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Embarking from western Wisconsin, heading to central South Dakota on a late spring Friday afternoon, all that was on my mind was bagging my first Snow goose of the spring conservation season. Two of my good hunting buddies and myself were all packed up and headed to Redfield, South Dakota to meet up with Brian Cahalen of Goose and Duck Smackers Guide Service. Once we hit the South Dakota border, we kept our eyes in the sky awaiting to see that first flock of Snows, in hopes that we would have an opportunity for a great two day hunt!
Brian had explained to us before we left that this late in the spring they had already wrapped up the hunting at their main lodge located in NE Arkansas and were now on the move following the migration up from northern Arkansas, into central South Dakota.
It was about a six hour trip from our home near Hudson, WI to Redfield, SD. On the way we made a pit stop in Watertown, SD to grab a bite to eat and our Spring Conservation hunting licenses. It was refreshing to see that the out of state license for South Dakota was only $50 for the entire spring season. From Watertown, it was just over an hour straight west to our destination of Redfield. As we pulled into Redfield I called Brian to see what the plan was. He told us that they were just getting in from the field, and were going grab some dinner. He stated that the forecast for our first day looked very promising! We met two of Brian's guides on Saturday morning in the Super 8 Motel parking lot, which is the only place to stay in the town of Redfield. TJ and Ben were our guides for the morning and told us that there were currently over a million Snows staging in the area. They felt that with the forecast for the day of 25 mph winds and bright sunny skies, we would be in for a great hunt. We left the motel at about 6:15am for a short 10 mile drive to our field. We were all ready for the day's hunt to begin.
As we pulled over a small hill into a stubble cornfield, I knew we had reached our destination, as there were over 1,400 Snow goose decoys already set in the ground. We got out of the trucks and met up with the other two guns that would be joining us for the hunt. A father and son team from Iowa. TJ and Ben made several adjustments to the spread while we got settled into our Beavertail layout blinds and we were all set for our hunt. The guys from Iowa, who were on their second ever Snow goose hunt said that they estimated seeing well over one million Snow geese in the areas around our field the evening before.
As soon as the spread was ready, we had a flock of Snows already working the decoys, off in the distance. We all climbed into our blinds with high hopes for the morning hunt. Although the forecast was for 20-25 mph, we already had wind gusts of up to 45 mph. There were many flocks that would work perfectly up to about 75 yards but then wouldn't finish, which was typical for late spring adult Snows, our guides told us.
We finally got a flock of 5 birds to work into range and Ben yelled "SHOOT EM'"! We all arose from our blinds and emptied our shotguns. Two birds fell from the sky and it was game on from there.As the morning went on we continued to have several flocks of between 5 to 12 birds work into the spread over us. Although most would just float above us, just out of shooting range, every now and then we would get a pair or three to drop in giving us a clean shot. As things slowed down around 10 a.m. we got out of our blinds to retrieve our downed birds. We ended with a total of 13 Snows and Blues on the first morning's hunt. At that point, since the morning flight was now over, Ben and TJ said they were going to head back to town for lunch and a nap and would meet us back at the field at 3pm for the afternoon hunt.
We arrived back at the field 3:00pm to meet up with the guys, and outfitter Brian Cahalen and TJ were there waiting for us with smiling faces. Brian said that Ben was out doing some scouting and would be joining us later on in the hunt. In preparation for the afternoon hunt we all helped pick up some of the decoys that had blown over, and made a few key adjustments to the E-Callers and the 3 vortex machines that were in our spread. While we waited for the evening flight, I was able to catch up with Brian on his main spring operation located in NE Arkansas.Brian went over with me the entire "All Inclusive" Spring Hunt Package that they have to offer at their home camp in Arkansas. Brian stated that they typically start that season in early February each spring. They have their hunters arrive the afternoon before the hunt at their main lodge and help them get their gear into the assigned rooms. After the groups get situated they then reconvene in the dining area for the delicious home cooked dinner. During the meal Brian gets to know the hunters and discusses the plan for the morning's hunt. Brian likes to stagger the morning departure times as there are usually several groups hunting in camp at any one time. The properties they hunt are located anywhere from right there on the property, up to 45 minutes away from the lodge, depending on where the birds are feeding.Brian said that they serve a nice continental breakfast at the lodge every morning, before the hunters leave with their guide(s) to the field for the day. Typically the hunt will run until the morning flight is over around 10:30 -11:00am. At that point, as we had experienced earlier in the day, they break for lunch and a quick nap, if needed. Brian noted that he always gives his hunters the option to stay out in the field all day if they so choose. However they must be experienced in waterfowl ID and be able to tell the difference in the different birds in the air, as many different species of waterfowl will bombard the spread throughout the day. After the midafternoon break they arrive back in the field around 3:00pm for the evening hunt. When the sun hits the horizon the birds usually stop flying, which is when they normally call the hunt and head back to the lodge to clean the birds and get ready for supper. Brian says he likes to have everybody help out with cleaning the harvest for the day as it goes a lot quicker that way and no birds go to waste. After the job of cleaning birds is completed, there is always a hot supper waiting inside the lodge. When dinner is complete, there are two main living rooms for the hunters to relax in at the end of the day and talk about the day's hunt over a beverage or two.
After a while we started seeing some large bunches of birds in the air around us, so we settled back into our blinds and in no time at all we had a flock of four Snows work right into 30 yards and Brian called the shot. The guns rose and two more birds hit the ground. There were plenty more off in the distance now, headed our way. We then had another pair work right in and we dropped both birds, along with a single Blue goose that snuck in from out of no where. Just about the time that Brian was standing up to call it a night we had a flock of five more come in HOT. They dropped into about 25 yards and Brian called the shot. We dropped three of the five birds, which was a great ending to the first day's hunt. We ended up with 21 total birds for the day. What a great first day of Spring Snow Goose Hunting, especially for the first timers in the group
The start to the next morning rolled around quickly, and we met our guides outside of the motel just as we had done the day before. Ben stated that the forecast today didn't look near as good for this morning as it did the day before. We got out to the field and all of the decoys were motionless. We didn't have an ounce of wind! As with the day before, we made some adjustments to the spread and blinds before settling in for our morning hunt. The birds weren't moving very much at all to start the morning with a light cloud
cover and lack of wind. At around 8:30am the clouds broke up and the sun finally appeared, and with that the wind picked up. Right away we had a single Snow goose work into the spread. It dropped down to 20 yards and the shot was called and we dropped it. TJ's dog made its way back with the bird and we all could tell there was something shinny on its leg- The first bird of the day had a band! The morning continued on a little slower than the previous day but we did end with 5 geese during the morning's hunt.
Field Pro Staffer Brandon Jensen With A Banded Snow Goose From The Hunt!
Later that afternoon we got back to the field for our final hunt of the weekend. Now there were waves and waves of birds moving north. We had a single come in almost right away and dropped that bird with one clean shot. As the night went on I saw something I had only dreamed about. We witnessed a migration of at least 1.5 million Snow geese on their way headed north. Even though we only had one more flock work into us that night, of which we bagged another two birds, the spectacle of seeing that many geese in the air was truly amazing! On the trip back to Wisconsin I could not have been happier with the services that Brian and his crew provided us with. It was definitely a first class operation from start to finish and I would definitely recommend Goose and Duck Smackers Guide Service to any hunter who is interested in a once in a lifetime Spring Snow Goose Hunting opportunity!
Part 2: THE REVIEW
We really enjoyed every aspect of Brian's operation. Brian and his crew were very knowledgeable in knowing how to make proper adjustments to the spread every morning to make sure the birds would finish in range and in the proper position for a clean shot. Brian was also very fun to spend time in the field with and both he and his guides were very friendly throughout the hunt. It was also evident that a lot of preparation and scouting went into the hunt before we arrived to ensure a most memorable experience. We give Brian a 5/5 in this category.
The size and quality of the decoy spread we hunted over was very impressive. With over 1,400 decoys pre-set when we arrived it was very exciting to see. Brian also noted that he does incorporate a lot of full body decoys down in Arkansas where they have better access in the fields. Brian also shared with me that at the end of each season all of his decoys were going up for sale and that he replaces his entire spread every couple years to ensure he has the top of the line decoys available for his hunters. This really shows that Brian takes great pride in his equipment. For that we have given Brian a 5/5 in this category as well.
It was very evident that Brian and his guides did their homework before the hunt. We felt that even though a lot of the big flocks did not finish into the spread, that we had ample opportunity to harvest many Snow geese well within 40 yards. According to the seasoned hunters to harvest over 20 adult Snow geese in a day's hunt is a feat in itself. We had plenty of opportunities throughout our 2 day hunt to shoot and see many geese. Just to have seen the 1.5 million birds on Sunday evening was the icing on the cake for this hunt. For that we gave Brian a 5/5 in this category.
