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Sunday, 24 November 2013

On a roll

Once on this blog, I put up a picture of a gate-spring who really loved being a gate-spring.

I now present a steam-roller quietly looking forward to another day's steam-rolling.

Monday, 18 November 2013

Because that hack they got to do the 'Romeo + Juliet' one was terrible.

How exciting! They've released an official film tie-in book of that great Baz Lurhmann film!

Shame they couldn't get Lurhmann himself to write it, though. I hope this Fitzgerald guy can pull off his style.

Friday, 15 November 2013

Ho Ho… No, No, God No!

Ah, Christmas is coming, and good old Costa coffee are celebrating with some Little Moments of Festive Fun. How heart-warming. Little moments of festive fun, such as… the bloodily decapitated body of Father Christmas.

…Thanks, Costa. Merry Christmas to you too.

Wednesday, 13 November 2013

Prepare for final descent.

…Well, I say news; but the hints I've been dropping have been pretty broad. Anyway, this is it officially: I am currently writing the next - and final - episode of Cabin Pressure. It will be a forty-five minute special, and it will be recorded early in the new year.

Infrequently Asked Questions, But Which I Imagine May Become More Frequently Asked Now.

Why are you only doing an episode, not a series?

Because that has always been the plan - at least since about Molokai. When I was planning series three, I decided that (BBC and cast permitting), I would write two more series, and build towards a cliff-hanger, followed by a special. I knew by then how important it is when writing an episode to have the ending in mind, and I thought the same would probably be true of a series.

Why are you ending it?

Well, it has to end somewhere, and six years and twenty six episodes feels like a pretty good score.    And this way I get to build towards an ending that I feel is satisfying, rather than it simply stopping one day… or worse, getting tired and repetitive. It's also allowed me to let the characters and their relationships change and develop over the last couple of series, knowing that I'm building in a particular direction, in a way that I couldn't have done if I'd had to keep them in sitcom limbo.

Besides, you can't fight the alphabet…

But there are a lot more letters in other languages!

I know. But be honest, which is more satisfying: A to Z or A to Ø?

No, you be honest: it's because you can't get the cast any more, isn't it?

It really isn't. It's very difficult to get them all together, certainly, but they continue to be astonishingly generous about finding ways to make it work. No, this is all my fault.

When did you say it would be recorded? And broadcast?

On the… Ah, you nearly got me. No, I'm afraid I don't know. I had, as many of you had guessed, been working towards another Christmas broadcast, but unfortunately that hasn't worked out. So, as early as possible in the new year, I hope; and I'll let you know here as soon as I can...

Monday, 11 November 2013

I'm Sorry I Only Connect.

Today, by coincidence, appearances I made on shows that were recorded about six months apart will be broadcast within a couple of hours of one another. At 6:30 on BBC Radio 4, I will be - and I can still hardly believe this - being given silly things to do on I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. I've loved this show since I was a boy, and I'm astonished and delighted to be given the opportunity to be on it.  I only hope I didn't mess it up too badly.

And then at 8:30 on BBC4, I'm on the Children In Need special of Only Connect, a show I'm sure I would have loved as a boy if only it had been on then. As the scoring on this show is a little more rigorous than the other one (no offence to Samantha), I already know whether I messed up, and, if so, exactly how badly.

Sorry I've neglected this blog for so long, incidentally - I plan to be around a little more now. For instance, I will have some news about Cabin Pressure on Wednesday.


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Thursday, 20 March 2014

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Thursday, 6 March 2014

Thank you for the thank yous!

Sorry if this is a rather self-indulgent post, but I really do have to thank the extraordinary and talented fans of Cabin Pressure for some of the astonishingly creative ways they've been saying thank you since the final recording.

First, this wonderful video. Never have so many people, in so many places and in so many languages, done quite so many silly things with so many lemons, hats, yellow cars and Toblerones. I absolutely love it (and the Arthur-in-a-box it came with) - thank you all so much!

Not only that, but the organisers of it have also been fund-raising for the National Literacy Trust , an excellent cause for which they have raised an amazing £2,265, and counting! Thank you so much to everyone who donated, and for the lovely comments on that site, all of which I have read.

Next, at the recording I was given a copy of this incredible book, which is a compilation of the work of some extremely talented artists and cartoonists, and their portrayals of everything from Carolyn presenting Herc with Finn McCool III, to Martin in the back of the goose truck, to the crew's favourite meals to… well, to what the crew would look like if they were all cats. It's absolutely tremendous, though I am sickened by how much better than me at drawing you all are.

Last but not least, thank you for all the individual cards and letters that have been sent to me, or given to me at the recording. They mean an awful lot, and I will reply to all the ones with return addresses eventually - sorry if it takes a while.

Maybe everyone who writes a show thinks this, but I really do feel the people who like my show are an unusually talented, generous, thoughtful and, above all, deeply silly lot. Thank you so much! You are truly… (here it comes, I've been using similes all through this post so I can save it up for the end)… Brilliant!

UPDATE: Since I first posted this, I have also been shown this wonderful song.  Thank you!

Sunday, 2 March 2014

John and Kevin's Sunday Papers - March

Kevin and I have been looking at the papers again today. Includes some useful holiday advice for anyone who- like Kevin- has been intimidated by an elephant into booking twenty holidays at once, but is left cold by falconry. I assume that's most people.

John and Kevin's Sunday Papers

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Wednesday, October 27, 2010

An Identity Crisis?

We are living in a time of significant change with a major shift in the way we process information. Ongoing change in communication and the arts reflect the changing values of our society. Structures that housed the modern era for the past five hundred years are crumbling. Some view this as a crisis in our culture. The Chinese character signifying the idea of "crisis" combines two characters, one for "danger" and the other for "opportunity." Crisis is made of both, and so is the current situation for the Church and its message.

As Christ followers, we must examine our roots and assess the true DNA of the Church. Many have attempted to define the Church and its practice biblically. The search for the true New Testament Church is ongoing, yet the process of changing is slow and even nonexistent at times. Many are unwilling to pay the costs required to take us outside the box.

Let’s examine the Church, Jesus and His gospel. We must be committed to a continual re-examining and restoration of the Church as it is revealed in scripture. In my next few blogs, I want to examine the missional nature of the Church and the message we are to carry to the nations.

In times of change, we face some key questions:
  • Is the Church a hindrance to overcoming and, therefore part of, the problem?
  • Is the Church neutral and therefore, not relevant to this emerging generation?
  • Are the message we bring and our method of sharing it relative to this new context?
  • How do we articulate within and to our context? Will our remedy fit?
  • How much has our past cultural framework domesticated the Church and our understanding of the gospel?
  • Is the Church in a crisis?
The Church has been influenced by culture and tradition. Church leadership is a “professional class” and the current American view of Evangelical leadership is often negative. Bob Roberts, Jr. recently tweeted that he has often been told, “You’re evangelical? You’re not like what I thought!" One said, "I thought all evangelicals were mean!"

The Church does what it believes itself to be.

We must re-examine what the essence or nature of the Church is. Craig Van Gelder does a fine job with this in his book The Essence of the Church: A Community Created by the Spirit. He makes the stirring point that the Church does what it believes itself to be. Consider his view of the Church’s true identity and the activity coming from this identity:

"The Church ‘is’ (a unique community of God's people created by the Spirit to fulfill the mandate of the Kingdom of God) before it ‘does.’"

