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Where There's a Will, There's a Way!

This is what I had to do at my sister's house in Italy to charge my camera battery! The battery is the black thing you see in the blue charger. That has a standard American plug, so the next thing in line, the slightly tannish thing adapts it to a standard European plug. Unfortunately, for some reason, that wouldn't go in the wall directly (it kept falling out) and so I had to plug it into the next one in line, which still had to then be plugged into yet another adapter. Weird, but it worked!

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Mosque Money Shocker – The Daily Beast

Developers of the controversial Park51 Islamic community center and mosque located two blocks from ground zero earlier this month applied for roughly $5 million in federal grant money set aside for the redevelopment of lower Manhattan after the attacks of September 11, according to two sources with direct knowledge of the matter.

The audacious move stands to reignite the embers of a divisive debate that dominated headlines surrounding the ninth anniversary of the attacks this fall, say people vested in the issue.

The application was submitted under a “community and cultural enhancement” grant program administered by the Lower Manhattan Redevelopment Corporation (LMDC), which oversaw the $20 billion in federal aid allocated in the wake of 9/11 and is currently doling out millions in remaining taxpayer funds for community development. The redevelopment board declined to comment on the application (as did officials from Park51), citing the continuing and confidential process of determining the grant winners.

While news of the application has not previously been made public, developer Sharif El-Gamal outlined it in closed-door meetings, according to two individuals he spoke with directly. The thirtysomething, Brooklyn-born El-Gamal is motivated more by real estate ambition—one of these sources describes him as aspiring to be the next Donald Trump—than Islamic theology or ideology.

Park51’s developers clearly have a legal right to apply for the grant. A list of Frequently Asked Questions that accompanied the application specifically states that religious organizations can make funding requests for capital projects “as long as the request is for a facility or portion of a facility that is dedicated to non-religious activities or uses.” According to an individual familiar with the Park51 application, it requests funds to cover a number of cultural, educational and community development aspects of the proposed 13-story building—but the prayer room is excluded from the grant application.

But the question on whether they could have is trumped by the question of whether they should have.

But the question on whether they could have is trumped by the question of whether they should have. The stated aim of the Park51 developers is to provide a community center for lower Manhattan’s 4,000 Muslim residents. Their own website explained that they understood the need to “appeal to the undecided, and change the conversation about Muslims in America.” It’s pretty clear that this play for federal dollars will generate none of that, starting with the lack of disclosure or community consultation before developers submitted their application, which was due November 5.

“If Imam Feisal and his retinue want know why they’re not trusted, here’s yet another reason,” says Irshad Manji, author of The Trouble with Islam and director of the Moral Courage Project at NYU, when I asked her about the grant proposal. “The New Yorkers I speak with have questions about Park51. Requesting money from public coffers without engaging the public shows a staggering lack of empathy—especially from a man who says he’s all about dialogue.”

As a witness to the 9/11 attacks and someone who currently lives in the revived neighborhood, I can tell you that anger over the Park51 project was more intense outside the community than within it.

After all, the local community board approved the Park51 development in two separate votes—and the right of the project to proceed was honorably affirmed by Mayor Michael Bloomberg against a torrent of criticism this fall. Politicians across the country tried to turn the development into a partisan political football, including notable ads from Florida’s Governor-elect Rick Scott (“ Obama’s Mosque”) and the newly elected North Carolina Republican Congresswoman Renee Elmers.

But attempts to turn the mosque into a campaign issue in New York were strikingly unsuccessful (think Rick Lazio). And after a series of protests and counterprotests surrounding the building site on Park Place, the issue has receded. New Yorkers live with diversity every day—we understand how essential it is to embrace our fellow citizens who are Muslim while never forgetting the terrorists who attacked us. Reasonable people who recognize the Islamic community center’s right to develop on private property, however, will object to their use of public funds to do so.

Part of the strangeness of the application is that it blows past the suggested range of $100,000 to $1 million that these grants are supposed to fall to within (I’m told the entire pool for this round of cultural funding will come in under $20 million). According to the two sources knowledgeable about the thinking behind the proposal, the strategy behind the $5 million ballpark was trying to yield a higher figure in the end.

But the project likely doesn’t qualify for a grant in the first place. Specifically, the grant criteria mandate a demonstration of a project’s financial feasibility, based on benchmarks set by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). The government will help complete development projects—but it does not provide seed capital. And in their last public financial statement, Park51 was found to have less than $20,000 in the bank for a project with a slated cost of $100 million.

“Any solicitation for LMDC funds would have to meet the HUD criteria for eligibility,” explains Julie Menin, an LMDC board member and the chairperson of New York’s Community Board 1, which includes the World Trade Center site.

It will be interesting to see how the LMDC deals with the appropriateness of this application, especially given its stated commitment to “an open, inclusive, and transparent planning process in which the public has a central role in shaping the future of Lower Manhattan.” After all, among its advisory councils are representatives of the victim’s families, who are unlikely to be sympathetic to the subject.

President Obama came under fire this fall for alternately asserting the mosque’s right to exist and then subsequently questioning the wisdom of the project. He was essentially right, and this new chapter in the Park51 saga shows that wisdom is the essential component missing from this development.

In the end, Park51’s application is likely to be unsuccessful financially while mobilizing a new round of opposition. It’s a lose-lose proposition put forward by a tone-deaf organization that seems determined to alienate allies and embolden opponents.


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Thursday, 15 September 2016

The End of the Somme

Men died. Horribly, through bullet, mud and disease
Killed in this bloody war against the civil Germans
That gives his wife and children at home no ease
As insufferable as the vicars hour short sermons
What were we thinking -'Over by Christmas'
Yes - we eat pies, drink ale and cause kiss miss.

We did not dream of the rotting corpses
The slow insidious smell of fallen fired rot
interminable of war men and war houses
We were no born for this to give our lot
There is no humanity in this slow tide of fate
The slow feeling of angry, Kaiser bill and hate

We march slowly in neat lines to their lines
The German giggle, they know how this song goes
300 feet out having dodged wire and mines
Machine gunning us down in our teen rows
Is there no end to this interminable life?
Green pastures, warming sun and no strife.