Since we were hunting in South Dakota with Brian, this isn't his main camp where he does provide an All Inclusive Package with meals and lodging included. On our hunt we stayed at a Super 8 Motel which was basically the only public lodging establishment located in Redfield to the best of our knowledge. The motel was clean and comfortable and met all of our needs. There were also multiple restaurants in town to eat at as well as the continental breakfast at the motel. But again for Brian's Arkansas spring hunts he does have a lodge for his hunters along with a dinner and breakfast every morning and night they are on site. Due to the fact that on this particular hunt we stayed at the motel we gave Brian a 3/5 in this category.
The pricing for Brian's South Dakota and Missouri Snow Goose hunts are $195 a day. That does not included lodging or meals. For a full day's hunt to be under $200, with all of the hard work and preparation to set up and take down a spread of that caliber, I would have paid more. On Brian's Arkansas hunts, which are all inclusive with on-site lodging and home cooked meals, he charges $300 a day on weekends and $275 a day during the week. We felt both packages were very reasonable and for the quality of the hunt you receive with Brian we gave him a 5/5 in this category.
Overall we felt that every aspect of Brian's spring snow goose hunts were top notch. Brian's operation out in the field and his overall knowledge of hunting these wary spring Snows is extensive. It is evident that he and his crew love what they do. That shows in the fact that they continue chasing the migration up into South Dakota after the Arkansas season ends. Overall we all felt it was a great hunt with a top notch outfitter. Another score of 5/5!
Overall Brian scored a 28 / 30 giving him an "A Rating". We would not hesitate to recommend Brian to anyone for his World Class caliber spring goose hunts!
Part 3: Booking Information
Additional Hunts Offered:In addition to Brian's Incredible SD Spring Goose Hunts. He also offers: - Spring Snow Goose Hunts In Arkansas & Missouri- Minnesota Fall Duck And Goose Hunts- Wisconsin Spring Turkey HuntsFor more information on any of these hunts be sure to give Brian a call ASAP at 1.888.588.3441 as many of his hunts are pre booked each year from his repeat customers.


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Last year I was asked to make a short for a film festival, and the interesting thing about this particular fest was the film could only be 1 minute long… I ended up only having 2 days to come up with the idea, make it, and send it off. So I cut together a short using old family footage… with a bit of a dark twist.
Anyway, what intrigued me about this was trying to tell a compelling story within 1 minute - something that could linger in the viewer's mind. I like that one minute can either feel very long or very short, depending on what the filmmaker chooses to do with it.
I thought this might be interesting to include on Hit Rec cause so many people on here create all sorts of miniature sized stories.
Oh and yeah, that's me at the start running around with a pair of underpants on my head…
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text: A Sneakers Kind of Day – Lately I have been walking around in my flats more and more. Not just flats though, sneaker flats. Or 'sneakers' (before I anger the sneaker mob, I'm sure they're out there!). I discovered the pure comfort of sneaker joy when I had another long day at the office and I knew I wasn't going to be able to stand the ten-minute walk from the office to the train station that night. I took out my sneakers and like little blankets they tended to my sore feet. They're not magic shoes (which I kind of wished they were), but after a day of running from one meeting to another (and then some) in heels, they were everything this girl needed at that moment. After that, I've been wearing them with everything. My leather skirt, my savvy shorts, my clown costume. My 'Chucks' go with literally everything. And I'm not even sponsored by Converse (wouldn't mind it though, *wink*). And today, well, today was another sneakers kind of day.


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I don't recall ever winning a game for several months after joining my first board game group in the now-defunct Berlin cafe "Alte Welt." The group would open one colorful box after another from the stacks that piled up on the ends of the tables. I would concentrate as best I could as they explained the rules in my second language. Every game was new to me, and most of the mechanics of the games were new to me. I was learning the vocabulary of game design just as I was expanding my German vocabulary.
But I was curious about a small group of gamers who would often be the first to take their places around the table. In fact, they were often already engaged in a game before others arrived. The games they were playing, however, did not come out of boxes with "Ravensburger" or "Hans im Glück" on them. And the materials were often ink-jet printed bits of paper. I soon discovered that this group-within-a-group was made up of game designers.
When something interests me, it does not take long for me to want to do it myself. I've even jotted down ideas for children's stories, now that I'm reading Dr. Seuss to my twin sons daily. Needless to say, after many months of testing prototypes from such established designers as Andrea Meyer, Thorsten Gimmler and Hartmut Kommerell, I finally asked them to try out a prototype I had been working on. It wasn't an instant success, but I found the feedback from the group and their own creative ideas intoxicating. My mind was filled with so many ideas, my pen could barely keep up, and soon I had files of game ideas, themes, and mechanics I wanted to try.
After the café closed, and the group-within-a-group decided to meet elsewhere, some newer designers and I began meeting in a newly-opened gaming café. Bernd Eisenstein, Peer Sylvester, established self-publisher Günter Cornett and I now meet Monday nights mainly to test our prototypes, although we enjoy a published game now and than. Others come to playtest the games or bring their own prototypes as well. The creative atmosphere is proving to be a productive one too—many of the games we've brought in to playtest there will be published in the coming years.
I'd like to use this blog to record the wonderful experiences we've had together as game designers and friends, and to promote the projects that have been produced and tested in this creative setting.
Thursday, September 4, 2008
If You Can't Beat 'Em, Join 'Em
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Happy (belated) blog-warming, Jeff! I've added you to my bloglines so will follow the posts here with interest (I am hoping to play a prototype of yours in October, actually). Should I give you a virtual cat? *evil grin*
- September 25, 2008 at 3:40 AM
- Larry said...
No virtual critters from me, Jeff, but I'm looking forward to following your adventures here.
- September 26, 2008 at 2:42 PM
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The National Park Service welcomes the historic schooner LETTIE G. HOWARD to the 19th Annual Salem Maritime Festival on Aug. 4. The vessel will be open for free boarding from 10 am to 6 pm at Salem Maritime National Historic Site, Derby Street, Salem MA.
The LETTIE G. HOWARD was built in 1893 in Essex, MA. She is one of the last of the fast schooners that sailed from Gloucester to catch codfish on Georges Bank. Today, the restored vessel hosts sail training voyages out of the South Street Seaport Museum in New York City.
The Salem Maritime Festival will begin with a Caribbean concert at 7 p.m. on Aug. 3. Festivities continue Saturday Aug. 4 with music and exhibits celebrating New England's maritime heritage.
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Home // June 15 edition > Sydney Firedragons win gold in Boracay dragonboat race
It was a view from her inner-city flat that inspired Sydneysider Kristine Guia Pascual to take up dragonboat racing last August. Seven months later, she was part of the crew that brought home two gold medals at a fiercely contested dragonboat racing event held in Boracay, Philippines.
It was a handicap that helped them claim victory. The Sydney Firedragons were two men down: they only had 18 paddlers, plus a drummer and a steersman, while most of their rivals had a full crew of 20 paddlers.
Everybody thought they didn't stand a chance.
But Kristine Guia Pascual, an Australian Filipina who competed in the 5th American Tourister Boracay International Dragonboat Festival as part of the Australian team said they turned their disadvantage into an advantage.
"The water in Boracay was choppy. For us to have had a full boat would have meant that it would be heavier and the boat would have been prone to take in more water as soon as we started paddling," she said.
With less water in the boat, her team crossed the finish line by a few inches, which Kristine recalls was a completely exhilarating experience.
"My parents, my sister and my niece were watching from the shore and it was such a great show of support from them."
In the end her team won first place in the women's category for the 300m and 500m race, beating the Philippine contingent, the Army Tritons, who claimed second spot on both categories. Last year's defending champion for the 300m race, Hong Kong's Stormy Dragons, took third place.
Kristine takes time away from the water to answer a few questions from The Australian Filipina.
AF: How did you become involved with the sport?
I used to live in Glebe and had a view of Blackwattle Bay (the home of most dragon boat clubs in NSW) from my apartment. I woke up hearing someone counting and saying "Paddles up ... Go!" so early in the morning. Then I saw a couple of dragon boats on the bay as I look outside my window. I told myself, "One day I will give paddling a go to improve my fitness and here I am."
AF: How long have you been paddling?
I still remember the first day when I came to training, grabbed a paddle and met some amazing people who are passionate about the sport. I started in August of 2010 and have been paddling ever since.
AF: What training do you have to do?
I paddle with a sports club team, Sydney Tsunami. During the season (Sept-April), we train on the water three to four times a week, usually one and a half to two hours per session. We do several drills to improve our technique, speed and basically get a feel of how to paddle together with everyone else who are in the same boat.
