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A return to house calls with after hours doctors

Your health doesn't always run to schedule. Sure it might be late at night. Okay, it's inconvenient. But when you need medical care, it's time to find a doctor. Thankfully Australia has one of the best healthcare systems in the world, with free GP services and round the clock care. So, when you need an after hours doctor, you'll be sure to find one.

Whether it's late at night, over the weekend or even on a public holiday, after hours doctor services are there to treat non-life threatening medical emergencies, injuries and illnesses. In fact, after hours GPs are becoming so popular that Australia is seeing a resurgence of good old fashioned health care, including the house calls your Grandma once enjoyed.

So, how does after hours health care work? Here's how:

First, you make an appointment. After hours services tend to start work just as day time services are ending, so if you need a doctor during ordinary office hours it's best to call your regular GP.

Put your feet up. Most after hours doctors use a priority system, similar to that used in your local hospital emergency department. Your after hours GP will attend to the most urgent cases first, to ensure that the community's vital health care needs are met in a timely manner, arriving at your case when it's your turn.

In sharp contrast to a trip to the hospital, your wait for a GP will occur in the comfort of your own home - and even in your pyjamas if you're most comfortable that way.

Once it's your turn, you'll be greeted by a qualified GP - and their trusty sidekick. Most after hours doctors work with a partner of sorts, sometimes called a chaperone or guardian. This is to ensure the safety of both doctor and patient. Your after hours GP will be professionally trained and qualified, and skilled in giving after hours medical care.

Nothing quite comes close to the warmth and comfort of receiving professional medical care in your own home, so much so that house calls are on the rise. When your doctor arrives, sit back and enjoy the ride.

Incredibly, many after hours doctors also have the capacity to offer free GP services. If your treatment is bulk billed you'll use your concession card to receive a partial or full rebate on the doctor's fee.

Once your after hours doctor has assessed your health and treated what ails you, they'll prepare to hit the road, but that's not the end of the story. The GP that attends you will also forward a report to your regular doctor, so they know your condition, and no valuable information is lost.

Having access to a doctor after hours is about more than accessing vital medical care, it's about peace of mind, for you, and for your family. The next time your health suffers you can trust you'll be in good hands, even after hours.

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Health Care In Your Home If you have an elderly relative, you may be trying to find out more about how you can get them the health care they require without sending them to a hospital. Thankfully, there are a large number of home health care options which mean that no matter what condition your relative has, it can be treated and managed in their own home. Last year, I carried out research before hiring a home health care nurse to look after my grandma. I am really pleased with the quality of her care. I hope this blog helps you to understand your home health care options.


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Paul Keating's republican vision - 20 years on

Today, 7 June 1995 is the 20th anniversary of former Prime Minister Paul Keating's “Australian Republic The Way Forward” speech to Federal Parliament, which laid out his vision for Australia’s republican future.

Few prime ministers have provoked such strong public reactions as Paul Keating. Even fewer have presided over such dramatic changes to Australia’s economy and society. A self-professed ‘big picture’ person, Keating had his eye directed towards the future and not the past, to Australia and not over his shoulder back to Britain.

In his speech to the National Library Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Dinner on 13 August 1993, Keating stated:

If we can't imagine we can't determine our future, we can't act, we can't change.  And we'll fall behind”.

Republicanism emerged as an issue of major public debate during the 1990s. Australians have long discussed the idea of replacing the constitutional monarchy with a republican constitution, even during the 19th century before federation in 1901. In the 1960s republican activity was restarted by authors Geoffrey Dutton and Donald Horne. At the same time the student magazine Oz lampooned the monarchy. However, the dismissal of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam by the appointed Governor-General on 11 November 1975 outraged many Australians.

The 1975 constitutional crisis drew attention to Australia's constitutional arrangements and since those turbulent days, several notable Australians declared a commitment to an Australian republic. There were many Town Hall meetings and calls to ‘maintain the rage’.  During these years the Australian Labor Party edged towards declaring itself for the republic. This it eventually did in 1982.

In the 1990s the popular definition of ‘republic’ was simply the removal of the British monarch as Head of State. This was seen as the last step in Australia’s political development. On 7 July 1991, the Australian Republican Movement was established, with the author Tom Keneally as the Inaugural Chair. The Australian Republican Movement was formed as an organisation with the single goal of Australia becoming a republic no later than 1 January 2001.

In December 1991 Paul Keating was sworn in as Prime Minister of Australia after deposing Bob Hawke as leader of the federal Australian Labor Party.

As Keating came to power in the early 1990s, his support for the republic and issues of national identity was widely known and he continued to campaign for it throughout his time in office and beyond.
By February 1992, Prime Minister Keating was calling for a new Australian flag, stating that the presence of the Union Jack in the corner of the flag was appropriate for a colony, not for an independent nation like Australia. He also gave a speech during the Queen's visit to Australia in 1992 in which he referred to Australia’s outlook being “necessarily independent”, and around the same time he announced Cabinet's decision to amend the Citizenship Act 1948 (Cth) and the Oath of Allegiance to remove all references to the Queen.

Under Keating, the republic was part of a progressive policy approach toward the Australian national image,which also included reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.
In April 1993, Prime Minister Paul Keating appointed the Republic Advisory Committee, led by Malcom Turnbull to examine options on how to achieve a republic with minimal constitutional change.

Under Keating, the republic was part of a progressive policy approach toward the Australian national image, which also included reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. The Republic Advisory Committee published its report in 1993, in which it stated that

a republic is achievable without threatening Australia's cherished democratic institutions”.

On 7 June 1995 the Prime Minister of Australia, Paul Keating, formally announced his support for an Australian Republic in a televised speech to Parliament entitled "An Australian Republic The Way Forward". This was the culmination of nearly a decade of discussion on constitutional change. In the course of his speech to the House of Representatives he announced his government’s intention to transform the Commonwealth of Australia from a constitutional monarchy into a republic. His only concession to the European and British past was

that the Australian republic  retain the name “Commonwealth of Australia”.
Commonwealth” is a word of ancient lineage which reflects our popular tradition and our Federal system”, he said.

Prime Minister Keating’s 7 June 1995  media release stated

"It is the view of the Government that Australia's head of state should be an Australian and that Australia should be a republic by the year 2001. I announced in the Parliament today the Government's approach to achieving the transition to an Australian republic. The proposals involve minimal change to Australia's system of government and institutions.

This is the final step to becoming a fully independent nation. It will permit the full and unambiguous expression of Australia's national identity.

The Government is releasing its proposals as a focus for further public discussion and debate. All Australians should participate in this important national debate.”

Keating proposed a minimalist plan for a republic, concentrating on the single task of installing an Australian as Head of State, one with the same role as the governor-general.  The intended transformation was targeted to occur before the centennial celebrations in 2001.  The President of the Commonwealth of Australia would be nominated by the prime minister after consultation with all parties and elected by a two-thirds majority at a joint sitting of Parliament.  The reserve, or discretionary, powers of the governor-general, including the power to dismiss a prime minister, would be transferred to the president without being spelled out in the Constitution.  All the other features of the Australian Constitution would remain unchanged.  The States would be allowed to determine their own constitutional arrangements and to retain a link with the Crown if they wished, and if the monarch consented.

On the John Laws radio program on the morning of the speech, Keating justified his minimalist position with reference to the Westminster parliamentary systems foundation in a representative democracy:

What you have got in Australia is a representative democracy. You have got each MP coming
from their constituency to Parliament and you can see how the Parliamentary system responds to public opinion. It is a diffuse parliamentary system in which no person is elected (at large). For instance, I was not elected Prime Minister. I was elected a member of my Party. My Party appointed me as Leader and the Governor-General appointed me as Prime Minister. I am not standing here speaking to you as the elected Prime Minister. Nor are any Ministers elected. The obvious point in that is if one doesn't remain relevant, one changes. The same with Opposition Leaders. Just take the Opposition. They have had now three leaders in this term of Parliament because the other two were no longer relevant or they thought useful. The same goes for the Government. You saw in the last Parliament, Mr Hawke removed by the Caucus where I was installed. I could be removed myself.
In other words, there is a healthy assessment by a large group representing the community in a representative way from each constituency which gives a real living feel to our democracy day in and
day out.”

John Laws responded by saying the general public has a cynical view of politics and

tend to feel that there is room for manipulation within the Parliament.”

Within this cynicism is founded the position for the direct election model for an Australian Head of State.

The 1998 Constitutional Convention helped to strengthen the debate for a republic as a major issue in the late 1990s. However, the debate became caught up in an argument about the best selection method for the Australian Head of State and on this crucial issue republicans divided.
“The Way Forward” speech was the moment when distinct camps formed over proposed republican models and the division between republican models began. Paul Keating’s minimalist position with appointment of an Australian Head of State by 2/3 majority of parliament was to be the position that would be presented at the referendum on 6 November 1999.

