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Certificate program revision effective September 2, 2013.

Read new requirements for September 2, 2013 | Read previous requirements for January 22, 2013 - August 8, 2013

Benefits of this certificate:

Businesses and organizations are seeking effective marketing strategies that offer low cost options to compete in an increasingly competitive environment. Social media marketing offers the solution you need to assist in creating a brand, increasing market share, improve sales, gain new customers and grow your presence on the web. Learn to create an effective Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter marketing plan, write and publish blogs that are designed to increase business, develop an e-mail marketing strategy that will inspire customers and avoid common pitfalls. Learn techniques to showcase your business using video. Courses can be taken individually for individuals not intending to achieve the overall program certificate.

Did you know that social media associates are one of the top ten jobs rated by Forbes' Top 10 Best Freelance Jobs list? They are responsible for managing, updating, and publishing all social media platforms. The work includes creating and implementing online, social, and mobile strategies. Associates write engaging copy for social media channels which goes beyond just Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter since social media has expanded to Google+, Pinterest, Instagram, Tumblr, and more!

Estimated Earnings: $20 to $25 an hour

Our fast track certificate program not only teaches students how to use these tools proficiently, they will also learn how to successfully meet client goals whether it is increasing traffic or increasing conversions for various marketing campaigns. Students registered with the Social Media Marketing Certificate program will have an opportunity to gain practical experience by actually completing a project for actual local businesses in need of social media assistance. This completed project will be added to students' resumes and the businesses will agree to act as references upon successful completion of the capstone.

Certificate Requirements

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Upon completion of the required courses and five electives, students must notify the Continuing Education office. After verifying the student's completion status, a certificate will be mailed to the student's address on record.

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Andrea Reed  Artist, tea drinker, accordion ditty-er. Other accounts: @girlgreybeauty @andreareedart

3 days of selfies to remember an awesome weekend! #DontGiveUp! #rc2017 was amazing

Finally went to @partandparcelvictoria and had an AMAZING meal 😩 definately recommend 👌

🙈 This monkey was a jerk

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Tea for days😍

I love that @productofdust just knows to take pics of all the animals for me-I don't even have to ask😍

So mad I didn't get more of this guy. Pretty much our fav part of the trip right here😍😍😍

🌸🎀🌸 Hawa Mahal (Palace of Winds). 5 stories of honeycomb-like adorableness😍. The tiny windows were so the ladies could look down into the activity of the streets and not be seen 🙈

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Enjoying the sunrise over the Taj. Mumtaz Mahal must have been one special lady.
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Definately worth the 4:30am wake up. 📷@productofdust

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Beautiful Inspirations for an Autumn Wedding

If you plan to have your wedding in the month of September, October, or November, take advantage of the season’s produce to decorate your wedding.   Here are beautiful inspirations from five real weddings held in the Fall.

fig and hot cocoa

Dana and Quinn tied the knot on October at the Historic Jamestowne park in Jamestown, Virginia. In photo: the groom’s boutonniere –  ‘Schwarzwalder’ calla lily paired with snow berries; a fresh fig for each plate setting; hot cocoa in mugs rimmed with crushed graham crackers.

cakes and apples

From Maria and Robert’s wedding in Sunriver, Oregon. In photo: a variety of baked delights await guests in the “cake table”; fruit and cheese served on a tree trunk; apples dipped in chocolate & caramel are set out in large copper kettles for guests to take home.

shawl and succulent favors

Giovanna and Schuyler’s wedding took place in Montecito, California.  In photo:  Shawls so guests can stay warm; A mix of florals, succulents, and foliage arranged in rustic urns and terracota pots brighten-up the reception tables; a mini-succulent with a personalized place card as a favor.

fruits foliage florals centerpiece

Claire and Benjamin’s wedding was held in Beverly Hills, California. In photo: fruits as centerpieces; lush flowers of the season in silver vessels; tables were adorned with laurel garlands,persimmons, figs, raspberry branches, and passion fruit vine.

pumpkins apples donuts

This wedding is featured in Wedding Chicks and is a true-blue inspiration for a wedding in the Fall. In photo: the gorgeous bride wearing an orange cardigan over her gown and holding a huge bouquet of autumn flowers; mini pumpkins, apples and glazed donuts at the “Sweets Table”; a large wooden ampersand by a barrel where the programs are set.

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Like water for the desert, New Media for New Mexico

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A little inspiration for Sunday
(a little After Effects pin tool anyone?)

free foley and ambient sounds

free foley and ambient sounds

Good free sound site.  We do not have Soundtrack Pro in the lab, so folks are going to have to come up with their own soundtracks! if you have any other links, please post them in the comments!!!


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Carnival UK reveals major restructure

Princess Cruises’ UK boss Paul Ludlow is to switch brands and take the helm at P&O Cruises.

The announcement comes as part of a major restructure of the commercial teams for P&O Cruises and Cunard less than a week after the shock announcement that Carnival UK’s chief commercial officer Gerard Tempest was to exit the business after two years.

Ludlow’s new role as senior vice-president of sales and marketing for P&O Cruises will also see him take responsibility for sales support, guest insight and the digital teams of both P&O Cruises and Cunard.

Cunard is now recruiting for the role of senior vice-president of sales and marketing.

As part of the restructure, sales and distribution director Chris Truscott will be leaving the business.

Head of partner sales, Jeremy McKenna, will lead the agency sales team for both brands, reporting directly to Ludlow in the interim period until the new Cunard role is appointed.

P&O Cruises marketing director, Christopher Edgington, will report into Paul Ludlow and Cunard’s Angus Struthers will report into the equivalent for Cunard when appointed.

Carnival UK chief executive, David Noyes, said that bringing sales and marketing together in one role would help Cunard and P&O Cruises create more momentum for the brands.

“I am delighted to appoint Paul to this critical role. Paul’s 15 years of experience within our company makes him an ideal fit to lead the sales and marketing teams for P&O Cruises to ensure sustained growth of the brand.

“Chris Truscott leaves this business in a significantly better position than the one he joined. He should be proud of what he has achieved and the relationships he has built.”

Ludlow said: “Following the launch of Britannia in March, which positioned P&O Cruises at the forefront of the nation’s mind, there has never been a more exciting time for the company.

“The potential for the industry as a whole is vast and I am determined, through giving a seamless, exemplary guest experience, working closely with our travel agent partners, to develop this growth to the maximum for P&O Cruises.”

During his time at Princess Cruises, Ludlow oversaw the creation of an individual sales team and commercial operation for the brand. He led the team which launched Royal Princess, named by the Duchess of Cambridge, and also oversaw the launch of new travel agent tools such as the recently-launched booking portal OneSource.

Princess Cruises is now recruiting for Ludlow’s replacement.

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How James Brown Saved Boston

James Brown Boston again

In segregated Boston in 1968, James Brown was scheduled to perform the night after Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination.  City leaders were nervous about the potential for civil disturbance from the throngs of black folks swarming the Boston Garden.  After negotiating with Brown’s camp, the mayor’s office announced that the concert would go on as scheduled and that it would be broadcast live on WGBH, and then repeated throughout the evening to keep people—black people, that is—at home.[1]    It worked.  Brown’s two-hour performance proved to be just what mournful and angry fans needed to soothe their souls after the loss of King, and after the years of indignities and prejudice they had faced.  Though the police stood onstage with Brown and his band as they performed a ninety-minute concert, there seemed to be an understanding between Brown and his audience that prevented any disturbances from occurring at the Garden that April night.  When some fans began to crowd the stage and attract police attention, Brown quickly put everyone in their place.  He pushed the officers back and instructed the audience to act like ladies and gentlemen, “because we’re black.  Don’t make us all look bad,” he admonished them.[2]  Though Brown was hardly a subscriber to King’s pacifist philosophies, he respected King and understood how much pain black America was experiencing.