My coach encouraged me to try out for the NSW State Team last year after being in the sport for only four months. I gave it a go - made it and became part of the Women's B crew for the 2011 NSW State Dragonboat Racing Team (that time I was on the water almost everyday!).
AF: Tell us about the event in Boracay and your team.
To join the 5th American Tourister Boaracay International Dragonboat Festival(28-30 April 2011) was a Sydney Tsunami (the dragonboat club I belong to) initiative. We opened the invite to other club teams so we can gather enough paddlers to form a crew for different categories - Women's, Mixed and Open's. We managed to get 32 paddlers from various clubs, hence we were paddling with a different team name. We travelled to Boracay as the Sydney Firedragons to represent Australia. We paid for our trip.
The results were:
Women's category - 300m
1st place: Sydney Firedragons (Australia) - 1:25.85 minutes2nd place: Army Triton (Philippines) - 1:26.06 minutes3rd place: BGC Stormy Dragons (Hong Kong) - 1:27.064th place: Bugsay Boracay (Philippines) - 1:27.44 minutes
Women's category - 500m
1st place: Sydney Firedragons (Australia) - 2:25.10 minutes2nd place: Army Triton (Philippines) - 2:26.97 minutes3rd place: BGC Stormy Dragons (Hong Kong) - 2:27.85 minutes4th place: Boracay Bumshells (Philippines) - 2:29.63 minutes
AF: Can you recommend websites that our readers can check out to find out more about dragonboat racing?
In Australia, check out Dragonboat NSW (DBNSW) - www.dbnsw.org.au. In the Philippines, check out the Boracay Island Paddlers Association (BIPA) - www.boracaydragonboat.ph and the Philippine Dragonboat Federation (PDBF) - www.pdbf.com.
Check out the videos of the event on http://www.pinoypride.net/video/111989/Sports-Unlimited-May-14-P4 and on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDddvLikVJY.
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The Munich Putsch Sources Questions
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The Munich Putsch 1) Source A is an eyewitness account of the armed siege by Hitler and his forces into a large beer hall call the Burgerbraukeller on the 8th of November 1923. It is possible that the actual events might not completely be stated since the writer was a member of the Nazi party at this time. We learn of the precise timing of the incursion. Hitler times it to the minute with complete perfection, the moment his watch hit 8:30, hundreds of heavily armed personnel storm into the building, blocking all means of escape and completely dominating the population of the Hall. This tells us of Hitler's radical way of enforcing his influence amongst crowds using force and oppressive control. When his men move in, it creates an element of chaos and commotion amongst the patrons. But it states that Hitler simply moved through and fired his pistol to make people silent at once, and once they were silent, it says that they could even hear Hitler breathing heavily, which must mean that this was something he was determined to do. ...read more.
A large amount of property and furniture was broken, which may very well describe the ferocity in which the guards attained control of the hall; either that or the large amount of alcohol consumed may have caused riotous tendencies. And 148 sets of cutlery stolen, perhaps this was due to the lack of wealth of the patrons? I believe the speech to be secondary to the statistics in the interpretation of what happened in the Burgerbraukeller in 1923. 4) Sources F, G and H all give a description of what happened in Munich of 9 November 1934. The first difference that comes to mind is that sources F and G conflict on Hitler's heroism at the event, yet source H remains neutral. Source F, a biography of Hitler written by the Nazi party in 1934, seems to portray Hitler as a hero. It says that during a march, he linked arms with a man who was shot and flung up into the air, damaging Hitler's arm in the process. However he still manages to attempt to save a supposedly injured boy. However, in source G, written by a member of the German SDP, Hitler had wanted to flee before the march, however, he was convinced by General Ludendorff that no uniformed German would fire upon a hero of the first world war. ...read more.
A man shouting absurd political views in the middle of a public place is seldom taken seriously. It was pretty much the same here only Hitler had 600 armed men to help him out which meant he ended up in jail afterwards and did nothing really to increase support for the Nazi party, and possibly just gave his opposition the opportunity to condemn him further. It cost the Nazi party a fair amount with all the damage it caused while trying to incite armed uprising. We can see this in the bill for the damage to the bar in source C. Hitler himself pointed out in source K that he should change his approach to outvoting Marxist and Catholic parties instead of outgunning them, this way he can gain support of the majority instead of the fear. This would serve to be more stable in the long term if he was serious about gaining power in Germany, more violence would probably not alleviate the starvation and chaos in Germany at this time. It was also dangerous to him as he was injured and almost killed during the march on Munich where he was just a foot or so away from being shot dead, which he no doubt would have become if he hadn't changed his tactics. ...read more.
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Here are a collection of stories revolving around the Western Cape faux "service delivery protests" which, as usual, have descended into violence and destruction.
The first is Helen Zille's reaction to the "protests", in which she wonders why those wanting more services are busily destroying those services in the process. This criticism is flawed only that it assumes an underlying logic exists in the minds of the thugs involved, when it doesn't.
Last week, three vehicles were burnt during a so-called 'service delivery' protest in Khayelitsha. Ironically, each of these vehicles was busy delivering a service to the community. One was delivering matric exam scripts to the marking centre. Another was fetching disabled people (for whom the City provides a special, subsidized transport system). A third was transporting children to a camp for abused children. The fourth vehicle escaped the blaze, but was stoned. It was an ambulance responding to an emergency call in the community.
It is beyond irony that services are destroyed in the name of service delivery protests.
Beyond irony for sure, but also deeply uncaring and revealing of a mindset that says, if I can't get what I want then those freeloadind disableds and abused kids aren't either.
The second, by Cape Minister of Public Safety Albert Fritz, supports the right to protest but characterises the destruction as "nothing short of anarchy".
In the Mail & Guardian we read how the ANCYL is piggybacking the protests although it will not admit to organising them. Alright, but there's little doubt that unseating the DA is part of the agenda of the criminals who are destroying the townships. Someone might want to point out the irony of protesting service delivery in the only province where services are, more often than not, actually delivered. Says one activist:
"We had better service delivery under the apartheid government," said Lili. "At least it built our people covered toilets. Now, we're given open-air toilets and a new bucket system. We're going backwards."Well, yes you are. And relying on the government to build you a fucking toilet is part of your problem, not the solution to it.


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For the climber and non-climber alike, Mount Mulanje has an indefinable attraction. It must rank as one of the most majestic sights in Malawi, rising steeply from the rolling, lush green hillsides. These are the renowned tea plantations, covering hill and valley with a glorious even-topped growth, and dotted with shade trees strategically planted to shelter the tea bushes. Colourfully dressed tea pickers with great round baskets walk waist-high along the rows of bushes as they pluck the tender top leaves.
Mount Mulanje rises to 3 OOOm and its many soaring peaks are often capped by cloud, enveloping it in mystery. On its steep slopes grow stands of the unique Mulanje cedar, some of which have been known to exceed two hundred years in age. The massif is broken up by deep gorges, down which rivers with spectacular waterfalls tumble. The lower reaches are accessible by car and swimming in the cold mountain water is exhilarating.
Trout fishing in idyllic surroundings such as these or high on the plateau must be experienced to be believed. For the climber or energetic hill walker there are many steep paths up the mountain, leading to magnificent plateaus, where pine forests and trout streams provide rest and refreshment after the long climb. There are forestry huts which can be used for overnight stays, and a two or three day round trip is recommended. Rock hyrax, klipspringer and the rare blue or Nchima monkey can be seen.
Various species of Erica grow all over the plateau, and iris, proteas and aloes are found in abundance, as are the yellow and white helichrysum, carpeting the ground in spring. On exposed rocky areas, the exotic staghorn lily, Vellozia Splendens, clings tenaciously.


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Yup. Redding, California. That's where we are right now. We're tucked in, nice and cozy in a hotel that accepts pets. The Bean is taking Max out for a last-minute walk (Dog, please, PLEASE empty your pea-sized bladder and make it through the entire night without having to go pee), and the cats are creeping around, finally starting to look a little less terrified now that the kids are completely asleep and the room is quiet.
You know, on a similar note… Please wish me luck. I am not looking forward to trying to shove those cats in their cat carriers in the morning. We managed it smoothly this morning because we had the element of surprise on our hands. I don't think Coyote and Fat Cat are stupid, so I think they'll know what's coming as soon as I try to grab them in the morning.
I hope I don't lose a finger.
It's been a long day, and I had a lot of time to think, since I didn't have the radio to distract me. Well, let me rephrase that: I was playing a CD and music was coming out of the speakers, but a certain little DragonMonkey had an absolute meltdown when I tried to play anything but Bingo, so that's what we listened to.
I listened to Bingo for the vast majority of 600 miles.
Are there any "How I Met Your Mother" fans out there?
Remember this scene?