"The Church is God’s personal presence in the world through the Spirit. It is to live as a missionary community under the rule and reign of God."

"The 'Kingdom of God' (God's rule and reign) sent the Spirit; the Spirit created (Acts 2: 1) and leads (John 14-16) the Church; the Church consciously takes up God's agenda in the world in the power of the Holy Spirit. Thus ‘mission’ is an inherent aspect of the nature of the Church."

"The Kingdom of God anticipates and calls into existence a people of God, the Church. The Church comes into existence and is shaped by the reality of God's redemptive reign. The Church is possessed by the Kingdom of God. This makes the Church an agent of the Kingdom."

Biblical Metaphors for the Church

Scripture also reveals several pictures of the Church.
  • The people of God (Romans 9:25-26; I Peter 2:9; Revelation 5: 9-10)
  • The Body of Christ (Romans 12: 4-5; I Corinthians 10: 16-17; Ephesians 1: 22-23)
  • The Communion of the Saints (I John 1: 3,6; I Cor 10:6; 2 Cor. 13:14; Phil. 1:5)
  • The Creation of the Spirit (I Corinthians 3:16; Ephesians 2:19; I Peter 2:5)
So we understand that the Church is the presence of God in the midst of a community. It is the representative of Christ in the midst of people. "If you've see us, then you've seen Christ."

The life of God in Trinity is lived out in the midst of community. God indwells the community and the Church is the place where God is manifested on earth. His people are His dwelling place. His presence is accessible among His people.

The Church is God moving into the neighborhood. "The word became flesh and moved into the neighborhood" (John 1:14 The Message Bible). Therefore, mission is an inherent aspect of the nature of the Church. This is not to be understood in terms as something it does, but something it is and thus cannot but do.

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Saturday, November 15, 2008

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For your reading pleasure, one of my absolute favorite Jerry Grandenetti Warren stories, from Eerie #9: "Rub the Lamp"- in which an antiques dealer finds a magic lamp, and gets more than he bargained for. This is the story which got me to notice Grandenetti's hallucinogenic 60's style when I was a kid, even though I'd seen it in other stories in previous issues. Everything in this story, with its distorted figures, brittle, jagged panel borders and vertiginous perspectives literally radiates dismay, greed, and fear; I don't know if the term "expressionistic" applies exactly, but I think it's awfully close. His was never an attractive in a conventional sense sort of style, especially when compared to the Adamses, Woods, Crandalls, Kirbys and Morrows that were his contemporaries, but when it came to helping the reader get a feel for the vibe that this sort of horror tale was trying to get across, as far as I'm concerned it really did the job in excellent fashion. Joe Orlando's work at this time looked a lot like this- in fact, there were a couple of Warren stories that I had associated with Grandenetti for decades that I came to find out were actually Orlando's. But Grandenetti, I think, did it with a bit more gusto. I'm not familiar with the writer of this tale, one Allan Jadro; I wonder if it wasn't a pseudonym. Archie Goodwin wrote most of the stories in those days for this magazine, but it stands to reason that he couldn't write everything...someday I'll have to dig out my Warren Companion and see if it can shed some light on Mr. Jadro's identity.

These days, when comics readers think of JG at all, it's mostly in terms of the mostly lackluster work he did later in his career with Joe Simon on stuff like The Green Team and Prez, or perhaps even the Eisnerish work he did pre-DC War comics...but for me, this is genius stuff, and I wanted to share.

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Sunday, August 23, 2009

Anecdotal Evidence

I lost my iPhone in the back of a cab a few weeks ago, I was very disappointed in myself.

Then my thoughts turned to the populace in New York. What percentage of people would find an iPhone and return it?

50/50 maybe? 60/40 or 40/60?

The girl who found my phone gave it back to me two days later.

My anecdotal evidence suggests that you have a good chance of finding people in New York that are altruistic. Nice feeling.

(Btw a few weeks beforehand I returned a wallet to a girl who left it on the subway, so maybe karma had a hand in my phone finding its way back to me also)

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Thursday, May 26, 2011

Seattle, our northermost stop

Kate Tesar and Damon Jorgenson are our hosts. Kate has made her pretty house prettier since she moved full time to Seattle from Juneau, where we met years ago.
Through Kate we met Glenda Carino and through Glenda we met Peter Bacho. Peter and Glenda are going to help us let the Filipino community of the Pacific Northwest know about AMIGO. Just watch us.
Kate is in charge of us tonight. She escorts our growing entourage to the Tin Room in the Oddfellows Hall. Look at us with our good pals  Pam and Steve Lang. They are all tanned which means they have not been in the rainy Northwest, but in their place in sunny Arizona.
We are at Elliott Bay, another great independent bookstore. Look at the line-up of authors tonight.
Here are Karen and Greg with John
They have to set up extra seats to fit everyone who straggles in: rain and terrible Seattle traffic. John reads "Salvation" which is set in Seattle.
Steve Earle stopped in to say hi to John. Glenda, will you send me a photo?
We sleep well in this comfortable house, and say goodbye in a drizzling rain.
Thanks, Kate. You're a pal.

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Saturday, January 4, 2014

“4 Essential (and Overlooked) Facts About Your Brain and Your Mind”

I just read another brain-focused Alvaro Fernandez (SharpBrains’ co-founder and Chief Executive Officer) article posted on The Creativity Post that I wanted to share with everybody. You can find it here:

The four “essential (and overlooked) facts” he writes about are:

  1. “Smart pills” simply don’t exist (drat)
  2. Aging can bring (cognitive)decline...
  3. … and also improvement.
  4. “Cells that fire together wire together.”

Here’s the summary that I like: “our brains and minds are far from set in stone due to genetics or age. Growing evidence suggests beyond a reasonable doubt that what we do at every single day has an impact on brain fitness that very same day and also later in life.”

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Thursday, April 22, 2010

Bittersweet Blessings

I know without doubt that early this morning my sweet Savior spoke the words "well done my good and faithful servant" to my sister-in-law....I have no more words at the

In lieu of flowers we are requesting that people support what Lane Ann gave her life to - fulfilling the Great Commission of Christ by making disciples. Please send memorial gifts to Disciple The Nations, Inc. P.O. Box 157 Trenton, Ky 42286
Wednesday, April 7, 2010

An angel on earth....

Many of you have read my post about my brother, Tim, and his sweet bride, Lane Ann. She has been battling colon/liver cancer since October. They were suppose to help with my two youngest boys while I was in Uganda to bring Josie Love home. Lane Ann was having pain in her abdomen and so they were not able to help. As the pain continued they decided to check it out and during a lower CT scan they discovered many tumors. They seemed to be shrinking in the beginning, but it is a REAL aggressive kind of cancer, and have returned with a vengeance. They left last friday for a week at the beach. We just received a call from my brother telling us that they are coming home, headed to Vanderbilt, asking if we could we help with his kiddos.

