text: Job Discussion Forums :: View topic - Poland under Tusk Get TEFL Certified & Start Your Adventure Today! Job Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Poland under Tusk Job Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Poland View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message TwinCentreJoined: 22 Mar 2007Posts: 273Location: Mokotow Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 10:52 am Post subject: Poland under Tusk Feels like a new country, I actually saw 3 people smile whilst walking down the street in town. There is hope. Anyone else noticed? Back to top YakTamerJoined: 29 Mar 2004Posts: 86Location: Warszawa, Polska Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2007 5:05 pm Post subject: Poland under Tusk? I don't see many of the Babci smiling! Radio Maryja is constantly going on about how disastrous the Tusk government is, even though they've only just formed a cabinet and haven't yet had time to do anything. They probably even blame PO for the recent bad weather. Meanwhile, it's fun to see the losers PiS tear into each other like ferrets in a sack. Unfortunately for Rydzyk and the Moherowy Ninjas, Poland is a democracy and they're stuck with the elected govt of PO for now. They cannot even change that by appealing to a higher power (Bog) but that won't stop them trying. Back to top ktodbaJoined: 02 Aug 2006Posts: 54Location: UK Posted: Sun Nov 25, 2007 12:09 am Post subject: If we're laughing then the guys who are over here with us in the UK seem very happy and laughing for some reason. Is it the election result or the fact that they are seperate from the effects that makes them, laugh? Back to top PolluxJoined: 04 Jan 2006Posts: 224Location: PL Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 8:01 pm Post subject: Most of you boys don't have any idea about Polish politics. I don't mean to sound patronizing, but the fact is that the last government was made up of people who didn't cooperate with communist regime of the past. That is not the case with the new government. In fact, they are not new; they are the old UW and UD party. They are socialists. They are Moscow friendly and EU fanatics. Typical pinko material. Very popular. Back to top YakTamerJoined: 29 Mar 2004Posts: 86Location: Warszawa, Polska Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 9:07 pm Post subject: So are you saying that Tusk collaborated with the communists? I guess that's why he was in Solidarnosc in the early 80s, and why he spent all the 80s doing donkey work because, as an opponent of the communist regime, he couldn't get any work befitting his education (graduate of history at the university of Gdansk). Actually, it's Pis's policies that are much closer to socialism than PO's - that is how Tusk roasted Kaczynski in the Wielka Debata (Kaczynski claimed that economic liberalism and freedom had no place in Poland). PiS's policy was to throw money at people who might be induced to vote for them and complain that everybody who left the country in search of a better future were good-for-nothings who couldn't find work in Poland! Their opposition to the flat tax is as strong as Hugo Chavez's might be but I guess the flat-tax and privatisation are policies of socialists and pinko material. EU fanatics? That explains how it was PO that came up with the slogan - 'Nice or Death'. Typical PiS material. Very popular. Back to top PolluxJoined: 04 Jan 2006Posts: 224Location: PL Posted: Fri Nov 30, 2007 9:34 pm Post subject: Take it easy. There's no reason to shout. Tusk was not a collaborator like Walesa, Michnik, Kuron, Gieremek and Mazowiecki, however, he was present at the 1993 removal of the only right wing government in Poland's post WW II history. Do take into account Poland's experience with socialism. Back to top Harry from NWEJoined: 13 Sep 2007Posts: 283 Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2007 4:47 pm Post subject: Pollux wrote: Tusk was not a collaborator like Walesa Good to see the same old tired discredited lies that PiS specialise in. And ironic that they should be repeating the same lies which were created by the communists they claim to hate so much. Back to top PolluxJoined: 04 Jan 2006Posts: 224Location: PL Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 11:15 am Post subject: Discredided by who? Do you mean by the mass media? Consider this; the number one newspaper in the country(Gazeta Wyborcza) is editored by Adam Michnik. He is one of the 'heros' who brought about changes in Poland. In fact, he has never had anything good to say about Poles or Poland and his brother is a Marxist criminal hiding in Sweden. http://www.polonica.net/czerwone-zyciorysy_Michnik.htm Agent 'Bolek' Walesa jumped over the fence in a shipyard and brought down the Soviet regime. Yeah, right. You have a lot to learn.Last edited by Pollux on Fri Dec 07, 2007 7:15 pm; edited 1 time in total Back to top PolluxJoined: 04 Jan 2006Posts: 224Location: PL Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 7:10 pm Post subject: Quote: Their opposition to the flat tax is as strong as Hugo Chavez's might be but I guess the flat-tax and privatisation are policies of socialists and pinko material. PO's campaign promise sure didn't last long. Did it? Privatisation? What is there to privitise that hasn't been privitised? All the key sectors have been given to old party members already. Oh, wait. Pawlak has recently promised the Russians that they can enter the energy market. The sell out continues. Back to top YakTamerJoined: 29 Mar 2004Posts: 86Location: Warszawa, Polska Posted: Sat Dec 08, 2007 2:02 pm Post subject: 24 companies including, PMF and PKO, worth about 200 billion PLN in total. I wouldn't say that was nothing. The problem if anything is with the timing. Since a year ago there has been a substantial increase in the risk premium owing to the unfolding credit crisis affecting sentiment. Banks are reluctant to lend money and so the private equity firms who were often active buyers have more or less been frozen out of the market. Even the bullish WIG has been shown to be vulnerable to this. That means whatever's on the block will be much harder to shift at a solid price than it was just a few months ago. So, in short, the strongest argument against Privatisation at the moment is that the timing sucks. As for the flat tax, well, it's not my job to be PO's house rep on this forum but they hardly seem like masters of their own destiny on this. If they can't get it through parliament and past the presidential veto because of strong opposition from just about everyone else then there's little they can do without the absolute majoity required. Pawlak selling Poland's energy sector lock, stock and barrel to the Russians? Ah yes, that would be Dziennik - the house paper of PiS, giving their translation of an interview in the Russian newspaper Kommersant where Pawlak stated that Poland was open to capital investment from the East. Strategic energy companies such as PKN Orlen and Lotos are protected from hostile takeover by law, and Pawlak himself has already gone on record to deny Dziennik's allegations that the energy sector is going to be parcelled off to the Russians. There's nothing wrong with allowing some investment, even from Russia, and it's a trivial matter to prevent Gazprom and Rosneft swallowing everything up because this provision is already present in Polish law. Still, if it sounds like a good story and it can be used to smear the govt, why not publish it? 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Frank on "It's okay, it's not your fault" and other lies our culture tells us.
There doesn't seem to be an end to the list of things that our culture says are "okay" and that the person in question is not responsible for, such as:
- being really out of shape
- getting lousy grades
- being addicted to drugs, alcohol, or porn
- not being able to find a job
- living with your Mom until you're 50 years old
Tim Chester on How the growth of a church changes the church.
- We have to accept that the preacher may not be our pastor.
- We have to work harder at welcoming new people.
- We have to embrace the face that there's a greater diversity among us.
- We have to accept things won't 'just happen' with organization.
- We have to be more willing to volunteer because initially we may not be working with people we know.
- We have to communicate better because we can't rely on word of mouth.
Burk Parsons on Real love wins.
"One of the more loving and merciful things Jesus did was preach on hell. He preached on hell more than He preached on heaven, and He did so in order to point the lost to Himself as the way, the truth, and the life apart from condemnation and eternal punishment in hell—which He created. Although most preachers have not denied the doctrine of hell outright, they might as well have, since it is entirely absent from their sermons . . ."
Scott Williams on Pastors need to keep calm and practice what they preach.
Pastors often preach about rest, worship and time off, while their team members can't remember the last time they had a day off, attended a worship service or had a couple free weekends with family. Pastors often preach about not comparing ourselves to one another, while obsessing, comparing and ranking themselves to pastors down the street, around the corner and from around the country.
Thom Rainer on 11 of the most common mistakes churches make.

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A few years back, Peter Gabriel released an album, Scratch My Back, that found him covering tracks by Arcade Fire, Lou Reed, Bon Iver, and more. Now he's announced the counterpart to that record, And I'll Scratch Yours, due out Sept. 23. Yours finds many of the artists that Gabriel covered returning the favor and covering him right back. A full tracklist is below, but highlights include Arcade Fire doing "Games Without Frontiers," Lou Reed doing "Solsbury Hill," and Randy Newman taking on "Big Time." A couple of the tracks have even popped up online already; those are also below.
Some of the artists originally featured on Scratch didn't actually make the move to And I'll. Radiohead, David Bowie, and Neil Young, for instance, were unable to record covers of Gabriel tracks. (Joseph Arthur and Elbow stepped in instead.)
The record will be available both on its own and as a double LP packaged with Scratch My Back.