I'm actually in a good spot with Bingo right now. This is a good thing, because I imagine I'll get several more hours of it tomorrow.
Farmer Brown, he had a dog, and BINGO was his naaaaame-o!
As I sat there, alone with my thoughts and the 973rd repetition of Bingo, I actually composed quite a few posts for this blog. I thought of some funny ones, with witty anecdotes… some serious ones, full of bittersweet, nostalgic memories…
….And I even mentally composed some long-overdue ones.
Last Sunday (as in, Sunday the 20th, a week and a half ago) Knott's Berry Farm sent me to Soak City OC.
I had one of the best times of my life there…. It was, hands down, an absolutely incredible day.
In fact, it was so incredible that I knew I didn't want to just write a quick, silly post about it… I wanted to do the place justice.
So I put off writing about it for a day or two.
And then I caught the Bohemian Death Flu… or a sinus infection… or some kind of creeping-Ebola-Flesh-Eating-Infection-of-the-Lungs. To be honest, maybe it was all three. Suffice it to say, I was sick.
I was sick on my last day of work.
I was sick when The Bean graduated.
I was sick through the final two days of packing.
I was sick on the day we loaded the truck (U-Ship…much cheaper than a POD.)
I was sick on the day the truck left for Portland, a day later than we had planned, held up by the fact that I was completely useless for close to a week.
Anyways, I'm feeling better now, and I've been writing posts in my mind all day…. I've got the Knott's post all mentally planned-out and ready to go…
And, honestly, I'm not going to get to it for a day or two.
Sorry, Knott's. If it helps, I feel bad about it.
If it really helps, I can tell all of you out there in the SoCal area: GET A SEASON PASS. I'm a little annoyed that I didn't really find out about this place until the week before I moved. I mean, I knew it was there, but I just never really went. So if you live near it, and were waiting to see what I had to say about it… quit waiting. Go. Really.
Okay, I still feel guilty, but that's going to have to do for now.
Anyways, I know this isn't my most thrilling post ever, but hey, I've been up since 2:45 this morning, and spent most of that day listening to Bingo and the boys. Although they did WAY better than I expected, Squid and the DM alternated between whining, crying, and just being generally loud and needy. They're little, and it's a lot of time to be stuck in a carseat so I don't blame them… but that doesn't mean I'm not secretly daydreaming of running away and joining a nunnery where everyone has to take a vow of silence…. sweet, sweet, blessed silence…..
The Bean will be back any moment with Max, so I'm going to finish putting all of our stuff together. 2:45 in the morning is absurdly early, but it buys me a few short hours of quiet driving time before the boys wake up around 6:30 or 7.
I'm looking forward to crossing the border and getting my first glimpse of Oregon.
I'm also looking forward to seeing what Portland looks like.
And if I'm completely honest, I'm most interested in seeing what my new house looks like. We never got a full set of pictures from the realtor, and The Bean's camera broke and ate all the pictures he took, so I only have a vague idea of what the full layout is actually like. I'm not picky, so I'm sure I'll love it… but the suspense is killing me.
Well, it won't have to bother me much longer. If all goes well we should be HOME by mid afternoon tomorrow.
Here's to my last day of being a Californian!


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CareerMums spoke to Angela from Canberra about her successful negotiation to job share a full time high school teaching role. This case study will give you confidence to explore and negotiate an opportunity, despite the position being advertised as a full time role.
What do you do?
I am a high-school teacher returning to work after being on maternity leave for 4 years with my two boys. Returning full-time was not an option for me. My husband is away frequently and I felt that my boys needed some consistency in their lives which I would not be able to offer with the commitments involved in teaching.
Was the role being offered as a job share role?
The role was not advertised as a job share. I had spoken to a close friend who taught the same subject areas that I did about the idea of job-share. As she also has young children, the job-share idea was also an attractive alternative to part-time teaching which usually involves attending school every day due to the nature of time-tables in a high-school. A job which suited both of our teaching areas was advertised so we decided to give it a go. We handed our resumes and answers to the selection criteria in the one application with a cover letter addressing our intention to job share.
How did you negotiate a job share role?
We spoke to Kate from CareerMums about the position and asked for some advice about negotiating a job share role if we made it to the interview stage. During our interview (where we were interviewed together) we discussed the benefits such as experience over many fields in our teaching area, and the fact that we were able to cover each other on the days which the other needed to take off for various reasons. This is an attractive feature as relief staff are very difficult to get and creates disruptions to the students. We also mentioned our child-care arrangements which allow flexibility. I am teaching the Monday and Tuesday, my partner the Thursday and Friday and we will alternate the Wednesdays. It was also our personal decision to both be present at the school on the Wednesday for planning, marking and contact time with each other when there isn't classroom contact.
What do you think are the benefits of job sharing?
Flexibility to be at home with my children while still continuing my career is the main benefit. With teaching, it is not just the student contact, it is the planning, assessment and administration involved which takes up many hours. Having another person sharing this responsibility makes a huge difference in the stress involved with the occupation.
What makes the partnership with you co-worker so successful?
We are very alike with a similar work ethic. Both of us are committed parents and wives yet also career minded. For this arrangement to work, both members need to put in an equal effort so it is important to know about your partner. Communication is a huge factor, especially with teaching. It is vitally important that the students have consistency with their subject matter and that we are providing fluid delivery of the information. The fact that we are both at school on the Wednesday provides an opportunity for discussion. It has taken us some extra work to develop a system for each subject so that we can go into school and pick up from where the other left off. This means always being a week ahead planned in detail as well as a term outline. We also call each other frequently. The only disadvantage of the job-share arrangement is it has destroyed our social life and we can no longer meet for coffee during the school term!!


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Our counselors provide individual assistance to families that have fallen behind on their mortgage and/or facing foreclosure. We gather information from the client to help assist in the process.
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fifth grader's essay: Substantial-stakes trials be responsible for strain, not knowing
An individual sound specified simple shrift inside the high in volume (and the fact is that extremely shrill) training discussion is that of young ones. You recognize, those who definitely have to take the majority of the standardized medical tests which might be (ever again, unfortunately) at the center of fashionable classroom change.his response
With all the blogosphere yelling with statements by adults that consistent evaluate-based mostly change is enhancing scholar fulfillment, this is actually the perform of a kid who conveys to another account. It is important to listen.
This really is created by Julia Skinner-Give, 11, a fifth grader at Chevy Run after Basic Classes in Montgomery Couny. Julia, a unique educational background learner on the greatly blessed middle, wrote this persuasive essay for the education task.
She's a great deal more persuasive than a lot of adults on the subject. By Julia Skinner-Give A superb training is vital that opens the door to success in your everyday living. When youngsters learn about ahead of time and find out their interests then their planet, our world, just keeps getting better. To date, how will we have improved if all we coach our students is just what has already been learned? How will our long term future improve whenever we instruct children concerning how to remember hit-or-miss information? How will No Young child Left Behind allow America's near future?
In 2002 President George W. Bush signed the No Son or daughter Put Aside Act. The goal of this laws ended up being to filter achievement gaps in between university students, since many lower income individuals were actually not conducting good on standard medical tests and did not have elementary examining or creating expertise. So No Child Left Behind ("NCLB") is actually a procedure in which testing is emphasized all through the people classes structure in the nation. Now the nation's tutors are provided with such a lot of pay attention to evaluation standards that classrooms not really control time for cerebral discussion posts, whereby young people in reality find out how to turn into legal professionals, medical professionals and experts. Why training centers preoccupied with the exam is because NCLB will blaze tutors if university students do not gain the specific ranking over the evaluate. Principals are evaluated by exactly how the young people do on studies that assessment their ability to commit to memory random points. If their enrollees prosper their classroom and they usually get more bucks; if their students do improperly they get fired.
In my opinion that NCLB need to be adjusted to suit the best education and learning program of scholars, professors, fathers and mothers and principals. To carry out perfectly in the 21st Century, America has to present its little ones methods to problem eliminate. That is why we must have an education and learning strategy that:
a) permits creative imagination and really encourages college students to think
b) brings about less anxiety for all people and
c) a process in the future, which gives trainees a voice, and testing the specified knowledge to have success in life.
Despite the fact studying and developing your understanding might appear to be the perfect action to take, expanding your capability to consider and issue eliminate alone and grasp as opposed to commit to memory concept for statement is among the characteristics which offers consumers the capacity to succeed in everyday life. But United states has established an learning system (NCLB) that specializes in memorization products had been found and forgets things to know about creative imagination and invention and also the near future. Acquire Benjamin Franklin as an illustration. He allowed to remain university at age 15. And then he maintained to go on as a superb inventor, editor, business owner and politician. Due to the fact standard assessing was not in and around back then he experienced more time and mobility to apply his personal creativeness to make solutions in the future. He developed the super rod, which we continually use right now to take care of our houses and our lives from New mother Nature's harmful powers. Would standardized tests have given him together with the knowledge to conserve dwells, or would experimenting, predicting and uncovering empower him to produce a product that we still use right away?
