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Sahel Crisis: 8 Questions Answered

For the third time in a decade, drought in the Sahel region of Africa is threatening millions of people with hunger. But how do people survive in these situations and what are we doing to help them? Here are the answers to eight questions about the current hunger crisis in the Sahel and WFP's response to it.

1. Why are people going hungry in the Sahel?
The rains only come once per year in the African Sahel and last year, they were patchy and late. That’s a recipe for disaster in a part of the world where most people live on what they can grow. When the rains don’t come on time, harvests fail, animals die and people start going hungry.

2. Which countries have been hit by the drought?
The drought is affecting a huge swathe of territory that covers parts of Chad, Niger, Mali, Mauritania, Burkina Faso, Senegal, Gambia, Cameroon and northern Nigeria.
3. In addition to drought, what other factors have led to a food crisis in the Sahel?
Bad harvests this year have driven up the price of food at a time of year when it’s usually more affordable. High fuel costs and pest infestations haven’t helped. Conflict in northern Mali has been a major factor, forcing 320,000 people to flee their homes and seek refuge elsewhere in Mali, or in neighbouring countries. This puts strain on communities already struggling to find enough food.

Huge Humanitarian Needs

African woman with a basket on her head

WFP and partners have launched a regional response to reach more than 10 million people with food assistance. If you make a donation now, it will be twice as effective. Find out why.

Interactive map

Check out our interactive map of the Sahel for a quick overview of the situation in each country and WFP's response. Or, for more info, visit our Sahel Crisis Page.

4. How do small farmers survive when they don’t grow enough food?
During hard times, families will often sell land or animals in order to buy food. That’s called a “negative coping strategy” because it leaves them poorer and more likely to go hungry in the long-term. When they run out of things to sell, families have little choice but to move to the cities or abroad in search of work.
5. Are droughts common in the Sahel?
Yes and they’re becoming even more common with climate change. This is the third drought to hit the Sahel in less than a decade. Particularly in Niger, many families haven’t yet fully recovered from the last drought in 2010 and have even less to fall back on now than they did then.
6. How is the situation in the Sahel this year different from droughts in the past?
Whereas droughts in 2005 and 2010 were felt most in Niger and parts of Chad, the food crisis this year is unfolding across the entire region, from Chad in the east all the way to the Atlantic Ocean. In addition, the conflict in Mali added a whole new layer of complexity. Food prices in the region are also much higher than they were in 2010.
7. If this crisis is different, how is WFP responding differently?
In countries like Niger where food markets are holding up, WFP is providing hungry people with vouchers and cash that they can use to buy food at local markets. This helps the local economy and gives people a greater variety of food to choose from. WFP will also be buying much of the food it distributes from countries near to the Sahel, to cut down on the amount of time it takes to get to the people who need it.

8. How can we prevent droughts in the Sahel from causing food crises in the future?
The Sahel is an arid place prone to frequent droughts and yet most of the people who live there depend on rain-fed agriculture. Teaching people how to harvest rainwater in ponds and grow drought-resistant crops can help them to get through bouts of dry weather. Another way to stave off hunger are village granaries where families can borrow grain during the lean season and then "repay" it at the next harvest.

Malian family in a refugee campMali: Impact of fighting

WFP is monitoring the situation in northern Mali, where recent fighting has caused around 320,000 people to flee their homes. They have sought refuge both inside Mali and across Malian borders in Mauritania, Niger, Burkina Faso and Algeria. WFP is supporting displaced people, refugees and their host communities in Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger and Mauritania through new and ongoing projects. Read story


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Nigeria: Minister urges private sector to assist in commercializing research findings

WorldStage Newsonline-- Nigeria’s Minister of Science and Technology, Ogbonnaya Onu has urged the private sector to assist in commercializing research and development findings in order to fight poverty and create jobs in the country.

Speaking in Abuja after receiving a report from the committee on the commercialization of research and development findings, Onu said findings from educational institutions will also be commercialized.

He also added that the Islamic Development Bank IDB had commenced the process of facilitating the Nigerian private sectors on the commercialization of the  findings.

The Minister said the bank will help in the commercialization of research findings produced by Research Institutes in Nigeria and also create jobs opportunity in the country.

He noted that commercialization will lead to the local production of all the nation’s needs. “We believe that the lack of promoting Nigeria products can be achieved by producing all our goods locally.

Onu stated that Islamic Development Bank will  use their resources to assist Nigeria to tackle food insecurity in the country.

He also challenged Nigerian Researchers and Innovators in the diaspora to come home and invest especially in the area of space technology.

"We cannot  afford to allow other countries explore space, we are going to work with the Federal Ministry of Finance and Trade and Investment to facilitate their coming home and also develop venture capital,” he said.

The Minister disclosed that a draft copy of Science and technology road map 2030 had been distributed to all  stakeholders for comments and inputs before it will be forwarded to Federal executive council for approval .

“The Federal Ministry of Science and Technology is working hard to close technology gaps in the best interest of the nation through   Technology Acquisition initiatives,” he said.

The Chairman of the Committee who also doubles as the Director General of the National Office for technology Acquisition and Promotion NOTAP, Dr Dan Azumi Mohammed Ibrahim while submitting the report alongside other members of the committee expressed hope that the report to be fully implemented.

He said there “are lots of technological innovations that can move the country forward if well harnessed.”

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Saturday, August 19, 2017

Crisis: Bannon Out, Remove Trump *2, On TV, Freud The Fraud

Sections                                                                     crisis index

1. Summary
2. Crisis Files
    A. Selections from August 19, 2017

This is a Nederlog of Saturday, August 19, 2017.

1. Summary

This is a crisis log but it is a bit different from how it was the last four years:

I have been writing about the crisis since September 1, 2008 (in Dutch) and about the enormous dangers of surveillance (by secret services and by many rich commercial entities) since June 10, 2013, and I probably will continue with it, but on the moment I have several problems with the company that is supposed to take care that my site is visible [1] and with my health.

As I explained, the crisis files will have a different format from July 1, 2017: I will now list the items I selected as I did before (title + link) but I add one selection from the selected item to give my readers a bit of a taste of the item linked.

So the new format is as follows:

      Link to an item with its orginal title, followed by
      One selection (usually) from that item (indented)
      Possibly followed by a brief comment by me (not indented).

This is illustrated below, in selections A.

2. Crisis Files

These are five crisis files that are all well worth reading:

A. Selections from August 19, 2017

The items 1 - 5 are today's selections from the 35 sites that I look at every morning. The indented text under each link is quoted from the link that starts the item. Unindented text is by me:

This article is by Mehdi Hasan on The Intercept, and indeed one of many articles about Bannon's dismissal, that I like (and see the item 2 and item 4 below). This is from near the beginning:

Bannon, as of Friday morning, is out, six months after his controversial switchover from Trump campaign chief executive to White House chief strategist. He joins Gen. Michael Flynn, Reince Priebus, Sean Spicer, Katie Walsh, and Anthony Scaramucci on the outside. As Oscar Wilde nearly remarked: to lose one member of your inner circle may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose six in six months looks like sheer chaos.

Let’s be clear: Trump’s sacking of “Mr. Bannon” is not a repudiation of Bannon-esque, or Breitbartian, white nationalism. Rather, it is a clear consequence of Bannon, like Icarus flying too close to the sun. As Trump’s remarks on Tuesday indicated, he wanted to make clear to the world that he is his own man — or, as he once declaimed in an early-morning tweet: “I call my own shots.” For the thin-skinned, egomaniacal, and attention-hungry president, White House staffers have only one mission: to boost him, not themselves.

The first paragraph mostly gives the plain facts. And I agree with the second paragraph since I myself think for a long time now that Trump is a megalomaniac, and for that reason should be removed as president as fast as possible.

There is considerably more in the article, that ends as follows:

The Leader of the Free World has form on nativism, xenophobia, and racism, as I have pointed out before. Consider the past few days: Bannon may have influenced Trump’s response to the domestic terror attack in Charlottesville, but he did not force Trump to provoke howls of outrage across Capitol Hill, the business community, and the wider West on Tuesday by referring to the “very fine people” on the neo-Nazi, KKK-aligned side; nor did Bannon dictate Trump’s dog-whistling tweet on Thursday praising the “beauty” of Confederate monuments.

