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Friday, April 17, 2015

Time to Remove the Evil from our Midst

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Comment 1: How would anyone feel if one of their’s became a turncoat and joined the other side? During a time of war or shmad, when the enemies of the Torah are trying to force you to join them you must resist.
Comment 2: I am a jewish charedi yeshivish woman and all I can say is that I’m absolutely disgusted. If you don’t want to join the army then get a petur and don’t join how dare you call someone a nazi for being in the army. Where are these chuldrens mothers and fathers. I hope they are very ashamed of the chilul Hashem they made. There children have no middos at all. Have you ever taught your children who nazis are???? If you wanna call an boy in the idf and nazi then you should not live in Israel and be protected by them day and night. In fact they should be receiving so much respect from all of yisroel.
These 2 comments were made in reference to a YWN video (below) showing yet another disgusting display of human behavior by extremists in the Charedi world. They represent the polarization taking place within the Charedi world itself.

The video shows a Charedi soldier walking through a neighborhood in Ramat Bet Shemesh B and being treated like a Nazi. Ramat Bet Shemesh B is populated by what can only be called extremist Charedim. And their extremist behavior is not getting any better.

Most extremist Charedim are Jews that live in virtual isolation from the rest of civilization. To the extent that they have any contact at all with the outside world is to the extent that they need them. For example if they need a doctor, they will see one. (They cannot produce their own doctors.) But they will never have any social interaction with them. For fear of being influenced by their values.

This community has absolutely no clue how to interact socially with anyone outside of their world. They consider non Jews to automatically be Jew haters. They consider the Israeli government and their police force to be the equivalent of Nazis. They consider non religious Jews to be hopelessly anti Charedi. And even other religious Jews don’t fare much better in their eyes – if they are in the slightest way Zionistic.

They therefore have no problem committing what most people would consider a public Chilul HaShem. Like spittng on reporters covering public demonstrations.  Or calling  a little girl a whore if she does not dress by their extremist standards of modesty. And many other types of such behavior

These people are a world apart. They are Porshim  Min HaTzibur – separating themselves from the rest of world Jewry or even the rest of religious Jewry.  Increasingly the moderate Charedi world is beginning to see them that way too. Which I believe to be the vast majority of Charedim.

It used to be the case that these people were looked at with a certain degree of admiration by the Charedi moderates. I believe that is no longer the case. After so many events like this, moderate Charedim are beginning to see them for who they really are. Although there are still some Charedim that support what they did. Or at least understand and have sympathy for them – as the first comment above shows.

The fruit of such extremes produces behavior that is so bad that in my view it makes their piety worthless. I have seen them this way for some time. And now the moderate Charedi world seems to be coming around to the same view. That is reflected by the reaction of the second comment above to what they witnessed in that video.

The truth is that I pity these extremists. In my view they are in the category of Tinokos SheNishba. When a Jewish child is captured by non Jewish thugs and raised by them – they are not aware of the Torah and Halacha. They therefore cannot be blamed if they are not religious. These extremists were raised the same way in terms of how to interact with the rest of the world. It’s not their fault.

Nonetheless as R’ Chaim Soloveichik said to someone who tried to judge favorably - an Apikores (heretic) that was raised that way:  Nebech an Apikores is still an Apikores’. You can feel sorry for them.  But it dosen’t change who they are.  They are a group of Jews that believe they are the epitome of a Torah Jew when in fact they are the exact opposite of that. They are better role models for the Taliban than they are for Jews. Nebech.

Most people know that I am not a fan of the extreme religious left. I have strongly criticized some of their innovations and believe they have crossed some theological lines. When Agudah Moetzes leader, Rabbi Yaakov Perlow spoke out harshly against them at an Agudah convention a while back, I supported him and agreed with what he said. I took my lumps from a lot of my friends on the left. But I have yet to hear that kind of condemnation of the extreme right from the Charedi religious leaders. If there is any at all, it is usually accompanied with apologetics… and words like ‘Yes, they were wrong but you have to understand where they are coming from’.

I don’t understand how they can only see the extreme left in such harsh terms and yet never the extreme right.  They should be every bit as determined to expel the extreme right as they are the extreme left! Not only that but when it suits their purposed they cater to their every Chumra so that they will join together in a project. Like that internet gathering a few years ago. They wanted that type of Chasid to join them in order to be united of purpose. So they gave in to their every demand. Which ended up with an event that condemned Internet use well beyond what they intended. Something they had to fix with subsequent smaller meetings.

If the extreme left has gone off the reservation to the point of expulsion, so too has the extreme right. It is more than time to speak in the same harsh terms about them.

There may be little that anyone can do about changing the behavior of these extremists. But there is one thing we can do. And that is to excise them from Orthodoxy once and for all - and have nothing to do with them! Their behavior is as un-Jewish as the extreme left. It’s time to call a spade a spade and to stop looking at their externals as though that was the Ikkar (primary expression of Judaism). It is at best the Tafel (of secondary importance). Once that happens religious Jews can hopefully once again be seen as role models for the rest of the world instead of being seen like primitive savages.


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I’ve added Fiesta Ware page to the blog. I’ll be posting some photos and stories soon about our collection.

In the meantime, here is a good site that discusses Vintage Fiesta Ware history, pieces and prices: Happy Heidi.

Do any of you collect Fiesta Ware, or other dishes?

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I have been collecting some products that I have used up to share with you guys. I have done this blog before so I thought I would do it again for you. I also have some products that I haven’t used up but I am going to be throwing away and I thought I would share them with you as well. I hope you enjoy!

Collection Lasting Perfection Concealer:
I absolutely love this concealer. It has really good coverage, not drying under my eyes and really reasonably priced. I have repurchased this concealer so many times and i have already repurchased another.

Soap & Glory 2in1 Pencil & Brush:
Again, I absolutely love this product. I haven’t had to repurchase this product before as this is my first time using it all up. I have repurchased it already. When I was trying to find my shade ‘hot chocolate’ they never had it in stock so after a month without it I couldn’t not have it anymore so I bought the shade ‘dark chocolate’ instead. This shade is a really good match and isn’t much different to my previous shade.

Maybelline Master Precise Liquid Liner:
I don’t often wear liquid eyeliner much as I don’t think it suits me. But this eyeliner has finally dried up after having it for so long. I love how pointy the tip is and you can be very precise with it. I also didn’t find that it dry up quickly which I like. I do want to try a couple different eyeliners but in the future I will definitely repurchase this eyeliner.

Simple Micellar Cleansing Wipes:
I have repurchased simple wipes so many times and when I saw they had micellar cleansing wipes I was eager to try them out. I do really like them and I have repurchased them already. I find they remove my make up so quick and easy, I would 100% recommend these make up wipes.

Garnier Micellar Cleansing Water:
Again, I have repurchased this product many times. I find it removes my make up off like a dream. I have also found this is the only cleansing water that doesn’t irritate my eyes. Again I would 100% recommend this and I have already repurchased this product.

Keratin Classic Shampoo:
I bought this shampoo when I was in a rush so I just picked up any shampoo. I was drawn to this one as it says keratin on it. Normally I will wash my hair every other day and sometimes I can last an extra day if I’m too busy to wash my hair. But, when I use this shampoo I can tell that I need to wash my hair on the second day, and I can’t go three days without washing my hair. Therefore, I will not be repurchasing this shampoo.

Toni & Guy Cleanse Shampoo for Damaged Hair:
However, I do really like this shampoo. It washes my hair beautifully, and I can go an extra day without wash my hair and it doesn’t feel really horrible and greasy. I will definitely be repurchasing this shampoo.

Dove Intensive Repair Conditioner:
I love this product so much so it’s not a surprise I am going to repurchase this. I find it helps my ends not be so dry and helps to moisturise them. As well as helps to detangle my hair.

TRESemme Salon Touchable Feel Ultra Fine Hairspray:
I do like this hairspray. I didn’t find it was the best hairspray ever but it wasn’t the worst either, is was just okay. I do like the size of it as it is perfect for traveling. I may repurchase this product in the future.