Tim and LaneAnn have taught Mike and I what it means to TRULY walk by faith. At times, we have thought that they had lost their minds. Tim was a pastor of a church and the Lord very clearly called him to leave his church and start a ministry called "Disciple the Nations". He left his church (and all of the comforts...salary, insurance, housing allowance, etc....) and walked towards his calling. Through the years Mike and I have watched the Lord provide OVER and OVER for Tim's family. If we have said "UNBELIEVEBLE!" once, we have said it a dozen times. I don't know that I could have ever stepped out that first time in faith if I had not experienced the sovereignty of Christ through my brother.

To go back even a step further in time. Tim has ALWAYS been there for me. He took me hunting , trapping, and fishing my whole life. He has ALWAYS been a spiritual rock for me. He has shown me what a man of God looks like. The way he treated girls gave me a REALLY HIGH standard on what to strive for in a you get the picture? Do you understand what he has meant to me my entire life? There are really just NOT enough words to describe my love for him.

fast forward to this past Friday afternoon....

A wife of noble character who can find?
She is worth far more than rubies.

11 Her husband has full confidence in her
and lacks nothing of value.

12 She brings him good, not harm,
all the days of her life.

13 She selects wool and flax
and works with eager hands.

14 She is like the merchant ships,
bringing her food from afar.

15 She gets up while it is still dark;
she provides food for her family
and portions for her servant girls.

16 She considers a field and buys it;
out of her earnings she plants a vineyard.

17 She sets about her work vigorously;
her arms are strong for her tasks.

18 She sees that her trading is profitable,
and her lamp does not go out at night.

19 In her hand she holds the distaff
and grasps the spindle with her fingers.

20 She opens her arms to the poor
and extends her hands to the needy.

21 When it snows, she has no fear for her household;
for all of them are clothed in scarlet.

22 She makes coverings for her bed;
she is clothed in fine linen and purple.

23 Her husband is respected at the city gate,
where he takes his seat among the elders of the land.

24 She makes linen garments and sells them,
and supplies the merchants with sashes.

25 She is clothed with strength and dignity;
she can laugh at the days to come.

26 She speaks with wisdom,
and faithful instruction is on her tongue.

27 She watches over the affairs of her household
and does not eat the bread of idleness.

28 Her children arise and call her blessed;
her husband also, and he praises her:

29 "Many women do noble things,
but you surpass them all."

30 Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting;
but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised.

31 Give her the reward she has earned,
and let her works bring her praise at the city gate.

These are the words that I had the AWESOME gift and opportunity to speak over my sweet sister-in-law. I first cupped her face in my hands and eye-to-eye told her what her life had meant to me. I wanted to affirm in her the godly example that she had been for any one person that has ever come in contact with her. She has preached in prisons and shared her heart about Christ time and time again with "the least of these". She is a warrior.

While laying in her hospital bed, I read this scripture over her, and washed her feet. I have never washed anyone's feet before, but I know it is a biblical way of humbling yourself and showing someone how special they are. I am not sure what cleansed them most, my tears or the water that I was using. Then I rubbed in some yummy smelling lotion, while I prayed and thanked God for her life. It was one of the highlights of my life and you could feel the Holy Spirit in every inch of that hospital room. It wasn't until I was through that I could even hear the sobs of my mother and brother....

These are the times when we get just a small glimpse of what heaven will be like....

Sunday, April 4, 2010

He is Risen!

take time to smell the flowers....

Josie Love and Auntie Dana

Josie and Asher, both home from the same children's home in Uganda...HOW SWEET IT IS!

The Lord's spirit has filled my soul more and more as each day passes. I marvel as I look at the family that I have been blessed with. I look into each and every face and could weep. Gwen being in Uganda, laying eyes on her children for the first time, just reminds me how fortunate I am to have them all here with me. I am so thankful for days like today that make me stop and reflect on what a miracle that Jesus Christ was, IS, and always will be. I am also grateful for "family days" so that we can take a step back and just be thankful. I had the best time watching all of my children get SO excited for Josie Love's first Easter at home! Each and every one celebrated this fun day with her in their own little unique way.
Thursday, April 1, 2010

Gwen is in Uganda popping bon bons and I'm at home working my fingers to the bone....

Suzanne here.....

Gwen called, she made it to Uganda!!!!! She was sitting under her mosquito net getting ready for bed so that she can wake up and go touch her babies! YAYAYAY! While she is there popping bon bons, I am here slaving away with 147 Million Orphans. We now have our spring Feed 1's in hand! The pics do not do them justice. The melon Feed 1 is a real pretty coral color with chocolate writing. The blue is a bright robin's egg blue.

ALSO, because of MANY requests...we have athletic gear! Perfect for any type of exercise.... You marathon runners..her is your chance to bring awareness while training AND feed a hungry child with your purchase! We have tanks for women and short sleeve for men (and women). It speaks BOLDLY from the front to bring awareness and has our favorite verse on the back....CHECK THEM OUT!

the pics are not up on our site yet...but you can still purchase all of, skin, dresses, shoes, eggs, baskets...OH MY!

I must admit that I am feeling really confident about keeping 147 Million Orphans up and running while Gwen is gone. I have my "to do" lists and I am checking things off one by one...SO proud of myself. You see, Gwen is the motor of 147, SHE NEVER TURNS OFF! I, on the other hand, am the artsy one that floats around, enjoys the quiet a little more, and I get things done in a timely manner but not the way Gwen does. She is able to keep her laptop open, refresh it and respond promptly and she just GETS IT you get the picture. and BTW Gwen will be landing in Uganda in a few hours !! She will be laying eyes on her little ones for the first time while we are sleeping tonight...WHOOOOOP!

I had my "to do" list yesterday and was checking things off and then it dawned on me...this weekend is EASTER! So, I started calling my girlfriends that have been sent straight from heaven to help me with Josie Love's hair. "hello, do I need to make an appointment for Josie this week? Will they be booked? do you guys do this months in advance?!?"

you see, i have learned that is is SIGNIFICANT to keep the hair fixed and the skin
moisturized. It ain't nothin for an african american woman to walk up to me in Target
and give me pointers on what type of lotion to use or what type of hair product to
buy. the first thing that she does is feel Josie's hair and then starts educating....! In the beginning, when I first brought Joshua home I welcomed all of the advice that I could get. (and still do!) But with Josie Love, the Lord has given me "hair angels" to walk me through the gobs and gobs of hair that the child has. Sundays are special days. One must
have the hair smoothed down and skin shining. MANY a Sunday I have gone back AFTER Mike has already applied the lotion and smear on more....ask him! He laughs at me all of the time. This weekend is EASTER...EVEN MORE IMPORTANT.

Janetta, asked me what I wanted her hair to look like and I remembered Regan's (her little girls hair) a few months back and told her that that is how I wanted it and she said "girl, I can do that for you! There's no reason to pay to have that done." So, today we had "hair day" for Josie Love. Get this....I don't have to touch her hair for 2 weeks! AND, she didn't even put bands at the bottom of her twists and it will stay in! HOW IN THE WORLD DOES THAT WORK? Janetta says it will, and she's the "hair angel" so I am goin with it!
after her shampooing

combing out the tangles, Joshua and Regan decided to help...
Doesn't it look like shiny yarn?!?! So cute!

Could little Regan be ANY MORE beautiful?!?!

little sister is so proud! she is testing them out! she stood in front of that mirror and just grinned and grinned!