Stress and fatigue, strain, emotional tension. During the 18th century existence often have appeared beautiful nerve-racking. But still, today's culture possesses greater stress for every individual, like small children. Emotional tension is commonly as a result of anxiousness due to an overload of assignments as being completed or an very important imminent occurrence. Screening makes major strain for college kids, professors and dad and mom. No Little one Left Out needs the worry of diagnostic tests and assumes the fact that the a lot more young people are prepared for assessment the less eager they are. But what this in reality does is cause scholars to assume that this evaluate is actually crucial to their future than it really is, given that lecturers, principals and dads and moms are typical busy attempting to guide trainees for any evaluate designed to judge them. Now the pupil will feel as if they will now let these customers decrease considering they do not thrive about the examination and eventually this anxiety for all leads to the student turning out to be so psychological and mental and troubled they will never even be capable of characteristic appropriately to your assessment they may have been having to worry about. Removing substantial stakes diagnostic tests will diminish emotional tension for everyone: scholars, course instructors, principals and families. I am not opposed fully to tests nevertheless. It is crucial to record students' improvement, nonetheless In my opinion it must be noted in different ways. Wherein gets everybody energized. Lab tests ought to be additional very creative and they will need to assessment the originality which can be very important for anyone to hit your objectives these days.


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The Dodgers, who have several players with nagging injuries, have limped back to LA after a losing road trip against two teams near the bottom of their division.
Ted Lilly hopes to get the team back on the winning track tonight.
Former Dodger pitcher Bobby Castillo suffered a stroke according to the blog Vin Scully is my Home Boy.
Our new owners have flat out lied to us about Frank McCourt getting revenue from current operations. Frank has to be sitting at home giddily laughing his ass off thinking about how he was able to buy the Dodgers using none of his own money, rip the organization into several different legal entities, avoid losing the team to the MLB by using bankruptcy laws, and sell the team with about a billion dollars going into his pocket, and still be getting 7 million dollars a year income from leasing the land. I'd like to see what would happen if any of us tried to sell our houses, but keep the land and charge the new buyers rent for the privilege of letting the building rest on our property.


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Report: Lakers GM denies discussing Howard trade with Celtics
Reports about the possibility of Los Angeles Lakers center Dwight Howard being traded before the Feb. 21 deadline are becoming confusing.
First Howard told reporters on Friday that Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak had told him that he would not be traded.
Several hours later, however, CBSSports.com reported that the Lakers have had preliminary discussions with the Boston Celtics about a possible trade involving Howard and the Celtics' Rajon Rondo.
Kupchak then responded to that report by telling ESPN The Magazine's Chris Broussard that there have been no such discussions.
"I haven't talked to (Celtics general manager) Danny Ainge in weeks," Kupchak told Broussard. "I made the statement a week or two ago that we're not going to trade Dwight Howard and that hasn't changed."
Kupchak said a Howard-for-Rondo trade had not been discussed with the Celtics at any time this season.
The CBSSports.com report suggested the Celtics and Lakers had only preliminary trade talks with the Celtics regarding Howard and Rondo, and that the proposed deal "hasn't gained any traction."
Other players would have to be involved for talks to become serious, because Rondo's $11 million salary is quite a bit less than Howard's $19.5 million.
Howard will become a free agent at the end of the season. Earlier Friday he told reporters, "(The Lakers) told me they weren't going to trade me. I'd be surprised. They told me they wouldn't trade me. That's what (Kupchak) said."
Kupchak said much the same thing in a recent interview with Newsday.
Howard refused to say anything definitive about whether he plans to stay with the Lakers after this season.
"The only thing that matters is the present," Howard said. "And right now there's no need for me to talk about what happens at the end of the season. There's no need to go back and forth about it, I just feel like at the end of the year, I should have my opportunity to make my decision."


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Wednesday, November 23, 2016
A long lunch
The days have been busy here and it is a wonderful time of the year, gearing up to the Christmas period ahead.
We have had a full weekend and I have been meaning to sit down at the computer and write, so must get a post up today.
On Saturday, friends invited us to a long lunch at their home, so always lovely to be treated to a meal out. Our meal was wonderful - starting off with a platter of cheese, champagne and smoked salmon.
Delicious mushroom vol au vents was the starter, a lamb salad for the main dish, which was very good.
I made the dessert, a fruit flan ... Happiness on a plate, and we can kid ourselves that with the fruit it must be healthy - right?
Thinking about good food, making it, eating it, makes for perfect happiness.
It has finally warmed up and almost feels like summer days are here. I have been busy out staining a fence with charcoal stain and it got very hot out. The garden is starting to look dry and will soon have to start watering the plants.
Be kind whenever possible
It is always possible
~ Dalai Lama
I hope you are doing well and having a lovely week
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That flan looks AMAZING. I don't think I've ever had flan with fruit on it. It's usually plain but yummy that way. I think it may be even better with fruit.ReplyDelete
xo Azu
Hello from Idaho, stop in from Biebkrienbels. That tart sure looks yummy. But I do like smoke salmon.ReplyDelete
If you fine the time stop in for a cup of coffee.
Dearest Carolyn,ReplyDelete
Oscar Wilde was so right about the smallest act of kindness.
What lovely photos you show from that special long lunch; love your dessert!
Hello dear Carolyn!ReplyDelete
You had a very delicious meal and I admire your fruit tarte!
Like in my beloved France!
Here it is also very warm, snow has gone and with 17 degrees it's like springtime.
Happy time with the preparation for Christmas!
With love,
Dearest Carolyn,ReplyDelete
what a wondeful cake, hmmm, yo yummi!
Glad you had such a lovely weekend with friends!
Have a wonderful rest of the week, already wednesday again ...
Sending much Love and hugs and blessings,
Claudia xoxo
Lovely pics Carolyn and delicious cake!!!ReplyDelete
Kisses, Paola.
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The flan looks delicious, dear Carolyn! With all the fruit it can't be anything but healthy. ;) The starter and the main dish sound wonderful as well.ReplyDelete
Enjoy your summer days!
Mmmmmmmmmmm, dearest Carolyn,ReplyDelete
the fruit flan looks so delicious! I'm glad to read that you had a good time with friends! My husband and I just came back from Namibia and so we have been in "summer", too – but now we are back in Austria and winter is on the way…
Wishing you happy times, my dear,
Oh ,you are a master dear Carolyn, what a beautiful cake, you made for the dinner with your friends. The meal they served sounded so yummy, too. Love your roses blooming now, in your garden, while mine are all dead , until next spring .ReplyDelete
Have a lovely day dear friend.
Hugs, Dorthe
Dearest Carolyn,ReplyDelete
What a delicious dinner, and that fruit flan, I can only imagine. How yummy!!!
I love your beautiful roses.
Love and blessings,
Hello, Carolyn! Oh my goodness, you are a master baker on top of it all. That flan looks too beautiful to eat! That wouldn't have stopped me, though. I would have happily gobbled it up. Bet it was delicious! And I love your kindness quotes. There can never be too many reminders. Hope you are having a beautiful week. xoReplyDelete
Carolyn, Your luncheon sounds so yummy. I really like lamb and your flan ..oh goodness, it's so pretty! Enjoy the warm weather coming your way:)ReplyDelete
That flan looks amazing, darling!ReplyDelete
Nice selection! I wish you happy day! xxReplyDelete
Mmmmmmmmmmmmm....sound good!....happy weekend love Ria x ❤ReplyDelete
what a lovely looking fruit flan!ReplyDelete
That desert is calling my name, Carolyn. Well done.ReplyDelete
Looks great!ReplyDelete
Your dessert is fantastic. That flan looks amazingReplyDelete
Hugs Alessandra
Such beautiful cake, dear Carolyn!!! And I bet it was very very yummy!!!ReplyDelete
Full spring/early summer days are my faves of all the year, enjoy this beautiful period, sweetie!