TRESemme Instant Refresh Dry Shampoo:
I did really like this. I found it refreshed my hair really well and didn’t leave a white cast on my hair. I will definitely repurchase this, especially as I find it perfect for travelling as well.

Lush Rose Jam Bubbleroon Bubble Bar:
I love Lush products. I haven’t tried any of their bubbleroons before. I did really like it and I did really enjoy it. I did use this twice as it is a bubble bar and I will definitely repurchase this as I always do with Lush products.

Radox Sleep Easy Bubble Soak:
I bought this as I needed a bubble bath and this was just a cheap one so I picked it ups and got it. I do really like it, I do find it makes lots of bubbles which is good. I did find I used it up quite quickly even though I didn’t use that much each time. Although for the price I do think it’s worth it as it is cheap and I will repurchase it.

Treacle Moon The Honeycomb Secret Bath & Shower Gel:
I purely bought this bath and shower gel for the smell. It smells amazing! And I love it. Again I did really enjoy it and I found it gave me lots of bubbles. With this product I found it lasted a lot longer than the other one. Therefore, I will repurchase this product,

Dove Go Fresh Revive Body Wash in ‘Pomegranate & Lemon Verbena Scent’:
I received this in a hamper for Christmas from my family and I have finally got round to using it. I did really enjoy it and there was nothing wrong with it. But I don’t think I will repurchase it in the future and I didn’t really like it, it was just okay (if that makes any sense).

Evodia Coconut & Lime Hand Cream:
My family in Australia sent this over to me so I was very excited to try it out. I am in love with the smell of it! I do really like this hand cream and I would repurchase this if I was in Australia, but unfortunately I can’t.

Soap & Glory Kick Ass Concealer:
I do like this concealer but I find I don’t reach for it that much. I prefer a concealer to have a doe foot applicator as I find them quicker and easier to use day-to-day. Therefore, that is the reason I am going to be throwing the product away.

E.L.F. Baked Blush in ‘Passion Pink’:
I bought this when I had bought my baked highlight as well. I love my baked highlight in ‘moonlight pearl’ but, when I swatch this blush it swatches beautifully. When I apply it all my cheeks I can’t see it no matter how much I apply. It just doesn’t show up. Therefore, I am going to be getting rid of this product.

Essence Matte Lipstick in ’08 Matt’:
I do really like Essence as a brand but I find this lipstick is patchy when I apply it. It is a dark colour so that might be why. But, I will be throwing his product away.

Valquer Ice Hair Mask Total Repair:
I received this in my Glossybox. I have tried it out a couple of times and I must say I don’t like how it is an ice mask. I wasn’t too sure what it meant by ice mask but now I do and I don’t like it. When I have it on my hair it makes me feel cold, so I will wash it off and get out the shower and I’ll let my hair air dry. But it makes me feel really cold even when I have washed it off. And for that reason I am going to be throwing this product away.

Schwarzkopf Got2b Playful Styling Primer:
Again I received this product in my Glossybox, but quite a while a go and I never got round to using it until recently. I find it sticky on my hair even when I have dried my hair completely. It does say that it helps with grip & lasting control so that’s why I think I find it sticky on my hair. So, I will be getting rid of this product for that reason.

Noughty Intensive Care Leave-in Conditioner:
And finally I have received this product again in my Glossybox a couple of months ago (I think). I don’t like the concept of leaving my conditioner on my hair and not washing it off. I do find it weighs my hair down a little as I’m keeping the conditioner on my hair and I prefer to have some volume to my hair. Therefore, I am throwing this product away.

And that is all the products I have used up recently. Also check out my Youtube Channel hannahxoxoblog. I hope you enjoyed reading and I hope to see you soon! Bye!

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Monthly Archives: January 2013

Roasted Broccoli

Maybe you didn’t like broccoli as a child. Perhaps you harbor a secret aversion to the cruciferous green vegetable, but don’t want to admit to it because you’re a “grown up” now and your supposed to eat your vegetables without … Continue reading

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Christmas Morning Muffins

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Musical Inspiration

Inspire yourself with this poster of a young woman playing a ukulele on the Hanelei Pier on the island of Kauai in Hawai’i.
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Know someone musical in your life? A drummer perhaps? This would make a great birthday card!

Enrico Caruso (February 25, 1873 – August 2, 1921) was an Italian tenor, singing to great acclaim at the major opera houses of Europe and North and South America, appearing in a wide variety of roles from the Italian and French repertoires that ranged from the lyric to the dramatic. Caruso also made about 290 commercially released recordings from 1902 to 1920. On February 1, 1904, Caruso began recording exclusively for the Victor Talking Machine Company in the United States. This magnet displays the label from one of Caruso’s Victor Talking Machine Co. recordings.

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The Sibelius Monument in Helsinki, Finland, is a popular stop for tourists, who clamber over the rocky foundation. The monument is dedicated to the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius (1865–1957) and is located at the Sibelius Park in the district of Töölö.The monument consists of series of more than 600 hollow steel pipes welded together in a wave-like pattern.

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Volume 10 Supplement 2

Familial Aspects of Cancer 2011 Research and Practice

Open Access

Peer live supervision in the familial cancer setting

  • M Kentwell1,
  • A Sexton1,
  • L Hodgkin1,
  • Y Bylstra1,
  • M Bogwitz1,
  • K Mann1,
  • J Taylor1,
  • M Sahhar2,
  • F Pearce2,
  • I Winship1 and
  • GJ Lindeman1
Hereditary Cancer in Clinical Practice201210(Suppl 2):A16

Published: 12 April 2012

At the Royal Melbourne Hospital, the Genetic Counsellors identified the desire to learn from each other, and engage in new forms of learning. Subsequently, a pilot project focusing on reflection, accountability, and experiential learning was developed. Live supervision with peers was identified as the model which fitted the learning objectives of the team.

The aims of the project were to:

1. Develop a live peer supervision model relevant to Genetic Counselling practice applicable to both Board Eligible and Certified Genetic Counsellors working in Familial Cancer.

2. Develop guided post observation questions based on reflective practice.

3. Identify key learning points from the live peer supervision sessions.

Seven Associate Genetic Counsellors/Genetic Counsellors participated in the project. The first phase involved collaborative brainstorming sessions to define the purpose of the project, gain knowledge and skills relevant to supervision, set the supervision contract, and develop post-observation questions.

After each live supervision session, the discussions of the observer and observee were audio recorded. The second phase of the project involved analysing the recorded discussions and identifying key areas of learning, relevant to clinical practice. The observer and observee's self-reported areas of learning were also identified. This presentation will describe the process and outcomes from these two phases of the project.

This pilot project provided the Genetic Counsellors with an opportunity to enhance clinical and supervision skills, harness the skills brought by each Genetic Counsellor, learn from one another's qualities, increase awareness of one's own style in clinical practice, and engage in the reflective process with immediacy.

There were a number of learning areas unique to this model of supervision, including access to experiential and visual learning.

Live-peer supervision may be a useful model to consider for both Associate and Certified Genetic Counsellors to engage in their continuing development and growth in clinical and supervision skills, ultimately improving patient care.

Authors’ Affiliations

Genetic Medicine and Familial Cancer, Royal Melbourne Hospital
Victorian Clinical Genetics Services, Genetic Health

© Kentwell et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2012

This article is published under license to BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.


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I’m not perfect.

And I’m not afraid to admit that I’m not perfect. Who would want to be. I am human and last night I went out and had a few cocktails and shots…needless to say I am feeling utterly terrible today – I decided against my better judgement to have junk food to soak up the alcohol in my system but to be honest with you the only thing that is making any difference to how I am feeling is good old fashioned water…

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and a lot of it! I guess that’s my body’s way if telling me what works and what doesn’t hey?!

Do post comments if you know what foods work best to help with a hangover so next time I lean for the take-out menu I can check in and find an alternative. Of course there’s always not drinking at all but I doubt that will happen immediately.

Any advice gratefully received!

