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Over a week in Saud Arabia…Marina Mall, Shoes, Pizza Hut.

Visiting Saudi Arabia always makes me want to look for trouble because of the pure controversial nature of the country, and the contradiction that I have to face everyday. But every time I come here I realize how much it has changed, aka became liberalized. Going through immigration for me in KSA is much easier than other places, because they have everything in record and they see that I have been here seven times in three years and my dad works here. The guy at the boot just looked at me, my passport, made a comment about the amount of pages I have to make me laugh (I just got bunch of pages added to my passport because I ran out of visa pages due primarily to KSA’s entry and exit visas) and let me go without ever looking at my immigration card I had to fill out, and gave me a nice smile. Yes, you can get a smile from the opposite gender a single woman in this country.

Jubail looks as beautiful as I left it in June. Average temperature of 75 degrees, beautiful beaches, summer shwarma stands still open, and soccer games being played late at night, still. It is nice to watch international cabel, like BBC World, Al Jazeera, cricket channels, MTV Arabia, and all the Lebanese music channels and Italian fashion shows. Clearly I do not get out much.

Yesterday me and my family went to Dammam, first to Marina Mall, and then to the city to look at some gold stores. The mall like other Saudi Malls had an indoor amusement park, restaurants, prayer rooms, and lots of couples pretending to be siblings so as not to get caught. At Marina Mall, I found nothing interesting except avoiding men who freely smoked inside, trying not to get mad at rude salesclerks after refusing to buy their knock off Gucci heels, and avoiding religious police. The shoes are quite amazing, I will say, and there were so many that Lady Gaga would have much appreciated (five inch wedges made out of white lace all over, and a hot pink four incher with rhinestones on the heels and gold spikes). And Saudi women DO actually buy them. I almost bought suede grey booties covered in metal belts and random zippers but then walked in them and realized they would only enjoy the interior of my closet if purchased.

At the gold stores, I had to step out of the store with my sister because the smell of incense was a bit much. Outside, people do look since there we are, two girls, by ourselves, without headscarves, minding out own business. These two boys, probably 13 years old walked by and I guess I was not in the mood and yelled at them to stop staring. Response: “You shut up”. My sister: “Asshole”. Them: “Arabic gibberish”. I don’t think they knew any other English. They may have attempted to use the F word. I am not sure. But we sure did stop getting snickers after that. Seriously, if more women just simply yelled at these men in the middle of the street there would not be such a problem with street harassment. I learned this in Morocco where I was taught that all you need is to embarrass these men in front of people, because that is exactly what they do not expect.

We also went to eat dinner at Pizza Hut last night, which in Saudi Arabia is a big deal. Like most American chain fast food places outside of America, they are fancy, huge, usually two stories high, and have real menus and cleanly dressed waiters. This one had glass doors separating the “single section” and “family section”, and had a play station room for kids. We had a booth with our own divisions so it was like our own little room. And the food included these amazing pasta and halal pepperoni and yellow cheese because they have not caught up to the U.S. in using artificial flavor and products. Needless to say it was delicious. Reminded me to when I was in Delhi two summers ago and me and another intern went to Pizza Hut because we were tired of vegetarian food and ordered the meat lovers pizza that had every kind of spiced chicken and mutton possible. Ah, love.

Abaya Does Not Equal Islam

Click here for the CNN article on “Islamic Fashion”

Why this bothered me: An abaya does not mean Islamic. Just because there are varied forms of abayas in this fashion show, it does not mean that this is Islamic fashion. Abaya is not even worn by the majority of Muslim women in the world. Rather, it is a piece of society in the Middle East, in particular the Gulf region that may have religious ties, but has largely become a cultural aspect of society.

I will agree with this:

“Modesty is not the opposite of fashion, and fashion is not about showing more of my body,” said Amina al-Jassim

I have been forced to wear the abbayah, and I don’t like it. I do not like it more because it is forced upon me to wear it when I visit Saudi Arabia, not because of the plain, straight forward style. Rather, it is sometimes nice to not have to dress up and coordinate clothes since no one is going to see it anyway. It is a kind of freedom I will never expect in the West since wearing an abbayah out in the streets of Boston where I am is going to get more attention than anything else. Anyways, I don’t know if I will buy into the more “fashionable” abbayahs since it never meant anything to me but something I have to wear in my short visits to the Gulf. Perhaps it is of course a different story for those who grew up wearing the abbayah and therefore, part of their upbringing. I agree with the author in that as more and more go abroad and leave their smaller communtiies, they bring back ideasof individuality that are going to have to be dealt with in the home country. A way to do so is incorporation without total rejection. Not at first anyway.

“It’s not so much a conflict, but an amalgamation of east and west that works quite nicely here.”

Incentive for Saudi men to get married: give up smoking

Here is something interesting I read on the Associated Press-

Saudi Arabia’s new anti-smoking campaign is a contest where if you prove that you have quit smoking, all of the expenses of your wedding will be paid.

It is a known fact around the Middle East that getting married is arguably one of the most stressful aspects of a young man’s life, as the culture expects them to fund all of the wedding from costs to having a furnished home and support system for their partner. It has led to the average age of men getting married in countries like Jordan and Morocco from early twenties to early thirties or even later. So it is interesting to see that Saudi Arabia, the region’s most conservative country and one of the richest as well as populated, is now offering a new incentive for its single bachelors- quit smoking, and they will pay for your wedding.

Smoking has simply become part of the culture in the Middle East. I have stopped being surprised to see men light up right in the terminal as we get off the plane in Dammam, Saudi Arabia, or in Cairo, Egypt. One of the smells I associate with Cairo is the smell of cigarettes and sheisha, both overwhelmingly popular and cause of unfortunate addiction among Egyptians. So Saudi Arabia’s new proposal and its catch phrase, “kicking the habit is on you, and marriage is on us” is two folded- it is aimed at reducing smokers, and at getting the large number of their single men married.

In the Middle East, the younger generation’s population far outnumbers

An image known around Egypt: The anti-smoking message on every cigarette box.
An image known around Egypt: The anti-smoking message on every cigarette box.

those over the age of fifty and above, which in its own is linked to the unemployment issue as there is more supply of workers than demand. Many, if not most of the men I have met in Cairo as well as in Rabat are single, unemployed, and living off of the family wealth (and these conversations are usually joined with a cigarette, of course). The pressure to ‘succeed’ while facing a downturn economy has been connected to many types of aggravation. It has even been linked to the growing sexual harassment taking place in the streets, with frustration from boredom and employment leading to men trying to press their authority over women.

The new anti-smoking efforts in Saudi Arabia have also been met with criticism. For example, there is the sentiment that this effort reemphasizes the objectification of women in the country. Writers like Maha al-Hujailan complained that the campaign was sexist since it was using women like an object as an alternative for smoking, the recreation.

The new effort is essentially a contest- if you can prove that you have quit smoking, your name will be entered, and there will be a draw in August, with the winner having his wedding paid, and twenty runner ups getting free furniture. According to the Associated Press, hundreds have already called in to express interest. I am curious to see what happens, and also if they are going to monitor the winner after the wedding to see if he goes back to old habits. While I can see where the criticisms are coming from, it really is not as if Saudi Arabia is selling women or saying that a bride will come with the package. Rather, because this campaign is unlike many that have taken place, it has gotten people to talk and discuss the issue, and come to some kind of awareness.

Feel exclusive- beauty parlors in Saudi Arabia

The first time that I went to a parlor was with two Saudi sisters whom I had befriended that wanted to show me a “Saudi experience”, and took me to their mall (their father owns the entire complex). There was a shabby looking door between the electronics store and a glitzy ice cream parlor, and through it I went, only to fine myself in a large, marble floored, mirrored and chandelier glistening salon where not a single women was covered in a headscarf. The waiting room was decorated with paintings and plush couches, European magazines, flat screen televisions, as well as a little stall that were selling all kinds of goods from makeup to Gucci wallets.

