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Sticky Note From God 03.05.16
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Grace Came ~
Grace was made flesh,
it was human and real
it prayed and it supped
it taught and it healed.
Grace came to save,
to justify and set free
grace imparted faith
to walk on the sea.
Grace came to give,
freedom and liberty
grace came to end
sinful man's misery.
Grace came to supply,
strength to the weak
grace came to love
the poor and the meek.
Grace came in truth,
while here on earth
grace died on the cross
to bring all new birth.
Grace came in body,
heart, mind and soul
grace came in peace
to heal and make whole!
"And the Word was made flesh,
and dwelt among us,
(and we beheld his glory,
the glory as of the
only begotten of the Father,)
full of grace and truth."
King James Version
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Copyright 2016
Deborah Ann Belka
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Snippet of The Day 03.05.16
From the Poem: The Way
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Sticky Note to God 03.05.16
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The Reason for My Hope
I believe in God,
in all of His glorious creation
I believe He made the heavens
and the earth's foundation.
I believe that man,
came from but dust
I believe it's God's image
He puts into all of us.
I believe that Satan,
is the cause for our fallen state
I believe it's still his lies
he uses on us to trap and bait.
I believe that man's heart,
has always been cold and callous
I believe it's full of deceit
filled with ungodly malice.
I believe in Jesus,
God's only begotten Son
I believe He died and rose again
for the sins of everyone.
I believe in redemption,
from our wicked, evil ways
I believe it's the blood of the Lamb
that washes our sins away.
I believe in God's love,
I believe in His grace
I believe one day
God's judgement all will face.
I believe in Heaven,
I also believe in hell . . .
I believe for eternity it's where
the unsaved will dwell.
I believe in the hope,
Jesus imparts in me
I believe all can be saved
if these truth they'd just see!
Peter 3:15
King James Version
"But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts:
and be ready always to give an answer to
every man that asketh you a reason of the hope
that is in you with meekness and fear:"
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I will not be shaken,
nothing can rattle me
not even my own death
will take me, Lord from Thee.
I will not tremble,
I have nothing to fear
even if I'm all alone
God is always near.
I will not waiver,
on my Rock, I will stand
if I was to stumble
in His grace I will land.
I will not be moved,
nothing can take away
the love I have for Jesus
from His ways I'll not stray.
I will not be shaken,
nothing will take from me
the peace, faith and hope
I have dear Lord, in Thee!
Psalm 62:1-2
"Truly my soul waiteth upon God:
from him cometh my salvation.
"He only is my rock and my salvation;
he is my defence; I shall not be greatly moved."
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Who am I in Christ?
I am fearfully
and wonderfully made
I am His new creation
I am predestined
I am chosen
I am adopted
I am a son of God
I am God's child
I am a child of light
I am a child of day
I am God's bride
I am God's clay
I am God's future
I am God's hope
I am alive to God
I am destined
I am called
I am loved
I am bought with a price
I am redeemed
I am set free from sin
I am joined to the Lord
I am alive by grace
I am justified
I am forgiven
I am sanctified
I am reconciled
I am transformed
I am renewed
I am made perfect
I am dead to sin
I am a slave to righteousness
I am baptized with the Holy Spirit
I am a partner of Christ, Jesus
I am His temple
I am His building
I am His field
I am His branch
I am His follower
I am His fellow worker
I am His ambassador
I am the salt of the earth
I am the light of the world
I am sober-minded and watchful
I am armed
I am His warrior
I am His friend
I am being trained in righteousness
I am created for good works
I am a doer of the word
I am kind
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I am meek
I am patient
I am loving
I am fruitful
I am steadfast
I am gentle
I am faithful
I am never alone
I am never hungry
I am never thirsty
I am sealed for the day of redemption
I am called to eternal glory
I am the aroma of Christ to God
I am crucified with Christ
I am not ashamed
I am a sinner
I am forgiven
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Welcome to the Sketch Challenge #295 with the Paper Craft Crew. Join the fun and play along. The design team is here to inspire with the amazing projects they have created. So, check out the samples, head to your crafty space and play along! The design team is a group of paper crafters that can't resist a challenge and love to share! And, we certainly hope you can't resist a challenge and will play along by creating a project to share. We look forward to seeing your creation.
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Sketch Challenge #295 – 2 Week Challenge
Have fun by playing along with the 2 week sketch challenge. Why play along? Because, it's fun! Post to your blog or on a social media venue then share it with us. There is a reason you bought the product and we challenge you to use any of the products you love. Again, we can't wait to see how you are inspired and the creation you make.