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Crazy Busy

Today was so crazy busy!!  The morning started like every other morning…it all broke loose when I got to work.  I ended up being at work on Saturday for all of the day and still could have stayed another few hours with the hopes of getting somewhat caught up.  So, needless to say, when I got to work I had a TON of work to get done.

I spent my day balancing my time between training one of our  new interns and finishing up a project for a partner.  I felt like I was going in a thousand different directions all day.  Time flew by so quickly!!  I barely had enough time to eat my snacks and lunch…let alone take pictures of them.  I left work with a tremendous headache  Sad smile.  All I wanted to do was curl up on my bed and take a nap.

When I picked up the girls, their excitement to see me was just what I needed!  I didn’t really have much of an appetite for dinner so I ate just an English muffin with almond butter and jelly.    I’m looking forward to relaxing the rest of the evening and turning into bed pretty early.

Tomorrow is a new day!  I will still have plenty of work to do but I’m hoping the pace of the day will be a little slower!

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  1. Hope today goes more smoothly for you and isn’t quite so hectic.

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Screw Your Courage to the Sticking Place

The Pagan community is fond of debating the ethics of spell-casting.

One thread that runs throughout most flavors of Paganism/earth-based religion is the idea of karma. To quote from my own tradition:

  • “Do as thou will, an it harm none.”
  • “What you send out returns to you three times.”
  • “Be careful what you wish for – you might get it.”

The particular expression of those thoughts might vary in your tradition, but we all tend to ascribe to the idea that what goes around, comes around.

Because of that, many Pagans are unwilling to hex. The thinking is that any “bad” juju you work against anyone else is just going to rebound on you, so better to avoid the whole messy thing, and concentrate on white light or only the positive or ceremonial magic or the high holy days or whatever.

There’s another school of thought, though, that goes something like this: “A witch who can’t hex, can’t heal.”

The world isn’t all sweetness and light. Shadows exist, and we need to be willing and able to work with them. Evil exists, and we need to be willing and able to fight it. Darkness and light can’t exist without each other. Every positive has a negative, and vice versa.

“But I don’t want to get my hands dirty! I don’t want to risk something bad happening to me! Can’t I just light some candles and celebrate Imbolc and Brigid and creativity with my circle in peace?”

Um, no.

Look, I get it. Hexing is hard, dangerous work. You need to think carefully about what you’re doing, and plan, and be ready to accept consequences, because there will likely be some. It’s not for everyone.

But if you don’t think the other side is doing this work, you’re deluded. They might call it “prayer,” but they’re still doing energy work to try to influence outcomes, and it ain’t all sweetness, light, and love, y’all. They are working actively against us, and while they’ve convinced themselves that God’s on their side, that doesn’t mean She is. Look at the poisoned fruits of their efforts: Keystone XL. DAPL. Reinstating global gag orders on abortion information. Gag orders on scientific agencies, and requiring political review of scientific information. Actual Nazis in the White House. Threatening a major US city with martial law. Disenfranchisement of voters of color in 2016, and lies about voter fraud since the election setting the stage for more. The goddamn stupid border wall with Mexico. Targeting immigrants and sanctuary cities. Starting the process to strip health insurance from MILLIONS of Americans. Jeff Sessions. Betsy DeVos. Rex Tillerson. Andrew Puzder. Tom Price. Steve Mnuchin. Scott Pruitt. Rick Perry. Carl Icahn. DONALD FUCKING TRUMP. (Oh, and Bernie-or-Busters: they’re coming for your pot, so have fun with that.)

So as I said, hexing requires wisdom, and skill, and care, and experience, and most of all, courage. Not everyone has that. But more Pagans need to dig deep and find this within ourselves, now more than ever. Resistance isn’t just about letters to Congress and marching and tweeting and donating and blogging and knocking on doors. We’re being clobbered on the etheric plane, and it’s time we fight back. Will you join me?

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15 responses to “Screw Your Courage to the Sticking Place

  1. Thank you for a statement of necessity!

  2. If anyone doubts your description of what’s going on, here is an explanation that will give you chills. Will we ever be as organized as this? This is so effing hateful!

  3. We’re being clobbered on the etheric plane, and it’s time we fight back. Will you join me?

    Yes! I am with you in this very necessary battle…

  4. Appears that February 10th is the Lunar Eclipse. Full Moon in Leo.
    Of course — there is the upcoming full solar eclipse on August 21. 2017. Even NASA is preparing for that one — it is called the Great American Eclipse. Might be a opportunity for a Grand Gathering of Magic.

  5. Yes this needed to be said.

  6. I’m not sure I know how.

    • Check out hoodoo. Leylands book on the Gypsies. Also the various Grimoires. The Greek Magical Papyri. Folk lore can provide plenty of info. Even the Bible has a lovely array of curses and hexes.

    • Bind what they’re doing. Work for their lies to be uncovered. Work for their glamours to fail. Work for their magic to fail. Sow the seeds of distrust and betrayal among their ranks. Call on your gods to return to them everything they’re trying to perpetuate on us. If you’re willing, wish physical harm on them.

  7. Absolutely yes. Making a commitment to dark moon workings.

  8. Buying a copy of “Utterly Wicked” by Dorothy Morrison!
    Looks to be just the ticket!

  9. Already on it, in my own way, but many thanks and blessings for having the courage to bring this up. By the way, you left Bannon (who is self-admittedly evil incarnate) out of your list – I believe that he is the most dangerous entity of the bunch and should be eliminated.

  10. You have my sword. Always. #willfulbane

  11. I like the way you think.
    I’m in!

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Trail Ridge Peak 3 Black and White Fine Art Photography Print

Trail Ridge Peak 3 Black and White Fine Art Photography Print

The view looking out on Trail Ridge Rd. This was taken in Summer 2017.

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WIP Wednesday: Leftovers Hat

I actually thought that I’d be posting about another project that I’m working on right now, but those mittens reached a point on Tuesday where they were finished with one step and ready for blocking. They were still wet on Wednesday, so I couldn’t do any other work on them. Instead, I wound up working on a hat with the goal of using up some leftover yarn. I don’t like having leftover yarn, but I do like making hats. ★

I decided to crochet instead of knitting, so I picked a hat pattern accordingly. I searched in Ravelry, and the image of this hat caught my eye (and met my criteria for yardage, etc.), and when I saw it was a pattern from moogly that seemed an even better reason to pick it! ♥ (Lately I’ve really been enjoying some of the patterns and tutorials from moogly.) I actually started it on Tuesday, but I didn’t get any farther than the increases for the crown–I was left with a big potholder-looking item at the end of the evening.

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WIP Wednesday: Beekeeper’s Quilt Hexipuffs

Having finished my most recent pair of socks, that meant it was time to put in a bit more effort on my long-term project, the Beekeeper’s Quilt~! I loved this pattern from the moment I saw the pictures for it–and I know I am not alone. It has a pretty devoted following and seems to enchant additional knitters every day!

There are a lot of different ways to make this quilt. Some people stuff their hexipuffs. Some use fiberfill, others wool, and others yarn scraps… Some people leave them flat. Some make them single-sided. Some decorate them with embroidery or intarsia or stranded colourwork. Some buy mini-skeins dedicated for hexipuffs. Others use only scrap yarn. Some people trade mini-skeins to increase variety. Some follow the puff directions as written; others modify cast on, cast off, increases, or decreases. Some use sock yarn. Others use heavier- or lighter-weight yarn. There is no one “right” way to make this blanket.

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Dancing Stockings

Finished StockingsI’ve finished my socks~! ♥ I’m really satisfied with this project. The colour of this yarn is exactly what I like. The pinkish-brown really appeals to me. Overall the yarn dying style is somewhat subdued, but still has a visible level of variation.

I enjoyed knitting these socks–I didn’t feel like they were taking forever. The lace pattern was easy for me to memorize. It was also easy to count and measure repeats; I prefer that when possible, because it makes it easier for me to have both socks be the same length in legs and feet without using a row counter. If I wind up measuring with a tape measure, sometimes I’m off by a smidgen and it bothers me later.

