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Sunday, June 7, 2009

'The Blue Cube' aka Onizuka Air Force Station

Roger Smith, a software developer I know, suggesting this stop on the tour, wrote:

Stuck in a corner of Moffett (101 & 237), it is technically an Air Force installation that is being decommissioned. It was owned by various three letter agencies in it's heyday. Reportedly there were (still are?) more nuclear weapons aimed at that site than any other place on earth. It was the US hub for spy satellite telecommunications. The dish array kinda gives that away. The biggest cube is (was ?) filled with jet turbines for power generation.

Also known as Onizuka Air Force Station, check out what wikipedia has to say.

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Rahm Emanuel Wins Chicago Mayoral Race –

Rahm Emanuel won the Chicago Mayoral race with over 50% of the vote.  There will not be a run-off election because Emanuel carried more than 50% of the vote.  The race began last fall after Mayor Richard Daley announced that he would not run for re-election after serving six terms.

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Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Mother's Day Portrait Sessions

Mother's Day is right around the corner. There is a lot for a Dad to do on this holiday. He has to think about his wife, the mother of his children, his own mother and something from the kids to their mother. sdfs

Dads, you might consider breakfast in bed, sending her off to brunch with her girl friends, or having the kids make her some painted pottery. Or, you might consider something different this year. (Mom, if you are the one reading this, just go right ahead and forward it to your husband.)

A common complaint among mothers is that they are never in the family pictures. As the one behind the camera in our family, I can relate. More often than not, Mom is the family photographer. It isn't a job she minds so much, but it would be nice for the kids to see their Mom in a photograph every once in a while. So, whether you are a mom or a dad, you might want to remedy this problem and schedule a Mother's Day portrait session

A portrait session is a perfect Mother's Day gift. It lasts much longer than flowers or even a coffee mug. There are lots of ways to arrange this. Dads can surprise Mom and schedule a "Mom and kids" portrait session. Or he can be there too, for a whole family session. Just make sure you give Mom enough notice to change into something cute. She'll appreciate that.

Or you, Mom, could take the initiative and set up a portrait session yourself. There is nothing wrong with stating exactly what you'd like for Mother's Day this year. Some husbands actually prefer to have things spelled out for them.

You might even consider hosting a Mom and kids portrait party and get some of your other Mom friends in on the fun. They are probably missing from a lot of family photos, too.

Whatever you decide, please let us know as soon as possible so that we can get your portrait session scheduled, or send out a gift certificate, before Mothers Day actually arrives.

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Friday, September 26, 2008

The Company Christmas Party - Another Casualty of a Tough Economy

DURHAM, N.C./PRNewswire -- Small businesses are looking for ways to cut their budgets and one of the first things to go is the holiday party. According to one expert, that's a bad idea. Trim the budget, but don't cut the humor, says corporate comedian Larry Weaver, author of the new eBook, Funny Employee Awards, Your Complete Guide to Organizing a Humorous, Entertaining and Rewarding Recognition Ceremony.

As a comedian who spends the bulk of November through January performing at corporate events, Weaver has seen an alarming trend of corporate party cancellations this year. But if there was ever a time our country needed laughter in the workplace, it's now. Layoffs and bankruptcies are hurting companies and taking morale down with them. Like the country, workers need assurances that we can recover. Rather than canceling the party, Weaver suggests something fun, low-cost, and creative. Recognition is free, and can be more valuable and motivating than money.

"For a company with a history of lavish year-end celebrations, the first impulse during a downturn is to cut the company party altogether," reports Weaver. "This is a mistake. It sends a strong message that the company isn't doing well. Your top performers may already be doing their own year-end introspection. By cutting the celebration, you may be sending a signal that it's time to start sending out resumes."

Weaver's eBook gives tips on how to organize an event to show gratitude and motivate employees. There are 101 professionally designed and funny awards that can be printed, framed, and presented. Award categories range from Job Well Done to Poking Light Fun, and Weaver reveals how to pull off the party without embarrassing anyone or getting in trouble with human resources.

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Monday Meditation

Transcendent God,
lover of our souls:
Help us recognize that
you are the mysterious essence of our being.

You come among us
in unexpected ways.
You make yourself known
not through kings,
but through carpenters.
You enter our world
not on the machines of war,
but on the wings of a dove.

You enter our city
on a donkey,
through the intimate family door,
and you come only to love us.

We strive to follow
in the way of the Master, Jesus the Christ.
Help us recognize you in our midst
by recognizing you in ourselves,
and in every person we ever meet.

In this way,
may we all become
the transcendent examples of compassion
exemplified by Jesus,
entering through the intimate door
to each other’s souls.

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2012 Summer Olympics: Track and Field in the Olympic Stadium

On Monday night, I finally had a chance to head over to the Olympic Stadium to shoot some of the track and field events (technically called Athletics). It turned out to be a great evening to be there shooting as I was able to photograph the Men's 400m race and also get some front-and-center photos of Usain Bolt getting his gold medal.

Semoy Hackett, of Trinidad racing in the 200m qualifiers.

Carmelita Jeter, from the USA, qualifying for the 200m race.

I saw this woman pol vaulter sitting off to the side and thought that it was a cool shot of an athlete in her zone.

There are different shooting positions along the perimeter of the stadium, and each one has it's own view of the different sports that are going on during the evening. Where I positioned myself was better for the track, but not as good for the pole vault or shot put. But, I was able to use the 400mm lens to get a handful of pole vault photos from my position. When going through the images, this one really caught my eye since it looks like the woman is standing on the pole (as they both fell at the same time).

Sanya Richards-Ross, who already won a gold medal in the 400m race, running her qualifier for the 200m.

This American pole vaulter made a clean vault and then...

...she started jumping up and down in excitement.

This is a photo of the Jenn Suhr, the American vaulter who eventually won the gold.

The Olympic flame in the stadium. Pretty cool!

Usain Bolt just after getting his gold medal (and once again, even though myself and all of the other photographers were in the best photo position to capture this, we were blocked by the Olympic Broadcasting person who shot close up shots right in front. You should have heard the foul language being tossed around the photo pit! )

Angelo Taylor doing the hurdles for Team USA.

Michael Tinsley of Team USA celebrates after winning the silver medal in the 400m hurdles.

This is Felix Sanchez, who had just won the gold medal for the 400m hurdles. This was a very emotional moment for him and is said to be one of the defining moments of these Olympics. You see, Felix was a favorite in 2008 in Beijing, but just hours before his race, he found out that the grandmother who raised him, had just passed away. He didn't even qualify for the finals. It just goes to show you how the mental well being of these athletes is as important as the physical. Well...this Olympics he came back and earned his deserved gold. Awesome!

This is my favorite image from this evening. Felix was making his victory lap, and myself and one other photographer were the only two photographers left in this particular shooting position. I looked up at Felix as he was walking by and yelled, "look right here!" and he gave me this pose. Love it!

Next up was the woman's steeple chase.

The great thing about the steeple chase is that it was 7 laps around the track. After shooting the first 6 at high speed, I decided to try my luck at a motion pan shot. A little more risky, but it is another favorite from the night!

The Ethiopian runners celebrating the bronze medal for their teammate, Sofia Assefa.

 Kirani James about to start his 400m race.

I had moved to the "head-on" shooting position, and was able to capture this wide shot of all the runners heading towards the finish line, with James leading the pack.