Thanks to sweet Janetta, I am not overwhelmed by Easter anymore and I can focus on what it is really about! HE HAS RISEN! HE HAS RISEN!! HE HAS RISEN INDEED!

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Print Studio 1.0 R5 Extends Barcode, Image, and Database Support

SAN CARLOS, Calif. – October 26, 2003– Jolly Technologies, an established leader in the barcode labeling and ID card software industries, announces new extensions to Print Studio 1.0, further strengthening the product line and offering better compatibility than ever before.

Print Studio 1.0, having already received rapid adoption among members of professional organizations including the Association for Automatic Identification and Mobility (AIM) and the Automatic Identification and Data Collection (AIDC), is further extending its feature set. The most significant enhancements include support for barcode symbologies UCC/EAN 128 and Codabar, additional image file formats support and spreadsheet import compatibility for Microsoft Excel and text formatted files.

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A free upgrade to the latest release of Print Studio 1.0 is provided free of charge to existing customers. Detailed upgrade instructions are available from the company website at http://www.jollytech.com.

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What are the requirements of law school?

download (1)If you have your eyes set on building a career in the field of law, you’d be one of the several thousand other hopefuls who are sharing your ambition. Every year, these very hopefuls embark upon the procedure to apply to different business schools, with varied levels of success. While there are various factors that play a role when it comes to gaining admission, one needs to put forth an application that centers on our strengths.

It wouldn’t be wrong to say that every law school uses its own yardstick to measure every student’s application. It is nearly impossible to accurately gauge what determines an admission, however, there are certain efforts you can put in to make your application stand out.

Shortlisting Law Schools

Before you begin the actual process of application, you need to make a list of colleges that you’d be applying to. This list needs to be ambitious and realistic at the same time. A cautious approach would be to select approximately 10 colleges, instead of 4 or 5, which broaden your chances of getting into a college of your choice. Again, don’t let the cost of bearing the application fee deter you, as you can consider it to be the first step towards building your dream career.

So how does one go about selecting the colleges to apply to, out of the hundreds of options? With a little research, you can safely list around 4 colleges that you think you can realistically get into. These are colleges in the “safe” category, where you know you’d surely secure a place.

Next, you can choose another 3 colleges where you have a considerable chance of gaining admission. Applying to these colleges would be slightly ambitious, but getting into them wouldn’t be impossible.

Choosing the final 3 colleges would require a detailed and thoughtful study on your part. These would be colleges that you think are out of your league, but since we’re completely unaware of what exactly determines an admission, it would only make sense to try your luck with it. After all, applying to such colleges at the very least gives you some hope, rather than completely losing out by not applying.

While selecting this list of colleges, you need to consider each school’s requirement regarding LSAT scores and GPAs. Also, there are a few colleges that give precedence to in-state applications. You need to make a thorough study of the curriculum they offer keeping your specialization in mind, the faculty members, and importantly, tuition and boarding costs as well.

Admission Prerequisites

Grade Point Average (GPA)
This is as basic as it gets, but a good GPA does take you places. At the very least, a high GPA puts most of the top-ranked law schools within your reach. While most law schools do not strictly require students to have a bachelor’s degree in a specific field, it would help if you’ve studied subjects like U.S. History, Economics, Jurisprudence or Government. However, of late, top law schools have been encouraging applications from students with diverse backgrounds in order to dismiss uniformity. Therefore, you should not let your undergraduate specialization deter you from applying to the law school of your choice. Ultimately, the transcript that you send to the admission office will play a major role in getting you a positive answer, rather than your undergraduate specialization.

Law School Admission Test (LSAT) Score
It is mandatory for law school aspirants to take the LSAT before they begin their application procedure. This exam gauges a student’s proficiency through its sections on reading comprehension, verbal reasoning, and logical reasoning. One can say that the importance of having an impressive LSAT score is at par with possessing a good GPA. These two factors, in combination, more or less decide the fate of your application.

Personal Statement
The personal statement that you send along with your transcript and LSAT score, provides the admission officer with an additional aspect to assess your capabilities. A good personal statement focuses on your background and achievements, along with your ambitions. Your academic accomplishments are clearly reflected through your transcript and LSAT score; the personal statement carries your character sketch. It is okay to highlight your achievements here; just be mindful of sounding boastful and over-the-top. Keep the tone formal at all times. You could also ask your college professor or senior to evaluate it.

Recommendation Letters
While some schools insist on at least one recommendation letter, others do not require them. However, having said that, a recommendation will surely increase your chances of getting a seat in a law school. If you have had any experience working for a law firm, you could get a letter from them as it would build your case. Otherwise, you can include recommendations from your professors at the undergraduate level.

Other Requirements
There has been a definite shift of focus when it comes to the admission requirements for any graduate course today. While law schools, until a few years ago, used to rely on the student’s academic performance to make a judgment, they’re now looking at the overall personality to come to a decision. So what does suitably manage to impress them? It’s really hard to pinpoint one aspect. Rather, it is the combination of several factors at play. Admission officers like to see a well-rounded resume that contains work experience, participation in extra-curricular activities, community service; basically, everything that does not restrict your personality to be simply described as academically-inclined.

A lawyer in the making needs to be hardworking, passionate to seek justice and possess a sharp acumen. The process to become a top-notch lawyer begins with selecting the right law school. Hopefully this writeup has shed some light on the correct way to go about the procedure.


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Unveiling Jangle: Untangling Library Resources and Exposing them through the Atom Publishing Protocol

Ross Singer and James Farrugia

The Jangle project intends to expose the data hidden in library systems by using the Atom Publishing Protocol to provide simple, consistent access to content and resources. The lack of uniform access to the underlying data in library systems is a major impediment to library development. The Jangle project has the potential to enable new development opportunities by leveraging simple to use and easy to understand processes. This article discusses the benefits of the Atom Publishing Protocol and how Jangle utilizes it, including a description of the current JangleR reference implementation and case studies of the simplicity of developing within the framework.


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Ondansetron (Zofran) Warning Strengthened

Aschenbrenner, Diane S. MS, RN

AJN, American Journal of Nursing: January 2012 - Volume 112 - Issue 1 - p 24
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Drug Watch

* The antiemetic ondansetron (Zofran) has undergone a label revision to emphasize the risk of cardiac arrhythmias such as QT-interval prolongation and torsade de pointes.

* Patients with congenital long QT syndrome shouldn't receive ondansetron.

* Cardiac monitoring should be conducted in patients taking ondansetron who have electrolyte imbalances, congestive heart failure, bradyarrythmias, or a history of taking other drugs that prolong the QT interval.