But tomorrow, it is time for our revenge
We will drive our infernal metal machines
Like a moving, mental, bullet proof henge
Riding safe, like machine gunning Queens
Smiling they lurk in the deep, waiting
The tank rolls over, and their lives sating.

And we will laugh and we will smile,

Except our fallen friend's awhile.

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Saturday, January 24, 2009

Response to PrincipalsPages

PrincipalPages had a recent blog post regarding Punishing Parents which I posted a comment to. You can see his post here:[csuccess]=true#feedback

My response is listed below.
I do have to slightly disagree. It isn't always parents making excuses. My son had a book he wanted to return to the library. He knew it was going to be late. I told him that I was too tired and that I wasn't able to drive him down there. Could my 9 year old have left the house and walked down to the library to be responsible? Not if he wanted to stay safe. Sometimes it really isn't a kids fault and it really isn't a parent's fault. We have so many constraints on our lives that sometimes life just gets in the way of living. Why must everyone comply? Does there have to be only one due date? Does everyone have to arrive at school at exactly the same time? Yes I know there must be order but with a world that is living 24/7 when are schools going to stop functioning like it is still a 9 to 5 world. It bugs us when kids are annoying after we have had a long night, what about the parent that suddenly got a double shift dumped on them and simply can't get their child to school safely. Who should be punished? Maybe nobody.

While I like the visceral response I get when I think of parents being punished, I am much more about figuring out ways to get us all to collaborate rather than the masses to comply with the hierarchy.

His post referenced the 1% that were chronic behavior problems. I feel like it is more like 5% but I have no good data (yet) to support the actual numbers. After leaving the classroom I realized that most of my students were completely acceptable in their behavior. I frankly only remember the really good ones, the really bad ones, and the few whom, I know I made mistakes with and regret the possible hurt I caused. If only 1% or 5% are really chronically problems maybe a bit more flexibility in how we address rules is more effective.

Teach people correct Principles and they can govern themselves. (adapted from Joseph Smith Jr.)

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Assumptions, Assumptions

This image was found on flickr but must originally have been in a Junior High Shop class.

Isolated Adolescence

few weeks ago I wrote about how we have extended adolescence right into the late twenties. Another great failing of that is that we have also isolated adolescence. For years in the classroom, I noticed that kids are very focused on engaging with each other. That is normal, natural and probably good. But in the 10 years I was in the class room I watched the growth of the cell phenomena. Cell phones were considered a nuisance item when I started teaching in 1998 but not a student in the K-8 School I taught in had one. Then I moved into a 7,8,9 Junior High. Cell phones were still banned as a nuisance item but were uncommon. Maybe 12-15% of the students had one and I don't remember confiscating many. Eventually that number moved up and I started ignoring the ban.

"Mr. Jorgensen, I need a calculator"
Do you have your cell phone?
"Mr. Jorgensen there aren't enough stopwatches"
Do you have your cell phone?"

Eventually the ban changed and students were allowed to have phones in the hall before and after school, but I was actually told personally that I was required to confiscate if I knew they were in my class. I get it. The technologies we have actually allow us to choose who we interact in based on common interest without regard to geography. If I don't like the class then I can engage with someone else somewhere else! That makes teaching hard because I need them to engage with difficult high level questions right now with me that aren't nearly as emotionally connected as sending out a quick

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I've been reading the book Emotional Design by Donald Norman. He is a psychologist and Computer Scientist who studies design for human-centered products. He has a lot of good things to say and was involved with the design team at Apple. He made reference in his book to the fact that by using the Cell-Phone we can escape the loneliness of the crowd. I can be walking downtown amidst strangers who I am afraid will judge, condemn and ignore me, but if I start chatting on my cell phone then I am connected.

I am afraid this happens too much with adolescence. Kids are connecting with kids. We have a 20:1 35:1 40:1 adult to student ratio in the classroom. When you connect the kids to all of their online interactions kids daily interactions are probably approaching 150:1 ratios of adolescents to adults in their lives. And I am thinking I am being very conservative and only talking about the other adolescents they actually engage with regularly for more than just inconsequential interactions.

This troubles me. There has always been a generation gap, but even with one there was not the same possibility for an underculture to develop so completely unsupervised as we know have. We have seen it growing for years with the rise of gangs, bing drinking parties and other stuff, but I honestly think there is a solution. There has to be a more concerted effort by adults to engage in this world that is already engaging our kids. We can't abandon the territory to 'them' because if we do they will engage with others and there will be some of 'them' that are adults, but not necessarily the adults that we want with our kids.

I really didn't want this post to sound so gloomy. I am actually very excited about the ability to connect. I am having a lot of fun with it and excited to see good things happening. I just look at the ratio that existed at one time during an older age based on apprenticeships and mentoring that put young adults firmly into a situation where they were expected to work with and alongside more experienced adults as being much more secure for all of us. I see so many adults who feel out of touch with teens. They are like we were when we were teens. They are people with hopes, dreams, ideas, fears just like adults. Less mature, less experienced possibly, but also more hopeful, less cynical, and jaded. We are all people and we need less isolation. The technology can create that but we have to shape it to our needs, desires and hopes. We can connect all of us.

Friday, January 9, 2009

C-Forum has been great today. Good people and good activities.

We used Pixie2 for Tech4Learning to create digital fables/fairy tales. It was a great activity. The tool wasn't the key really it was the process. It would be great activity regardless of the tool. It would be possible to create the fairy tales with PowerPoint, Keynote, MovieMaker, or others.

We moved on to ScreenFlow and other options for creating tutorials. Screenflow is Mac only but does have the option for creating HD videos that we are making available through UEN's eMedia catalog and on YouTube.

We also spent time looking at iPod Touch and iPhone apps. As a group we are especially interested in free apps for educaiton. If you have any suggestions please add them as comments.

There is a google doc listing the apps.