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Fabrics Used:
Robert Kaufman Kona Cotton Solids in:
Kiwi, Juniper, Jade Green, Clover, Lime, Peridot, Poppy, Papaya, Chestnut
That's really cute!ReplyDelete
love itReplyDelete
Love, Love, Love!ReplyDelete
Pretty, pretty, pretty. So fun and seasonal!ReplyDelete
love the background fabric, cute project
Really love this!ReplyDelete
Love the quilting - Simple but so effective!ReplyDelete
My goodness that is beautiful!!! I love the colors
Love the bright, cheery colors! So festive. :)ReplyDelete
The low volume background works really well with the bright tree colors! I am amazed you did this in a weekend. You rock!!ReplyDelete
It's so cheery! I love it! And I always love fabrics with words. Just adorable!!ReplyDelete
I am so glad my family does not read your blog - they would all want one. Of course now I want one too. Lovely execution of the idea.ReplyDelete
Wow I love it so festive & complicated looking :)
Karen x
Love this little quilt ~ so cheerful!ReplyDelete
Absolute perfection.ReplyDelete
I love it, and your quilting is perfect! How do you do that?? Also, what color thread did you use for quilting?ReplyDelete
Your Christmas tree quilt really caught my eye. It's so bright and playful. I'm going to have to fit this little project in somewhere this season.ReplyDelete
so pretty Rita! I'm tempted to whip up one of these as well...I love that it uses so many different shades of solids.ReplyDelete
I love it! Won't you consider sharing it in the
2012 Christmas Quilt Show.
Another fun post. Thankyou!ReplyDelete
wow - love the use of the white text fabric - it adds a great touch - plus the use of yellow is a perfect accent - great job!ReplyDelete
This is a very neat idea....great jobReplyDelete
Love the bright colors!ReplyDelete
this colours are fantastic and as usual your piecing is perfect!ReplyDelete
What a cute quilt!ReplyDelete
Hi there. I popped over from the 2012 Christmas Quilt Show. I love how you use low volume : )ReplyDelete
Whta cute little tree, I love your background too.
This is a wonderful quilt. So bright and modern but still traditional with the tree. Love it!ReplyDelete
such a fun tree...
as always I love your straight line quilting.ReplyDelete
Great Job. ElizabethReplyDelete
Your work is gorgeous; I especially like the background fabric and agree that a bit of embellishment would go a long way to brightening the piece. Nice work.ReplyDelete
My favorite of your recent projects--the fabric choices and color placement are brilliant!ReplyDelete
And this is why you are the artist -- and I am the mere copier.ReplyDelete
its striking and gorgeousReplyDelete
That is just beautiful....colorful and delightful.ReplyDelete
That is totally adorable! It would be really cute as an advent calendar where you add tiny ornaments from pockets below.ReplyDelete
Very, very cute :DReplyDelete
Your tree is adorable! Love the fabrics and the quilting! Too cute!ReplyDelete
This is so cute! I just love your blog and your projects. Thanks so much for sharing.ReplyDelete
so cute and modern! Fabulous colors, reminds me of one of my favorite quilts of all time by Carol Taylor. (http://www.caroltaylorquilts.com/QuiltPages/Abstractions/images/Evergreen%2062%20x%2068.jpg)ReplyDelete
I really love this..ReplyDelete
Always a pleasure to see your work!ReplyDelete
I love text fabric! Thanks for sharing your quilt!ReplyDelete
Love it. What a great tree.ReplyDelete
Darling! So vibrant and love the background fabrics. Thanks for sharing and have a great dayReplyDelete
Such a cute and fun idea I had to pin it.
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Started mine today.ReplyDelete
Love this... pinned and hope to try it someday with my oodles of scraps.ReplyDelete
Your quilt is so lovely and bright.ReplyDelete
Really creative quilt and I love your background fabric !ReplyDelete
Very fun and cheery Tree! Love your background fabrics. Thank you for sharing.
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What a cheerful little quilt!ReplyDelete
Love all the bright colors in your tree and your texty fabric background is so fun.ReplyDelete
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Peter Sagal
A native of Berkeley Heights, N.J., Peter Sagal attended Harvard University and subsequently squandered that education while working as a literary manager for a regional theater, a movie publicist, a stage director, an actor, an extra in a Michael Jackson video, a travel writer, an essayist, a ghost writer for a former adult film impresario and a staff writer for a motorcycle magazine.