In March 1995, the alternative model to the Keating government’s two-thirds majority parliamentary vote was backed by the Federal Leader of the National Party, Tim Fischer – that is, a ceremonial President elected by popular vote.  In the process Fischer added legitimacy to a republic, and his comments were a tacit acceptance that a republic, sooner or later, was inevitable.  Fischer’s entry into the republican issue, along with Victorian Premier Jeff Kennett and a former Governor-General Sir Zelman Cowen, who proposed that upon Bill Hayden’s retirement as governor-general in 1996 that Keating should allow the Parliament to vote in his successor rather than choose his own candidate, meant that the conservative side of politics was now involved in a genuine dialogue about the republic.

This bipartisan development gave the republic a growing air of legitimacy however in proposing an alternative, direct election model the field was opened for dissent and argument over republican political models. In the absence of a proper process to resolve those differences, Australians rejected the 6 November 1999 referendum, 55-45 per cent.

No political leader has subsequently emerged who wants to find common ground amongst Australian’s with respect to the different republican models and to break the logjam. This is where it has remained frozen for more than a decade.

In 1995, Paul Keating’s views on the republic were clear:

Our Head of State has to be one of us”.

He re-emphasised during a Centenary of Federation speech on 30 November 2000:

I will be arguing as strongly as possible for the preservation of the Westminster system of a Cabinet headed by a Prime Minister and drawn from the Parliament rather than a popularly elected head of state."

There are three main models. The first is sometimes called the ‘Bipartisan Model’ and was the proposal put to the Australian people in the November 1999 republican referendum. Under this model the Head of State’s appointment must be approved by a 2/3 majority of federal parliament. To its proponents, the appeal of this model is that it upholds the principle of continuity, and is also more likely to produce a non-party political, unifying figure as Head of State.

The second is the ‘Direct Election Model’ that proposes that any citizen with the required amount of nominees may run for Head of State in a direct vote of the Australian people. The reserve powers would be codified along the lines set out in the Republic Advisory Committee Report of 1993. The list of nominees would be unmediated by parliament.

Finally, the ‘McGarvie Model’ proposes the most minimal change, where the Prime Minister alone selects who should be the Head of State. This model is likely to appeal to those who think the change should be as minimal as possible, thereby (it is argued) preserving as much as possible of our current successful system.

Twenty years after Paul Keating’s “The Way Forward” speech proposed the establishment of a parliamentary republic model there still appears dissent over a political model for an Australian republic.

This seems a very long time.

Perhaps a way to break the logjam is to have a national plebiscite asking Australian's simply, “Do you want Australia to become a republic?"

If this is answered in the affirmative only then start having a national conversation on political models.

We need to follow the advice of former Prime Minister Paul Keating and first determine what we want our future to look like, and then we can act to bring about the change required.

If we don’t, we’ll fall behind.

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Sunday, August 13, 2017

The Ladies' Lending Library by Janice Kulyk Keefer (2007, 355 pages)

Ladies' Lending Library by Janice Kulyk is set in 1963, amongst first and second Generation Ukrainian emigrants to Canada, at their summer homes on a beach about six hours from Toronto, where the husbands of the families in the story work.  Sometime ago an enterprising Ukrainian real estate agent bought a stretch of beach land, on Lake Huron.  He then sold lots to members of the Toronto Ukrainian community, who built summer houses where the wives and children would go for eight weeks in the summer.  Being able to afford this meant you were a success in Canada.  We see the struggles of the first generation to fit in and raise their families while their kids have little sense of being anything but Canadian.

One of the mothers lives in a mansion with servants, the other women work very hard doing laundry, cooking watching over their developing teenage daughters.  Their husbands come on week ends.  They pretty much have repair jobs on the houses every weekend.  In 1963 the movie Cleopatra starting Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton had just been released.  Everybody, especially the girls, is very into the off screen Romance of the stars.  The girls are obsessed with Elizabeth Taylor's breasts.  In one hilarious scene they conspire to see nude a girl with very large breasts, when that does not quite work out, they steal her bra and take turns trying it on.

The teenagers are pretty much totally Canadian, their parents try to hang on to their Ukrainian heritage.  In one side plot we learn the tragic story of a sister who had to be left behind in the Ukraine.  After an eight year gap, she rejoined her family in the Ukraine.  There is also the daughter of a family friend, being kept away from the big city as she is growing up way to fast, at sixteen they fear she will disrupt the community.  In a very sad scene, when she loses her virginity, she thinks she can prevent pregnancy by washing up with coke a cola.

I really enjoyed the narrative methods of Keefer, keeping multiple interacted story lines going.  The characters are very well developed.  We get an excellent feeling for the generational gaps between first and second generation emigrants.  The title of the book comes from the books the ladies read and exchange. The prose is beautiful, the characters are interesting and well individuated.

I very much enjoyed The Ladies' Lending Library.  This is my first venture into her work and I am certainly interested in reading more of her work

JANICE KULYK KEEFER is a bestselling Canadian author widely admired for her novels, short story collections, poetry, and nonfiction. She has been twice nominated for the Governor General’s Award and is a recipient of the Marian Engel Award, the Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry, two first prizes from the CBC Radio Literary Competition, and several National Magazine Awards. The Ladies’ Lending Library is her fifth novel to date and the first to be published in the United States in more than fifteen years. She lives in Toronto.

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Lisbeth Ekelof said...

Sounds like an interesting read. The generation gap for immigrants can be quite a problem I think. The young generation is more exposed to the new country, mostly from school. Especially women, if they don't work, can be very isolated and not exposed to the new country.

Mystica said...

Amongst all immigrant communities the struggle to conform to known practices and then to adapt to the new is always full of conflict. Sometimes minor very often major.

Buried In Print said...

I've spent a lot of time on the beaches of Lake Huron over the years and I enjoyed the cast of characters in a familiar place in this one. Her novel, Rest Haroow, is very quiet and contemplative and rather bookish, so it is a favourite of mine, but one which I'm not sure many other readers would find as wonderful as I do. The one I usually consider my favourite of hers is The Green Library, which I remember as being very poignant and moving, but I've lost most of the details of the story. So glad you enjoyed this one!

Mel u said...

Lisbeth Ekelof. Very true. Your comments are very appreciated

Mel u said...

Mystica. Always a struggle., thanks for your comments

Mel u said...

Buried in Print. You motivated me to read her work.,,I actually picked this work as it was for sale as a kindle for $1.95. I will read more. Thanks


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Face familiarity, distinctiveness, and categorical perception

Angeli, Adriana; Davidoff, Jules B. and Valentine, Tim. 2008. Face familiarity, distinctiveness, and categorical perception. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 61(5), pp. 690-707. ISSN 1747-0218 [Article]

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Four experiments with faces support the original interpretation of categorical perception (CP) as only present for familiar categories. Unlike in the results of Levin and Beale (2000), no evidence is found for face identity CP with unfamiliar faces. Novel face identities were shown to be capable of encoding for immediate sorting purposes but the representations utilized do not have the format of perceptual categories. One possibility explored was that a choice of a distinctive face as an end-point in a morphed continuum can spuriously produce effects that resemble CP. Such morphed continua provided unequal psychological responses to equal physical steps though much more so in a better likeness paradigm than for forced-choice recognition. Thus, researchers doing almost the same experiments may produce very different results and come to radically different conclusions.

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Friday, 19 May 2017

A healthy society

I've been interviewing my Irish neighbours, and the vanishing world they grew up in -- and while that wasn't the world I knew, it wasn’t completely alien to me. I grew up with a lot of older relatives, some born as far back as the 19th century, and listened to them describe their early lives, and while they usually grew up with more money and technology than their Irish cousins -- the USA in the 1950s was prosperous, Ireland in the 1950s was not -- they had many elements in common that differ greatly from our lives today.

It was not uncommon for children to play safely in the streets, or wander far from home, know all the neighbours, and see their second cousins more often than most people today see their brothers. By the time they were teenagers they were men and women; they found work and began a family, joined their unions and local groups like Kiwanis, the VFW, the American Legion. They showed up to city council meetings, took part in their school and parish, and occasionally ran for office. Clothes and toys were passed down through long lines of relatives, child to child, and glass jars and bottles were used over and over again for decades. My family grew vegetables in a garden, composted the kitchen scraps, canned and pickled, and shared what we had.