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Response to Jeff Utecht: It's about the Tools

I recently read and posted some comments about Jeff Utecht's piece regarding the why and how of teaching technology. I thought they were worth putting up here:

I heartily agree that we need both “why” and “how” and just in time. Two challenges I have found are that often people hear about something and then must do it. Dreamweaver is a great example. We have lots of folks who take the Dreamweaver courses my organization offers when what the really need is something like Google Page creator (Which I am still upset they have dropped by the way) They take Dreamweaver because they have heard of it not because they need that level of complexity. The other side is when people want too much 'how'. They want step by step detailed instructions for an essentially immersive experience. Some want us to hold their hand through every step of subscribing to every blog they choose to put in their reader, when they would do better ‘just signing up and trying it out’ There really needs to be a balance between the two and especially the ‘just in time’ help. Because we need both a reason to do something new, skills to accomplish our goals, and support along the way.

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

What if......

I hear a lot of what if regarding social networking and the school environment. The basic concern is all about safety and influence. The concerns are along the lines of
  • Teachers shouldn't have contact with students
  • Teachers shouldn't ever text message students
  • Why would anyone want to have this kind of contact
  • What if a teacher has an inappropriate relationship/influence on a student
  • What if... What if...
Basically, what if something bad happens... maybe we shouldn't do this. It is the reluctance to adopt. Technophobia is common and probably at some level necessary and appropriate. Early adopters often jump in and start to use a tool or technology without worrying about the while the

My what if is....What if we don't connect this way?

What will happen if we don't connect? What will happen if students begin learning from other sources? What will happen if students form relationships online only with their own age peers? What happens when the only adults online are those trying to harm young people. What if the only example of online behavior are those who aren't accountable for their example. What if students really want to stay connected to a teacher that was a positive influence on them. What if we shut down the personal connection because of the fear of inappropriate connections? What if we become so out of touch that we become irrelevant? What if this has already happened?

I honestly believe there is a perception that all relationships online have the potential of being sinister. I guess that is true. There is a certain sense of freedom or license and anonymity. But every f2f interaction we have has the potential of turning sinister too. Look at the headlines, how many loving trusted spouses have turned on the family?

What if we don't use the technologies? What if?

Response to Drape's Takes: Social Media

This is my response to Drape's Take on Social Media
Ummm... don't know if this qualifies as used, but it sure was frustrating. I have only recently started blogging, I held off on it mostly because I was uncomfortable with being to visible to students. I wasn't so much concerned with them finding me, but much more concerned with the reaction of parents and adminstrators finding out that students were finding me. I personally think that many adults still are firmly convinced that there is something inherently siniister about an online presence or any online interactions. I don't agree but I have to admit that there is much more license in the online world.

My example of being used comes from my son watching me blog about books. He thinks it is pretty cool. Now, how long will that last? Well, I wanted him to join in but typing up his ideas is harder so what am I to do. Out comes photobooth and up comes YouTube. He posted his first book report online. He loved it! But yesterday two separate people had watched it and responded with not just negative, but down right mean comments. I think it is very true we don't realize what we are putting out there.

Students without guidance and mentors who are also in the world with them are unlikely to learn how to maturely respond to immature reactions to their work. My son did something he cared about, do I let the negative stuff kill his enthusiasm, affect his self image? I sure don't want to, but the more I put myself out there the more I am realizing the need for there to be good mentors in the online world.

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Monday, January 5, 2009

Google your way to deeper learning!

Many teachers are frustrated with the prevalence of as a research tool for students.  Usually there are two major problems with student googling their research topic.  The first problem is finding too much stuff, either there are way more results than you can ever get through or the information reveals much more than you want for your 3rd graders.  The second problem is not finding enough.  Not finding enough reputable and unique information that can contribute to a unique project or learning opportunity.

Luckily Google has two solutions to solve this problem of doing an open Google search.  Of course there are other alternatives to using Google, being my favorite.  But if you want some other options Google provides these two tools to really help.

  • Google Books:  Google Books allows searching of the text of thousands and thousands of digitized books.  Many books are not available in their full version and other projects are working on the same thing, but Google Books is nice because it does integrate with other Google tools you may already use.  You can save books, search the full text, even read entire books that are in the public domain.  I found an obscure Horatio Alger book that I read entirely online.  The pic below is an example of the book I read.

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  • Google Scholar: Google scholar allows you to search topics with less likelihood of poor quality results.  For example a search for 'teens online' didn't yield anything like the results might have on an open Google search. The result returned the list below.  Much better than what I would have gotten just googling 'teens online'.

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The Stacks

In fall of 2008, Rice University solicited proposals for a “community garden.” What they needed – and what we suggested – was a new take on the factory farm.

Anyone can put in some raised beds and a meandering gravel path and call it a garden, but in this context (i.e. 6000 undergraduates consuming three meals a day), the exercise would be merely symbolic. We felt that Rice should take this opportunity to do something that not everyone can: build a high-tech, high-production lab and food factory.
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Underlying our programmatic solution was a technological one: to use aquaponics – a variation of the more-familiar hydroponic agricultural techniques. Inserting hardy fishes into the process allows for an extremely efficient, almost closed-loop system where the fish produce fertilizer for the plants and the plants filter the water. Beyond increased productivity, this approach also supports the school’s pedagogical agenda and allows for its scientific expertise to have an effect within the immediate community.

Finally, the project seeks to deploy this technological approach as an aesthetic and experiential strategy. Thousands of trays stacked to just above eye level create an effect analogous to the shelves of the university’s library, encouraging chance encounters amid this surreal fusion of technology and greenery. A grid of voids within this visual density plays host to “episodes” which provide programmatic support and diversion.