Ooh, that fruits flan looks yum! I would love have loved to join you and have a spoon! Love your kindness reminders as always Carolyn, that's what makes this life good. Have a great weekend ~ReplyDelete
That fruit flan you made looks amazing, Carolyn. I really like the Oscar Wilde saying, and it's so true. So nice of your friends to invite you to lunch at their home. Thank you for the Thanksgiving wishes, my dear. We had such a wonderful day.ReplyDelete
love, ~Sheri
Your dessert looks amazing and it is lovely to see the roses I assume they are from your garden? Sarah xReplyDelete
Thanks Sarah and yes, the roses are from my garden.ReplyDelete
Goodness that flan looks truly delicious ...ReplyDelete
All the best Jan
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I always love the new year. It seems like a natural time to begin new things – you know, make changes. In 2013 you may notice a few changes to JOLE. The first change you may notice is the implementation of the Fast Track submission and tracking system. In the last 18 months, submissions to JOLE have grown tremendously. Managing submissions and the review process has become quite cumbersome. Fast Track will provide a more efficient submission and review process. Check the JOLE webpage for updates as we implement this process. We have also begun the process of developing the Impact Factor for JOLE. The Impact Factor is a measure that reflects the average number of citations to recent articles published in a journal. Thompson Institute for Scientific Information tabulates the frequency that articles from a journal are cited over a two year period. This is actually a three-year process because we have to submit two current years to calculate the impact factor. Providing the impact factor is an important service to JOLE's authors as more and more tenure and promotion committees have requested this information of their faculty. DOI numbers (Digital Object Identifiers) are unique identifying numbers assigned to articles that insure that the article can always be found. This insures the permanency of digital literature. This is another long-term project that we will begin in 2013. Assigning DOI numbers to every article published in JOLE will take some time, but will truly bring JOLE into the digital age. Are there some other things that we can do to improve JOLE for you as an author or reader? Please let me or other members of the Editing Managing Board know. Forty manuscripts were submitted for the Winter 2013 issue with 18 being accepted for publication – a 45% acceptance rate. This acceptance rate is higher than normal (usually 25-26%) but reflects the quality of the manuscripts being submitted to the journal. I hope that you find that these articles inform both your teaching and your perspective of leadership and leadership education.
The first commentary is by ALE President, Tony Andenoro. Tony describes the process of developing the Inaugural National Leadership Education Research Agenda. The goal of the project is to create a guiding document to assist in further defining Leadership Education as a discipline and provide directional research priorities for that discipline. The commentary provides a foundational understanding and creates transparency for the process in an effort to solicit collaborative partnerships and dialogue that will ultimately provide more holistic research priorities and enhanced opportunities for scholarship within Leadership Education.
Students in Greek Life are directed to demonstrate their leadership abilities, whether it is with their philanthropy of choice, within their chapter, or within the larger university setting. Mills and Bruce examined the leadership competencies of students who choose to become involved in Greek Life. Results of this study could be used to assist in driving the mandatory programming in Greek Life in an effort to create more purposeful and directed programming for this audience.
In the next commentary, Samuels, Lindsay, Watola, Walliser, and Reimer suggest that education should focus on better preparing our leaders using a broad survey framework instead of a single leadership approach as the only basis for their development. The modern environment in which leaders operate is complex, dynamic, and ambiguous. In such contexts, it is better to have a full toolbox of leadership approaches. Leaders can then select the right tool or combination of tools for the occasion, rather than rely on a single tool for all occasions.
Ferrell, Boyd, and Rayfieldexamined Texas FFA officers' perceptions regarding the traits and characteristics that good followers possess. Their findings reveal that these young leaders have a limited level of understanding of what constitutes a good follower. In addition, male and female leaders exhibited noticeable differences in their descriptions of good followers. The study reveals implications for not only FFA, but other youth leadership programs .
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Priest, Kaufman, Brunton, and Seibeloutline the philosophy of appreciative inquiry (AI) as it applies to organizational development, illustrate AI practices associated with a five-stage model, and highlight three examples that can be used as models for leading change in a variety of organizational situations. The authors describe how they used AI to facilitate the strategic planning/organization process at Virginia Tech University.
What role do volunteer peer leaders in non-formalized leadership roles play in membership-based organizations? Gordon and Ellis examined these roles in a beef industry organization and identified seven themes that identified the central phenomenon and seven traits that described leaders in the beef industry.
Odom, Jarvis, Sandlin, and Peek describe the advantages and disadvantages of using social media in the leadership classroom. One key advantage was that the use of social media increased the quality and efficiency of communications between the students and instructor.
McClellan discusses the role of academic advising as a strategic partner with classroom and extra-curricular leadership development programs. He discusses the similarity in advising outcomes and leadership development outcomes, and examines how the roles of academic advisors in higher education relate to leadership development, as well as how advisors can become intentional leadership educators.
Social capital, once studied primarily in the social and political sciences, has become increasingly important in the organizational sciences as a mechanism for the creation and maintenance of healthy organizational life. Roberts' study describes how leaders developed social capital through an action-learning process in a regional health system. She describes the implications of developing social capital in other contexts.
Maellaro notes that most reflective writing assignments only use the first two stages of Kolb's experiential learning model. She describes agraduate learning journal assignment that incorporates all phases of Kolb's model. The assignment's success in creating a bridge between simply learning about leadership and actually putting leadership knowledge into practice is grounded in three learning theories, which are also discussed.
Massey, Sulak, and Sriram identify key elements in pedagogical frameworks that support and impede the leadership development of students and propose strategies to enhance the learning outcomes established for leadership development.
Williams describes an assignment that helps students better understand the development and socialization of moral behavior. The use of ethical artifacts engaged students' higher-order thinking skills in improving their conceptualization of moral development.
Haber-Curran and Tillapaugh describe a qualitative study that examined student-centered and inquiry-focused pedagogical approaches in a capstone leadership course. In this course, students' understandings of the concept of leadership were broadened. Their findings suggest three prominent experiences as contributing to students' learning.
Seger and Bergsten describe a process of practicing leadership in the class room to teach leadership rather than simply teaching about leadership. Leadership is viewed more as a mutual relationship rather than certain personality traits of the leader.
Soria, Nobbe, and Finkexamined relationships between students' engagement in community service in different contexts and their development of socially responsible leadership. Their findings suggest some avenues for participating in community service may be more effective than others.
Raffo presents a lesson for teaching students about followership in contemporary society by including key concepts and follower characteristics followed by class activities and assignments designed to engage students in active learning and self-reflective processes.
Morgan, King, Rudd, and Kaufman sought the opinions of 15 agricultural leadership experts on what should be the objectives of agricultural leadership programs, what courses should be taught, the importance of internships, and the identification of potential careers for agricultural leadership graduates. Their findings are informative and may contribute to the national discussion of a leadership agenda.
Before we can get into the How? And What? of leadership, Caufield suggests that we must first answer the Why? of leadership. Why does leadership exist? Caufield states that the answer to this question informs how we approach leadership development.
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For the fabric, I decided to go with a mix of grays and greens to start with (no surprise) and added a little pop of color- pink- to the mix! I don't know if it's because our daughter's room is pink or what, but that color is starting to really grow on me more than it ever has before. And I also think it happens to pair wonderfully with our gray walls. I do, however, plan on adding some more pops of color in here and throughout the house at some point because having light gray walls can really make things a little dreary sometimes, but adding some little pops of color here and there shouldn't be too hard and it should do the trick.
And a lot of these photos were taken at night after the girls bedtime, so sorry for the poor lighting. :)
Some other fun facts:
These pillows were all purchased at one of my favorite thrift stores in Williamsburg. A good majority of them are feathered pillows and so I was surprised when I found them in the local thrift store there...I quickly snagged them up...didn't even think twice about it. They were all $7 and under....seriously?!
Love it!
I grabbed a total of 6 for this room and paid about $30 with tax for them all...including the 20x20 pillows. Sounds like a great deal to me! The other pillows that were originally in here were moved to our living room.
So if you ever want to pillow shop, I strongly suggest checking out a good thrift store nearby and looking at the selection. In the end, it doesn't matter what the pillows originally look like because if you are going to recover them it doesn't matter, so go ahead and give it a try!
Source list:
Wall color- SW Mindful Gray in Satin
Pillow covers- JoAnn fabrics
Rocking Horse- Goodwill
Globe- Goodwill
Water Pitcher on fireplace- Target
2 end chairs by TV- ReStore and recovered by me
Candlesticks on each side of fireplace- Goodwill
Blanket Storage Ladder- Hand built by us using left over wood from another project
Jute Rug- Ordered from RugsUSA
Metal storage unit by fireplace- Came with the house (was originally used in the garage but has since been cleaned and spray painted in oil-rubbed bronze)
Mason jars- Target
Large picture frames by TV- KMart
As you can see, we shop a lot at thrift stores, but we also mix our older items with new ones from other stores in our area. It makes for a unique collection of things and the hunt for some of these items is always fun- plus it is always fun to save a little money in the process. :)
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Ham and Cheese......yummmmm!
Start with some bread.
It's better to use a good thick bread instead of the cheap sandwich bread. Butter one side and place the butter side down in your pan. I do 2 8x8 pans so I can have it for 2 nights of dinner.
Then dice up some ham and place that right on top of the bread. The amount depends on how much ham you like, I use about 2 cups for an 8x8 pan.