He is the author of numerous plays that have been performed in large and small theaters around the country and abroad, including Long Wharf Theater, Actors Theater of Louisville, Seattle Repertory, and Florida Stage. He has also written a number of screenplays, including Savage, a cheesy vehicle for obscure French kickboxer Olivier Gruner, and Cuba Mine, an original screenplay that became, without his knowledge, the basis for Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights.
Among Sagal's honors in the theater are a DramaLogue award for directing, grants from the Jerome and McKnight Foundations and a residency grant at the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France. He has been commissioned to write new plays by the Seattle Repertory Theater and the Wind Dancer Theater and has been invited to work on his plays at Sundance, the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center and the New Harmony Project.
In 1997, Peter joined the panel of a new news quiz show on NPR, co-produced by WBEZ-Chicago, that made its debut on-air in January of 1998. In May of that year, he moved to Chicago to become the host of the show. Since then, Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! has become one of the most popular shows on public radio, heard by nearly three million listeners on 520 public radio stations nationwide, and heard by a million people every month via podcast.
With Wait Wait, Peter has traveled around the country, playing to sold-out theaters from Seattle to Miami to Boston to Los Angeles, and many points in between, such as, for example, Akron. He's asked Salman Rushdie about PEZ dispensers, Tom Hanks about Hollywood bad boys, then-Senator Barack Obama about the eccentricities of Wade Boggs, and inquired as to Madeleine Albright's weightlifting accomplishments. The show made history in 2007 when, in May, Stephen Breyer became the first sitting Supreme Court Justice to appear on a quiz show, and then, in July, in front of ten thousand fans at Chicago's Millennium Park, Peter conducted the first (and so far, only) personal interview with United States Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald since his conviction of White House Aide Scooter Libby.
In 2008, Wait Wait celebrated its 10th anniversary on the air, and was the recipient of a Peabody Award for excellence in broadcasting. A year later, in the fall of 2009, Wait Wait made its New York debut with a show at Carnegie Hall, which sold out in the first 90 minutes after tickets went on sale.
In October 2007, Harper Collins published Peter's first book, The Book of Vice: Naughty Things and How to Do Them, a series of essays about bad behavior, which was released in paperback in 2008. He is also a regular columnist for Runner's World, and has completed the Chicago, New York and Boston Marathons. He was named by New Jersey Jewish News as one of the top ten Jewish entertainers from New Jersey.
In the 16 years they worked together, Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! host Peter Sagal can't remember the longtime NPR newscaster having a sharp word for anyone. Ever. Kasell died Tuesday at age 84.
In his more than 15 years with Wait Wait ... Don't Tell Me! Carl has put up with endless travel, silly jokes and countless assaults on his dignity.
Peter Sagal's in New York, so what did he go get for this week's Sandwich Monday? A classic New York hot dog? A pastrami sandwich from 2nd Avenue Deli? No, a fried peanut butter and banana sandwich.
For this week's Sandwich Monday, Peter heads to London, where they call sandwiches "sarnies," according to Wikipedia. He and his adventurous family attempt to eat the classic British staple "steak and kidney pie," so you don't have to.


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Today's Music: Jen Chapin – Little Hours
It's a beautiful evening in Queens, New York tonight. The air has a cool bite to it. There are a few clouds in the sky, but not enough to obscure the deep blue and deepening orange of the fading sunset.
I have nowhere to be tonight. No errands to run. No relatives to visit. No calls to make, forms to fill out, information to hunt down and organize.
No one to comfort, nothing to attend to.
Just have to figure out what's for dinner, and have a nice quiet meal with my wife.
Later on, I may watch some of the Presidential Debate. Maybe not. Yes, I've already decided I'm voting for Obama. (You're welcome to criticize below, just be polite about it.) Maybe I'll turn on the ps3 and play a game.
I might strum my guitar for a bit. There's a song I'm trying to learn that still needs a lot of work.
At some point, I'll sit under the stars I can see from our porch and have a cigarette. Maybe I'll have a beer with it. I'll read a bit, check my email, but mostly, just sit and relax quietly.
There will be music.
Later on, I'll go to bed. My girl (TMWGITU) and I will go through our nightly routine. We'll make jokes about each other. We'll complain to each other about setting our alarms for tomorrow.
I'll change out my earring.