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A research article on girl child rights and the challenges faced

Greeshma R and Saleem Ahmed

This article points out the disparity between India’s legal guidelines to defend female kids and their real living conditions. It is asserted that the position of ladies needs to be reinforced and that equal rights are done to the advantage of kids. Equality has to come at the very beginning of lifestyles. Female children need get entry to fitness, nutrition, schooling, and other fundamental services. in India, girls are assured an same proper to training, however fewer ladies are enrolled in primary school, and only a few ladies go on to secondary faculties. There is no enforcement of obligatory laws, which specifically drawback ladies from bad families. Women marry beneath the legal minimal age. Early childbearing shortens women's existence expectancy and adversely affects their health, vitamins, schooling, and employment opportunities. Prevention of early child marriage must be strictly enforced. Amniocentesis is achieved with a purpose to determine the intercourse of the kid and abort woman fetuses. The juvenile justice act of 1986 consists of unique provisions for the safety, treatment, and rehabilitation of women beneath 18 years vintage and of boys younger than 16. This act protects women trapped in brothels for toddler prostitution and protects any person engaged in an immoral, drunken, or depraved existence. Juvenile welfare forums deal with the trouble of neglected ladies and provide unique defensive homes and supervision by using probation officials. The act desires to strengthen non institutional services, including sponsorship, own family help, foster care, and adoption. Female children develop to womanhood. Effective social development in adolescence reaps rewards in adulthood.

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Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Tuesday Thingers

The question this week is, how many books do you have catalogued in your Librarything account? How do you decide what to include- everything you have, everything you've read- and are there things you leave off?

I currently have 178 books cataloged which is nowhere near what I own. I started adding all of the books I own and tagging them appropriately, although my tagging method to start is pathetic. I got about a quarter of the way through my books and just stopped. I couldn't keep up with chatting and entering my books! Joy over at Jlshall has inspired me to order a cuecat which I hope to do this evening. I also have to pay for my account as I will soon be at 200 books.

I include everything. I was originally using LT to keep track of what I read in a given year but have found so many books that I want to read I decided to just add those as well. I hope to tag those separately soon. I admit I have gotten rather lazy with my cataloging which is fine with me because the books aren't going anywhere!

I now can access my LT account on my phone which is very helpful when I am browsing the bookstores. That way I do not buy duplicate books which I have done from time to time.

Have a great week everyone!

Sunday, May 25, 2008

The Sunday Salon

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Good Sunday Morning and Happy Memorial Day weekend to my fellow US readers. This past week I finished The Wednesday Sisters by Meg Waite Clayton and loved it! I will have a review up shortly.

Last night I started Black Wave by John and Jean Silverwood. This is an ER book that I received from Librarything. It is a true story based on the Silverwood's adventure at sea. I am only 50 pages into this and really don't know how I feel about it yet. John and Jean Silverwood had spent their youth around the sea and always knew they wanted to go back to it. One day, they packed up their four kids, who thought they were crazy, and set sail across the world. This is the story of what happened one fateful night that changed their lives forever.

Also on the agenda this week:

The Aviary Gate by Katie Hickman (ARC)
The Tea Rose by Jennifer Donnelly (Bookclub)
Songs for the Missing by Stuart O'Nan (Barnes and Noble First Look club)
Comfort Food by Kate Jacobs (Sent by the publisher)

And of course, Middlemarch by George Eliot which is taking me forever to get through. I am only reading about 20 pages at a time so at this rate I will have it finished in August!

Today I will have the house to myself since my husband is golfing, yay! In between laundry, I will hopefully be making a dent in my ever growing tbr pile and writing a few reviews.

Have a great day reading!

Friday, May 23, 2008

Review of The Wednesday Sisters

The Wednesday Sisters

Meg Waite Clayton

Early Reviewer Edition

Kath, Frankie, Ally, Brett and Linda are The Wednesday Sisters. They met in a park in CA in the late 1960s and developed a close friendship which spans over 30 years. These 5 women couldn't be more different but soon realize that they share an affinity for literature and share a secret desire to write.

I really identified with Frankie. I am from Chicago and grew up in the 70s so I really appreciated all of the references to the Cubs and Northwestern University but more importantly I felt that the author really captured the Midwestern "mentality" of the era.

While reading I couldn't help but be reminded of all of the hardships my mom went through as a young woman in the 60s and 70s. She divorced when I was young and was an outcast at my Catholic Elementary School. I can see why Kath stuck it out! She was not able to go to college for the same reasons as Frankie.

There were times when I laughed out loud and had to hold back the tears while reading. Meg Waite Clayton really captured the bond that women have when they develop meaningful relationships and friendships. I can't wait to pass this book on to one of my Wednesday Sisters!

Click here to see more great reviews of The Wednesday Sisters. Edited to add that Meg Waite Clayton linked my review to her blog. Very exciting!

Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Review of Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Nabokov

Finished May 13, 2008

Description: When it was published in 1955, Lolita immediately became a cause célèbre because of the freedom and sophistication with which it handled the unusual erotic predilections of its protagonist. But Vladimir Nabokov's wise, ironic, elegant masterpiece owes its stature as one of the twentieth century's novels of record not to the controversy its material aroused but to its author's use of that material to tell a love story almost shocking in its beauty and tenderness. Awe and exhilaration–along with heartbreak and mordant wit–abound in this account of the aging Humbert Humbert's obsessive, devouring, and doomed passion for the nymphet Dolores Haze. Lolita is also the story of a hypercivilized European colliding with the cheerful barbarism of postwar America, but most of all, it is a meditation on love–love as outrage and hallucination, madness and transformation.

This was the most disturbing book I have ever read. The story of an older man, Humbert Humbert's obsession and "love affair" with the 12 year old nymphet Dolores Haze. While the subject matter was grotesque the writing was beautiful. Nabokov first wrote Lolita in English which was not his native language (Russian). I have to admit that I actually laughed out loud in a few parts because of his sarcastic wit. When he asked, "why do these people guess so much and shave so little?"

This was the first book I have read for the 1% Challenge to read 10 books from 1001 Books to Read Before You Die. 1 down and 10 to go!

Thinging Through Tuesday or Um Wednesday

Hi everyone! My name is Erin, I am 35 years old, married with no kids (yet). I do have a little dog who you will see on my LT profile page. I travel for my job and am gone every week to one of eight states that I cover which is where I get most of my reading done.

I joined LT as a way to get organized and keep track of my library. I had no idea my joining LT would turn into a new obsession! I have not entered all of my books yet because I have been too busy joining groups and starting a book blog! I have met some great people on LT and have had many great recommendations.

