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Monday, 20 April 2015

The interwined histories of Palarpatti and Pennycuick

For the casual visitor, Palarpatti is like any of the hundreds of tiny hamlets that dot the lush green landscape between Cumbum and Theni in southern Tamil Nadu. Anchored by a meandering river with fertile farmlands on both sides and a stretch of modest homes cuddled together in the centre of the settlement, locals claim that around 650 families, most of whom are farmers, live here.

But, Palarpatti is unlike any other village in Tamil Nadu or anywhere else in the country for it is probably the only Indian village where a British engineer is revered as god and is worshipped even so many decades after his death.

Colonel Pennycuick, the British Engineer who built the Mullaperiyar Dam between 1887 and 1895 is that man.  Huge potraits of Pennycuick have been framed and hung in every home in the village and the residents of Palarpatti take pride in celebrating the legacy of this foreigner.  Even the community hall in the village has been named Pennycuick Mandapam after him.

Every year on January 14, even as everyone in Tamil Nadu celebrates Pongal, the harvest festival also known as Tamizhar Tirunal, residents of Palarpatti celebrates Pennycuick’s birthday which also happens to be on the same day.

All the villagers and their family members assemble at the community hall in Palarapatti and cook pongal, a dish made of rice and dhal, in the village centre with a huge portrait of the Britisher whose  thick brooding moustache and probing eyes oversee the festivities.  Later, the villagers conduct games such as Kabbadi, Kolam (Rangoli), cock fights etc. to commemorate the occasion and distribute trophies and prizes in the name of Pennycuick.
Even little children in Pallarpatti and surrounding areas in Theni district know about the British Engineer J. Pennycuick (1841 – 1911) who built the Mullaperiyar Dam and can narrate interesting anecdotes of his biography that has been embellished over the years with several interesting fictional elements adding spice to the story.

In a country where successful movie stars, politicians, sportspersons and in rare cases, physicians are seen as demigods, British engineer J. Pennycuick is probably the only engineer who is considered god and a hero of the people.

Residents of Palarpatti have enough reasons to revere Col Pennycuick as god as they believe he transformed their lives forever by undertaking the unfathomable feat of constructing the Mullaperiyar dam.
“This region is dry due to scant rainfall and the absence of any perennial source of water. Although Surliyar has been flowing here for centuries, it is highly seasonal and does not provide enough water for farming activities. At best, the Surliyar could be used to irrigate for one crop,” says Deivam, an elderly farmer from Palarpatti.

“In the absence of any steady farming activity, our ancestors had no choice but resort to other activities to make a living which are now considered illegal. Brewing arrack and waylaying travelers was the primary occupation of this region during periods of drought. And droughts were pretty regular here,” he says.
Today, even the oldest men and women in Palarpatti do not recall ever having to struggle for a meal. Ever since they have been born, the farmlands around their village have been producing two yields in a year providing them sufficient food grains to fulfill their needs as well as to sell outside. “We have been told by our parents and grandparents on how this village and other areas nearby have been transformed after the dam was built. Hence we consider this man Pennycuick as our hero and savior,” said Andi, an elderly person from Palarpatti.

Not just in Palarpatti but in several other villages surrounding Bodi such as Surulipatti, Narayanathevanpatti, Kullagoundanpatti etc., Pennycuick is a well known figure and public here pay homage to the man year after year.

John Pennycuick was born in Pune in the year 1841 to Brigadier-General J. Pennycuick and Sarah. After completing his education in England, Pennycuick returned to India in 1860 and worked in the Madras Public Works Department for several years before retiring from service as a chief engineer in 1896, a year after the Mullaperiyar dam was completed.

Incidentally, Penncuick had not always been a legendary hero in the villages of Theni district. The controversy that has been brewing over the past thirty years has probably resurrected the dead Colonel from his grave and has given him a place in the hearts of public here.

“We have started celebrating his birthday and legacy for a little more than a decade now. Until then, most people were not aware of this man or his contribution to our state,” says Mani, a 32-year-old man from Palarpatti. “Some years ago, a man from this area went to a college in the city and learnt about Pennycuick. Later, he wrote a booklet about Pennycuick and distributed it among us to educate on the Mullaiperiyar dam and the man who had constructed the dam,” he said.

 Irrespective of whether this adoration in Palarpatti and surrounding areas for Pennycuick whose accomplishments are much lesser when compared to legendary engineers like Sir Arthur Cotton etc is motivated or not, there is no denial in the fact that his contribution to the village that has no perennial river and a harsh climatic conditions is immense as is obvious today.

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Monday, May 23, 2011

Florida Dept. of Law Enforcement versus Bruised Egos in the Murder of Sheena Morris

These are photos from the Kelly Rothwell search, the police cadet who went missing on March 12, 2011. Kelly Rothwell's boyfriend was the last person to see her alive. The family contacted the CUE Center for Missing Persons and these are a few of the certified recovery searchers in the country, among them is Kelly Osborn.

When called, she braves the elements to bring those lost and missing home to their families; law enforcement often calls in those trained and with experience to do the job properly. Because every search is a potential crime scene, what is found is tagged and documented as evidence. During this particular search it had to be difficult to return to a community where law enforcement has refused to investigate an unsolved case. You would not know that Kelly herself is searching for answers that are fairly simply as it relates to her own daughters case. She is searching for justice.

On January 1, 2009, Sheena Morris was found dead in a hotel, hanging from the shower. Her then boyfriend was not arrested at the time, and would not be questioned by Bradeton, Florida officers for some 22 days later.

Sheena Morris placed a call to 911 hours before her death reporting domestic violence by her dangerous boyfriend. She even took pictures of her injuries, a cut on her neck, on her ring finger.

The people in the next room of the hotel also called 911 before her murder to report the disturbance and sound of violence coming from the room next door.

Shortly before her death, the keys to her apartment were taken and she was physically attacked. The keys are an important part of this case because Sheena Morris had criminal information that would implicate the last person to see her alive. It doesn't help that the dangerous and criminal boyfriend also has direct ties to the Genovese family and he can be placed at her apartment carrying out boxes with the stolen keys taken from Sheena just before he staged her death to make it look like a suicide. In March, her death certificate was changed from suicide to undetermined.

There were mistakes made at the crime scene of Sheena Morris, but egos of the Bradenton Police Department are stopping a mother from having the investigation opened. The bottom line is, all that is required is for another county to come and re-investigate the case. In this resort play land of a community, you have a killer on the loose.

Expert forensic reports state that the crime scene was staged, and this points directly to an intimate partner homicide. The evil and criminal boyfriend roams the streets free. Maybe residents and potential home buyers in Bradenton Beach will unknowingly hire the killer, also a Genovese family member, to lay new carpet or tile in their home. Does he bring that much revenue to the tax rolls in the community to warrant looking the other way? I think not!

Obviously, those in the Bradenton Beach police department are not getting the message that this is not going away unless it is given to the investigators in Manatee County (the Sheriff Brad Steube is also up for re-election.)

Then we have the officials at the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and Commissioner Gerald M. Baily who have the ability to implement a "changing of the guard," if you will, because the Bradenton Police Chief position is appointed, not elected.

This mother has given so much to families of the missing across the country, most recently in the State of Florida, and this is how those in the local law enforcement treat an unsolved homicide victim's familiy? It raises the question, what else are they not doing as it pertains to crime and safety in their own backyard?