Yes, Bannon has finally gone and we can all rejoice. Sebastian Gorka and maybe even Stephen Miller might eventually follow him out of the White House doors. But Trump remains. That’s the inescapable, unavoidable, undeniable problem; that’s the orange-skinned gorilla in the room. I hate to agree with Trump but Bannon or no Bannon, John Kelly or no John Kelly, the president does indeed call his own shots. Especially the racist ones.

I agree, and this is a recommended article.

2. Remove Him Now

This article is by Robert Reich on his site. This is from the middle of this (short) article:

Let’s be clear. There is already enough evidence to impeach Trump on grounds of abuse of power, obstruction of justice, and violation of the emoluments clause of the Constitution.

There is already enough evidence of mental impairment to invoke the 25th amendment.

I know, Republicans are in control of Congress. But this is no license for Trump to destroy the nation we love.

I know, removing Trump would mean having Mike Pence as president. But a principled right-winger is far better for America and the world than an unhinged egomaniac.

I agree, indeed also with the last paragraph (as I have also argued before). And this is a recommended article.

3. How Movies Like 'Toy Story 3' and 'The Incredibles' Are Turning Our Children into Violent, Militarized Monsters

This article is by Heidi Tilney Kramer on AlterNet and originally on OpenDemocracy.

It starts as follows - and my readers should remember that (i) I do and did not owe a TV since 1970, although I have, very occasionally, seen some of it, that only fortified my 1970 decision that I did not want this instrument of propaganda, advertisements and lies, lies, plentiful, false and degenerate lies in my house, and that (2) I have no children because I fell ill at 28, and am still ill:

“Ten percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and ten percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction.” Susan Sontag.

Who would ever have thought that there would be torture scenes in G and PG-rated children's films, or that video games would allow someone to feel the rush of killing

Seeing “little Boo,” the toddler who can barely speak in Monsters, Inc., strapped into a seat with holes in the bottom for draining bodily fluids just like the electric chair on death row convinced me to take a closer look at what children all over the world are watching as their purported ‘entertainment;’ what this might be doing to their minds and their emotions; and how all this is related to public policy and the institutions of society.
In the film The Incredibleschildren are shown the 9/11 trope of a plane bent on destruction that’s heading toward a U.S. city while an entire family ends up on a torture table; the film also shows “Mr Incredible” being blasted by viscous bubbles similar to the supposedly non-lethal incapacitant sticky-foam weapons that are currently being proposed for crowd control in the U.S. and elsewhere. And what are children to think when their beloved Buzz Lightyear—shown as a friend to all for two of the three films in the series—is tortured, has his personality changed, and becomes a prison guard for the cruel overlord in the surveillance-laden dystopia of Toy Story 3?

In fact, I completely agree with the above quotation, except for one thing: I made the same diagnosis, albeit not in the relative detail of the present article, in 1984, after having studied some "children's programs" on my mother's TV.

That is, it was then at least mostly like it is now on the USA's "children's TV" a full 33 years ago, although I am willing to believe - three year olds who can see "an entire family" ending up "on a torture table" etc. - that it is worse now than the utterly atrocious sadism I watched, indeed quite astonished, half of my life ago.

Then again, I happily do not have a TV and do not want one. The article seems quite OK to me and this is from the ending:

Where is all this leading? As Hitler’s deputy Hermann Goering said at the Nuremberg trials:

“Of course the people don't want war...That is understood...But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them that they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.”

Propaganda and other more subtle forms of media communication have always been used to build support for war, militaristic policing and government surveillance on the grounds of ‘national security.’ The images and messages contained in film, TV, popular music and video games form an important part of this process, especially because there are now only five big media conglomerates that control over 90 per cent of everything that is seen and heard across America.

Against this background we are growing accustomed to torture and militarism in children’s films.
I completely agree, except for the quite pessimistic addition that I did complain (in my journal) about precisely the same 33 years ago, and that I presume this sick and sadistic implantations of sick sadism in three to eight year old American children has been systematic for at least 33 years.

It also explains - implicitly and indirectly - various things about Trump's supporters if, as I believe is correct, the vast majority has been propagandized like this ever since they were three. And this is a recommended article.

4. 4 National Publications Call for Trump's Removal from Office

This article is by Chris Sosa, and in a way continues item 2, where Robert Reich made the same call. I merely copy the headlines:

Washington Post: "President Donald Trump Must Go" —David Rothkopf
Rolling Stone: "Republicans Must Tell Trump to Go - Now" —Jesse Berney
Glamour: "It's Time to Impeach Donald Trump" —Hillary Kelly
Huffington Post: "Trump Must Go, Now!" —Lance Simmons

There is more in the article, including quotations from each of the above four sources, and this article is recommended.

5. The Curious Conundrum of Freud’s Persistent Influence

This article is by George Prochnik on The New York Times. It is not a crisis file. It is here because I think Freud was a fraud ever since first reading about him and the psychoanalysts he influenced in 1966 (when I was 16), and also because I am a psychologist, who dislikes Freud, Freudianism, psychoanalysis and modern - DSM-5 based - American psychiatry (and for one long and good article see my DSM-5: Question 1 of "The six most essential questions in psychiatric diagnosis").

Also, I have previously reviewed this book of Frederick Crew, but do so again here, for one thing because I did not know that Freud also was a rather sick personal bastard. This is from the beginning of the review:

Instead “Freud: The Making of an Illusion” focuses on the man — specifically how a reflective young scientist with high ambitions and gifted mentors lost perspective on his “wild hunches,” covered up his errors and created “an international cult of personality.” In practice, this translates into 700-plus pages of Freud mangling experiments, shafting loved ones, friends, teachers, colleagues, patients and ultimately, God help us, swindling humanity at large. Here we have Freud the liar, cheat, incestuous child molester, woman hater, money-worshiper, chronic plagiarizer and all-around nasty nut job. This Freud doesn’t really develop, he just builds a rap sheet.

I knew Freud was a liar and a cheat since 1966, and I know he did not seem to like women, but that he was an "incestuous child molester", a "moneyworshiper", a "chronic plagiarizer", and also an "all-around nasty nut job" I had - so far - mostly missed.

Then again, since the man was a liar and a cheat (and used cocaine for 15 years) it does not amaze me very much. Prochnik also has some criticism:

The usefulness of the aggregation would have been greater had Crews presented his story with more of that objectivity he finds so damningly absent in Freud. Here, “Freud outdid himself in thickheadedness.” There we encounter the “apogee of Freud’s willful blindness.” Elsewhere we read of Freud indulging his “yen for borrowed power,” and exhibiting “madcap self-deception.”

I do not know whether the criticism is correct. In any case, it does not seem to be serious. The article ends as follows:

Crews has been debunking Freud’s scientific pretensions for decades now; and it seems fair to ask what keeps driving him back to stab the corpse again. He may give a hint at the opening of this book, when he confesses that he too participated in the “episode of mass infatuation” with psychoanalysis that swept the country 50 years ago. The wholesale denigration of its founder is what we might expect in response to a personal betrayal of the highest order, such as only an idol can deliver. Paraphrasing Voltaire, if Freud didn’t exist, Frederick Crews would have had to invent him. In showing us a relentlessly self-interested and interminably mistaken Freud, it might be said he’s done just that.

This is a recommended article.

[1] I have now been saying since the end of 2015 that xs4all.nl is systematically ruining my site by NOT updating it within a few seconds, as it did between 1996 and 2015, but by updating it between two to seven days later, that is, if I am lucky.

They have claimed that my site was wrongly named in html: A lie. They have claimed that my operating system was out of date: A lie.

And they just don't care for my site, my interests, my values or my ideas. They have behaved now for 1 1/2 years as if they are the eagerly willing instruments of the US's secret services, which I will from now on suppose they are (for truth is dead in Holland).

The only two reasons I remain with xs4all is that my site has been there since 1996, and I have no reasons whatsoever to suppose that any other Dutch provider is any better.