This week I received my ER copy of The Wednesday Sisters which I started last night and had a hard time putting it down! I finished listening to Lolita today which was very disturbing. I will have a review up shortly. I am also reading Middlemarch for a group read on LT but have not gotten very far.

I look forward to getting to know everyone and will be posting links as soon as I have time. Have a great week!

Sunday, May 11, 2008

The Sunday Salon

Happy Mother's Day everyone! This will be a very short post today as it has not been a productive reading week. I gave up on listening to Outlander. I hope that this is one I will enjoy reading because I have read so many good things about it. I just did not like the narrator's voice!

I did manage to read Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll. One of my coworkers is obsessed with Alice and having never read it I wanted to see what all of the fuss was about. I enjoyed it but still don't understand the obsession!

I am currently reading Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier. My mom recommended this to me after reading it for her book club. So far so good, I am not far enough in to really have an opinion yet. I started Middlemarch, got to Part II and have not picked it up again.

This will be a busy week for me work wise so I am not sure how much reading I will actually get done. I have a few Early Reviewer books I am waiting for and have to review so those will be moved up.

Short and sweet today. I hope everyone had a wonderful Mother's Day!

Sunday, May 4, 2008

The Sunday Salon

Good Morning! It finally feels like Spring in this part of the country. The sun is shining and my plants are starting to come alive again. Yay! On the agenda for today, Spring clean-up in the backyard, give the little dog a bath and laundry. I'll try to squeeze some reading time in there too!

This week I finished listening to World Without End, wow, what a book! I started listening to Outlander after reading so many wonderful things on Librarything and am very disappointed. My problem with this book is the narrator, Davina Porter. Her voice is slightly irritating me. I have only listened to two hours of this so I will give it another hour and then will give up listening to it. I have had this happen a few times where I just could not follow the narrator because of their voice but then read the book and loved it.

I finished reading Year of Wonder by Geraldine Brooks last night and am now a huge fan of hers. I might try to run out and buy March today. Her writing is beautiful. She takes such a tragic story and turns it into a story of survival and hope.

Last night I started The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde not knowing what to think based on the front caption of the book "Filled with clever wordplay, literary allusion and bibliowit, The Eyre Affair combines elements of Monty Python, Harry Potter, Stephen Hawking and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. But its quirky charm is all its own." -The Wall Street Journal. I am not a fan of Monty Python, haven't read any Harry Potter (I know, I know, it's on the list), read one Stephen Hawking book several years ago and have never read any Buffy the Vampire Slayer books. So, what am I doing reading The Eyre Affair? I have no idea. I needed a change of pace from all of the historical fiction I have been reading lately and this fit the bill. I am only 50 pages in and am already sucked into it. Fforde is very clever indeed.

This week, thanks to Devourer of Books, I signed up for the Penguin Classics Blogging Challenge and will be getting The Laws of Manu by anonymous. I am pretty scared about this one! Penguin sends the book to you free of charge for committing to post a review within six weeks of receipt.

That's it for today. I hope you have a wonderful Sunday!

Saturday, May 3, 2008

Review of Year of Wonders

Year of Wonders
Geraldine Brooks

Finished May 3, 2008

When the plague rips through a village in England in 1665 it tests the strength of the town's people beyond our imagination. Anna Frith is 18, widowed and left with two young children when her boarder contracts the plague. This sparks the rampant spread of the disease and Anna's quest to survive.

The book spans one year 1665-1666 and is based on the true story of the devastation caused by the plague in the English village of Eyam. The village is quarantined from the outside world for one year to stop the spread of the disease. There were plenty of opportunities for Anna to give up everything but she carried on caring for the sick and dying. She formed and unlikely friendship with the rector's wife, Elinor. She watched her abusive, alcoholic father's demise and her step-mother lose her sanity.

Geraldine Brooks does a wonderful job with telling this story. Her writing is simply beautiful. I will add her other novels; March (2006 Pulitzer Prize Winner) and People of the Book to my TBR list.

1% Well Read Challenge

The challenge is to read 10 books from 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die list. You have from May 1, 2008 through February 28, 2009. I have slowly been working on this list so I was glad to see the challenge. To enter the challenge click here. You may change your list at any time. This is my first challenge! I actually have all of these books with the exception of The Shining on my shelf.

The 10 books I have selected:

1. Middlemarch - George Eliot
2. North and South - Elizabeth Gaskell
3. Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
4. Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
5. The Shining - Stephen King
6. The Poisonwood Bible -Barbara Kingsolver
7. Persuasion - Jane Austen
8. Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro
9. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov finished 5/13/08
10. The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera

Thursday, May 1, 2008

Free Penguin Classics

Devourer of Books posted about the Penguin Classic giveaway for bloggers. All you have to do to enter is go to Penguin Classics. You simply enter your e-mail address, mailing address and create a user name and password. Penguin Classic then e-mails you with the book selection title. You agree to review the book 6 weeks from receipt of the book.

I will be receiving The Laws of Manu by Anonymous which was first translated into English in 1794. While this is not a book I would have selected myself I am excited about the opportunity to read something I would not have read otherwise.


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Telegraph Media Group – Work Experience (Sport)

Location: London

Closing date: Ongoing

Group Sport is the fully integrated department, publishing the stand alone Daily Telegraph Sport supplements, the Sunday Telegraph Sport supplement and the online content on the Sport channel at www.telegraph.co.uk/sport

Telegraph Scheme Is ‘Perfect Laboratory’ For Real World Of Journalism

Telegraph journalist and former graduate trainee Jonathan Liew

After being crowned Guardian Columnist Of The Year at the 2007 Student Media Awards, history graduate Jonathan Liew wrote for various sports publications before landing a place on the Telegraph trainee scheme…

Fast-forward to a year later and Liew had secured a full-time role at the broadsheet as a sports writer, where he’s since covered major tournaments and events ranging from the latest football, cricket and rugby world cups to the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic games.

Today, the 2011 SJA Young Sports Writer Of The Year continues to provide comment, opinion and analysis for the paper (when he’s not being taught how to throw a javelin by Olympic athletes or attempting to set a record in the pizza box long jump).