As a young journalist I reported from small towns across the Midwest, and in every town I could – even if it wasn’t relevant to the story I was reporting – I looked at its old newspapers. In town after town they told the same story, of clean, healthy towns with farms and factories, whose citizens endured depressions and droughts and whose young men dreamed of home when they went to Verdun or Iwo Jima. School records described students learning Marcus Aurelius, building windmills or performing Shakespeare, in towns where few people today seem to have much education anymore.

City halls boasted photos of the city band gathered around the gazebo in the town square back when townspeople took part in a city band – and old newspaper photos showed local chapters of Kiwanis or Oddfellows celebrating some now-forgotten milestone. Most of these men spent their days in crop fields or factory floors, yet they dressed up for their meetings as they did for church – back when people dressed up for church -- and the suits were as clean as the buildings.

By the time I reported from those towns, in the 1990s, they already looked like the Zombie Apocalypse had come through; boarded-up storefronts, giant holes in the roads, and walls covered with graffiti that no one bothers to clean up. Few businesses remained in town centres; the remaining companies often stayed far outside of towns, sometimes displaying signs in Spanish for their low-paid immigrant workforce, and fenced off with increasingly savage-looking barbed wire. Many of the people I met seemed functionally illiterate, surly and suspicious. Most quickly turned any conversation to conspiracy theories they seemed to have picked up from talk radio and other media, their link to the world.

That was in the middle of what the media called an “economic boom,” although it didn’t affect the red states I grew up in -- and since then, life has only grown worse. When I visit my native country, much of it is functionally the Third World; in many small towns a large segment of the population survives solely on disability payments or Social Security of some kind, and drugs and despair eat away the generations. Deaths from legal and illegal drugs have increased more than 500 per cent since these old photos, killing more than half a million Americans since 2000. Among middle-aged men – the people who would once have been pillars of the community – the suicide rate has doubled in the last ten years.

You could see the same thing in the big city; I saw black-and-white photos of my grandparents in urban St. Louis in the 30s and 40s, smiling young people smartly dressed, standing in a neighbourhood of clean houses and front lawns, ready to take the trolley to a school dance or first job. You don’t want to go through those neighbourhoods today; many of the houses are windowless shells, with pieces cut out as from explosions, and graffiti covering every reachable surface.

By the time I grew up, the healthy days of a vibrant civic life, close neighbourhoods and self-reliant, literate men and women seemed like an alien universe, even for a relatively old-fashioned family like mine. I read more books and explored more land as a child more than most of my peers, but even I can look back and see how different my own life was from that of my grandparents, and even more from that of my Irish neighbours. Young people today grow up hungry for something, feeling the absence of something they've never experienced and can't recognise. Next week I'll talk about how we might be able to regain some of what we lost.

Donna OShaughnessy said...

What a sad, yet perfectly on target, mini-essay. I too grew up with Irish grandparents born in the 1800's. My time with them in Chicago in the 1960's was fairly blissful, my childhood mostly unscathed. My own grandchildren do not run loose the way I did but they do better than most kids. They have bikes they actually ride and their small Midwestern town is safe enough( we pray) fro them to keep doing so. Still, I would ride free all day. They must check in by phone or in person every two hours. Every decade we lose more of our freedoms. Can't wait for your next post on what we can do about this.

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Dear Brian,

This is heartwrenching. It also fits what experience I have of Canada (where I was born in 1953, and where I indeed live now), although the Canadian experience is less extreme than what you describe from the USA. Truro, Nova Scotia (population rather steady since 1950s, at around 12,000), used to have a vibrant downtown, priding itself on a thing that now seems quaint, namely railway-hub status. (Now a lot of track has been outright ripped up.) I believe that most or all of all the solid downtown businesses are gone - A.J.Walker & Son (selling hardware since probably the 1890s), Suckling & Chase (florists, also perhaps 1890s; although not purveyors of necessities, they survived two world wars and the Great Depression), Margolian's (clothing), Bentley's (departmental store, rather upscale; it was here, in 1966, that I first saw colour television). Young people around Truro do not seem to have a lot to aspire to now, beyond the armed forces, and nursing-plus-eldercare, and - for an elite few - the learned professions. Well, last time I checked, Truro did still have Stanfield's, the makers of underwear - "Stanfield's Unshrinkables" have had a good reputation for generations, perhaps since Queen Vicky, and the North American Free Trade Agreement did not destroy them

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tru best everness

hott hott hottso i finally got caught up on tv yesterday. the greatest episode of any show was revealed to me last night. friends? um, no. that show was pretty much over in '96 according to the ipod (in my mind). i'm talking about tru calling fools. it ran last thurs, but my busy schedule of partying in the la prevented me from seeing it, but it was recorded. it was so ephing best, 2 hours of the truest hottness EVER seen anywhere, via ANY medium. eliza dushku looked amazing (sfbovs), & the mysterious brandon walsh character's tru colors were revealed. you knew early on that jack (brandon walsh) was reliving days like tru does--it was fairly obvs by his sly dialog, the gambling at the horse track, & his arrogant intuition. you knew he was dark as well. what you didn't know is that he is the exact opposite of tru. she saves lives, he makes sure fate has it's way, doing nothing to prevent deaths after the days' rewind. jack also is in the same morgue in nyc & is out to stop tru from saving lives.
jack is a dark, seemingly fun-loving guy w/ a mean streak. i really related to him, until he crossed the line & started messing w/ tru davies. tru's brother harrison dies & the day rewinds. she has to keep harrison alive. jack is like 'death' stalking it's next victim. he tries to make a deal w/ tru that saves harrison, but she would have to quit saving lives. tru says, 'eph that! it's on bitch!'. also revealed was that jack is working for mr. davies, tru's dad. he is like jack's evil mentor. tru's mom had the same gift, she was good & prevented murders. mr. davies married her in order to kill her & put an end to her do-gooding. tru's mom passed her gift on to tru, now it's jack's turn to take tru out of the picture. i must say my heart broke for tru in this ep. she's one tough biscuit. easily among dushku's best performances.
bovs all oves those ephing tees. shmears.
the best part of the season finale was when tru's love interest, luc, is thrown right into a death trap by jack, so that at least someone dies in place of tru's bro, harrison. soephingbest! fox execs listened to my daily v-mail rants that he needed to die. no word yet on whether they'll take my directives to cast me on the show as tru's new love interest. i guess i'll find out on may 20th. so much mystery buzz!

not sure how much you'll see/hear from me over the next 2 weeks. tru calling finds out its renewal fate on may 20th. needless to say, 90% of my time is going to be spent working on my new blog, www.renutru.blogspot.com, & writing emails/letters to every fox exec telling them how best this show is, & how well it will do next season w/ friends out of the picture. i don't know what i'll do if this show isn't picked up. sfb! maybe get a frosty at wendy's, maybe a boston cooler at wally's. who am i kidding, i'll probably go on a summer-long bender, which i pretty much do every summer anyway. coincidentally, i watched some of the new guy last night on the wam! channel. a horrible movie made best by dushku. curse those damn hollywood 'star maps'--no dushku=no buzz.

when's the last time you heard any hives buzz? i can't remember either. pelle & the svenskas are releasing an lp this summer (their 1st since 2000's vvv) & will follow it up w/ a stateside tour beginning in july. i like the hives, but haven't seen them live in concert, so this to me has buzz. rock stars, plain & simple.
i'm a monkey!
i couldn't believe hearing that 5k people showed up last saturday to see william hung perform at oakland mall in troy, mich. that's more than showed-up to somerset for avril last month. i think this is a funny joke, but it's soooo smarch 2004. i heard on the radio that hung was asked by the dodgers to become their new 'rally mascot', kind of like the angels' 'rally monkey' 2 yrs ago, or the 'homer hankies' used back in the day by the twins. he wanted all sorts of money for it. the dodgers were like, there's no $, it's an honor & good pub for your crappy cd & appearances. william hung, you're the biggest joke ever. get over yourself already! you're not a star, a celeb, or what have you. you're one mean joke created by a shallow industry.

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Tuesday, April 5, 2011

I Am Not Mine (*warning* this one's preachy! but I'm preaching to me...)

I am not mine.  You are not yours.  We are not ours.

We are stewards of these temporary bodies and our preciously transient lives. When I don't take care of my body, I'm abusing something that is not even my own.  When I don't use my time well (or guide my children to use their time well), it's not really my time I'm wasting.