Diane S. Aschenbrenner is the course coordinator for undergraduate pharmacology at Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing in Baltimore, MD. She also coordinates Drug Watch:

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A Comprehensive Rail Rate Index for Grain

Adam Sparger, Marvin Prater

There are several annual rail rate indices commonly used to depict changes in the prices paid for rail service. While accurate for general analyses, each of these indices falls short in capturing the three major components of total railroad grain rates – tariff rates, fuel surcharges, and secondary railcar market costs. Grain is a rail commodity whereby bids in the secondary railcar market can affect whether the actual rate paid by shippers is above or below the published tariff rate. The seasonality of rates inherent in grain transportation is captured through the secondary market but is neither contained in other grain rail rate indices nor apparent in annualized data. In addition, most grain rate indices do not include fuel surcharges, which have become a major component of the total rate paid for any rail commodity movement. In this paper, we develop new rail rate indices for unit trains and shuttle trains and compare them against a rail cost index. The new indices are an improvement upon past grain rail rate indices by including information from the secondary rail market, fuel surcharges, and tariff rates into a weekly index between the years 1997 and 2011. The improved indices show a higher level of detail when compared to other annualized indices, allowing for a more thorough analysis of grain rates. These indices show grain rail rates generally higher than do other indices with a notable departure from rail costs at the beginning of the economic recession in 2009. A comparison of the rail indices with rail costs calls into question whether earlier conclusions about rail market power still hold.

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Sea Change: How High Will Waters Rise?

Our planet is precious ~ We are but custodians of an Earth that feeds us, nourishes our bodies and souls and gives us a precious life. So when a scientific research project to study past shorelines around Australia (in relation to climate change) approached me requesting the use of my pictorial Australia map to illustrate the […]

History in the Making

Here on the blog over the last few weeks, I’ve been highlighting adventures from my road trip through Australia’s red centre. So far I’ve shared photos from my first ever trip to Uluru and Kata Tjuta , followed by the drive out of Alice Springs along the West MacDonnell Range… But this week, we’re taking a break from […]

How to Enjoy the Year that Was

Farewell 2011… Welcome 2012 As we herald in a New Year I’m always excited by the blank canvas that lays before me. What will I fill the empty spaces with? Will it go as anticipated? …or will there be serendipitous encounters resulting in spontaneous changes of plan (as in taking an on the spur trip […]

Year at a Glance – July’s highlight: Puzzle Postcard Maps in Production

We celebrate and enjoy *sporting highlights* *holiday highlights* but how often do you hear about  *business highlights*? Each month I notate a *Journey Jottings highlight*, which I summarize on a single sheet, so at year’s end I can view Journey Jottings’ year at a glance. July’s *highlight*? The development of a new product line ~ our […]


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Saturday, September 27, 2008

Seasonal Cleansing

Now that fall has set in, it is time to perform some maintenance on yourself. Cleansing one's major bodily systems every three months is a great way to give your temple a tune-up. Here are some of my favorite tips:

1) Kick meat, sugar, bread, alcohol, nicotine, and refined foods for a week and increase your intake of fruits, veggies, and water. Eat your meals at fixed intervals.

2) Drink fresh juices daily over that 7 day period. Try "green lemonade" by juicing a head of romaine lettuce, 2 cups of raw spinach, 4 large carrots, 1 peeled lemon, 2 apples, and a 1-inch piece of fresh ginger root. Drink up!

3) If you perform no other exercise, get out and walk everyday. If you are really active, use your walks for relaxation and meditation. Time to unplug!

4) Take a yoga class. Get focused and center yourself.

5) Dry brush your body before showers to stimulate and cleanse your lymphatic system. Get a natural bristle bath brush and start with the soles of your feet avoiding "sensitive areas" and the face.

6) Choose a colon cleansing product and relieve yourself of old, built up toxic waste. Increase your fiber ("an apple a day...")and water intake.

7) Take a relaxing, detoxifying bath. Add a cup of Epsom salt, a cup of baking soda, and a few drops of your favorite essential oil to a hot bath and soak.

Check out some of my favorite books on cleansing for more great tips. Customize your cleansing regimen in time for winter.

1) The Master Cleanser by Stanley Burroughs

2) Detox: Five Dozen Ways to Detoxify Your Body by Nadine Goodman

3) The Colon Health Handbook by Robert Gray

4) The Raw Food Detox Diet by Natalia Rose

5) 21 Pounds in 21 Days: The Martha's Vineyard Diet Detox by Roni DeLuz, RN, ND

6) Juicing for Life by Cherie Calbom and Maureen Keane

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Sunday Funday #2 (Week 1/24/11-1/30/11)

Pretty Little Liars
Careful What U Wish 4
(1/24 @ 8pm EST ABC Family)
IMDB summary: "As the school gets ready for the dance-a-thon, Aria, Emily, Hanna and Spencer have more on their minds than raising money for the school trip to Washington, DC. Hanna is having a hard time finding a job to help her family's financial situation, but when "A" has a job for her, will Hanna be able to refuse? Emily can only think of Maya and is desperate to speak to her -- so much so that she enlists the help of Caleb, the new bad boy in the school. And as an important piece of property goes missing, Spencer finds being in close quarters with her new brother-in-law, Ian, more difficult than ever. Meanwhile, Aria's former babysitter, Simone, comes back to town for a surprise visit. But what should be a happy reunion quickly becomes a nightmare for Aria when Simone sets her sights on Ezra."

Bring on the new characters, we have Caleb the new yummy bad boy who I think has a thing for Emily, woo woo and Simone, Aria's babysitter and the bump in her and Ezra's relationship, thanks to her ma trying to set Simone and Ezra up, way to go ma. I know I usually go for the good boy but I'm really liking Caleb, thanks for the new eye candy ABC Family.

And Lucas is back, aww I love Lucas, he's good for Hannah, I really hope he doesn't go all psycho on her (I mean he was po-ed enough to destroy Alison's memorial). A is such a ::cough:: rhymes with witch ::cough:: and is it just me or does A have it out for Hannah more so than the other girls? Poor Lucas and Hannah.

Ian is Terrifying, absolutely freaky. Everything he does is so creepy and menacing. So of course Emily gets krunked (and a little cranky) and confronts him saying she knows what he did and he won't get away with it, Spencer covers and says Em was talking about their kiss last summer, he then threatens her. A bit too intense for someone who was just talking about a simple kiss over a year ago. So Spencer's computer goes containing the scary video of Alison.  The suspect Ian but have no proof, even after it shows up in Spencer's house, video erased but plus one creepy pic of Alison leaving the barn on the night she died. She was being followed. The show just keeps getting creepier and creepier.

Ella saw A!!! OMG!!! That was sooooooo crazy creepy!! Can't wait for next week, did you see the preview, insane!

Being Human
There Goes the Neighborhood: Part II
(1/24 @ 9pm EST SyFy)
Another fantastic episode. We learn more about Sally in this episode, how she died and just how strong the bond between her and Danny is. It's so strong that her desire to be seen by him becomes so intense he actually has a moment where he senses her.

Aidan thinks he killed Rebecca, little does he know that she was turned, now he has to deal with that. And Josh has to deal with telling his sister he can never see her again.

All About Beav
(1/24 @ 9pm EST ABC Family)

YAY!! I love Beaver :o) This episode is all about Beav, yay!! He is by far my fav character so this is awesome!! This is the best episode ever and it's only been 5 minutes :o)

What we learn:
  • He gets a phone call every morning from his ma telling him he's a star of his own life or something like that.
  • He sleeps with a stuffed Penguin named PenLucky.
  • Aww he likes Katherine "Pretty Lady" (she likes him too :o).
  • His name is Walter.
  • He's such a nerd (Glee and White Chocolate Raspberry Mocha Lattes with extra whip classic!)
  • He's going to be a kindergarten teacher!! "For the children"
We also learn a little about Heath, apparently he is a striper and a seller of term papers.