This teenager is so fast that he actually coasted across the finish line with a final time of 43.94 seconds, beating out the second place runner by half a second.

James celebrates the first ever medal for his country of Granada.

No shortage of emotion in this shot. Sometime luck plays a role in photography. So, when Kirani James turned towards me as he ran by, I was able to get this shot of him in full elation.

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Been following your blog since you started posting the water polo stuff Jeff, please keep it up! Brilliant.

Some great shots too, well done. I've been watching the Olympics everyday and would have to loved to have been there to take some shots like yours. I see the photographers on TV all gathered round, it seems like it must be a challenge to fight with all those photographers from all over the world to jostle into the best position?

Hope you're enjoying your time here in London!

Dale G said...

Jeff, thank you for all the variety and quality of coverage of the Games. I especially love the 'Golden' glow you captured in Sanchez's sunglasses!


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May 12, 2008

Write Code: Mind Wide Open

I was talking with a friend of mine about some programming stuff. He has got a school assignment to develop a simple game in C#. Well, the first thing that students usually start with, is that they buy a book about C#. They read the book, and when the last page is over, they start with the development of their fabulous application. Now they know a lot of C# commands, structures, objects, we could maybe say that some of them are now even C# gurus (at least they know a bunch of commands). Now there is a problem. Many times I face people that even tho' they know HOW to write code, they do not know WHAT to write!

Many times they are missing the essential imagination of the application's building blocks, relations, dependencies, application flow, etc. My suggestion for this case is to grab a pencil and paper, forget everything you know about C#, open your mind and start drawing and designing your application.

You can start with the user interface. If you know that the game will be the minesweeper, draw a basic window, control objects, the minefield, etc. Then start with the application analysis. Within the analysis you have to understand what must your application exactly do. After finishing the analysis part, you should have an activity diagram, that will clearly display what actions may happen in you application and how to handle them. This part was the platform independent analysis. For this part it is not necessary to know anything about C#. As you will go deeper and deeper, your drawing will became more and more platform dependent, and for this game it should end up at the .net and C# platform.

So continue with deeper analysis and create the architecture of you application. Start thinking about building blocks of you application - basic classes, interfaces, methods, their relations, dependencies, etc. Draw everything to your paper and take notes. Supporting applications like MindManager or FreeMind may help you to collect your ideas and don't forget anything.

After having completed all these steps, remember all the things that you learned about programming in C#, take a look at your drawings and notes, and now you should know HOW and WHAT to write to your source code!

A successful analysis at the beginning is about complete understanding of the application and it ensures that at the end of your application development you should not end up in such a situation as it is displayed on this ^ picture :-)

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  2. I agree with you, sometimes more important than know some programing language perfectly is to have a good idea how to bulid a game/project. For example there are many books about C#, C++, but only few of them are good. I think the best are those where you build project as you go through chapters, when you learn something new you can then apply it on that project. At the end you have robust application which containst all the "modules". In my opinion most of us are not looking for finished results, we are looking for modular guide which can help us realize our visions.


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Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Greater Exodus and Crossing Oceans

I often hear about the 'Greater Exodus' and wasn't sure where they discuss it in scripture.  But it fits with the majority of scriptural story lines and I knew in Revelation that it said we would all be at the New Jerusalem.

Here New2Torah shares a few of the scriptures that speak directly of this greater exodus. The words about crossing the seas..... wow.  I never really personally imagined being one of the Israelites crossing the Red Sea that day thousands of years ago.  But this struck me so.  I imagined in the Greater Exodus, with my husband and my children and maybe our animals and some bags of clothing and such.... walking across the parted ocean to the land that YHWH made for us.  Just wow.

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Monday, December 1, 2008

Thanksgiving thoughts of the Rally Fighter in person

Since we had a number of members my family in town for this Thanksgiving time, they asked if they could come to the LM HQ to see the progress on the Rally Fighter. With great excitement, we arrived at 16 Kendrick and my Father and Brother both made a bee-line for the shop to see the first full-size mock-up of the vehicle.

They looked and looked and looked....and looked some more on the mock-up, and then they both independently delivered their verdict:

"Impressive, I had no idea how good the proportions would look in person. I can't wait to see the finished product now. Congratulations, this is a winner." You could see the genuine interest and enjoyment on their faces.

Basically, both had been looking at the website for some time now, but for whatever reason they were unable to comprehend the scale, size, and feeling of this vehicle...until now.

It will likely be this way with many initial customers, and that is one of the primary reasons why we are so focused on having a Local presence and the ability for a customer to come to the facility to participate directly in the creation of their product. Only with such touch points, can the customer reach the last full measure of excitement that my father and brother have just experienced.

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Friday, June 18, 2010

I'm not sure the feeling that everything as I know it, is spiralling towards an abrupt end, is supposed to be a positive or a negative emotion; all I can say, is it has one hell of an impact on the insides. I don't feel like eating.

Decision time is at 21:26 GMT, June 20th. That's the adjusted time for when I was born. Running the math, that gives something like 53 hours until I've got to make my choice. Aside from a couple hours sleep in that, really I don't have anything else to do except think about the choices. That's been most of my month.

I'm not sure what the outcome will be. All that I know, is it means failure, the final failure. Push someone far and hard enough, for long enough, and what else do you get? There's no real escape from having to think about it. There's something like 24 hours in a day, I spend at least 18 of them going over this shit, that's on a 'busy' day; I haven't had many of those lately.

I hate my life. I wish I could hate those who have brought me here.

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Sunday, March 8, 2009

Of sunshine, snow and family

the snuggle bear in his fleece slingIt's hard to believe we're flying home tomorrow. The week literally flew by...starting with our flights over from Seattle last Tuesday.

One of the greatest joys was that Thomas was able to meet his great grandpa on the outside of the womb...the last time we were here, I never dreamed this would be possible. Thomas's great grandpa, still on hospice, was able to hold him in his arms. And lest Thomas's great grandma feel slighted that she wasn't mentioned, she got to hold him too. :)

Since Thomas's mommy was more focused on making sure he had 21 outfits for his 6 days here, she forgot both extra diapers and the camera you get no photos of this meeting until we're home. :) You'll have to settle for a pic of the Wee Ski sleeping in his sling, on our first flight here. See that thumb? It's now made its way into his mouth.

I think Thomas and I have done more in the last six days than we've done since he was born.

  • We visited Ames - introducing the Wee Ski to his great grandma's sister and her family (Pat and Johnny, and their daughter Paula) and had dinner at Hickory Park with his papa's cousin Jana and her family, who came down from Clarion, Iowa.
  • We took Great Grandpa and Great Grandma out for lunch -- Great Grandpa's first outing (except for one haircut) since October, when he went to the emergency room when I was in St. Louis. That day, the temperature hit nearly 75° and it was perfect for Grandpa to be out and about. Grandma, Mom and I took Thomas to the Cheesecake Factory for dinner, and got some great photos of the three of them (and even the four of us!).
  • Had my first trip to both Baby Boomers (home of the famous chocolate chip cookies that the Obamas loved: you can order them here.) and Gong Fu Tea (a fabulous little loose tea shop that provided one of the gifts for the VIPs at the Oscars).
  • We had some great visits with my own cousins, Tara and Tiffany, my aunts Darcy and Deanne, and uncle Jim. Tiff's family joined us, as well as my cousin Justin's girlfriend, Megan. Mom flew out a seafood dinner from Metropolitan Market: with crab and clams from the northwest.
  • Thomas has had the luxury of barely napping in a crib since he got here -- moving from tired arms to waiting arms throughout the family. He will definitely sleep well when he gets home! My aunt Darcy thought ahead and delivered her pack & play to the house a few weeks ago, so Thomas has had a place that's just like home to sleep.