According to my dad, my Grandpa used to say, "Always return something you borrow in better condition than it was when you borrowed it."  This says a few things.  One, return the things you borrow.  Two, take care of those things.  Three, (... I can't think of the three that I thought of in bed just a minute ago.  We'll go with two.)  (anyway...)  Our lives are a giant, flesh-wrapped gift from God.  We are beautifully and wonderfully made, yes, but we are also temporary beings with eternal souls.  We're giving these bodies back when we're "done."  In the meantime, while we have them, we need to work at maintaining and - yes - bettering ourselves while we're here. Is this a faulty analogy?  yes.  But it helps me remember that I need to take better care of myself and of my children.  When I let my kids watch tv all afternoon while I read novels and blogs and magazines, what - really - am I doing?  What am I doing?  WHAT HAVE I DONE? I should be screaming and crying at the missed moments of the day! (and I am - which is why I'm up writing at 1am instead of sleeping).  I need to be nurturing them daily in so many areas!  and I need to be nurturing me, too.

It's so easy for me to get off track, even after a good, healthful, CONSCIOUS morning.  I make tiny choices that send the rest of the day in to a spiral.  And each day is precious! Every moment is packed with potential! I need to be helping my kids grow! literally, spiritually, intellectually (how many different ways did I misspell that word? 4. fyi.), fun-ally.

They need to be learning that exercise is good!  not all adults sit at the computer all day staring at the screen.  They need to be learning about Jesus and how much He loves them.  I should be preparing them for the non-bunny-ness of Easter, somehow explaining how much they are loved so they know FOREVER.  They need to be learning stuff like the alphabet and how to count potatoes.  They need to be learning how to play together as siblings and how to play on their own!  Granted, they have learned a LOT of great stuff from Curious George.  Love that guy.  But there is a point where I need to step in and say "Enough with the PBSKids already!  Let's interact and learn and play and grow!"  and I need it, I'm sorry to say, as much or more than they do right now.

Seriously.  It only takes one second to rocket myself down the blog bunny trail.  I can spend hours reading about other people's lives.  And this has been inspirational and fun and in small doses, it is a marvelous thing.  (Obviously, I think that or I wouldn't be writing this right now.)  Worse, I'll let myself sit and watch a show on my computer while my kids are watching tv - just because I'm lazy!  slip, slip, slip back in to the mire.  My brain starts hurting.  I get grumpy, then the evening doesn't go well for anyone. Then I wake up at 1a.m. hating myself for being destructive.

This isn't a new phenomenon.  I've been letting my mental, physical and spiritual wheels spin for YEARS in the mire and muck. I do catch a little traction every now and then, but never quite pull out of the mud.  I'm still stuck in something and I can FEEL it.  My bestest roommate Daniela wrote me a great letter about 8 years ago that very kindly but firmly pointed this out to me, and sadly enough, every word still applied when I found it a few weeks ago in my files.  I've gone nowhere, spiritually, in 8 years.  My life is full, wonderful, blessed, beautiful, and still I sit in this proverbial mud.  I'm not taking care of the Me I've been given at all.  I flail at it, but never STRIVE.

That's what my goal really is with this new blog - to plot and activate this striving.  I am layin' my cards on the table.  I want to be a better Child.  I haven't been paying attention to my blessings!  I've taken them, grinning with joy like a 3 year old, then tossing them aside and two minutes later wondering why I don't have any toys.  I've been given so much.  So many beautiful things, thoughts, talents, friendships, relationships, babies.  I need to wrap them in my arms and celebrate the gifts AND the Giver and enjoy all of this while I have it.  and spread it all around for others to enjoy.  Because it is temporary.  Were living on borrowed time.  Let's use this borrowed time wisely, happily, gratefully.  ~ v

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Thursday, February 3, 2011

AEC Magazine - Autodesk BIM Conference 2010 Report

I recently read an
Article in AEC Magazine that I wanted to share. An excellent sum up of the Autodesk BIM Conference in London, September 2010.

Apologies for the straight 'copy and paste' on this one! The original article can be read by following the link above.

"The adoption of Building Information Modelling (BIM) systems in the UK has been fairly slow. Attendees to Autodesk’s BIM conference this Autumn would have heard first hand that the government may be looking at hastening this. Martyn Day reports.
At one point it was all about why move from 2D to 3D, what are the benefits and who pays. That argument, to a degree, has been superseded with ‘to BIM or not to BIM?’ Where project teams; architects, structural engineers and heating and M&E engineers work on a single model.

Early adopters of BIM are championing a move to a more intelligent modelling approach but these have been few and far between. The core problem of this appears to be defining this new way of working and sharing the responsibility and rewards in completing a project, as well as finding like-minded companies. The Autodesk sponsored BIM Conference held at the end of September in London’s King’s Cross provided a forum for some of these issues to be aired.

On stage discussions mixed with time for questions and answers made the event highly interactive.Autodesk has done a pretty good job of marketing that Building Information Modelling = Revit. Of course that is not the case: Bentley has Bentley Architecture / Structural etc, Graphisoft has ArchiCAD and Nemetschek offers Allplan — all are capable of building intelligent 3D models from which 2D documentation can be created. As this was an Autodesk event, one would assume that everything would be served with a hefty dose of Revit marketing but nothing could be further from the truth. An architect using any system would have not been troubled by any hard sell in the presentations.

As you would suspect at a day-long event with around twelve different presentations, the pace was fast and furious, averaging between 15 and 30 minutes per slot. Snappy enough for anyone with a short attention span, or caffeine addiction.

Mark Bew, CIO, URS/Scott Wilson opened the conference and acted as master of ceremonies throughout the day. Mr Bew explained how the industry was in crisis and being asked to deliver more for less and move to low carbon designs, which were just two of many epic challenges. To respond to this harsh environment every aspect of the construction industry needed to be looked at; people, process and technology. Even BIM as we know it today needs to improve with more common standards and agreed ways of sharing a database versus the old way of sharing files.

Reforming practices
Ever since The Egan report the inefficiencies of the industry have been identified, mulled and generally procrastinated over. Paul Morrell, Chief Construction Adviser to UK Government gave a lot more insight into what may be in store for the industry next year than anybody expected.

Whatever you might think of the current coalition government the one thing we probably would all agree in is we don’t really know what radical thing they will try and do next! Morrell has been involved in producing a research document, due to be delivered next March, which will advise the government on how to reduce costs of construction, drive value and drive a low carbon infrastructure. From what he said it will pretty much suggest that BIM becomes mandatory for all government contracts, in addition to traditional 2D drawings. The research would also look at standards and open formats to make this possible.

Always good to end a conference on a bombshell, even if this is a small glimpse into a report that will be delivered in 2011. This could change everything and rapidly accelerate 3D usage in all industries.

Next up was Autodesk’s Phil Bernstein who elaborated on current practices and trends within the global construction industry. Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) is an American term but Mr Bernstein identified this as being an increasingly common way for clients, architects and contractors to work under a new legal framework, where risk and reward is shared and cross-company teamwork is encouraged. Autodesk’s own headquarters in Waltham, near Boston, recently underwent an interior fit-out using an IPD methodology, resulting in work being developed in breakneck speed, completed ahead of time, all under budget and the participants didn’t end up suing each other at the end. In fact Autodesk had invited John Tocci, CEO of Tocci Construction, who worked on the project to address the audience later that afternoon.

John Lorimer, director, Manchester City Council (MCC) gave an amusing talk on how the council was seeing value in having BIM used on their school projects. Using core design values, MCC uses collaborative framework arrangements to break the old contracts and build Facilities Management (FM) in every phase of design, construction and operation. The net result is a kit of standardised parts — ideal for a BIM system.

Alan Robertson, director, Aedas gave an excellent talk on the benefits of BIM to architects. Aedas invested in BIM for a number of reasons but the key persuasion points were to stay ahead of the competition and its own R&D team had highlighted benefits to the switch. For Aedas, BIM has meant a change in process, in production, the up-skilling of operators, specialised training for managers, a reduction of manpower, better hardware and operating systems (64-bit), and new internal CAD standards.

As a result of a significant investment its clients get an increased understanding of their designs. production time has been cut with reduced errors from better co-ordination. By effectively prototyping buildings prior to construction there was a reduction in clashes and onsite queries. Mr Robertson said that staff moral had improved and the bottom line — the company had already seen a 50-100 per cent return on investment.

Mr Robertson explained that over time and with experience, BIM is enabling the company to reach work stages much quicker than the old 2D methodology. Within its third project there was a considerable productivity improvement over 2D in all phases of the design.

In a nice little slide entitled ‘What we know now that we didn’t know before’, Mr Robertson explained that the comprehensiveness of information was appreciated, such as providing many more section drawings, schedules as they are a bi-product of the modelling process. The firm can now produce a 3D model quicker than a 2D drawing. Clash detection and changes to designs can also be accommodated more easily.

But there are barriers to BIM; the investment required is not insignificant and there are hardware issues due to the size of models. Keeping track of models and revisions has been a problem together with the extra training required for staff. Legacy projects and data is difficult to get the benefit of data reuse and finally M&E engineers have to be dragged kicking and screaming to the BIM table.