And I'll Scratch Yours:
01 David Byrne: "I Don't Remember"
02 Bon Iver: "Come Talk to Me"
03 Regina Spektor: "Blood of Eden"
04 Stephin Merritt: "Not One of Us"
05 Joseph Arthur: "Shock the Monkey"
06 Randy Newman: "Big Time"
07 Arcade Fire: "Games Without Frontiers"
08 Elbow: "Mercy Street"
09 Brian Eno: "Mother of Violence"
10 Feist: "Don't Give Up" [ft. Timber Timbre]
11 Lou Reed: "Solsbury Hill"
12 Paul Simon: "Biko"


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The third inmate to die recently under suspicious circumstances at Menard Correctional Center in southern Illinois was found in his cell Tuesday night, authorities said Wednesday. Randolph County Coroner Randy Dudenbostel said the 35-year-old man, who was housed in the prison's segregation unit, was declared dead at 10:36 p.m.
The third inmate to die recently under suspicious circumstances at Menard Correctional Center in southern Illinois was found in his cell Tuesday night, authorities said Wednesday.
Randolph County Coroner Randy Dudenbostel said the 35-year-old man, who was housed in the prison's segregation unit, was declared dead at 10:36 p.m.
Neither Dudenbostel nor Illinois Department of Corrections spokeswoman Stacey Solano would release the man's name. Dudenbostel said an autopsy has been scheduled for Thursday.
The prison in Chester, about 60 miles southeast of St. Louis, was locked down while an investigation got under way, Solano said.
The deaths - which so far have resulted in murder charges against one former Menard prisoner - come at a critical time for Gov. Pat Quinn's Corrections Department. With critics complaining about packing more than 49,100 inmates in a system designed for 33,000, there have been other violent attacks. A Pontiac guard who was beaten in January required facial reconstructive surgery. In an early February fracas, up to 15 inmates attacked two Menard guards and a chaplain.
"There's no question that violent incidents appear to be on the rise down there," Randolph County State's Attorney Jeremy Walker said of Menard, adding that his office is handling several other cases of alleged staff assaults by inmates and possession of "shanks," or homemade weapons.
Although Tuesday's victim at Menard was in the maximum-security prison's segregation unit, he had a cellmate. Authorities would not comment on that prisoner's whereabouts at the time.
The death was the third deemed "suspicious" since Jan. 31, when 25-year-old Jason Hall was found in his segregation unit cell. Hall had been serving a 13-year sentence for vehicular hijacking with a weapon and was scheduled to be released in September 2015.
Randolph County State's Attorney Jeremy Walker said Hall's former cellmate, James Amison, has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder. One count alleges Amison beat Hall's head and face with his fists in what Walker called an unprovoked attack. The other count contends Amison strangled Hall.
Amison has since been transferred to Pontiac Correctional Center. He is already serving five life sentences, including three for murder, and is due in Randolph County court April 8. His court-appointed attorney, James Kelley of Sparta, said the 40-year-old Amison would plead not guilty and "mount a vigorous defense."
Walker said it appears he'll also file criminal charges in the Feb. 25 death of 64-year-old Yusuf Abuzir, serving a life sentence for a 2008 shooting death in Cook County. After an altercation with his Menard cellmate a few weeks earlier, Abuzir died in the prison's health care unit, authorities said.
Critics claim violence is on the rise because of overcrowding and understaffing. Despite the record population, Quinn, a Democrat, ordered the money-saving closures of five correctional facilities, including the high-security Tamms prison in far southern Illinois in early January and the women's maximum-security lockup in Dwight, which is in process.
Dwight, which had more than 1,000 inmates a month ago, was down to fewer than 140 on Tuesday, according to state records reviewed by The Associated Press.
Quinn supports prisons director S.A. "Tony" Godinez and reappointed him to a two-year term in the $150,228 job. Godinez's reappointment must be confirmed by the Senate.
Corrections also began the release last week of well-behaved inmates eligible for credit on their sentences under a program Quinn signed into law last year. The law tightened restrictions on a program the governor halted in 2009 after the AP revealed secret short-cuts the department took that released 1,700 inmates - hundreds of them violent - within weeks or even days of their arrival in prison.


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By John Sutter
Simona and Adolfo Magaña have no running water; they fill these buckets from a neighbor's tap. (Photo: CNN)
Editor's note: John D. Sutter is a columnist for CNN Opinion and creator of CNN's Change the List project. Follow him on Twitter, Facebook or Google+. Email him at firstname.lastname@example.com. The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the author.
Monson, California (CNN) -- In California, water flows uphill toward money and power. That's a well-known maxim out here, especially in the Dust-Bowl-ready Central Valley -- that forgotten stretch of California that grows 40% of U.S. fruits, nuts and other table foods.
Meet a few people and it's easy to see why.
There's Joel Sampedro, 56, whose garden hose started spitting out sand, not water, about this time last year; or Simona Magaña, a 70-year-old former farm worker who stores water in buckets in the back of a rusty yellow pickup truck because her well is busted and there's no reliable public system for her to hook up to; she uses that nonpotable water to wash dishes, take showers and "flush" the toilet; or Eunice Martinez, 48, who, like many here, makes a distinction between "water," which is the stuff that comes from her tap, and which is usually too polluted to drink, and "drinking water," which is the stuff she buys in plastic bottles.
"We're in the United States of America. We should be able to turn on that water and drink out of it," Martinez told me, standing by her kitchen sink, which has a five-gallon water jug next to it for cooking. "We can't ... It's discriminatory, racist."
This is the invisible California -- the "other California." A place of pickup trucks and pesticides. More West Texas than West Hollywood.
It's the same California John Steinbeck chronicled in "The Grapes of Wrath," the epic book about "Okies" who left the Great Plains during the Dust Bowl and fled to farms here. Some of them are still around. On Tuesday, I went to the town of Tooleville (nickname: "Little Okie"); and the unincorporated town of Monson. There, I met Clarence Harms, whose family came to this supposed promised land from Kansas and Oklahoma when the dust storms made life back there unbearable.
And it's the California that's going to be the subject of my next project in the Change the List series. I'm fascinated by this forgotten valley and a major river, the San Joaquin, that cuts through it. The advocacy group American Rivers recently named the San Joaquin the "most endangered" river in the country. To figure out why, I'm setting off on a three-week journey to try to kayak and walk along its path.
I'm doing so because I want to understand the river and the people who depend on it -- beyond the screaming headlines about drought-year California politics.
I want to get to know this river, at a river's pace, on a river's terms.
I started the journey on Tuesday by going on a tour of the Central Valley with the Community Water Center in Visalia, California. I did that because I wanted to understand how and why water matters to people here. I found out it's everything. Yet there's not nearly enough to go around. Wells are going dry. Those who do have water have to deal with pollution from nitrate, which is linked to blue baby syndrome, kidney disease and other maladies. Some blame farmers for slurping up groundwater with virtually no regulatory oversight from the state. Farm advocates say there's not enough river water for them, in part because of regulations to protect rare fish. They say they're pulling groundwater to survive, too.
I'm going to withhold judgment for now, but I plan to wade deeper into these and many other environmental and social issues on my trip down the San Joaquin. The adventure down the river starts for real on Wednesday. I'm going to hike up to the untouched headwaters, high in the Sierra Nevada.
I'm hoping to end beneath the Golden Gate Bridge in early July.
That's assuming I don't get lost or die of heat exhaustion.
You can follow the journey on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. Or, to make it easier, there's a page on CNN.com that will collect all that stuff for you.
I'll be using the hashtag #endangeredriver.
I could ramble on about my plans, but you'll get to hear all about them in the coming weeks. For now, let me leave you with this: Water is such a deeply personal topic out here in California that Marcelina Sampedro, the wife of the man whose hose started sputtering sand, told me she has two recurring dreams about it.
Both are about a river, but they're slightly different.
Version1: The water is clean and pure. Someone is struggling to swim, but Sampedro is able to grab this anonymous person and pull him or her out to safety.
Version2: The river is polluted, which makes it not unlike the water that comes out of her tap. She and her husband use a $900 water filter/robot (it looks like a miniature version of Eve from WALL-E) to remove the nitrates from the water that comes out of their sink. They both work on fruit orchards, picking crops in the 100-degree heat, paid by the weight, and making about $26,000, together, per year.
In that second dream, again, the person in the river is drowning.
She tries to help but can't.
The unnamed figure drowns.
She wakes up to a life where she and her husband would have no water at home if it weren't for the generosity of Clarence, their neighbor, who gives them water from his well. They're all worried his well could go dry, too.
There are potential fixes for all this, and state programs that are trying to bring safe water to more people in the Central Valley and elsewhere.
But there's just not enough water to go around.
So water continues to flow uphill.
Toward money and power.
That's the history. And, if more's not done, it's looking like the future.