We haven't had much downtime, but we've loved spending time with our extended family. It's been so much fun to introduce Thomas to them in person! :)

We've definitely missed Jonathan - it's the first time we've both been away from him. Technology's been great - I've taken photos of Thomas with my BlackBerry and emailed or texted them to Jonathan so he could see how we were doing. I opened my BlackBerry this morning to find an image of the farm from Jonathan, covered in snow this morning. We had snow here as well, falling as we left Mass today.

Today, Thomas is 2 months old. It feels like Thomas has grown this week -- stretching out and becoming this long little child who is almost out of newborn diapers and just entering the 0-3 clothing world.

We fly home tomorrow and Thomas is scheduled for his two month checkup on Tuesday.

Then we'll rest and recover...from our vacation. :)

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Happy Birthday Thomas...tanya is in the hospital now. It would be fun to have them two months apart.

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Review: Avatar (in 3D!)

By | December 21, 2009

Note: I write lots of stuff that gets posted elsewhere, because I am often stymied by my need to be Very On Topic on this blog. Starting today, I’m taking a to-hell-with-that approach, and will be sharing more of my other writing here, most of which really is pretty topical (at least on the social justice politics/pop culture criticism tip) but may not be explicitly fat-related. If you hate this, I am sure you will tell me. Thanks, friends.

Friday night, my husband and I went to see Avatar in 3D. My husband thinks it was one of the best movies he’s ever ever seen in the history of ever. I think it’s probably a movie worth seeing in a theater, to draw your own conclusions. My own assessment, in numbered-list format, is below the jump. It may be spoilery — as much as my read of a story you’ve heard a hundred different versions of already CAN be spoilery — but at least you were warned.

I hereby present my Avatar-related issues, in no particular order. Except the first one.

1. The length. The length of this movie is a problem. These days I pretty inevitably leave movie theaters saying, of almost every movie: “That wasn’t bad, but they could have trimmed fifteen minutes off and it would have been better.” I like my stories tight; I like the films I see to be precisely edited, with everything there for a particular reason, and nothing included just because, eh, well, we shot it, we may as well leave it in. Or because the bit-part in this scene is the cousin of the producer. Or because the studio wants a summer blockbuster that’s at least 120 minutes long because of whatever weird focus-group reason. So me, complaining about a film’s length, is hardly a new phenomenon, though typically my fantasy edits are less than thirty minutes in total.

In this case, I left Avatar saying: my god, that movie could have easily lost an HOUR of filler and been improved by the subtraction. Possibly as much as ninety minutes. I started checking my watch about an hour and fifteen minutes into this thing. That’s right: an hour and fifteen minutes along, and I thought surely we must be nearing the end of this two-hours-and-forty-minutes-long movie. You can imagine my aghast expression when I realized how much I still had to go.

2. The story. Yes, it was predictable, but that alone wouldn’t necessarily have been enough to ruin it for me, as there are many standard story tropes told and retold that still manage to entertain. The problem was that it was also boring. The effects were impressive and the visuals were striking, but I like a little content with my form. Here’s the whole plot: advanced-civilization-dwelling outsider is reluctantly accepted by an exoticized “simple” culture to find his own people are totally evil and thus fights alongside his newfound pets community against his own species to overthrow the bad guys and save the (alien) world. That’s it. Everything else is incidental, and chances are if you’ve imagined any subplots off the top of your head, they’re there: the hero’s romantical connection with the alien princess; the showdown with the vicious military jerk who just digs killing stuff; mean corporate suit only interested in profit; a few noble deaths of disposable-but-endearing supporting characters.

Oh, and of course, the magical substance that the soliders and corporate (relocate blue aliens + mine planet + ??? = profit) sleaze are after, the reason for the conflict? Is called “unobtanium”. I shit you not. Why they didn’t call it MacGuffanium is beyond me.

3. The characters. The aliens (i.e. “natives”) are terrible, painful caricatures of pretty much every aboriginal people, to the point of being completely unrelateable as individuals, even if they weren’t also nine feet tall and blue and made from computers. The human actors were marginally more, well, human (the ones played by Main Guy, Sigourney Weaver, Michelle Rodriguez, and Dorky Guy, anyway) but we didn’t get to see much of them in that form. I get that this movie thinks it’s saying colonialism sucks – but when it says it using so many stereotypes and with the inevitable white guy hero as the dumb savages’ goddess-picked savior, well, it lacks the oomph it might otherwise impart. I went in prepared to find the whole “noble savages” angle annoying and/or frustrating, but mostly it was hilarious. The stereotyping practically crossed over into satire, particularly during the big blue YAY TREES rally toward the end.

Also, didn’t get enough blue wang from Watchmen? Avatar gives you barely-concealed blue boobs. I’m not so much against nudity in a general sense, but this was seriously distracting. I don’t even want to know how much dialogue I missed while trying to figure out whether the main blue heroine was wearing a bra top or a big necklace or wow, I can totally see like 80% of her boob there, and is that a nipple?

4. The actors. This one isn’t all bad. Sigourney Weaver is awesome in everything. Michelle Rodriguez is so hot. Crazy, crazy, crazy hot. On-fire hot. Even just looking slightly bored? Hot. Michelle Rodriquez could make anything appealing, even a run-of-the-mill midair battle sequence that could have been cribbed directly from Battlestar Galactica’s cutting-room floor. My only complaint here is that this movie was not about Sigourney Weaver and Michelle Rodriquez systematically wiping the rest of the humans off the face of this distant planet, preferably whilst exchanging witty buddy-comedy dialogue (like Sigourney could be all “I’m too old for this shit” and it would be charming).

My other minor issue was with Main Guy, whose name I forget no matter how many times I read it. Main Guy is our cocky wheelchair-riding former-marine hero, who fumbles into this Highly Sciencey Mission because his twin brother was supposed to do it, but inconveniently got himself killed, and since growing an avatar costs a lot of money they figured they’d toss Main Guy into his dead brother’s avatar because, being twins, their nervous systems should match up okay. Never mind that Main Guy, as he likes reminding us, is not Sciencey but Soldiery. As it happens, (surprised faces on) it turns out it’s precisely His Warrior SpiritTM that enables him to be accepted in Bluetown. But anyway, this is not a gripe with the character so much as it is with his speaking voice, which went something like this:

American american american american !!AUSTRALIAN!! american american.

What was amusing about it was it seemed entirely an individual-word problem. Often when actors slip out of accents, they shift subtly between sounds over the course of sentences and conversations. With Main Guy here, it’s just a random word here and there. “Did,” which sounds particularly different between American English (with a short i sound) and Australian English (more like an ei sound), was a common offender that leapt out. It honestly left me wondering why this dude had to be American in the first place. Given that reference is made to an Earth where “nothing is green”, we’re looking at a dystopian profit-driven distant future, yes? Why would we assume that all the security forces working on this distant planet come from the US? I think it’s actually MORE likely they’d come from a variety of places, especially considering the film is pretty clear on the fact that these offworld soldiers are glorified mercenaries. So why not let Main Guy just be Australian and talk with his own damn voice?