We caught up with Liew to find out how the scheme helped him kick-start his journalism career:

Q: What was your background prior to starting the Telegraph graduate scheme? Did you already have much experience in journalism?

A: Four years at Edinburgh University, where I putatively did history but in reality did very little of anything. Except the student newspaper, which in retrospect was probably where it all started.

I did try and get involved in the school newspaper when I was about 16, but because of my reputation as a ‘troublemaker’, failed to get a look-in, despite being the only person in my year who knew what the word ‘soporific’ meant.

The man responsible for that decision was a crotchety, whimsical fellow called Mr Keenlyside. He’s dead now. Those two facts are almost certainly unrelated.

From Edinburgh I sent off a few letters to various publications that interested me. I didn’t go crazy on the letter-writing, partly because I didn’t generally rise until about 2pm, but partly because somebody from the Wisden Cricketer magazine wrote back, sardonically pointing out that writing letters was “a bit 20th century”.

So I did two weeks there, which led to a feature which I sort of pitched a few months later and suicidally attempted to write at the same time as my dissertation. I also did a couple of weeks at the much-missed Observer Sport Monthly, followed by another month during my final year of university.

Those four weeks were my first taste of paid journalism. Back then, the idea of actually getting paid to do journalism seemed giddy, fanciful and ridiculous. Now, of course, it seems… well, much the same.

Q: Looking back, why do you think your application was accepted? What unique qualities do you think you were able to portray?

A: I wasn’t even on the interview shortlist for the Telegraph scheme. I got a call telling me I was on the reserve list, and that if someone dropped out, I could have an interview. Someone clearly did drop out.

I went down to London, got on the Tube for the first time in eight months, got lost, and turned up dishevelled and 20 minutes late.

This is all a roundabout way of saying that it was probably the interview that did it.

It was the easiest, breeziest, most pleasant interview I’ve ever done. I cracked jokes, I spoke with brevity and precision, I neatly sidestepped the question about whether my own political views aligned with the Telegraph’s (as my mother once told me, there are three things you should never discuss in polite company: politics, religion and your aunt’s wooden leg), and showed them clear, concrete examples of my work.

The feature I wrote for the cricket magazine seemed to impress them. They liked how I’d just pitched it, done all the work for it and written it. It showed gumption. They’re still waiting for me to show gumption again.

Q: How challenging was the application and interview process? What advice would you have for any graduates looking to apply to this year’s scheme?

A: It was hard. But it wasn’t hard like an exam, which you can revise for. And it wasn’t hard like a court case, where you’re either guilty or innocent.

This was more hard like appearing on television or radio. Needing to think on your feet, and sound clever, and be clever, and remembering to smile, and remembering to make eye contact, and remembering not to cite the cryptic crossword as your favourite section of the newspaper.

It’s a multi-skilled, multi-layered juggling act, which I think is why girls tend to do better out of the process than boys. Being a girl is one long juggling act. I sense I’m digressing, though, so, um, just be yourself.

Q: What do you think were the most valuable skills you gained from taking part in the scheme?

A: Practically, shorthand helped a lot. Law helped a bit. Learning to operate a video camera that was about to become obsolete did not help a great deal.

This is going to sound nebulous and boring, but perhaps the best thing about the scheme was that you essentially got to learn how news works. What makes a story, and what doesn’t.

You may think that as a consumer of the media, you know what you want to read, but you don’t really. You only really know that you want to read something after you’ve read it.

Journalism is essentially the process of working out what people want to read before they do. The new idea, the fresh angle. How do we present it, and when do we put it out? Writing is just the easy part.

That’s what I learned, anyway.

Q: How were you able to impress during your time on the scheme and secure a job afterwards? What advice would you give to future trainees looking to do the same?

A: The regional placements were a bit of a laugh, to be honest. I did some work, but not a lot, and certainly nothing important.

In fact, the highlight of my entire time in Glasgow was getting off with Izzy, the beautiful, dainty, flaxen-haired video journalist, at the pub one night, and spending the next month unsuccessfully trying to close the deal.

Getting back to London, and actually inside the Telegraph, was a different matter entirely. It was a perfect laboratory for the real world of journalism, in that the quality of your work mattered a lot less than getting to know the right people.

I got to know David Bond, the sports editor (now doing a very fine job at the BBC), and over a momentous if slightly unconventional conversation in the gents’ toilets, he casually asked if I would be interested in filling a vacancy they had in the department.

Up to that point, I had displayed little more than a working knowledge of more than one sport and a willingness to go to Milton Keynes on a cold Monday night to cover League One football.

Q: What was the most challenging task you were set during your time on the scheme, and how were you able to rise to it?

A: Man, these are getting hard! I’d have to say it was probably the time PA sent me to stake out the BBC during the whole Andrew Sachs palaver and wait for Mark Thompson to come out.

I got there at 8am and spent eleven hours in the deadening cold, holding a microphone up to a motionless door, unable to eat, drink or go to the toilet in case the Director General should emerge at that exact moment.

Eventually, at about 7pm, he did emerge, walked 20 yards to a waiting car, and got in, although not before I was able to shout: “WILL YOU RESIGN, MR THOMPSON!” at him.

That was my day. I don’t know whether I rose to the challenge, exactly, but I was certainly there.

Q: What is it like working at the Telegraph? What do you enjoy most about working there?

A: The Telegraph is, simply put, one of the dwindling band of media organisations that still values good sportswriting.

It still places a high premium on superb ideas, thorough research and clean design. But – and this is maybe something that has changed in the last decade or so – it still feels incredibly fresh and current.

It still sets the agenda rather than follows it. It’s not afraid to go in the other direction to everyone else. As a writer – and erstwhile schoolboy cross-country runner – who has made a habit of going in the other direction to everyone else, this makes things pretty exciting.

It means you can pitch an idea or feature that Sport magazine wouldn’t go near, and not only make it work, but see it through to the page.

You get to work with some fascinating people. You actually get read by people who care about sport, rather than bored barbershop customers and racist cab drivers.

Oh god, I love my job.

Q: There is a growing perception amongst many young journalism graduates that newspapers might not be the best place to be right now – that it’s a dying industry. How would you respond to that?