We'll get under the blankets and I'll put my arm around her.
Her feet will be freezing. I'll shout when she puts them on me, and she'll laugh at me.
It will be a quiet night at the Guapo household, like it hasn't been for a while.
I'm looking forward to it.
The Friday Foolishness posts will continue (as long as I can think of polls – never a guarantee). Other than that, well, I was never a prolific poster. As stuff occurs to me, and as I can set more adventures on the page, or trifectas or beatnik poetry slams, I'll post them. Just no idea how often.
You'll still see me on twitter, and on your blogs. As much as I like trying to tell a good story here, I really love listening to all your stories.
So not goodbye, just a pause – a time out.
And if you need me, hey, I'm easy enough to find…
See you out there. I'll be the one relaxing, enjoying the quiet time.
El Guapo


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When The Washington Post asked me to stay mic'd up during yesterday's game, I wasn't sure what to expect.
Here it is. The Post released the companion video to presidential speechwriter Paul Orzulak's must-read opinion piece on the Let Teddy Win movement, and well, the video speaks for itself.
I am amazed by how quickly producer Brad Horn pieced this together.


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So Udina somehow contacted Cerberus to enact a plan that made no sense and could never work, even if Cerberus hadn't stabbed him in the back, which he totally should have seen coming. Then Cerberus overcomes the Citadel defenses, gains control of the entire complex, and manages to do so in such a way that doesn't leave any incriminating personnel or supply ships hovering around the place. You have a running battle then a car chase takes you to some other random location, and yet no matter where you go the place is filled with Cerberus mooks.
And then Kai Leng.
A good writer – like in Spec Ops – will make you feel like you were outsmarted, fooled, or out-maneuvered by your adversaries. A terrible writer will have his pet bad guy outsmart you by forcing you to be stupid. He'll overpower you by taking away your powers and making you incompetent in a cutscene. The writers wanted to make Leng some sort of super-adversary, and their first plan was to bend the world and game mechanics to make him fit. Kai Leng has no personality, no world view, no history, no buildup, no connection to the setting, and no visible reason to oppose Shepard. What are the stakes for him? Why does he care? Why does he hate(?) Shepard so much? None of these things are established, because Kai Leng is an antagonist for the player, not for Shepard.
Yes, I know: "Indoctrinated", the magical get-out-of-characterization-free card. Kai Leng is indoctrinated to some unspecified degree. Compare this to how Saren was portrayed. He was a complicated guy. I might pick at his plan, and not everything he did made perfect sense, but darned if we didn't get a sense of who he was, what he wanted to accomplish, and why. Saren's indoctrination was a tragic failing, a fall by a Turian who had more hubris than ability. Kail Leng's indoctrination is a half-assed hand-wave offered to rebuff people like me who go around insisting characters need things like personality and motivation.
These are the things that BioWare fans love BioWare for: Characterization and world-building. Failing on these points is like a Mario game getting the platforming wrong.
The worst of all possible worlds is to combine BioWare style mechanics with Capcom style storytelling. At least in those games I'm not required to participate in the reason-destroying cutscenes. I can just go slack-jawed and wait for the stupidity to end so I can go back to the shooting.
Why Google sucks, and what made me switch to crowdfunding for this site.
The Disappointment Engine
No Man's Sky is a game seemingly engineered to create a cycle of anticipation and disappointment.
Gamers Aren't Toxic
This is a horrible narrative that undermines the hobby through crass stereotypes. The hobby is vast, gamers come from all walks of life, and you shouldn't judge ANY group by its worst members.
The Death of Half-Life
Valve still hasn't admitted it, but the Half-Life franchise is dead. So what made these games so popular anyway?
Rage 2
The game was a dud, and I'm convinced a big part of that is due to the way the game leaned into its story. Its terrible, cringe-inducing story.


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South Korea prime minister quits over sunken ferry
JINDO, South Korea - South Korea's prime minister resigned Sunday over the government's handling of a ferry sinking that has left more than 300 people dead or missing and led to widespread shame, fury and finger-pointing, blaming "deep-rooted evils" in society for the tragedy.
South Korean executive power is largely concentrated in the president, so Chung Hong-won's resignation appears to be symbolic. Presidential spokesman Min Kyung-wook said President Park Geun-hye would accept the resignation, but did not say when Chung would leave office.
Chung's resignation comes amid rising indignation over claims by the victims' relatives that the government did not do enough to rescue or protect their loved ones.