Shortly after the Boston gig the mayor of Washington, D.C., desperate to end the riots, called James Brown for help.  Brown went on live local television and radio to calm the situation.  “I know how everybody feels,” he sympathized.  “I feel the same way.  But you can’t accomplish anything by blowing up, burning up, stealing and looting….The real answer to race problems in this country is education.  Be ready.  Be qualified.  Own something.  Be somebody.  That’s black power.”[3]  Lynn Tolliver believes that Brown’s actions in the days after the assassination speak to his ability to make an impact.  “Music more or less [brings a lot of] joy to you,” Tolliver explains.  “I could imagine how the impact of that concert could have calmed a lot of people down.”[4]   James Brown’s attitude, appearance, and musical style were a far cry from the black culture Motown promoted.  He did not try to fit in or please white audiences.  Brown was, according to reporter Thulani Davis, “proof that black people were different.  Rhythmically and tonally blacks had to be from somewhere else.  Proof that Africa was really over there for those of us who had never seen it—it was in that voice….”[5]  LeRoi Jones called him “our number one black poet.”  Many of his lyrics were militant and unapologetic, something many black Americans needed to hear in 1968.

After performing in Boston James Brown wrote what was to become the anthem for the black power movement: “Say It Loud (I’m Black and I’m Proud).”  Messages of pride and strength could be found in many of Brown’s songs, but “Say It Loud” said it best.  Chuck D of the influential rap group Public Enemy credits the song as having prepared him for the third grade, “1969, and the rest of my life.  Black now signified where we was at, a new discovery of our bad self.”[6]  Cleveland performer John Wilson calls “Say It Loud” the “black national anthem” and notes the song’s “profound effect” on him.[7]  Jamilah Zand reports a similar experience with the song.  “Wow!  This song was the anthem of any Black person that could talk, walk or dance,” she says.  “Black folks were sick and tired of being sick and tired, and voices from everywhere were rising up in protest….Singing and dancing, still professing in song that we are who we are, and we are not ashamed.”[8]

…Look here, some people say we got a lot of malice some say it’s a lotta nerve I say we won’t quit moving ‘til we get what we deserve…

I’ve worked on jobs with my feet and my hands but all the work I did was for the other man and now we demand a chance to do things for ourselves we tired of beating our heads against the wall and working for someone else…

…One thing more I got to say right here Now, we’re people like the birds and the bees We’d rather die on our feet than keep living on our knees

Say it loud, I’m black and I’m proud

  After Brown sang “We’d rather die on our feet than keep living on our knees,” it was no longer possible to separate his music from his ideology.  Many parents, black and white, felt that Brown’s newly-politicized lyrics would create trouble, Mike Olszewski remembers.[9]  Prior to “Say It Loud” Brown faced criticism from some black activists for not using his music to “reflect the Black Revolution,” as black power activist Maulana Karenga believed all black artists should.  Some in Brown’s inner circle, and at times Brown himself, implied that Black Panthers had confronted him with machine guns over his refusal to radicalize his lyrics.  The Nation of Islam had also been critical of Brown, accusing him of catering to whites with his musical “propaganda.”  Brown later placed an ad in the Nation’s weekly publication, Muhammad Speaks, featuring the lyrics to “Say It Loud” and a photo of himself with David McCarthy, his general manager.  McCarthy, and Brown’s accountant, Greg Moses, were members of the Nation.  Brown admitted to Al Sharpton that he admired the Nation’s emphasis on self-discipline and self-help, though he was a practicing Christian.[10]

Brown continued to speak his mind through his music.  “I Don’t Want Nobody to Give Me Nothing (Open Up the Door I’ll Get It Myself)” spoke directly to the idea of self-help.  “Soul Power” was about black pride and spirit.  “Talkin’ Loud & Sayin’ Nothing” was a call for direct action.  “Like a dull knife, just ain’t cuttin’/We’re just talkin’ a lot and sayin’ nothing” reflects criticism of those who believed in passive resistance over confrontation.  Brown’s lyrical content throughout the rest of the sixties and into the seventies shows that he knew he could have an impact with his music, and he was going to do what he could to inspire and create change.[11]

 James Brown Boston

  [1] David Leaf, The Night James Brown Saved Boston, DVD (Los Angeles: Shout! Factory LLC, 2009). [2] James Brown, Live at the Boston Garden April 5, 1968, DVD (Los Angeles: Shout! Factory LLC, 2009). [3] James Sullivan, The Hardest Working Man: How James Brown Saved the Soul of America (New York: Gotham Books, 2008), 148. [4] Lynn Tolliver, Jr., telephone interview by author, October 25, 2009. [5] Peter Guralnick, Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley (Boston: Back Bay Books, 1994), 243. [6] Chuck D, “1968, January…,” in The James Brown Reader: 50 Years of Writing About the Godfather of Soul, eds. Nelson George and Alan Leeds (New York: Plume, 2008), 44. [7] John Wilson, email to author, February 6, 2010; John Wilson, telephone interview by author, November 8, 2009. [8] Jamilah Zand, email to author, February 10, 2010. [9] Mike Olszewski, interview by author, Cleveland, Ohio, October 29, 2009. [10] Sullivan, 170-172. [11] James Brown, Star Time, 4 CD set, discs 2 and 3, associate producer Alan M. Leeds (New York: PolyGram Records Inc., 1991).

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What's with the Climate?

Voices of a Subcontinent grappling with Climate Change

Visions for the Future

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Vision of young people is simple – we want to enjoy a stable climate that our parents grandparents have enjoyed, one without hundreds and thousands of refugees, resource scarcity, and natural disasters.

The IPCC has stated that to give us a 50% chance of preventing two degrees warming we will require global emissions to be stabilized at 450ppm. Now, even venture capitalists would agree that 50% chance of return isn’t a worthwhile investment. Imagine the loss of this investment resulting in the destruction of our planet. My vision for the long term is that India makes to the 350ppm target, which gives us a strong chance at preventing runaway climate change. Clean technology will need a very strong presence to make this vision reality.

My vision of the next 12 months, which will progress beyond that, is somewhat Gandhi-an.

The Indian attitude to climate change is changing and it is going to heavily impact the cleantech market. What we’re seeing now, with the Indian Youth Climate Network (IYCN) as a great example is that people have an increasing awareness of climate change in both the urban and rural communities of India. Climate change more than anything is an issue of humanity. When it comes to times of crisis humans often band together. India’s fight for independence is an epic example. Climate change is bringing the global community, and will bring India together. It was not luck that allowed IYCN to expand from 3 to over 300 individual members, harbour more than 10 member groups and have the reach to over 205,000 young Indians nation wide. It is not luck that has allowed IYCN to achieve the support of globally rooted organisations such as Infosys, Greenpeace, Reva, WWF and media houses such as NDTV, times of India, the Hindustan times and the Hindu within 4 months of its inception.

Every Indian I’ve met has hope that India will become a developed nation, will not have millions of people die each year from malnutrition disease, and natural catastrophes. We’re working so hard to build our economy, aiming for superpower status, and becoming a leader in the world in many areas, it seems somewhat ludicrous if India doesn’t take far stronger action on climate change, because if it doesn’t, the malnutrition, disease and natural catastrophes are only going to get worse. Hence I feel, like in our fight for independence, the youth & people of India will unite and take action for solutions.

I have 4 big visions. Firstly, an increase in consumer demand for retail & bulk energy from cleantech, Secondly, innovative cleantech transport solutions, thirdly, strong growth in rural clean tech projects, and finally, clean tech being the next IT.

 Vision 1: Increase in consumer demand for retail & bulk energy

With increasing realisation of this problem everyone is looking towards the solutions. Clean technology is the necessary solution. Currently the major emitters of the world aren’t making the investments necessary to give us a more than 50% chance of a habitable future. However, increasing education will see a shift in consumers demanding the retail availability of clean energy to power their households. Bulk purchase of clean technology will rise significantly driven by rising awareness amongst corporations? and tertiary institutions. As illustration, one of our member groups is currently running a campaign on IIT campuses promoting green practices, and this is one of many green university campaigns IYCN is seeing. Tertiary institutions will be one of many sectors to jump on the “green” bandwagon as youth awareness and mobilization increases.

Vision 2: Increase in innovative cleantech transport solutions

In the area of transport, motorbike and electric vehicle purchases are rising in the Indian market. The popularity of electric vehicles will grow due to their clean technology power, alternatively to petrol, whose rising prices is significantly altering consumer behaviour. I can say this with confidence, because IYCN is in the process of launching our climate solutions road tour from Delhi to Kanya Kumari, the southernmost tip of India in six weeks, in 3 solar powered electric cars. This has been a very popular idea, and has found strong support from individuals and groups such as Times of India amongst other organisations. Solutions such as solar-powered electric cars, will make the cleantech industry a source of inspiration and vibrant visions of hope for those feeling despair in the face of the climate.