Beav Quotes:
"Poptart PB&J?"

Beav: "Want me to pass a message on to Casey for you?"
Cappie: "Yeah that didn't turn out so great last time"
Beav: "It's not my fault 'I'm going to be late' sounds like 'I'm going to masterbate"

Casey: "I'm seeing you alot today"
Beav: "Maybe I was there all along you just didn't notice"

Even though this amazing episode focused on Beaver there were other character story lines. Here is a quick list:
  1. Rusty gives a presentation about his self healing wire, it gets the funding but he is kicked off the project after the decision is made to give the project to a professional research team. Really sucks
  2. Rusty and Dana break up.
  3. Rusty and Ashley share an intimate hug...they keep showing the preview of them kissing, when is this going to happen?
  4. Rebecca uses Cappie to make Evan jealous which results in a fight between the two. (Beav is his wise ways points out that they fight because they both fell in love with Casey, interesting)
That's basically it and I will say it again BEST EPISODE EVER!! Much <3 for Beaver. He's hot, sweet, funny, wiser than he acts, and loves kids, can he be real please!!

Vampire Diaries
The Descent
(1/27 @ 8pm EST The CW)

IMDB Summary: "Stefan has his own ideas about Elena's new plan for the future. While Damon tries to get the truth out of Jules, he asks Elena to keep an eye on Rose, a situation that turns unexpectedly dangerous. Caroline and Matt try to be honest about their feelings for one another, and Tyler's reaction to Caroline's generosity comes as a surprise to her. Damon struggles to hide his true feelings when a life-and-death crisis hits him harder than he expected."

Stupid snow made me miss the entire episode thank goodness The CW played it before Superantural.

Vampire Rose is getting worse after she is bitten by Werewolf Jules, Damon geniusly leaves Elena to take care of Rose (in my opinion not one of his brighter moments) who then thinking she is Katherine attacks her. Rose then goes on a rampage attaching people and killing them because of the dementia the werewolf bite is causing. It's really very sad. And you can tell Damon really cares about her, about whats happening to her, it's very obvious in the end when he kills her (since that's the only way to cure a werewolf bite) after he helps her see visit her favorite place when she was a human in a dream. I'll admit it I teared up a bit.

Stefan tries to help Elena find Isobel since Elijah said she was the one who could get them to Claus. He calls Isobel but instead of her he gets John.

Matt kisses Caroline, who freaks out and runs away then tells him she loves him then freaks out again and runs away again. Caroline then tells Tyler that if he were to bite her, he would have killed her. Then Tyler kisses her and she freaks out "Everyone needs to stop kissing me."

Then Tyler meets up with Jules who tells him she's a werewolf and can help him. She then tells him that Caroline isn't the only Vampire in Mystic Falls.

Damon lost Rose because Jules was trying to kill him but bit Rose instead, so drunk, grieving, full of guilt he does something so very very very stupid, he kills a girl. Not good.

Like a Virgin
(1/28 2/4 @ 9pm EST The CW)

So apparently The CW decided to move Superantural from tonight to next Friday 2/4. You can imagine the up roar this has caused among the Supernatural fandom. We are NOT happy. I kept staring at that the guide my brain not comprhending why Nikita was on instead of Supernatural. Boo on you CW boo on you. #saltandburn

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Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Ethnic Theory and Practice in the USSR and the Republic of South Africa

It has become apparent to me that in both theory and practice that there are a lot of similarities between Soviet nationalities policies and South African apartheid. In practice this is most apparent in the treatment of the deported peoples who were placed under the apartheid like restrictions of the special settlement regime. Restrictions that the Stalin regime decreed to be for all eternity "navechno" on 26 November 1948. But, even under the reformist post-Stalin regime legal restrictions on the freedom of residency remained on Soviet citizens of German nationality until 3 November 1972. This practice rested upon a theory that ethnoses are immutable groups into which people are born into and can not ever leave even after generations of acculturation have eliminated all actual cultural distinctions between the stigmatized groups and their larger host populations. While real cultural traits such as language may disappear during this time ascribed negative traits such as inherent disloyalty due to having an ancestral homeland abroad are considered to be innate and effectively eternal. I consider the permanent ascription of negative traits to people based upon their membership from birth into immutable categories of people defined by the state to be racist, but apparently I am among a very small minority of people with PhDs to take this position.

Ethnic theory in the USSR upon which the classification of people into different nationalities was based rests on the idea of essentialized and primordial groups tied forever to particular pieces of soil from which individuals could not escape through the process of cultural assimilation. Descendants of German immigrants to the US became simply Americans in a few short generations. In Russia and Central Asia people whose ancestors came from Central Europe to the Russian Empire as early as 1764 and who have almost completely lost all connections with their ancestral culture are still considered completely German in their essence. Such a situation has far more in common with racial formation in places like the US or even more so South Africa than it does with maintaining ethnic (i.e. cultural) identity. The ethnic theory that racialized nationality in the USSR in fact has a lot of similarities with the volkekunde used to provide a theoretical basis for apartheid.

Sergei Shirokogorov's work turns out to be one of the primary intellectual foundations of South African volkekunde. The literature freely acknowledges this fact. He was a student of Lev Shternberg, one of the most important early ethnographers in the USSR. Shirokogorov later went into exile in China, but his work continued to be influential not only in the USSR, but also Germany, and later South Africa. Despite being an emigre Shirokogorov's work remained central to Soviet ethnic theory as developed by Yulian Bromley. But, Shirkogorov's ideas were not ever alien to the USSR. The idea of primordial ethnicity which was put into rigid legal practice by the NKVD in 1938 was shared by a number of early Soviet ethnographers including Shternberg and his close collaborator Vladimir Bogoraz.

It is true that the Soviet ethnographers unlike those in Nazi Germany always defined ethnoses on the basis of things other than genetics. But, so too did the South Africans. Culture has since Boas served as a very convenient substitute for biology in the construction of immutable groups defined by ancestry. It is telling that although Hirsch makes numerous references contrasting Soviet and Nazi theories that her book Empire of Nations does not once mention Shirokogorov. An investigation into scholars positively citing his work shows not only similarities, but the actual intellectual influence of Soviet ideas of ethnicity in the construction of the theoretical basis of South African apartheid. The South Africans both in theory and practice erected a system of racial discrimination that thus had far more in common with Soviet nationalities policies than it did with Nazi Germany.

Yet, Hirsch and Weiner defend the USSR from the charge of racism by pointing out its differences from Nazi Germany as if that were the only example of racism in world history. If the Soviet national deportations are not racist because they were justified along lines of ethnicity stressing historical, cultural, and geographical differences rather than genetic ones than it seems impossible to claim that apartheid was racist. It too was justified along a rationale very different from the biological one of Nazi Germany. Indeed defenders of apartheid pointed out that 'separate development' was based upon providing for the different needs of ethnicities defined by differences in  history, culture, and geography not genetic inferiority. Nobody of course took the defenders of apartheid seriously even though they may have sincerely believed what they were saying. So why do most US scholars of the USSR buy the line that there was no racial discrimination in the USSR towards the deported peoples because the Stalin regime called racialized groups nationalities and like South Africa defined them along cultural rather than genetic lines?