Finished StockingsI’m not sure when I’m going to get a chance to wear these, but I am looking forward to it! I plan to buy some ribbon and tea-dye it to thread through the eyelets below the peaks of the lace edge. (I’m generally in favour of adding ribbons to things…) I think that will be an excellent finishing touch~ ♥

I’m always trying to have some variety in the projects I work on, but I’m tempted to knit this sock pattern again. 🌟

WIP Wednesday: Dancing Socks

Afternoon KnittingI really love knitting socks. They’re one of the first things I reach for when I’m looking for “relaxing” knitting. These socks are no exception. I’m recommitted to knitting through my stash. It increased a bit earlier in the year because I was lucky enough to be treated by my mother at a yarn store~ ♥ Definitely no regrets there, but I don’t want to make a habit of acquiring more yarn at this point in my life.

I love the Jane Austen Knits magazines, but I haven’t made as many projects from them as I’d like. To help fix that, I picked this sock pattern from the 2013 edition: Jane’s Dancing Stockings by Anne Podlesak.

What better yarn to use than the Dream in Color Smooshy sock yarn I had leftover from my Afternoon Cream Tea shawl~!

Dancing Socks

So far I’ve been enjoying this pattern. It’s a really lovely bit of lace, but not so open that I feel like they wouldn’t be warm enough as actual socks. The little bit of lace trim at the top of the socks is one of my favourite parts. I think I’m going to tea-dye some narrow ribbon to thread through the eyelets, per the pattern suggestion. They’ll look so dainty! Maybe I’ll wear them while I wear my shawl, and be matching~

WIP Wednesday - Cream Socks

I’m one sock down so far, and my goal for the evening is to finish the heel flap on sock #2.

I hope everyone is enjoying a bit of knitting or crochet for WIP Wednesday~! ♥

6KCBWDAY7 – Your Time, Your Place

Where and how do you take time out to knit and/or crochet? Maybe you don’t take time out at all and instead have your needles twirling as you try to juggle a multitude of other tasks with no ‘spare’ time to think of. Maybe you enjoy nothing more than to crochet whilst winding down from a yoga session, chatting with some friends in a nearby cafe.

Whether social or solitary, tell readers about your crafting time and space, and where you either most enjoy (or can simply find a few snatched moments) to turn yarn into something even more beautiful.

My knitting travels with me. I like taking opportunities to knit where I’d otherwise be staring at my phone or staring off into space. I often have a project ready to go whether it’s a short bus ride or a long weekend away from home. I get home from work in the early evening during the week day, and generally there’s a bit of time available to put in a few rounds or rows. I don’t find time to knit every day, nor do I schedule time for knitting. I just keep an eye out for opportunities and use them as they appear. ♥

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6KCBWDAY6 – Polls Apart

Think of a knitting or crochet related question (it can be literally anything from favourite yarn weight or colour to which month readers believe they complete most projects) and host a simple survey. Hopefully once Knitting And Crochet Blog Week is over this year you’ll have that information as inspiration for yet another blog post when you are ready to write about your findings.

This question came up recently in a few groups that I’m a part of, and I’m curious to see what others might think! I heard a lot of different opinions about what defines a “level”, whether those should be standardized across patterns, how such a thing would be standardized, and other considerations. There’s a lot to think about when it comes to how to measure knitting and crochet proficiency!

6KCBWDAY5 – Something A Bit Different

It’s the annual challenge to blog in a way different to how you normally blog. You may choose to create a podcast, or vlog, create a wordless post, a beautiful infographic or write in verse. You can post on any topic you like, but be sure to post in a style different from your usual blog presentation. There’s not too much guidance for this one simply because the more varied the posts are on this day, the wider the sources of information for other bloggers will be.

Knitting and Crochet Awesome Tutorials

  1. 10 Different Ways to Join Granny Squares (Crochet) (List)
    When I was working on my granny square blanket, this list really came in handy! I still go back and refer to it when I have blanket pieces to join.
  2. 10 Different Ways to Work In Ends As You Go (Knitting) (List)
    I don’t really have a “go to” when it comes to joining a new ball. I’ve used a lot of options from this list.
  3. Chinese Waitress Cast On (Knitting) (Video)
    This cast on produces a really interesting edge. I appreciate that it’s short-tail.
  4. Foundation Single Crochet (Crochet) (Pictures)
    I generally prefer foundation crochet stitches instead of starting with a chain. I usually need a refresher, though, and this is often where I turn.
  5. Kitchener Stitch (Knitting) (Pictures)
    I basically have kitchener stitch memorized at this point…but this was the tutorial I learned from, and it’s the one I turn to when I want to make sure I still have it right.
  6. Latvian Braid (Knitting) (Pictures)
    This was the tutorial I followed to use this technique on the pair of mittens I still have in progress.
  7. Raised and Relief Post Stitches (Crochet) (Video)
    The crochet tutorials on Moogly are great. She often has pictorials and videos for the same techniques.
  8. Silver’s Sock Classes (Knitting) (Pictures)
    This was how I learned to knit socks. I think she does a great job making each step very clear.

(It took me a while to think about how I’d interpret this prompt! I didn’t feel immediately inspired.)

6KCBWDAY4 – Bags Of Fun

Time to delve into that most treasured collection of tools, notions and oddments as you are asked to spill the contents of your knitting or crochet bag, caddy or other method of organisation and put your crafting unmentionables on display.

WIP Wednesday - Knitting CaseMy knitting tends to go with me. I like knitting at home, but it’s not the only place I knit. I keep all of my tools and accessories organized in a way that makes traveling with them easier–I never get to my destination, sit down, and find out I’m missing something I needed. I also don’t have to have doubles or triples of different tools, because they’re centralized together. As an added bonus, I rarely lose or misplace what I need!

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6KCBWDAY3 – Experimental Photography And Image Handling

It is easy enough to fall into a routine of photographing your finished projects as is – clearly displayed, maybe from a few varying angles, and for a large part of the time these are what blog readers will expect to see, but every now and again it is good to throw in a picture that causes people to linger.

Refresh your skills at creating attention-grabbing pictures.

I’m not sure exactly how “attention-grabbing” these pictures really are, but I definitely had a lot of fun with them! I was thinking about this prompt last night and setting up my camera and such. On the topics page for this blog week there were a number of suggestions; I thought about following one or two of those, but ultimately decided I’d have more fun if I tried to think outside the shared ideas.

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6KCBWDAY2 – It’s All About You

This post can be about your reality, your aspirations, past, present or future. Enjoy talking about you. If you really don’t want to write about yourself, though, use your creative license and invent yourself an alternative persona, whether you are a spy, deep-sea diver or astronaut (who just happens to love yarn).

Photo May 11, 7 12 10 PM (1) For about 6 months I’ve been taking adult beginning ballet classes. As a result, a lot of my time and interest is focused on learning dance. I now read blogs like Adult Beginner (of course), Advance, and never halt, Kingdom of Style, Setting the Barre, and Tutus and Tea. (I keep trying to get into If the Pointe Shoe Fits, but she posts mostly videos and I almost never turn the sound on for my computer–so I’m always going, “Oh, I’ll watch that video later,” but I never do…) I love reading the Ballet Talk for Dancers forums, although I’m a bit too intimidated to post much.

I took ballet classes as a toddler, but I quit when I was in middle school, probably about age 11. I am pretty sure that I was no longer taking ballet by the time I started cheerleading. (Something I did only in middle school.) I don’t honestly remember all that much about ballet. I liked it, but only ambivalently. (If I were more serious about it, I wouldn’t have wanted to quit.) I took classes–probably once a week–at our local park district, and some of my hazy memories involve class levels being combined due to low attendance–and wondering if I’d only ever be in class with “babies.” I asked to stop taking class and my parents agreed.