Vision 3: Strong growth in rural clean tech projects

I don’t think clean tech is only a solution for securing a stable climate, it is also a solution for today’s development, alleviating people from poverty, and providing a stable source of electricity that most Indians are denied. Rural communities face difficulties from lack of electricity and health issues from the burning of kerosene and firewood, which greatly contributes to their poverty. Supporting rural India with clean technology is integral not only because it will mitigate 26% of India’s emissions, but will provide a livelihood to people and assuage communal poverty. Rural India holds vast untapped sources and holds great potential. Many people within IYCN have come together to start IYCN’s own decentralised rural energy project in Tamil Nadu with biogas chulha’s (stoves) and decentralised solar lighting. This is a demonstration that young people along with many others now understand the importance of clean technology.

Vision 4: Clean tech will be the next IT

Personally, I don’t see the Indian government taking the necessary action in the required time frame to lead India into a stable future. This opinion has been reaffirmed by the recently released climate action plan from our Indian government. However I see our people, NGO’s and our companies ensuring this. I see clean technology as the next IT. The IT industry has supported the Indian people in our country’s development and progress and has created a new age of sleek professionals, building a credible image of India on the international front. I see the clean tech as an iconic industry. It will support the Indian future, support development in our rural communities, helping light up homes of those who can’t access electricity. Clean Technology companies are in desperate need for skilled workers, I see it creating a mass job alternative over the next 10-20 years like IT has over the past 10 years. I see the clean tech industry as ensuring stable electricity that for most Indians is a dream, that are respectable, healthy and support our Indian economy. Clean technology is the hope for our countries economy, heath, development and environment.

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Jamie Nicholls, Jon Russell and Will Smith shred Cas

So much UK talent has come out of the fridge at Castleford that sometimes it’s hard to keep up! Thankfully, none of these three should need much introduction – they’ve been stalwarts of the Yorkshire scene for years, tearing up the dome and then (when there’s snow) taking it to the streets of Leeds. Now that Will’s signed on the same Salomon Team as Jamie, we expect to see a lot more of them riding together…. which, when they can do stuff like this can only be a good thing. Viva Cas-Vegas!

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The Blog

How to Land Your Dream Job - 7 WinterWyman Experts Weigh-in

We asked our WinterWyman recruiters what advice they would give to people who are passionate about landing their dream jobs. Here’s what our experts had to say!

Jenna Bartolomei, Contract Staffing

Stay connected! Referrals are one of the best ways to get into a company that you’re interested in and land your dream job. Maintain a large network of people within your field via LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter, and leverage that network when you’re on the job hunt. Stay in touch, even when you’re not looking, by sharing relevant industry articles or market data. You can even just drop a line to say hello. That way if you start looking, you’re not reaching out to a contact out of the blue.

Brian Beaudry, Contract Staffing

The key to landing the job of your dreams is to not have a “dream job.” The idea of a pre-packaged dream scenario can be a serious restriction in your search, and restrictions are the enemy of a successful job hunt. I recommend identifying what you really need out of a job to feel engaged and fulfilled. This could be things like company culture, work life balance, compensation, industry, etc.  These elements usually exist in a number of different opportunities. If you can build flexibility into your search, you’re more likely to find a role that fulfills your wants and needs. This will allow you to turn many real life opportunities into dream scenarios.

Patty Coffey, Search

Have a clear and realistic view of what your dream job is. Once you have formulated that image, talk to your mentors, career coaches and recruiters, and ask their opinions.  Also, remember that your dream job might not be realistic at this present time. You may have to take a few steps now in order for it to be feasible down the road. Either way, keep an open mind and be patient.

Sarah Connors, Contract Staffing

Tell the hiring manager that this is the job of your dreams. If you act like this is just an interview or role like any other, the recruiter won’t know how strongly you feel about the opportunity. Use specific examples and let him or her know why you’re excited about this role. Your energy will likely be infectious, and your reasons could make you stand out from the crowd.

WinterWyman Recruiter, Contract Staffing

If your dream job is with a particular company, connect with internal recruiters there. Find out who they are and introduce yourself. Recruiters are the gatekeepers of a company, and often times have the power to get your resume from the application queue to the desk of a hiring manager. Additionally, recruiters are not shy about connecting on LinkedIn! Connect with them or email them your resume, and explain why you’re interested in the company. They may not get back to you right away, but when the right role opens up, you may get the call for the dream job you’ve been waiting for.

WinterWyman Recruiter, Search

Know your skills and how to package them to make yourself the most attractive candidate. Make sure your resume is polished, prepare an elevator pitch, show passion for what you do, and present yourself with confidence. Companies want to hire people who will make them money, streamline process, and add positive energy to the team. To find your dream job, be that person!

Tonya Salerno, Contract Staffing

Identify what it is that actually makes it a “dream job.” Maybe it’s the day-to-day responsibilities, the culture and lifestyle, or the mission or product you’re supporting. It starts from understanding what it is you want, and why the job is ideal. Anything worthwhile is never easy, so prepare your resume so that it highlights the requirements of the position. Also, spend some time researching the company and its employees before you step into the interview.


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Posted by: vicsilver | July 13, 2009

Some pictures

I took a couple of pictures to share with you – here’s me in my Grizzleheim gear from yesterday – it’s a nice change from my usual stuff. The funny thing was that my new friend Oran Shadowwalker had almost the same gear, except for a different hat! Even the same colors – we were almost twins.

This one is a picture of my scary new spell, the Kraken! He’s so huge you can barely see me down there, on the left. It’s quite a powerful spell but takes four pips, and I only usually use it against powerful opponents.

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6 things to avoid while on hormones

If you are considering going on hormones for any reason, here is a handy list of 6 things you should avoid lest you become a soggy, weeping mess.

  1.  Disney movies. I caught the last five minutes of Hunchback of Notre Dame today. I have never seen this movie, but there is a part right at the end when a little girl goes up to Quasimodo, touches his face, then takes his hand. Under normal circumstances, that may have caused me to choke up a little. But under the influence of the hormones? Tears streaming down my face. And seriously, what kind of sadistic people do they have writing these movies? Dead parents, orphans, child abusers. It’s like they take pleasure in making me weep so hard that I frighten my children.
  2. Grocery shopping. I broke down twice in Trader Joe’s yesterday. Once because they did not have pretzel rolls (although, let’s be honest, that might have made me weep under normal circumstances because…pretzel rolls…). And then again while I wandered aimlessly up and down the aisles, thinking of all of the healthy food I do not buy and how there must be something on these shelves that will make me a better mother. Kale chips? Quinoa? Kefir? Should I be buying the fancy organic cucumbers for $1.69 more? Why do I feed my kids so much mac n cheese? Why do we eat out so much? And don’t good moms actually shop at Whole Foods instead of selfishly boycotting them for being pretentious, douchey, and everything that’s wrong with “healthy eating” in America? I was sucked into a downward spiral of self-loathing and self-doubt, openly weeping while I put yet another bag of tri-color pasta and 8 boxes of applesauce pouches into my cart.
  3. Your office or place of business. Turns out that being super emotional at work is not great for productivity or intraoffice relationships. Every offhand comment becomes a hurtful insult, every innocent look becomes a mean glare. Went over budget on an event? Time to hide in the bathroom and quietly sob into your hands. Forgot to turn in a credit card receipt? TIme to collapse onto the floor of your office in a trembling heap. Good thing I can go home after a long, emotional day and have a nice glass of wine. Oh, wait–sorry, sister! No you can’t! You’re on medication and are under doctor’s orders to abstain from alcohol. Sucks to be you, bitch!
  4. Books. Especially those featuring children, orphans, dogs, lovers, and/or dead versions of all of the above. You might want to steer clear of children’s books, too. Ramona and I are currently making our way through the Ramona Quimby books, and [spoiler alert!] at the end of Ramona Forever, Mrs. Quimby has a baby girl. They name the baby Roberta. My Ramona is named after my grandmother Roberta who died quite suddenly when I was about 5 months pregnant. So yeah…soggy, weeping mess.
  5. Television. It’s the commercials that will get you! Cheerios, Subaru, iPhone, Folgers, Home Depot, Iams… fuck you, television marketing evil-geniuses, taking advantage of me in my hormone-induced weakness.
  6. The Internet. Did you know there are 58,000 results on YouTube when you search for “crying elephant”? And you will watch every single one of them while ugly-crying into your bowl of cookie dough ice cream.