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Susan Murphy Milano is with the Institute for Relational Harm Reduction and Public Pathology Education. She is an expert on intimate partner violence and homicide crimes. For more information visit She is also in partnership with Pamela Chapman and iAscend Programs.

Susan is the author of "Time's Up A Guide on How to Leave and Survive Abusive and Stalking Relationships," available for purchase at the Institute, and wherever books are sold. Susan is the host of The Susan Murphy Milano Show, "Time's Up!" on Here Women Talk is a regular contributor to the nationally syndicated The Roth Show with Dr Laurie Roth. Susan is a survivor- the daughter of a police officer family intimate partner homicide by her father who murdered her mother before committing suicide.

Anonymous said...

Sheena was murdered. What would you do if it happened to your daughter? Kelly is giving back to people in Sheena's memory. God bless her.

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Saturday, July 4, 2009

Gracie is rained out too!

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Gracie was going nuts last night with all the firecrackers going off next door. The people that Gracie shares her space with didn't get a lot of sleep either.
But as you can see, today she is sleeping soundly.
Maybe the constant rain that we had all day long, scared even the most ardent lighter of firecrackers!
I will miss the fireworks display that the city set off though, but I'll get over it!
Guess I'll end up going to bed early.
Ahhhh...... bliss, no smell of sulfur penetrating the air.
Move over Gracie, I could use a little nap too!

  1. The raindrop in the first photo looks like a heart!!

  2. I missed the fireworks too!!!! My kids didn't want to go. I was so bummed!! I'll catch them next year.

  3. we have rain so rarely here, that's it's a cause for celebration if we get a drop or two....but will have fireworks.

  4. My cats really hate the fireworks!

  5. I'm hearing the fireworks starting outside right now. I wish we'd gone somewhere to see them. Oh well, we'll watch from our second floor from a distance.

  6. We didn't have fireworks because we haven't HAD any rain lately and it's too dangerous...all the world here seems like a tinder box.

    But we had a good time with family...minus those kind of fireworks. :)

    Looks like Gracie has the right idea.

  7. What a photo of Gracie; she's adorable! I hope you both get a good nap and have a wonderful weekend (what's left of it!)

  8. Love the photo of Gracie! Sorry about your fireworks, we had plenty here and the dogs were nervous wrecks, but it was fun! Have a great week!

  9. One of our cats flipped out too at the sound of the firecrackers. I did go to bed early.

  10. We are in a drought here in the Seattle area, so while we had fireworks, we also had fires. Some folks lost their homes. We watched fireworks shot off from a barge over water. It was a beautiful warm evening. But now we need some of that rain!

  11. Cheryl;

    I love rain...warm soft rain ! I think I'm not of the majority!
    We did have fireworks the next night!

  12. Hit 40;

    I was bummed to, we had fireworks the next day but I didn't go . Went outside and caught a few in the skies. There is always next year God willing!

  13. Lin;

    Glad you gota little rain...I would love to share some of our rain!

  14. Kay;

    I wish I had year!

    A good time had by all minus fireworks is what a call a winner of a day!

  15. Laoch;

    I have had cats along with dogs all my married life...never realized that cat's were afraid of fireworks.
    I'm learning a lot about my four footed housemate

  16. Susan;

    I hope your trip was uneventful in the best of way!
    Is it sunny and warm where you are in SC?

  17. Linda R;

    Seems like there are always stories of fires and injuries on the 4TH of July.
    We have had a lot of rain this summer, good thing that I'm a fan of rain! I'll see if I can send some your way.

    I'm learning alot about cats these days....they are so cute most of the time!

    Sylvia K;

    You live in such a beautiful area, I bet your fireworks were just lovely!

  18. The fireworks never bothered Bacchus but a thunderstorm later drove him nuts!

  19. awee...gracie doesn't like those either. Thanks for your comment, nice to know that gracie isn't the only one!

  20. Neither my cat nor my dog like the loud noises from the fireworks. Come to think of it, neither do I !

  21. Mare;

    I'm with you, sometimes I feel like wrapping myself around the toilet too!

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The Trade

How much would it cost to buy your friendship?

The last bell of the day rang at 3:55 PM. By 3:56, kids were pouring out of the high school on their way to the soccer field, the library, or the houses of their latchkey friends. Seniors with cars hit up the mall two towns over, the band dorks mustered in the music room, and the punks snuck into the woods to get high.

I was a geek, though, so my afternoons were spent holed up at Legends, the local comic shop. The building that housed Legends was a pharmacy back when the town had several large textile mills, so it still felt like a relic from another century. Old boards creaked when you walked up and down the rows of comics. The air smelled like an old farmhouse, lead paint and all. There was a big table in the front, family dinner style, and it played host to a giant daily game of Magic: The Gathering.

If you don’t remember the game from your own lunchroom days, Magic is a trading card battle where people build personalized decks filled with monsters and powerful spells. Imagine a game of poker where your jacks and kings can pick up swords and fight for you from the back of a giant dragon. I’d play for hours, shuffling up and rejoining the game whenever I died, happy to be around people who thought the game was as much fun as I did.

Without Magic, my time in high school would have been a whole lot worse. My two best friends were veterans of the big table at Legends, as was my first real girlfriend, so it’s no exaggeration to say that the place was the nexus of my social life. After graduation, I took my cards with me to college and brought them to the big regional store in Somerville. I played ranked matches against many of the best players in the northeast, several of whom traveled the world playing the game professionally. Before long, I was accepted as one of their own.

I returned to Legends the summer after my freshman year of college. I was a wizard among acolytes. The best Magic cards are expensive and hard to find, but I had just spent a year training and trading with the best.

My decks were unstoppable. Wave after wave of my goblins crashed into my hapless opponents while they were frantically trying to summon a dragon. If they ever managed to get one out, I’d cackle, drop a mind control spell, and kill them with their own giant beast.

It wasn’t long before a bounty was placed on my head. Kids ripped open packs and bought cards just to try and beat me. Whenever anyone opened a particularly good spell, everyone in the store converged on him and begged for a trade. The games became shorter and more cutthroat. You were no longer allowed to re-join if you died. Many of the younger players had stopped going altogether, frustrated by their inability to win.

Thankfully, my job at the summer camp started in June, so I had a good excuse to stop showing up for a while. By August, I was only stopping in once every couple of weeks.

One Saturday afternoon near the end of summer, I was engaged in a free-for-all game with six or seven others when a pudgy kid entered the store carrying a shoe box. My opponents immediately scooped up their cards and ran over to him. “It’s Craig!” one of them told me. “C’mon! Get in line!”

Craig sat down at a small table next to the side window. He looked to be fifteen or sixteen, but his weight made his age hard to tell. He wore a long-sleeved polo shirt, odd considering the stifling heat, and his dark hair was cut neat and short. His glasses were thick and oblong, like hand-me-downs from the 1970s, and I considered why a boy who had clearly been dressed by wealthy parents had chosen such dopey and anachronistic frames.

“I’m here,” he said, his voice fae and slightly grating. “Who wants to trade for my Magic cards?”

The nerds descended on him like coyotes snapping at a scrap of meat. After a few minutes, a jittery kid named Rob squealed and pulled a shiny, rare card out of the box. The art depicted an elegant Japanese dragon, scales hewn from opal and obsidian, emerging from a cloud of dust on a mountaintop. It was worth at least twenty or thirty dollars, and the last time I saw someone successfully trade for one, he had been so excited that he nearly burst into tears.