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Sunday, December 13, 2009

Repair a damaged Mac OS X hard drive

In Mac OS X File system corruption are common problems in every computer operating system. These cases might occur due to improper system shutdown, virus infection, incomplete operating system upgrade and many alike. In order to overcome such situations, Mac OS X offers a powerful inbuilt utility, known as Disk Utility. You can run Disk Utility directly on any Mac OS X hard drive, it will detect and repair most of the errors.

But in case of severe file system and disk corruption scenarios, this tool can not detect and fix the hard drive errors and the hard drive remains inaccessible. Such circumstance cause critical data loss situations, Mac Data Recovery is required to retrieve lost data. In a practical scenario, when you try to repair a damaged Mac OS X hard drive volume using Disk Utility, you might come across the below given error message:

Checking Catalog file.
Invalid key length
The volume hard drive name needs to be repaired.
Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit
1 HFS volume checked
Volume needs repair”

Once these error messages popup, Disk Utility stops scanning the hard drive and thus it could not detect the hard drive errors. In such scenario, the problem remains intact and you come across Mac data loss scenarios. At this point, you are required to find out the cause of data loss and go for Mac Recovery solutions to by sorting it out.

Try following things to sort out the above issue:

Run Disk Utility from Externally mounted FireWire drive.

Attempt the single user restart Cmd-S and run fsck -y.

Try to run the Disk Warrior from another hard drive volume.

When all else fails, you need to rebuild the hard drive by formatting it and reinstalling the operating system. It is the last resort to sort out all types of hard drive problems. But it also has a disadvantage that it removes all of the hard drive data and cause serious data loss situations. In these cases, you need to carry out Data Recovery Mac using third party applications.

These tools use high-end scanning techniques to thoroughly scan the affected hard drive and retrieve all of the data from it. Mac Data Recovery software are quite easy and safe to use.It recover mac data and supports snow leopard version of apple.


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Mack’s Morning Report – 6-1-16 – David Wright, Will Craig, Ernest Dove, Bernie Madoff

Good morning.

It’s June. Welcome to Draft Month. I will have a ton of posts about the draft leading up to the opening of the draft on June 9th.

Since I’m retiring at the end of this season, this will also be the last year I research the draft. I’ll especially miss this portion of my blog. It always generated the most readers of any days throughout the year.
On June 5th I will be posting a series of posts that rank the top players available, by position. You can make copies of these and keep them in front of you while you watch the Mets ignore all the experts and draft someone out of Kiwanis ball somewhere in the Aleutian Islands.
On June 6th I will post up two posts… my last mock draft that will be five rounds and my personal picks for the first 19 picks in the draft, which end with the Mets pick.

As you already know, David Wright now has been diagnosed with a herniated disc in his neck to go along with his spinal stenosis. There simply is nothing good about this, but the Mets might want to consider a draft option that literally could follow the meteoric rise that Michael Conforto had to the majors.

Wake Forest third baseman/first baseman Will Craig is considered by many draft experts as the top college hitter available in the draft. Fangraphs had a feature on him  this year which did say that he may have to be moved full time to either first base or a corner outfield position due to his limited mobility at third.

I’d still consider him for the 19th pick in the draft. Craig is hitting .392/.537/.766 with 16 home runs and 65 runs batted in. By the way, he’s also 2-0, 2.42 as the team closer.

Craig literally could report to St. Lucie the day after the draft, start next season in Binghamton, and be a September call-up to replace either Wright at third or Lucas Duda at first

IF Dale Burdick was transferred from Binghamton to Brooklyn

C Tyler Moore was placed on the Columbia disabled list

RHP Nicco Black was transferred from Columbia to Brooklyn

IF David Thompson was activated on the Columbia roster

RHP Witt Haggard came off the Columbia disabled list

OF Jayce Boyd was transferred from Brooklyn to Binghamton

Ernest Dove no longer writes for Mack’s Mets. You will find him exclusively at MetsMinors.net He did a wonderful job here for a long period of time and his Friday features were some of the most read on the site. He will be sorely missed.

Remember when the Bernie Madoff mess came down and everybody claimed Mets poverty? Well, now a story comes from  Adam Rubin that Jeff and Fred Wilpon are scheduled today to make a $16,000,000 worth of profits they made on their buddy’s scheme. -

Under the original 2012 court settlement, the sides stipulated that the Wilpons lost $176.6 million in certain Madoff funds, while making $162 million from other funds.

The Mets owners originally agreed to make payments in 2016 and 2017 to return the $162 million profit -- with one major wrinkle:

Through lawsuits and other means, a court-appointed trustee has made significant progress in recovering money for the Ponzi scheme's victims. And since the Wilpons lost money in certain funds, they were allowed to reduce their settlement by whatever principal was recovered from their funds that were not profitable.

Right now, the figure owed is down to $61 million from the original $162 million.

        Mack - Only 61 mil... such a deal.

Thomas Brennan said...

Best of luck to Ernest Dove. I will miss the Dom Smith man-crush posts. Now if Smith could start crushing the ball, we'd all be better off.

I also read in the Madoff article that the $61 million they owe for Madoff will likely reduce further. Compared to how it looked a few years ago, they must be breathing a huge sigh of relief. Time to ramp up spending.

Robles has allowed a homer every 6 innings as a major leaguer - other than those, he has pitched great, but the dinger rate is completely unacceptable.

A few unrelated ramblings:

Nice to see Loney join the other scoundrels (part timers and subs) who can never get a hit for the Mets. He, Flores, and Plawecki went 1 for 11 - that will win a lot of games. The subs are now down to .170 in 319 at bats this year - whoo hoo.

Matt Reynolds showed his joy at returning to Vegas by striking out 4 times last night. Nimmo doubled his season homer total to 2 last night.

Cecchini exhibiting low power but 30 for his last 80. Don't get excited about him - 10 errors in 29 games at SS, and 38 total errors in 138 games since last year. How do you spell "bust"?

Stolmy Pimentel, who has a 1.35 WHIP in 53 career major league innings, has a 2.42 WHIP and 11.39 ERA for Vegas - WTF?

Hobie said...

Looking forward to your draft-by-position profiles.

Right now I would grab Josh Lowe if available at 19 (OK with Craig or J.Nolan too). And at 31 (certainly 64) -- just for the name, but the bat is pretty good too -- Carter Kieboom!

Wilson/Modof... sounds about the way it should have gone. Lets move on.

Anonymous said...

Morning Mack:
I'm hoping for Will Craig and Robert Tyler in the upcoming draft!
But if Buddy Reed is available

Thomas Brennan said...

I do look forward to the draft postings...we need OFFENSE!

Mack's Mets © 2012


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Sunday, January 18, 2009

Just a little reminder to everyone to do your part. We have been shifting to a greener lifestyle over the past eighteen months and our trash and power consumption has plunged. We buy offsets to make up for the 4x4 we need to get up the mountain and even have a doo-dad hooked up to our AC so the power company can turn it off if there is too much drain on the grid. I was feeling pretty good about that. As I read more about eco-issues I heard time and time again about how not eating meat is one of the best things you can do for the planet. Somehow my twisted, lazy mind took that to mean that as a vegan I'm doing pretty darn good (if I do say so myself) and I can let up on the reigns a bit. It started with apples. I fell in love with expensive gourmet apples from New Zealand. I winced at the thought of the energy required to get them to my plate but decided all the good I do cooking from scratch, not eating animal products, being a one car household etc. surely made up for a few apples. Then it got cold and our thermostat has crept higher and higher. Yesterday we got a power bill that rivaled our old pre-concern for the environment days. How the prideful have fallen. So with this post I'm back on track. We're good at reuse and recycle but reduce still needs a lot of work. And I'm dialing the thermostat down again.

Paper: bazzill and Crate (I even used the strip that says "Crate" it's the yellow bit at the bottom)
Stamps: On Sale: Mushroom corner right and mushroom corner left, Take Care of Our Earth
Tim Holtz Blending tool and Tea Dye distress ink
EK Success Corner Punch
Autumn Leaves Button tied with karen foster floss

Kathi said...

Great card.

It's always a good reminder to reduce, re-use, and recycle.

Jenna Bayley-Burke said...

I know what you mean... it is so much easier to eat local during the Farmer's Market months.