And so, dear reader, if you ever find yourself on hormones, please heed my warning and avoid these 6 emotional triggers. Or at least make sure you have plenty of ice cream and kleenex on hand.

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  1. jodis958 says:

    Heh!! Hormones quite slant the world view, every level, you’re truel! & ‘ve so lived weeping in the grocery aisle, whoosh! Thanks for this post, Ness. Funny, harrowing & core. (P.S., I’ll never forget your babyhood response to Bambi! Kid’s books & Disney movies & life in gen(?) shld come with a warning! Heh agn!) Love love!

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Stash Busters Check-In

February 24, 2010

I hope everyone is getting a lot of sewing done!  It is check in day.  Add your totals in the comments section.  Make sure you are putting your totals for the entire challenge in the comments sections.  We are using a running total.

My totals so far are:

Items made=4

Yards Used= 4

Hopefully, I’ll be able to pick up the pace next week.  I have a visitor coming, so I had to use my sewing time for extra cleaning this week.

Don’t forget about the Bags mini challenge.  This ends on Friday, so get those bags made and posted in Flickr!

Good luck and keep up the sewing!

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  1. February 24, 2010 4:05 pm

    6 items made
    12.5 yards used

    Jennifer 🙂

  2. February 24, 2010 7:21 pm

    Ugh – slow sewing week thanks to the baby teething, toddler not sleeping well, & hubby working late.

    Grand totals – 4 3/4 yards used; 15 items

    Also, I have a question – I have made some hooded towels & I’m wondering if the towels count as fabric since they’re in my stash for sewing purposes? Thanks!

  3. February 25, 2010 11:44 am

    Woo hoo! Then I have to update my numbers:
    15 items, 6 1/4 yards

  4. Roz permalink
    February 25, 2010 6:16 pm

    Here are my totals for this week:

    Items made = 3
    Yards used = 7

  5. February 26, 2010 11:42 am

    I have really been slacking on the sewing. My kids were on break and we went out of town for a few days. Anyway:

    Items made: 4
    Yards used: 3

  6. March 3, 2010 1:20 am

    During the week, but I did a ton over the weekend. I’ll hold those totals over until the next check-in, since the stashbusting really took place on Feb 27-28. 🙂

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  • Resolved Celinal

    I used the following snippet to force www on my domain, and it did seem to work. But all other sites are redirecting back to my main site. E.g goes through to Now I don’t want that. So is there another way to hack the .htaccess file?

    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^$
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    Any help will be greatly appreciated!

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  • Andrea Rennick

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    Just install it when your site is using the www. No need to force anything.

    So sorry, but I don’t understand what you are saying. I have already installed everything and it is all live. How can I go from there to have www on my domain?

    Thank you for the prompt reply =)

    I need to know this too.

    What she said was ‘If you set up your site, from day one, to be, then it’ll be fine.’

    Also that .htaccess hack works, but … I think you want this.

    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^$
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$$1 [R=301]

    Thanks for the reply! Yes, I was afraid that is what she meant.

    After many, many failed attempts I figured the code should be placed in the root .htaccess (duh!) since this domain I am talking about is an add-on. Turns out your code works wonders. Everything should be in order now.

    Thank you! I really appreciate your help. 😀

    Oh yeah, above the WordPress lines in your root .htaccess is best 🙂

    The only time you’d want to add those to the subdomain .htaccess would be if you want to redirect THAT back around to the MAIN domain (which … I did recently when I flipped from subdomains to subfolders for another site).

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The Last Few Days

I’ve been a little preoccupied the last few days. With work, with my mind, with other people. It’s been frustrating not writing, but it’s also been nice not to worry about it.

Thursday night I went out on a date. Part of me was worried she wouldn’t show up because part of me always thinks that. I’ve been stood up before. A lot. It always kind of baffled me because I never thought my personality was so bad that someone would pass up a free meal, but whatever. I started carrying a book with me, just in case. I’d still eat. I mean, by that point I was hungry so hell, I might as well buckle down and have a good dinner and a good read.

But this girl didn’t stand me up. It was our second date, the first being a dinner on my birthday. The second was even better. We had a good dinner. Followed it up with a local film festival that was delightful not only because the films were good but because the crowd was so interactive, knowing or being someone that was involved with the short films.

Following that, we hopped across the street for drinks and karaoke. I didn’t sing. She did. I’m absolutely addicted to her voice. I could listen to an album.

We went back to my place afterwards. I had chickened out on my birthday, but I took a gamble here and kissed her. It paid off. We went inside and watched whatever was on at 3AM in the morning which, and this shouldn’t be a surprise, consisted of divorce court and Nicolas Cage movies and I’m here to tell you that is totally fucking awesome.

We didn’t talk much, instead curling up with each other and losing ourselves in Academy Award-winning Nic formerly-Coppola’s riveting performance in National Treasure. And that was perfect.

It has been a long, long time since I’ve been on a date where I didn’t feel out of place or pressured to be a certain way. It was easy and it was fun. And regardless of where it goes from here, it was a night I needed after losing two friends and being stressed out at life. She makes me want to write and writing is my life.

She left around 4:30, I went to bed, woke up renewed enough to trudge through eight hours of work and then went out to see Crystal Method play at a local bar. I like electronica alright and it was solid, but I found myself out at the deck bar more often than not. And it was raining. In fact, it was pouring and I was drenched and I kind of loved it.

I’ve talked about my love for rain before, but this was a different. Very little is similar between hearing the chatter of rain drops on rooftops and being in the middle of a downpour. I felt cleansed. Lightning flashed and thunder roared, rare occasions for Alaska. As people staggered around me and even as I slipped into a more inebriated state, I was fascinated by the sheer naturalness of the weather. It felt amazing. I think I’m going to get pneumonia, though.

Cut to yesterday and I’m at work again. A customer at the table next to me sagged in his chair and then collapsed onto the floor. My co-worker and I both tried to catch him but were too late. He hit hard and seized a little. Coincidentally, one of the other customers in the store happened to be an EMT and he took care of the man until the emergency services arrived. He was responsive and coherent as he left and I hope he makes a full recovery.

The entire thing left me shaken and I resolved to get a beer after work. Just so happened the Spin Doctors were in town to play a free (to the public) show down by the railroad station just a couple blocks away. I got off in time to catch the last hour or so of the set.

I stood on top of a hill under a grey sky, plastic cup full of beer gripped tightly in my hand, looking over hundreds of people of all ages. They were dancing and drinking, fighting and kissing, sitting and staggering. I saw dozens who stood in one spot, eyes closed and bobbing their head to the music. I had arrived wondering how many people showed up hoping that they would hear Two Princes because that was the only song they could sing along to. I left realizing that it didn’t matter. Music – like paintings or sculptures or prose – is art and people take in art to escape from the world for a bit. Fans are nice. They’re the bread-givers to artists. But here it didn’t matter if these people had bought every album or just needed to unwind; the Spin Doctors had showed up to give their gift and these people received it by having a goddamn good time.

I don’t know that there’s a point to this entry. It feels like I’m writing into my diary, hoping that the other end of it isn’t Voldemort. I do know that I have spent the last month mourning and sulking a bit and doubting and the last few days have kind of put things into some perspective.

I forgot how nice it is to be liked and to hold someone in your arms. I was reminded how fleeting life is and how suddenly something can happen. I found myself in positions where I appreciated the smaller things in life, be it music or rain, and made a promise to try and do so more often.

Our planet is not the biggest, but that doesn’t mean it’s small. There is so much that happens on every level. Chemical reactions, volcano eruptions, animal friendships. We create incredible things to be shared. We have relationships.

All the same, we are mortal. We spend so much time worrying about what we’re doing or how we’re going to make something work or pining over someone or something and we aren’t literally taking the time to smell that gorgeous bouquet of flowers. To smile at someone who looks blue. To pet the sweet dog that ran up to you at the park. To say hi to the girl or boy with their nose in a book.