Most of the dead and missing were high school students on a school trip.
Officials have taken into custody all 15 people involved in navigating the ferry Sewol, which sank April 16. A prosecutor revealed that investigators were also looking into communications made as the ship sank between a crew member and the company that owns the ferry.
Chung was heckled by victims' relatives and his car was blocked when he visited a shelter on an island near the site of the sinking a week ago. On Sunday, he gave his reasoning for the resignation to reporters in Seoul.
"As I saw grieving families suffering with the pain of losing their loved ones and the sadness and resentment of the public, I thought I should take all responsibility as prime minister," Chung said. "There have been so many varieties of irregularities that have continued in every corner of our society and practices that have gone wrong. I hope these deep-rooted evils get corrected this time and this kind of accident never happens again."
Meanwhile, senior prosecutor Yang Jung-jin said that two helmsmen and two members of the steering crew who were detained Saturday had been formally arrested. Eleven other crew members, including the captain, had been arrested earlier.
Yang also said that a crew member called the ship's owner, Chonghaejin Marine Co. Ltd., as the ferry was listing, but declined to disclose whether the caller was the captain. Local media reported that the captain called for company approval of an evacuation. Prosecutors said they are analyzing the content of communications between the ship and the company.
The arrested crew members are accused of negligence and of failing to help passengers in need. Capt. Lee Joon-seok initially told passengers to stay in their rooms and took half an hour to issue an evacuation order, by which time the ship was tilting too severely for many people to get out.
Divers have recovered 188 bodies and 114 people are believed to be missing, though the government-wide emergency task force has said the ship's passengers list could be inaccurate. Only 174 people survived, including 22 of the 29 crew members.
The seven surviving crew members who have not been arrested or detained held non-marine jobs such as chef or steward, according to Yang.
Lee told reporters after his arrest that he withheld the evacuation order because rescuers had yet to arrive and he feared for passengers' safety in the cold, swift water. Crew members have also defended their actions.
Helmsman Oh Yong-seok, one of those arrested Saturday, has said he and several crew members did their best to save people. He said that he and four crew members worked from nearby boats to smash windows on the sinking ferry, dragging six passengers stuck in cabins to safety.
The Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries said it would soon change ferry systems so that passenger, vehicle and cargo information is processed electronically. There is not only uncertainty about how many people were on the Sewol, but a huge discrepancy regarding the amount of cargo it was carrying when it sank.
The ferry was carrying an estimated 3,608 tons of cargo, according to an executive of the company that loaded it. That far exceeds what the captain claimed in paperwork - 150 cars and 657 tons of other cargo, according to the coast guard - and is more than three times what an inspector who examined the vessel during a redesign last year said it could safely carry.
Yang, the prosecutor, said that the cause of the sinking could be due to excessive veering, improper stowage of cargo, modifications made to the ship and tidal influence. He said investigators would determine the cause by consulting with experts and using simulations.
Prosecutors have also seized documents from Jindo Vessel Traffic Services Center and Jeju Vessel Traffic Services Center, Yang said, and are analyzing communication messages, vessel tracking data and security camera recordings and others. The centers communicated with Sewol crew members as the ship listed and filled with water. The communications revealed confusion and indecision on the evacuation.
Despite bad weather, dozens of divers continued underwater searches for the missing on Sunday, said Ko Myung-seok, a spokesman for the emergency task force. One body was found, bringing the confirmed death toll to 188.
Officials said Saturday that divers had reached two large sleeping units in the ferry where many of the lost may lie dead. Large objects that toppled when the vessel tipped over and sank are believed to be keeping divers from reaching bodies in at least one of the two rooms.
Fifty students from Danwon High School in Ansan, a city near Seoul, were booked into one of the rooms. Danwon students make up more than 80 percent of the dead and missing; they had been on their way to the southern tourist island of Jeju.
"I just want to find my son's corpse. I want to see him one last time and hold a funeral for him," said Lim Hee-bin, as he exhaled cigarette smoke near his tent at Paengmok port in Jindo. "But the government search operation is too slow. It's total nonsense."
Lim said his son, Lim Hyun-jin, called him as the ship sank but the call was cut off. His son also sent him blurry and shaky photos showing his friends wearing orange life jackets and seated in a cabin.
"There are the last photos he sent me," Lim said. "These show they were in a dangerous situation."