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Praise for River of Darkness:
"River of Darkness immediately takes its place as the definitive book on one of the great voyages into the unknown of all time, Orellana's accidental first descent of the Amazon. Not only is it a solid contribution to the scholarly literature on Amazonia, but it is a riveting and irresistible read, narrative history of a literary quality rarely encountered that compares with Alan Moorehead's great books on the Nile. Bravissimo !" — Alex Shoumatoff, contributing editor, Vanity Fair; publisher DispatchesFromTheVanishingworld.com,
and author of In Southern Light, The Rivers Amazon, and The World is Burning
"In River of Darkness, Buddy Levy proves that the scariest stories are the true ones. Filled with fascinating details and the terror that comes with exploring something for the very first time, this is history coming back to life."
– Brad Meltzer, Bestselling author of The Book of Fate and The Inner Circle
"Buddy Levy is one of those rare and gifted authors whose books are virtual time machines that effortlessly transport us back through centuries. In River of Darkness, we participate in one of history's signal explorations, Francisco Orellana's descent of the Amazon River. We see blood, smell smoke, hear screams of joy and agony. Levy's impeccably researched book is at once harrowing adventure and revealing history. Better than any in recent memory, River of Darkness sheds new light—and reveals the darkest aspects—of the Conquistadors' brave and bloody New World forays."
-James M. Tabor, Author of Blind Descent: The Quest to Discover the Deepest Place on Earth.


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The main thing was I do not even know where I was going and not knowing any of her friends whose were elder than me many years. So, I kept telling my friends that I will be going to an unknown jungle in Selangor and should they did not see me online on that particular night, please do help me call the POLICE. Seriously, I did so.
History time:
Mount Nuang is located in Malaysia with the height of 1,493 metres (4,898 ft). Its peak marks the meeting point of three Malaysian states; Negeri Sembilan, Pahang and Selangor. The mountain itself is the highest point in Selangor and part of the Titiwangsa Mountains.
There are three hiking routes to the peak and all of them were built by Malaysian Department of Wildlife and National Parks. Two of them start in Selangor; one at Kuala Pangsoon in Hulu Langat and another at Kampung Kemensah in Gombak. The third path originates from Bukit Tinggi in Bentong, Pahang. Genting Highlands is visible at night from the peak.
Finally, able to join the front group and managed to snap a photo. Here, we were going an ascending track, seems easy? It was a long journey.
My 'dream' really came true~ All the way while trekking, jie jie was beside me and kept checking my legs should there was presence of any leech. I am proudly to announce that I had been bitten by THREE leeches which was a record for first timer.
Jie jie who brought along salts helped me to pour it on top of the leech. Within 5 seconds, the blood sucker got off from my skin. That was too fast for me to take my camera and captured it. So, I missed the first leech 'photo session'.
The above picture was the second leech in which I asked jie jie not to worry and let me take a picture before spreading the salt on the leech. She was speechless when I said so assuming I was crazy to do so just to take a photo of the sucker who paid me no money for my highly rich haemoglobin (52%) blood. When the rests were told about my records, they started to panic and constantly checked theirs also. Haha. Big man scared of leeches.
The third leech was a terrible one. It somehow got into my socks and was there till I noticed the top of my white socks turned RED. It should be a silence sucker doing its job and hidden from my view. Due to continuous movement, it may somehow got pressed and burst out. Thus, the outburst coloured my socks to red. The bottom picture was the coagulated blood after some times.
After the break, we then continued to a real trekking up to summit. It will be another 2 HOURS for us to reach summit. However, bye bye to my fellow friends that I was unable to join them. I actually had several muscle cramps during the long hours of trekking. I had tried to push to the limit but then my muscles were not working well that day. I do not want to burden them or delay them. However, I do appreciate for some of them who offered me help when I had the cramps attacks. It was a combination of fast sharp pain and slow chronic pain.
Jie jie supplied me with Yoko Yoko..again she was very good in preparing the necessities. Although it was sad that I can't continue the journey, I was glad that I was able to reach far to Kem Pacat.
So, I started to going down the jungle alone with the food supply and a limited volume of waters that I had. It was quite a new experience for me to trek alone. Haha.
So, I wasted no time to non stop taking pictures which was good and needed not to be waited by others.
Top second picture was a very long descending pathway which took 10-20 minutes.
We were deep into conversation about politics. Ironically, she was from Perak and live in Pangkor where Datuk Zambry was the state assemblymen for that constituents. We chatted about the current politics fracas in Perak and the federal government as well.
For those who are interested in making trips anywhere around the country and overseas and is looking for planner/organizer for the events, you may contact her via email or website. She will plan the activities that suits to your need, accommodations, games, foods and virtually A-Z. She is majoring in outdoor activities, adventurous activities and mountain trekking. And of course, they do charge for their service. Haha..
The first person who made his way down was at 6.40 pm. Then, it started to be drizzling rain before all of them successfully reached back to starting point by 7.20 pm. Sky turned dark and it was a timely that all of them reached down before a heavy rain started.
As for them, this time was the record breaker. Previously, they had a same trip with total trekking of 12 hours and with the wet soil conditions of the treks and with a lot of leeches. However, for this time, every thing turned to be very well for them. It was so late that I was unable to join my family members for a trip to the Pesta Tanglung somewhere in Puchong. Instead, I had my dinner with bunch of them.
How to go there?
From Cheras-Kajang highway, take the first turning to he left after passing the toll. Then, go straight till you reach Batu 9 police station where you need to take a left turning. Go straight till the end of the road. You will pass by a mosque on the left and should you want to go Look Up Point, you should make the turning after the mosque. To go to Gabai waterfall, it is located at the right after passing a market area during your straight road journey.


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Date: 23/10/2019
Start Time: 9:30 AM
End Time: 10:00 AM
Spark a love of learning with songs, rhymes and stories. Babies 12 months & under and their parents/ carers welcome. (30 minute weekly program). No bookings required.Venue: Jimboomba Library Where Are We?
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Welcome to the Greater Fort Lauderdale Chamber of Commerce!
OK. Let's get down to business, because, after all, isn't that why you joined the Chamber?
As the Chair of the Diplomat committee, I can start telling you about our over 170 annual events, our various councils, dozens of committees, leads groups, and more great stuff. You can read about them all on this website.
All very important. But if you are like most members, you're here because you want to know how you can start leveraging your Chamber investment into REAL DOLLARS right now.
And for that, our Diplomat Committee is here to assist you with creating and implementing your Success Plan. Diplomats are members just like you, who volunteer their time, to assist fellow members.
That brings me to an important point: Success in the chamber, requires involvement at some level. While we hope you enjoy your new Chamber plaque, chances are, on its own, it won't generate much new business.
Think of the Chamber like a fitness club membership. You only get back what you put in. And it's all about members helping members. That's been the "success formula" here for over 100 years and more then 1,400 companies.
If you are ready to start, we're ready to help.
Mindy Jennings
Diplomat Chair
Member of the Month Award
This is our monthly recognition award to Chamber members, who have gone "above and beyond" in assisting both the Chamber and its members.
- A press release and guaranteed publication in South Florida media
- A "nod" and congrats from Dan Lindblade, President/CEO in his newsletter
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Imagine "The Illusionist" crossed with "Ocean's Eleven"!
Jesse Eisenberg has "agreed in principal" to star in "Now You See Me," a magician-heist thriller to be directed by Louis Leterrier ("Clash of the Titans"), reported Variety. Meanwhile, there's still an offer out to Jake Gyllenhaal for the film's other lead role.
The film is about a group of world-class illusionists who use their performances as cover for pulling off huge bank heists, and then having the cash rain down on their audience. Naturally, this type of behavior attracts the attention of the FBI.
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We're having a hard time envisioning how this works--where are the performances? Where are the banks? How do they make money robbing banks and giving away a huge chunk of the loot?
But, hey, Eisenberg learned plenty about bank robbing from his role in the upcoming "30 Minutes or Less," so we trust his judgment.


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Favor high quality over low prices when shopping for landscaping supplies. You will encounter many cheap, shoddy landscaping products if you shop at a home improvement store. Go to a nursery or other specialty store to find quality products and people who know what they are talking about. The extra cost associated with the specialty store will be worth it when you see the results.
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Yay!! A couple more yarn hauls for me. :) The Caron Rhapsody yarn is from the Dollar Tree. I bought 4 skeins each of "summer rose", "heather mist", "baby blush" and "ocean mist". I'm sorry - I just couldn't pass it up. And no - I don't know yet what I'm going to crochet with it. Maybe another squares afghan - or maybe another round ripple. I'll let you know when I decide.
The other yarn is my haul from my trip to AC Moore today. The 2 baby yarns are for me to crochet a couple more "psuedo flowers". The variegated is for a couple more squares and possibly a scarf. Don't know about the turquoise and soft white - dare I say another round ripple? :)


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The one thing more predictable than mighty IBM every few months staking a bigger claim on the market for service oriented architectures (SOAs) than it did last time, is for its competitors to also wheel out some "me too" PR news.