I spent the last few days celebrating and appreciating life in a way I haven’t in a while and I liked it quite a bit.

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Oktoberfest, Or That Time I Crippled Myself

When I was eighteen years old, four months after I graduated high school, I blew all the money I had saved up to take my 23-year old friend Sean and myself on a three week trip around Europe. We blew way too much money and spent too little time in some places (as little as a day in Rome and Venice, as long as four or five days in places like Dublin and Barcelona), but the main reason we were going, our ultimate destination, was the Oktoberfest beer festival in Munich, Germany.

I have so many stories from my short time in Europe, but this post will be dedicated to our time there and the month or two that followed.

Sean and I arrived in Munich around six in the morning, shuffling off the train that had whisked us away from a flooded Venice. We wandered around the city until we found first our hostel (not the party hostel, but the one right next to the party hostel; it was too early to check in, so we stashed our packs in a pair of lockers) and then the fairgrounds. The festival didn’t open for the day until 8 or 10 or so, so Sean and I backtracked, grabbed our dirty clothes out of our packs, confusedly managed the washing machines at a local laundromat and then took a short nap.

We awoke refreshed, found our way back to Oktoberfest and were promptly astonished at its majesty. Beer “tents” that were more warehouses that could fit hundreds, each with their own signature brew, live music and the finest German cuisine. Frauleins with a half dozen monstrous steins full of ale in their arms, baskets full of fruits, breads and cheeses. Typical Americans that we are, Sean and I found the nearest unreserved table we could, ordered a mug of the house beer and chugged it down.

Holy shit. The beer was strong and delicious but it was also heavy, and the heat coming off of so many people in an enclosed building helped it rush directly to our head. We resolved to take the second one slower and with a meal.

We wandered around a bit afterwards, making new drinking buddies, trying out different tents and marveling at how completely unimpressed the local Germans were. Of course they were! This was an annual part of their culture. It was essentially a massive state fair for them, albeit with a bunch of obnoxiously drunk foreign tourists clogging up the thoroughways. There were games to play (ring toss, balloon/dart games), souvenier shops (we bought two steins. Sean immediately broke his on mine; mine has been lost to time and too many moves), and rides.

We went on a roller coaster. I don’t know why. We were both drunk and I’m terrified of heights. Just seemed like a thing we were supposed to do. When they snapped the safety harness in, however, they managed to pinch Sean’s scrotum. A whole roller coaster ride with a pinched scrotum. He wasn’t in the best of moods after that, and he probably won’t be again when I share this post and tag him in it, letting everyone know what happened to his ball sack.

Afterwards, and after my friend had a few long minutes to recover, we met up with Australian friends Jared and Joanna whom we had previously become acquainted with in Barcelona. By “we”, I mean Sean left to find them at the train station while I got lost around the fairgrounds. I don’t know how we ended up finding each other again, but we did and we continued to drink until Oktoberfest closed for the evening.

We made our way to Jared and Jo’s hostel (the aforementioned party one, next to ours) where things got a little…out of control.

I don’t remember the name of the girl who got up to dance on the table with me. I do know I was the first one on the table, she was the first one to get up and join me, she was from the East Coast of the U.S.A. and I thought she was beautiful.

Between six and ten other people took to the tables and we were forced to cease our shenanigans on threat of removal. Fair enough. One more drink, bartender, I clearly haven’t had enough.

We drank until that hostel shut their bar down. Sean, my American dance damsel and I made our way back to our hostel and proceeded to drink until their bar closed. I ordered extra beers to drink while I used the computer while Sean went to bed.

Time passed. I didn’t notice, lost as I was in a booze stupor and the glory of the Internet.

Around four or five in the morning, Sean returned from upstairs and took a seat next to me. My friend is usually a boisterous man, full of piss and vinegar and ready to take the day by the face and flush it in the toilet. Not this morning, though. This morning he was timid, silent for several long moments. Eventually, he blurted what sounded like a confession.

Sean was sleeping in one of the upper bunks of our eight bed room when a bunch of intoxicated Australian men burst into the room, laughing. They began wrestling each other. Clothes began being removed until the Ozzies were all naked and one hopped up on the bed to try and force feed Sean a cheeseburger. My friend, confused and half-awake, politely refused and excused himself down to the lobby where he planned on waiting for them to calm down.

I stared at him, half-comprehending the story. He said nothing more and eventually left again. I followed him not long after and, to my dismay, found that not only had he been telling the truth but one of these undressed fellows had commandeered my bed and was snoring happily.

I could have raised a fuss. I did pay for the bed, I was within my rights to demand the man to vacate. On the other hand, all of these bunks but Sean’s now had foreign ball sweat all over the sheets. Pass. Back to the lobby.

Somewhat exhausted, I befriended a British man, an Irishman and a couple women from a country I can’t fully recall. The Brit had stocked his backpack full of beers from the train station and was more than willing to share them at no cost. I got my second wind. We drank and conversed for a few hours more until Sean awoke and we decided to hit the festival for a few hours before catching our train out of Munich to Berlin.

Rinse, repeat. I was well toasted enough that Sean had to steer me with one hand on my shoulder back to the hostel to grab our things, from their to the train station, and onto the train. By this time, I estimate that I had been drinking beer and liquor for around 32 hours straight. This happened.

When I awoke, my left hand had fallen asleep. It didn’t go away after five minutes. It didn’t go away after twenty minutes. Six. Hours. Later. I had fucked up tying my shoe. I had struggled to button my pants. My entire hand was pins and needles and curled into a shadow of a claw with zero grip strength and very little control over my fingers and my ability to clench.

We arrived in Berlin and headed to the airport. While we waited for our flight back to Dublin (where we were to stay for a couple days more before heading home), I purchased a box of orange tic-tacs. I shook one out into my left palm and watched pitifully as it rolled off my hand and onto the floor because I was unable to tighten my grip and hold it. I recall the moment as being incredibly sad.

I updated my MySpace – this was 2006, give me a break – with a…what did they call them? Bulletins? I think it was bulletins. I posted a bulletin saying I was almost positive I had permanently paralyzed my hand and that, frankly…it might have been worth it because Oktoberfest was awesome. It was a brave face I put on, though, because I knew something was seriously wrong.

We ended up in Dublin and met with my friend Karen – a local – and her friend. We got dinner, and lunch the following day. I clumsily handled things with my gimpy hand. We went to a performance of a comedy tour where I accidentally implied I tried to fuck a moose once because certain phrases mean different things in different countries.

The highlight was our last night in Dublin. I spent it with Karen and we found ourselves at a university choir concert. A light show was playing in the background and we sat on the steps, she under one arm, while a beautiful rendition of She Moved Through the Fair drifted across the night like a silk ribbon. It’s one of my fondest memories, bunk hand and all.

Sean and I got home fairly uneventfully, considering the hijinks the rest of our trip entailed. I went to the doctor as soon as possible, having seen no progress in my hand in close to a week. After a grip strength test (which revealed I had none) and no answers because of it, he recommended me to a chiropractor, a physical therapist and an electrotherapist.

The chiropractor was a one-and-done. He popped back into place a vertebrate that had rotated 90 degrees. BUT THAT WASN’T WHY MY HAND WAS PARALYZED. Seriously, how the fuck did I twist my spine up?

The physical therapist fitted me with an arm brace and a hand brace that would help keep me from hyper-extending any tendons. I was also given one of those stress balls to try and work my grip strength back up. By the by, if you have zero strength and your exercise is to repeatedly try to squeeze something really hard, you’re going to get really fucking frustrated really fucking quick.

The electrotherapist is where we saw (and spent) money. They taped down a bunch of diodes to my body, along my torso, hand, arm, shoulder and spine and sent electric currents through them one at a time, trying to pinpoint the nerve blockage preventing me from using my hand. And she found it!  Due to thin blood and stressed nerves (likely due to over a full day’s worth of drinking) and some shitty position I must have fallen asleep in on the train, I had compressed the median nerve in my elbow.

Only the median, not the ulnar. The electrotherapist had never heard of a case where the median was compressed but not the ulnar and wanted to submit my case to a medical journal. I looked into it afterwards: it’s rare – the reverse happens more often – but not unique, so no, I’m no medical marvel.

