps. But on this day we were supposed to go deeper Read more about Township – Bar[…]
The big day – Der große Tag
"I worked with the children of Philippi for nearly two months. Based on the principle of children's rights I arranged workshops and conversations for the children to bring out their dreams, wishes and fears to arrange a performance together. The story of the performance is about two brothers who happily live in a Township. However, Read more about The big day – Der große Tag[…]
Remote Year meets DANCE for a CHANCE
Last month Remote Year added a new city to its itinerary, Cape Town, and Sonder was the first group to be introduced to the 'Mother City'. Cape Town is a thriving and vibrant city, but it does have a complicated past and sharp racial, ethnic, educational, socio-economic and political divides remain. Just 20 minutes outside Read more about Remote Year meets DANCE for a CHANCE[…]
Pre-Performance – Generalprobe
"I hope you feel really proud of your work yesterday. Thanks so much again!" "Today's show was awesome. You can be so proud of yourself!" "Thanks sooo much for the event on tuesday. I am so in awe of you. You really inspire me." Things, I couldn't wait to hear for days that were supposed Read more about Pre-Performance – Generalprobe[…]
Keep Calm – Ruhe bewahren
Susi here, Susi there, "Susi can you…" "Susi, what am I supposed to do,…?" "Susi, this boy is hungry,… and this one here wants some water and that girl over there hit her arm" And then there is a child hanging around my neck and another one is rolling my dreadlock. Noise in the whole Read more about Keep Calm – Ruhe bewahren[…]
INVITATION: "Dance for a Chance" – Performance & Charity Event
Tuesday 13th March, 15:30-19:00 pm, Khanyisa Centre Philippi Township. Dance for a Chance, is a intercultural social dance project to encourage the children of the township of Philippi to overcome obstacles and realize their dreams. Over the past 2 months, 60 children from Philippi worked together with a group of international volunteers and developed a Read more about INVITATION: "Dance for a Chance" – Performance & Charity Event[…]
The Kids of Philippi – Die Kids von Philippi
(for German please scroll down) By Alexandra Fung. For the fourth year in a row I travel to Cape Town. How easy you fall in love with this city: The everlasting summer and the bright blue sky, the picturesque coastline with mile long beaches and idyllic bays, and in the background the impressive Table Mountain. Read more about The Kids of Philippi – Die Kids von Philippi[…]
Circles of friends – Freundeskreise
Sometimes there are things, that can't be real. Conincidences, people encounter other people and so circles are complete. Just recently another circle was completed. Through a friend's research from Potsdam I heard about "Native Young" for the first time. It's a band from Cape Town and their music actually fits perfectly to the performance. So Read more about Circles of friends – Freundeskreise[…]
60 Kids – 60 Kinder
Do they fit on there? Where do I get 60 costumes? How can I find the right music and how can I persuade the musicians to let me use their songs? How can I rearrange the chaos into a good order and who's going to help me with all the work? 60 kids, one stage, Read more about 60 Kids – 60 Kinder[…]


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Watching the LeBron James free agent saga play out from afar, Danny Ainge pounced on an opportunity to capitalize on the hysteria.
With James' agent, Rich Paul, pushing the belief that James was on the verge of signing with the Cleveland Cavaliers, the Cavs worked frantically to clear salary cap space, Yahoo! Sports' Adrian Wojnarowski reports. Paul's pushing enabled the Celtics to poach Tyler Zeller and a first-round draft pick from the Cavs for basically nothing in a three-team trade.
"The Cavaliers were told to clear max salary-cap space for James, and they did so at an extreme price — a starting center and a 2016 lottery pick to the Boston Celtics," Wojnarowski writes. "When paperwork was slow to be filed to finalize the three-way deal on Thursday morning, Cavaliers officials were imploring Boston and Brooklyn executives to speed up the process, that it was imperative the deal be finalized and Cleveland officials could be prepared to present James with a max contract with a starting salary of $20.7 million, sources said."
The Cavs' desperation moved Ainge and the Celtics, who needed to use their $10.3 million trade exception before Saturday, from a position of weakness into a position of strength. Instead of having to scramble to use the trade exception or to simply let it expire, Ainge was suddenly the driver's seat of a trade that didn't even involve the Celtics initially.
After all that, it's still unclear if James will sign with the Cavs. Thursday's widely rumored announcement never came to pass, and James is on his way to Brazil to watch the World Cup final. Meanwhile, the Cavs are left holding the bag, one young player and one draft pick lighter, with no four-time MVP so far to show for it.
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Established in 1956, the Association of Southern African Travel Agents is a representative forum that promotes professional service in the travel industry for both members and their clients. Representing over 95% of the travel industry in terms of market share, ASATA's membership is voluntary and includes South African retail travel agents, travel management companies, wholesalers and suppliers of travel-related products and services.
The association's focus is to ensure the sustainability and profitability of our members as well as the delivery of a professional service to the travelling consumer. This is achieved, inter-alia, through strong relationships and an open dialogue with all stakeholders.
Travellers who entrust their travel in the hands of an ASATA-accredited agency are assured of professional service, ethical conduct, trustworthy behaviour and that they are dealing with a market leader so they can Travel with Peace of Mind.
To champion ASATA members as the consumer's channel of choice when buying travel products and services.
To support our members in meeting consumers' needs of value and security through developing and maintaining the highest level of expertise and professionalism.
To create and maintain the highest possible standard of integrity amongst ASATA members in dealing with consumers, principals and each other …read more
The first ASATA meeting took place in Johannesburg on 4 September 1956. At that time, the travel business was developing at a rapid rate, and it was felt that a trade association would help protect and promote the interests of industry members and the travelling public. This was in line with what was happening in the global travel industry at the same time.
ASATA's first priority was to standardise hotel commission rates among travel agents. To do this, the association approached the SA Hotel Association (FEDHASA) to secure standard rates of hotel commissions among travel agents. This drive for standardisation later extended to cruise liners and airlines.
Other agenda topics during this period included the role of ASATA with IATA, forming a close liaison with SAA and other airlines, service charges and the issue of charging VAT on travel products. ASATA was also instrumental in the introduction of Billing and Settlement Plans (BSP) in South Africa.
Even though ASATA was relatively small in its early days, it still managed to win concessions from the airlines, railways and government. Most notably, it helped to stabilise the travel industry for the years to come


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Opening of The Queen's Diamond Jubilee Galleries
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V&A Museum of Childhood entrance The V&A Museum of Childhood houses the UK's national collection of childhood objects, ranging in date from the 1600s to the present day. As well as toys, dolls and games, the museum has a wealth of objects relating to aspects of childhood including home, childcare, play, learning and clothing. Rare, […]Find out more »
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