(I kind of expect James Cameron has an intensely idiotic explanation for this, like, “Oh, but Australia was destroyed during The Great Superintelligent-Kangaroo Uprising of 2365, at which point we razed the continent from orbit and now use it as the planet’s main landfill.” And then he’d think, hell, I bet I could get somebody to give me $300 million to make a movie about THAT, too! And then he’d do it, because James Cameron is kind of a dick.)

To sum up:

Was it pretty to look at? Absolutely. The 3D effects were crazy, and not badly used, and positively restrained with the cheap OOH-WOW tricks, like glowy space bugs that seem to buzz around outside of the screen, or sparkling embers drifting down out of the night sky after a fire. And the planet feels surprisingly real and near, with a few dumb exceptions (silly lumbering hammerhead-rhino monsters; the Magic Untouchable Flying Killer Dragon that our hero forces into submission with minimal effort; the heavy-handedness of the whole “SEE, THEY’RE CONNECTED WITH NATURE! LET ME BEAT YOU OVER THE HEAD WITH ADDITIONAL PLOT CONTRAIVANCES TO MAKE SURE YOU GET IT” theme). But the recycled story and the so-bad-they-almost-cease-to-be-offensive (think of a little kid’s drawing of an American Indian with arrows sticking out of his head) Noble Savages and the heavy-handed BE GREEN! message made it difficult for me to get truly lost in Cameron’s vision for more than fifteen to twenty minutes at a stretch before some terrible bit of dialogue or totally predictable plot twist snapped me back to reality.

At which point, I’d check my watch again. As a filmmaker, Cameron’s world-building skills are without equal. I only wish his storytelling was half as good.

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[Guestblog] When constructive criticism… isn’t: a long-ass meditation involving extremely short shorts

By | January 7, 2010

The longer i’m a part of FA the less I’m willing to ignore negative body talk from clueless family, uninitiated friends, and total strangers. I feel like all the work I’ve put in on size acceptance amount to some sort of Fat Powers–and with great powers comes great responsibility– and that I should be harnessing said powers to make the world a better, more size-positive place. I think about what a difference hearing anything fat positive would have made to a self-loathing teenage me and it seems wrong–if socially advisable–to hold my tongue.

I believe there is something significant in receiving overt/covert approval from a confident-seeming stranger when you feel like an unloveable beast. I am continually humbled and surprised by the messages I receive about my fatshion photos. It’s both scary and encouraging to me that my unapologetically posting pictures of my fat ass on the internet encourages people to hate themselves a little less. Without cracking the particular low self-esteem chestnut of whether a person ought to place value in what other people think of them, I think that a little “permission” (for lack of a better way term), can go a long way to making someone stare a little less hatefully at their reflection. Don’t get me wrong, it’s extremely unlikely for a person to go from “I shouldn’t be seen in public!” to “pass the holographic hot pants!” on account of some unexpected cheerleading from someone they’ve never met. On the other hand, words are never without weight, and a few kind–or even just neutral–words can make a world of difference when you’re walking around in a dark cloud of self-loathing, expecting people to say the worst, almost daring them not to.

Around the time I started hanging out with the person who was to become my significant significant other, I thrifted a pair of (then heinous to me) dayglo lime green nylon athletic short shorts. It was the late 90s, the tale-end of grunge, and these were the sort of shorts–the sort that Jack Tripper might have worn jogging in 1978–were calculated instruments of social suicide.

Green shorts!
artist’s rendering courtesy of friendlymilk

I’d just been through the sort of cliched boyfriend-cheating-on-you-with-your-best-friend break up that so often occurs in a high school setting and I felt like a damn fool. And since I was a fat teenager–aka expert wallower and inspired in the art of self-deprecation–I concluded that the only way to deal with this was by publicly donning Shorts of Shame & Negative-Attention Seeking Angst. They were awkwardly high-waisted. They cut into my thighs. They made unpleasant creaking sounds when I moved. I singled myself out because i felt unworthy of anything but scorn– they were everything a fat girl who ever hoped of being pretty, accepted or popular should avoid, and so I wanted every part of them.

Since high school is a hell mouth and most people feel like they are the benevolent advisors of all fat people (for their own good, dontcha know?) my efforts at self-sabotage were all too successful. Everyone remarked on the shorts in horror. Friends threatened to break into my room in the night and burn them. One especially “concerned” friend went so far as to tell me that if I continued to parade my fat ass around in those shorts I couldn’t really expect anyone to ever want me again now, could i?

So, when one of my co-workers at the grocery store asked me if I wanted to hang out with him there was no question what I would wear.

We went roller blading. I was sure he’d take one look at my wobbly dayglo ass and a) tell me I looked like shit b) tell everyone at work how I looked like shit, and making me the laughing stock I obviously deserved to be because I was fat and some jerk broke my heart (ah, teen logic.)

What actually happened was rather anti-climatic, and (therefore) totally jarring: 1) he never said a damn thing about them or how I looked at all 2) he wanted to see me again. it’s a bit sad to think that someone i hardly knew choosing not to be critical about my appearance/fashion choices was enough to distract me from feeling like shit at that point in my life, but honestly, it was.

Now I could really give two shits if people dig on my fatshion, but if I’m going to be dead honest, a big part of getting to a place where i could be all “eff this I am effing stunning in these metallic hot pants”– was having people around me refrain from telling me what i, as a fat person, did or did not deserve to wear (or do, or say, or eat, or think….)

it’s ridiculous to admit, but those lime greens shorts and the reactions–both expected, and not–that they provoked, haunt me. they’ve become this complex signifier that informs my fat politics online and in the physical world. They remind me just how serious a seemingly “throwaway” topic like fatshion can be to someone who’s just making their first strides towards body acceptance. That sometimes just letting something slide, is like the equivalent of saying “you’re good, you’re alright, you don’t have to change.”

There are definitely times when I don’t adore what someone is wearing, but if it’s clear they love it, and more importantly, if they are putting themselves out there for the first time, sometimes the most important feedback you can give someone is to pull your punches and tell them to keep posting/trying shit out. It is not a tragedy for someone to never learn that, to your eye, their pants on a particular day ought to have been an inch longer. It is, however, a tragedy for that person’s first experience with FA to be a million tiny nitpicks that, in their vulnerable state, seem to confirm all the things they are already thinking: I don’t deserve style, I can’t look good anyway, no matter where I go, people will treat me like shit, and I deserve it.

There are a lot of so-called “well-meaning” people in our lives lining up to tell us fat people how our very existence proves we’re doing it wrong. Family members, friends, teachers, sales people, health professionals, makeover presenters, all do their best to make sure us fatties feel like shit, like we should hide, that we are unworthy of having fun in any circumstance; let alone something as meritocratically-structured as fashion. A lot of people new to FA are going in with shaky egos, and expecting the worst. And you might disagree, but I am of the opinion that fatshion is an FA gateway drug. If a person feels like they’re maybe doing one tiny thing right, it might be enough to put a dent in that wall of self-doubt/loathing that most of us start building from the first moment somebody derides us for our size. Don’t do people any favours by cutting them down before they’ve even found their legs.

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Hitting the Gym and Lazy Means Creative Tex-Mex Creation

Sunday, Gym Day
Why do vacations and min-vacations go by so quickly? Just doesn't seem quite right. Anyway, we left Branson around 9:30 am to head back home. It was a pretty uneventful drive back, which is usually a good thing. We got home and unpacked, then I headed up to the gym.