“I want the dragon,” Rob told Craig. “Trade me for this?”

Rob handed Craig a ratty common that I have never seen anyone actually use in a game. On it, a smiling jungle frog emitted a cloud of noxious gas. I suspected that Rob had pulled it out of Craig’s collection in addition to the dragon and was trying to pass it off as his.

Craig weighed the two pieces of cardboard in his sweaty palm and gave Rob a deep, soulful glance. “Okay,” he said. “I’ll make this trade if you’ll be my friend.”

Rob wasn’t shaken by the question. In fact, it appeared as though he had been expecting it. “Sure, I’ll be your friend,” he said, snatching up his dragon. Then he wandered off to get a drink from the vending machine in the back of the store.

The next trade was even more lopsided. A buck-toothed twenty-year-old abandoned all pretenses and demanded that Craig give him a card for free. “You can keep it if you’ll be my friend,” Craig said, and the guy ended up with a legendary sword.

For the next ten minutes, player after player pledged their friendship to Craig in exchange for Magic cards. Some went back two or three times, digging through the box until every good card in his collection was gone. Then they left him sitting there, alone, surrounded by piles of bent, worthless cardboard.

The game started up again and I joined in, shuffling my deck and drawing a new starting hand. Craig continued to sit there, ignored, at the table by the window. He didn’t have enough cards left to make a deck and no one in the room seemed eager to lend him one, either. He followed the action as best he could, sneaking glimpses of the table over people’s shoulders.

“Hey, uh, Rob?” He said. “Maybe you should, uh, maybe you’d want to play your dragon now?”

“Don’t give it away!” Rob snapped.

A few minutes later, Craig left the store. I never saw him again.

I haven’t been back to Legends in six years. The internet tells me that the store still exists, albeit in a larger and more modern location. I don’t know if they brought the large Magic table with them. I don’t know if it is once again the kind of place where a high school geek can make lifelong friends.

I don’t think much about the store these days, but I do think about Craig. His face fills my mind when I feel alone in a crowd, surrounded and bound in silence by a group of laughing friends. I think back on the extra decks I had socked away in my backpack that day. I imagine Rob’s shiny dragon, long forgotten, tucked away in a binder in the back of his closet.

I think about Craig the most whenever I enter a comic shop alone and make my way to a table in the back. I still love Magic at age 28, though many of my friends have given up on the game and moved on to purely adult hobbies. I attend tournaments almost every week, often by myself, and find myself staring at the small plastic deck box where I keep my favorite decks. There is a stunning blue dragon on the front, peering out at me from behind a waterfall. The lid is fraying, having accompanied me on two cross-country moves and countless trips to shops and convention halls.

“Will you be my friend?” Craig asked me as I turned the box over and over in my hand, admiring its weight. “I’ll give you that box if you’ll be my friend.”

“Yes,” I lied, handing him a couple of useless cards.

I keep waiting for him to walk into my life once again, a rumpled, prematurely balding mess, still carrying the same worn shoe box.

“Craig?” I’d ask him. “Want to play a game of Magic?”

“Nah,” he’d say. “I don’t need it anymore.”

4 responses to “The Trade

  1. Unfortunately, I think any player that has been around the game long enough has seen scenarios similar to this happen. I have not seen it to the extent that someone was trading cards for friendship though. I think your story/experience is a great reminder that regardless of age, appearance, sex, or any other factor we should always try to welcome, encourage, and teach new players. While it may seem great to get an expensive card for garbage cards (or nothing at all), ripping someone off only really damages yourself and the game.

  2. Those feels bro.

  3. Have you ever tried to get in touch with Craig? like ask people from that store if they remember him?

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U.S. House approved hemp amendment to farm bill but the bill died anyway

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While the full farm bill failed in the U.S. House on Thursday, a majority of did vote for an amendment that would allow the University of Kentucky to grow hemp as called for by a state law the General Assembly approved earlier this year.

The amendment, which passed by a 225-200 vote earlier in the day, would have applied to colleges and universities in other states that have approved the cultivation and regulation of hemp, which has been against federal law since after World War II. The other states include Colorado, Maine, Montana, North Dakota, Oregon, Vermont, Washington and West Virginia.

The amendment vote was a key signal that allowing hemp cultivation could be politically feasible in Congress. However, the farm bill, itself, failed 195-234 as Republicans and Democrats feuded over food-stamp funding, among other provisions.

Northern Kentucky Republican Congressman Thomas Massie co-sponsored the hemp amendment with Democratic U.S. Reps. Jared Polis of Colorado and Earl Blumenauer of Oregon.

“Industrial hemp is used for hundreds of products including paper, clothing, rope, and can be converted into renewable bio-fuels more efficiently than corn or switch grass,” Massie said in a statement. “It’s our goal that the research this amendment enables would further broadcast the economic benefits of the sustainable and job-creating crop.”

In addition, U.S. Rep. Andy Barr, R-Lexington, spoke in favor of the amendment on the House floor Thursday.

“Kentucky was once the nation’s leading producer of industrial hemp,” Barr said. “While the uses of hemp have grown significantly since Kentucky’s peak production in the mid-nineteenth century, the U.S. must now import much of the crop. Kentucky deserves this opportunity to demonstrate the usefulness and viability of this crop for our farmers, and the hope this bill now offers.”

Five of Kentucky’s U.S. representatives supported the amendment. In addition to Massie and Barr, Democratic U.S. Rep. John Yarmuth of Louisville and Republican Reps. Ed Whitfield of Hopkinsville and Brett Guthrie of Bowling Green voted for it.

U.S. Rep. Hal Rogers, R-Somerset, voted against it. Rogers has previously voiced concern that the crop could allow for greater cultivation of marijuana because both are canibus plants.

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April 30, 2010

National Scrapbook Day!

That's right!  It's National Scrapbook Day!  And what better way to celebrate than with a challenge? :)

My challenge for you today is to make a layout and incorporate a mosaic.  It doesn't matter what sketch you use for the layout.  And post a link in the comments to your layout.  I'd LOVE to see it!!

You can also participate in other challenges and games being done by other design team members on Scrappers Delight.

Here is my layout :)  Sorry its a little blurry.  It's close to midnight, I'm exhausted and I dont' have good light in here :)

Happy Crafting!!

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  1. This is a great layout, I have never tried the mosaics... Very nice.


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Monday, April 26, 2010

Family fun

This last week has been a whirlwind of activity.  It started on Sunday night with the beginning of a marathon cleaning of the house. Monday I had someone coming to help with the floors and bathrooms and stuff, but first I had to shovel a path so she could get through. LOL. Not really that bad. I do not usually clean DD#2's room because it is too scary for me. Since we were having house guests I thought a little clean up was in order. One huge pop up hamper of  laundry and one huge bag of garbage later and her room was presentable.  Monday the cleaning and laundry continued. Tuesday some shopping and finishing touches.