Between electric shocks and physical therapy, I was eventually able to regain feeling and strength in my hand after a month and a half of paralysis. It’s not as strong as it used to be and sometimes it does funny things like shake or spasm, but holy shit, I’ll take that over that static, weak feeling.

I told this story at a party once a year or two later and this guy goes, “That! That right there! I want a drinking story like that!” Hahaha dude, no you don’t. That shit sucks. I mean, if it happens, it happens but please do not try to recreate a freak accident that involved a horrendously inappropriate and irresponsible amount of alcohol consumption.

A few quick, final notes:
1. Drink responsibly. Seriously.
2. GO TO OKTOBERFEST! The beer! The food! The music! The people! The beer!
3. As much as I would love to say I did, performing “the stranger” on myself while my hand was jacked up didn’t occur to me until well after I had recovered. Talk about a missed opportunity, although considering I couldn’t grip for shir anyway, maybe not.

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“Mommying”:Circumcision, the art that is…

a mother's touch

A mother’s touch heals all wounds and makes every pain vanish. Certainly not in a flash as with circumcision wounds yet our caring words, endless thoughtfulness could make the phase in our son’s life a breeze.

It is a must for every mom whose child is to undergo the procedure to be well informed so she could care for her child in the best way possible.

Being in the medical field I must admit is a gift that I so cherish. Yet somehow it too isn’t much of a comfort in times when my own child is the patient. Like normal moms around the world I too freak out when I see my child in pain or hear the slightest sign of discomfort from him. But I am proud to say Roel and I just conquered circumcision, the art that is!

a boy before circumcision

this was my crying little-big boy yesterday before I cleansed his circumcision wound

A co-worker did the procedure on him while I took over the ER the other day. It was the perfect excuse for me not to deal with my own anxiety and to leave the “boy thing,” to the hubby who gladly accompanied our boy to the operating area.  Our older boy was chiding me last week that I should perform the procedure on his brother and he’d watch but I said “oh no, not me!” HAHA…It is a relatively safe minor operation which when properly explained to a consenting adult could be finished in only a few minutes yet in the case of kids there could be much hesitation even though anesthesia, local that is is administered so it is a must to psychologically prepare our kids for the BIG DAY.  My boy was excited weeks before because he so much wanted to finally be “in” among his peers who have already been circumcised the previous year. We would tell him in non-threatening description what would take place while his brother would keep repeating it didn’t hurt that much as per his experience. So getting Roel to the hospital wasn’t difficult. It was during the procedure that he freaked out according to the hubby. Being the baby in the family must have gotten over him. I asked the hubby to take a photo of his face before, during and after the procedure but the man in him refused 🙂 A huge sigh of relief washed over me when I saw the two of them coming out of the room with my doctor workmate. They were laughing because in his haste my hubby forgot to take off his sterile gown.

Yesterday morning cleansing the boy’s wound was quite an ordeal. It took me several minutes to get him to cooperate because he was too fearful it might hurt. Like any mom who wants her child to learn to deal with frustration and pain and not to grow up frail and dependent I mustered all the strength I have to handle the situation as caring yet as realistic as possible. I allowed him to cry and to shriek as much as he can which ended up with him and I and the rest of the household laughing out loud. He asked to apply the antiseptic himself so he could better manage his pain and so he won and the rest of the procedure became a fun event as my boy regained his usual funny self realizing it only hurts a bit “just an ant’s little bite” he joked.

mom guiding son to cleanse his wound

me guiding Roel in cleaning his wound

Me and Roel happily caring for his wound, his kuya (older brother) capturing the moment

Roel biting on a huge yummy apple-guava as a distraction to pain

Circumcision is the surgical removal of the foreskin (prepuce) from the human penis. It is medically helpful as studies have proven it prevents occurrence of urinary infections as well as HIV and penile cancer. There are debates as to whether it is more apt to perform the procedure at a time when the person could already decide for himself whether he prefers to be circumcised or not or to perform it during the neonatal period when an advantage is faster healing yet pain could hinder early mother and child bonding. It is not however a  procedure that is routinely performed all over the world. It is a matter of choice.

Back in the day, our dads and granddads used to tell us the story of their BIG DAY as one spent near a river where they were made to bath to have their foreskins ready, softened and numbed by water  in groups usually around the age of eleven and twelve. An elderly man would cut off their foreskin with a sharpened piece of wood or a knife while they chewed on guava leaves which they would later apply on the wound for antiseptic. Gee, I am so glad my boy wasn’t born in that era. But then again their lives used to be a lot more simple and gay. Thanks to advancement in science and medicine complications from a simple circumcision is close to nil.

These days in the country there are many government and non-governmental organizations or health care professionals offering free circumcision for those who could not afford to have their child undergo the procedure in a medical facility. The advantage of it is that because it is a mass circumcision, the kids will better deal with their anxiety having their buddies around. Our older child had his circumcision at an organized surgical mission of the National Police regional office. It went very well for him. So it really is a matter of choice.

One mustn’t undergo the procedure under several circumstances like having a serious bleeding disorder when the wound could cause massive blood lost as well as when the child has a standing medical condition which could be aggravated by the procedure or inborn abnormalities in the anatomy of his organ which would require further evaluation. As a rule one must consult experts and only entrust their child’s care to certified and trained healthcare professionals.

boy after circumcision

my brave, circumcised happy boy

The healing period takes around seven to ten days….my boy and I have around five more days to go…keeping him well hydrated and eating nutritious foods and wearing loose comfortable clothes and wonderfully distracted from the pain and giving him antibiotics and pain reliever on time…in time this will be over and done with hurray!

Happy “mommying” to all!

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  1. our only boy was circumcised along with his cousin. so, i guess, having a company lessened the anxiety, the fear. Can’t forget the day they went home from the clinic, holding their bermuda shorts so as to keep the fabric from touching the wound. and, boy! the way they walk. they we’re both smiling and have said in chorus, “di naman masakit” 🙂

  2. Good thing Mommy is there to comfort him. I think that’s one reason why they do the circumcision upon birth over here in the US so that they won’t suffer much.. I mean, mas maskit siguro if malaki na ang bata..

  3. When my own son underwent the same procedure last year, I told him that men were luckier since they had to undergo this physical pain just once unlike us women who have to go through pain several times in giving birth. That convinced him that he was in a much better circumstances than her female friends.

  4. I know it is definitely summer because this is the third published article (including mine) in a span of 2 days that talks about circumcision. LOL!

    Congratulations to you, handsome young man. As they say, circumcision is a rite of passage for all Filipino males. Salute! 😉

  5. Wow! Congratulation Baby Roel, you did wonderful in there! Me? i just have to wait for maybe a decade before i could finally share my own experience with my little man Destine! and talking about anxiety just thinking of this procedure i am already shivering inside as i also imagining as early as now how it felt when my little man’s BIG DAY will come too… Meantime, let me withdraw those thoughts yet and I would rely on anesthesia to work best in time 🙂

  6. My boys’ circumcisions were done when they were a day or two old..but I remembered the feeling of unease, fear, and frustration to see such painful wound.

    Wishing Roel fast healing!!

  7. Here, it is done before the baby boy goes home so there is little to remember for them. It is a parent’s choice, however. So some males are not circumscribed, then if they decide to do so in adulthood, it can present problems. I opted for the procedure for both my sons.

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Our Education Gap Title

Education Gap

Education and Inequality in Latin America

The majority of Latin American children are not receiving a high-quality and relevant education. As a result, too many Latin American youth entering the labor force lack the skills necessary to find dignified work and participate in an increasingly competitive, information-rich and globalized economy.

At the same time, employers cannot find enough qualified people to fill open positions. This profound human resource mismatch is suppressing economic growth and perpetuating a system of haves and have-nots. Unequal societies are less efficient at converting growth into poverty reduction. In Latin America, the education gap mirrors the income gap between rich and poor.