A Philippine woman (they primarily make up the workforce in these salons) took me to one of their highly equipped leather chair as they gave me a set of books to choose a hairstyle from, massaging my hair, calling me “darrrrling” and “sweetie” every now and then as they complimented me. Once I chose, or rather one of my friends did for me as she pointed to a  blond model with a multi-layered straight cut (“It’s so modern!”) for myself, I was handed a menu of their coffee service. With a cappuccino in hand served on vintage china, I just stared in awe at the other women who came in and out ripping off their abbayahs to reveal designer clothes and heavily highlighted hair all looking simply radiant. With one of the best haircuts I had ever received, I had to politely refuse their other services (mint massages, arm waxing, Persian manicures, to a full body oil massage, to name a few) as my friend paid for my service so I never got a chance to look at how much all of this cost me. The hospitality Saudi women that I have been able to friend have been truly generous.

Most beauty parlors are run by expats who are usually sponsored by a male relative and work under a Saudi family name, or another sponsor. The city of Jeddah alone has about 7,000 beauty parlors. In 1968, a ruling was passed that states that women are not allowed to open a place for styling for fashion. So, salons usually operate under women’s tailoring shops. While social norms are made clear in all possible ways, these beauty parlors are highly demanded.

Going to a beauty parlor in Saudi Arabia is something no women should miss out on if they are ever lucky to even come to the Kingdom. I have been to beauty parlors twice in my three visits here, and they left me in quite a state- not only do you get to meet Saudi women underneath all of the covering, but you are made to feel like an exclusive star (especially when they hear that you are from a Western country).

I thought that my experience was unique, but I learned through asking many that parlors are indeed as amazing as I experienced on my few encounters. One woman told me how it was the only place that she could go to and makes herself feel good about her, mingle with her friends, and indulge on things that would be otherwise frowned upon in the public eye. It was a place for women to show off to other women. And also a place that one young, newly woman told me was necessary as her husband wanted her to look “perfect” for him everyday. And of course, the place is just fun- clean, low stress, and at least two stylists always on your case whether it is because you want more coffee or demand a change of nail polish. Coloring the eye brows and shaping them is apparently one of the most popular services as often they are the only things you will see of a woman on the streets. And in a culture where luxury is parallel with day to day living, paying for beauty is rarely a concern.

Locating a parlor is difficult enough, given the taboo of the subject. Parlors and salons are usually hidden, even in popularly termed “ladies’ market” that is found in every city. You almost always have to ask someone to get an idea of where you go for a much needed haircut.

They are usually gated; entrances marked by a tall door that will unlock once you press the buzzer. Signs that warn against male entry are mandatory. My last visit was a private home turned parlor that was equipped with a camera and three different buzzers that made sure that it was only women who were entering the vicinity. This makes the entire experience that much more exclusive, and further reinforces the segregation of genders in the Kingdom. So while we can endlessly discuss this segregation and its cultural implications upon women, in the meanwhile they enjoy this luxury without complaint.

Al Hofuf : Saudi Arabia : 2008

First- taking photos in Saudi Arabia is practically impossible, given the conservative nature of the country and its high regad for personal privacy. Not to mention how awkward the attention can be when they see a girl taking flash photography in a crowded market at night.

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I thought it was interesting how a country that tries to lead an orthodox Islamic way of life still has stores in the streets flaunting revealing cocktail dresses in its windows for display.

Al Rashid Mall, Khobar, KSA

The main website for one of the largest malls in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia states that it was designed in order to “serve you in a special way – to make your shopping convenient and fun”. With its numerous entryways (called ‘gates’), I have never been able to go too far other than the vicinity of gate 6 to 8 in Al Rashid Mall, Khobar. We went today just to exchange my mother’s Dior mascara and entered confused and walking into another large designer makeup store right next to the one that we needed.

Before entering we made it a point to not stay long- it was starting to get crowded as it was Thursday night, the equivalent of Fridays in the U.S. here in KSA. It was 10 pm- just four hours left until closing time. People, especially young men went there just like you would to a nightclub- not right at 10 pm because that is not “cool” yet, and stay the whole time checking out the scene until they kick you out at 2 am, dressed in their best jeans and accessories.

Malls in Saudi Arabia are not like the malls in the U.S. which basically serve the suburbia. You cannot be casual in a mall. Designed like a tradition Arab fort on the outside, the inside is glistening in marble, gold, and glass, and plenty of money. Al Rashid has hundreds of stores in its multiple floors, along with an indoor theme park, restaurants and cafes, and specialty shops of all kinds. There is a multi-story parking lot that usually looks like a designer auto show It has three fountains, one of which has a fire in the middle, another whose water hits at a height that can be felt in other floors, and one which has multiple sprays of water crossing each other in angular form. Crowds gather around these fountains- usually bored husbands who want to take a break and children who annoy the bored husbands as they squal in delight.

Crowded would be another word to describe the mall. This is especially true on Thursday and Friday nights when the ratio of men and women begin to be skewed towards the Y chromosome. There are men in their groups everywhere, especially  teens who use the opportunity to show off and eye flirt with women. It is a mall that attracts a lot of foreigners, meaning lots of women who are more relaxed in their outfit, such as not wearing a headscarf or adorning a shorter abbayah. More open faces of Arab women can be seen with their full makeup on. It definitely has a greater energetic, liberal atmosphere, even though an office of the muttawa (religious police that uphold dress codes among other things) is located here. And so it becomes one of the few public places that men, and women can check each other out, maybe even wink or whistle. A time to come so close to breaking social rules and enjoy the thrill of it. And there is plenty of that, ever so sly but detectable.

Today in particular, there were Saudi officials in walkmans checking all that entered into the mall, not allowing men inside unless they were with family- also termed as “bachelors” here. I at first thought that they were muttawa- and became slightly nervous because I was not wearing my headscarf (though I have always wanted to be caught by one just to see what its like to completely disobey them and walk away). This led to a lot of men outside hovering around the parking lot, still eyeing the girls that would pretend not to enjoy the attention. Fancy cars drove by blasting Akon or Lil Wayne, disregarding the looks from the older customers could not pretend to not notice. Even here in the parking lot my generation was rebelling in their own way.

If taking photos was not such a big deal here, pictures alone would say so much. Women in all black putting Roberto Cavalli animal-print cocktail dresses over their abbaya, or trying on heels over their socks in Chanel. Boys as young as twelve smoking in the food court, all wearing the same style of ripped jeans, rock-band fitted t-shirts and scarves around their neck in various patterns from paisley to the kafiyah. Customers literally carrying a small suit-case sized teal shopping bags out of Tiffany & Co. The blue-eyed Dutch salesman at Dior makeup counter wishing my mother a belated merry Christmas. The line at Krispy Kream doughnuts, all male. The way that this mall is able to bring communities together and say, “here is our people, people!” in one place.


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Talk about family problems! This week Abraham seems to have enough worries with his kindred to fill an entire lifetime. First he has to attempt to negotiate with his Heavenly Father to try and spare Sodom, where his nephew Lot is living. When the “auction of souls”–going from 50 righteous down to 10–ultimately fails, Father Yah sends two angels to help Abraham’s nephew, and two of Lot’s future sons in law refuse to take the threat to Sodom seriously while Lot himself offers his two daughters to an unruly crowd to keep them from getting intimate with his guests. Lot’s own wife though won’t make it however due to her “salty” personality, while in the meantime Abraham is sending away his eldest son at the behest of his wife Sarah. Then we climax with Abraham feeling compelled to kill his remaining son Isaac, with the distinct possibly that the aftermath of that incident had Sarah perhaps die of a broken heart. Or did she? Either way, you are not likely to find a more “family intensive” parsha than this one, and I haven’t even gotten to the bonus teachings yet! This parsha proves to my mind at least that to miss one week is to miss a great deal.