On Wed. my nephew came in to town from Philly where he is a resident in Interventional Radiology. He was here to interview for a fellowship next year. DH had to work and so did I, but DD#1 came over and she and here cousin went out to eat and had a chance to catch up.  Initially the plan was that J was coming Wed. and leaving Friday. Plans changed and his wife and baby came on Friday and they  all stayed until Sunday. I do not know why the plans changed but I was so excited!! I finally got the chance to meet my great-nephew. Of course I was also excited to see my nephew and his wife.  DD#2 came home  from school also so we had a full house.
On Saturday we organized an impromptu pizza party with DH's  family so that everyone who was available could see the baby (and mom and dad too). Of course here in the Chicago area we think Chicago style pizza is the best. So we got together at a local pizza place and had a mini family reunion. It was loud and lots of fun. The rest of the day we just sort of hung out and talked and played with the baby.

All too soon everyone had to leave. My nephew was heading west for another interview in California. E and the baby were heading southeast to Georgia to visit with her aunt and cousins. J's last interview is in Georgia and they will all fly back to Philly together.

Later in the afternoon DH went to work and  I put DD#2 on the bus back to school. I knew I would be alone when I got home so I made a detour to Joann's and bought a little bit of fabric and then  to Wendy's for some fries and a frosty.  Ahhhh. Comfort. I miss them all.

Hopefully I will be back in the sewing room making a mess this week.  Happy stitching everyone.

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

The Show is over

Sigh. The show is over and boy am I glad.  Let me back up a bit. As I mentioned a while back I was going to buy a midarm and frame from a friend from guild. Well I did. I worked until 8pm Wed night. On Thursday morning  I went to her house and we took the frame apart so that it was in sections that could be transported. When we were almost done I called DH and he rented a van from Home Depot and came over and loaded it up. We got home and unloaded it. I rested for a while then started to put it back together. DH was helping me get the machine onto the frame and he was on one side I on the other. He says "what is dragging?" So I move forward to see, trip over the other part of the frame, fall and in the process bend one section of the frame. (Not to mention serious bruises on my leg, arm and hand). Have I mentioned that I am a bit of a klutz? I don't think I need to tell you how upset I was. My DD#2 is helping me look for a replacment part. Until then it is just a large mess.

Moving on... Our booth at the show was only a single and knowing how much merchandise we took  I did not take my camera. Good thing too, because there was barely room to squeeze in my purse. The booth looked great and I had a really good time being at the show. The only bad part about working the show is that you don't actually see the show. Well my plan was to go back on Sunday and see the quilts. I woke up on Sunday with a severe neck ache and headache.I have disc issues in my neck and it doesn't take much to get it in a knot, literally. Needless to say, I did not get back to the show.  Some blogging buddies of mine did get photos and posted them so if you would like to see some quilts check out A Sentimental Quilter and Pieceful News blogs. ( I follow them so you can just click and go). The boss was going to take photos of the booth so I will try and get one to share later. It was the last time that Chicago will hve the show. Next year it will be in Cinncinati. Word is that Chicago is too expensive.

BTW just want to thank you all for your well wishes for my daughter, she is on the mend  and is feeling much better than a week ago. She was able to keep up with her classes for the most part so that is good.

I can't report any progress on my quilting projects this last week, but I will be back at it as soon as I rest up.

Happy stitching everyone

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

Show, kits, and mono?

No, the mono isn't me. DD#2 has mono but she is trying to keep up with her classes as best she can.  The joys of communal living. She called me last week complaining of severe fatigue and  tummy ache. The tummy is better but the fatigue lingers. She made a trip to the student health center where they took blood and gave her some antacids. Her question to me was how is that gonna help me with being tired? Poor baby... I hate that she is so far away and I can't be there to take care of her. Hopefully she will feel better soon.

The Internaionl Quilt Festival preview night is tomorrow night so the boss will be there today setting up the booth. Hopefully she won't leave a long list of things to do back at the shop. Getting ready for the show has been very tiring. We have cut fabric non-stop everyday. Now I LOVE to cut fabric and I really love to cut fat quarters when new fabric comes in, but non-stop all day is a bit much even for me. LOL.  On Monday the shop is closed but we were there cutting fabric for a few hours. We finished up a few little projects and ran while we could.

I will be working at the store today, the show Friday and at the store on Saturday. After that hopefully we will have a little respite before the next event.
While I was at the shop Monday I took photos of the toothbrush rug. It is the Aunt Philly's rug pattern and I teach classes on it.

I also took photos of the first 3 mini's that I did for our "mini monthly" that we do at the shop. We do this like a BOM only instead of a block you do a mini quilt. We are doing the Patch Abilities series this year. You saw the hearts a while back. My photo of the 3rd one didn't come out so maybe next time.

I better go get ready to head off to the shop. I think the show will be fun, but I will really be glad when it is over! Hopefully I will get some photos  of the show to share with you ! Later... Happy stitching.

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Stitchin and coughin

I hope that everyone who celebrates Easter had a wonderful day. I have had a wicked cough that I can't get rid of, so I stayed home instead of going to  my Aunt's. My hubby worked, one daughter has a bad cold so she stayed home, the other daughter just went back to school after spring break so she did not come home. A  good day for most of us to rest.

I have been working on a few things ( surprse). I have the blocks completed  for a quilt I made with my "clean out" FQs. It is another Terri Atkinson pattern called Birthday Presents. I love her patterns, a lot of them are FQ friendly which is good for a FQ addict like me. All of her patterns are easy.

The little bee that I am in did our star block swap last Thursday. I think I know what I am going to do with mine, but I need to ponder it a little longer.  I guess we will have to wait and see.

I finished this bag. I really don't like the handle so I might have to take it off and modify it somehow. It will be gifted (Christmas) so at least it will be done on time.

I took a picture of one of the gold and white table runners that I finished. I gave one to my friend on Saturday. LOL. Just a little late for Christmas hu? Oh well... I will be ready this year.

I am also working on a 9 patch lap quilt, a small log cabin, and my BOMs.I am also working on the scrap challenge (below). I did finish knitting a bag and a sweater, but they are not yet complete so I will show them when I get them finished off.  Happy Stitching.


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YAY, It's Watergun Weather!

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Kid said...

I actually have a small collection of water pistols - including a Thunderbirds one from the mid-'60s. (It shoots 'round corners.)

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Shooting around corners is the best talent for these kind of battles.


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Just when I thought the world was safe,
I Found Love.
Just when I thought that Hell Was a place,
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Just when I thought Death was but once,
I Lost Love.
Just when the thoughts wouldnt go away,
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-A poem I apparently wrote when I was a teenager...I stumbled upon it when I was backing up files from my old, home PC.... It was damn funny when i read it now... :-) Got me nostalgic though... 'Love'... hahaha.. :-p .. my god!!

P.S. The coloring is intentional.. ;-)

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Do you really think its just funny?
Funny in the sense it could definitely have made you laugh.. But isn't the same teenager who is still a part of you feel proud of what he had understood in life? Is he not thinking of how he felt at that point..
I know how much ever you grow up you still have the small mark the boy left behind.. how many every women you may have had in your life.. Its still waiting for some one who will make a stronger influence than all the rest..


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Related Links - This site contains the Lun Yu (499 sayings of Confucius) in 21 languages and a varying amount of other Confucius related contents for each language.
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LFS258, developed in conjunction with the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, is geared towards developers and administrators who want to get started with Kubernetes. It teaches students how to use Kubernetes to manage their application infrastructure. Topics covered include Kubernetes architecture, deployment, how to access the cluster, tips and tricks, ConfigMaps and more. This self-paced, online course provides the fundamentals needed to understand Kubernetes and get quickly up-to-speed, to start building distributed applications that will scale, be fault-tolerant and simple to manage.