I started with a 10-minute treadmill run to warm up before hitting the weights for back and light legs then abs. I went with a giant set for back then supersets for legs.

GS - 4x8
Underhand barbell rows
Double-arm rows

Rear-leg elevated lunges (Bulgarian Split Squats) - 3x8
Calf raises - 3x20

SS#2 - 2x8
Walking lunges
Plie squats with low-end pulse

Single-leg deadlifts - 2x8

I did some ab exercises, stretched, and called it quits.

Lazy = Crazy Dinner
I may have made it to the gym and washed a few loads of laundry, but I never made it to the grocery store - lounging in the pool trumped grocery shopping. This meant getting creative with dinner.

We had another package of the Field Roast "Sausages" in a Mexican Chipotle flavor. So, we ended up with hodgepodge kind of meal I'll cleverly call Tex-Mex Mishmash. It consisted of: Not Really Refried Black Beans, Tex-Mex Tomato Quinoa, Mexican Chipotle "Sausage" Skillet.

Not Really Refried Black Beans
1/2 small white onion, finely diced
1 can black beans, rinsed and drained
1 tbsp minced garlic
1 jalapeno, minced
1/2 cup no-salt vegetable broth
To taste: salt, pepper, cumin, cilantro

In medium sauce pan, combine all ingredients and allow to simmer on medium-low heat until thickens then lightly mash.

Mexican Chiptole "Sausage" Skillet

2-3 Field Roast Chipotle "Sausages"
1/2 green bell pepper, diced
1/2 red bell pepper, diced
1/2 white onion, diced
To taste: salt, pepper

in large, non-stick skillet, saute all ingredients until the onions are soft and the "sausage" is browned.

Note: The flavors in the "sausage" were strong enough that there was no need to add additional seasonings. If using a different product, you may want to add chili powder, cumin, cilantro

Tex-Mex Tomato Quinoa

1/3 cup (plus just a tad more, sorry didn't measure) quinoa
1 can no-salt diced tomatoes, with liquid
To taste: salt, pepper, chili powder, cumin, cilantro, splash lemon juice

In saucepan, combine all ingredients and bring to a boil. Lower the heat, cover and let simmer on low until all liquid is absorbed by the quinoa.

I topped the black beans with some Daiya Vegan Cheese and sprinkled on some green onions (optional). It all started off separated on the plate, but I ended up mixing it all together in the end. The Mexican Chipotle "Sausage" Skillet would be great in a tortilla or in a taco salad bowl as well.

Normal Monday = Spin
Today was a fairly typical day for me in that I hit up spin at lunch. What wasn't typical was that Jason made an appearance as well. I know this sounds silly, but I love working out next to him.

It's not like we're talking even, but it's just fun to be at the gym together. Though, he might not fully agree on the "fun" part of it.

I did manage to fit in shoulders before the spin class too. I just went with the same workout as last week doing a giant set of 3x8:

Overhead shoulder press
Lateral raise
Front raise open to T (front raise all the way overhead, rotate palms and open arms to T then bring all the way down to start)

More Lazy = Another Creative Dinner
I had thought I might go to the grocery store after work, but thought twice. I remember my last Monday after work trip, chaos. So, while we needed groceries, I was not up for the hassle.

Originally I thought I might go with stir fry for dinner. That was simple and I had all the ingredients. I asked Jason what he thought and the next thing I know he's planning a meal with some sort of apple gastrique that then turned into an apple salsa. Only flaw is we didn't have enough zucchini (or any other veggies for that matter) to make up a veggie side.

So what do I do? I go with something crazy again. But, I will do you all a huge favor and save that recipe for tomorrow since I already have several going on. I will say it involves cannellini beans, tofu, and pasta.

Daily To-Enjoy List:
  • Spin class
  • Catching up on Big Brother

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Britney’s New Song

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Much ado about muffins… ALL OF THE MUFFINS

So, Cookie Monster some Slate writer ate every single variety of Pepperidge Farm cookie.  While I was mildly disgusted, the piece inspired me to repeat this experiment at Brown — with Blue Room muffins, a collection as diverse as and somewhat carbier than the student population.

My sister, the ragamuffin Tanya Nguyen ‘13 (whose favorite joke is, incidentally, the one with the talking muffins), had independently developed a desire to test each one, so I enlisted her consumptive (I actually don’t think that’s the right word, but you know what I mean) and photographic aid in this totally self-indulgent project of great journalistic importance. Any excuse to nosh on a bunch of baked goods, amirite? Pro tips: Muffins are best warm, so nab them freshly baked or microwave them. Most are pretty sweet, especially as you keep stuffin’ your face with them, so have some water or other beverage (recommended pairings listed below). A gajillion couple thousand calories and 16 x 1.95 points later, here are our highly scientific results (in chronological order of sampling, which, don’t worry, was not in one sitting).

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So what’s next for Blue Room muffins? We suggest doing away with butter rum, improving blueberry, and expanding the line. The possibilities are endless! The more savory (cheese, spinach, bacon) as well as ginger, carrot, green tea, almond, coffee, and honey muffins could be hits, too. And what are some other potential seasonal options? Peppermint? Let’s be bold here.

Finally, imagine if the muffins were named after people like in the Thayer St crêperie … “Hello, could I please get a Chris Paxson?”

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    Nice article Gongrooyen!! I will have to complete the muffin challenge at some point in my Brown career.

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Wednesday, July 28, 2010

'Rare' is the loneliest number

I'm honoured to share this post from Catherine Calhoun of Saint Francisville, Louisiana. Catherine volunteer manages the RARE blog for the Children's Rare Disease Network. Thank you for sharing Catherine and welcome!

'Rare' is the loneliest number
By Catherine Calhoun
The three taboos related to my son’s rare syndrome (McCune-Albright syndrome/fibrous dysplasia) are pain in kids, deformity (especially facial deformity), and early death. As a group of parents who meet at family conferences and online, we rarely speak of these things.

When I went looking for help for my son’s bone pain – it’s a crippling curl-up into a ball knees to chest and cry at night sort of pain – I found no support. I found doctors who doubted that he could be in such pain. I found doctors who said ask someone else about this pain. I found doctors who said we don’t know why he has this pain – some kids have pain and some don’t. I felt alone and a little like I was calling out for Ferris Bueller.

We’ve now worked out that his endocrinologist will order the medicine he needs for IV infusion and my son sits in a primarily adult infusion clinic monopolizing the television with his Scooby Doo videos. We don’t know what this medicine will do to my son over time. We guess it’s better than getting a second grader hooked on narcotics.

As the medicine drips into his arm, I try not to think of toxicities. At the end of the day, I have to go with “treat pain” and push worries for the future aside. I can’t really let my son stay curled up in a ball unable to move for pain indefinitely, can I? And I’m looking at a lifetime of pain for him. How can I even get out of bed in the morning? I sometimes wonder this as I drag myself out of bed in the morning. But then the medicine kicks in for him over a period of two weeks, and I pretend that maybe the pain will never come back.

During our medical travels, we met a young adult who has MAS/FD like my son. He is delightful and more than kind to my son – wheelchair racing him and listening to his chatter. As we sit down for dinner, my son says: “Mom, look at his legs, they are crooked (And makes a crooked line “C” with his finger for a visual in case I didn’t understand).” My best reply: “Sometimes that happens.”