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eName Goes Public In China

 eName, the Chinese domain name registrar and marketplace, has officially gone public in China today as announced by the company. It claims to be the third listed domain-related company. Stock code is 838413 although I was not able to confirm it with any of the 3 stock exchanges in China: Hong Kong, Shanghai and Shenzhen.

According to the statistics in the Information Disclosure, eName was established on 19th May, 2005. It had a revenue of 260 million CNY (about $39 million) and net profit of 27.9 million CNY (about $4.2 million) in the year 2015, and a revenue of 167.5 million CNY and net profit of 11.9 million CNY in the year 2014. More details are written in Chinese and could be found at the Chinese National Equities Exchange and Quotations here. eName has not translated the documents, but they are open to answer questions if you leave us a note at dnqueen.net.

eName also released their first English version website two weeks ago.

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Decadal period external magnetic field variations determined via eigenanalysis

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We perform a reanalysis of hourly mean magnetic data from ground-based observatories spanning 1997-2009 inclusive, in order to isolate (after removal of core and crustal field estimates) the spatiotemporal morphology of the external fields important to mantle induction, on (long) periods of months to a full solar cycle. Our analysis focuses on geomagnetically quiet days and middle to low latitudes. We use the climatological eigenanalysis technique called empirical orthogonal functions (EOFs), which allows us to identify discrete spatiotemporal patterns with no a priori specification of their geometry-the form of the decomposition is controlled by the data. We apply a spherical harmonic analysis to the EOF outputs in a joint inversion for internal and external coefficients. The results justify our assumption that the EOF procedure responds primarily to the long-period external inducing field contributions. Though we cannot determine uniquely the contributory source regions of these inducing fields, we find that they have distinct temporal characteristics which enable some inference of sources. An identified annual-period pattern appears to stem from a north-south seasonal motion of the background mean external field distribution. Separate patterns of semiannual and solar-cycle-length periods appear to stem from the amplitude modulations of spatially fixed background fields.
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'Dragons and couch potatoes': Meanings of participation using metaphors from children and young people with cerebral palsy.

Pickering, Dawn, Gill, Paul, Reagon, Carly and Davies, Jane 2017. 'Dragons and couch potatoes': Meanings of participation using metaphors from children and young people with cerebral palsy. Presented at: European Academy of Childhood Disability, Amsterdam. The Netherlands, 17-20 May 2017.

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Introduction A recent critique of the WHO-ICF model has proposed health as the ability to ‘adapt and self-manage’, suggesting that coping strategies and participation are more important than a full restoration of health (Huber et al, 2011). Children with cerebral palsy (CP) mature into adulthood living with their long term condition and it is proposed that participation in recreational activities can have both physical and emotional well-being benefits. Whilst some do participate, it is not yet fully known why some choose not to participate. Patient and Methods Two pilot cases are presented as part of a doctoral study exploring the lived experiences of children and young people with CP. Creative methods were used for them to tell their stories in 2 interviews, 3 months apart. A diary of recreational activities was kept in the intervening period. This included creating a digital story, using hand puppets, figure characters in a sandbox and observations of a super triathlon. Data were transcribed verbatim and analysed using an interpretative phenomenological approach (Smith et al, 2013). Results Becky, aged 9 years, describes neurosurgery that changed her capabilities, enabling her to walk with her friends, improving her social opportunities. Katie, aged 21 years, described herself previously as inactive before she was given the opportunity, aged 19 years, to try RaceRunning. These findings support the health and well-being benefits of participation. Conclusion Further doctoral data will increase this knowledge using children and young people with CP's own ’voices’ about what is meaningful to their quality of life.

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Race Day 22 with Bandit 22LTE at Saint Aubrey

The rolling restarts during the day blew the clouds away and we had overall smooth conditions.
Lisa, Amy (with crew Ester), Erin, Nicci, Ella, Shadow (with crew Jess), Moon, Rugger and Flapio came yesterday for our reversed course and wind from South East with 21knots.
Flapio hit the dangerous cross between first and second buoy and retired and Shadow in her first race with us gave up after she did some wrong turns on the course.

The fleet at the briefing. Flapio came short before the start and is missed on the picture and in Hakiria’s close up video)

It seems as if the northern half of the start line didnt rez for Hakiria. But be sure i saw the line and all crossed it. The only thing we cant show is that Ella crossed the line just 0.1-0.2sec too early and had to come back for her restart.
Lisa, Erin, Amy and Rugger started best followed by Nicci, Flapio and Moon. Shadow in her first race started slow and Ella followed the fleet after her restart

Lisa arrived first at the first buoy CS chased by Amy. Erin and Rugger followed them just a bit behind.

Amy chased the whole race Lisa and didnt give her any relaxed moments and finished in the end only 20sec behind Lisa.
Behind the two leaders Erin, Rugger, Moon and Nicci had a exciting duel with several position changes on their long fast leg to buoy OW. See some of them in Hakiria’s video

Lisa arrived first at buoy OW,

followed by Amy and Erin (unfortunately no picture),

Rugger and Nicci

and Ella still trying to catch up with the fleet

Erin, Moon and Rugger started an exciting upwind duel on the way back to buoy ON

and the kept close together

Lisa arrived first at buoy ON

still chased by Amy

followed by the 3 musketeers Erin, Moon and Rugger

Nicci followed them a bit later

and Ella at the end of the fleet still trying to catch up

On the following leg to buoy CN Moon passed Erin and poor Rugger was pulled of the boat. He came back and continued, but fell back behind Ella.
On the upwind leg between buoy CN and OE see Lisa, Amy, Moon and Erin in Hakiria’s video

and they arrived in that order at buoy OE to start their downwind leg to buoy CS (video by Hakiria)

Nicci short before Ella at buoy OE

and Rugger short behind Ella

Ella still trying hard to catch up with Nicci on the downwind leg to buoy CN.
While these two were on their way to CN the 4 leaders started already the last upwind leg to the finish line (video by Hakiria)

Erin tried hard to catch up with Moon again, but Moon could manage to stay in front of Erin at buoy CS and later at the finish

The Finish: 1. Lisa, 2. Amy, 3. Moon, 4. Erin, 5.Nicci, 6. Ella, 7. Rugger (video by Hakiria)

The after race beer at the marina (photo by Hakiria)

Congrats to Lisa for her win, to Amy in her best B22 race ever at Saint Aubrey and keeping Lisa the whole race on her toes, Moon for a great chase after the start and passing some sailors and Ella for some awesome sailing at the end of the fleet after her messed up start.

Here is the result from yesterday:

Race 22: 2021-06-08-ST AR- B22LTE-1 – REV – SE21:

1: Lisa Hyandi BS2145 – Race Time: 0:26:29-11points
2: Montserrat Naidoo BSce61 – Race Time: 0:26:49-8points
3: moonglownight Resident BSbf2e – Race Time: 0:27:18-6points
4: clairehunt Resident BSfe0f – Race Time: 0:27:30-5points
5: Nicci Neox BSa594 – Race Time: 0:28:05-4points
6: eleanorvelvet Resident BSbccf – Race Time: 0:28:35-3points
7: ruggeromare Resident BSf78d – Race Time: 0:28:59-2points
8: Flapio Resident BS29ac – Not Finished-1point
8: Shadow McConach BSac60 – Not Finished-1point

Lap Times:
Lisa Hyandi BS2145 – Start: 0:00:01 – Last lap: 0:26:28
Montserrat Naidoo BSce61 – Start: 0:00:04 – Last lap: 0:26:45
moonglownight Resident BSbf2e – Start: 0:00:12 – Last lap: 0:27:06
clairehunt Resident BSfe0f – Start: 0:00:03 – Last lap: 0:27:27
Nicci Neox BSa594 – Start: 0:00:11 – Last lap: 0:27:54
eleanorvelvet Resident BSbccf – Start: 0:01:10 – Last lap: 0:27:25
ruggeromare Resident BSf78d – Start: 0:00:06 – Last lap: 0:28:53
Flapio Resident BS29ac – Start: 0:00:11 – Last lap: Not Finished
Shadow McConach BSac60 – Start: 0:00:30 – Last lap: Not Finished

Standing overall St AR 2021 B22LTE Championship (after 22 races):
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Stay all safe and healthy and see you all next week again on our reversed course with wind fron South West and 21knots.