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Hello I'm back!

Hello, I'm back, so sorry I haven't done a post for so long!

As it's been a whole week I'll do an e-zine type summary:

Things I've made this week:
Almond milk - my first! Flavoured with cacao and fresh mint. Not too much added and no sweetener - was very refreshing.

Ice cream - I made the mixture last week using almond pulp from the almond milk I made, and added it to Kate Magic's 'Kate's Chocolate Cinnamon Bread' recipe. (I didn't dehydrate it into bread because I realised it probably wasn't a good idea to put it in the dehydrator with savoury tomato flax crackers and curry flavour crackers) so I froze it and made ice cream by pushing the frozen mixture through the juicer. It tasted ok but needed to be more sweet. I added raisins as the cinnamon gave me the idea of a rum and raisin ice cream. So an interesting experiment.

Tahini Dip - using avocado, tahini, onion, lemon juice and the tomato and cucumber pulp from the juicer.

Tomato crackers - which turned out to be good texture for wraps. Soaked flax, tomatoes and onion, blended.

Curry crackers
- Kate Magic's 'Fire Wizard' crackers with curry powder, purple corn and using soaked whole flax seed.

Vegetable juice using any variety of greens I have in. My fave remains that which includes tomato and parsley.

Favourite ingredients at the moment are:
onion - use to give a lift to many savoury things - for example my tomato and coconut curry. I think it tastes way better than to layer curry powder and spices on top of the raw ingredients.
lemon juice - also gives a lift to any savoury dish and any green juice. Getting through about two a day at the moment.

Identify your favourite easy, satisfying recipes which you find yourself making a lot. Make sure you always have their ingredients. Chances are you usually do have them if it's something you make frequently. I have am building up a good collection of easy peasy dishes which are really satisfying, quick to make, and incidently cheap and alkalizing too! Will do a separate post on my favourites soon.
Use pulp from the juicer in dips.

Other things
Jogging! Got some running shoes last Sunday which are brilliant.

Went to farmers' market Friday - they have now got a vacuum packer so I could buy a bigger order this time. I decided to get mostly groats this time. Got some info from another stall about making compost. Will see if I my dad will let me have a composting bin. By the way, he has applied for an allotment!! It's a two year waiting list apparently, but still, I was thrilled! He kept that one quiet!

I also visited Just Organics in Arundel today and stocked up on dried pulses. You can refill your own containers which is great. And they had some raw organic buckwheat which I hadn't seen before. I plan to sprout both oats groats and buckwheat to make some snack bars and possibly a crumble topping ...

The vegetable garden also going well. Can see my first tomatoes!! And am having the chard in morning juice. The courgettes don't seem to be getting very big before they start to shrivel ...

I am more aware now, since reading The pH Miracle, of acidity and alkalinity. Veg juice in the morning sets me up so well for the day, and I have cut down on habitual (acid) sugar intake, mostly at breakfast. However I still have sugar binges, such as fruit salad the other night and a load of raisins tonight! Hmm.

Here are some photos of things from the week:

Tomato wraps in the dehydrator; My first tomatoes; Flower on courgette plant; Mum's fruit salad;

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Friday, January 2, 2015

Frog Visit!! Not Happy!!

Noticed a mistake on my stitching on O Holy Night!  I had to rip 121 stitches out!  I am not very happy at the moment.  I now have 19 stitches done.  Since I had to rip the stitches out it is still included in the challenge.  On to day two and second wip!

Claudette497 said...

Oh no! It's too cold for frogs, I hope they stay away from now on!

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MADISON, WISCONSIN -- We recently purchased a used, 2001 Honda Accord from the BMW lot in Madison, WI. The day after we brought the car home, the alarm went off randomly. Within the next few days, the alarm went off randomly another 4 or 5 times.

We brought the car back to the dealership and they have now had it four times, to no avail. The so called "mechanics" at Zimbrick, which by the way specialize in servicing Hondas, had no idea on how to fix the problem. First they took away our keyless entry locks...alarm still went off. They then said that they were going to send the car to an "alarm and stereo" specialist, because they apparently did not know how to actually fix a Honda. They also said that they were going to bill the BMW used car lot for the repair.

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Microsoft shuts down latest Xbox One DRM rumours - console works "exactly" like the Xbox 360

Problems with Call of Duty: Ghosts offline play related to pre-release code, says Penello

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1080pgamer1355d ago

So basically an Xbox 360 1.5? Penello also said that he couldn't give a definitive answer which I find very strange.

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4Sh0w1354d ago (Edited 1354d ago )

Yep censorship on n4g, smh you cant post or talk about this:
We can talk about every facet of microsoft drm policies but the subject when discussing sony is taboo despite sites reporting sonys TOS **CHANGED** to this:

"You must not resell either Disc-based Software or Software Downloads, unless expressly authorized by us and, if the publisher is another company, additionally by the publisher.”

nukeitall1354d ago

Sony is the saviour of the industry!

Only MS could something like that and therefore must have snuck it into Sony Terms of Service. There is no other explanation possible.

Sci0n1355d ago (Edited 1355d ago )

has 720p res just like 360 too lol. Maybe this time it can hit 720p without having to upscale to it though.

come_bom1354d ago (Edited 1354d ago )

New account! This poor guy/girl probably has dozens of N4G accounts. The length that some Sony fanboys go, amazes me.

That's what I call dedication... and no personal life.

As for "Microsoft shuts down latest Xbox One DRM rumours - console works "exactly" like the Xbox 360" that's good news, if true.

user95970821354d ago (Edited 1354d ago )

Based on new functionality and innovation, if the Xbone is 1.5, the. The PS4 is another PS3 remodel.

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Goku7811355d ago

And why should we believe this with their track record, banning practices, and NDAs?

MizTv1355d ago (Edited 1355d ago )

Thank you!
Why Should they get the benefit of the doubt about anything?

BG115791355d ago (Edited 1355d ago )

With all the 180 done, false information given, misleading, unjustified banning done until today, it's agreeably easy to say they don't deserve the benefit of doubt.

rdgneoz31355d ago

In the words of Futurama, (Amy) "Fool me seven times, shame on you. Fool me eight or more times, shame on me. "

Bigpappy1354d ago

So what are your choices. You either believe this guy or you wait until Nov 22nd, get yourself an X1 and check it out. But of course you are not interested in what the manufacturer of the console has to say, the rumors are a lot more to your conviction.

SpinalRemains1381354d ago

Funny you still allude to them all being rumors.

Everything wound up being 100% accurate. They weren't rumors. They were............oh yeah, facts.

MasterCornholio1355d ago

It doesn't work exactly like an Xbox 360 because with an Xbox 360 (I had one so I know) you could play games right out of the box.

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kB01355d ago

They meant exactly as 360 as in they both have a power button and controller;) lol

Bundi1355d ago

In terms of DRM genius.

MasterCornholio1354d ago

In terms of DRM with the Xbox 360 you can play retail copies out of the box. But with the Xbox One you have to download a patch to mask the Xbox Ones DRM system.

How's your wife Peg doing?

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Taker_1291355d ago

Its good that Microsoft is starting to respond quickly to these rumors and shut them down before they blow up. i just wish they would have learned this lesson sooner.

kiz26941355d ago

I wouldn't really say this has been shut down? Still many questons to be answered around this topic, for one: Why do they have DRM protection this close to Launch when it was months ago they conducted the 180.