Percentage of Jobs Needing a College Degree

Averages in developing countries can be very deceptive. This is the case in Latin America, where GDP (PPP) per capita income levels for most of the major countries in the region vary between US$3,336 and US$18,355 versus US$49,802 for the USA. However, levels of inequality in Latin America are the highest in the world, with at least one in three households and two in five people living below the poverty line. Some 74 million Latin Americans (about 12.4% of the region's population) live on less than $2 per day. Over half of them are children. And, in Brazil, children in the bottom income quintile complete an average of eight years of school versus over ten years completed by children in the top income quintile.

Latin America’s High Drop-Out Rate – Children Are Not Staying In School

  • 92% of Latin American children begin primary school, but only 41% of Brazilians and 35% of Mexicans graduate from secondary school (the U.S. equivalent of middle/high school).
  • Approximately 22.2 million children and adolescents in Latin America are not in school or at risk of dropping out of school each year.
  • It is well established that school dropouts have worse outcomes (physical, mental and economic) than do those youth who stay in school.

Adults with High School Education

Latin America Is Falling Behind Other Regions of the World in Education Quality

Latin America is falling behind other regions of the world with respect to years of school and quality of schooling. Asian countries, like South Korea, had similar, if not worse, educational levels than many Latin American countries 50 years ago. Today, South Korea boasts more years of schooling and significantly better educational outcomes than every single Latin American country.

Latin American 15 year olds score especially poorly in math and science, critical skills in today’s job market. Approximately 50% of Mexicans, Colombians and Brazilians do not have the skills necessary to solve simple math equations or to explain basic scientific phenomena.

Perhaps even more surprising, only a tiny sliver (well under 1%) of Latin American students score at the top level of international exams; even Latin America’s high-income students perform below their international peers, not just Latin America’s poor. Less than 0.1% of students in Brazil performed at the highest level in science.

Education Investments Are Inadequate, Poorly Directed, and Favor High-Income Students

Despite increases in past years, spending on elementary education is still relatively low throughout the region.

  • Per capita spending on primary education in Latin America averages approximately 22% of U.S. levels.
  • Latin American universities, which serve less than 10% of the population, receive a disproportionate share of education dollars compared to primary education. (In Brazil, public universities have only 2% of all pupils, but receive 25% of all federal education funds.)

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Educational Outcomes Directly Impact Economic Growth

The quality of a country’s education system has a direct impact on economic growth. Professor Eric Hanushek of Stanford University has recently quantified this link, even for developing countries, where it has been traditionally difficult to collect data.

Teachers Are a Key Driver of Education Quality

A growing body of research clearly shows that the quality of a student’s teacher can have a huge impact on that student’s success in school and life. In other words, teacher quality is a key driver of education quality.

However, Latin American countries have little or no selectivity when It comes to the teaching profession, compared other countries with outstanding primary education.

  • Korea allows only the top 5% of university graduates to enter the teaching profession, Finland allows only the top 10%, and Singapore allows only the top 30% to enter.
  • In Brazil, one third of teachers barely passed high school.
  • In Mexico, 70% of teachers failed the National Teacher Examination.

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Education in Latin America is being overlooked by international grantmakers within the United States. In fact only a small portion of overseas funding is directed toward Latin America. In addition, only a small fraction of international funding is directed toward education, and of that only a tiny fraction is directed to K-12 education.

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Are Miraculous Gifts Still in Operation Today?

The Friday feature of the Worldly Saints blog has a NEW THEME. Fridays are going to be reserved for answering questions submitted to you (the reader of this blog). You can ask any question you would like, and it doesn’t have to be about a recent blog post. Any biblical or theological or historical or cultural question is encouraged.

Introductory Thoughts

I will do “my best” to present a case for what is called Cessationism. I say “my best” and not “absolute” because there are areas of dogmatism some go that we will not go because the Scripture is not dogmatic on every possible angle cessasionists take. Cessationism, I believe, is the best option but some godly men that we quote, refer to, and will continue to endorse do not agree with our position (e.g., John Piper, Wayne Grudem, C.J. Mahaney, D.A. Carson, etc.).

4 Main Views on the Topic of Miraculous Gifts

I want to give you a quick definition of the main views. When dealing with miraculous gifts, you have four options:

  1. Pentecostal View: teaches all gifts of the Spirit mentioned in the N.T. are intended for today, that Spirit baptism comes after conversion and should be sought by Christians and when Spirit baptism occurs, people will speak in tongues
  2. Charismatic View: teaches all gifts of the Spirit mentioned in the N.T. are intended for today, but the timing of Spirit baptism and tongues is debatable
  3. Cessationism View: teaches there are no miraculous gifts of the Holy Spirit in operation today
  4. Open-but Cautious View: teaches miraculous gifts of the Spirit are for today but the modern practice in most Charismatic churches is neither genuine or desirable; sees these gifts as occasionally or rarely occurring and not regularly as you see in the majority of Charismatic or Pentecostal churches

4 Disclaimers

Now, we before we make the case for Cessationism and much of it will stem from the next few verses, I want to share four disclaimers and/or reminders that are important from all of us to keep in mind on the question of the Cessationism of miraculous gifts.

  1. God works different ways in different administrations. While God Himself doesn’t change, and His plans are never thwarted, He operates, guides and directs in different ways during different periods of biblical history (e.g., priests and sacrifices, Spirit’s indwelling in the N.T age).
  2. Cessationism doesn’t deny that God performs miracles. The question is not, “Can God perform miracles today?” but “Does God still use men to perform miracles?” Cessasionists believe in miracles. The most miraculous work of the Spirit is still at work today: conversion and God will do whatever he pleases (Ps 115:3). Samuel Waldron in To Be Continued? speaks for cessasionists – “I am not denying by all this that there are miracles in the world today in the broader sense of supernatural occurrences and extraordinary providences. I am only saying that there are no miracles in the stricter sense [of] miracle-workers performing miraculous signs to attest the redemptive revelation they bring from God. Though God has never locked Himself out of His world and is still at liberty to do as He pleases, when He pleases, how He pleases, and where He pleases, He has made it clear that the progress of redemptive revelation attested by miraculous signs done by miracle-workers has been brought to conclusion in the revelation embodied in our New Testaments.”[1]
  3. Cessationism is not an attack on the Person or work of the Holy Spirit. Some believe cessasionists are trying to limit the Holy Spirit or downplay his influence or importance by taking the miraculous gifts away. Cessasionists have the opposite goal in mind. Cessasionists don’t put the Spirit “in a box”; they say the Spirit put Himself there.
  4. Your view does not determine your salvation. Therefore, if someone wants to make a biblical case, allow it as long as they are not violation other parts of Scripture or hindering the Gospel.

Now, without further delay, here is why I believe Cessationism is the best view on the question of miraculous gifts.