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Cultural genocide in Tibet

Cultural genocide in Tibet

The Tibetan nation is battling to survive in the twenty first century since the Chinese government invasion of Tibet; its culture has been systematically destroyed.  The Chinese government has exercised numerous restrictive policies on the Tibetan traditional culture, religion and language.  Many young Tibetans have lost their identity and language. The Tibetan people are struggling to find their identity because they have lost their language and culture. Tibetans have great concern about losing their traditions because the Chinese government has been deliberately destroying indigenous Tibetan language, culture, religion and environments.

This ancient nation has a well-developed culture, language and religion, which are actually facing destruction due to the 1959 Chinese occupation of Tibet.  It is fifty-one years since the Chinese government carried out a variety of policies to eliminate the Tibetan identity.  The Chinese government implemented restrictive policies on practicing Tibetan culture and religion, (Sautman 182).  Tibetan students have to study the Chinese language in order to develop their career or get an education.  Students are under tremendous pressure to learn the Chinese language and to speak Chinese the same as Chinese people.  According to Gerard (6) many young Tibetan people who went to study in China were unable to speak Tibetan when they returned  to Tibet because there is a tremendous pressure to speak only Chinese in the universities or colleges. The Tibetan language is not a useful language in terms of developing a career or working for the Chinese government.  The government offices only allow the use of the official Chinese language, which is Mandarin.  Every government office, including local government has an obligation to use only Mandarin.  Therefore, in the government sector there is no opportunity for employment of people who are educated in the Tibetan language.

In the private sector, there is no employment opportunity for people who are educated in the Tibetan language because the government does not recognise the Tibetan language.  Therefore in the private sector, there is a bullying attitude towards people who are educated in the Tibetan language and bullying attitude who could not speak mandarin. The bullying attitude toward Tibetans is the cause that Tibetan people have less opportunity than Chinese. It is discrimination against cultural differences and equal opportunity,  it is also against United Nation (UN) indigenous people’s rights.

The Tibetan people are indigenous people in the Himalayan region.  They have a evolutionary history of the human development in the Himalayan region for four thousands years.  They are like any other indigenous people and lives in a peaceful harmonies society in the Himalayan region. The Tibetan people practised their tradition and religion until 1959. They have remained isolated from the rest of the world and they have not much contact with other countries (Thomas Laird 10). Tibetan people were in a truly a vulnerable position when the Chinese occupied Tibet in 1959.

However, Buddhism is the main religion of the Tibetan people. The Tibetan people value Buddhism beyond anything else’s.  The Tibetan culture is based on the Buddhist values therefore Buddhism and the Tibetan culture are inseparable.  However the Chinese government has established a restricted policy to practice of Buddhism and any other religion.  Therefore restriction on the practice of Buddhism is a restriction on the Tibetan culture. The Dalai Lama has stated that the current Chinese government “intentionally or unintentionally are carrying out cultural genocide in Tibet”.   According to Gerard (4) the Chinese government developed a school project, which is called Neidi schooling. Basically the Neidi schools projects involved taking Tibetan children away from their parents and sending them to Chinese schools.  In the Neidi school, children learn only Mandarin.  The government has no plans to build Tibetan schools in Tibet.  This is similar to what happened to the indigenous stolen generation in Australia in the 1970s’s.  Cultural genocide is taking place in Tibet according to Sautman (182); the Chinese government’s restrictive policies on Tibetan culture, religion and language are against the UN convention of cultural genocide.  Therefore, the current Chinese government is committing the crime of cultural genocide.

In Tibetan Cultural the Dalai Lama is a special significance for Tibetan people because he is the special leader for Tibetan people. Since 13th century the Dalai Lama has been the spiritual leader and political leader of the Tibet.  The Tibetan people respect him and they trust him.  The current Dalai Lama is the 14th Dalai Lama. The Tibetan people follow Buddhism, which believes that when a person dies, he or she is reborn in a new life. The Tibetans believe that the Dalai Lama a reborn as Dalai Lama for fourteen times. Therefore the current 14th Dalai Lama has special connection with the Tibetan people. The Chinese government is restricting Tibetans from following  the Dalai Lama even though the Tibetan people are following the Dalai Lama because spiritual reasons. The Chinese government is ordering Tibetans how to practice their religion based on the Chinese Communist theory. Therefore it is against freedom of religion.

The Tibetan people are worried about losing the Tibetan language.  The younger generation have obligations to learn Chinese and likely to find a career in the Chinese rather than Tibetan. The culture is the identity of Tibetan people and they are a proud people.  The Tibetan culture has developed based on Buddhist value and faith.  Culture, religion and language are the foundation of Tibetan identity without it, and the Tibetan people are lost.  The Tibetan people are greatly concerned about losing their cultural identity. The Chinese government is deliberately carrying out cultural genocide in Tibet.

Works cited

Barry Sautman. “Cultural Genocide” and Tibet”.  Texas International Law Journal 38.2 (2003): 173. Web.

Dalai lama. “News”. Tibetans Are Not Anti-Chinese, His Holiness Tells Chinese Reporters. Web. 15 August 2010.

Gerard A Postiglione, and Ben Jiao. “Tibet’s Relocated Schooling: Popularization Reconsidered.” Asian Survey 49.5 (2009): 895. Web

The Universal Declaration of human Rights .” UN. United Nation, 10/12/1948. Web. 19 Sep 2010. <>.

Thomas Laird, . The Story of Tibet. London: Atlantic books, 2006. 10. Print.

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All the above required pakages can be installed more easy within Kubuntu 6.10, even without installing a new java re. I used the previous installed sun java 6 jdk (Freemind 0.8 gives a error message at start, that it might not run correctly, but it does afterwards), but you can use any jdk.

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We all like to hold on to our beliefs and our familiair training aids. I know I do, even when I already know I never will use it. Here are some ways to drop your crop.

Holding on to your riding crop (carrot stick, training stick or lunge whip) gives us a feeling of safety and empowerment. We need our crop, just in case…

But what if you don’t have a crop anymore. What would happen? Would you die? Yes, it can feel that way, but you (probably) won’t.  I survived and I am riding without a crop for almost 20 years now.

If you need it to punish your horse, I think there are some issues to solve first before you jump back into the saddle. Then you don’t need it anymore.

I think the safety issue of carrying a crop lives between our ears.

Ask yourself ‘Why’

Why are you using a crop? I know the answer most riders will give: ‘It is an extension of my arm/leg’. Hmm, you say only really, really , really long armed people can ride  and train horses? I don’t believe that.

If your horse needs a long-armed, long-legged person to do as you say, there is something that can be changed in your communication. Teach your horse other cues and solve it. I think this is a lame excuse for all the riders who think it is really convenient to use their whip (which hurts! There is no such thing as a ‘light tap’, without hurting your horse) to get their instant result. Study proves that horses have even thinner skins than humans.

The only people who might be ‘needing’ a crop in this way are the para-Olympic riders without arms or legs who have to ride other peoples horses, horses that are traditionally trained with leg aids. You can’t expect them to retrain a horse in a day in an unfamiliar environment and win.

How I dropped the crop – cold turkey

I know exactly when and where I dropped my crop. It was in the summer of ’87. It broke, while I was using it. Oops.

There are many, many excuses I can come up with why this happened: my crop was  about a decade old and therefore the plastic must have been poreus. I always used it on my bike (my ‘iron horse’ in Dutch) and it often came between the spokes of my wheel while biking so it was probably already broken inside. And it was-of course- my pony’s fault. If he hadn’t been lying down in that deep puddle to roll with me and his saddle on his back I wouldn’t have to use my crop. I like to tell myself I was hitting the saddle whe_HippoLogic_thinkingOutOfTheBox_clickertrainingn it broke. Anyway. It broke into two pieces and became useless instantly. I had no money for a new one, I was also really ashamed to tell anyone about it. So that was the end of my crop and the day I stopped using one altogether.

From that day forward I had no crop, so I had to solve my ‘problems’ with him in another way. Since I couldn’t force or threaten him anymore I tried the friendly way. Just asking. A miracle happened: he just would do it!