I want to know “when does it happen, why does it happen, will it happen to my son too?” These bones can turn to something liquid-like, rarely but still. These bones can move all about the face causing marked asymmetry, as well as vision loss and hearing loss. My son is a living grenade – as his condition progresses “what will happen?”

No one really knows the prevalence with a best guess of one in 100,000 to one in one million. It has a vast spectrum – very mild (you might not even know you have it) to lethal. I have not found another boy in the world my son’s age with bones as bad as my son’s bones – but there is probably someone somewhere in the world, probably.

Five families lost someone to MAS/FD last year. When I think of how one of these young adults was not found for some time, I can hardly breathe. The parents had died years before and this adult had no siblings. Noticing the absence, the loss, was left to co-workers. I know that complex medical issues and disability make building social connections harder, make marriage and kids and all of that more unlikely. I hate that for my son, hate it – the feeling of the deck stacked so far against him at the start.

I just returned from a family conference where for the first time in six or more conferences, we spoke honestly about the pain and the craniofacial deformities. I appreciated when one young adult acknowledged that people stare, every single day. And while I don’t yet believe the “everything happens for a reason” spin, I'm grateful that when I say that “I feel like I have brought this sweet lamb of a child, my son, into this world to suffer” an old-timer dad says: “No, you’re here to make a difference.” God, I hope so.

We live with a rare disorder in our family as well, though not as rare as what you describe. It can be frustrating--maddening, insanity-inducing, really--to go to doctors who can't or won't help because they just don't know what they're dealing with. It's hard to have to be the "expert" as well as the mom. This is beautifully written but more important to me, it's honest. Thank you!

Ellen -- I'm so glad you commented. One of the first things I said to Catherine was "Do you know Ellen Dollar and her blog?"

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And, as for making a difference, trust me, "She already has."

Never surrender and god bless,

Matt Kamaratakis


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Of course, there is a lot more to it than just making up your mind. There are all kinds of decisions that you must make along the way to start your business. The first thing is to realize that it is indeed a business. Many folks begin online money making adventures without investing the proper time and money in establishing the company. This can not only cause problems with the Internal Revenue Service; you might end up with state conflicts as well.

There are many different ways that you can go about setting things up and it is really beyond the scope of this article to address them all. Speak to a Certified Public Accountant or a business lawyer to get started down the right path. They can provide advice specific to where you live.

Another thing you must decide early on is what kind of products that you intend to sell on the international giant. Do you want to sell sporting equipment? Perhaps you have always wanted to try your hand at writing. Whatever it is that you choose, you are going to need to define a clear path toward success. Otherwise, you could end up flailing about with little to show for your efforts.

One of the mistakes that beginners make with selling on Amazon is to switch product categories too soon and end up with a hodgepodge of inventory. You want for folks that purchase one of your offerings to find interest in others. However, if you Amazon store has a treadmill, paranormal romance, and pill cutting machines, there is no connection, and you are not likely to receive any return business from the customer. This will be the case even if they are delighted with the original purchase. For instance, the paranormal romance might be the best they ever read but have no use for a treadmill or medical products.

That being said, learn to recognize a sinking ship. For instance, a few years back there were some warm throws that people could put on when the weather got cold. With the opening in the back, these items were popular for a while. However, those who tried to get in on the deal once the market was saturated are still holding on to inventory that will be difficult to get rid of, even at a loss.

If you dedicate the time and attention necessary to each step of establishing your business, you are sure to find success!


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The Glass Room - Simon Mawer

Even though The Glass Room was shortlisted for the 2009 Booker Prize I had not heard a great deal about it. I did however see the great (and positive) reviews for it from Jackie and Samantha which meant I kept it on my radar. I am so glad I did because as Jackie says at the start of her review - even though this isn't a book I might have ordinarily picked up I really enjoyed it and will definitely be looking out for more of Mawer's work in the future.

In many ways the central character of The Glass Room is the room (or house) itself. Built in a Czech town in the 1930's by newly married and quite wealthy couple Viktor and Liesel Landauer the house is a new direction in architecture - moving away from the fussiness and intricateness of the designs of the late 1800's and into a cleaner, starker more modern future. For Viktor and Leisel the house is more than a place to eat and sleep - it represents who they are, who they want to be and the direction they see their life taking.

Unfortunately for the Landauer family World War 2 intervenes in their plans. Viktor, as a Jew, feels that the safest option is to leave their home and their country and travel to Switzerland. The house remains of course and we see it pass through the hands of the Nazi establishment and other organisations before returning, in a sense, to the way that it began.

The narrative of this novel flows beautifully and I felt that the way that the author captured, described and demonstrated the many different relationships (including different characters relationships with the house) within the novel showed an amazing capability for understanding people and their motives - and just how complex these are. The author obviously has a great passion for his subject in this novel and I feel that he passes this on to his reader.

Has anyone read any other books by Simon Mawer - I am wondering where I should go next??

Unknown said...

I would love to read more of Simon Mawer's books. I have The Fall in my TBR pile now, but I haven't read it yet. It doesn't look very good from the outside, but then The Glass Room didn't either. I'll let you know what I think in the nearish future!

Paperback Reader said...

I was so happy to have found this book through the Booker shortlist as it wouldn't have appealed normally. I would like to read more Simon Mawer in the future but it's not something I'm contemplating yet.

Steph said...

This is one of the few titles from the shortlist that appealed to me, in large part because of the great reviews it got from book bloggers - I'm glad to see you felt similarly positive about it! Unfortunately, I think it is still unavailable in the U.S., thought hopefully in the coming months that will change!

Amanda said...

Oh that sounds interesting. It sounds like something I'd like to read. Thanks!

A Bookish Way of Life said...

Sounds wonderful! Can't wait to get this one! I loved the cover of the book you read, the one I have seen here in the US is not nearly as nice. Anyhow, will definitely be picking up this one soon! Great review! Cheers!!

Anonymous said...

I was also unfamiliar with Mawer until I saw his book on the Booker prize list this year. After I read the description, I thought it sounded interesting, and the few reviews I've seen have only convinced me to add it to the TBR pile.

Football Chick said...

Actually it's just out in the US! It's available on Amazon and will be in stores this week and next.

Kim said...

This sounds really interesting, especially as I am in a bit of a WWII era phase with my reading choices. I will definitely pick this up now next time I see it.
Thank you for the review, Karen.

Karen said...

Hi Jackie - Looking forward to hearing what you think about that one!

Hi Claire - I feel the same way about this one - makes me wonder how many other wonderful books I am missing out on??

Hi Steph - I hope this book makes it to you in the US soon. I always thought Australia was behind everyone else in terms of books being published but it looks like this is not always the case!

Hi Amanda - I hope you enjoy it if you do pick it up.

Hi Nadia - it is an interesting cover but I have to say it didn't really appeal to me all that much - lucky what was on the inside was fantastic!

Hi eveningreader - I really hope you enjoy it when it gets to the top of your pile.

Hi FootballChick - thanks for the update!

Hi Kim - it sounds like this one would be perfect for you right now!

booklineandsinker said...

i have yet to read anything by mawer, but after reading your review i think i need to remedy that!

the book sounds so beautiful and your review makes me want to put this at the top of my list.

thanks for putting this one on my radar!

Tamara said...