Lee reported from Mokpo, South Korea. Associated Press writers Jung-yoon Choi, Leon Drouin-Keith and Foster Klug in Seoul contributed to this report.


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BERLIN — While the German government is digging deep into its pockets to fund local film production to the tune of an extra $231 million over the next three years, the small print is still to be announced.
Culture Minister Bernd Naumann gave delegates good and bad news, speaking at the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg's annual confab on Wednesday.
Under good: It's real money — not a tax rebate, a writeoff or sale-and-leaseback scheme but cash that could finance up to 20% of a film's budget. Foreign producers can apply so long as they have a local partner.
Under bad: TV movies are excluded; only theatrical features are eligible.
All other details are still under discussion, won't be unveiled until sometime in September and are subject to EU approval.
Those taking part in the ensuing panel discussion generally gave the news a warm welcome.
Georgia Tornow, topper of producers org Film20, was "very grateful something is happening at last. It's a chance for Germany to be competitive again with other countries."
X-Filme topper Stefan Arndt, while also looking forward to becoming more international, cautioned that broadcasters would most likely cut their co-production contributions by the 20% they expect films to get from the government.
Studio Babelsberg head Cark Woebcken said he would "have preferred a legislative solution, something tax-related like in the U.K. and Hungary to create a medium- or long-term solution."
Peter Dinges, head of government subsidy body the FFA, said with films eligible for up to a 50% subsidy (20% from the new scheme, 30% from other public sources), "There will be a need for quality criteria after the first 20%." He forecast changes in the way the FFA works.
Hubertus Meyer-Burckhardt, CEO of Polyphon Film, reminded delegates that cinema is only one outlet and, by implication, of the scheme's limitation.
Eberhard Junkersdorf, CEO of Neue Bioskop Film, asked: "What in this context is a theatrical film anyway? When does a film become one?"
Running this year from Aug. 30-Sept. 9, the Berlin Brandenburg Media Week sees more than 10,000 delegates converging on the German capital for a raft of seminars covering everything from future trends to mobile TV, radio and videogames. Event runs parallel to the Intl. Consumer Electronics Exhibition.


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What's Up Doc? Long and short of kids' height
Q: My neighbor's daughter is in the fifth grade with my son, but she is as small as my daughter who is in first grade. Her parents are average height. My neighbor told me her daughter is on medication now. What can this be from?
A: There are many reasons a child may be shorter than their peers. To discuss this we first need to decide what ``short'' means, since kids will, of course, come in many shapes and sizes.
Most everyone is familiar with the growth charts pediatricians use to monitor the growth and development of children. These charts represent measurements of large numbers of children noting what average (mean) height and weight are by age. For those of you who hate math, skip over my more detailed discussion of this in the next paragraph.
When you plot the number of children of a certain age with a specific height or weight versus what that height or weight is you get a ``normal'' distribution; that is, one of those bell-shaped curves we all had to learn about in school. The standard deviation is a number that can be calculated, which measures how flat or pointy the distribution is. Two-thirds of a normal distribution lies within one standard deviation of the average, and 95 percent lies within two standard deviations. For example, the average height for 5-year-old girls is about 42 inches, with 95 percent of them being between 39 and 45 inches. So in this example, the mean height is 42 inches, with a standard deviation of 1-1/2 inches.
Understanding this we can now define what we mean by being ``short.'' If a child is not within two standard deviations of the average height for their age (that is, they are in the shortest 2.5 percent of kids their age, since the other 2.5 percent not within two standard deviations will be the tallest), they are considered to have short stature.
Kids with short stature are usually placed into three different categories: familial short stature, constitutional delay and growth disorders.
Familial short stature (sometimes called intrinsic shortness) is the category where kids are short because they have inherited a tendency to be short (they have short relatives, but their genetic makeup is normal). These kids will grow along (or parallel to) the lines in the growth chart, but at the very short end of the height spectrum. If X-rays are done to look at the bones of these children, it is found that their ``bone age'' (how developed the bones are compared to other children of the same age) is consistent with their age in years. Although there is no way to predict for sure how tall any child may be, one way to estimate a child's eventual adult height is to estimate it based on the height of their parents as follows:
- A girl's eventual adult height = (mom's height + dad's height - 13 centimeters)/2
- A boy's eventual adult height = (dad's height + mom's height + 13 centimeters)/2
Note that this gives only a very rough estimate of what a child's adult height will be, but it is one piece of evidence to help decide if a child has familial short stature.