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Aug 25, 2006

The Oak Tree

A mighty wind
Blew night and day
It stole the oak tree's leaves away
Then snapped its boughs
And pulled its bark
Until the oak was tired and stark
But still the oak tree held its ground
While other trees fell all around
The weary wind gave up and spoke
How can you still be standing, Oak
The oak tree said, I know that you
Can break each branch of mine in two
Carry every leaf away
Shake my limbs, and make me sway
But I have roots stretched in the earth
Growing stronger since my birth
You'll never touch them, for you see
They are the deepest part of me
Until today, I wasn't sure
Of just how much I could endure
But now I've found, with thanks to you
I'm stronger than I ever knew


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May 2, 2010

Random Update :)

Hi everyone! This will probably be a boring I apologize in advance.

Upcoming craft /art projects:
-putting up polka dot decals I got for Finn's room
-putting up wall quote (see further down post)
-painting a canvas trio & trying a new medium (glass bead gel) which I'm so excited for...I will post pics when I complete it. :)
-getting some prints done for a family tree collage (well, its technically only pictures of Mark & I as babies, then when Finn is born, we will put pics of him in the middle...hard to explain...but i will post those pics as well)

This is what I've been reading (The Mark of the Lion Trilogy by Francine Rivers)

This is what I'm reading next:

This is the hair color I'm getting after Finn arrives:

We are awaiting the arrival of this wall decal for Finn's room:

I got some pretty cool stuff when we went to PG for a couple days. This is one of my favorite things:

I'm in the midst of making a birth plan & booklet for my birth team (Mark, Mom, Leah) :) which is super exciting!
There is so much information out there, and I really want my "team" to be excited, ready and educated too! I will post my plan later (but on the baby blog) :)


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Saturday, June 30, 2012

This atc uses a TJ technique from the past, October 2006 to be exact. The technique is called Powder Keg enameling. I think the heat wave we are undergoing and the challenge, create a little sunshine, at Inspiration Emporium inspired this atc. The technique basically involves layers of embossing powder which melt into each other to give a fairly smooth and beautifully colored result. I can't remember who made the sun stamp. I think the atc is now inspiring me to go and find a cold glass of iced tea.

Happy Birthday Dahling

I seem to be singing the same song the past few posts. Today is June 30 and which means the June monthly challenges are ending. I had to get up early today to finish my Stampsmith challenge card with the theme humorous birthday. I made it with a few hours to go. To make my card I used the sketch challenge from Mojo Monday, although I did turn it on its side. My card features Mae West from Stampsmith's Fame 1. The birthday greeting is also a Stampsmith stamp. The "Age" sentiment is from Club Scrap. All of the die cuts are from Spellbinders. The background paper is My Mind's Eye. The lace is from Classy Cards 'n Such. I did try an experiment on my card. Since I had just tried photo tinting on my Tim Holtz tag yesterday, I wondered if I could use the same technique with a photo stamp. Yes, you can. The only warning is that you must use waterproof ink to stamp the image or it will smudge when you add the distress ink color. Guess how I know that. I used archival ink to stamp the image. If you want to see a demo of photo tinting, check out the June tag on Tim's blog; Tim has a video demo.

12 Tags of 2012 -- June

Well, it's still June for  20 some hours. What happened to this month. I finished my June tag for the 12 Tags of 2012 just in time. I really love how the photo tinting with distress in turned out. The image Tim gave us was too cute not to use. I can't wait to see what July brings.

Friday, June 29, 2012

Celebrate the 4th of July

The 4th of July holiday is upon us and here is a card to celebrate. This week the Bloggers Challenge wants us to celebrate the 4th. Sweet Stamps is looking for a patriotic or summer card. The Artistic Stamper's June challenge is red, white, and blue. To make my card I stamped the July 4th background stamp on a piece of white cardstock using white acrylic paint. The panel was then colored using barn red distress stain. Using a wet cloth, I wiped the distress ink off the letters. I used the letterpress technique by dry embossing the words with the matching texture fade. I die cut the flag and colored it using distress markers. The book panel was cut using a spellbinders die. The pretty corner flowers are from SweetStamps. They are colored using distress markers with the red flowers made with a Viva Decor red paint pen. The sentiment is from Tim Holtz's ChitChat. The rhinestone stars are from my stash.
Hope everyone has a safe and fun 4th of July.
By the way, I'm sorry about missing last week's challenge. I haven't missed many Bloggers Challenges since I started. I was in Washington DC for a wedding and a little rest and relaxation.

Thursday, June 28, 2012

Easel Gift Box

Well, the temperature in Chicago hit 101 today. What better place for me to spend the day than in my cool, basement studio. Today I created an easel gift box.  It actually meets several challenges. At Our Daily Bread Designs the challenge was to use three stamps. I used two sentiments and the bicycle image from the Bicycle stamp set. City Crafters  wants us to create a gift, rather than a card. Put some chocolates in the box and you have a wonderful gift. Creative Belli challenged us to create anything but a card. And I Brake for Challenges wants to see summer fun.
The easel box technique and the watercolor reinker are both techniques from Technique Junkies.

Best Wishes

The challenge at Cheery Lynn this week was right on time with my life. One reason for my trip to Washington DC this past weekend was to attend the wedding of my friend's daughter. I used the beautiful wedding die from Cheery Lynn to make my card for the couple. The card was in shades of silver. I added the rhinestone/pearl heart at the top, a few rhinestones on the lacy part, and the sentiment sticker at the bottom. This die is awesome.

I've been missing in action pretty much all last week. I missed all of my usual challenges and more. I was trying to get over pneumonia and then I spent a few days in and around Washington DC. I couldn't even get to my email because the Wifi in the hotel was really weak. However, now I'm back! I've got a lot to catch up on, so here goes.
I'm back to my challenges. This card was done with a few challenges in mind. The challenge for Compendium of Curiosities II was tissue wrap flowers from p. 38 of Tim Holtz's book. This week's challenge is sponsored by The Funkie Junkie Boutique.  Kraft Journal had an anything goes challenge. Simon Says Stamp and Show wants depth of distress.
To create my card I started with a panel of Core'dinations paper. I dry embossed it with a numbers folder from Cuttlebug and then sanded the raised numbers. I used my Distrezz-it-all to distress the edges. I used walnut stain distress ink along the edges. The flower was made from Tim Holtz's tissue paper according to his technique directions. I added ripe persimmon distress ink to the edges and a Webster's Pages embellishment to the center. The clock was die cut from black cardstock. The butterfly (top and base) are from Webster's Pages. The simple sentiment is from Tim's Chit Chat stickers.

Sunday, June 24, 2012

Stamping Fun

I was looking for a little stamping fun today, so I combined the adorable bears from Rogue Redhead Designs new release, Getting Grizzly, and a fun technique from the current TJ newsletter. I stamped the two bears on white cardstock and then masked them. I overstamped with the background stamp. The panel was die cut with a Spellbinders die and a backing panel was cut to from the image. I used the circle colored collage technique to color the image panel. A side note here. I actually didn't have any circle stamps, so I used a Tim Holtz technique and die cut circles from foan and adhered the shapes to packaging. Now I have three circle stamps, (you may be seeing this TJ technique again now that I have circle stamps) The background panel was made using distress stains. I pounced several colors on white cardstock and then sprayed with water to move the colors a little (This is a variation of some of Tim Holtz's techniques.) I stamped the sentiment directly on the background panel with archival ink.

Monday, June 18, 2012

Parrot Times Two

At Frilly and Funkie the challenge was an inspiration one based on this picture of the parrot. The Stampotique Designers challenge was twin images, to use the same image twice on our piece.
My parrot isn't an elegant parrot in flight; he seems more to be in need of a little more self esteem. He is, however, a parrot (Stampotique). He seems to be looking at his refelection. To create his reflection, I stamped him on a flat piece of rubber and then stamped the new image on my paper. Then, using the stamp positioner, I stamped him again on the paper. I colored the parrots using Prisma pencils and gamsol. I used glimmer mist sprays to color the two halves of the image oval. To frame the image I used a Spellbinders oval. The front of the base card was dry embossed using a Sizzix folder. The sentiment, which I love, is from Stampotique designs.