MizTv1355d ago

That's exactly right
They tryed to push there drm back in June!
That was 6 months ago
Why can't you just play the x1 right out of the box?

BG115791355d ago

They are pushing it right now.
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urwifeminder1237d ago

Certainly gave me a long laugh the comments have been hysterical, a few good youtube videos analysing all this just a great couple of weeks in the gaming world and now standby for mech joy.

lolCHILLbro1237d ago

Respect Jack, can i have some bubbles please? click the green plus sign to the right of my name

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RoboAwesome's Twelve of the Best RPG Intro Videos

At some point in our lives, we’ve all played a game with an introductory video that has absolutely blown us away. Regardless of how many times you’ve seen it, you just can’t bring yourself to skip it and the further you advance in the game, the more meaningful and exciting that video becomes. It never fails to get you pumped about playing.

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ClownBelt2554d ago (Edited 2554d ago )

Where the flying hell is FF 8?

This list fails

"Besides FF 8's draw system sucked"

*facepalm* What does the battle system have anything to do with the intro? sigh stupid people

Homicide2554d ago (Edited 2554d ago )

Agreed. FFVIII has one of the best opening videos. I don't like the game, but I'll give credit where credit is due. The opening was fantastic. Persona 3 FES' opening was pretty awesome too, as well as Nocturne's second intro.

wicko2554d ago

Agree 100%, ff8 has one of my favourite intros of all time.

Also, I disagree that the draw system sucked, I actually like it (although I can definitely list a few improvements).

Redempteur2554d ago

nice list of intro ..i hate ff8 but even i can understand the intro is fantastic ... if fact the intro and the music are the only good thing about this game ..i can enjoy

tehk1w12554d ago

"If they don't have Wild Arms 3's intro, I'm going to flame this article to hell," I told myself.

But you did. Not only is it one of the coolest usages of anime in a RPG (why they never turned it into an animated series is beyond me) but holy god the soundtrack was amazing.

You win Internet Points, good sir.

Foxgod2554d ago

I really liked the intro from wild arms 1, which i also still consider to be the best one.
That whistle tune and guitar play is really cool, so was the animation.

Montrealien2554d ago (Edited 2554d ago )

I think the lack of tales of "anything", and the fact that Kingdome hearts and .hack are represented more then once kills the validity of this opinion piece, but hey, that is just me.

incase you never saw Tales of Symphonia....

and of course, Tales of Phantasia

Capt-FuzzyPants2554d ago

Its an opinion piece. Get over it. Besides FF 8's draw system sucked.

I agree with the Kingdom Hearts games.

Montrealien2554d ago

what does that have to do with the intro?

wicko2554d ago (Edited 2554d ago )

Your opinion sucks.

Also, draw system point fails hard, nothing to do with intros.

2554d ago
tunaks12554d ago

obviously the KH series :D

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Randy Wray and Mat Forstater, two leading contributors to the MMT School, have replied to my recent blog on the MMT controversy. Their replies warrant a brief response.

I agree that it does not matter very much who first identified the euro’s potential for failure. Along with other Keynesians, MMT-ers were early to identify the euro’s structural flaw – namely, its conversion of the financial status of national government into provincial government status via removal of government’s power to access money creation through a government controlled central bank. In many ways Warren Mosler (1995) is the godfather of interest in this issue.

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  1. In the previous post by Tom Palley, the issue of capital controls was raised in comments.

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    "There has been continuous full employment with no capital controls, no trade restrictions, and no banking arrangements."

    thereby implying that neither capital controls nor trade restrictions are necessary for his Buckaroo model to be implemented in the real world.

    1. Bad phrasing. Didn't mean to imply Warren commented there. It was an exchange between STF and Matias on which I am quoting Mosler.

    2. Yep, Warren was always as far as I know not particularly Keen on capital controls, and also very sure that completely flexible rates (not managed exchange rates) are central for MMT/ELR. Mosler in his praise for Randy's 1998 book (in the back cover) says: “This book is a must read for those calling for the abandonment of floating exchange rate policy and a return to fixed exchange rates, a gold standard or capital controls. The achievement of zero unemployment, price stability, and a market economy for the long term as advanced by Wray is viable only with floating exchange rates.” So any managed exchange rate, that we do need in developing countries is equated with a rigid peg, like the Gold Standard, and he is clearly against capital controls.

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The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) today denied rehearing requests from both Keyspan and Weaver’s Cove LNG and opponents of the proposed projects, leaving the decisions made at the July 15th FERC meeting to stand.

FERC Chair Joseph T. Kelliher explained that the Weaver’s Cove project, in Fall River, meets current federal safety standards as proposed. The Keyspan project, proposed for Providence, does not. He further explained that the removal of the Brightman Street Bridge is not a FERC condition for the approval of the Weaver’s Cove Project and therefore should not prohibit authorization of the project.

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Bartlett: Devout and Wealthy, with a Dome the Size of Neptune

(Nottingham, MD)— Maryland native Elwood “Bunky” Bartlett is one of the biggest lottery winners in state history, as he is one of only four in the entire nation to purchase a winning ticket in Friday’s Mega Millions jackpot, which was worth a staggering $330 million.

Like many lottery success stories, Bartlett is convinced that his faith was the sole reason he won. But unfortunately his religion is Wicca, a bullshit new-age amalgam of traditional pagan rituals and feel-good earthy platitudes that is more akin to a role-playing game than a valid form of worship.

“My wife and I swung into a liquor store for some post-lunch HoHos and on a whim decided to buy two $5 tickets,” explained Bartlett to a packed room of reporters. “And boom, here I am, looking at a quarter-share of $330 million. So I guess the only logical conclusion is that the Norse earth goddess Francinor escaped from the ice-fortress of Deleth, her evil twin brother, conquered him in a frightful battle of lightning bolts, and rained this fortune down upon me.”

Bartlett remarked that this huge influx of wealth would have little impact on his way of life.

“I know it sounds cheesy, but I’m a simple man, and I don’t see this money changing much,” he intoned. “I’ll still get up every morning, eat a dozen Hot Pockets, shop for vintage Dungeon & Dragons gear on eBay until suppertime and then hold my evening séances with Francinor. And since there aren’t any starving Wicca kids in Africa, I don’t have to feel guilty about hoarding the cash in shoe boxes under my bed.”

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Wed and Thursday Jan 31

Wednesday ... I was sore. Really sore. I stretched and took it easy.

Thursday was rugby. Lots of positional play worked on - I can see the errors while watching. I did play a fair amount, but not enough to justify the apres rugby. Meh, whatevs.

I did notice that I am working on a lot of stuff while there, though. I had conversations about my training, Super15 rugby and learning about both on Youtube. I also picked up a lot of information about the 2013 rugby season, too.

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The Therapeutic Benefits of Yoga

As more recent approaches and strategies of yoga are launched, yoga experts are also examining methods in which to improve yoga treatment. This is a branch of the philosophy that is particularly designed to address health problems and remedy them. If you have any wellness problems and are searching for an helpful treatment program, then yoga therapy might just be what you will need.

What is Yoga Remedy?

In spite of the advancement of technological innovation, present day healthcare science is nevertheless unable to come across an efficient remedy for most ailments. That does not even get into consideration all the other entailing hazards that arrive with some of the modern-day medicines and therapy methods but. Therefore, individuals are examining other possibilities that provide much less hazards but can be effective.