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  1. Hi.. it was a lovely race with good weather for me after a stormy afternoon.. Still tired for staying on long time on my tiptoes .. congrats to all not only for hte race but for the friendly relaxed moments after the race.
    Thank you Bianca (RD and organizer) and thank You Adeli (RD)

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Export contents as setup recipe, Shape Debug Mode to dynamic cache - This week in Orchard (24/07/2020)

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Caching, This week in Orchard, Recipes, Shape

Export contents as setup recipe and import recipe from JSON are about to make it easier to manipulate data and setup your Orchard Core site. Edit cached shapes using the Shape Debug mode to see your changes right away. We think if you are an Orchard Core developer, you will find these features very useful. These are the bigger topics for this week!

Orchard Core updates

Export Contents As Setup recipe

This is a new feature that allows you to use a checkbox when you want to export some content and remove any information that would reuse properties like the content item ID, author, owner.

The Export As Setup recipe checkbox in the All Content deployment step

Let's see an example for this and create a deployment plant that contains only that All content deployment step and see the JSON schema of the Blog content item that you can get if you install your site using the Blog recipe. So, if you leave this checkbox unchecked, you will see the following content.

A recipe with content item IDs and the user

Nothing special here, you see the same content as you saw before. The content item has an ID, a version ID, and the dates when this content item was published and modified. But let's see what will happen if we put a tick in that checkbox!

Content as a setup recipe

In this case, all the IDs are regenerated (for now it's not the case for the contained content items) and the values for the owner and the author are coming from the AdminUsername parameter. But be aware of the note that you can read under the checkbox: If checked, you will have to manually declare variables for the Content Picker fields, Taxonomy fields, Tags fields, and List item ids and replace them where needed in the recipe. Any reference to these content items will be lost.

And the logic in the ContentDeploymentSource is about checking the value of the ExportAsSetupRecipe boolean property. If you want to export contents as a setup recipe, then the related properties of the objectData will be changed as you can see in the recipe file.

The ContentDeploymentSource class

We have to mention one new thing here. If you add the All features deployment step to your plan that exports the state of all features, you can say to ignore the disabled features. In that case, your recipe will only contain the enabled features and not the disabled ones.

The Ignore disabled features checkbox in the All Features deployment step

Import Recipe from JSON

If you navigate to Configuration -> Import/Export in the admin UI, you will see a new option called JSON Import. This new feature will let you type some JSON and then run it, so you can execute some custom recipe steps from this UI. This new edition comes with the Deployment feature and it's using permission which is the Import permission.

Let's say you want to change the site theme of your site for the default one. To do that you can use the following JSON. You can see you can do it in the same way as you would do it in a recipe file.

JSON Import feature

Fix modules referencing other modules

You may notice how many modules are referencing other modules for no need. Mostly this is just because they are doing so to get transitive references. The solution was to take direct references on the required abstractions/core projects instead of transitively depending on other modules to provide those references. Dean Marcussen also reviewed other references, removed superfluous references, and ordered them all.

Migrate the OpenID module to OpenIddict 3.0

OpenIddict 3.0 has matured enough to envision using it in Orchard Core 1.0 RTM for both the server and validation features.

As part of this migration, a few properties will be added to OpenIdServerSettings and OpenIdValidationSettings and others will be renamed for clarity. Due to this change, existing deployments will have to be updated to use the revamped settings. No exception should be thrown and the migration should be limited to re-configuring the server/validation options using the UI and/or updating custom recipes to use the new names.

An important aspect of this migration is that the validation feature will now internally use the OpenIddict validation handler instead of the Microsoft JWT bearer handler, even with external OAuth 2.0 authorization servers. Unlike the MSFT JWT handler, the OpenIddict validation handler uses the new Microsoft.IdentityModel.JsonWebTokens stack and comes with JWT token type validation enforced by default, which is required by the not-yet-standardized JWT access token specification.

This change will break existing deployments targeting OAuth 2.0 authorization servers that don't issue "typ": "at+jwt" access tokens. At least the following implementations are known to be impacted:

  • Azure AD/B2C.
  • IdentityServer3.
    IdentityServer4, except its latest 4.0 version (unless 4.0 is configured to use a different typ header)

OpenIddict-based deployments are not impacted, as the validation handler includes special logic to deal with the tokens produced by OpenIddict 1.0 and 2.0, whose JWT tokens always include a special token_usage claim to prevent token substitution attacks, which has the same purpose as the "typ": "at+jwt" header.

To ensure the validation feature can still be used with servers that don't issue "typ": "at+jwt" access tokens, an opt-in option was added to the validation configuration UI.

Disable token type validation option

This option can only be enabled when configuring a remote OAuth 2.0 server and is not shown when using a local OpenID server or a server located in another tenant, as OpenIddict 3.0 always issue "typ": "at+jwt" access tokens.

Shape Debug Mode to Dynamic Cache

If you have a lot of menu shapes in your site and if you want to edit the templates you can't do that easily because the items are cached. The solution here is to provide an easy way to disable the cache, so in that case, the menus will not be cached. To set the cache mode, head to Configuration -> Settings -> General, where you will find a new tab called Cache.

Settings for dynamic caches

The settings here are very similar to the resource settings, the default is that the cache would be enabled in production and disabled otherwise. You can say I want to enable or disable it all the time. And there is a very useful option called Enabled with cache debug mode. Let's select this one and see what will happen!

Now navigate to the homepage of your site and view the page source. Everywhere where is a cached block you will get a little piece of information about the given block. It shows you the cache ID, the dependencies that it's using, how long it's cached for, and any of the variations that are present. You will also see where is the end of the block.

The page source when the cache debug mode is enabled

Let's see how it works! You will find a CacheStatement class that is about to check the value of the cacheOptions.DebugMode and if it's true, then it will add the additional content to the source of the page.

The CacheStatement class

If you are interested in more details about the cache settings, head to YouTube, and see the recording of the demo!

News from the community

Orchard Core workshops

The contributors of Orchard Core will hold some unique online workshops in September 2020. So even with Orchard Harvest postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic we'll get some new learning events.

Are you looking to get up to speed with Orchard? Check out the workshops' details on the Orchard Core homepage!

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Do you know of other Orchard enthusiasts who you think would like to read our weekly articles? Tell them to subscribe here!

If you are interested in more news around Orchard and the details of the topics above, don't forget to check out the recording of this week's Orchard meeting!

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Vigil of Pentecost

The Vigil of Pentecost is a semi-double Vigil of the first class. No feast may be celebrated on this day. The ancient ceremonies that take place before Mass are similar to those of Holy Saturday and are closely linked to the historical praxis of also conferring baptism at Pentecost. The liturgical colour of the day changes from white, to violet and finally red.

The liturgical colour of the Office is white. At Mattins the invitatory, hymn, antiphons and psalms are all as on the feast of the Ascension except that the antiphons are not doubled. The lessons in the first nocturn are the Incipit of the Epistle of the Apostle Jude. In the second nocturn the lessons are from a discourse of St. Augustine to catechumens on the Creed - note the baptismal connection. In the third nocturn the lessons are taken from St. Augustine's tracts 74 & 75 on St. John's Gospel. The eighth responsory is of the Sunday within the Octave of the Ascension, Si enim etc. The Te Deum is sung.