In summary, these kids have no genetic abnormalities and no medical conditions causing their short stature, and they achieve their ``genetic potential'' even though that is shorter than their peers.
Constitutional delay (sometimes called delayed growth) is very different from familial short stature. These kids are shorter than their peers because they have not had the growth spurts their peers have had. If X-rays are done to look at the bones of these children, their bone age will be younger than their age in years. These kids will eventually catch up when they have their delayed growth spurt and become similar in height (on average) to their peers; in lay terms we call these kids late bloomers.
In summary, these kids have no genetic abnormalities and no medical conditions causing their short stature, and they achieve their genetic potential height, just delayed compared with their peers.
The last category is growth disorders (sometimes called attenuated growth). These kids have some medical reason for being shorter than their peers. There are certain genetic syndromes that can cause this (for example, Turners syndrome, where a young girl has only one X chromosome instead of two). There are also many medical conditions that can occur in children with normal genetic makeup that can cause this. For example, kidney failure, liver failure and some hormone conditions (such as growth hormone deficiency, thyroid deficiency or Cushing syndrome) can cause short stature. Certain heart and lung conditions can use up the nutritional energy a child needs to grow. Certain digestive conditions or other causes of malnutrition (such as certain infections or insufficient available food) can prevent the child from getting adequate nutritional energy to grow. Worldwide, inadequate nutrition is the leading cause of short stature.
Some of the causes of growth disorders are treatable, so it is this category that is most important to recognize. Furthermore, the earlier treatment is begun for these treatable conditions, the better the chance the child will achieve their genetic height potential. For example, it is best to treat a low thyroid condition at least five years before the child enters puberty in order to achieve the best results.
The question now becomes: How common are treatable causes of short stature? A study done in Utah in 1994 has some of the best data to address this issue. Over 115,000 kids were analyzed, and 555 (0.7 percent) were found to be both under the 3 percent mark in height and also to have growth of less than 5 centimeters per year (the lower limit of what is considered normal).
Causes of short stature in these kids were found to be: familial in 37 percent, constitutional delay in 27 percent, a combination of familial and growth delay in 17 percent, and growth failure in only 22 percent (round-off errors explain why this adds up to more than 100 percent). Of the 22 percent that were due to growth failure: 10 percent were due to ``other medical causes,'' 3 percent to growth hormone deficiency, 0.5 percent to thyroid problems, 3 percent due to Turner's syndrome and 5 percent idiopathic (unknown causes).
I hope this discussion reinforces for everyone the importance of those well-child checkups with your health care provider. Noting a possible problem early, when a child just begins to ``fall off'' the growth curve, will allow earlier identification of a possible issue and hence earlier initiation of treatment. So keep those well-child appointments. They are very worthwhile.
Jeff Hersh, Ph.D., M.D., F.A.A.P., F.A.C.P., F.A.A.E.P., can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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In the early part of this century, Apple was beholden to Microsoft for the best Web browsing experience on OS X. In January 2003, the company released its own Safari Web browser in order to take control and responsibility for Web browsing on the Mac, which was increasingly becoming a critical aspect of computing.
But in 2002, it has been revealed, Steve Jobs had apparently wanted a more evocative name for Apple's upcoming browser: "Freedom."
According to former Engineering Director of Internet Technologies Don Melton, who spearheaded the project at Apple to build a next-generation Web browser, Jobs tested several names for the browser among the engineers on the development team.
"As I remember, Steve just started saying some names out loud—I suppose trying them out to see how they felt in his mouth and to his ears," Melton recently wrote on his personal blog.
"I don't recall all the names, but one that stands out is 'Freedom,'" Melton continued. "Steve spent some time trying that one out on all of us. He may have liked it because it invoked positive imagery of people being set free. And, just as possible and positive, it spoke to our own freedom from Microsoft and Internet Explorer, the company and browser we depended on at the time."
Few of Jobs' suggestions stuck, however, and Melton, his fellow engineers, and even Apple's marketing department struggled to find a name that wasn't universally reviled.
"From that point on, we had a brief discussion about the product name at random design sessions every month," Melton explained. "Again, I don't remember any particular name we talked about. They all sounded so awful to me that I've purged from my mind the trauma of imagining the browser being labeled with any of them. And the candidate names seemed to get worse the closer we got to shipping."