Karen, this could be one I'd like to pick up. I'm fascinated by the main character being the house. It's a similar theme to one I recently read 'the last song of dusk', where the house carries with it the passions of it's past. Thanks for the review and I hope you find more Mawers to munch on..

Karen said...

Hi Natalie - I would definitely recommend this one - hope you like it when you get to it.

Hi T - If I had read your comment before today I would have brought this one for you! Oh well - remind me next time and I will bring it along.

Anonymous said...

I'm hankering for this book but I have to wait in line at the library. It's funny how it's not as widely advertised in stores in Oz. I've heard nothing but good things about this book and the cover is awesome to boot.

Samantha said...

I thought this book "had it all" in a way. Multi-layered and characterised and on topics that are perennial favourites and others I knew nothing about. I think I will be investigating The Fall soon.

Karen said...

Hi madbibliophile - I had a hard time tracking down this book in Australia too. When I finally found it in a bookshop it was the only copy there.

Hi Samantha - looking forward to hearing what you think about your next Mawer read - I'm finding it hard to find copies of his other books.


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Counselors Reflect on Dangerous Calling by Paul Tripp
A Series to Care for the Care Takers of God’s People

“Bad things can happen when maturity is more defined by knowing than it is by being. Danger is afloat when you come to love the ideas more than the God whom they represent and the people they are meant to free.” Page 42.

It seems like every car owner hates to see the “service engine” light come on their car. It’s one of those annoying parts of life that we have to accept.  But we don’t like that engine light coming on because of what it might mean.  It may indicate another expense, another commitment of time, and another problem that even when explained by a mechanic, we may not understand.  So, oftentimes we’ll just ignore the light as long as we can.  It’s easier to ignore it.

When I was a freshman in college, anytime I heard an unfamiliar sound under the hood, I would just turn up the radio so I couldn’t hear it anymore!  Not too terribly smart, I know, but somehow I survived all four years with the same car.  I was much more fortunate than a friend who never changed her oil.  Ever.  One day her engine stopped working all together and she had a perplexed look on her face when the mechanic told her she had to change the oil regularly.  Oil, she asked?

Although we can often get away with ignoring a sound under the hood of our cars, we really can’t get away with that when it involves our heart and our relationship with the Lord.  One “service engine” light for our ministries is when we forget to apply the truths of the gospel to our own lives.  If we’re not careful the subtle deceptions can give rise to a distinct distance between our hearts and our heads.  It may start out from the tyranny of the urgent when we find ourselves so busy and carrying such responsibility that we find it hard to spend regular time with the Lord.  The deceptive rust begins and unless we revitalize with the fresh oil of an intimate and honest time with the Lord, we can be seduced into callousness or bitterness.

Perhaps it’s not the busyness of ministry that is the problem, but it’s a struggle with isolation.  Maybe you feel like if you let your guard down in order to be thoroughly honest about your life you may lose your job or you may look weak.  You may have bought into the lie that you have to be perfect in order to minister.   You might also be listening to the lie that you can handle this on your own.  And so you remain disengaged from others who can hold you accountable.

Either way, if you don’t find your way back to a teachable and authentic heart it may lead to a growing distance between your heart and head.  Such separation is usually devastating unless the reconnection is made.  Your message becomes purely academic and your heart grows cold and impenetrable.  A very dangerous place to be.

So, ask yourself some honest questions.  You’re a pastor, youth worker, or Christian worker and such honesty is vital to your longevity and your effectiveness.  In fact, more importantly, it’s vital for your own heart and walk with God.  Have you allowed your heart to show others the truth without applying it to your own life?  Is it easier to show people their errors and think very little about yours?  Are you alone in ministry?  Is there someone with whom you can feel safe?  If you can answer yes to any of these questions please ask for help.  Reacquaint yourself with an intimate time with the Lord.  Find accountability.

Become entranced by the grace and majesty of your Savior and less by the ideas you’ve grown more acquainted with in your ministry.  Remember what the flight attendant says in the airplane.  The oxygen mask goes over your face before you can help those around you.

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The Chelsea Fire Department (CFD) said this week that it has detected major holes in a key recommendation from the Matrix Fire Study to streamline the department and reduce medical aid calls – specifically by relying more on a system of prioritization used by the City’s ambulance contractor.

Deputy Chief John Quatieri, Union President Brian Capistran and the Department’s Steering Committee issued a statement last weekend concerning the study and a meeting last Tuesday, April 23rd, before the City Council.

“The study did have some good points in regards to how the department’s managed,” said Quatieri. “Those recommendations are things we need to improve and the study gave us a good direction on which way to go. The operational side recommendations – we noticed right away there were holes there. We had other agencies look at the report and they said the same things about the operational recommendations.”

The Department’s concerns are specifically that the contract ambulance company is not doing well in handling such calls right now, under a new Emergency Medical Dispatch (EMD) system implemented last year.

“Our department, like every other Metro Fire Department , responds to request for medical assistance through the 9-1-1 system,” read the letter. “We are all aware of the current problems with Cataldo Ambulance EMD. Their response times are awful, they are going to the wrong addresses, not dispatching the proper resources, etc. The bottom line is professional firefighters are the largest providers of pre- hospital emergency medical care in the nation. Study after study shows that private companies cannot compete with the fire service when it comes to providing pre- hospital emergency medical care. By the end of this discussion (at the Council), (Matrix) agreed that reducing responses is most likely not the best option.”

One of the key findings in the study concerned the enormous amounts of calls for service by the Engine 2 fire crews out of the Downtown Station. There were 4,269 calls for Engine 2 in 2011, and that was 22 percent greater than the national standards of 3,500 per year. However, Matrix contended that 65 percent of those calls were medical related. One recommendation was to try to trim medical calls by fire crews.

However, CFD union officials said the reason the call volumes were so high on Engine 2 is that it covers a section of the city that used to be covered by multiple engines – engine companies that were reduced by staffing shortages.

“The true reason for such a high call volume was explained to the Council,” read the letter. “Engine 2 is covering a section of the City that was once covered by three engine companies – Central, Park Sq, and Everett Ave stations. The Councillors agreed and were very interested in exploring the possibility of adding a fourth engine company and building a new station in the Everett Ave/Spruce St/ Second St area.”

Fire officials said they believed that City Councillors do not believe that Matrix’s key recommendation about streamlining calls is the best solution.

“The Councillors clearly did not agree with streamlining calls as the answer to improving service to the citizens of Chelsea,” read the letter. “In fact one Councillor suggested the City go after some of the most dangerous facilities in the City for funding to help offset the cost of additional manpower and training.”

Fire Union officials also indicated that they, as well as some councillors, believed the Matrix study to be inaccurate – and that an official before the Council could not explain the simplest of questions.

“We were surprised, to say the least, as we listened to the City Council question the accuracy of the report,” read the letter. “In fact, one Councillor thought the report was misleading and confusing with regard to department manning. Mr Brady (of Matrix) was unable to answer the Councillors questions clearly and had trouble explaining the most basic fire department standards. One Councillor asked Mr Brady to explain the difference in operations between a three-man and a four-man engine company. Mr Brady explained in length how mutual aid could be relied on to supplement Chelsea Fire operations. He further explained that piece manning doesn’t matter as long as certain goals are met in under eight minutes as the NFPA standard requires. He was unaware that our mutual aid companies have never arrived on scene at a fire in Chelsea in under eight minutes.”