Sunday, June 17, 2012

Enchanted Garden

This week the Cheery Lynn challenge theme is roses. The theme of the challenge at Take a Word is floral. Fashionable Stamping has the theme of nature.
I used the miniature rose die from Cheery Lynn for the roses, the leaves are from the flourish leaf strip, and the fairy is the one free wish die. I added a few inspirational jewels from Creative Inspirations Paints and highlighted the roses and fairy wings with CI paints. I wish my garden was enchanted by this lovely fairy.

Friday, June 15, 2012

Fathers Day

Sunday is Father's Day. This is the card I created for my Dad. I am so blessed to be able to say that Dad is 91 years of age and still going strong. I love you Dad. Happy Father's Day.
This week the Bloggers Challenge theme is masculine. I used the sketch from the Mojo Monday challenge for the layout of my card. The challenge at Great Impressions is die cuts and/or punches. My image was die cut using a ODBD/Spellbinders die and the sentiment was cut using a punch.

My image is a LaBlanche stamp which was colored using distress markers. The sentiment is from Club Scrap. My background panel is a piece of wood paper. I love the wood paper for masculine cards.

Happy Father's Day to all the Dads out there!

Thursday, June 14, 2012

Pretty in Pink with Diamonds

This week's theme at The Octopode Factory Friday challenge is girls just want to have fun. Hels Sunday challenge at Ink on my Fingers is pretty in pink. I really think that these challenges work really well together. Let me add in the challenge on the Technique Junkies blog , the acrylic block taping technique from the current TJ newsletter, which I used for my background.
My image is Anabelle Lee from the Octopode collection. She does look pretty in pink and adorned with diamonds. The sentiment is computer generated. Of course, with a sentiment like that, I had to add a lot of bling. I even sprayed the background with glimmer mist for the sparkle.

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Pocket Watch

The pocketwatch is one of my favorite Tim Holtz Idea-ology pieces to work with. This week the Compendium of Curiosities II challenge was the pocket watch technique from p. 35 of Tim's Book. I am also entering this in the Simon Says Stamp and Show anything goes challenge.
The challenge this week is being sponsored by the wonderful Simon Says Stamp.
The pocketwatch, swivel clasp, compass sticker, and sentiment are all from the Tim Holtz collection. The chess piece, flowers and pearl are from my stash. My piece is relatively simple, but I do love the look.

My Honey

Rogue Redhead Designs has a brand new full-size plate in the Essential Elements range - Getting Grizzly!  These sweet bears range from cuddly cubs to grown grizzlies, each with their own personality.  These new images are great to craft up some furry fun for your friends and family with “just because” cards, fuzzy and fun scrapbook pages and a bevy of other bear-related designs. As with all RRD’s other "full-size" plate designs, Getting Grizzly features great elements for card creation all in one plate - a full-size background, focal images, design elements and sentiments.
Get Getting Grizzly until July 31st for the low introductory price of $17.60, 20% off its regular price of $22.00.  Don’t forget that Rogue Redhead Designs also stocks mounting supplies!
I created my card using the current RRD challenge sketch and the new Get Grizzly stamps. I also had the challenge at Kraft Journal (Cards for Him) and Tuesday Throwdown (Critters) in mind as I made it. The kraft background panel was stamped with the full-sized background stamp. I overstamped it with the sentiment which I also heat embossed. The little bear with his honey pot and the bee were colored with distress markers. The cute corner stamps are also part of this new stamp sheet. I thought that this card would make a great card for Father's Day, his birthday, or just because.

Sunday, June 10, 2012

The current Stampotique challenge is bright colors. I've combined that challenge with the Three Muses challenge of warm colors, and the Tuesday Throwdown challenge of friendship.
I'm not sure what came over me today; fun things happen when you use Stampotique stamps. I picked up Heads and a thought popped into my head. I looked at the image and saw fingerprints. So I pulled out my bright Adirondack archival inks and started putting my fingerprints over the image to color the heads. I cut out the stamped and colored image and adhered it to a black panel for contrast. I stamped the Stampotique sentiment at the bottom of the panel with Perfect Pearl Medium and used Perfect Pearl Confections powder to color the letters. The top sentiment are sticker letters. I think you'll agree that my little friends card depicts lots of warm and bright colors.

Love Just Gives

Something old, something new, something borrowed), something blue is supposed to bring good luck to a bride on her wedding. Well, this week, Our Daily Bread Designs challenges us to create using the something old, something new, something borrowed (gifted), something blue theme and Take a Word has wedding as its theme.
My wedding card features a  die cut in deep blue (new from Cheery Lynn this week), cream paper which I have had for years, and a bling embellishment that I received from my sister. the background was stamped in sand using the ODBD crocheted lace stamp. The sentiment is also from ODBD.

Week 2, CHAPTER 16: Going Postal!

Alice found this box tucked away in her closet. What could be in it?
The Fish-Footman began by producing from under his arm a great letter, nearly as large as himself, and this he handed over to the other, saying, in a solemn tone, `For the Duchess. An invitation from the Queen to play croquet.' The Frog-Footman repeated, in the same solemn tone, only changing the order of the words a little, `From the Queen. An invitation for the Duchess to play croquet.'
Then they both bowed low, and their curls got entangled together.
--Chapter 6, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Just like the Queen's letter to the Duchess, our challenge this month is to create something with a postal theme - stamps, postcards, letters, envelopes; however you choose to interpret that. As always, all entries that meet the challenge theme are accepted but Wonderland entries are encouraged (they get two chances instead of one in the prize drawing). Friday, June 22 is the last day to enter this month's challenge.
Our sponsor is Stamp Attack, a British company that is well known (among other things) for their fantastic Alice stamp plates which have sold to customers all over the world. In fact, Helena Bonham Carter, the actress who played the Red Queen in the Tim Burton Alice movie, purchased sets of Alice stamps from Stamp Attack, which were then delivered to the studio! Enabler alert: Stamp Attack offers speedy worldwide shipping for only £1 on unmounted stamp orders, so go on and check out their beautiful stamps!
The winner will receive a Stamp Attack gift certificate for £13.50, which is equivalent to one of the Alice stamp plates! We will be showing off two new offerings from Stamp Attack: Alice Faux Postage and Mouse's Tail, aren't they great?

My inspiration for this Challenge:

Alice opens the box and memories of Wonderland start flooding back.

Inside she found postcards sent to her by her friends in Wonderland.

There was a bracelet with shrink plastic charms of Wonderland postage.

And there was a book which held the tale of the Mouse tail. Alice wept a tear of happiness as she remembered the wonderful times she had in Wonderland.

All of the stamps used in the different projects (except the book cover) are from Stamp Attack. When I saw the new stamp releases, my imagination took over. I hope you enjoy the projects and the fantasy that went with them. I hope you will join in the fun and add your piece to The Altered Alice challenge.

Saturday, June 9, 2012

They don't call it a challenge for nothing. Make a manly card using dies which are frilly and ornate...can it be done? Yes, it can, with the right paper and the right image. Here is my manly card. Artistic Outpost has masculine as its monthly challenge theme and Cheery Lynn wants us to make it manly.
My image is from the Artistic Outpost set, Charles and Amelia. My background and flower paper is from Graphic45 A Proper Gentleman. All of the dies used are from Cheery Lynn: background - Reflections Celtic Chain Mega Doily, layering panel - Spring Flower Burst Doily with angel wing (done with vellum), and the flower and leaves - Build a Flower 1. The sentiment is an adage ticket from Tim Holtz.

Friday, June 8, 2012

It's Friday and time for Bloggers Challenge. This week the challenge is anniversary. This challenge and my card work well with the challenge at Creative Belli Blog which is sentiment only.
My base card is cryogen white and the layering panel is a beautiful, shimmery white cardstock. I used splendid circles from Spellbinders for the center. I cut and layered all of the layers using gold metallic paper. The sentiment (Club Scrap) was stamped on adhesive backed vellum, cut out with a circle die, and adhered to the center die cuts. To finish off my card, I added a little bling and a few white roses.