Sometimes I had to rephrase my question, but he never refused ‘on purpose’ or ‘to get back at me’. No. I discovered he was very willing but sometimes needed a few seconds before he would do it. I discovered he was sometimes afraid or there was another (good) reason for him.

Sholto, my pony who taught me about a relationship without a crop

The day I lost my crop was the best day: from that day on I took a leap and flipped my approach 180 degrees. I started really to listen to my horse. It wasn’t always easy and often I still got really frustrated. I also discovered that I had been using the crop on many occasions just to relief myself from some of my frustration. I only released this when I had no crop anymore.

When I found positive reinforcement I knew this was the next step in my journey. It still didn’t tell me what do do and how to solve ‘problems’ (when you say ‘Yes’ and your horse says ‘No’) but it was a start for me. Now, almost 20 years later I wrote my own step-by-step program in positive reinforcement horse training: my Key Lessons (the ‘keys to success’ in clicker training).

I dear you to throw away your crop (or whip or training stick or carrot stick or lunge whip) and see how good your communication skills with your horse really are when the threat of the crop is taken out of the equation.

Sandra Poppema, B.Sc.
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Plutonic Capricorn crisis..

I’m sitting down having breakfast on my own.

I just realised that the clock has changed in England and instead of 6:50 is actually 5:51 in the morning.

Having some issues at work and, with that, also having shadowy parts of my psyche popping up regularly.

Being an authority isn’t easy and yesterday, when I went to bed at 8pm feeling down, I was thinking about the reasons why I’ve never wanted to do that (be an authority figure in almost 7 years of experience in this industry).

I am a very good worker and pretty good at taking orders from superiors too (even though I have to respect the person in charge first). And I used to enjoy just being that, the excellent part time worker that comes 3 times a week.

In that way, without committing too much, I’ve managed to keep myself free from the inner critic and almost obsessive perfectionism, at least in these kind of odd jobs (the ones that aren’t really my true passion).

But is really hard to do that now.

I just cannot keep myself detached and make a commitment at the same time.

If I decide to do something, I’m doing it wholeheartedly. I put all of me in it. I am a Scorpio rising after all..

Yesterday when I was in bed really early, resting my exhausted legs and feet, it took me at least 3 good hours and a half to stop thinking about work. I was worried about the inconsistent way that we’ve been serving our coffee (we don’t have a barista), then I was worried that I’m getting my period soon and don’t want to be at work because of the pain (I refuse to take pain killers since my Saturn return and my journey of healing and reconnecting with my womb) but we are a tiny team for financial reasons and at the moment is hard to get someone to cover you..

Then I was worrying that I don’t want to commit myself that much, reasoning that I haven’t opened a cafe myself and that my real passion is astrology.

I want to focus my energy in reading and writing, these are one of my best skills and that’s what I most love doing.

And finally I had to calm myself down and remember that I just need to give him a hand for a little (I’m giving 3 months minimum) and save up some cash working full time, and then I will be free again.

I also can’t forget that Pluto is making the final exact square to my Moon for the whole month of November still.

Home life is pretty good, I’m enjoying it enormously. But what seems to be brought up now is the financial and lifelong (so it seems) crisis in my value system.

I’ve had moments in tears last night thinking about the business mentality of efficiency above human well being and how my ego is easily falling into that trap, for I am the manager now, even though I really don’t believe and don’t want to be a part of that system anymore.

And so I just kept quietly repeating to myself “only 3 months, only 3 months, only 3 months”.. until unconsciousness came to rescue me.


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Coming into this reading, I already had a particular interest in Mars.  I have always nursed a childhood dream that Mars could one day be colonized, and so I am always excited to familiarize myself with information about Mars.  This week’s reading helps to make clear the pros and cons of attempting colonization.  Certainly, Mars has locked away within its crust enough water and other natural resources to sustain human activity, but the problem is really with the atmosphere.

It was mentioned that atmospheric pressure on Mars is too low to allow water to exist as a liquid on the surface.  In addition, the thin atmosphere cannot prevent excess radiation on the planet’s surface, and the plane itself cannot hold onto a significant atmosphere.  The lack of magnetosphere due to the planet’s dead core also leaves the planet vulnerable to rogue waves of solar wind.

However, I am still left with the small hope that an atmosphere might be artificially maintained by controlled pollution either by direct processing of the planet’s minerals or by introduction of greenhouse facilities which might grow plant life in order to release organic gasses.  Although this does not solve the problem of a magnetosphere, it would increase atmospheric pressure and raise the planet’s temperature.

Exploration and colonization are intrinsically human endeavors.  I think it likely that Mars will at one time be the next point of interest in this arena.  But the planet has always embodied many issues and mysteries.  With this in mind, I find Holst’s music highly appropriate for the planet.


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KomondorThe history of the Komondor has been enshrouded in myth and legend for countless years. One popular story goes that the breed descended from a litter of wolves raised to guard sheep by Serbian shepherds sometime in the 10th century. Another tale is that the invading Magyars brought Russian Ovtcharka dogs to guard livestock on their conquest, and these became the ancestors of the modern Komondor.

Recently, however, archaeological evidence has put some of these tales to rest. Remains of dogs distinctly Komondor-like have been found in gravesites belonging to the ancient Cuman people. The Cumans have a foggy origin themselves, but are known to have spoken Turkish, to have begun raiding Hungary in the 11th century, and to have ended up settling Hungary in large numbers in the 13th century as refugees from the Mongol invasions further east. The Cumans and the Magyars did not mingle much in Hungary, so it is highly improbable that their dogs are related.

While these facts do not tell us the precise origin of the Komondor, whose name may mean “dog of the Cumans,” they do tell us that the breed is an ancient one, doubtless kept pure for at least a thousand years. For centuries, the Komondor was a formidable guardian of livestock. While it did defend cattle, it was in its element protecting sheep, as its long cords helped it to blend in with the flock, besides shielding it from the fierce cold of the Hungarian climate and the equally fierce teeth of its adversaries.

The Komondor became a popular show dog thanks to its unique appearance starting in the 1920s. This spread the breed across the world, and it arrived in the United States sometime in the 1930s. When the AKC recognized the Komondor in 1937, it adopted the Hungarian breed standard intact, albeit translated into English. This ensured that the Komondor would change little, even on our shores.

Shortly afterward, World War II broke out in Europe. This war decimated dog populations everywhere due to famine and bombshells. In Hungary, the Komondor was at particular risk, because the suspicious guard dogs proactively resisted the arrival of Nazi soldiers on their farms and were usually shot for their efforts.

By the end of the war, breeders estimated that there were only a few dozen Komondorok (plural of Komondor) left in Europe. Meanwhile, American breeders had been unable to import any dogs from Hungary during the conflict, allowing the breed to die out in the United States. Hungarians carefully revived the breed, and in 1962 the AKC and the Hungarian Kennel Club managed to arrange for more importations of the livestock guardian for the benefit of Americans.

Still, the Komondor has never been very popular in America, mostly because its corded coat requires an inordinate amount of attention. It is represented in small numbers both on the ranch and in the show ring. Most working Komondorok live in the West, where spacious ranges require their assistance.

The Komondor currently ranks 177 in AKC registration statistics.

The Komondor is first and foremost a guard dog. The instinct to protect is so deeply ingrained in this breed that there is no division between show and working types. Almost any Komondor from almost any bloodline can serve as a personal, property, or livestock guardian as long as he has been properly bonded and shown his boundaries from a young age.

A few Komondorok have been successfully trained for police work, but this use is not common. The Komondor usually serves as a companion, show dog, livestock guardian, or some combination of the three.

The Komondor is always read to spring to the defense of those he loves at a moment’s notice, so great care must be taken to introduce him to a variety of people at a young age. This early experience develops his ability to read humans correctly. If he is unaccustomed to the sight of friendly visitors, he may respond to every new arrival, whether that is the mailman or Grandma, with dangerous aggression. Fortunately, with a little experience, the Komondor can learn to accept strangers that meet with his owner’s approval, provided that he is formally introduced.