Fire officials also were confident that the Council agreed to the fact that staffing shortages are a problem, and that there is a need to increase the numbers within the department.

“We were able to answer the councillors questions by clearly explaining the responsibilities of an engine company on the fire ground,” read the letter. “We further explained the benefits of having a fourth firefighter on each engine and used the recent Congress Ave fire as an example. The Councillors understood the manning issue which then led to a discussion of adding additional manpower and possibly a fourth engine company. This discussion was started by the Councillors, not the fire department.”

City Manager Jay Ash said the next step in the process is to wait for Fire Chief Bob Better to submit recommendations to the City from the report.

“We’re just awaiting the chief’s discussion about the study’s implementation,” said Ash. “I’ve reviewed the study and have a lot of questions and may or may not agree about its local application. So, I’m waiting for the chief and then we’ll figure out what will be done.”

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The Many Rewards for Serving Others

I can identify—and have myself experienced—at least five distinct outcomes from serving others.  These are five transactions that take place every time you show kindness to someone else.  These actions are the consequences of your actions.  They are. . .

1) You bless the recipient.  The one who receives the kindness is so grateful for what you have done.  Your act of kindness often brings a smile, happiness, and laughter.  They experience a glow that remains after you leave.  They did not expect anyone to care enough to do this for them—for free!

Margaret was one of the 25 million senior citizens who are living in poverty.  She was facing eviction from her trailer home—unless she trimmed her bushes, weeded, and cleaned up the debris in her yard.  But she was in poor health, living on a meager monthly income, and was relationally isolated like many people her age—forgotten by just about everyone.  After hearing her story, a nearby church was contacted by the local Love, INC.  The next weekend, volunteers trimmed her bushes, weeded her flower beds, and cleaned up her yard.  Here’s some of what she said in a thank-you note:

“Without your help, generosity, and charity, I don’t know what I would have done.  One couple said they would return at a later time to plant grass seed an offered to step by once a year to do any ongoing upkeep on the yard.  I can’t begin to tell you how grateful I am to everyone who has helped me with this situation.  Thank you from the bottom of my heart and God bless you all.”

2) Even on those rare occasions when the recipient does not sow gratitude, remember that you also bless yourself when you show kindness to others.  You experience a deep sense of satisfaction and a feeling of fulfillment.  I’ve heard people say they felt “like a million bucks” after serving someone who couldn’t pay them back—and this is in spite of the cost of their time, money, and effort. This is a biblical principle:  Proverbs 11:25 says, He who refreshes others will himself be refreshed.  And Proverbs 14:21 agrees: Blessed is he who is kind to the needy.  It is you who receive the blessing.

But there is also a physiological cause for this wonderful feeling.  A university study recently investigated why humans would be motivated to display acts of generosity—since it seems illogical to willingly sacrifice your resources for others.  MRI scans revealed that an area of the brain linked to generosity triggered a response in another part of the brain related to happiness.  Our happiness levels increase after acts of generosity.  The study encouraged people not to overlook the benefits of “spending” on others, because “giving makes us happy.”

3) There’s more: you please God when you show kindness.  It puts a smile on his face!  Throughout the scriptures we see God honoring servanthood, and Christ exemplifying it.  For instance, Whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant. . . For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many (Mark 10:43-45).  We are never more like Christ than when we are serving others.  Matthew 25 presents an interesting picture of God when the master replies, “Well done, good and faithful servant! . . .Come and share your master’s happiness!” (25:21, 23)  Notice that God honors his faithful servant, and invites him to come share his own happiness.  God loves it when you love on others.

4) Here’s one that is less visible but no less true: When we show kindness to others, we change the atmosphere around us.  This is true wherever you are: at home, at work, in school, in the neighborhood, or in your city.  You know what it feels like to be in a place where there is division, bad feelings, blame, harsh words, and so on.  In contrast, you know what it feels like when people around you are polite, happy to see you, complimentary, supportive, eager to help, and so on.  One person, one act at a time, can “infect” others; and their combined acts of kindness can change the atmosphere over time.

I was intrigued recently by a Readers Digest list of the ten “Nicest Places in America.”  Out of the towns that made the final cut, not one of them was there because of spectacular scenery, strategic location, or a bustling economy.  None of them are well-known places; I had only heard the name of one of the ten.  What set these towns apart from other towns?  It is small and large numbers of people doing small and large acts of kindness—over and over and over again.  People choose to live in these places because it feels like family; they care about people, and they know people care about them.

5) Finally, and this may be the hardest to grasp, but also the most important: our acts of service affect the future.  That’s right—what we do (or don’t do) today has an impact on what happens tomorrow, next year, and the next century.  In the history of America, explorers set out to discover new places.  Pioneers followed them as the first to claim the land.  And then, settlers came later to stay.  When someone shows the way, it is easier for everyone else to follow.

An easy example of this comes from a recent news story that went viral.  At a McDonald’s in Scottsburg, Indiana, the staff and customers kept a chain of good deeds going for more than 3 hours.  On Father’s Day, a regular customer saw a man with four children behind her in the drive-through line.  She paid for their order, the dad paid for the car following him, they did the same for the next vehicle, and so on.  All total, 167 drivers “paid it forward” that night—and the streak only stopped when the store closed for the night.  Think about that amazing sequence: the first customer was setting out on her own, but eventually—as the employees told the customers what was happening—it was easier to join because so many had gone before them.  There was a feeling that “if they can do it, so can I.”  And they did.

Five fantastic results—each one a consequence of your next act of service in your community.  When you think you are too busy or too tired or it’s not going to matter anyway, just remember: IT’S WORTH IT. . . TO EVERYONE.

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eTwinning: a platform for teachers to develop collaborative projects in Europe

Today I'd like to remind all of you of the unique opportunity to be part of the most exciting learning community in Europe. The eTwinning Portal  allows you to do so as it provides online tools for teachers to find partners, set up projects, share ideas, exchange best practices and start working together.
The benefits of eTwinning are many, among which I'd personally remark the impact on students' learning. No doubt it is a rewarding experience for teachers too. However, it is not the purpose of these few lines to describe the innumerable advantages of getting involved in an eTwinning project  but to congratulate the winners of the National Awards 2013 and to provide you with the links to the projects corresponding to Secondary level:

The project  Addressing the energy crunch, every little action counts focuses on energy and sustainability. (14-16 years) (Different subjects)

The Bermuda Triangle is a project in which students find out interesting facts about unusual events, objects, phenomena in their countries. The incentive for this is the mystery of Bermuda Triangle. (12-16 years) (Different subjects)

Picture yourself : taking pictures as a starting point, the students write and interact about teenage related topics: their lifestyles, their background and environments, their icons, their worries and concerns. The idea is to share their experiences with other European teenagers while improving their English and reinforcing their ICT skills. (16-19 years) (English, Citizenship, Tutorials)

Triangles Explorers is a Maths project . The students  learn about the triangle as a geometric shape. They  use Geogebra, ICT program, to find geometrical forms and construct them in class. Simultaneously, they use the English language to communicate and learn Maths and Maths language. (16-19 years)
Maths is B.E.A.U.  (that is, Beautiful, Easy, Amusing and Useful) is another Maths project that allows students  to explore together new ways to communicate Mathematics and to develop new teaching methods. The idea is to motivate students with everyday-life contexts and also to look for contexts that are experientially real for the students and can be used as starting points for progressive mathematization. (16-19 years)

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