Aedas will next look at incorporating Autodesk Ecotect and IES energy applications into its workflow. There is also an ongoing need to increase its employees’ skill levels through advanced training. Outside the company, Aedas wants to encourage BIM in other disciplines so it’s easier to find like-minded companies to work with.

Mott MacDonald
Paul Bates, divisional director, Mott MacDonald, also chairman of the company’s CAD working group, gave a presentation on the benefits of BIM in engineering. Mr Bates kicked off explaining that clients now request BIM to be used on projects and it is here to stay.

The risks associated with BIM come from the failure to define common standards for collaboration. There also needs to be adequate checking procedures and resolution of liability issues of inaccurate or just plane wrong core data.

Mott MacDonald has already deployed BIM in structural, civil, mechanical, electrical and public health. Quantities and sustainability are catching up and the company is setting up a cross-discipline BIM steering committee to formalise standards and figure out what to do with all of the accumulated BIM data.

Bates certainly seemed the kind of man who drank, ate and slept CAD for Mott MacDonald. Describing the experience with BIM as ‘largely positive’, indicating that there were still issues that needed addressing.

Paul Morrell gave an excellent insightful talk, which was music to the ears of anyone selling BIM software or services.

A segment was set aside for the British building and construction bodies: RIBA, CIBSE, ICE to discuss what they were doing about BIM and how it impacted the industry. This was probably the weakest presentation of the show but was unfortunately more indicative of the fact that these bodies are ultimately highly self serving.

To make BIM work, integration between the participants is necessary. It became very clear in the panel Q&A that the industry bodies seem unwilling or unlikely to co-ordinate a BIM group between themselves. When asked what they were doing together, they pondered if specific co-ordinated BIM practices should be handled by a different body. This seemed to be the wrong kind of message for the day.

The organisers had obviously kept the more dynamic presenters till the afternoon, as the first slide of Richard Wise, director, Ryder Architecture’s presentation read BIM... so what? In an impassioned presentation Wise made the case by stating what work Ryder had done, even in tough times. He listed tens of benefits, showed the quality of their documentation and just how they used the models for everything from analysis to delivering prefabricated parametrically customisable schools.

Autodesk’s BIM Conference was a roaring success and it was refreshing not to have product rammed down everyone’s throats, which could well have been the case. While the majority of presenters were Revit customers, they were free to express where things worked best and where more work was required.

At the heart of the day were more general topics such as workflow, contracts, training, migration, data translation and some very good examples of companies that have made the move and reaped the rewards.

Left to almost the end of the day, Paul Morrell’s insight into how the government sees BIM as a crucial technology to both drive down waste and improve the carbon efficiencies of projects really came as a shock and acted like the last nail in the coffin for those that were resistant to change. When the report is delivered next March it is highly likely that the government’s next action will be to mandate that its projects are delivered in an independent BIM format such as IFCs, in addition to the 2D plans sections and elevations.

After the event I met up with Autodesk’s Phil Bernstein who was really excited by the surprise announcement. In fact Autodesk hurried out a quote from Paul Morrell, which was circulated far and wide. Mr Bernstein explained that In the USA, the General Services Administration (GSA), the body that looks after government buildings, stipulated BIM deliverables and this rocketed adoption of Revit across its user base. While in the UK Revit has something like 20 per cent adoption, in the States it has already reached 60 per cent penetration. A Government endorsement really makes a difference.

So the key takeaways are that BIM is coming, projects are getting completed and new ways of working are being defined. The increases in productivity that are promised by the vendors are achievable but moving to a BIM methodology does not happen overnight. The main, current, problem is finding M&E firms that use BIM and the data translation or ‘data wrangling’ that can occur needs to find a solution. Until that time, it will become increasingly frequent that a specific vendor’s BIM system will be required to win on bids."

Click here for more information about the Autodesk BIM Conference

Click here to download the presentations.

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PostSubject: Marker Maintenance & gear   Wed Dec 23, 2009 1:07 am

LUBES: First of all, you should use whatever lube is recommended for use in your marker's manual. If your manual says to use Dow 55 lube, use Dow 55. USING THE WRONG LUBE MAY VOID YOUR MARKER'S WARRANTY. This means that if you go to send your marker in for repair, and the manufacturer notices that you're not using the lube that they recommended, they have the right to tell you your warranty has been voided, and you will be paying LOTS of money to get your marker fixed.

Where can I find the lubes that I will need for my marker's maintenance?
Well, I would first recommend your local paintball shop. Let's say your marker's manual says you need to use Dow 55 lube for maintenance. Walk into the shop and tell the guy you need a 2 oz. bottle of Dow 55 lube. In most cases the shop will have what you're looking for. IF your shop does not have what you need, you can always order online.

How often do I need to re-lube my marker?
For most markers, re-lubing after each day of play is ideal. If your marker has not been used for a while, you're trying to sell it, or you just don't play anymore, I would recommend re-lubing it about once a month. Pulling your bolt out and checking all O-rings throughout the marker to make sure they are well lubed is the best way to ensure your marker stays in working condition.

CLEANING: For cleaning any marker, the first thing you want to do after a long day of play is remove any broken paintball shells from your marker. If these are not removed, they can cause a large amount of distortion in your shot accuracy.
In order to remove these, you may want to disassemble your marker according to your marker's manual. (I would disassemble the marker during any cleaning session in order to do the best job I can.)BE SURE TO TAKE CAREFUL NOTE OF HOW YOUR MARKER DISASSEMBLES. Make sure all parts are intact and in working order.(I.e. springs are not broken, ball detents work, etc.) After doing this, set the parts off to the side. As you disassemble your marker, make sure it is done on a clean surface (preferably a white towel or something of the sort, to ensure you don't lose anything-- even the smallest part missing from your marker can result in the marker being dysfunctional.)
As said above, remove any broken paint shells, dirt, grime, etc. Clean your marker thoroughly with a cotton swab, Q-tip, or paper towel. I would recommend dampening the paper towel with warm water. This will help to remove any excess grease, paint, dirt and grime.
Re-lube any O-rings in the marker. If you are using a highly viscous lube, such as Hoppe's lube, or tri-flow, make sure to wipe off any excess, as this can result in lube getting into your barrel and throwing off your shots during play.
After re-lubing all of your parts, and making sure that your marker is free of any dirt, grime, paint, or paint shells, begin to re assemble your marker, again, according to the manual.

For the most part, pod packs do not need very much maintenance. Some people like their pod packs to be clean, however.
In order to clean your pod pack, I would NOT recommend Putting your pod pack in the washing machine. This CAN result in your pod holders' threads beginning to fray, tear apart, and shred, which will ultimately result in a ruined pod pack. Not to mention that vel-cro does not usually mix well with the washing machine.

I find the best way to clean a dirty pod pack is by dampening a towel with warm water, adding a small dab of dish soap, and just scrubbing the dirty spots. Hang your pod pack up to dry, and if you do notice that some of its threads are beginning to fray, simply use a lighter to burn them off. This will prevent any further fraying and keep your pod pack lasting long.

PODS: Pods are very low maintenance. Just empty all of them out, flush them out with water, let them dry and you're good to go. Check any springs on the lids of your pods to make sure they're working, and check for cracks.
There's nothing like using a broken pod and having a full pod of paint spill out onto the ground.

For the most part, regulators should be maintained about once every three months, depending on how much you play.
In order to maintain your marker's regulator, you first want to de-gas your gun completely. Remove your tank. Certain guns may hold one extra shot inside the regulator, so turn your gun on, turn the eyes off, and pull the trigger to make sure that the gun is completely de-gassed.
Next, remove your macro line. In order to remove the macro line, you will notice that on the end of your macro fittings, there is a round disc shaped fitting. Push the fitting down, and pull on the line at the same time. Your macro should pop off easily.
After removing the macro line, remove your regulator from your gun. Your regulator should screw off with ease.
To avoid going into to much detail and confusing you all, I'll leave the rest to this video:

There should be not much of a difference between a CP regulator and any other regulator.

I would recommend that you start off with reading the tag on your jersey. Most will have washing instructions. For padding inside of jerseys, dripping a few drops of detergent directly on the pads before wash is ideal. For jersey pants, set your washer to 'gentle' mode, and make sure to wash in cold on cold water. Remove any dried-on paint stains with a damp towel. Make sure to air dry to keep your padding from becoming puffy.

Cleaning elbow/knee pads is the same as Jerseys/Pants. Remove any paint stains with a moist towel. Do NOT put in dryer, they will become puffy and will begin to wear out faster.