Walt Richmond said...

Otto, was Hirsch the young woman at our panel in NYC that tried to argue that if a nation such as the Karachays was assimilated as a result of the deportation it was their own fault? I've never read her work; certainly none of the material I've ever read has referenced her book.

Obviously, the Soviet Union inherited the racism ingrained in its Tsarist predecessor. Deporting every last Karachay or Chechen, even those who fought against the Nazis, based upon the supposed notion that they were "traitor nations," is a racist policy.

J. Otto Pohl said...

No that was Kathryn Tomlinson. She is British and got her PhD in social anthropology from UCL. She wrote here dissertation on the Meskhetian Turks. As far as I can tell she has left academia.

Francine Hirsch is an American with a PhD in history. She is currently tenured at the University of Wisconsin. Her claim is that because anthropologists in the USSR were 'anti-racist' that there were no racist Soviet policies under Stalin. She of course largely ignores actual policies enacted by the NKVD. She also tends to ignore the work of the ethnographers who like their counterparts in apartheid South Africa were ethnic primordialists.

For some reason I do not understand Hirsch has been considered the foremost scholar on Soviet nationalities policies for years now. That means that other than you and me the number of people who think that the deportations were racist is very small. Officially the orthodox position of the US academia is that there was no racism towards the deported peoples because the Soviet government was officially 'anti-racist' and used culture rather than biology to categorize people. Of course so did apartheid South Africa. Which is my whole point. Evidently non-Americans such as Petr Skalnik realize this, but Hirsch and Wiener represent the majority view in the US. Other than you, me, and Eric D. Weitz I can not think of a single other published US scholar willing to say that the deportations were racist policies.

Walt Richmond said...

Of course, there was no single "Soviet" policy. The korenizatsiia of the early 1930s was followed by the purging of all the promoters of korenizatsiia in the late 1930s. In this 1920s you could be sent to the camps for using the word "zhid" to describe a Jew, while in the 1950s it was the standard word among the apparatchiki to describe them. So to argue the USSR was "officially" anti-racist makes no sense.

I'm dealing with the definition of genocide myself these days. It's a different sort of debate, but still filled with people who limit the debate with false assumptions.

J. Otto Pohl said...

Hirsch says there is a persistent Soviet policy from the 1920s to the 1950s at least rejecting racism. She basis this upon the official theories of race crafted by Soviet anthropologists. She does not take into account the fact that racist acts and policies can exist without a racial ideology based upon an explicit hierarchy of biological inferiority based upon genetics. She completely rejects the idea that racial discrimination can be based upon a 'racialization' that is making immutable ethnic and national categories. Hence her argument boils down to the idea that 'natsionalnost' is not race according to the Soviet anthropologists and therefore there was never any racist policies in Stalin's USSR.

Walt Richmond said...

Officially, yes, but officially the USSR was democratic. It sounds like a very rigid way of looking at things.

As for Kathryn Tomlinson, it's good to hear she's out of academia. I couldn't believe what came out of her mouth at that conference.

J. Otto Pohl said...

According to a quick Google search Dr. Tomlinson is currently working for the BBC. Earlier she was working for the British Ministry of Defense.


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Sunday, April 30, 2017
On Monday Forbes released its 29th annual list of every billionaire on the planet, and it features a record 1,826 people, or 181 more than last year.
Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, sold company shares valued at nearly $95 million to fund their charitable efforts.
Several Jews, including Bibi, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen and Facebook founder Zuckerberg, are featured on Forbes list of the World’s Most Powerful.
Research claims Europe cities tolerant toward Jewish communities during the Renaissance are reaping financial benefits from such tolerance to this day.
The international financial services and credit ratings agency Standard & Poor’s affirmed Israel’s international credit rating as positive with an A+ score.
A major French bank closed the account of a BDS group on grounds that it is illegal to support financial transactions of entities aiming to boycott Israel.
Jerusalem businesses whose revenues have suffered since the beginning of the current Palestinian terrorism wave were cautiously optimistic Sunday.
A survey by the EU shows Palestinians working in Israeli territory earn more than double the wages of Palestinians working in PA areas of the West Bank.
Israeli companies based in Massachusetts brought $9.3 billion to the state in 2015, outpacing the Massachusetts economy in overall revenue and job growth.
Szubin leads the enforcement of sanctions against terrorists, weapons proliferators, human rights violators and rogue nations like Iran.

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Thanksgiving a time for gratitude, hope

It’s the time of year where, in between making travel plans and baking trimmings for the turkey, we’re supposed to take stock of the things in our lives for which we’re thankful. Frankly, we should be doing this a lot more often than once a year, but I, for one, am guilty of oftentimes allowing the negative things life throws at me to consume my thoughts. I should and do realize, on balance, I’ve got it pretty good.

Still, I think it’s OK when counting blessings to think about how things might be better. This isn’t ingratitude. Instead, it’s a desire that more and more people can have more and more things for which to be grateful. So, in the following list of things I’m both thankful and hopeful for, my desire is my appreciation for what I have shows through, and my hopefulness for other things is just a realization that others might not have it as well as I do.

• I’m thankful for my wife. She’s put up with a lot in the last few years: Six rounds of law school finals — not to mention moot court — that made me a less than pleasant person to be around for a month at a time. An internship which required us to live apart for three months. A cross-country relocation in which she had to take on most of not just the heavy lifting, but the paperwork as well, and a crosstown move while I’ve been laid up with a bad back. Despite all of this, she still loves me and takes care of me, for which I’ll be forever grateful. I’m hopeful that, someday, everyone can not only find his or her soulmate, but can also make the decision to get married free from government and social prohibition.

• I’m thankful for my health insurance. My aforementioned back issue has required numerous doctor visits, trips to physical therapy and prescriptions, and I’m glad I can co-pay for those things. I’m hopeful we as a country can find a way for everyone to be able to afford quality medical care, instead of tolerating a system where CNN estimated 900,000 bankruptcies were filed in 2009 because of medical bills.

• I’m thankful for my job. Not just having one, but it being one in the field in which I studied and built experience. As of October, 13.9 million Americans didn’t have one. Another 8.9 million can only find part-time jobs, even though they need or want a full-time gig. And, even though Alaska generally and Juneau specifically is doing better than most of the rest of America when it comes to employment, there are still more than 25,000 Alaskans and 900 Juneauites looking for work. I’m glad my job also provides the health insurance I mentioned above. The number of Americans that can say the same about their own jobs is growing smaller and smaller. I’m hopeful the numbers of unemployed and underemployed folks continue to decline.

• I’m thankful for the roof over my head. It’s on top of more-than-adequate living space, not to mention a couple of nice televisions and a Blu-Ray player that’s hooked up to Netflix, among other creature comforts. Nearly 650,000 Americans at one point in 2010 couldn’t claim a home of their own, never mind some of the niceties I’ve been blessed with. More than 4,500 Alaskans — more than 400 of those in Juneau — spent one or more homeless nights in 2009, according to a study by the University of Alaska Anchorage. I’m hopeful housing opportunities grow and the underlying causes of homelessness — including unemployment, catastrophic economic disasters, untreated mental illness and addiction — shrink.