A: Oh, gosh. Let me put this succinctly. Let’s say you write a thing. The thing goes in a newspaper. But as well as going in the newspaper, the thing goes on the web, where deeply rational, broad-minded souls with generous spirits can comment on it.

It also goes in the iPad edition that someone reads on a bus the next day. Later that afternoon, a girl reads the thing while running on the treadmill at the gym. After she’s showered and changed, she decides to put the thing on Facebook, where 14 people ‘like’ it.

One of those people puts it up on Twitter, where the thing gets retweeted and reshared a few dozen times, one of them by someone reading the thing in an internet cafe in Jakarta, who didn’t really like the thing, but doesn’t really quite understand how Twitter works yet.

By which time, of course, you’ve probably already written another thing.

Now, doesn’t that sound like the most wonderful thing in the world? It’s not – I’ve romanticised it – but I still maintain that I’d rather be a journalist in 2012 than in any other year you care to name.

Are newspapers dying? Yeah, probably. Is news dying? Only if new stuff stops happening, and I’m yet to be convinced that we’re anywhere near that stage yet.

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  • John Binstead

    John Binstead gave props (19 Jul 2008):

    beautiful, like a fairytale love it

  • Lynne Dorr

    Lynne Dorr gave props (22 Jul 2008):

    Absolutely beautiful. And, on top of it being an amazing photo ... how do you get your kids to do this stuff for you? That in itself, is also amazing! :)

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    Wow! Fantastic!

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    Such an interesting concept!

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    Stunning beauty found in the simplest of moments. Absolutely gorgeous & great work as well. U certainly R a master at portraiture.

  • Joy B

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    Absolutely beautiful photo!

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    Absolutely Adorable !!! well done !!

  • Micah Mackenzie

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    Grand shot!~

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    Very nice work!

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    Alya Al Dhaheri gave props (29 Oct 2009):

    Absolutely beautiful! Congrats on getting published AND being on the cover!

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    F A B U L O U S !

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    fÃ©licitations Jacqueline ! :)

  • Linda Lou

    Linda Lou said (1 Nov 2009):

    Congratulations on your newly published photograph! She's beautifully captured.

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    Dianna Rojas said (2 Nov 2009):

    Very nice, you have beautiful children and definitely talented.

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    beautiful portrait, amazing!

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    Baryalai Mohmand said (6 Nov 2009):

    awsome concept

    very well made

    everthing is very well handled in this amazing image

    lightting is perfect

    effect is awsome

    over all lovely

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    this is stunning!

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    wonderful shot!

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    Wonderful work!

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    this is fabulous.

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    beautiful work! her expression is lovely. and the post-processing is great. love the colors

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    OMG, perfect fantasy looking..

    wow,, far beyond nice,,,.

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    Beyond words !

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    definitely something magical

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    This is incredible... period.

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    Congratulations your work always fascinates me !

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    Your model is perfection. This image reminds me of Mark Ryden's work. Keep it up.

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    Perfect portrait!!

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    Adorable little princess, well captured!

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    Beautiful portrait. (-:

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    Very nice!

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    loved this shoot..!! u'hv got an amazing studio..!

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    OMG! How wonderful! Congratulations!

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    wow... speechless how to make that sparkling whit

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    I really love this one! ;)

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    oh so lovely...

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    This is lovely! Congratilations for the publication

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    Congratulations. What amazing photos.

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    gorgeous portrait.

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    Nice work.

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    hauntingly beautiful

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    Mesmerizing! Really well done.

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    great shot!!!

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    Beautiful work of art.

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    so etherial...!

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    Wow i like it

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Friday, April 19, 2013

Pomp and circumstance

In Ivoirian culture, and what I am seeing in the office culture specifically, is the importance of greeting people. Every morning, I go around the 5th and 6th floors to greet the Director of the DPFC and his various Deputy Directors. I then also greet my colleagues working on EDHC. What’s most interesting about the greeting process is that it’s in fact not at all rude to interrupt a meeting (unless it’s a very important one) to greet someone. This took me aback at first, when people would just come into my office during a meeting to just say hello.

Every visit we make to a school involves a formal meet and greet with the director of the school. We sit in their overly air conditioned office, and the director, after offering us some water, asks for the news (les nouvelles). Depending on whether the director is a man or a woman, they will ask for the youngest person of the same sex to give the news. They will then ask one of their colleagues to summarize the news to them. In other words, everyone has a mouthpiece that speaks for them. Once the news is summarized, the director of the school welcomes everyone and we can proceed with the purpose of our visit.

Every meeting and conference has an opening ceremony, where some high-up person will give a little speech thanking everyone (and then they sometimes leave right after, not actually participating in the conference). Then a MC is selected that runs the meeting and who is charged with taking down names during the question-answer section. Then there is a closing ceremony where the high-up person returns or sends a representative to give a closing speech. Titles, as I can gather, are very important. And making sure you thank all the right people in your speech is equally so.

More often than not the time allocated to the people of importance and their long speeches exceeds the purpose of the actual ceremony: case in point, I went to the MENET’s day of Excellence awards ceremony where the five speakers took over two hours to do their speeches, whereas the award giving process (to the best school, best teacher, best administrator, best student, etc) took about an hour.

This past month saw two fun ceremonies: the MENET’s Excellence awards and the MENET’s National Women’s Day celebration. Both had comedians, singers, actors that broke up the long speeches. They honored various personnel within the ministry as well as students and teachers. The Excellence awards took place in the fancy Hotel Ivoire and the Women’s day was in the grand Palais de la Culture.  Here are some pictures to enjoy.
Hotel Ivoire

Madame le ministre giving her welcoming speech

Some of the awardees

Hotel Ivoire

Prime Minister Daniel Kablan Duncan

Women's day

Palais de la culture

Madame le Ministre and the Prime Minister's wife releasing doves

Palais de la culture

Sunday, April 07, 2013

Megalomania in Côte d’Ivoire: La basilique de Yamoussoukro deserves its own blog post

I recently visited the largest Christian edifice in the world, which is interestingly located right here in Côte d’Ivoire.