There is really no way to maintenance your paint obviously, however choose your storage facility wisely. Paint that has been left in hot weather over a long about of time will melt. Yes, you will go to fill up your pod and will get nothing but a glob of melted paintballs.
Store your paint in a cool area. A closet is an ideal place, or an unused corner of a room. Any place that is at room temperature is probably the best option. Putting your paint in the refrigerator will keep your paint nice and brittle, providing top notch breakage.
Try not to set anything on top of your paint, because although pressure may not be hard enough to break the paint, it can actually oblong your balls, providing you with inconvenient jams, breaks, and inaccuracy.
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Friday, October 16, 2015

Witches in Fiction 2015… Death Rites and Remembrances

This year's

is now live and lusty
and full of gifts and prizes.

Artwork by Sunshine Shelle

Get on your best besom
and fly over to Magaly's Blog
where you'll find all the links
to all the wonderful people taking part.

It's a great beginning to the
Samhain season,
the Halloween Holiday,
however you celebrate it.

I'm offering a tiny tea-for-two set,
all ready for tete-a-tetes and
fortune tellings.

The Skull Tea Set through the
darkly delicious  eyes of the

Halloween is coming!

Blingee by me,

Witch and magic circle
Magic Circle

Saturday, October 3, 2015

It's Coming! Halloween!

It's nearly Halloween!

And that means

Perfect for a
Darkly Delicious Dolls'
Tea party.

New designs appearing
all the time.

Skulls and scary faces,
gothick grey and ghastly green.

Just don't drink out of them!

is now available in three colours.

Gothick Grey, Steampunk Salt Glaze
and  a tasteful Jasperware Blue,

for the more refined doll.

Also, pumpkin?

Who doesn't like pumpkin?

Jack O'Lantern sets, too.
Totally channeling Tim Burton.

Free USA shipping on all tea sets until Halloween.

(But if you want it for Halloween,
you need to let me know.

These are made-to-order.)

Have a Happy Halloween!

Saturday, July 11, 2015

Mad Tea Party and a Rabbit/Cat Toy Tutorial!

This is a special year for all things

This is the 150th anniversary
of the publication of

Hop on over to
and join in the fun.

The kettle's on!

I made an Alice doll for myself,

and I thought, maybe there were
some other people
who would like an Alice doll, too.

People like
 the White Rabbit

and the Cheshire Cat.

Obviously, a little paper clay art doll
 isn't a good toy
for a bunny or a cat.

We're going to make a little Alice doll
from some sisal twine.

Sisal twine is safe for cat and rabbit toys.

You need a ball of sisal twine,
a book and a pair of scissors.

 First, wrap the twine around the book ten times
cut off the end and slide off the book.

Then, wrap the twine across the book
five times, and slip off the book.

Take the longer piece of twine and tie off
where you want Alice's head to be.

Poke the shorter piece of twine through the long piece,
to make Alice's arms, and tie another stand of twine
underneath, to make her chest.

Cut through all the loops at the opposite end to the head
and fluff them out, to make Alice's skirt.

Tie a nice fluffy piece of sisal twine through the top of
Alice's head and separate the strands,
to make Alice's long, blonde hair.

Here's your Alice!
Give to your kitty or bunny to enjoy!

(Yeah, I know.
It does look a bit Blair Witch...
But, that's ok.
Now you know what to make
your bunny for Halloween, too.)

And, as I always make
for the
Mad Tea Party,
here is mine for  this year.

Tiptoeing through the topiary.

Lying in the clover.

She's very small, just ten inches tall.

On a side note, I'm
excited to tell you
I've designed another book cover,

Thank you so much for visiting me
and taking tea
at this Wonderland
Mad Tea Party.

I'll be along to your blog,
some time this weekend.

Wednesday, July 8, 2015

Mad Tea Party

It's that time of year again!

You are cordially invited to this year's

Hosted by the fabulous Vanessa
at A Fanciful Twist.

Sign on, join in,
have a cup of tea...

See you on Saturday 11th July!

Saturday, May 30, 2015

May Monster Madness

 I went for Steampunk.

The late Victorians were big on
the insect theme

and it's only a small step to
steampunk and animate these little beauties
into creations of exotically beautiful horror.

Here is a selection.

Creatures crafted from
discarded parts.

My friend, Miss Magpie's Steampunk Observer.

Lego Steampunk Scuttler.

Watch-part Insects from

Creation of a clockwork insect.

One of my favourite films
has a spectacularly unpleasant
altered  flea.

See it here, with its trainer's forceps
adding a hypodermic needle.

The flea's view as it travels to its target.

And here, its mind-altering toxin takes effect.

Here is my own Surveillance Arthropod.

(Right now, it's under your couch,
taking notes in Morse code.)

And a how-to, if you want to make your own.

Thank you so much,
for sharing in
May Monster Madness!

If I haven't visited your blog yet,
I'm on my way.

Thursday, May 28, 2015

What I'm doing right now.

What am I doing?

Well, I'm making a
Mabel Bunt Action Figure.

Here she is, looking unusually introspective,
which probably means Lord Guise
has said something complicated...

She'll get tavern wench gear, and a tiny sword!

It's a rare perk of being a writer and
a doll maker; I get to make
my own action figures.

No, she does not come with kung fu grip

Read about Mabel Bunt here.

And here is Oona.

She's an interesting girl,
with at least two opinions on everything...

...and rarely agrees with herself.

Also, she's a little intimidated
by all this sunshine...

Anyway, back to this week's commercial.
Everyone's favourite action figure.

Sunday, May 3, 2015

Mad for Hats? Welcome to Mad Hat Day

 Welcome to Debi's

Mad for Hats?

Make your own!

I found a wonderful pattern for
doll-sized decorative hats on

I love the pattern,
but I don't use it for my dolls
because it's not  for commercial use,
which is fair.

But when I got an opportunity
to use the pattern for a Mad Hat
I was so excited!

Here is my
Mad Hatter Mad Hat!

I took the basic pattern
and loaded up Tenniel's illustrations
into the crown and brim.

I then printed  it out on cardstock
and cut it out and glued it together.

(Original hat design  on A Field Journal )

I don't know if this image will print for you.
If not, you'll have to try the original blank
version on

But once you have the basic shape,
you could print out the design on any
coloured or pattered thin card.

The hat was done and ready for the best bit.

An Alice-style talking flower.

A lacy brim
(This is one of those fancy laser-cut
cupcake holders)

Ribbons and braid.

Anna Lee models for you.

A raven's feather.

(Because they're like a writing desk...)

Thank you so much, Debi,
for this fun party!

Back later to see everyone's hats.


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I got a package in the mail today. Inside a big roll of packaging material I find this:

Then I look in the bottom of the box and find a photo of my friend, Trever:

I’m not sure what else to say about this…

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    anything for a laugh, now please take this image down.

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    Never! I’m going to frame it and hang it in our living room.

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    The funniest part is that Ava kept saying (with her hands on her hips)- “Daddy, why is my red hair bow on your neck? That’s MY hair bow.” We were laughing so hard that we couldn’t even answer her.

    Glad that you enjoyed it- that means that our trip to the antique stores on 25th street were worth it after all!

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JEBO R338 aquarium fish stock

My JEBO R338
aquarium is currently stocked with:

- 5 White clouds
- 1 Otocinclus catfish
- 3 Clown loaches
- 1 loan Neon tetra :(

The White clouds were the first fish that went into my tank to cycle it after it had been left running for about a week with no fish. The tank cycle is the process by which nitrifying bacteria establishes itself in the filter to facilitate waste removal. White clouds make excellent cycling fish as I didn't lose a single one in the process. The tank cycle had completed and was ready for more fish within 3 weeks.

The oto cat is an excellent little algae eater - busy and small and not as unsightly as a plecostomas - quite cute in fact. The Clown loaches have proved to be the most difficult fish to cultivate in my aquarium but they seem to cope well with a temperature of about 29 degrees C and addition of non-iodated salt with water changes. The Neon tetra is the sole survivor of his school, shame.

I feed all my fish on TetraPrima and the Clown loaches love it especially.

JEBO R338 aquarium light maintenance

Recently (after about a year of use), the plastic light mounts perished and almost allowed the aquarium light to drop into the tank - but this is the only real trouble I have experienced with my JEBO R338 aquarium.
At the same time I noticed for the first time that one of the bulbs had blown, but replacement was very straight forward.

I "repaired" the problem by making 4 holes in the grey plastic sides of the light chamber and using cable ties to hold the light in place. It's a good idea to cover the globe contacts with insulation tape before you replace the plastic cover.

The plastic light mounts must have worn and become brittle as a result of heat from the light. It's probably not a good idea to put anything on top of your JEBO that will limit ventilation as this could contribute to weakening of the light mounts. I will also have to watch that the cable ties do not become brittle and break.