At Lauds the antiphons Viri Galilaei etc are sung with the Sunday psalms (92, 99, 62, Benedicite & 148). The chapter, hymn antiphon on the Benedictus and collect are as on the Sunday within the Octave of the Ascension but the Octave is not commemorated. After the collect of the day a commemoration of St. Boniface is sung.

On Saturday morning, before the Horae Minores, the altar is vested in festal red, then covered with both a violet and white antependia. The altar candles are lit - unlike on Holy Saturday. At the Little Hours the hymns are sung with the Doxology of the Ascension, Jesu tibi sit gloria, Qui scandis super sidera etc, sung to Tone4. At Prime the antiphon Viri Galilaei is sung with psalms 53, 118i & 118ii. The first entry in the Martyrology is that of the great feast of Pentecost, Dies Pentecostes, quando Spiritus Sanctus Jerosolymis super discipulos igneis linguis advenit. At the other Hours the antiphons from Lauds are sung with the Dominical psalms. After None the candles are extinguished and the white antependium is removed.

The celebrant in violet chasuble, assisted where possible by deacon and subdeacon in violet folded chasubles, comes to the altar preceded by acolytes who do not bear candles. The celebrant kisses the altar at the centre and goes to the epistle corner. The celebrant begins reading, in a low voice, the first of six prophecies at the Epistle corner, the ministers stand as at the introit of Mass. Meanwhile a lector comes to a lectern in the middle of choir accompanied by the 2nd MC, reverences the altar and choir and then chants the first prophecy. The celebrant and ministers may sit after reading the prophecy returning to the altar as the lector finishes chanting the same. After the prophecy has been sung the celebrant sings Oremus, but unlike Holy Saturday without Flectamus genua and Levate as it is Paschaltide, and sings the first collect Deus, qui in Abrahae. The collects are proper to the Vigil and, again, are rich with baptismal references.

(The photographs are from the website of Saint Gertrude the Great church in Ohio, USA shewing their 2010 Pentecost Vigil. They were, I believe, the first photographs of the ceremonies of the Vigil of Pentecost to appear on the Web.)

Where resources permit the six prophecies are sung by lectors in ascending order of seniority but for most celebrations they will be sung by the same or by a couple of lectors. The prophecies and collects are:

Prophecy 1: Genesis XXII: 1- 19 (Holy Saturday 3rd prophecy) In diebus illis: Tentavit Deus Abraham… Collect 1: Deus, qui in Abrahae...; Prophecy 2: Exodus XIV: 24-31, XV: 1 (Holy Saturday 4th prophecy) In diebus illis: Factus est in vigilia matutina... This is followed immediately by the tract Cantemus Domino and then Collect 2: Deus, qui primis temporibus... Prophecy 3: Deuteronomy XXXI: 22 -30 (Holy Saturday 11th prophecy) In diebus illis: Scripsit Moyses canticum ... followed by the tract Attende, caelum then Collect 3: Deus, glorificatio fidelium...; Prophecy 4: Isaiah IV: 1 – 6 (Holy Saturday 8th prophecy) Apprehendent septem mulieres..., the tract Vinea facta est... and Collect 4: Omnipotens sempiterne Deus...; Prophecy 5: Baruch III: 9 – 38 (Holy Saturday 6th prophecy) Audi, Israel, mandata vitae... Collect 5: Deus, qui nobis...; and Prophecy 6: Ezechiel XXXVII: 1-14 (Holy Saturday 7th prophecy) In diebus illis: Facta est super me... and Collect 6: Domine, Deus virtutum...

During the sixth prophecy, if there is a font, the acolytes light their candles on the credence table. A server lights the Paschal Candle and then holds it near the credence. The celebrant goes to the sedilia and removes the chasuble and maniple and puts on a violet cope. The ministers remove their maniples. A procession is now formed. The Paschal Candle bearer leads followed by Crucifer between acolytes. The choir sings Sicut cervus as the procession heads to the Baptistery.

At the entrance to the Baptistery the collect Concede, quaesumus is sung (as opposed to Omnipotens sempiterne Deus that is sung on Holy Saturday). Everything then is done to bless the font as on Holy Saturday with the solemn blessing of the water and infusion with Chrism. The Paschal Candle is plunged three times into the waters of the font. Before the infusion with Chrism everyone in the church is aspersed, as on Holy Saturday, and the blessed water is reserved for use at the Vidi aquam tomorrow. Where there are catechumens the baptisms now take place. During the blessing of the font cushions are laid in the sanctuary for the celebrant and ministers to prostrate on when they return.

After the blessing of the font the procession reforms and returns to the sanctuary the Paschal Candle bearer leading it. Two cantors begin the Litany as the procession leaves the Baptistery. The petitions are doubled i.e. the cantors sing the petition and response entire and then it is repeated by the choir and people e.g. C: Pater de caelis Deus, miserere nobis; P: Pater de caelis Deus, miserere nobis.

When the procession enters the sanctuary the candle bearer takes the Paschal Candle back to the sacristy and extinguishes it. The Crucifer and acolytes go to the credence. The cantors kneel in the middle of the choir. The celebrant and ministers go to the sedilia and remove their vestments. They then prostrate on the cushions before the altar, all others kneel. After the invocation Peccatores the celebrant and ministers rise and return to the sacristy where they vest in red. Meanwhile servers remove the violet antependium etc and vest the altar for festal Mass. The altar candles are now lit. Where there is no font after the sixth prophecy the cushions are laid on the altar steps and the Litany follows.

As the choir sing Agnus Dei the procession returns to the sanctuary. Mass follows as usual except, like Holy Saturday, it has no introit. During the Gloria the bells are rung. There is only one collect. At the Gospel the acolytes do not carry candles. The Creed is not sung. The communicantes and Hanc igitur are of Pentecost. Unlike the Mass of Holy Saturday the Agnus Dei is sung, there is a communion verse and there is no interpolation of Vespers.

In the afternoon solemn first Vespers of Pentecost are sung. The antiphons Cum complerentur etc are sung, doubled, with psalms 109, 110, 111, 112 & 116. The Office hymn is Veni, Creator Spritus. The Doxlogy Deo Patri...Surrexit, ac Paraclito etc is sung at all hymns of Iambic metre during the entire Octave. At Vespers there are no commemorations and at Compline the Dominical preces are omitted.

In the 'liturgical books of 1962' the sacred ceremonies of the ancient Vigil of Pentecost have been excoriated. At Mattins the ferial psalms are used, there is but one nocturn of three lessons, the former third nocturn homily. At Lauds and the Hours the ferial psalms are sung. The prophecies, blessing of the font and Litany are all completely gone. The Vigil ceremonies were suppressed in churches where the, then optional, 1952 form of the Easter Vigil was introduced and then universally in 1956 with the New Order of Holy Week. As no one could argue that the time of the Pentecost Vigil was, putatively, wrong its reason for suppression was clearly lest it reminded the faithful of the traditional Ordo. Mass has the introit added (previously this was only used in private Masses). A commenter and friend noted several years' ago the irony of having a proper Hanc igitur which says "Wherefore we beseech Thee, O LORD, to graciously receive this oblation which we they servants... make to Thee... offering it up in a like manner with those also whom Thou hast been pleased to make to be born again of water and the Holy Ghost" when the ceremonies to which it refers have been excised from the 'ancient' Missal of the early 1960s.

Tarquinius said...

Dear Rubricarius, if I may ask: A while ago, you spoke about continuing your series on the Missal of 1962, more specifically, the new Ritus servandus. Is there any chance you'll pick up this topic again?

Rubricarius said...

Dear Tarquinius,

Thanks for the question. Yes, it will be forthcoming. Unfortunately, I have been very tied up with the 'day job' over the past eighteen months or so and with some family matters. The second part of the series will go through the changes contained in the re-written RS. A month of so and 2.1 of it should be published.


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Biggest day ever!!