And so it was, on Monday that IBM announced nothing less than eight new products and a stonking 20 enhancements to existing products intended to help customers build SOAs. IBM backed this with the usual roster or media-approved customer endorsements, this time Pep Boys, Harley-Davidson and Magna Steyr stepped up.
Not to be outdone, BEA Systems - currently one of IBM's biggest competitors in application servers, integration and, therefore SOAs - alerted the world to its own SOA news. "Customers say BEA is number-one choice in SOA," a BEA press release screamed 24 hours after IBM's news. What customers? Unsurprisingly, BEA customers.
SOA has, rightly, come in for criticism because of this kind of hype and because of its underlying relativism. Ask any vendor what they mean by SOA, and you will generally get a different definition. Often SOA, which is based on web services interfaces, is being used by vendors to breath life into their own products or to let their products work better with other vendors' products. In the case of companies like IBM, SOA is enabling greater integration and more modularity of function - leading to re-use of code and features - between its WebSphere middleware, Tivoli management, DB2 database and Rational tools.
A handful of vendors are working on a common SOA architecture at the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS). Those pushing the SOA architecture span the obvious (BEA), the relatively small (Infravio) and even end-users (Visa), but, curiously, it seems no IBM.
SOA at least seems to be changing, though. Central to IBM's news this week was a greater focus on people and processes. Gone, or at least relegated, was the news of yet more SOA-enabled middleware and tools. IBM instead announced people and processes are among five "entry points" to "initiate an SOA project". It announced four new software releases to help target these supposed entry points. Call it a fresh spin on marketing - products that help people and processes, rather than SOA products for the sake of SOA products.
Supporting the "people-centric" approach, IBM announced WebSphere Portal 6.0 that integrates with its Workplace and uses Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) to help developers build "rich" interfaces. Also featured, is a process engine from the WebSphere Process Server to simplify the integration of business processes. Process is tackled with WebSphere Business Monitor 6.0, which features business alerts and links to third-party reports to let users know what the competition is up to.
Steve Mills, senior vice president and software group executive, explained the focus: "It's our view at IBM that [as an industry] we've reached an important inflection point. It's less around gadgets and more about how technology gets applied. We believe in a world now that's not technology led. It's about business process and process integration."
The new SOA dressing appears anchored in a realization that, despite crushing levels of hype and endless customer "endorsements" for SOAs, the SOAs themselves - what ever they be - are taking longer to realize at a customer level then the vendors' pushing them would have liked.
Mills, separately, told the Financial Times this week that SOA still amounts to a tiny part of IBM's revenue, despite the fact IBM has doubled its customer SOA engagements in the last year. Mills' statement is in keeping with similar statements by other SOA cheerleaders, including SAP who reportedly said less than half of its 25,000 customer base will be on SOAs by 2010.
SOA will remain a big focus for IBM, make no mistake.
Mills has committed IBM to spending "a large amount of money" - more than $1bn a year - on SOA, technology, training and support. However, SOA probably matters more to IBM that to others. IBM is gambling on SOA to knit together separate code bases and wants greater modularity and code re-use across its vast software portfolio.
Of any platform provider, IBM also probably has the diversity of portfolio to deliver SOAs. IBM can - from a strategic perspective - mix and match, and re-use components to its heart's content. It certainly has a lead over many others: BEA only last week talked about plans to make its WebLogic application server "more modular" but gave no hint when this would happen.
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Piper Jaffray analyst and Apple enthusiast Gene Munster is saying that Apple will come out with a wearable computer that can be sported on one's wrist in the next year.
The speculation was rabid over the New Year's holiday because it would mean a new device, new revenue and possibly new technology, according to Fortune.
Munster said the "wearable computer" was a significant tech trend, as seen by the buzz about Google's Project Glass, glasses that allows users to stay online and use voice-activated software.
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These wearable devices will make the smartphone or tablet obsolete, because long-lasting batteries, cheaper components and tiny circuitry make these things finally a reality.
The weird part? Munster thinks that women won't like them because the watches are too big.
"It is less likely women will embrace them given women's watches tend to be smaller with a greater emphasis on fashion," he wrote.
Doesn't Munster know that so few young people wear watches nowadays that the comment would make no sense to the average 20-year-old who views a wristwatch as similar to a rotary phone?
The idea of the computer wristwatch has been around for a while and hasn't really caught on. It could take a company like Apple to really galvanize demand, or it might prove to be a bad idea.


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I have been reminded by one of my readers that the Nova Scotia Archives has put on an additional 25,589 historical vital statistics on www.novascotiagenealogy.com!
These records were released on 31 December 2013 and since then have been digitized, fully indexed, and checked for quality control. This year's accruals include 14,974 births (1913), 4,233 marriages (1938), and 6,382 deaths (1963). As usual, the birth records include some 'delayed' entries for individuals born in 1913 (or earlier) but not registered until a later date.
My surnames of interest are -
BARCLAY - Shelburne County and Yarmouth County
BLADES - Shelburne County and Yarmouth County
WEBSTER - Kings County


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MUPPETS AND THE CHILDREN OF THE 21st CENTURY
Kyle Mahoney - The creations of Jim Henson are timeless; they will stand the test of time and live on many years after we're gone. But with the changing interests of each new generation, will all of his characters stay culturally relevant... or will this happen again?
My first day working at After-School was in mid-September of 2010, I was put in the Kindergarten through 2nd Grade Room. "Great!" I thought to myself, "I get to talk with some kids about Sesame Street, some of them should still like it at this age!" But boy was I wrong; I walked up to a kindergartener and asked who their favorite Sesame Street character was. "Eww no! Sesame Street is for babies!" My heart broke; I couldn't believe that five years olds thought that Big Bird and Cookie Monster were for babies. I mean I regularly watched Sesame Street until I was in second grade, and even then I still watched "Elmo Saves Christmas" every year. I then proceeded to ask if they liked Kermit the Frog. "Who?"
I just got up and walked away in confusion. What kind of world were we living in when kids didn't like Ernie and Bert and didn't know who Rowlf the Dog and Animal were? I didn't even bother to ask if they knew what Fraggle Rock was. I was distraught; I really didn't know what was going on with the children of today. Thankfully I knew that in a year things would get better, but we'll get to that later. The kids later learned that I did like Sesame Street, and through my teachings they learned who some Muppets were, or at least what they looked like. But nothing that really made me have faith in our children.
For the remainder of the year, the kids latched on to my other interest like Disney, video games, and Adventure Time. Then September 2011 came along and I already had my metaphorical panties in a bunch because advertising for The Muppets had started and kids were finally becoming wise to who the Muppets were. Also Fraggle Rock had started to air on The Hub which made me extremely happy. I still didn't get the knowledge and love of the Muppets from the kids that I wanted, but some of them seemed excited for the movie. Things stayed the same, I taught kids about the Muppets, kids made fun of my Sesame Street shirts, and yet loved when I was Cookie Monster for Halloween.
Then the day came, November 23, 2011, my 19th birthday... but more importantly the release date of The Muppets. I remember being late to work that day, but I showed up in my Statler and Waldorf "Haters Gonna Hate" t-shirt with donuts. I was put in the 3rd through 6th grade room and the kids loved my shirt. They thought it was hilarious. I ended up seeing The Muppets three times, and most (if not all) of the children saw the movie too. I don't think I heard one negative review, but then again the kids liked The Last Airbender.
I was very content though, as the kids made references to the movie, asked me all about Muppet stuff, and when it came out on DVD they kept asking me to bring it in. A kid even recognized when I started to hum "Rainbow Connection." I was legitimately happy; the Muppets had come back into the social norm. Little girls pretended to karate chop like Miss. Piggy, boys said "Wocka! Wocka!" after telling a bad joke, and my friend and I used Miss Poogy's voice on a regular basis. One day a child ran up to me and told me "I watched The Muppets twice yesterday, Kermit the Frog has such a good singing voice, and he's so funny!" That specific little boy was one of my favorite kindergarteners so this made me happy beyond all belief.
Parents asked me what Muppet things would be fun for their kids to do, where they could buy things, or even share memories of Muppets from when they were kids. They told me how it was something they could do with their kids, something they both enjoy watching. I even had a conversation about how Disney should release Seasons 4 and 5 of The Muppet Show. (Hint, hint Disney.)
Then my summer camp job started. I was a counselor for first grade boys and on the first day, the most amazing thing happened. A child came up to me and asked, "Are you a Man or a Muppet?" I looked at this kid and told him, "I may look like a man on the outside but I am a Muppet on the inside." The kid laughed and then walked away. This child asked me one of the greatest questions. And I had not told any kids at camp about my Muppet love. So he thought that referencing "Man or Muppet" would be funny without my intervention. I eventually told the children how much I love the Muppets and they were very responsive.