Taking only three years to be completed (1985-1989), the Basilica of Our Lady of Peace of Yamoussoukro was commissioned by then President, the country’s founding father, Houphouet-Boigny. As mentioned earlier, Yamoussoukro was his birthplace, so it is naturally the perfect site for a building that exceeds the size of Saint Peter’s Basilica in Rome by 95,847 square feet.

When there, one cannot help but wonder the purpose of such a building; though it can hold 18,000 worshipers, it is rare indeed that this is ever the case, as few people actually visit the basilica. Not to mention the more pressing question on priorities: in the late 1980s, early 1990s when it was constructed, Côte d’Ivoire’s economy was in a downward spiral thanks in part to Houphouet-Boigny’s mismanaged cocoa policies. To spend all that money to build such a monument when people are falling further into poverty seems a little misguided, to say the least. But we’re not talking about the sanest character in the world, I suppose (the man put his face next to Jesus’ in one of the stained glass windows….)
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In his book, Wars, Guns, and Votes: Democracy in Dangerous Places, renowned economist Paul Collier makes an interesting argument, somewhat in favor of the basilica:

“…societies throughout history have used monumental buildings to construct a shared identity…the creation of a sense of shared identity is very much what leaders should be doing in these societies.”

But he finishes by saying, “whether a cathedral in the president’s home village was the ideal symbol in a society divided by religion and ethnicity might, however, be questioned.” Especially considering that there is strong belief that the basilica was built in part with funding from foreign aid agencies. Not to mention that if this was in fact the reason Houphouet-Boigny built it – for social cohesion – we can say it was an epic fail: Yamoussoukro remains a city with no purpose and the country experienced its first coup d’état just 9 years after the basilica was completed.

the incomplete hospital
The building was consecrated by Pope Jean Paul II in 1990. He said, however, that a hospital had to be constructed before he would come. Ironically, it took just three years to build the basilica, but the “promised” hospital has yet to be finished (23 odd years later?) In a June 16, 2012 article in the Economist, construction workers at the site said that they expected it to be finished by the end of the year. Obviously this is not the case.

When there, the marble reflects the sunlight to such an extent, you can’t look directly at the large expansive courtyard in the front of the basilica. Inside, 70 foot high stained glass windows depict Christ amidst palm trees. Elevators built inside the giant pillars take you up to the upper levels, where you get an astonishing view down the 23 stories. The dome itself weighs over 98 000 tons. Oh and if you happen to be one of the few worshipers that come to the basilica, you can rest assured that you won’t overheat; each individual seat has a built-in air conditioning.
Over the top doesn’t even begin to describe the immensity and the insanity that is the basilica. Enjoy this photo album and try not to ask too many questions about the necessity of such an edifice… just revel in this perfect example of megalomania.


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March Writing Challenge Day 21: ‘Course He Isn’t Safe.

I’ve felt the dry heat of hell

Nipping violently at my heals

On the darkest nights of my barely lived life

When my sin is no longer concealed

Disintegrating right off my brittle bones

Like the rust on an old automobile

Laid out prostrate and not a single tear left

Now the light can finally do a skin peel

Making its way through all the cracks and valleys

Breaking up habits congealed

Finding its way to the root of my mess

A feeling that’s almost unreal

Attacking my sludge-covered heart like an untamed lion

Squeezing that evil until it squeals

Bleeding the death right out of my tendons

The tomb I was in unsealed

Twisting and blending, what excruciating pain

As the lion devours His meal

Torn apart, massacred, and gracefully broken

I am ready and willing to heal.

“Safe? Who said anything about safe? ‘Course he isn’t safe. But He’s good. He’s the king, I tell you.”


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Friday, July 30, 2010

Get the Crap Out...Party

vanessa over at v & co. is having a party to motivate us into getting ourselves and our homes "crap free"...
if you want to join, it's not too late. head on over here, to link up...

now. on to my part of the party.

it's not pretty, but it's clean and my mom could find a plastic cup now if she wanted to!!!

i forgot to take a before pic, but trust me. it was bad.
i decided to clean out my little ol' pantry and the cupboard that we use as a medicine cabinet in the kitchen for a couple reasons. first because seriously, it was a joke. you couldn't find anything and it was embarrasing when anyone opened up the pantry. {ugh!} the second reason is because, this post truly inspired me. and third, because we are moving soon and i really need to have everything cleaned out and organized before i start packing. it's kinda like picking up before the housekeeper comes. {which, btw, has only been a luxury a couple times in my life...sigh}

i finally found a way to store the dumb bags of potatoes.
and i found a place for all the plastic 'stuff' that was thrown down at the bottom for so long now.

and i can't wait to get my labels so that i can organize all these jars!

again, no before. i couldn't believe how much stuff i had to throw away because of the expiration date! be sure to check the exp. date on your sunscreens before you lather up your kiddos, only to find them red as lobsters at the end of the day!

and i saw this idea somewhere and thought it was a great way to store all the tablets that inevitably come out of their boxes...i found these containers at michaels for very little. they are photo holders.

now i realllyyy need to get a handle on my sewing room, but the thought of it, is giving me a headache! hope your having a wonderful day. enjoy your weekend and i'll see you at next week's party!

p.s. hellloooo, becky. your son's fabulous!

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Miss M! said...

Your pantry looks great!

Andi said...

The pantry turned out very nice! I'm going to steal that photo box idea if that's ok. Thanks for stopping by my blog, you are my first comment from someone who wasn't family! :-) And yes blogging is a BLAST!

Karen said...

Great job! I'd love to have a pantry looking like that! I was just thinking how our meds are taking over my kitchen shelves and how I needed to reorganize. Thanks for the inspiration!

Marie said...

When you're done all that organizing in your house could you come and do mine?? I wish!! Your pantry looks lovely and so neat and tidy!!

Natasha Burns said...

looking good!!! it feels so good organising a pantry all neat and where you can find stuff, doesn't it?!

mom said...

Very nice. Everything looks great.

Mom2fur said...

I really love the idea for storing meds! Mine fall all over the place, too. I'll be looking for those containers next time I go to Michaels.