Yesterday was a big day for my blog with 116 hits!!  Thank you, I bet alot of them came from Bruce Aho, am I right?  Every time you read a blog or a page from the other pages it counts as a hit and makes me feel as if I have had a visitor.  It feels so nice, the only thing you could have done better is leave me a comment to let me know you had come.  It is like coming home from shopping and find someone had come to you house while you were gone and you don’t know who it was.  Either way I do enjoy the visit as we don’t get many visitors here.  We live on the top of Baker Mountain and no one knows anyone lives here.  We have a long driveway into the woods that looks deserted so no one comes down that drive, it is not on the way to anywhere.  In the five years we have lived here only three cars have come down the drive, outside of the UPS truck, family, or Joyce our neighbor whose son I tutor for the ASVB test.  Those three were two people that were lost and one was a new minister looking for people to come to his church.  As you can see Norman is really a hermit by nature and I have found it is the only way to keep his stress level down so we have not made any “friends” here.  We know lots of people and love to visit with the other farmers at athe farmer’s market where we buy the things we don’t grow such as corn and mustard greens.  They give me all the advise on farming we need and all the company Norman can stand but we do not visit them nor them us.  I have my blog and all the friends that visit me there, which I enjoy very much.  Please do leave me a comment now and then and I will answer it.  When you leave a comment it goes to my email box where I have to approve it and then I can leave an answer and they will go on my blog under the comments.   OK  back to the farm.  When we came home in Feb.  I started tomato seeds in egg shells.  It was a new method I read about and wanted to try.  I used some old potting soil I had here which was a bad mistake as none of them germinated.  I ran out of that so used some garden soil in one 18 pack and all of those germinated and I got them transplanted into larger pots.  They are now ready to be put into the ground but I will wait until the blackberries bloom before doing that.  I started a second lot when I realized my mistake and those are now an inch or better high so yesterday I transplanted 72 tomato plants into larger pots.  The egg shells worked well and all I had to do was brake a hole in the bottom of the shell and plant shell and all into the pot.  The weather is nice now so we put a set of the black shelves outside in a sunny area and that is where we are keeping the seedlings.  When it calles for a night in the 40’s I will cover the shelves, otherwise they are staying right out side.  I do have a green house but it doesn’t get much sun.  In the woods it is hard to find a place that gets sun all day!  Tomorrow it calls for very stormy weather with lots of wind.  Very often if it comes from the west, the wind goes right over the top of us.  It hits the mountain and and we are just under the top so the wind goes over the top and only to tops of the trees move.  But if it comes from the south or southwest, which they call for tomorrow, the wind comes down the road and we get some good gusts.  So we will bring the seedling in tonight.  We also do not want the plants to drown from a lot of rain all at once.  I do hope they grow big enough to plant when the blackberries bloom as to buy 100 plants to set out is quite expensive so all I can grown will help.  McMinnville is the nursey capital of the world so there are lots here to get and we do get a good price but it is nicer if I can grown my own.  Most of the trees you get in a catalog are grown here in  McMinnville.  Any road you drive around the town you see the fields and fields of young trees growing and then being dug up, balled and bagged for shipping.  Very pretty with the cattle farms mixed in.  Today I write letters.   I have a daughter that writes every week and two cousins, one in Milford , NH and one in Florida.  Then I will do just a bit more weeding.  We had beet greens again yesterday and still have a row to thin so will have them again today.  The potatoes are beautiful.  We watch everyday for blooms so we can start stealing small potatoes from the plants but that usually doesn’t happen until about May 1 about the time the blackberries bloom.  The blackberry blooming is the sign that the last frost has happened and it is safe to grown everything.  It doesn’t always work, once in the while they have what the farmer calls a “blackberry winter” which is a late freeze like we had in 2007 but that is very rare.  Have a great day and let me hear from you.

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I am a retired teacher. I have taught all levels from kindergarten through college and have been retired now for over 20 years. The last ten years we have lived on a farm and lived off the land, growing our own food and canning for our extended family. Now we have sold the farm and are moving to Florida to truly retire. I guess I have always had a short attention span as this is our 11th move. We have moved from a small farm in New Hampshire, to more city type living, small business adventures, focusing more on traveling, Florida living, Georgia, and Tennessee farming and now back to Florida. My blog is a way to keep my children up to date on what I am doing and letting them know I am still alive and well. My children are spread across the country from New England to Florida, Nova Scotia to New Mexico and CA and several places between, They let me know what they are up to by commenting on my blog but they are so busy with their own lives most times I have to assume " no news is good news". Now I are starting on a new adventure so will try to give daily updates until we get settled into a routine. Then I know even if I am getting older and should settle down I will start looking for some new and exciting adventure to start. Welcome aboard. Norman died Oct 30, 2017 so I am continuing the journey alone with the aid of my children, grand children and great grand children. At present I am living with my daughter and we are 7 in one house and cover four generations. We range in age from 7 to 85 and are finding common ground, we are living proof that multi generations can live and function in a three bedroom house if they really want to. Soon my grandson will have his house built next door so we all will have a room of their own except for the seven year old twins who by choice will share a room.
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  1. Don and Joyce Larrabee says:

    Good Morning friends. Read your blogs every day and enjoy them. Hopefully you won’t get any frosts to ruin your gardens. We don’t plant anymore. We use to have a garden down back of our house. Have a nice day. The sun is shining here. Don and Joyce.

    • Good Morning Joyce, So nice to hear from you. We have had no frost yet and the month is almost over so the worrying is less. We have ordered some smoke bombs to put into the vole holes so maybe that will get rid of the little critters that ate all the peas in the one patch. There are now two holes in the house garden so will bomb those also. So far we are both healthy enough to keep up with the gardens. Norman sprayed the fruit trees yeasterday. We have three pears on the Moon Glow pear, first time. I don’t see any on the bartlet yet but we have a few apples on the yellow delicious for the first time also. Can’t see any on the wine sap but the crab apple tree is full so we will need to spray every other week all summer. The peaches are loaded and hope we can keep the worms off them with the spraying, that was what a peach farmer in McMinnville told us to do, hope he is right. Sending love you way – Carol

  2. Donna Leger-Stevens says:

    Hi, I want to say I am so glad you are on FB and Blogging, this is so nice…. I remember you as my math teacher at Mascenic… You were a wonderful teacher, and it showed that you loved math and it encouraged all of us to continue to learn. Thank you for all you have done!!!
    Donna Leger-Stevens

    • Hi Donna, Thank you for visiting me. I love to hear from my students. It has been a long time and we have moved so many times most people can not find me, I am so glad you did. You can go to my blog and see all the things I have been doing since I left New Hampshire. Now I spend all my time farming and writing. I hope to get back to my books on my great Uncle Web soon and also need to do more on my memories if the gardens ever let me do some work on the writing. Right now I am tutoring a neighbor boy who wants to get a good job in the Army so needed to sharpen his math skills. I still love math and enjoy working with anyone who will listen and work. Great hearing from you, keep in touch. Sending love and good wishes your way.

  3. dphann says:

    I Have thoroughly enjoyed your blog.Having just found it I have now read it from start to finish.
    I am glad to have read it,is inspiring me to be more ambitious as I am a recovering cancer patient whose medications and treatments have depleted my energy for far to long.I was a neighbor from.
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    • OH BOY! you are really a voice from the past. I am so glad to hear from you. Norman and I have been sitting here trying to remember where you lived on Currier Avenue. Norman decided he remembered a Debby Hann that was a friend of one of our daughters, is he right? I know how hard it is when you have something that drains your energy, the only way I could get back into the things I want to do is to lay out the things I want to get done this week and work at it for a few minutes each morning and then again in the afternoon. I find if I work until I am tired I never get back to it for days so besure to quit before you run down. When we built this house and looked at the land if we had thought that we wanted a garden or farm we never would have started. We clear the land one flower garden at a time, very small ones. Then turned a couple together into a vegetable garden and so it grew. We never thought we could do this when we started being 74 and 76. Now at 80 and 82 we know we can do anything we want to as long as be take small bites at a time. Do let me know where you lived and how how life is treating you now. Thanks for visiting me today. Sending love and strength to you. Have a great day.