I have been asked to sing "Mahna Mahna" countless times and kids have even started singing "The Muppet Show Theme." The kids have also been asking me what Muppet Stuff I own. "Mr. Kyle, do you have Muppets From Space?" "Mr. Kyle, do you have Muppet shirts?" "Mr. Kyle, are you wearing Muppet underwear?" The list goes on. But for a full list of my Muppet possessions (even though it's outdated) check out my Muppet Fan's Muppet Collection Chronicle. I'm sure as the summer goes on there will be more Muppety fun (I'm planning on having them perform "Man or Muppet" for the camp talent show).
But what does all of this mean? It means that the Muppets are gonna be around and be relevant for a long time, but it's good to know that it won't just be the crazy, over-18 fans. It will be the youth, the "target demographic" (whatever that means). That means more TV appearances, more merchandise, MORE EVERYTHING!! This means we are going to have a very Muppety future, including a movie that has one of the simplest and most awesome logos ever!!
The Muppet Mindset by Ryan Dosier, email@example.com
Jul 10, 2012
Muppets and the Children of the 21st Century
Tags: Kyle Mahoney, The Muppets
3 comments:
I'm pretty sure I explored this very subject a couple of years ago.ReplyDelete
I agree with this post so much. I have tween family and was surprised at how crazy their friends were for the new movie in a way that I didn't really expect but was very happy about. Glad to see the torch is being carried on.ReplyDelete
I'm glad I stumbled upon the Muppet Wiki when I was in first grade or then I'd have to idea who the Muppets were!ReplyDelete
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Daniel Loeb, manager of hedge fund Third Point, which owns 5.8 percent of Yahoo, sent another scathing letter to Yahoo's board on Friday, demanding Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson be fired for inflating his academic record by noon on Monday.
Yahoo's admission of "error" in representing Thompson's background is "inadequate," Loeb said.
"Yahoo!'s initial response yesterday to Third Point's identification of material inaccuracies in both CEO Scott Thompson's and Director Patti Hart's educational record was insulting to shareholders," wrote Loeb in the letter.
Yahoo has been embroiled in an ongoing battle with Third Point for control over its board. Loeb is hoping to name a slate of four directors, including himself.
The company acknowledged on Thursday that it had overstated Thompson's educational background. In a press release, Yahoo said Thompson has only a bachelor's degree in accounting from Stonehill College and not one in computer science as well.
The board said Thursday that it will investigate what happened.
Loeb outlined several actions he would like Yahoo to take by Monday. First, he wants Yahoo to disclose the process it underwent to select Thompson as CEO, then disclose any ties between Thompson and directors on the board. He also requested more detail about how Yahoo selects its directors and he demanded the board fire Thompson for cause given his "demonstrable unsuitability" to remain CEO.
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A traditional gallery is a place where world's most revered artists have their exhibits on display for the general public to admire and appreciate. It is also of a great cultural value to any state that holds a collection of the world's most renowned paintings within the walls of such galleries. As such it is considered a great honour and prestige to have your own masterpiece on display in a gallery. With our "Gallery Visitor" effect you can have a picture of your choice, on display for the public to admire, in one such gallery among other world-famous paintings.


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My review of Tommy's Asian Bistro & Grill as posted on November 21, 2012 in the Marin IJ:
When I learned that a restaurant in Marin was serving Cambodian food, I nearly jumped out of my chair. Khmer cuisine is a rare bird around these parts. In the Bay Area, my informal tally notes five restaurants that offer the cuisine of Khmer, of which the new Tommy's Asian Bistro and Grill in San Rafael's Montecito Plaza is the most recent, and sixth, entry.
Named after co-owner and chef Tom Chau, the bistro moniker hints of the broad regional influences encompassed in the wide-ranging menu. Chau, a native of Cambodia, also spent time in Thailand. Co-owner, Mary Mao, Chau's wife, has her roots in the Szechuan province of China. And so, a melding, if not exactly a melting pot, of Asian foods are available at Tommy's.
The look of the single-roomed restaurant gives no clue of the diversity of cuisines to come. A smiling Buddha, found in restaurants all over Asia, greets you near the door but the reddish chairs and golden fabric on the lamps and chairs give little indication of their regional origin. With little to look at, the eye moves directly to the thick menu. There are a few Asian-inspired dishes such as a cheese wonton appetizer ($4.99) or chef's soothing chicken ($6.99), minced and wrapped in lettuce, that cater to Westernized palates, but Chau's dishes stay more or less true to their home region in style and flavor.
Thai-style fresh rolls ($7.95 for chicken or tofu), stuffed mostly with lettuce, were fresh but lacked interest. Crisp-edged and soft-centered North China green onion pancakes ($5.95), cut into petite wedges, hinted delicately of the scallion within. Thailand's tom yum soup ($7.95 for small, which easily served four), was packed with vegetables and tofu, and the red sheen on the clear broth a revelation of its warm spiciness.
Enriched with egg and a scant bit of crab, chan pad poo noodles ($8.95), familiar to Thai and Viet tables, glistened with tamarind and palm sugar, its rich flavor and velvety texture welcomed by the diverse palates at the table. Listed under Chinese specialties, flash-fried salt and pepper pork ($8.99) was first tossed in rice flour, creating a crunchy coating crackling with pepper before finishing with a warm jalapeño heat.
The Cambodian specialty char kreoung ($8.95), made with the Khmer equivalent of soffrito (kreoung is a spice paste made of lemon grass, galangal, turmeric, kaffir lime zest, garlic and shallot) and the lemony ma-om (rice paddy herb), was disappointingly bland but the Cambodian hor mok ($12.99), cooked in banana leaves, stole the show. Topped with whole cilantro leaves, a ball-shaped, foil-wrapped surprise was presented to the table. Peel away the foil to reveal layers of vegetables, tender beef, fresh herbs and coconut milk, co-mingled with a red curry kreoung. Bursting with flavor in every bite, this dish ably represented the hearty character and welcoming nature of Cambodian cuisine.
The huge menu requires navigational assistance. It is too easy to get lost amid the wealth of offerings and too easy to suffer from palate confusion. Speak your preferences clearly to your server, who can guide you by cuisine style, flavor and texture, level of chilies or by choice of protein.
Chau and Mao, who used to run Szechwan 7 restaurant in the same plaza, have not yet been able to transfer the liquor license to Tommy's so BYOB. There is a small patio for al fresco dining and plans are in the works to add a barbecue. Where on the menu these grilled additions will fit is anyone's guess.
In the crowded world of Asian restaurants, Tommy's fits into its own niche — the flavors of Thailand and mainland China with the new-to-Marin flavors of Cambodia on a single menu. The mix-and-match appeal of the familiar and the novel may keep you guessing and makes for lively dinner conversation. Enjoy the ride.
Christina Mueller writes about food — restaurants, chefs, products and trends — for local and national publications as well as other industry clients. Send her an email at email@example.com.
Address: 227 Third St. (at Union Street), San Rafael, inside the Montecito Plaza
Phone: 453-6988
Website: None
Cuisine: Cambodian, Thai, Chinese
Service: Professional
Noise level: Low
Recommended items: North China green onion pancakes, tom yum soup, salt and pepper pork, chan pad poo, hor mok
Liquor selection: N/A
Corkage: N/A
Heart-healthy and vegetarian selections: Yes
Gluten-free selections: Yes
Dog friendly: Yes
Wheelchair access: Yes
Parking: Lot
Hours: 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily
Credit cards: All major
Prices: $10 to $18
Reservations: Requested for eight or more
Summary: Chef and co-owner Tom Chau serves the wildly diverse offerings of Chinese, Thai and Cambodian cuisines in his latest restaurant, Tommy's Asian Bistro and Grill. Curry, noodles and chow mein — it's all here, but the Cambodian hor mok is one-of-a-kind in Marin.


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Today, I took my sick child to the doctor with no hat on. So as not to appear to be a total ass, since I was wearing a jacket AND a scarf, Evans got to wear Mama's cashmere scarf on his head! I have to say that I laughed out loud when I saw what he looked like but he didn't seem to mind. Poor thing woke up this morning with a fever (surprisingly, and after day #5, I did not) and I decided to be on the safe side and take him to the pediatrician. I was really taking him because I thought that he might have an ear infection but as it turns out, he has bronchial pneumonia! Geez. I wasn't expecting that one. But the doctor (who is fabulous) told me that babies his age don't get the flu and that he probably did get sick from me, but this is how it manifested in him. The doctor took an ultrasound of his lungs and while they were inflamed they weren't bad enough to warrant a trip to the hospital for a chest x-ray. Thank god. Evans is on antibiotics and we go back on Friday for another ultrasound to decide if he has to take the meds for 7 days or 10.