Now dice up your cheese. You do not want to use pre-shredded cheese for this. It does not give you the same results. I use about 1 cup of cheese for an 8x8 pan. Mix it up.
Next, butter your bread and place it butter side up. Then poke some holes in the bread with a fork. You will then take 1 cup of milk and 3 eggs and wisp those together and then pour it over your bread.
After you pour the milk and egg mixture over the bread, season it with some garlic salt and my favorite is Salad Supreme from McCormick. Cover this and place in fridge and let it sit for 6-8 hours before you cook it. Cook for 40-50 minutes on 350*. Let it set up for about 30 minutes before you serve it to your family. They will love it for sure!


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March 13, 2014 | by Darrin Joy
Christine Crews thought she had a bladder infection. Turns out, the Memphis, Tenn., resident had bladder cancer. For 15 years, she fought it with chemotherapy and occasional tumor removals.
When the cancer spread to 80% of her bladder, she was told she would need to have her entire bladder removed. She got a second opinion. And another. Crews wasn't comfortable with any of the recommendations; she wanted other options. When a urologist friend recommended she call City of Hope, she did.
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This post will tell a story about a birthing woman being used as a test animal for training in using obstetrical forceps.
Forceps can be an important tool, but learning to use them is difficult. Before the invention of the Chamberlen forceps in the 1600s, removing a stuck baby from the birth canal was a gruesome process, involving anything from surgical instruments to kitchen gadgets (usually the baby was already dead when the removal process began).
Few people got to use the Chamberlen forceps for a long time. The family kept them highly secret, and while many babies and some mothers still died when these forceps were used, not all of them did. The Chamberlens must have seemed like miracle workers every time they were able to end an obstructed birth with a live mother and baby.
Eventually the secret got out, and through the 1700s and 1800s, there were many redesigns of forceps to attempt to make them safer. By the early part of the twentieth century, as birth moved increasingly into hospitals, about half of babies were delivered with the assistance of forceps.
Here is a graphic video depicting a successful and relatively gentle low-forceps delivery–if you are squeamish, you might skip watching. (Note that in this birth there is no episiotomy and the doctor supports the woman's perineum as the head emerges–this is not typical):
Developing expertise in safe forceps use can take years. Modern day doctors are much more likely to turn to cesareans when problems arise in the birth process. But many doctors do still receive rudimentary training in forceps use. Training is usually done through simulation, but eventually it requires a birthing woman to train on. El Parto Nuestro says,
"Forceps training" are carried out without the woman's consent and without medical indication, that is, during birth deliveries which are progressing normally without any kind of emergency that requires interventions. The absurd reason for this unnatural practice is just so the students can learn.
No woman in her right mind would consent to unnecessary use of a procedure with risks that include urinary and fecal incontinence and an infant with a fractured skull. According to Dr. Atul Gawande, using forceps safely requires a high level of skill and expertise, which 'means that the outcome is always uncertain, even for experienced surgeons.' Thus, practice may be conducted on women who don't understand what is going on and are perceived as not having the means to complain even if they do. Such was the case of Nancy Narváez, a low-income immigrant woman in Barcelona. According to this press release, Nancy and the friend who accompanied her
witnessed how different students tried one after the other to pull her baby out with the use of forceps, under the supervision of a tutor, who even screamed at one of them, "not like that, you could break the baby's head!" Finally, the tutor had to pull Nancy's baby out, who suffered severe craneal fracture, intracraneal bleeding, cortical-subcortical infarction and convulsions which required a [hospital] transfer…[The hospital] confirmed that the baby was also suffering from an epidural hematoma caused by obstetrical trauma during an instrumental birth delivery, hypotonia (lack of muscular tone) and ischemic infarction in the area of the craneal fracture. She was operated on to drain the hematoma. A [neonatology] report…verified that the ischemic injury had caused neurological motor damage to the right hand side of her body; for which she would need physiotherapy. As to the mother, a large episiotomy was carried out on her to insert the forceps.
Poor and oppressed women's bodies have often been used for medical testing and training without informed consent–or any consent at all. For instance, fistula repair was perfected on unanesthetized enslaved women, and Depo Provera was tested on poor women in Atlanta before much was known about it at all.
Forceps can be a preferable alternative to either vacuum extractors or cesarean if the birth attendant is well trained in their use. Simulations can give good practice on conducting forceps deliveries. But if the training must ultimately be conducted on a living woman who does not need the intervention (because when forceps are needed, there's usually an emergency that involves getting the baby out fast), at what expense are we doing this training?
Note: for a potential alternative to forceps that is currently in development, see this post.


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Pierre Janet
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Pierre Janet photographed by Dornac.
30 May 1859
24 February 1947 (aged 87)
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Pierre Marie Félix Janet (Template:IPA-fr; 30 May 1859 – 24 February 1947) was a pioneering French psychologist, philosopher and psychotherapist in the field of dissociation and traumatic memory.
He is ranked alongside William James and Wilhelm Wundt as one of the founding fathers of psychology.[1]
Janet studied under Jean-Martin Charcot at the Psychological Laboratory in Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris. He first published the results of his research in his philosophy thesis in 1889 and in his medical thesis, L'état mental des hystériques, in 1892. He earned a degree in medicine the following year in 1893.
In 1898, Janet was appointed lecturer in psychology at the Sorbonne, and in 1902 he attained the chair of experimental and comparative psychology at the Collège de France, a position he held until 1936. He was a member of the Institut de France from 1913, and a central figure in French psychology in the first half of the 20th century.[2]
Janet was one of the first people to allege a connection between events in the subject's past life and his or her present day trauma, and coined the words 'dissociation'[3] and 'subconscious'.[4] His study of the 'magnetic passion' or 'rapport' between the patient and the hypnotist anticipated later accounts of transference.[5]
The 20th century saw Janet developing a grand model of the mind in terms of levels of energy, efficiency and social competence, which he set out in publications including Obsessions and Psychasthenia (1903) and From Anguish to Ecstasy (1926), among others.[6] In its concern for the construction of the personality in social terms, it has been compared to the social behaviorism of George Herbert Mead[7] something which explains Lacan's early praise of "Janet, who demonstrated so admirably the signification of feelings of persecution as phenomenological moments in social behaviour".[8]
Developmental hierarchy
Janet established a developmental model of the mind in terms of a hierarchy of nine 'tendencies' of increasingly complex organisational levels.[9]
He detailed four Lower Tendencies, rising from the Reflexive to the Elementary Intellectual; two Middle Tendencies, involving language and a social world; and three Higher Tendencies, the Rational-Ergotic world of work, and the Experimental and Progressive Tendencies.[10]
Neurosis could be seen as a failure to integrate, or a regression to earlier tendencies;[11] while Janet defined subconsciousness as "an act which has kept an inferior form amidst acts of a higher level".[12]
Influence on depth psychology
William James
In his 1890 essay The Hidden Self,[13] William James wrote of M. Janet's observations of "hysterical somnambulist" patients at Havre Hospital, detailed in Janet's 1889 Doctorate of Science thesis, De l'Automatisme Psychologique.[14] James made note of various aspects of automatism and the apparent multiple personalities ("two selves") of patients variously exhibiting "trances, subconscious states," or alcoholic delirium tremens. James was apparently fascinated by these manifestations and wondered, "How far the splitting of the mind into separate conciousnesses may obtain in each one of us is a problem. M. Janet holds that it is only possible where there is an abnormal weakness, and consequently a defect of unifying or coordinating power."
Controversy over questions of priority between Janet and Sigmund Freud emerged at the 1913 Congress of Medicine in London.[15] Prior to that date Freud had freely acknowledged his debt to Janet, particularly in his work with Josef Breuer, writing for example of "the theory of hysterical phenomena first put forward by P. Janet and elaborated by Breuer and myself",[16] and stating further that "we followed his example when we took the splitting of the mind and dissociation of the personality as the centre of our position"—although he was also careful to point out where "the difference lies between our view and Janet's".[17]
Again, writing of the neurotic's withdrawal from reality in 1911, Freud states: "Nor could a fact like this escape the observation of Pierre Janet; he spoke of a loss of 'the function of reality'".[18] As late as 1930, he drew on Janet's expression 'psychological poverty' in his work on civilisation.[19]
In his report on psychoanalysis of 1913, however, Janet argued that many of the 'novel' terms of psychoanalysis were only old concepts renamed, even to the way his own 'psychological analysis' preceded Freud's 'psychoanalysis'.[20] This provoked angry attacks from Freud's followers, and thereafter Freud's own attitude towards Janet cooled. In his lectures of 1915-16, he said that "for a long time I was prepared to give Janet very great credit for throwing light on neurotic symptoms, because he regarded them as expressions of idées inconscientes which dominated the patients," but, after what Freud saw as his backpedalling of 1913, he said, "I think he has unnecessarily forfeited much credit".[21]
The charge of plagiarism stung Freud especially. In his autobiographical sketch of 1925 he denied firmly that he had plagiarized from Janet,[22] and as late as 1937 he refused to meet him on the grounds that "when the libel was spread by French writers that I had listened to his lectures and stolen his ideas he could with a word have put an end to such talk"[23] but didn't.