Likewise, be extremely cautious with visiting children. While the Komondor is very gentle with his own children, he may perceive rough play from the guests as being an attack on his charges. The Komondor will also protect the family pets and livestock diligently, but views other animals as enemies. He has little to no tolerance of other dogs, even those belonging to the family.

Note that the Komondor has a naturally dominant personality and is not easy to train. A firm, powerful owner is a must. However, the Komondor should always be treated fairly and kindly, as harsh discipline will only teach him to regard you as an enemy. He needs to learn respect and proper manners, but do not expect great things from him in the obedience and trick-training line. The Komondor ignores commands that he views as pointless.

Sturdy physical fencing is necessary to contain a Komondor, and it must be high enough that he cannot jump over it. While this breed does not suffer from wanderlust, expanding the territory comes with the job as far as he is concerned. A visible barrier helps him to accept the boundaries that the owner has set, and also forestalls accidents by preventing intruders from unwittingly entering the dog’s territory. An underground fence is no deterrent to a Komondor with a mission.

Future working puppies should be supervised around livestock for the first year or two, as they are quite playful and can easily pick up bad habits. During this time, they may be raised indoors. While it will make the bonding process slower, it will also reduce the risk of aggression toward people. After about three years of age, the Komondor will have matured enough to be a trustworthy guardian, provided that he is familiar with the boundaries. He will insist on working independently, resting during the day and patrolling during the night. While males are more physically impressive guardians, the females are usually the dominant dogs and make more determined guardians.

The Komondor is a healthy dog with few genetic defects. However, he has several unique characteristics that must be taken into consideration.

A thick, corded coat is not without drawbacks. It can easily trap debris, parasites, and moisture close to the skin, creating the potential for hot spots and coat loss. Here are a few tips:

  • Do not be concerned if your puppy starts out with a short, soft, curly coat. It takes about two years for cords to form, and about five years for the cords to reach full length.
  • Ask your dog’s breeder to show you how to properly care for the cords, as the process is rather elaborate.
  • After bathing your dog, use a fan to speed up the drying time. It can take over two days for the cords to completely dry on their own, and this can cause the coat to mold.
  • Note that Komondorok have hairy ears that require regular cleaning to prevent infection.
  • Trim the hair between the paw pads periodically, as this hair can easily collect debris.
  • Treat your dog for ticks and fleas regularly to prevent scratching. However, choose your shampoos and flea collars carefully. Some can stain the coat, while others can cause severe allergic reactions.

The only major problems in the breed are hip dysplasia, sensitivity to anesthetics, and bloat, which can be prevented by feeding several small meals daily instead of one large meal a day.

Note that females only have one heat cycle per year. This is normal in the Komondor.

  • Moderate exercise needs.
  • No shedding.
  • Cold tolerance.
  • Hardiness.
  • Few health problems.
  • Natural instinct to protect.
  • Strength.
  • Remarkable agility.

  • Scarcity.
  • Night barking.
  • Need for an experienced, authoritative owner.
  • Aggression.
  • Need for extensive socialization.
  • Unsuitability for homes with other dogs.
  • Need for a spacious home and yard.
  • Extremely high grooming requirements.
  • Tendency to mold.
  • Heat intolerance.
  • Low fertility of breeding animals.

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Tuesday, November 16, 2010

a touch of retail therapy...

I have been out and about shopping and have found a few gifts for people on my Christmas list.
I do not generally overspend at this time of year...in fact, I try not to overspend at any time.

In the spirit of frugality I purchased a very inexpensive cashmere sweater from the GAP.

I spent just over $300 on a similar cardigan only to have it pill so badly that I needed to use the sweater shaver gadgety-thing-ma-bobber ( I only use the technical terminology) and it wore thin in spots and looked decidedly shabby.
Shabby is great for furniture but not so much in garments.
How disappointing,
and the store (grrr!) I purchased it from didn't want to take it back even though I had my original receipt and I considered myself regular clientele...(not so much any longer)
The clerk mentioned that all cashmere pills...not so...my Scottish made Johnson sweater, a gift form Mr. HB, has been a superior sweater and continues to be so after 5 or 6 years and is as new.

a touch of black

Gap cardigan
V neck

 I love this over a white shirt or a white Tee with pearls

a touch of pink...

a touch of white

that can be shaped
around a wreath or in a vase

I like all white lights
twinkling and sparkling
like bubbles
in a glass of champagne.

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a touch of pink
a touch of blue

can't wait!

a touch of yellow

In a previous post I posed the question asking about your favourite books
and thank you all for your suggestions.
I have 3 waiting for me...

a dash of Pepper
 in one of her quieter moments!

  1. Hostess - As I understand it, all cashmere does pill, just not on its threads. Scottish cashmere is hands down the most durable, with the Italian being high quality but softer and therefore less sturdy.

  2. hi leslie,

    i have read that all cashmere can pill. it doesn't matter the price, what are we supposed to think or do about that? spend $$$ or $?

  3. So true, the pilling of cashmere. I have bad experiences from those pilling machines, there are special cashmere combs too. Thank you for showing Pepper again :)

  4. Cheap cashmere pills...and I dont mean in the price way.

    I have a cashmere sweater from Scotland and I have lost track of how many years I have had it...15 maybe? You would never know as it has never pilled.

  5. Cyberspace keeps eating my comment, so I will post on cashmere too in a little while. (My Gap sweater pilled like crazy but that was several years ago, maybe their quality has improved?) I'm so sorry that store did not make good on your inferior sweater. Would you be willing to tell us the brand (not the store name)? I agree with Lisa: Italian cashmere is lofty and so soft but pills far more.

  6. Better luck with this cashmere cardi Hostess.
    I would be interested to hear your review of Nancy Mitford's book. I've almost finished a biography on the Mitford family and must say I find them, with the exception of Debo and Pam, to be thoroughly unlikable.
    Will never tire of pretty Pepper pics.

  7. LPC- I must do more research before I purchase another cashmere sweater.
    I never realized there was Italian cashmere!

    thegardener'scottage- One does wonder about the prices...I have a lovely inexpensive Charter Club pullover from Macy's that is remarkable thick and has yet to pill...it was a bargain at 70% off!

    metscan- A cashmere comb! I am learning from all of you! Maybe you will show us your comb?

    Suburban princess- I think Scotland will dictate my future cashmer buys...I need to find a site that sells current styles...so many are mumsy!

    Duchesse- I will eagerly await your cashmere post and the sweater had the store's own label sewn into it...they also sold my husband the Scottish Johnson sweater which is the star performer so far....I think the price point on the Scottish brand was a tad over $500 5 years ago.

    Anne-Marie-So far the cardigan is holding up and I have worn it several times.
    I'll let you know about the Mitford book after I finish...I might like to read the biography too.
    Pepper will be popping up here regularly!

  8. I too have a closet filled with pilling cashmere. I had to be the shaver and I am amazed how much it shaves off. It never occurred to me that this shaving would have negative effect on the sweater but of course it makes sense.
    I am sure Pepper's coat never pills.;-)

  9. I have never noticed that cashmere pills...stupid me. I have several cashmere sweaters but it doesn't get cold enough here to wear them much, that's probably why. Pepper is getter cuter and cuter.(-:

  10. LaBeletteRouge- Pepper's coat is sleek and silky and not long enough to pill! :)

    LaVieQuotidienne- I live in cashmere here in the fall and winter...nothing feels as warm to me. Pepper is certainly a charmer...the vet was quite enchanted with her too!

  11. Dear Hostess,I cannot wear anything woollen ugh!! so all my Winter cardies are either cotton or Bora cashmere I also use their cashmere combs for the pilling + use their vegetable shampoo for hand washing.If you google 'Bora' it gives you tips on how to look after cashmere & sells combs.Not sure whether they have shops abroad.Ida

  12. Dear Mme Hostess, I agree that there is nothing more irritating that a pilled cardy or jumper - particularly then the item was not cheap. I bought some lovely Pringle jumpers under their contemporary brand Sita Murt (viscose/cashmere)in the sales which are light, warm, have not pilled and make me feel special every time I wear them. You made me laugh with your description of the 'sweater shaver gadgety-thing-ma-bobber'- our generic term is thingamabobby or my father's favourite word, a dooverlackie. Mine always dies in the proverbial just when I need it...