I took a picture of this the other day because I thought y'all would get a kick out of it. This is how Deaner made us sleep the past two nights.With my nice decorative throw pillow wedged in-between our pillows. He thought this would prevent him from getting my funk and he called it the "germ blocker". I'll let y'all know in a few days how that worked out for him. :)
And finally, on the way home from the doctor today we had to stop at the base to get gas. While I was pumping my gas, THIS is what pulled up next to me.Seriously? Do you think this guy knows he drives a VW Beetle with a WHALE TALE on the back?? Better yet, does he really need a spoiler of that MAGNITUDE for his 4 cylinder bug? I laughed out loud when I saw it. And so did the guy at the cash register at the gas station. Then I went out to my car, got my iphone and snapped these pictures while the owner watched me from inside. I wonder if he knows his ride is famous now!
I'm off to read for probably the ten more minutes Evans might sleep. The poor kid is exhausted but the coughing keeps waking him up. I think it is equally painful for both of us, considering I'm nowhere near 100% yet!
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Another One Bites the Dust
Today, I took my sick child to the doctor with no hat on. So as not to appear to be a total ass, since I was wearing a jacket AND a scarf, Evans got to wear Mama's cashmere scarf on his head! I have to say that I laughed out loud when I saw what he looked like but he didn't seem to mind. Poor thing woke up this morning with a fever (surprisingly, and after day #5, I did not) and I decided to be on the safe side and take him to the pediatrician. I was really taking him because I thought that he might have an ear infection but as it turns out, he has bronchial pneumonia! Geez. I wasn't expecting that one. But the doctor (who is fabulous) told me that babies his age don't get the flu and that he probably did get sick from me, but this is how it manifested in him. The doctor took an ultrasound of his lungs and while they were inflamed they weren't bad enough to warrant a trip to the hospital for a chest x-ray. Thank god. Evans is on antibiotics and we go back on Friday for another ultrasound to decide if he has to take the meds for 7 days or 10.
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Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Surely death would be preferable?
Supposedly, according to my doctor, two people in Germany have died from the flu this year. I believe it. I actually can't believe that it isn't more. As of yesterday, I was pretty sure I would become number three. I NEVER get sick. Yeah yeah yeah, I know I had all those issues with my c-section but that doesn't really count as getting sick. The last time I had the flu I was a freshman in college and the time before that I was a freshman in high school. I don't even care to mention how long ago that was. On Friday night I told Deaner that I wasn't feeling well and I thought I would go to bed early. All night long I had dreams that I was sick with the flu and in my dreams my whole body was in excruciating pain. I can't say I was that surprised when I woke up on Saturday morning and realized it wasn't actually a dream. Tomorrow is Wednesday and if I have a fever again, it will be the fifth day of sickness. I have decided though that today is the last day that I am allowed to be sick. Tomorrow I will be better. If I think it hard enough it will happen, right? It's just that simple. Tomorrow I will be fine. I have to be because Deaner is leaving for Brussels so he can't stay home and take care of Evans and me anymore like he has been doing since Saturday. I have to say that Deaner has really stepped up to the plate. He has made me soup, done the dishes, kept our child fed and relatively clean (there was a stretch from Thursday to Monday when Evans wasn't bathed but it isn't like he is out playing in the DIRT!). I have really appreciated it. I mean, would I have cleaned the kitchen up better?? Probably. But I'll take what I can get!
So I'm off to bed. At last check Evans was running a low grade fever and his coughing was sounding eerily like mine so I'm hoping and praying that a trip to the pediatrician tomorrow isn't necessary. Keep us in your thoughts!
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Thursday, February 17, 2011
Everyone in Deaner's family is convinced that Evans looks exactly like him. I mean, when you look at them together, they do look identical. I am 99.9% sure that Evans will have Deaner's exact shade of reddish/blonde hair and it is almost frightening when you see Deaner holding Evans, how much they resemble each other. For about the past month and a half I have been saying that Evans is looking more and more like me. No one seems to pay attention but there is no denying the big blue eyes and more predominately the big bald head. I've been bugging my dad to scan some baby pictures of me so that I can prove to Deaner's family once and for all the Evans DOES in fact look exactly like I did when I was a child. Today I remembered my mother sent me an album when Evans was born of pictures of me. And this is what I found. If you haven't already figured it out, the picture above is of me (I know I know, did the lovely green plastic deathtrap I was sitting in tip you off that it wasn't 2011?). Still, I think it looks just like him. As well as these....I am in the blue (no wonder people thought I was a boy).And finally, nice glasses dad!I just wanted to prove my point. The kid does look just like me. Yes, we know he looks like Deaner too but really? There is no denying we could be twins! Ha. Moving on......
Dear Neighbor,
(the one who lives BEHIND us in case there is any confusion). Clean up your backyard. Really. It is a dump. There is no need to leave your blue summer tent up most of winter, only to have it collapse under the weight of the snow and rain that it has been subjected to for the past 6 months. If you were apart of a neighborhood association than they would have burned down your house to erase your memory by now. ALSO, when your backyard looks like this.....there is really no reason to be so concerned about the BRANCH that fell in your backyard overnight that you must cut it up with a CHAINSAW in the middle of the day during my child's nap time.When you have left a moldy gross bright blue TENT in your backyard for six months that has collapsed on top of folding tables and that I have had to look at every time I look out my bedroom window since this summer (he seriously removed it about 5 minutes before I took this picture) please don't feel the need to jump on this downed limb with such a vengeance. I mean, what was another 5 or so months of waiting? It really had to be done at that exact second that I put Evans down for his afternoon nap?
Deaner is home from England and it is a long weekend. We were going to go to Rome......we were going to go to Berchtesgaden......alas, we planned nothing so we will be home. Probably for the best. Evans' tooth is JUST about to break through his gums. God help us all if he doesn't start sleeping through the night again soon. Mama is TIRED. Happy Thursday!
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Wednesday, February 16, 2011
A Little Eerie.....
Since I was so awful at uploading my pictures the past few days I am going to give it another try. I actually managed to get Evans in bed and get into my bed by 9:15pm tonight! That doesn't happen often but when your awesome friends Steph and Jon invite you over for dinner, there is no mess for me to obsess about cleaning up!! I seriously cannot leave a dish on the counter overnight. Which is probably why when I go to bed on a Friday or Saturday night with a clean den and kitchen and wake up the next morning to whatever disaster Deaner has made, it makes me insane. Anyways, I digress. So, about these pictures......I can't recall if I mentioned these were part of a "Kissing Booth" Valentine's Day deal. No, Deaner and I don't normally pose for pictures kissing this much, NO we are not trying to tell people that Evans is going to have another brother or sister and NO please do not suggest that we "get a room"! :) Just a few of the comments I have encountered since posting these! I could care less because I LOVE them!Did I mention how cold it was outside? I felt a little bad about not having a hat on Evans' big bald head but anything for the sake of the pictures, right?It was so cold that I can actually see Evans' eyes tearing in this picture. This picture isn't one of my faves because I think it looks a bit awkward but I can't help posting it because Evans' eyes are SO blue!! I might add that our photographer does not photoshop her pictures and that these are really the color that they are. Since Deaner and I both have blue eyes we knew Evans would too but these are way better than mine!! Plus, that look on his face is so freaking cute. The next couple pictures I love too and can't wait to get our prints of them. I told Deaner I felt like we were doing engagement pictures or something (which we never actually did when we got engaged).I mean, we love each other and all but don't normally go around making out in fields!And the last one because I'm honestly getting sick of uploading.......Thanks for everything Jessica! What a fun Valentine's Day present to ourselves! We can't wait to do it again so don't plan on moving anytime soon!
In other news, something a bit eerie happened today. Something that has never before happened but was still pretty cool. I was actually recognized by someone that reads my blog on a regular basis. Someone that I don't know, have never met and wasn't told about my blog by anyone I know. I was a little shocked at first but she found me online exactly the same way that I found Steph's blog online. Pretty fun. Unfortunately she is a LURKER so Heather, I'm calling you OUT! All this went down at the monthly Spouses Club Luncheon on the base. I have been a total slacker about going since we had family in town at first when Evans was born and then I was home for 6 weeks. I'm really glad I went back today because I had a great time. Sometimes it is too easy to stay at home in this dreary weather and lounge around but it really does feel better to get out and do things. I just sometimes need that little extra push!
I'm off to read. Deaner comes home tomorrow evening. Hooray! Something about having a child makes me feel the need to have a drink around 3pm. (don't worry, I NORMALLY wait til after 4!). And when Deaner is in town at least I have something to look forward to at the end of the day. Next week he is away again ALL week, sucky, but I will be home setting up for Steph's baby shower. I can't wait to post pictures and show y'all my plans but I'm not sure I can trust Steph not to peek if I do. I'll have to stew about it. Happy Hump Day!