Hence, yoga authorities have examined the means in which yoga can be utilized to especially treat specified illnesses given that it has the intrinsic healing ability. Given that the introduction of yoga remedy into the marketplace, there is a rising quantity of folks who have opted to include things like yoga remedy in their treatment plan. The strategy applied in yoga treatment is comparable to those employed in typical yoga techniques wherein it does not just concentrate on the physical healing, but incorporates psychological and spiritual therapeutic as nicely.

Curing a Selection of Illnesses

Continual illnesses have been 1 of the largest hurdles that baffle modern-day science. These complex diseases are challenging to comprehend, which makes discovering a treatment all the additional challenging for health-related pros. The similar efforts are also being executed by yoga specialists to enhance techniques that will be ready to handle the distinctive wants of people suffering from persistent illnesses.

Yoga requires its participant to perform simple to complex postures to work out the muscles, ligaments, and joints of the system. Consequently, a typical benefit you can get from executing individuals poses are improvement in your back again or spinal region and reduction of any feeling of ache or muscle strain. The incorporation of non-movement oriented practices in yoga treatment produces a much more profound impact on the affected person. Therefore, observations this kind of as improved sleeping pattern and a feeling of relaxation had been completed on cancer individuals and other patients of persistent illnesses who have undergone yoga treatment.
Methods for Greater Mental Health

The standard ideas of yoga has continually advocated an integration of thoughts and system. Right here are some tactics in yoga with that particular intention:

*Yoga Chikitsa: Use this method to attain that mental state wherein you enhance the mind's capacity to eliminate any type of exterior distraction and focus on your own thoughts.

*Eight Stages of Yoga: If you want to gain a deeper internal knowledge, make sure to go by way of each and every of the phases of yoga. The yama and niyama (first two phases) are most essential to enhance your capacity to assume clearly.

How To Attain Much better Health Through Yoga

The emphasis on wellbeing life style choices and appropriate training for yoga is a single of the techniques taken in the direction of prevention from obtaining particular illnesses. Therefore, it characteristics an extensive collection of yoga methods that try to handle just about every aspect of your well being, whether or not bodily or psychological. Here are some key areas of emphasis in yoga through wellbeing servicing:

. Exercise and perform the yoga poses frequently to add flexibility and power to your muscle tissues. The more powerful your muscle tissues are, the much less most likely you are going to endure from any sort of bodily pains.
. In yoga, you are necessary to perform a series of asanas with every single a single targeting a precise muscle or aspect of the body. Consequently, it will guarantee that all capabilities of the system are functioning effectively.
. Breathing is an critical part in yoga practice. It caters to suitable execution of yoga postures and establishment of a calm and peaceful thoughts condition.
. Self-consciousness is the key towards emotional stability in yoga. If you want to encounter the deeper positive aspects of practicing yoga, then this is what you ought to purpose for.

Recovery Approach

In yoga, there are two features of healing: bodily and psychological.

Bodily recovery is the initial action towards complete healing. As your physique starts to knowledge the healing properties of yoga, you will be able to revive all of the important entire body capabilities. As soon as you have attained physical recovery, psychological transformation easily follows. This is achieved only when you have arrived at a particular mental state that generates additional consciousness about the self.

Yoga Remedy and Individual Therapeutic

At times, the bodily situation is usually dictated by the psychological capabilities of the head. The similar goes with recovery and the ability for one particular to heal. A single of the foundation of yoga teaches the capacity of the head to keep calm and produce only optimistic ideas. Being relaxed and calm facilitates for a swift recovery.

People who are st ruggling from a significant ailment usually really feel worried and undergo a whole lot of stres about their circumstances. For everyone whose entire body is already degrading due to the results of the ailment, any more forms of stress is not valuable at all. Yoga can enable get rid of tension for a speedy recovery.

Importance of Meals

Foods is one of the essential specifications necessary by the system to functionality correctly. The nutrients supplied by the foods you intake will be converted into power you will use to carry out daily activities. Hence, it plays an important role in yoga philosophy in generating that bodily balance and balance. In actuality, yoga beliefs state that incorrect choices of food can produce disruption in your internal system.

A certain emphasis is picking out the appropriate sort of food. Even when you use any form of therapeutic methods, if you do not eat proper and wholesome, then no healing can be expected t o arrive out of the approach.

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If you want to boost the rewards that you can get from yoga, it is much better to few that with well being foods choices. In the yoga philosophy, a healthful food and eating pattern contains the following attributes:

. It must be free of charge from dangerous elements and any synthetic components. Consequently, organically grown produced are a lot favored as in contrast to individuals that use fertilizers or pesticides.
. When choosing food to consumption, make positive it suits your digestive capacity and the amount of foods you consumption. This will impact the way your physique responds to the food intake.
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Friday, October 11, 2013

Homeless Day three

I wake in the city of Waco once more but this time in a King-size bed at the local upscale hotel. I have just experienced a day with God at the conference I attended. I am amazed at so many Lifechangers attempting to love one another. The group is diverse and many denominations are represented. Because I love people I don’t care what church you go to. We had the opportunity to worship together, pray together, love together, eat together and cry together. At my table sit Catholics, Baptist, non-denominational and there is even a Pentecostal in the mix. I am certain this is what heaven will be like.
I arrived the day before to a not so upscale hotel. We pulled in around midnight and I was a little bothered when I saw the place, I would be staying for the night. First of all I had to open my own door, there was no concierge, there was no one to take my bags up to my room and I definitely would not be asking for the top floor because three were only two floors.
I walk in to my room and inspect every corner. I quickly begin browsing the web for more suitable accommodations. I doze off complaining and wake up complaining of my undesirable surroundings. I call downstairs and inform the nice receptionist that I would not being staying here the rest of my time in Waco.
I get ready and head downstairs. I glance over the meager items of food. There is no way I am eating their food I will have to make do with dry cereal. Apparently I have forgotten, the last time I was here I slept on the sidewalk in the rain and I had no choice of food.
During my last adventure here I met a young girl that was also going through this thing we call Poverty Simulation. We had just a few moments together but because she was the same age as my little girl I felt the need to make sure she was ok. I asked her how she felt about not having anything to eat. I asked her how she felt about having to sleep outside on a table.
She replied, “it’s no different than home”. My heart hurt. This young girl was part of a leadership team from the inner city in the town she was from. That this would be normal to a child is just beyond me. We have 16 million children living in poverty in our country. That means 4 out of ten children are struggling to have their basic needs met. I am thinking that is not ok with me and yet I complain because the hotel is not up to my standards.
As I go through this conference I am reminded that we have the ability to change the world. We have the ability to make a difference if only in just one person. We just get so caught up on blame that we forget about Isaiah 61, Isaiah 58 and Matthew 25. We forget that we were all “created in His image. We forget that we were all “wonderfully and beautifully made”. Some people just have the luxury of being w born into a family with lots of money.
I remember walking twenty two blocks to finish off the last leg of this simulation. Finally I arrived to this thing called “Church Under the Bridge”, I noticed church buses and church vans coming in, in droves. As I walk past these groups, I hear a pastor tell his group, “mingle get to know the homeless”. I ignore and find my way to the place where water was being distributed. I cut in line and grabbed water for my family. I found a place to sit and watch as all the people around us are eating breakfast. We have been instructed not to partake of the food that was being distributed. At this point my hurt is turning into anger. Sitting in all my emotions, a young man that looks like a pastor, whatever that means. Approachs me and I instantly know he is going to try to “get to know me”. He is going to try and find out how I ended up homeless. He didn’t get the chance.
My heart cried out, “No sir, you don’t get to come play church on Sunday. I needed you Yesterday and Saturday and Monday and Tuesday and Wednesday. You don’t get to play church on Sunday. I was so broken. My spirit is crushed at the mere thought that humans would treat humans in this way. During this “walk of mine” others had no regards for me. They did not see me as human. I stand here at this “Church Under the Bridge a little less than human. I am reminded of what I told Jacob before I left. I said don’t worry about me honey, there is a church at every corner and my middle class family of faith will see me through. I am standing here in all my nothingness completely empty and no my family of faith has not seen me.
In the background the music begins to play and these are the words I hear. He is jealous for me, Loves like a hurricane I am a tree bending beneath the weight of this wind and mercy. When all of the sudden I am unaware of these afflictions eclipsed by Glory and I realize just how beautiful You are and how great Your affections are for me
Oh how He loves me so oh how oh He loves me …..I stand crying uncontrollably being changed by the undeniable love my Savior has for me. Even in all my nothingness. A beautiful lady standing next to me reaches to hug me and she softly whispers “girl I love you”. Out of her lack she gave the most. We stand united just two empty homeless women. No vanity, no judgment, we stand completely empty waiting to be filled with His mercy and grace.
I walk away filled with love so much that it doesn’t fit in my being. I leave a different person. I leave understanding homelessness and I am sad that I get to go home and my new friends don’t have a home to go home to.