  1. I Corinthians 13:8 – “As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.” The three gifts do not share the same verb that follows them. With “prophecy” and “knowledge”, we are told they “will pass away,” and with “tongues”, we are told they “will cease.” That is an important distinction. Without getting too technical here, the verb forms are not the same, which means you cannot assume the same thing is being communicated with each verb.The passing away appears in what is called the passive voice. What that means is that it will not just reach an ending point, but something will cause that end. In other words, “prophecy” and “knowledge” will reach an end based on something causing that ending (or cessation). What could cause the need for no more prophecy? How about a closed canon? How about the completed writings of sixty-six books?Tongues, on the other hand, are said to cease. And this verb form is different. We call this a middle voice. In the Greek, this verb form refers to something going on for a while and then just running out. It indicates that the object (“tongues”) has an intentional voluntary stopping place. Some translate this literally as “they shall make themselves cease or automatically cease of themselves.”[2] The best I can describe it is that it is like a battery with a limited power supply or lifespan. The idea is that once it has served its purpose, it will cease to exist. The gift of tongues was when God directly revealed something to the speaker that was then in need of translation; the completion of the canon makes that no longer necessary. Nothing causes it to stop; it ends on its own. Thus, whenever this gift was no longer needed, it would have ceased.Prophecies and knowledge will be stopped by something outside of themselves (or caused to stop); tongues will end by itself. Prophecy and knowledge are stopped by something coming; tongues stops when it is no longer useful.
  2. The purpose of the gift of tongues and the performing of miracles was to confirm the Word being spoken by the apostles to unbelievers. These miraculous gifts were their credentials, you could say. In II Corinthians 12:12, Paul tells this same church, “The signs of a true apostle were performed among you with utmost patience, with signs and wonders and mighty works.” And they were meant for the unbeliever – not the edification of the church.In the next chapter, Ch. 14, we hear Paul say, “21 In the Law it is written, ‘By people of strange tongues and by the lips of foreigners will I speak to this people, and even then they will not listen to me, says the Lord.’ 22 Thus tongues are a sign not for believers but for unbelievers, while prophecy is a sign not for unbelievers but for believers.”In another letter in the N.T., we even read this starting comment – “How shall we escape if we neglect such a great salvation? It was declared at first by the Lord, and it was attested to us by those who heard, while God also bore witness by signs and wonders and various miracles and by gifts of the Holy Spirit distributed according to his will” (Heb 2:3-4). Isn’t is curious that the author speaks in a past tense here? God used to do this, is what vs. 4 implies to show us this was not a current manifestation.Thus, if these gifts had a specific purpose that is no longer valid, these miraculous gifts have ceased.
  3. Ephesians 2:20 calls the apostolic age foundational but it is not permanent – The church was “built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone.” Since there is no apostolic succession, any gift or feature an apostle would be given would “die off” with him.
  4. Miraculous gifts disappear inside the N.T. age. Why wouldn’t Paul, as he writes to Timothy, his pastoral protégé, when instructing him about all things relative to the church never mention miraculous gifts? If miraculous gifts were supposed to be practiced today, why not re-iterate them in the Great Commission? Or elder or deacon qualifications?
  5. Church history is silent on the practice of the miraculous gifts. No post-apostolic father mentions the practice or endorses miraculous gifts. The only early exception would be Montanus (2nd century), but he believed revelation continued through him and not the N.T. There is a long line of support in church history who taught that miraculous gifts ceased in the N.T. age with the apostles: R.L. Dabney, Charles Spurgeon, Abraham Kuyper, William G.T. Shedd, A.W. Pink, B.B. Warfield, John Chrysostom, St. Augustine, J.C. Ryle, Theodoret of Cyrus, Martin Luther, John Calvin, John Owen, Thomas Watson, Matthew Henry, John Gill, Jonathan Edwards, etc. I usually don’t want to stand on the other side from them on this issue if I can keep from it.
  6. Scripture is sufficient. Sufficiency means that Scripture is complete; it is enough. It doesn’t lack support or validation. When Jesus spoke, He often performed miracles to prove His person. When Peter preached on Pentecost, the Spirit brought tongues to validate His message. These occurrences came during a time when a written Bible didn’t exist and wasn’t available to all. Today, the Spirit speaks through His Word. Why would He choose to use subjective means to communicate objective truth?

This is why we would say that even the experiences or stories we hear of regarding the miraculous must be heard with caution. Rarely can they be verified and they are often misunderstood by witnesses. Experience is not the primary test of truth. It is important to keep in mind that anything can be counterfeited or misunderstood.

In conclusion, the miraculous gifts have, in my opinion, ceased.

If you have a question you would like to submit to our blog to be answered in the future, please send them to or ask them in the comments section of this post.

[1] To Be Continued?, pg. 102

[2] The New Linguistic and Exegetical Key to the Greek New Testament, pg. 380

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Thursday, November 7, 2013

Come Back Dear Sun by Geena Bean

Since Daylight Savings was on Sunday, and it's now getting darker sooner, I thought I'd give you all a treat to celebrate the time change. Geena Bean is with me today to share her wonderful book "Come Back Dear Sun".

Giveaway is over! :)

Title: Come Back Dear Sun
Author: Geena Bean
Genre: Juvenile Fiction / Imagination & Play
Format: Paperback, 38 pages
Published: January 03 2013
Publisher: Createspace

When the sun disappears for a long time, curious Kaylee cannot wait to have the sunshine back. Her imaginative plan unfolds like only an eight-year-old can conceive, and the wonder and smiles begin. She and her six-year-old sister, Mattie, along with their two friends, Fran and Lilly, plan an adventurous sleepover in an attempt to find out why the sun has disappeared. The children figure out a way to talk to the moon only to discover that the sun has left because of the lack of outdoor play. The insightful message of this story impresses both parents and children alike in order to grow appreciation of the world around us. Bean skillfully creates characters which children can easily relate and be inspired by. People will enjoy this wonderful, energetic children’s story with an everlasting message to remember. Parents remember childhood playtime memories as they resurface, and young listeners are enthralled with the thought-provoking questions of “What if?” Follow Kaylee and her friends on their energetic quest to bring back the sunshine to their otherwise gloomy days!

Geena Bean graduated from Rutgers University with a degree in English in 2003.  Since then, she has been working within the nanny industry and creating children’s books as she experiences them.  Bean has been writing since she was in 1st grade and has told many stories and tales over time.  While working with kids for over 10 years now, she loves to share her commitment and adoration for story telling with each and every one of them.  Her first children’s book, Come Back Dear Sun, was published and released in January, 2013.  Since then, she has been visiting schools, libraries, and local bookstores throughout New Jersey in hopes that she can inspire kids to always live up to their full potential by being creative, imaginative, dedicated, and of course, kind.

Twitter @MsGeenaBean

Geena would also like to ask you questions. Take it away, Geena!

As a child, I remember begging my parents to stay outside for as long as we possibly could.  We would play kickball, jailbreak, swim in our pool, ride our bikes around the neighborhood, make up adventures in our backyard and so much more!

QUESTIONS: What are some of your most treasured memories of outdoor play?  Do you allow your children a certain amount of time for television, computers, video games, etc.?

My most treasured memory from childhood is when I played in my fort. It was made entirely of pine needles and shaped like an igloo. I was convinced that it was magical. And even after a couple of hurricanes, it remained intact.

GIVEAWAY: Please leave a comment below for a chance to win a signed copy of Come Back Dear Sun!  Spread the word because I am going to be doing a drawing for not just one, but two winners!

Good luck and have a playful day!

The winners have been chosen!
Congrats David and Adrienne!

  1. As a kid I had the "Perfect Tree" that I could climb. It was in the front yard and had a Y that I could sit in and pretend anything I wanted.
    My kids can't watch television or play video games till homework is done each day. Sometimes it is only on the weekend that they get to watch a family movie or some cartoons.
    Boy, I sound mean don't I.

    1. That reminds me of a tree I would climb in my front yard. :) I created a pulley system so I could bring a snack and a juice box up with me and I'd sit up there with a book for as long as my butt could stand it. lol

      Excellent work, dad! Not letting the kids play video games or watch TV before their homework is done is a great rule that more parents should follow, I think.

  2. What a cute concept for a story! It's getting dusky here by about 4:45 PM. No more sunny evenings on the back porch. :(

    1. I normally like longer nights, but this year whenever the sun goes down I miss it. It seems like it sets too soon and I feel like asking it to come back just like Kaylee in Geena's story. :)

  3. This looks adorable. I'd love to win it for my niece. That is if my daughter doesn't steal it first. ;)

    1. Aw! Well, you are officially entered into Geena's drawing, Kelly. Good luck!! :)

  4. This book sounds sweet! It has a very creative concept, and when a book can teach children a valuable message it is a wonderful gift. I can picture myself sitting on the couch and reading this book to my grandsons. :)

    1. I bet your grandsons would love it, Elaine! :)

  5. Thank you so much for hosting the giveaway, Chrys. And thanks to everyone for leaving such kind comments. Best of luck to you all and have a playful week/weekend ahead!

    1. You're very welcome, Geena!

      I can't wait to find out who the winners are! :D

  6. Great to meet Geena! And that fort sounds awesome!!

  7. Hi Chrys,
    I nominated you for a Sunshine Award! Find the questions at Don't worry. There are that many. ;) Hope you're having a good weekend.

    1. Thank you so much, Adrienne! I am incredibly honored. :D I'll post my questions and nominees soon.

  8. AND THE WINNERS FOR A SIGNED COPY OF "COME BACK DEAR SUN" BY GEENA BEAN ARE . . . *drum roll* . . . David Walston and Adrienne Reiter! Congratulations!!! :D

  9. Wow..
    Great giveaway / contest.
    I hope I can have similar giveaway like this too.
    Hope everyone enjoy it. Good luck.

    1. Hi, Ardamus! The winners have already been chosen. :)

      Thank you for your comment!

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