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Monday, February 14, 2011
Happy (late) Valentine's Day!
I'm so excited to share our pictures that our fantastic photographer Jessica took with us last Thursday. I know some of you have seen them on facebook already but I got the CD yesterday and I can't help but sharing this one. I'll have to post more tomorrow but when Deaner is out of town, these days slip between my friends quickly!
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Thursday, February 10, 2011
So sorry....
I'd like to personally apologize to my mom since she apparently doesn't like my blog that much if it doesn't include enough pictures of Evans. Despite talking to him on Skype everyday. So much for what is going on in MY life! HA! The picture above was taken a few weeks ago but Deaner, Evans and I had our pictures taken this morning with our favorite photographer, Jessica Ceason, and Evans wore this outfit. Of course I will be posting more pictures from our "mini-session" when they are ready this evening but I thought y'all might like a little preview. Plus, I need my mom to quiet down. We met Jessica this morning at Domane Mechtildshausen which is an organic farm of sorts in Wiesbaden. The Domane Mechtildshausen actually dates back to the 12th century and was a beautiful site for our photos. I'm not sure how we have never been there since it is so close to the airbase but alas, it was a new experience for us. They supposedly have a great restaurant on site serving all organic food (maybe this is why we have never been there, I'm guess they don't serve bacon?!) and we actually got a gift certificate from our friends for Christmas. Now that I know it is there, I am definitely looking forward to checking it out! There aren't very good pictures online of the main building but this is one that I found.Evans was on his best behavior, despite not taking a nap, and I am really excited to see how the pictures turn out! The weather was supposed to be nice but being Germany, of course it was NOT. It was COLD and GRAY but I know Jessica still did a great job!
After our little session we had lunch with Deaner before heading home. We are so happy that he got back from England last night! We aren't looking forward to him leaving again next week but someone has to earn the money, right?? I was able to stop and check the mail but our mail guy wasn't there yet so I wasn't able to pick up the THREE packages that were delivered! I've been on a bit of a buying spree lately and I'm waiting on something like 17 packages. It gives me something to look forward to! Let me know if you would like to volunteer to send me something!
Anyways, I'm pretty boring today but I'm just trying to keep up with the blogging! I have to go put Evans down for a nap. He is getting a little antsy on his floor palette. I have no idea why? Perhaps it is because Baby Einstein is on for the 3rd time in a row! I'll post a few pictures on way out! Happy Thursday! Happy baby in his Bumbo seat. And no, I didn't walk away from him while he was in it. And yes, I do know that baby's can flip themselves out of these seats. But thanks in advance for the warnings! :)Evans' first time sitting in a highchair in a restaurant. We were in Rothenberg and when we walked in the waitress automatically brought us a highchair before I could explain that he really can't sit up that well. He managed though much to our surprise!He did like it a little bit better sitting in Daddy's lap though. Deaner thinks he is smiling because he is sitting with HIM but I am pretty sure it is because he is looking at ME!Looking very cute in his sock monkey outfit. Why do they even make shoes for little babies? It isn't like they can walk AND all they do is fall off!Evans and Mama in Rothenberg.And last but not least, looking super cute in his blue bunting. LOVE how blue his eyes are!! Ok, thats all for now! Tomorrow I'll have the good pictures up!!
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Tuesday, February 8, 2011
I'm Happy to Report....
That this gorgeous, beautiful, handsome and priceless Noah's Ark piggy bank is still in once piece. My rib cage might not be fully intact but have no fear, this bank, bound for Evans' bookshelf, is still in perfect condition. No thanks to the three stairs by my laundry room. Maybe I should back up. I received a package in the mail today from my mom (who started asking me the day after she mailed it if I had received it yet, apparently she thought that $30 meant a magic carpet would deliver it to me) with all the things that Deaner and I either forgot at home over Christmas or couldn't carry back with us. Including this lovely Lenox Noah's Ark piggy bank that my Uncle gave to Evans for Christmas. As I was carrying it out of the kitchen and starting up the stairs I had a bit of a mishap. I was talking on my iphone in the other hand to my friend Jen and apparently I misjudged the step. I mean, it was either the bank, my iphone or my ribcage. Let's be honest, we all know I wasn't going to let the phone go and some sort of protective instinct took over saving the bank. Oooof. I'm going to be sore for days. I think I pulled every muscle in my stomach while landing right on my ribs. I may or may not lose a toenail. But the phone and the bank are safe. Thank god. And while I was down there gathering my thoughts and trying to explain to Jen why I suddenly lost my breath, I noticed an awful lot of dust bunnies around the edges of the floor. Guess I know what chores I need to be preforming more often!
Today has been a pretty uneventful day. Funny how even uneventful days still seem to slip through my fingers these days. I still feel like I always have something that I have left undone at the end of the day. I need to have some sort of list system (or something) to get it together. When I was working I had a Coach planner that went everywhere with me. It was pretty much my life. I've quit using though because I couldn't really justify the refill this year to write things like "go to the commissary" or "check the mailbox" as my "main" events. I used to have super cute Whitney English note paper that I did my grocery lists on but I ran out and would you believe that it is nearly impossible to find a piece of paper in this house? My past three grocery lists are on this piece of paper that my doctor wrote me a note on this past summer regarding a bill. Thanks for providing my one and only piece of paper doc!
Off to nurse my hurt toes and rib cage and read my book. I'm currently taking book suggestions. I have a big shipment on the way and I can't wait to get started. I've recently read all The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo books (LOVED), Water For Elephants (LOVED), Mini Shopaholic (just the same as all the others but still made me laugh), and books 1-3 in the Tales of the City Series (VERY GAY, semi-entertaining but need a break from), Hotel New Hampshire (just plain creepy) and re-read one of my all time favorites A Prayer For Owen Meany. So I've been busy. I just ordered The Hunger Games trilogy, Her Fearful Symmetry, A Short History of a Small Place, Special Topics in Calamity Physics and the sequel to Eat Pray Love. Oh yeah, I just read Eat Pray Love too (sometimes wanted to strangle the narrator but ended up liking it enough). That's all! Happy Tuesday and Evans, please stay asleep all night!
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Monday, February 7, 2011
Evans In Belgium
So I think that things are about to change around here for the time being. Deaner has A LOT of traveling coming up and I think that Evans and I are going to stay put for a few trips. Not that it isn't a total blast hauling around a 5 month old and all his belongings AND sharing a hotel room with him but I think that Evans might be sick of traveling for a little bit. He just wants to stay home in his nice cozy crib and hang out with Mama for awhile. Deaner and I took Evans to Brussels last week from Monday to Thursday. We actually had a really good time and Evans was really good while we were there. We just had one tiny problem. Evans practically refused to eat while we were there. This is very interesting coming from a child who will pretty much eat on demand. I mean, I'm not worried about him starving or anything but he does get a little cranky when he is hungry. And why wouldn't he eat? We already knew that he doesn't like the powdered version of his formula AS MUCH as the ready made but we weren't staying in our normal hotel in Brussels so we weren't sure if we would have a fridge in our room or not. Thus, he gets powder. I typically make his powder bottle with bottled water but we also had no microwave and no coffee maker (which is how I normally make it hot in hotel rooms). So I was forced to use warm water from the tap. GASP! Tap water? We found out the hard way that our baby is a water snob. I'm not lying. He would NOT drink the bottles made with tap water. So every time we had to make a bottle Deaner would have to go to the lobby coffee/espresso/hot chocolate machine and get a cup of hot water, dump it in the bottle, fill up the cup again and dump the second cup in the bottle. Only then was it full enough. I might add that it is nearly impossible to pour boiling water from a coffee cup into a bottle without getting water everywhere. Which is what we did. Every. Single. Time. I doubt the receptionists were sad to see us go. It's back to the Marriott for us next time. When there is a next time. Who wouldn't want to deal with all that??