Thursday, June 7, 2012

All the World's a Stage

I always enjoy doing The Octopode Factory Friday challenge. The images are all so fun, so I feel like I can have a little fun when I work with them. This week's challenge is black and white. I just got the Shakespeare image, so I wanted to work with him. I decided to create a stage. I used pieces of corrugated cardboard painted white for the curtains. Since Shakespeare wrote the plays, I have him thinking about the lines and there's a pen nib he can use to write them down. I can't wait to see what he comes up with.

Imagination is Boundless

This week the challenge for Compendium of Curiosities II is repurposed packaging from p. 62 of Tim's book. I decided to try both techniques Tim described. I used the packaging that the texture fade used on my card was in. The first layer on my card is some of Tim's tissue paper. I did add alcohol inks to the embossed layer. Can I say that I absolutely love the snowcap mixative. It does wonderful things when used along with other colors--in this case, aqua and sailboat blue with a teeny touch of shell pink. The flower was cut from the tattered flowers die. The bird was stamped with a Tim stamp that I have had for years and still love. The sentiment is a wodrd band which I distressed with the snow cap dabber. Another week, another fun Tim technique.

Tuesday, June 5, 2012

Kindergarten Graduation

As I said in my last post, Joshua, my grandson, is graduating from kindergarten tomorrow (Wednesday) This is the card I'm giving him. My layout is based on the sketch challenge at Mojo Monday.
My image is from
I am also entering my card in the Ink on My Fingers Sunday Challenge with the theme red, white, and blue, and in the Kraft Journal challenge which is graduation.

End of the School Year

It's the end of the regular school year. Joshua, my darling grandson, is graduating from kindergarten. He had a wonderful teacher this year, so of course, I had to make a thank you card to go with his gift from Mommy. I  pulled out my Graphics45, An ABC Primer, for my card. The addition cards and background paper are from the pad. "Thanks" is cut from grungepaper using Tim's Word Play die. The letters are colored with barn door distress stains and then covered with rock candy stickles. The strip being held with the tiny clothespin is a replica of the behavior chart system they use in the class. Joshua just beams when he moves his clip up to "outstanding", so I thought it appropriate that his teacher be on outstanding too.
Grungepaper, stickles, the number cards, and the embellishment clip all add texture to this card, so I'm entering it in the Simon Says Stamp and Show some texture challenge. I love it when a card comes together like I planned.

Monday, June 4, 2012

Beauty and the Butterflies

The current challenge at Classy Cards 'n Such had me stumped at first. I have problems with color challenges especially unusual color combinations. I really thought that it would be difficult to combine yellow, orange, and aqua in a card. However, once I got started, it was a great combination. I stamped my image (Great Impressions) on white cardstock and painted it with Creative Inspiration Paints. I do love the shimmer of these paints.
My background was made by using the Cheery Lynn French Lattice large die to cut a sheet of two sided adhesive. I adhered the adhesive die cut to the aqua panel and then added Creative Inspirations Paints glitter to the adhesive. I now had a sparkly aqua background for my card. I added a framing panel to the image in orange. Two yellow and orange butterflies (Cheery Lynn butterflies and angel wing) and a crepe paper flower highlighted with yellow paint (Cheery Lynn miniature rose die) were added to embellish the card. Now here's a card that is bright and cheery.
You can get both Cheery Lynn dies and Spellbinders dies at the Classy Cards 'n Such web site.

Ticket to Ride

This week the challenge at City Crafter is ticket to ride-create a piece with transportation and a ticket. On my card I got to use my "On the Railroad" set of Tim Holtz stamps. I've been waiting for a chance to use these stamps. I also got to use the archival resist technique again from Creative Chemistry 101. I just love that technique. For my ticket, I used one of Tim's adage tickets.

Friday, June 1, 2012

Never Give Up Hope

This is my last posting for today. The Try That Technique challenge at Technique Junkies is challenging us to use the layered masking technique from the Feb/Mar 2012 TJ newsletter. I've been admiring this technique done by several of the other TJers. This was a great opportunity to try it for myself.
I'm also excited because Cornish Heritage Farms stamps are back and now CHF is sponsoring a challenge. The theme is anything goes. Both the lighthouse and sentiment are from the CHF collection.

The layout of my card is based on the SweetStamps challenge sketch. My card also meets the challenge at Kraft Monday which is emboss and embellish and the challenge at Frilly and Funkie which is kraft and twine. My background panel has been dry embossed and the embossing was lightly highlighted with distress ink. The front panels are kraft cardstock. The long front panel was also embossed and highlighted with distress ink. The stamp is a part of a larger SweetStamps stamp which was stamped with distress ink and colored with watercolor markers. The sentiment is from the Tim Holtz collection. The embellishing pearls and twine are from my stash.

Kind Words

Today has been a fun day. I spent quite a bit of time in the studio, so it'll be a long blog night tonight. This card was created for a couple of challenges. At Our Daily Bread Designs, the Shining the Light challenge is pink, black and/or grey, and white/vanilla.The Ink on my Fingers Sunday challenge is words. My background panel is from a dictionary page (lots of words) which I stamped with pink (worn lipstick distress ink) dahlias (ODBD). The sentiment is also from ODBD. The ribbon was white and dyed with worn lipstick distress stain.

One Layer and Masculine

Fridays do roll around quickly. It's Bloggers Challenge time again and this time we are to make a one layer card. It's not as easy as it sounds. To make my card I started with a piece of manila cardstock. To create the background color I used distress stains on the front of the card. Then I stamped my postage and frame stamp from Hero Arts. This stamp has a matching embossing folder which highlights several of the stamps, postage marks and center tag shape. I went over the embossed areas with antique linen distress ink and the edges with vintage photo. The sentiment is from Club Scrap. I did add the two brad like embellishments to the tag image. I think the resulting card has a very vintage and masculine look.
I'm also entering this card into Simon Says Stamp and Show one for the boys, into Tuesday Throwdown with the theme masculine, and into Three Muses with the theme postage stamps.


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These are all from my livetweeting session*, but I am really beginning to feel the ephemeral disposability of Twitter and miss actually blogging.  So, for posterity, here are five of my more coherent thoughts about Justice League: Doom:

1) I don't understand why they cast Michael Rosenbaum as Barry Allen.  I just don't.  I mean, I am never going to complain about Michael Rosenbaum, but if you're going to put him in a Justice League movie as the Flash, why in the HELL would you make him Barry?  He acted exactly like Wally would have (well, Wally toward the end of JLU once he's had a little more experience to build up his confidence), and there were only two incredibly brief and completely unimportant details from Barry's life that could have VERY easily been changed for Wally-specific details without changing hardly anything at all.  If you're going to characterize your Flashes the same way AND cast the same actor, what is even the point in differentiating them?

2) Bats really Torchwooded up this time.

3) There were some absolutely incredible lines in this movie.  I love it when the leaguers toss deadpan snark and lighthearted jokes about death at one another as freely as they do here.

4) I cried.  Oh yes, I did.  I don't even remember what triggered it, but it was somewhere right around the halfway mark with that awful montage of everyone's Worst Day Ever.  I JUST CARE ABOUT THESE CHARACTERS SO MUCH Y'ALL.

5) There was SO MUCH DOOMY TRAUMA (which I actually really appreciate, but, y'know, TRAUMA), and some really questionable decisions (see above Re: Barry), but I thought it was really very well done.  I think in general I prefer JL movies (at least, animated) because the team dynamics are my cuppa (X-Men was my first superhero love, after all), but I'm definitely looking forward to watching Superman vs. the Elite when I get an opportunity.  I didn't even realize how much I missed the Timmverse until now, you know?