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From left to right: Jeanette, Jennifer, Sharon, Sarah, Sherry, Stephanie then Mike and Jamie in front.

The Bube Family

by Barney Quick

The Bube family sees this world as a feast. The parents and their six daughters seem to have never encountered a realm of knowledge they didn’t find deliciously intriguing. From electricity to tree farming to chamber vocal music to the study of insects to debating, they dive into a given area with a gourmand’s passion. In fact, a love of fine dining enters into their array of enthusiasms.

While each family member has her (or his, in father Mike’s case) areas of specialization, they take keen interest in what the others are learning. In fact, each is quick to tell the others’ stories. This is no doubt due to the fact that Mike and Sharon have home-schooled Stephanie, Sarah, Sherry, Jeanette, Jennifer, and Jamie who range in age from 20 to 3.

The basic subjects are covered first, but they form part of a seamless continuum of learning that goes on every second of the day. “If someone still doesn’t understand a concept in, say, algebra or physics and it’s 10 o’clock at night, we stick with it until she does,” says Mike, “because there are going to be more things to cover the next day.”

Along with the textbooks and tests which comprise the official part of the girls’ education, there is ample use of the community’s various resources: the Purdue extension office and the 4-H program, the Career Resource Center, St. Agnes Catholic Church, the Girl Scouts, and local businesses. “These resources are available to everyone,” says Mike with his characteristic zeal. “We just happen to use them, but anyone can.”

Just what does a young person whose passion for knowledge is insatiable look like?

Consider Stephanie, who is working on an associates’ degree in culinary arts and restaurant management at Ivy Tech. She’s already gained some experience in her field, helping to run Ivy Tech’s mock-up restaurant, the Culinary Expressions Café in Indianapolis. “I’m going to hate to see her leave home, says Mike. “That will be the end of the fancy meals.” She has performed in a chamber choir at Carnegie Hall (along with sister Sarah). She and Sarah have both held the Miss 4-H title.

Then there’s Sarah, who attended an aerospace workshop at Purdue this summer, which involved flying a plane. She is currently pursuing an accounting degree at Ivy Tech (where she’s a member of the Phi Theta Kappa honors society), and hopes to study engineering at Purdue after that. For a 4-H project in electricity one year she built a can crusher. “It had a half-horsepower motor, a 40-to-1 ratio gear box, and a wood vice with Acme thread screws,” she explains. Another project was a lock mechanism and key made entirely of wooden parts.

Sherry is the youngest person, now 15, to ever go through the Leadership Brown County program. She is currently working on a Congressional Award under the mentorship of Judge Judy Stewart. This past summer she accompanied a neighbor family to Germany to look after the young children. She is currently taking voice lessons and hopes to study music and law at Indiana University.

Sherry and Jeanette are both members of the home-school network’s debate team. Both are also involved with the knitting and crochet group that meets at the Brown County Public Library. “I have a yarn fetish,” says Sherry. “I brought a duffle bag of it back from Germany.”

Jennifer is on the home-school network’s speech team and is interested in the study of insects. “She’s my little entomologist,” says Mike.

Three-year-old Jamie can handily recite the earth’s seven continents.

Sharon has selected particular textbooks from a variety of publishers based on instructional approaches she has found suitable. “I’ve learned to adjust the materials to each girl’s learning style,” she says.

The network that the Bubes share with other home-schooling families provides them all with many social occasions where everyone also learns a lot. Recently the Bubes hosted Tree Identification Day on their farm, complete with a question and answer wheel, prizes, and wood crafts. About 40 youngsters took part. The network also stages International Nights, with each family picking a country and providing its food and wearing its customary dress.

When the entire Bube family gathers in one place they encourage each other. What mainly comes through is the collective zest for life. Father Mike sums it up well: “Life is no dress rehearsal and people should realize that we’re all on a free trip around the sun!”


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  1. My Smartphone has a very small display resolution and when i view the Outgress Intel map, the Google Maps buttons are rendered very big and take too many valuable space away. Also i always have to switch to full screen mode to be able to click on the Goto GPS Location button. The following Screenshot shows what i mean:
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9 Tips for Making Your Coworking Space Stand out from the Competition

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According to Stanford News, 42 percent of the U.S. labor force is now working from home full time. Thank you, COVID-19! And while all of our hopes lie with the promising new vaccines to save us from the COVID reality, there’s strong evidence that some aspects of life will be forever changed. Working remotely is likely to be one of them.

The stigma of working from home has been largely dispelled due to the pandemic. We’ve shown that it can be done—and done well. The Boston Consulting Group surveyed 12,000 employees and found that over 75% reported being just as productive, if not more so, when working remotely during the pandemic. And according to the Survey of Business Uncertainty (a Stanford/Atlanta Federal Reserve/University of Chicago collaboration), the forward momentum of the work-from-home movement will continue. In the survey, companies said that they expect 20% of their employees’ work will be performed remotely after the pandemic, as opposed to 5% before the pandemic.

Coworking spaces, rise up!
This trend is going to drive the demand for more coworking spaces, which were becoming increasingly popular even before the pandemic. Pre-pandemic, these spaces were dominated by small businesses, startup companies, and freelancers. Moving forward, these occupants will undoubtedly be joined by a new force of remote employees. These workers will appreciate not having to commute to the office, but for various reasons, will want to work outside of their home in a productive coworking space.

If you’re the owner or manager of a coworking space, this is great news for you. You stand to get the business of remote workers looking for a social outlet, greater inspiration for their creativity, more leg room, better wi-fi, or a reprieve from noisy neighbors or active toddlers at home. Of course, as demand for coworking spaces increases, supply will surge, too, so you’ll want to make sure that you’re poised to distinguish your space from the others.

Here are five ideas to set yourself apart:

  1. Create the best layout, which will probably include a blended layout for maximum flexibility. Some coworking spaces only include a series of private offices, but those don’t accommodate group meetings, networking sessions, or community lunches. The best layouts will include a combination of private offices, conference rooms, community desks, and common areas.
  2. Hire a community coordinator—and make sure they’re just right for the job. If you’ve ever watched “The Love Boat,” it’s the vibrant and affable Julie McCoy cruise director-type that you’re after here. Your coordinator should welcome and orient all newcomers to the space, check in on workers frequently to make sure they have what they need, organize community events, and be available to troubleshoot any concerns that may come up.
  3. Expand accessibility. One of the perks of coworking spaces is that they facilitate more flexible hours than conventional spaces. Ensure that you can accommodate people who want to work during non-traditional hours. If a team’s creative juices flow best at midnight, make sure there’s a meeting room open and available for them.
  4. Stay in touch with a newsletter. Whether through an e-newsletter or a physical newsletter distributed to each work space, stay in touch with regular communications. Use the newsletter to introduce new workers, post job openings, feature a new product or service provided by one of your clients or hype upcoming community events.
  5. Install a message board. Since workers will be coming and going, allow them to communicate through a board in the lobby or kitchen. Create a spotlight corner for individuals or companies who are new to your space. Recognize workers who have received promotions or companies that have won awards or reached growth benchmarks. And leave space for people to buy or sell items or post help wanted ads, request service provider recommendations, etc. A virtual version of this would be to start a Facebook page for your space.
  6. Upgrade your amenities. The kitchen is a great place to start. Just as the kitchen is the heart of your home, it’s also the hub of your coworking space. Make sure it’s inviting with bells and whistles such as a top-of-the-line coffee maker, ample fridge space, reliable cutlery, and seating/electrical hookups that accommodate working lunches.

Equipping community spaces with recreational equipment such as a ping pong or pool table where people can step away from their stress is a win as well. A shower and exercise equipment are strong selling points, too. Some coworking spaces even have nap rooms for workers who need that 15-minute power break to jumpstart their productivity. And finally, make sure that you have a strong suite of work-related amenities, too, such as chargers, projectors, whiteboards, etc.