Anyways, when it wasn't raining and Evans wasn't watching Sponge Bob Square Pants in French (yes, I did resort to that one afternoon in desperation) we were exploring the city. We have been here many many times but it is still such a pretty city and I think that Evans really liked being outside so much. Evans and I ate breakfast together every morning in the hotel (I would eat bacon and he would munch on some giraffe leg) before we went exploring.I took him to see the Mannequin PIs and some nice Japanese man offered to take a picture of both of us.In fact, I had to tell him that was enough because on about the 8th picture he took of us my eyes were tearing from the wind whipping in my face. I think he thought we were doing a photo shoot. However he was much nicer than the Italian man that we ran into later that night when we were back with Deaner who I thought was offering to take our picture and he was really telling me to "get out of his way". Some people. I took a few more shots of Evans in the Grand Place but I was hesitant to walk too far away from his stroller because I could just imagine someone running up and stealing him (they would probably return him though when they realized he won't drink tap water!).Deaner and I took E out for dinner all three nights we were there and as usual he was really good. The last night we may or may not have had several margaritas at Chi Chi's (the same place where I may or may not have had several margaritas right before I found out I was pregnant with E!) and we took Evans walking around the city at night. He was happy as a clam.We had another photo shoot at the Mannequin Pis with Daddy (really, why IS this tiny little statue so famous??) because Daddy couldn't stand it that Evans and Mama had a picture there together!And one last picture of Daddy and E on the Grand Place. One day Evans will thank us for dragging him all around Europe and taking all these pictures!I think we all had a pretty good time but we are still going to be taking a break. Sleeping in a strange bed really throws Evans off and therefore it really throws me off. I really value my sleep and I just don't get enough of it when I am in the same room as my child. Deaner has been in England the past two weeks, is there now and will be there all next week. Ugh. Steph has been great and E and I have been having dinner with Aunt Steph and Uncle Jon once a week. I'm hoping that this stint of traveling won't last much longer. It is allowing me to be better about blogging since I can get in bed at night with my laptop!! Happy Monday to everyone! 2 days til my husband returns and 4 days til the weekend!!!!
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Friday, February 4, 2011
Things That Annoy Me
I have been feeling pretty complainy today so I might as well go ahead and make a list of all the things that annoy me. Then perhaps I will get over them and let them quit bothering me. So, here is goes, in no particular order, things that annoy me.....some more than others........
1. Germans who freak out when I pull over for less than one minute to let Deaner jump out of the car and buy a stamp. I do not need you to show me that the street I am on is one way and that I should continue on down the road. I am not hurting you by sitting here for 45 seconds, there is PLENTY of room to go around me AND there is currently no one behind me. MYOB.
2. Germans who honk at me because they are forced to turn their steering wheel 3 inches to go around me while Deaner is out of the car for 45 seconds buying a stamp. It's really not necessary. And while I'm not positive if it is legal or not to pull over like this,it's not hurting you and it is DEFINITELY illegal to honk your car horn at me inside the city limits. Especially since I am not imminently about to hit you. MYOB.
3. When people (I cannot say "Germans" here because I am not 100% sure they were ALL German) disregard the LINE at the customs desk at the airport. It's a line. Get at the end of it. Oh! You thought you could just go to the front?? Well that is not how it works really.
4. When I put together my son's exersaucer and 10 minutes later he has pooped all over it. (of course, I don't blame him I just find it annoying).
5. When my husband watches me change Evans' diaper and then asks me if I used a wipe. WTH? No honey, I put our child's dirty butt into a clean diaper! Seriously?
6. When I go to the German equivalent of Home Depot, ask someone to help me only to have them tell me that what I need to accomplish is "IMPOSSIBLE". I didn't ask you if thought it was impossible. I asked you where the carpet glue was. (just for the record, it was NOT impossible)
7. When a waiter/waitress takes my order, doesn't write it down and then gets my order wrong. This mainly happens in the States because Germans don't make mistakes. :) If you write down my order and make a mistake, I will forgive you. If you don't write it down and make a mistake I am irritated.
8. When my DVD player that is less than a year old quits working while Evans is watching Baby Einstein. It is CRITICAL that the DVD player work expressly for this purpose. Even if it only cost $29, I'm still annoyed that we have to buy another one. STAT.
9. When deciding where to go to lunch or dinner anywhere in Wiesbaden, I have to consider if there is parking or not. What does everyone in Europe have against parking lots anyways? I don't even mind paying as long as it is AVAILABLE!
10. When there is no where to park at the commissary. Evans' carseat is HEAVY and I don't like having to haul it all the way to the grocery carts. Then it doesn't even fit in it properly.
I really could go on but I'd rather not sound like such a grouch. And believe it or not, I am not really annoyed by any of these things right now! Maybe my post worked!! I hope that everyone has a great weekend. My good friend Emory and her husband Bradley will be welcoming their new addition, Anna Claire, to the world today! Keep them in your prayers! I would like to leave y'all with a picture of things that DO NOT annoy me!! Happy Friday!
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Thursday, February 3, 2011
What can I say? I have been bad. A very bad bad blogger. I want to do better. I've been receiving death threats from family members about the state of my blog lately. But really, if you were out visiting places like this, would you be able to make time for YOUR blog?? Yes. I know the answer is yes because no one else could possibly be THIS neglectful. It is weird to me because things used to happen in my life and the first thing I would think is "oh, I can't WAIT to write about that on my blog". Now, the only things that happen to me are baby related and I feel like most people don't really think that sort of stuff is all that funny! But I am going to try harder. Much harder. I promise. It's just that it is sooooo cold here in Germany and my bed is sooooo warm when Evans goes down for a nap.....
ANYWAYS, turning over a new leaf! Deaner, Evans and I had a fabulous time over Christmas break spending time with our family and friends. It is always sad for me to come home but this time with Evans it was especially hard. Of course I cried like a baby (ok, well maybe most babies don't cry THAT hard) when my mom dropped us off at the airport to fly home. My dad couldn't make it to the airport with us so we dropped by his office on the way to the airport to sign our wills (to divide up our vast fortune) and say goodbye. He rode down the elevator with us down to his lobby and I could hardly look at him because I knew if I did I would start crying. This time I made it all the way to the curb at Hartsfield before having a nervous breakdown. I think everyone was sad to see us go and we have certainly missed everyone over the past month of being back in Germany.
So what have we been up to? Deaner has been pretty busy with work lately but we managed to sneak away for MLK weekend. We left Wiesbaden early on Friday and drove to Rothenberg for the night. We stayed in a sweet little hotel that was a converted stable. The town was pretty much deserted since it is winter (we have both been here before separately and in the summers it is crazy busy) and we had the whole place to ourselves. Saturday afternoon we continued south to Garmish where we stayed until Monday. We took Evans to the Zugspitz, the highest peak of the Alps in Germany, so he could experience the Alps for himself. Not bad for a 5 month old. I think he liked his form of transportation as well! Once we figured out how to put him in the backpack securely I wasn't even afraid that he would fall out! :)How can you not love that face!? And his new Patagonia snow outfit too!! I had to put him down in the snow just to see if it worked properly! Evans is not so sure of what to think!All in all it was a good trip. Evans was so good that we took him to Brussels with us last weekend for Deaner's work trip. Tomorrow I will post pictures of Evans out on the town during that trip. We really couldn't be luckier to have such a GOOD baby. Sometimes I find myself thinking that something is bound to go wrong and that he is going to "turn bad" one day when I go to get him out of his crib. For now, I am thanking God for a sweet, friendly, easy going baby! I do enjoy writing this blog so I promise that I will be better! And I'll try and keep the baby yakkity yak to a minimum. Oh yeah, maybe someone can help me? It is possible to upload pictures straight from iPhoto to Blogger? I've been having to move them to my desktop and upload from there and that is sort of annoying! Happy Thursday!
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The Avengers finally comes out on DVD/Blu-ray next week, which means we'll all be reliving the thrills and amazing revelations — including Agent Coulson's first name. And Coulson has finally been getting the kind of fan love that you'd think would be reserved for the Hulk or Nick Fury.
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It was 8.35am on Wednesday and the locally engaged staff member at the Australian High Commission in Colombo whose job was to take media calls that morning was asked a simple question: What time was Scott Morrison attending the launch of the two patrol boats?
The Australian government was giving two second-hand patrol boats to the Sri Lankan government to help them rid the high seas of "the scourge of people smuggling" and the Immigration Minister had been sent over to officiate.
That Mr Morrison was frantically looking for a friendly government to accept 153 refugees being held at sea by the Australian government made the visit especially topical.
"Can I put you on hold?" said the man at the High Commission. A few minutes later, he came back and said: "We don't have any details at all about the minister's visit to Sri Lanka. We are not handling it. It has nothing to do with us."
Do you know if the High Commissioner Robyn Mudie is attending the event? After several minutes more on hold, the man came back with an answer: "No," he said. "We are not handling the minister's visit."
The Sri Lankans were much more helpful, and half an hour later Sri Lankan officials were offering shade and refreshments on the docks at a Colombo naval base ahead of the event scheduled to start at 10am. The place was crawling with Australian officials, of course, who did their best to glare and look daggers whenever a journalist came within three metres.
Before too long, the arrival of the aforementioned High Commissioner was announced.
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade anxiety surrounding the media had reached new levels of irrationality.
"I'm with the High Commission," said one man wearing dark glasses. He didn't have a name. "I'm Nadia," said another fretful official. "I'm with Immigration," she said, nearly breaking into a canter to get away.
Scott Morrison eventually wandered over to the media pack to give a series of non-answers to serious questions. The most riveting thing Morrison had to say was an anecdote about a time he visited a Nauru maternity ward with the now Prime Minister of Australia.
"There was a child that had just been born and they called him Tony Abbott," said Morrison.
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