A balanced judgement might be that Janet's ideas, as published, did indeed form (part of) Freud's starting point, but that he subsequently developed them substantively in his own fashion.[24]
Carl Jung studied with Janet in Paris in 1902[25] and was much influenced by him, for example equating what he called a complex with Janet's idée fixe subconsciente.[26]
Jung's view of the mind as "consisting of an indefinite, because unknown, number of complexes or fragmentary personalities"[27] built upon what Janet in Psychological Automatism called 'simultaneous psychological existences'.[28]
Jung wrote of the debt owed to "Janet for a deeper and more exact knowledge of hysterical symptoms", and talked of "the achievements of Janet, Flournoy, Freud and others"[29] in exploring the unconscious.
Alfred Adler openly derived his inferiority complex from Janet's Sentiment d'incomplétude;[30] and the two men cited each other's work on the issue in their writings.[31]
In 1923, he wrote a definitive text, La médecine psychologique, on suggestion and in 1928-32, he published several definitive papers on memory.
While he did not publish much in English, the fifteen lectures he gave to the Harvard Medical School between 15 October and the end of November 1906 were published in 1907 as The Major Symptoms of Hysteria, and he received an honorary doctorate from Harvard in 1936.
Of his great synthesis of human psychology, Henri Ellenberger wrote that "this requires about twenty books and several dozen of articles".[32]
See also
- ^ Graham F. Reed, 'Janet, Pierre', in Richard Gregory ed., The Oxford Companion to the Mind (1987) p. 397
- ^ E. Roudinesco, Jacques Lacan (2005) p.16–21.
- ^ O. L. Zangwill, 'Hypnotism, history of', in Gregory ed., p. 332
- ^ Henri F. Ellenberger, The Discovery of the Unconscious (1970) p. 147 and p. 406.
- ^ Peter Gay, Freud: A Life for Our Time (1988) p. 50.
- ^ Ellenberger, p. 386
- ^ Ellenberger, p. 405–406.
- ^ Jacques Lacan, Écrits: A Selection (1997) p. 17.
- ^ Reed, p. 398.
- ^ Ellenberger, p. 387–394.
- ^ Red, p. 398
- ^ Quoted in Ellenberger, p. 387.
- ^ James, William (1890). "The Hidden Self". Scribner's Magazine Vol. 7 Issue 3. pp. 361–373. Retrieved March 30, 2014.
- ^ Janet, Pierre (1899). De l'Automatisme Psychologique [Of Psychological Automatism] (in French). Retrieved March 2014.
- ^ Ellenberger, p. 817
- ^ Sigmund Freud, On Metapsychology (PFL 11) p. 52.
- ^ Sigmund Freud, Five Lectures on Psycho-Analysis (1995) p. 25–33.
- ^ Freud, Metapsychology, p. 35.
- ^ Sigmund Freud, Civilization, Society and Religion (PFL 12) p. 306–307.
- ^ Ellenberger, p. 817
- ^ Sigmund Freud, Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis (PFL 1) p. 296.
- ^ Freud, Sigmund An Autobiographical Study WW Norton and Company 1989 page 11
- ^ Quoted in Ernest Jones, The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud (1964) p. 633
- ^ Ellenberger, p.539–540.
- ^ Gay, p. 198
- ^ Ellenberger, p. 149.
- ^ Quoted in Neville Symington, Narcissism: A New Theory (1993) p. 20
- ^ Ellenberger, p. 406.
- ^ C. Jung, The Practice of Psychotherapy (1993) p. 112 and p. 139.
- ^ Reed, p. 398
- ^ O. Brachfeld, Inferiority Feeling in the Individual and the Group (2000) p. 53
- ^ Ellenberger, p. 387.
Further reading
- Brooks III, J. I. (1998). The eclectic legacy. Academic philosophy and the human sciences in nineteenth - century France. Newark: University of Delaware Press.
- Carroy, J. & Plas, R. (2000) . How Pierre Janet used pathological psychology to save the philosophical self. Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 36, 231-240.
- Foschi, R. (2003) 'La Psicologia Sperimentale e Patologica di Pierre Janet e la Nozione di Personalità (1885–1900)', Medicina & Storia, 5, 45-68.
- Johnson, George M. Dynamic Psychology in Modernist British Fiction. Palgrave Macmillan, U.K., 2006.
- LeBlanc, A. (2001). The Origins of the Concept of Dissociation: Paul Janet, his Nephew Pierre, and the Problem of Post-hypnotic Suggestion, History of Science, 39, 57-69.
- LeBlanc, A. (2004). Thirteen Days: Joseph Delboeuf versus Pierre Janet on the Nature of Hypnotic Suggestion, Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 40, 123-147.
- Lombardo G.P, Foschi R. (2003). The Concept of Personality between 19th Century France and 20th Century American Psychology. History of Psychology, vol. 6; 133-142, ISSN: 1093-4510, doi:10.1037/1093-4510.6.2.123
External links
About Pierre Janet
- a short biography
- bibliographic site
- reading guide
- an 'autobiography' of his early years
- Pierre Janet & the 'Reality Function'
- Pierre Janet Institute (a French/English site dedicated to Pierre Janet)
- JANETIAN STUDIES electronic journal of the Institut Pierre Janet
Works of Pierre Janet
- La Médecine Psychologique Important book by Pierre Janet. It clarifies what he thought about Suggestion. (PDF download in French)
- Books by Pierre Janet on line
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London Paris New York about love between strangers
After two successful films, Pakistani singer-actor Ali Zafar is back in action with his new romantic movie London Paris New York .bollywood Updated: Feb 29, 2012 16:58 IST
After two successful films, Pakistani singer-actor Ali Zafar is back in action with his new romantic movie London Paris New York with actor Aditi Rao Hydari that releases Friday.
Directed by debutant Anu Menon, the film puts spotlight on the angst of the 20s, a life altering period when one has to find a career, form an identity and experience the charms of falling in love for the first time.
It is a story about Lalitha (Aditi), a middle-class South Indian girl from Chembur in Mumbai, who is on her way to New York to study politics on a scholarship. She makes a detour to London, where she meets Nikhil (Ali), a rich Punjabi kid from Bandra, who is to study filmmaking in London.
They meet in London and realise they are completely drawn to each other though they know their future lies on two different continents.
The film follows their personal journey as they keep meeting in London, Paris and New York.
The three cities give a dramatic canvas to create different themes.
London Paris New York has been shot in three different phases and captures the lead actors' evolving state of mind. The three bridges on three rivers Thames, Seine and Hudson play an important role in the story.
The growing love is reflected through different sets of music like pop romance in London, electronic sufi in Paris and blues-rap in New York.
This is Ali's third Bollywood outing after Tere Bin Laden and Mere Brother Ki Dulhan.
Ali is a singer-composer and for the first time has tried his luck in this film with music. He has not only sung all the songs in the film, but has also written and composed them. And Ali admits it was not easy to compose for films.
Even lead actor Aditi has sung in the film. She has sung the song Woh dekhnay mein and a club song Maddham Si Madhoshi along with Ali for the film's soundtrack.
All the films that Aditi has worked in have shown her in subdued avatar, however, she looks ubercool and glamorous in London Paris New York (LPNY).
Also releasing alongside LPNY is Mugdha Godse, Rajeev Khandelwal and Shreyas Talpade-starrer Will You Marry Me.
The film is about three best friends who have one thing common; their love for their bachelorhood. However, they place a bet that whosoever will get married first lose a huge amount in shares that were contributed by all three friends.
However, their lives take a turn when Nikhil (Muzzamil Ibrahim) decides to marry the love of his life, Anjali (Tripta Prashar). Even though Rajveer (Rajeev Khandelwal) and Aarav (Shreyas Talpade) are completely taken aback with the idea of their best friend getting married, they convince themselves to attend it in Dubai.
During the wedding both Rajveer and Aarav fall for the same girl Sneha (Mugdha Godse), the brides best friend. Rest of the film talks about their tryst with love and relationship.
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Phew. The Craft Show happened and it was an exciting morning!
Here's a few photos of the pearl gradient necklace encased in wirelace that I taught Martha how to make.
More how-to photos to come.
This is such a gorgeous design! I can't wait to see the how-to pics.ReplyDelete
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