  13. Hostess...I share your pilling woes and enjoyed reading everyones comments. I am with Ida, I have Brora and it does stand up to the test of time. I purchased a cashmere cape a few months ago and it is one big mess. I must have torn apart every box in our garage looking for that gadget your referred to . I thought I was so clever to buy an electric one but once found it was not worth the effort. I am determined to get to the bottom of it. All said and done...pilling or not, I will always love cashmere.

    Great pics by the way!

    Jeanne xx

  14. Dear Hostess,, am loving your new look blog, very vibrant and snazzy. I have a bad cashmere addiction, I try to explain to Mr B it saves money on heating..I have been lucky with my cashmere , it does not seem to pill, I like Brora and Pure ( both sell on-line) and also I have some from Gap which is really good so I am sure your new cardi will be fine, I do love a black cash cardi. Love your new books, the Birkin one sounds brill. Most of all love that little puddy.What a pretty little thing and she looks like mischief! xx

  15. Dear Hostess,

    I hope this helps: Good Housekeeping has its recommendations for cashmere sweaters. It seems that Jones New York and Ann Taylor were the most pill-resistant among the sweaters it tested.

    Of course, they only tested a few sweaters and it's not an exhaustive research. Also, as much as I like Good Housekeeping, its product testing isn't always accurate. I was about to buy a blender that it recommended when I went to Amazon and saw that it squarely got poor reviews.

  16. ida- i am going over to see that site asap....thanks!

    Linda in Chile- dooverlackie...love a new word!

    Jeanne- Cashmere is like loving roses...the cashmere has pills and the roses have thorns...yet we are passionate about them !

    Blighty-Brora must be explored...I agree about cashmere keeping the chills at bay...glad to hear that you like the blog reno.

    WB- Thank you for the link...it's too bad that some merchandise marketed is so inferior....research does seem to be sensible in the end.

  17. Same problem here with cashmere. In fact, I've sort of let it go as a staple. I prefer a fine merino now because it wears better. With the exception of my one ancient Scottish cashmere (never pilled) most of my 'cheap' cashmere has not only pilled but drooped. Lost shape, verve, attitude. I can't have that. I need stick-to-it-iveness in my investment pieces.

  18. L'age moyen- It sounds like Brora and other Scottish cashmere's are the ones to save up for...they seem to out perform the others...and Brora has some great styles!
    When investing a substantial chunk of change on garments one has high expectations...and rightly so.

  19. I have had both good and bad experiences with cashmere. I have cashmere lounge pants, purchased at Neiman Marcus, for a hefty sum, and they pilled like mad. Now I just wash them and throw them in the dryer. They're comfortable at least, and didn't shrink as much as I would have liked.

    I have a Loro Piana cashmere robe that I wanted in size small; but they only had medium left, so I bought it with a mind to wash it and try to shrink it a little.
    I washed it on the hand wash cycle of my Whirlpool front loader, and then put it in the dryer. I kept checking it every several minutes.
    It came out just fine. It did shrink a bit, which was good for me, and it didn't pill at all. I did need to steam it a little, and the cuffs, are not as crisp as they were prior to washing; but what is?
    There is no way, I'm going to send a robe out to be dry cleaned. These fabrics have been around, and used for many years, in places where dry cleaners didn't even exist. People spot cleaned what they could, and laundered when necessary.

    I have also purchased many cashmere sweaters made in China, and washing them has made them loftier, softer, and they haven't pilled at all.

    I have Hermes cashmere scarves that I hand wash, and the shrinkage is minimal, and they are softer and I haven't noticed any colour fade.

    I wash all of my cashmere and wool, except my coats, and jackets. I think dry cleaning is harder on natural fibres than washing with Woolite, or a specialty washing powder.

    I do love Scottish cashmere, and I do find it nicer than some of the Loro Piana. Hermes cashmere,which is made in Italy, or Scotland has always been; in my experience, top quality; although the prices are way out of line.


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I am using HtmlAgilityPack to the hilt. Thx to you.
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However how can i scrape javascript without resorting to regexp?
As you might have noticed, recently, lot of sites are using "dynamic scripting" technique to pass data from the server instead of traditional HTML!!!

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My above question will come in handy while scraping AJAX/ATLAS based websites where lotta javascripts are used. Please note I am talking about Javascript and not JSON, for which many deserializers are available.

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Love the tool - I have the same question, and am wondering if your tool supports fn:substring-before(fn:substring-after...?

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Hi guys,

Unfortunately, SCRIPT and STYLE tags are completely opaque to the Html Agility Pack. It just considers it as a blob of text (CData actually). If you think about it, the Internet Explorer internal parser (same with other browsers) does quite the same, it parses the content of the SCRIPT tag, and hands it off directly to the script engine in question (JSCript.dll, VBScript.dll, ...), together with a living object model (the HTML DOM). So the whole thing works, but not statically, not without a script engine. It works, because some piece of code actually runs (including hacker code!)

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I don’t quite know what authentic Mexican food is.  I’m not talking about your standard taqueria fare.  Because I’m sure there’s more to Mexican food than just that.  That’s just like saying all there is to Korean food is dduk-bokk-kee, kimbap, kimchi, and some Korean barbeque. I would scoff at anyone who said that.  Not really having any Mexican friends, it’s kind of hard for me to know more about Mexican food.

The closest I’ve gotten to authentic Mexican food is probably Teresitas.  What am I comparing this too?  El Cholo.  Don’t get me wrong, I love El Cholo, but it’s probably Americanized to a large extent.  And you can also tell that I don’t have much to compare against.  What makes me think this is more authentic?  1) They claim to be authentic.  2) A Mexican person took my dad here and my dad took me here in return.  3) It’s in East LA.  4) There are a lot of Latin-lookin’ people here.  Ah the ignorance.  But bear with me.

This was my third time here, twice for breakfast and once for lunch.  This time was breakfast again.  And I ordered the same thing as I did the first time I was here… Chilaquiles with eggs and top sirloin steak.  The Chilaquiles are “fried corn tortillas prepared with spicy red or green hot chile sauce, topped with onions and cheese.” It wasn’t hot at all but man… so good!!  The fried tortilla is soaked in that sauce and cheese is sprinkled over it.  The fried tortilla is somewhat soggy from being soaked in the sauce, yet it’s still somewhat crispy.  If you let it sit then it’ll get soggier, but it’s still good!  With the steak and eggs, it makes a real hearty breakfast.  It comes with a side of beans and potatoes too but I was too full to touch it.  MmmMMmmMmm~~!!!

Their carne asada on the lunch/dinner menu is pretty darn good too.

Check their hours.  They don’t open so early for breakfast during the weekdays.

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Many congratulations to Executive Committee member Anne Harrison on receiving the Thomas Cranmer Award for Worship from the Archbishop of Canterbury at a ceremony in Lambeth Palace, London, on Friday 9th June.

The citation for the Award to Anne is set out below:

Anne Harrison – The Thomas Cranmer Award for Worship for her sustained and outstanding contribution to music in worship.

Having studied music at Oxford University, Anne Harrison taught music in London before moving to the Cambridgeshire Fens, and then to Durham where, in the mid-1990s, she became Music Co-ordinator at St John’s College with Cranmer Hall. This included time with ordinands, notably teaching a weekly ‘Preparation for Worship’ session with the liturgist, the late Michael Vasey.

She was co-ordinating editor of the Royal School of Church Music’s quarterly ‘Sunday by Sunday’ for ten years until 2012, during which period she received an Honorary ARSCM and completed an MA in Music and Liturgy at Leeds University.

Anne has been active in both the local RSCM and the Diocesan Liturgical Committee – leading Taizé services in Durham Cathedral and helping to shape courses and conferences bringing together music and liturgy.

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Her contribution has been outstanding.