• Finally, I’m thankful for my dog. I know my wife loves me unconditionally, but she sometimes gets angry with me — usually because I deserve it. Not so Coach, who couldn’t get mad at me, or anyone, ever. His happy tail and boundless energy are a continual source of joy for my wife and me, and all he asks in return is belly rubs and the occasional Milk Bone. Coach picked us out at a rescue event in Oklahoma a couple of years ago, and I’m hopeful more dogs and cats — among other animals — can pick out their families soon. Between 5-7 million potential pets go into shelters every year, according to the ASPCA, and unfortunately more than half of these are killed because of overcrowding issues at those shelters. Thirty-nine potential pets are waiting at Gastineau Humane Society, as of Sunday evening. If you’d like to see if one of those animals will pick you out, call GHS at 789-0260 to learn more.

I’m hopeful this column won’t be read as a downer. If it can instead be taken as a boost, uplifting the vast majority of us to realize our condition is pretty good — all things considered — I’ll be thankful. Please enjoy your turkey, football and family this Thursday.

• Ward is the Deputy Managing Editor of the Juneau Empire. The views expressed here are his own, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Empire’s Editorial Board.

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Thursday, January 14, 2010

Suess it up!

When Lili was born, our employers gave us a lovely baby gift: an anthology of Suess books. It was too big, heavy and nice for us to use with a teething baby or crazy toddler, but now that Lili is older and more responsible, we have been reading it quite a lot. She loves reading it and even though they are crazy long stories (have you really ever read the Lorax, start to end, out loud, with all those "why" questions from a 3 year old?), we read about 2 a day when she's into it. They are fun to read if you're in the right mood**, and we also have Horton Hears a Who on audio book. Dustin Hoffman reads it. It's great. You should check it out.

So yesterday, in a fit of boredom, we turned Lili into a star-belly Sneetch. She loved it. She role played with Keith later that evening. "You ask me if you can play with me". "Can I play with you?". "No. You don't have a star on your belly."

I love it.

We've also been listening to the Suessical soundtrack. So far I've only gotten to hear the first half, but I like it!

** The "right mood" being when you are not holding and trying to calm a screaming infant. Reading Suess at top speed upside down is not recommended. You'll get a headache.

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Thursday, November 17, 2011

Amazing recycled ball gowns

I know, it's been forever since I've posted!!  Life sure is getting busy these days!  I came across this blog post today and just had to share these ball gowns made from recycled materials.  Check out the link to see more.

Also, here are a few other posts you may enjoy from my other blog:
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Friday, March 9, 2012

FREE Junk Mail Gems Bookmark & a chance to win a Macbook Air for $10!

 If you've explored the products on my website in depth, you may have come across my special edition red jewelry.  I started selling this line of products in honor of my dad a few years ago, (who was battling Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma) out of the red patterned envelopes that he began receiving frequently from his insurance company.  $5 of every red bead jewelry purchase goes directly to and $5 of every red pendant purchase goes to the American Cancer Society.

Well, my dad has been cancer free for over 3 years, and I am sad to say that it has returned.  While he has been able to achieve remission after two rounds of chemo this time, his journey is just beginning, as he will be undergoing a stem cell transplant beginning as soon as next week.

Throughout his journey he and my mom have come across many kind and generous friends, family, and even strangers.  One such angel has generously purchased a new Macbook Air, which is going to be raffled off for $10 per ticket, to help raise money for their medical expenses.

But that's not all!!!  For every one of my blog readers who purchase one or more raffle tickets, I will send you one FREE large weave bookmark! (1 per person)

Here's how to enter:

1) Purchase a raffle ticket (or a bunch!)
 Click on this link for the details to enter the raffle.  You'll be asked to send an email, and will receive a Paypal invoice and then your ticket number(s) once your payment is completed.

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For more info on my dad's battle, check out his CaringBridge site here!

Is this a plug?  Yes.  Shameless? Totally! If it weren't for my dad, I wouldn't even exist, and neither would Junk Mail Gems! ;-) THANK YOU for your support!!
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Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Pfarkel's adding color to the country house

We have been adding color and refinishing floors at the country house.   These have been cold,rainy day projects.   This Pfarkel sister is nailing base trim board not taking a nap on the job.

Vintage Treasures Market is now Quad State

We just added two vendor/artisans from Iowa--210th St. Designs and Junk revised and one from Nebraska - Dorothy Waltz.   Last week we also added KBB Creative Creations from Chatfield.
It looks like they all have some wonderful items for all the shoppers.

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Vintage Treasures Market adds Wine Tasting

The Vintage Tresures Market is adding another feature for shoppers and vendors alike.  On Friday, the 17th of June we will have Whitewater Wines host a wine tasting from 5 - 7 pm.  So come and try the wine after you have done your shopping on Friday.


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Friday, December 6, 2013

Color of the Day 113

**Please note that I color using the lightest color first, dark, medium and back to light.  I only slightly blend the edge of the last color placed.  Then add the shadow.

If you miss one of the combo's you can find it on the side of the blog labeled "Color of The Day".  Please realize that your computer screen and printer can change the way you see it or how the colors print, but if you try it yourself you will get some fun combos...promise!

Also, feel free to pin them.  I ask that you do not sell them printed out, do not place them on your personal blog but rather link to mine.  These are for personal use only.   Leave me some love if you want to see more!

Thank you to all my followers and fans from all over the world.

Jenn Dove

Gramma said...

How did you know? I was studying that face when you posted for the hair.... LOVE these tags!

KathyB said...

Love your work Jennifer!

KathyB said...

Love your work Jennifer!


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Starting Positions in Relation to the ball.

Keeping a high starting position within a game is vital to a team shape.

If a goalkeeper keeps a high line it allows the team as a whole to defend high up the pitch,

rather than allowing the opposition to play in their attacking third.

If the back four have to drop deep this may detatch them from the Midfield and allow the

formation to be open and spread, creating gaps for the opposition to exploit.

As a goalkeeper can see the whole picture, he/she must ensure that against

possession of the ball the defending players are in correct positions and are aware of

attacking runners and unmarked player, so constant communication is vital.

Move with the ball! Goalkeepers must move around the 18rd box in relation to where the

ball is on pitch, dont be caught going in straight lines backwards and forwards, if the ball

goes to the left side of the pitch the goalkeeper be on the angle that is a straight line from

center of the goal straight to the ball, this will allow them to gain a good starting position if

a through ball is played down the sides.

Positive starting positions create positive decisions!! if a through ball is played and the

goalkeeper is in a positive starting position, it will create a quicker and positive decision

and reduce the chances of him/her being caught in two minds.

A positive decision doesnt always mean that the goalkeeper comes and deals with it, if

he/she feels that a defending player can deal with it, and it’s safer for them to do so then

making a positive decision to stay may be the better option!

Confidence can be the deciding factor when making decision or keeping a high starting

position in and a round the goal. The dread of making a mistake or being caught in “no

mans land” can force a keeper back, so this is where a good coach comes in. Take the

pressure off them by assuring young goalkeepers that mistakes will happen and that they

will only get better with their decision making through learning from them!