  1. Integrate mailroom management software. Ecommerce was already skyrocketing, but the pandemic drove it into the stratosphere. Your mailroom has likely felt the strain. Now that people are accustomed to the convenience of online purchases and lightning fast deliveries, experts don’t expect trends to let up, even after the pandemic has passed. Your mailroom needs to be able to handle the uptick in package delivery.

Another challenge with mail delivery and coworking spaces is that many workers won’t be coming in every day like they would at traditional offices. You’ll need an effective way to communicate with workers, whether they’re on the premises or not, and track their preferences for holding or delivering their packages. You can attempt to do this by hand, but that’s a recipe for delays, bungled deliveries and lost packages. For maximum mailroom efficiency, not to mention happier clients, upgrade to package receiving software. This doesn’t have to be difficult. In fact, there’s an app for that! Rather than dealing with error-prone, handheld scanners, switch to a mailroom app that can be deployed from a smartphone or laptop computer. In seconds, you can scan incoming package labels, log the data, and send instant notifications with photos to package recipients. The software will do the heavy lifting for you, organizing the data, tracking recipients’ delivery preferences, reminding recipients to pick up packages after a specified period of time and more.

If you want to see features that other coworking spaces are looking for in a delivery management system, read about WeWork, a global leader in coworking spaces. As one of our PackageX clients, they went from a single location with no dedicated mailroom to over 800 locations with a highly efficient, automated mailroom solution serving clients worldwide.

  1. Hold community functions. One of the reasons people choose coworking spaces over simply working from home is that they want the synergy that comes from a work community. It helps with innovation, productivity and networking. But in order for this to happen, people need ways to connect with their coworkers.

Task your community manager with hosting regular functions to allow people to come together. Consider these ideas:

  • Lunchbreak yoga
  • Ping pong competitions (assuming you have the necessary equipment)
  • Minute-to-win it games
  • Friday potlucks in the community kitchen. Be creative and work with a theme: build-your-own-rice-bowls (have everyone bring an ingredient to add), food from your country of origin, crock pot soup buffet, etc.
  • Skills development lectures. Have coworkers sign up to share a useful skill pertaining to their line of work in 10 minutes or less. (If people are pressed for time, this could happen as a working lunch.)
  • Photography or poetry contest (workers could post their entries on the aforementioned message board for vote)
  • Book club Community speakers. Bring in respected people from different walks of life to share their secrets of success.

9 - Free trial. Consider offering a free trial to prospective clients to remove entry barriers. They may be gun shy about signing a contract, so let them try it without a commitment and wow them!

The business is coming—just make sure that you’re prepared to get your share of it by preparing now to offer amenities and services that go above and beyond for prospective clients.

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WONDER is a beautiful and heart-warming story about the life of young August Pullman battling against life’s odds. A great film the whole family can enjoy!

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9781433689123_1242372You don’t have to know who Lecrae is to love this page turner. It is a journey through a musician’s personal life & insight in to the music industry. This autobiography is so raw as it takes you through his childhood battles, faith struggles & tells of grace and redemption.

To see ‘Unashamed’ on our online catalogue, click here.


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When a tragic accident takes the life of 17-year-old Raven Roth’s foster mom–and Raven’s memory–she moves to New Orleans to recover and finish her senior year of high school.

Starting over isn’t easy. Raven remembers everyday stuff like how to solve math equations and make pasta, but she can’t remember her favorite song or who she was before the accident. And when impossible things start happening, Raven begins to think it might even be better not to know who she was before.

But as she grows closer to her new friends, her foster sister, Max, and Tommy Torres, a guy who accepts her for who she is now, Raven has to decide if she’s ready to face what’s buried in the past…and the darkness building inside her.

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Kami Garcia and first-time graphic novel artist Gabriel Picolo comes this riveting tale of finding the strength to face who you are and learning to trust others–and yourself.

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Interstate 14 to San Angelo and Beyond?

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San Angelo really wants an Interstate Highway running through its front yard (with apologies to John Mellencamp). Rep. Mike Conaway (R-Texas) has introduced legislation to the House of Representatives that supports expanding Interstate 14 through Midland and San Angelo. The expanded route would begin at I-20 outside of Midland and run through San Angelo to meet the planned route of I-14 at Brady, with another spur connecting to I-10  near Junction.

The most likely method for getting approval would come if the planned expansion could be attached to a major infrastructure bill such as that languishing in Congress with scant attention from the Trump administration. Although it would be nice to have a clearer shot at heading to parts west, Red isn’t holding his breath while waiting for this one.

A Texan Should be Speaker

Considering the outsize influence Texas has in the current GOP domination of Congress, it only makes sense that a Texan should be Speaker of the House.  And at least three Texas Representatives seem willing to step forward if Paul Ryan (now allegedly too liberal – if you can believe that – to be Speaker) decides to decline to run.  The Texas Tribune indicates that Bill Flores (TP-Bryan), Michael McCaul (R-Gerrymanderland), and Mike Conaway (TP-Midland) are all interested in the job.  All would be midgets following in the Texas-sized footsteps of Congressional giants and former Texas Speakers Sam Rayburn, John Nance Garner and Jim Wright, but at least they would be Texas midgets.

 U.S. Rep. Bill Flores, R-Bryan, said Monday he intends to seek the gavel of the United States House of Representatives if his colleague, Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, doesn’t.

Though GOP lawmakers have been urging Ryan to run as a consensus candidate, Flores said in an interview with The Texas Tribune that he spoke to Ryan on Sunday.

“I don’t want to share private conversations, but he was still a ‘no’ as of yesterday when I spoke to him,” Flores said.

If Flores is to succeed, he will need the 25-member Texas House delegation behind him. That’s no certainty yet, given  possible home state competition. U.S. Rep. Mike Conaway, R-Midland, has said he will consider running for speaker if Ryan opts against a run. U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul is also mulling a run, a source close to him confirmed.

Where we are now is, what we’ve agreed is that we’re going to hold our powder dry,” Flores said of his fellow Texans. “And then we’ll see which Texan gets the most traction, and the thinking is today that we’ll coalesce around one Texan eventually.”

The race is complicated by the Gang of Forty ultra-right wingers who are making outsized demands as a condition of support for any candidate for Speaker.  So right now we have about 10% of the Congress who represent the most far-right lunatic fringe of what used to be a mainstream political party controlling who will hold the third most powerful position in American government.  If Ryan bails, Flores might just be the man.  First, he apparently doesn’t understand the meaning of a private conversation which positions him well to betray anyone who strays from the Tea Party line.  And second, he is apparently willing to kowtow to the Gang of Forty demands of ideological purity at the expense of actually governing.


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Negative Space: Making Your Genealogy Gaps Work For You (and your family tree)

How do you feel when your genealogy research hits a brick wall: frustrated, demoralised, perhaps downright bewildered? Sometimes what you need is a fresh perspective on your family history to kickstart your research process.

A brick wall has a substantial chunk missing from the middle, revealing wooden boards behind.
Looking at the negative space – what’s missing from your research – can be just as instructive as seeing what you do have.
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Walking in their Footsteps: Maps and the Family Historian

The best stories always start with a map. Whether I was in Narnia or the Hundred Acre Wood, Middle-Earth or Treasure Island, the books of my childhood were ever the richer for having a map at the front, ready to help me navigate those magical worlds.

For me, the maps fascination has never subsided, and I know I’m not alone in this.… Read the rest

Lost in Genealogy: Seven Steps to Battling Bias

Today, we’re going to talk about the elephant in every genealogist’s research room. It’s one we’ve all spent some time with, whether we realise it or not. And what’s more, this particular elephant tends to divert our research when it shouldn’t. At its worst, it can stampede us right off course.… Read the rest