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Communicating in today’s world requires both a new mindset and a new toolset. Like a maestro conducting a symphony, savvy leaders pay attention to the sound, the effect, the and the instruments needed to strike just the right notes.

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Some schools have a full time communications person. Others have none. Regardless, a school leader can set just the right tone with a good strategy and a 21st Century set of tools.

New media adds new avenues for communication. These can enhance the mode and the message yet effective communications can still be a problem. In a recent Harvard Business Review article, Ron Ashkenas pointed out that even with new communications tools at hand, good communications can still be a challenge. He notes 3 areas where communications may be lacking:

3 Areas Where Communications May Fall Short:

  1. Lack of Context – People need to know why something is important
  2. Lack of Questions and Dialogue – People need to be able to question and discuss
  3. Lack of Connections – People will focus largely on how news affects them

Clearly, Communication aims, encouraging discussion and feedback and relevancy of your message can help you hit just the right otes. Technology today can help!

10 Tools for Leadership Communication

  1. Microblogging – Create an account on Twitter. Follow other administrators. Tweet out information about your school Explore use of twitter for conferences or meetings for sharing ideas.
  2. Blogging – Write frequent news updates. Follow other school leaders. Encourage and read comments. Use Google Blogger, Edublogs or create your own.
  3. Podcasting – Create audio messages for playback on web and devices. Use tools such as Audioboo, Audacity
  4. Electronic Surveys – Use Zoomerang or Survey Monkey for advanced functionality. Make quality surveys with Google Forms which is free
  5. Email – Yes email. It is still a common tools used by many. Regular timely updates seek responses and give responses in a timely fashion. HTML newsletters can be pre formatted with a consistent design to add appealing design.
  6. Learning Management System – Post easy to follow information on organization or school site to reach out to teachers and students. Google Sites and Wikispaces provide free places for sharing school or classroom information.
  7. School Website – Consistently post updates that are both engaging and informational
  8. Facebook – Use Facebook to update school community on latest school news, photos and videos
  9. Video – Use Youtube or other video sharing sites. Broadcast videos about school events
  10.  Google alerts – Set up Google Alerts to stay on top of mentions of your school and other topics of interests to school community.

If you’re a manager, part of your job is to strengthen the communication pathways to, from, and between your people. To do this effectively, take the time to provide context, encourage questions, and stay sufficiently connected to the different ways that people respond and react to messages. Ron Ashkenas, HBR

This is a list you can start with. Many effective tools exist for this purpose. Please add comments  or other suggested tools in the comments below. If you wish to tune up your School Communications Strategy, sign up for my 5 Week E-Course ‘School Communications Toolkits for School Leaders‘ offered through Powerful Learning Practice.

Related Resources:

National Educational Technology Standards for Administrators – Nets – A

Communications Checklist for School Leaders – TechConnects

Social Media As Listening Tool for School Leaders – TechConnects

One Minute School Website Check – TechConnects

School Websites with Pizzazz – TechConnects

7 Ways for Leaders to Stay on Top of Tech – TechConnects

Connected Principals – Blog

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Monday, August 18, 2008

Back to the hospital I go

9am tomorrow morning I am being admitted as a Partial Hospitalization Patient. As long as I am "medically stable" I will stay PHP. If I am not "medically stable", then I will be inpatient. Please pray that all tests show I am stable. I CAN NOT be IP right now.

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Found out this afternoon that kids are going home tomorrow at 7:15am. I don't even take them to daycare. Just straight to social services. Considering it is 6:30pm and I am still in Fargo (1 hr from home) and I have to pack everything up tonight..I outta get to bed by midnight! I don't even plan on leaving Fargo for another hour or two.

Doc appt today....I am waiting for a call as to when I will be accepted back at the hospital. At this point, I am told that it will only be partial hospitalization again. We'll see if that holds true. I don't know what to think. It's not a surprise. But i feel like i have let EVERYONE down. I just don't understand why this is so hard.

I don't have time/the heart/thoughts to write any more right now. I'll update more when I feel like I can.

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Kids still here

Well the boys are still here. They really are good kids. We have had NO behavior issues at all. Not even an ounce of an issue. Granted...they are still pretty new but they seem to be adjusting pretty well.

Biomom had court today. Her parents made bail for her so she's out. Kids' may go home soon. That's the best thing in my world...I just can't ask to have them moved when I know they will go to family (whether it be mom or grandparents) as soon as they can.

I go to the doc tomorrow. I'm nervous as heck. Picked up the phone 3 times today to cancel the appt but never actually made the call. I guess that is a good thing. I am averaging 10-13 exchanges per day since July 29. THat's approx 600 - 780 calories per day. Not good but I can't seem to shake this. Am I headed back to Inpatient??? I don't know. I wish this wasn't so hard.

Tuesday, August 5, 2008

A new placement (Yep...just what I needed!)

So last Thursday afternoon we got a call for an emergency placement for 2 boys. 7 yrs old (8 in Sept) and 1 yr old. Good Kids...bad situation...(duh or they wouldn't be in foster care right?) Anyways, the sw called today to tell me that they have been instructed by law enforcement to keep the foster family COMPLETELY anonymous. that scares me. We ALWAYS want to be anonymous...however...why are the COPS the one saying we HAVE TO BE ANONYMOUS????

Let's just say the family is involved in WAY MORE than I care to know about and they are not from this country.

So...eating is still not going well. Kenny and I are doing ok. He's taken a more interested aspect in my life....not sure if he can tell that I'm not doing good ED wise or what but I'll take it one step at a time. I've lost more weight. I'm only 6lbs from where I was when I was admitted to the hospital. And I have 8 more days until I can get in to see a therapist!