JEBO R338 aquarium

When I bought my JEBO R338 aquarium it did not come with any instructions. Assembling it was not difficult but this post covers my cleaning routine and could be useful in aiding with assembly. I have had this fish tank for about a year now and so far I have been very impressed by its low maintenance requirements and excellent water quality.

Basic specifications:
- Range of colours available.
- Silent operation
- Curved edges for panoramic viewing
- Integrated light and power filter
- 40 Litre capacity
- 400 Litres/hour FLMax.
- 380mm x 270mm x 440mm
- Bio-Chemical Filtration system

Cleaning Routine

Every week I replace approximately 25% of the water with tap water that has been left standing in a soap free bucket for at least 24 hours to allow for chlorine evaporation. Once a month clean the gravel using the following procedure.

Unplug the heater, light and filter at the wall. Place the front part of the cover with the light on top of the back part of the cover to allow for easy access to the inside of the tank.

Remove the plants and decor and clean the gravel using a gravel vacuum. Detach the powerhead from the pump to make vacuuming easier.

Vacuum until the water level drops just below the body of the pump.

Clean algae off the glass using a sponge on a stick. Leave some algae behind to discourage new algae growth. I never clean the back panel because it is difficult to get to and the dark back hides the algae (though it has shown up very well in the pictures with the flash). Of course a plecostomas or group of otto cats will also help keep your tank looking clean.

Reposition your plants and decor and reconnect the powerhead.

Fill the tank (with water that has been left standing for at least a day in a soap free bucket) so that the water level is at the level of the bottom of the rim. This will allow the filter to run quieter and for the tank to look prettier.

It is a good idea to rinse the filter sponge in some aquarium water. The sponge sits on top of the grid, on top of the porcelain blocks. If the trickling noise from your filter becomes loud or louder than usual or the water flows over the side of the filter chamber, then it's a good idea to actually clean the outlet holes of the filter to allow for easier flow. My elbow does not "click" onto the filter chamber because if I click it on, then the pump cannot attach to the glass with its suction cups and the vibration is noisy. You can also see my heater power cord in this picture feeding across the top to the right side.

This picture shows the trickle filter in action.

Turn on the heater, pump and light. Your tank may look a little murky directly after cleaning. I usually do a water test at this point. You can also add about a table spoon of non-iodated salt now.

Within an hour or two, the water will clear and your tank will look nice and clean again and your fish will be happy!

Update: see my Siamese Fighter (betta) / Jebo R338 related post as well! Or my more recent Comet Goldfish setup


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7 Oct 2011

GEMP (Medicine) at Wits - How to not get accepted

 June 2017 Update: "Based on general comments I have received over the years I would like to explicitly state the point of this article up front: Don't let anyone tell you that you can just keep going through the motions, ticking boxes and that you will eventually get into medicine by trying for long enough (or for having enough passion) - There is a high chance that things will not work out and you will probably be left at least a little bitter about the outcome. In addition to this, I would like to draw specific attention to the fact that I do not make any reference to race in this post or any of my comments related to this post."

I have closed comments for this post but please visit the new online forum I have set up for medical students at medstudents.co.za and comment there if you would like to contribute to the discussion.

Johannesburg, South Africa

First attempt
  • Start by nurturing a passion to become a doctor for as long as you can remember
  • Add a natural aptitude for science and technology
  • Participate (and perform well) in sport (first team rugby), cultural activities (play the piano from age 7) and academics at school (and be a prefect)
  • Get a basic first aid certificate
  • Donate spare time to volunteer work in hospitals and clinics
  • Complete an IEB matric at a Jo'burg private school with results that are good enough to be offered a place in electrical engineering (where the academic entry requirements are higher than for medicine)
  • Apply for entry into first year medicine at Wits Medical School (2001)
Second attempt
  • Complete a Bachelor of Science degree in human anatomy and physiology at the University of the Witwatersrand
  • Make special arrangements to complete a basic life support (BLS) training course from the American Heart Association (this course is run for qualified healthcare professionals) - Get higher test results than qualified healthcare professionals who are on the course with you
  • Continue volunteer work at a christian primary healthcare clinic
  • Make rural hospital visits with an old (practicing) professor of surgery
  • Apply for entry into the Graduate Entry Medical Programme (GEMP) at Wits Medical School with a respected surgeon as your referee (2004)
Third attempt
  • Accept an offer to join the experimental physiology honours class at Wits Medical School
  • Contribute to the medical research community by collecting cardiovascular data that is published in the American Journal of Physiology
  • Help second year medical students in physiology lab tutorials (one of  whom didn't know what diarrhoea is and another who was repeating second year medicine for the 3rd time - painful, but true stories)
  • Apply for entry into GEMP at Wits Medical School again, this time with an A rated physiology Professor as your referee (2005)
  • Get excited when you are short listed for an interview
  • Mention that you want to "help people" during the interview
  • Have the dean of student affairs warp your answers and talk over you for the remainder of the 'interview'
Move on
  • Reinvent yourself
  • Get on with life in a completely different field, continue to "help people" in other ways and don't feel too bad that the only thing you've really sucked at so far (in spite of a rather wasted medical background), is getting in to study medicine at Wits Medical School...

I have closed comments for this post but please visit the new online forum I have set up for medical students at medstudents.co.za and comment there if you would like to contribute to the discussion.

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4 Oct 2011

FSMS versus Free082SMS - Free SMS in South Africa

FSMS is fast becoming (if not already) the dominant Free SMS website in South Africa. Stats from December 2010 showed that FSMS is generating more than 2 million page views a month from more than 35 thousand users, sending an average of 25 thousand SMSes per day.

Technology investment company World of Avatar owns a 50% stake in the company and FSMS boasts South Africa's only free two-way SMS service (SMS are not sent from the senders own phone number, but replies can be picked up on the website).

FSMS is sponsored by on site advertising and in targeted ads appended to the bottom of outgoing SMSes - Demographic information is collected during the registration process.

Free082SMS is a small fry in comparison to FSMS but users can send Free SMS from their own cellphone numbers so replies are delivered directly to the sender's phone as long as the original SMS was sent using a Vodacom, MTN or CellC account. Free082SMS does offer Free SMS to other South African networks as well, but replies are not supported for this option. Free082SMS is sponsored by on site advertising and self promotion in Free SMSes.

Free082SMS generates around 450 thousand pageviews per month with more than 3 thousand Free SMS sent from the site every day.

Free082SMS.co.za is more niche than FSMS.co.za but both sites work well and it all comes down to personal preference really. But please share your preference in the comments below...


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Wednesday, August 22, 2012

PQ facing mortal damage?

As promised.

Here is the news from this projection.
First off, Charest is now winning his seat. First time since the election started. As I suspected, if he wins the election, he will win his seat, but if he does not win the election, he will lose his seat.
Secondly, the Greens are doing god awful.
Other things: Aussant is back in second according to my numbers in his riding.
The QS is projected to win 4 seats in Montreal again. I had them at 4 earlier on in the campaign, and suspect they may indeed win 4 or more. Note their close second in Hochelaga.

This projection puts the Liberals in first in terms of seats, 55 to 44 for the PQ. The CAQ is stuck with only 22. What is important however is the very small gap in popular vote.

It has always been suspected that the PQ could win tie with the Liberals in the vote and still win more seats. In fact, this has always been the case historically. However, and this is HUGE news, according to these numbers, the PQ has lost that advantage. Again, in French, PQ a perdu son avantage naturel. A égalité de voix signifie maintenant PLQ victoire, pas PQ victoire. Ce sont des nouvelles énorme! Vous l'avez entendu ici en premier!

How this happened can be questioned, but in short, it seems a combo of the CAQ, QS, and ON. The only other election with a strong CAQ-like party, did see the PQ fall to 3rd place, so it may just be the case that whenever the CAQ/ADQ does well, the PQ loses that advantage.

Regardless, here are all the numbers for you all to enjoy!

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Saturday, December 10, 2011

Updates on Miss Cadence

First off, thank you all for your lovely comments; it means a lot.  Now onto Miss Mare:
Cadence appears to be doing well.  Unfortunately, tey had to do a small I and D (incision and drain) just below her wound, but the vet says she'll probably still be able to go home tomorrow.  Cross your fingers and hope for the best please!

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Saturday, 23 April 2016

Price iPhone 6 Plus - Apple Update 2016

Price iPhone 6 Plus - Smartphone were released in conjunction with the iPhone 6 original. Of course, this is the result of the latest innovations of the iPhone 6 original that is very successful in the market. Price iPhone 6 Plus presented by #Apple to model differences in physical size larger. You need to know that the screen is designed to reach 5.5 inches so it could be said this is the iPhone 6 version of the phablet. Previous smart phones of this kind have been pioneered in advance of the series Galaxy Note from Samsung.