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Subject [jira] [Updated] (HIVE-3537) release locks at the end of move tasks
Date Sat, 19 Jan 2013 18:10:13 GMT

Ashutosh Chauhan updated HIVE-3537:

    Resolution: Fixed
        Status: Resolved  (was: Patch Available)
> release locks at the end of move tasks
> --------------------------------------
>                 Key: HIVE-3537
>                 URL:
>             Project: Hive
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Locking, Query Processor
>            Reporter: Namit Jain
>            Assignee: Namit Jain
>             Fix For: 0.11.0
>         Attachments: hive.3537.10.patch, hive.3537.1.patch, hive.3537.2.patch, hive.3537.3.patch,
hive.3537.4.patch, hive.3537.5.patch, hive.3537.6.patch, hive.3537.7.patch, hive.3537.8.patch,
> Look at HIVE-3106 for details.
> In order to make sure that concurrency is not an issue for multi-table
> inserts, the current option is to introduce a dependency task, which thereby
> delays the creation of all partitions. It would be desirable to release the
> locks for the outputs as soon as the move task is completed. That way, for
> multi-table inserts, the concurrency can be enabled without delaying any
> table.
> Currently, the movetask contains a input/output, but they do not seem to be
> populated correctly.

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Subject [jira] [Closed] (INFRA-4244) prevent spam exploit at http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/<user_name>
Date Thu, 22 Dec 2011 10:46:30 GMT

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Gavin closed INFRA-4244.

    Resolution: Fixed
      Assignee:     (was: Gavin)

> prevent spam exploit at http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/<user_name>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
>                 Key: INFRA-4244
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-4244
>             Project: Infrastructure
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>      Security Level: public(Regular issues)
>            Reporter: Matt Foley
> Some robot just spammed the wiki by creating fake home pages for users who didn't previously
have them.  The changes were made in the name of a wiki user "jingshen".  This user created
a spammy home page for itself at http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/jingshen on 2011-12-20 08:18:34.

> I was one of the victims at http://wiki.apache.org/hadoop/MattFoley
> I've deleted the bad page, but presumably it's available in the CMS.
> Other created pages which I did not delete were:
> * AmreshSingh
> * Ivan de Prado
> * alevchuk
> * jiuzheyang
> * RavindraRawat
> * JohnDorion
> However, there was one user with a pre-existing real home page, who had spam added to
his home page by jingshen:
> * PetruDimulescu
> I only subscribe to Hadoop wiki.  It's likely the spammer did the same to other parts
of the wiki.  I suspect the spammer harvested wiki usernames from the emails about recently
changed pages.
> I see the anti-spam subsystem has updated the BadContent page to know the spammer's link.
> Maybe nothing further can be done, I'm not an expert on wiki anti-spam.
> This info is being captured and shared in case there is any way to decrease vulnerability
to this noise.  Thanks.

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Dissociated ego states

Two weeks ago I felt like what I would usually describe as ‘anxious’ during football training. This week I started reading The Myth of Sanity by Martha Stout, a study in human consciousness that focusses on forgotten trauma, dissociated mental states and multiple personalities in daily life. As I got halfway through the book I started recognising a possible certain altered mental There’s more for you to read!

Staying above the surface

Mentally, I have never felt this great. I’m feeling more confident, I’m happy and I’m starting to believe in myself. You could say there’s not a single cloud on the horizon. I feel like what I always imagined to be normal. Life feels a lot lighter as if she sun has consistently started shining and it shines through in my There’s more for you to read!

Too functional to suffer

As a child, I went to the paediatrician for my lungs. I only have exercised induced asthma so it’s not that serious, but at the time it was bothering me when I cycled to school. They did a few tests and could only provide me with an inhaler. However, the paediatrician also wanted me to do a fitness test. Apparently, she There’s more for you to read!

Writing and Mental Health

On the 16th of March, Gwyneth Lewis (a Welsh poet) gave a talk on Writing on Mental Health at my university. I was interested because I’m a writer and I have struggled with depression myself. I wanted to know more about the relation between writing and mental health and one of the first points that Gwyneth gave immediately spoke to There’s more for you to read!

To belong or not; anxiety

I just finished writing an essay on Harry Potter for my children’s literature module. In my essay, I talk about the quest motif, and in specific about Harry’s quest for identity. When Harry discovers that he is a wizard and belongs in the wizarding world his identity changes. Suddenly he feels like he belongs somewhere as he is amongst ‘his’ There’s more for you to read!

It’s real

 ‘Are you okay?’ I’m not here. I’m not here.             ‘She’s asleep.’ ‘Malou?’ I can’t hear you.        I can’t hear you right now. From the other side of the counter, she gives me a smile. As I stand there in the middle of the room she picks up her cup and walks There’s more for you to read!

A writer committed suicide

Joost Zwagerman, a Dutch Writer committed suicide on the day his new book got published. I didn’t know him, but the news appeared everywhere. Another known person took his own life- a writer took his own life. The news articles told me he had been struggling with manic-depression and had a father and a best friend that tried to take There’s more for you to read!

Depression is a cloud

It sort of paralyses me; it stops me from doing normal daily things, it disables my ability to smile and I feel like I can’t function. Depression does not define me, someone once said. It is a cloud… a layer of smog that settles over your mind- something that clouds the view of what the world is. Depression does not change There’s more for you to read!

I wish you could be honest with me

“I hope you find a way to be yourself someday, in weakness or in strength, change can be amazing.” February 2008 – I fled upstairs as she received the call. She would know what I had done. I hurt her and had broken her trust. As I was trying to find the courage to face her, I started to cry. When I There’s more for you to read!

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Toen ik je zag van Isa Hoes Genre: Non-Fictie, Biografie Uitgever: Ambo|Anthos Koop op Bol.com Click here to read this post in English Rating:  ‘In je hoofd kijken heb ik nooit gekund, of was dat voor mij dan net zo verschrikkelijk geweest als voor jou?’ Isa Hoes en Antonie Kamerling ontmoeten elkaar voor het eerst tijdens de audities van Goede Tijden, Slechte Tijden. De soap wordt There’s more for you to read!

Neither Yin nor Yang

Sometimes I’m losing, even when someone else is around. Someone or something can cause it, but that does not matter in this case. It starts with a bad feeling. This is a feeling and not a thought, followed by a first thought: I should not be feeling this way. I’m blaming myself for feeling this way, then tell myself I’m stupid There’s more for you to read!

To prevent a cut

“Don’t worry, he or she won’t do it otherwise they wouldn’t tell you,” is the average response I get whenever I bring this issue up. When someone tells you they feel like committing suicide or cutting themselves, your first reaction is most likely to worry. If it is the first time someone tells you this, you are most likely afraid There’s more for you to read!

When fear carries the biggest weight

Sometimes there are moments in which you can’t see straight anymore. As soon as fear weighs the heaviest, realism will be off the scale completely. The positive which usually outweighs the negative does no longer seem to matter. If it’s like this and this, you can either do this and this, but neither works out. No matter what you do, There’s more for you to read!


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Tuesday, May 27, 2014

We had a fabulous time.  Everyday was filled full of sightseeing, tourism, PIZZA, subway rides, laughter, shopping, cocktail hour, shopping and more PIZZA.

So incredibly fun. I miss my ladies already.

Peter & I snuck in a Broadway show before everyone arrived!
We loved it!

Walking in Battery Park.

Lady Liberty

WTC Tower

Always moving to see the 9/11 Memorial. Everyone cried.

Street shots!

In Central Park

Dancing in Highline Park

a cemetery along our way.

Wall Street Bull

Lighting candle for MOM.

Rockafeller Center

My Gorgeous girls!

My beautiful best friend.

Cheers to the weekend ladies & PG!!!

Hot nites!

Until soon NYC.

 And a very special thank you to this man, my world.  You make everything complete. Your support and love for me and my family and my best friends. . . Thank you.  I love you.

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Thursday, June 7, 2012

Ever Eden and web sensation Michelle Phan have collaborated to bring you Ever Eden, a fashion jewelry line guided by the allure of a symphony, beheld in the kingdom of heaven on earth.  The Ever Eden mandorla logo entrusts an ancient symbol of two overlapping circles; symbolic of a universe where heaven and earth unite.

The initial Ever Eden collection finds inspiration in the story of Saint Joan of Arc.  In the 15th century, a brave peasant daughter of a shepherd became a soldier and led the French army into victory.

Joan of Arc professed to bear God’s message, and at the age of 16 she embarked on a mission to stand before the French King Charles VII and declare her destiny to lead the King’s army. Convinced of her divine crusade, the King armored Joan and presented her with a large army to lead.

A few years later, Joan was captured as a prisoner of war and sentenced to death, to be officially declared a saint over 500 years later.