Apple Iphone 6 Plus is claimed is a phone for the middle class and above. Practically this version is a large screen mobile phone for the first time since the previous release of Apple Apple is only carrying a small size of the screen on his smartphone. Not only are a large screen because you will also get a higher color density reaching 401 ppi pixel density. Natural color, clearer and certainly made fans captivated. Not forgetting also the technology IPS LED Backlit LCD pinned 5 with the ability to produce a resolution of 1080 x 1920 pixels.
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Log in to the runway, Iphone 6 Plus of course equipped with a sophisticated processor that is Dual Core 1.4 GHz Cyclone (ARM v8-based). Specifications of this processor is supported with a capacity of up to 1 GB of RAM memory. Pretty standard for a smartphone middle class and above. Another sector that switch on high-quality graphics card which can be produced by PowerVR GX6650 and A8 Chipset vendor which is made by Apple. Guaranteed with this kind of kitchen runway iPhone 6 plus be able to run games smoothly glorious HD graphics.

Fans of photography will be spoiled with a dual camera system on iPhone 6 plus. On the back of the camera there is a camera with a resolution of 8 MP and 1.2 MP rear sector. Of course this is still relatively the same with his brother the iPhone 6. With an 8 MP at least capable of producing images with a resolution of 3264 x 2448 pixels. Another feature is the optical image stabilization to prevent blur badly on the image, phase detection autofocus for faster retrieval, and LED flash for additional light in low light conditions.

Connection problems are already available configuration DC-HSDPA speed of 42 Mbps, and HSUPA 5.76 Mbps speeds, as well as LTE with speeds up to 150 Mbps. While there is bluetooth v4.0 Bluetooth version is faster in transferring data.
Specifications iPhone 6 Plus
GSM: 850, 900, 1800, 1900 MHz
Screen: 5.5-inch 1080 x 1920 pixels, 401 ppi
OS: iOS 8
Chipset: Apple A8
CPU: Two Core 1.4 GHz 64-bit
Internal storage: 128 GB
Battery: 2915 mAh
Camera: back: sensor 1 / 2.6 "8MP Dual LED f / 2.2; Front: 2.1 MP
Connectivity: Bluetooth 4.0, WiFi 802.11 ac, USB, NFC, UMA (WiFi Calling)
Advantages And Disadvantages iPhone 6 Plus

Speaking about the advantages of course everyone thinks Apple products are always superior to the others. However, the most striking is the internal memory is provided with multiple versions ranging from 16GB, 64GB, up to 128GB. The latest operating system iOS 8 is highly sophisticated, and some think that the big screen is very convenient to use.

At its shortcomings may be difficult to find, but at least Apple did not design with a new design that is identical to the iPhone 6 first. There was also no improvement of the quality of the camera.

Source : Apple Iphone 6

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Answering The Question: Why Do One-In-Five American Voters Now Believe Osama Bin Laden Is Still Alive?

Over at the LA Times, Andrew Malcolm asks, Why do one-in-five American voters now believe Osama bin Laden is still alive?

This incredulity phenomenon is a curious creation of a high-speed global media so full of unverified and unverifiable information floating about, combined with a modern cynicism about political leaders masquerading as voter wisdom.

After so many lies and misleading claims by politicians over the decades since the Kennedy assassination and its conspiracy theories (“I am not a crook” “I did not have sex with that woman”), the safest way to look wise and experienced these days is to dismiss virtually any public official’s statement as a talking point and/or lie.

The widespread arrival of television some 60 years ago and more recently online video has trained people to expect some kind of visual confirmation of virtually any news, either live or shortly after. Its absence almost surely spawns doubts.

President Obama watched the raid live via satellite and has seen the photos. Because he himself was convinced of Bin Laden’s death, the president deemed providing visual — albeit allegedly gruesome — photographic proof to any doubting fellow Americans was unnecessary. The people could take his word for it.

…Operating in a longtime one-party city like Chicago, Democratic politicians do not often feel beholden to explaining themselves to the obedient public. So, the lesson this president from there obviously drew from his unnecessary birth certificate-sealing confrontation was to do it again with the Bin Laden photos.

Number one, there’s a lot of truth to the “cynicism” angle Malcolm discusses.

The thinking for a lot of people who buy into conspiracy theories works basically like so: Have you seen how the President from the other party behaves? He’s a rotten, lying son-of-a-b*tch! He’s capable of anything! Therefore, it’s as likely as not that he’s really the one responsible for X, Y, and Z. I mean, I don’t know FOR SURE that he did it, but he’s a bad guy and I wouldn’t put anything past him!

Then, after they conclude that he’s responsible because he’s such a bad guy, they go out and find evidence to support their contention. That may sound like a poorly thought out, backwards way to think, but it’s actually very common. In fact, you probably do it yourself in certain areas without realizing it. Think about sports fans, parents talking about their children, or a discussion with your boss about whether you deserve a raise or not.

See? More common than you thought.

But, some people take it to an extreme — which brings us to the second factor, one discussed rather crudely in the South Park episode, “Mystery of the Urinal Deuce.”

Kyle: Anybody who thinks 9/11 was a conspiracy is a retard.
Cartman: Oh, really? Well, did you know that over one-fourth of people in America think that 9/11 was a conspiracy? Are you saying that one-fourth of Americans are retards?
Kyle: Yes, I’m saying one-fourth of Americans are retards.
Stan: Yeah, at least one-fourth.

Dumb people, crazy people, uneducated people — somebody has to be at the bottom of the curve, folks. Who do you think falls for those lame Nigerian scams and keeps the Fushigi Magic Gravity Ball company in business? Let’s just say that there’s probably a lot of overlap with the hardcore conspiracy crowd there and it explains a lot.

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What's on first?

This kind of storing has been popping up a fair bit recently. I don't really see how it's news.

Watson made the Test team because he was in the squad for his versatility - as a player who could fill any position that needed filling. It just happened that he was chosen to replace an opener. I will admit that his batting performance since then was better than I expected. I am still not convinced he should be called an "all-rounder", but leaving that aside, he has easily confirmed his ability as a fill-in Test batsman, and earned consideration for an ongoing place in the lineup.

However, the idea that he is one of the two best choices for opener is a bit weird. Apart from all the hoopla about Hughes, there are at least two other openers who should be consdered at number 1 before Watson, and that's only considering those with Test experience. The most obvious response to Watson's recent performance is to compare him with other middle-order contenders.

nestaquin said...

Border reckons that Hussey will get the chop if Clarke is fit with Watson batting in the middle order after Hughes is reinstated as opener.

I'm not convinced as there are signs that Huss is over his slump.

Even though they failed in England once too often I like a middle order of Ponting, Hussey, Clarke and North.

As for the openers I reckon that considering Watson did fairly well in England he deserves to keep his spot for now. However, I'd put him on notice stating that he must turn at least one of his starts against the Windies into three figures. Too often he gets out, usually lbw, in the fifties.

I'd like to see Phil Jaques get a chance after scoring a century in his last Test before injury.

I wonder who NSW would select to open if they were forced to choose between Hughes and Jaques?

Jonathan said...

Nesta, I'm not going to try to guess whether the Hilditch is done with Hussey or are worried about Clarke's back. Apart from Hussey's slump, it doesn't seem the selectors are keen on players of that age any more.

As for Watson, I'm not convinced that someone who has performed the versatile fill-in role well deserves to keep his spot. Is he likely to do better than the alternative openers or batsmen in general? I think there is a better case for him in the middle order than ahead of Jaques, Rogers and Hughes.

That doesn't mean I think he should be in the team, however. At the moment it really looks like they're trying to find a batsman to make way for him for the sake of his bowling, which I think is completely unjustified.

The question about NSW is a good one. I would lean towards Jaques at the moment.

Vim said...

I can't see Watson's bowling being much use in test cricket, but you never know. I nearly wept when they decided to have him as a testi opener and he worked out to be just about ok, so what do I know?

I shall weep if Marcus North is kept out of the team and Watson is in however. That will piss me off no end.

Jonathan said...

Vim, as far as I'm concerned, Watson's been given plenty of chances to show the use of his bowling in Test matches. His opening batting was much better, but does that earn a spot, or are we looking to pick the best team.

I can understand the difficulty in choosing between the established players in a current team and the alternatives, but when one was there as a fill in to start with (and at least one of the alternatives is simply returning well from injury), I wonder what is going on. But I think I am barking up the wrong tree - apparently it is his bowling, adding "balance"!?


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