The Ever Eden line is divided into two categories - Sanctuary and Knight. The Sanctuary pieces represent Joan’s faith and spirit, and are inspired by rose windows on churches and the mandorla symbol. The armory inspired Knight collection personify Joan’s bravery and strength.
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I am so amazed when Michelle Phan released her own jewelry line. With unique pieces and great photos, you'll surely enjoy shopping! Want a story and BTS video from Ever Eden? Watch it here. Who doesn't love Michelle Phan's make up on the photos below?

 I wanna have some jewelry like these on my collection but I can't afford one! Hahaha! I really love the ring on the photo where she is sealing her lips. What a great piece! So what's your favorite? :)

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2015 MASH Survey Results

Here is a summary of the MASH survey results compiled for 2015.

Total Respondents: 85

    From the initial mailing to the membership email list and a posting on the MASH Facebook group, there were 54 responses. This represents about a 22% response rate. (The average response rate for email surveys is about 24%.)

    An additional 31 responses were recorded after the survey was released to other homeschooling groups.

Demographics Section

      40% identified as Christian
      18% as Catholic
      30% as atheist/agnostic or no religion
      6% as Buddhist
      6% as other (Hindu, Pagan, refusal)

      10% of the respondents identified as something other than straight

    Marital Status:

      Almost 5% of the respondent are possibly single parents.

      14% identify French as their primary language and 12% homeschool in French

      About 1/3 of the respondents live in rural areas
      The three major centres are Winnipeg (70%), Steinbach (12%) and Brandon (7%).
      11% do not live near a major community.

Homeschooling Section

    New to Homeschooling

      4-6% of the respondents have never homeschooled.
      75% of them have been homeschooling for 6 years or less and 30% have been homeschooling for less than 3 years.
      50% have preschoolers that they plan on homeschooling in the future
      Veteran Homeschoolers
      16% of respondents are homeschooling high school
      10% have graduated homeschool students

    Public School Attendance

      ⅔ of the respondents’ children have never been to public or private school
      of those who withdrew their children, the grade at which that happened was evenly distributed from K-7.

    Top 3 Reasons for Homeschooling

      personalized education (93%)
      concern about peer environment (85%)
      preserve close family ties (81%)

    Learning Challenges

      1 in 5 are homeschooling a child with learning challenges.

    Top 3 Homeschool Styles

      Unschooling (46%)
      Relaxed (45%)
      Eclectic (41%)

    Comparing Homeschool to Public School Approaches

      64% prefer a more unstructured approach to education than public school
      52% track what grade levels their children are in
      55% say they teach different knowledge to their students than the public school would
      90% say they use different method of teaching than the public school
      7% of respondents have children taking classes at a local school

      97% of all respondents who should notify do so.

      38% say no
      34% say yes
      29% say said other (expressing concerns about how it would work or that it would depend on certain conditions)

    Homeschool Frustrations Summarized

      MASH connections seems to happen only on Facebook
      time management
      teaching different ages
      finding time for self
      self-doubt/lack of confidence
      need mentoring
      existing co-ops and groups are full
      rural disconnect
      need French resources
      need secular resources
      need connections to other families
      comparisons to others – peers, school-going children, other homeschooling families
      need places to host meetings, co-ops, classes, etc
      “The feeling that homeschooling in Manitoba is very fractured and cliquish and that there is no one place where everyone can feel welcomed.”

    Homeschool Benefits Summarized

      letting kids be themselves
      creating a love of learning
      building relationships with children, with siblings, with greater family
      freedom to set schedules, timetables, etc (Flexibility)
      tailored education
      unconventional, unhurried lifestyles.

MASH Membership Section

    MASH Membership

      66% of the respondents are MASH members
      20% of the respondents appear to be on the Facebook group, but are not official members of MASH
      86% have not visited the webpage recently
      50% belong to the facebook group, but only 30% had recently visited that page

    Other Homeschool Affiliations

      35% belonged to LIFE
      32% belong to MACHS
      10% belong to the Westman group (in Brandon)

    Homeschool Community Connectedness

      50% of people do not feel connected
      10% of respondents do not know another family who is homeschooling

    MASH Goals

      all three were relatively tied with “providing information” slightly ahead of “government liaison work”, followed closely by “building community”.

    Creating Community

      the top answers were:
      providing co-ops
      providing lessons
      offering regular newsletters, emails, and an updated website
      running parental support and mom’s meeting
      other fill-in-the-blank answers included: rural connections, workshops, local support groups, secular conference with secular speakers, and free play opportunities (picnics, park days)

      82% of respondents would be interested in workshops
      the most popular answer was “How to teach specific subjects”
      high school and post-secondary information was next
      workshops on information about how to homeschool were lowest but still significant

    Sending out MASH Information

      most people prefer a weekly email and a monthly newsletter

    Desired Information

      73% respondents want a complete listing of all homeschooling groups in the province
      78% want a listing of all lessons and activities available in the province
      other fill-in-the-blank suggestions included: post-secondary information, comprehensive FAQ, area contacts, a list of homeschooling parents willing to teach or tutor, and homeschooling stats and successes

    New Homeschooler Information

      Most people equally desired a workshop, an information package, and networking.
      other suggestions included a mentoring program, networking for families of similar philosophy, stress reduction information (addressing the common worries of homeschooling) and a place for shared personal stories

    MASH Involvement

      the top three answers were willingness to arrange a field-trip, willingness to arrange a group lesson, and willingness to host a support group

    Membership Fee

      these responses were somewhat equally divided among the answers with a slight lead to “pay for what I attend” (17%)

Summary of the Final Comments

  • a rural presence is required
  • the need for an exhaustive list of groups, co-ops, field trips, lessons and activities
  • the need for French activities
  • a desire for adult only events
  • a desire for whole family events
  • the need to better connect people
  • a listing of homeschool friendly lessons and teachers
  • an overview of all the rich diversity that is present in our homeschool community

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April 28, 2015

Michael Gideon

It's a boy!!!!

Michael Gideon
April 15/15
6lbs. 15oz.

Brother Love

 Nephew Silas getting to know his Uncle!

For more photographs check out Megan's Blog.

Mandy said...

So much cuteness!!

Leanne said...

Congratulations a million times over, Rosalie!! He is darling and I'm so glad he's here and the wait is over for you!!

I must admit, I'm a bit jealous too! I'd love to have more babies and hope that God will bless us with more!

You are so blessed and now you get to enjoy the Newborn Bliss days!!

Again, congratulations!!

Marie said...

Aunt Ruth said...

congratulations! Looks like a sweetie!

The Mayo Family said...

Congratulations to your family from the Mayo home!
He is *so* cute...such a blessing!
Hope and pray that you are all doing well!
Many blessings from us to you~
The Mayo Family

p.s. you need to post a new picture of him now...:) *hint-hint*!


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School Resource Officer

The School Resource Officer (or SRO) was developed in Tucson, Arizona in 1963 and is a position that has existed in the Maquoketa Police Department since 1999. In 2005 and 2006 the position was not filled and there was not a police officer in our schools. The program was renewed in 2007 and is under contract on a year by year basis. More than 85% of school districts in the United States have a SRO program in place.

The primary focus of the SRO is to provide advanced services to our school children and build a positive rapport with the kids. By having an officer in our schools we are able to offer another resource for the school district, teachers, students, and parents to bridge the gap between Law Enforcement and our youth.

The SRO focuses on three main facets on a daily basis, law enforcement, informal counselor, and guest speaker. The certified law enforcement officer acts in both a preventative and responsive capacity as he/she would if on the street by investigating crimes, being a visual deterrent, being a positive role model and by acting as a liaison between the school and police communities. In the role of informal counselor, the officer is able to make contact with resources outside the school and offer those services to the students and faculty. The officer also assists kids with problem solving and decision making techniques, showing other options and ways to resolve conflicts in a positive and healthy way rather than resorting to violence or other negative methods. Lastly, as a guest speaker, the officer will go into classrooms at the teachers’ request, and discuss any variety of topics that may be part of that class curriculum.

All in all, the program has been a fantastic success across the nation and an innovative service that has been provided to our students, faculty, parents and community.