Internally, the browser was codenamed "Alexander"—a reference to Alexander the Great, the ancient Greek conqueror. The WebKit engine that powers Safari was adapted from the open source KHTML library, which powers a Linux web browser call Konqueror, so perhaps Apple viewed the new browser as its own attempt to "conquer" the Web. But engineers also jokingly referred to it as "iBrowse."
Melton admitted he isn't sure exactly who came up with the name Safari, but it was apparently chosen in early December, just four weeks before Safari was announced at Macworld Expo in January 2003.
When Product Marketing Manager Kurt Knight told Melton that Safari had won out over other options that had been mulled over the past year, his initial reaction was muted.
"It doesn't suck," Melton said at the time.


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Choose pastel prints, floral fabric, or spring motifs for a quilt that's perfect for the season. These projects will make your home feel renewed and refreshed (and will add a punch of color!).
Candy Cobblestones
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English Garden
Put a new spin on the traditional Grandmother's Flower Garden pattern by using a variety of modern florals in a summery quilt.
All Things Spring
Use an array of light and dark florals to construct the sweet and subtle double-bed-size quilt. Set on point, color blocks stand out among the sashing strips that create stars where they intersect.
Sew-Easy Scallops
Create a fresh variation of the traditional Log Cabin block. Surrounding each block with simple appliqué pieces gives the blocks a softer, more feminine look.
Pinwheel Flurry
Combine machine appliqué and machine piecing to produce this lively quilt featuring 1930s reproduction prints.
Sunny All Around
A simple Pinwheel block is quite a star when it's surrounded by multiple borders—pieced and plain.
Garden Paths
Floral prints put a fresh spin on a classic Irish Chain. Alternate floral Irish Chain blocks with tone-on-tone print star blocks to create a sense of movement.
Flower Power
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Bee Happy
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Pastel Party
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Flower Crossing
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Bunny Patch
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Bright Bits Mini Quilt
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Little Sprouts
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A Scrappy Romance
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Flower Patches
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Sweet Tweet
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Paisley to Please
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Quilter's Garden
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Wild Hare
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Framed Flowers
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Flip & Sew Carrot Table Runner
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Pretty in Pastels Quilt
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Scrap Basket
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Pastel Strip Quilt
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Pastel Mountains Bed Quilt
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Spinning Stars
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Spring Garden Wall Hanging
Plant a garden of floral Square-in-a-Square blocks using sweet 1930s reproduction prints. Let white sashing represent the picket fence.
Stars and Sashing Wall Quilt
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Playful Pastel Throw
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Reproduction Baskets Quilt
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Spring Bird Appliqué
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Scenery Snapshots
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Poppy Fields
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Floral and Paisley Chain Quilt
Use favorite floral fabrics for two-color blocks and setting rectangles that form a chain design.
Take Flight Wall Hanging
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Easy Floral Wall Hanging
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Gated Garden
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Chickens in the Coop
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Floral Double Nine-Patch Quilt
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Painted Petals
Far from a typical flower appliqué quilt, this project uses big prints, abstract floral patterns, and muted, nontraditional colors to make the throw appear as if it were painted.
Lemon Bars
Simple squares and rectangles combine with sashing to create a quick-to-finish springtime maze.
Butterfly Garden
Butterflies dance amid spring flowers on this colorful appliquéd quilt. Take the guesswork out of hand appliqué using an easy-to-follow overlay method to accurately position each pattern piece.
Striking Stars Quilt
Floral prints and pastel colors are the star of this wall hanging.
Fusible Appliqué Bird Pillow
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Wild Birds Ornaments
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Avian Table Topper
Showcase fussy-cut bird designs in uneven Nine-Patch blocks and frame them with Flying Geese units in a tabletop quilt.
Pastel Pears Wall Quilt
Combine a fruit shape with pastel floral fabrics to create a well-balanced design. Use the same cream tone-on-tone for the appliqué foundations and the rectangles and Four-Patch units in the pieced blocks to play up the chain effect.
Hen and Flowers Wall Hanging
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Bunny Folk Art
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Spring Baskets
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We did versions of the
sum command for computing file checksums in two previous exercises, one for System V and one for Berkeley systems. Although the BSD version of the command fixes many of the problems of the SysV version, having two different versions of the
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The cksum utility shall calculate and write to standard output a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) for each input file, and also write to standard output the number of octets in each file. The CRC used is based on the polynomial used for CRC error checking in the ISO/IEC 8802-3:1996 standard (Ethernet).
The encoding for the CRC checksum is defined by the generating polynomial:
Mathematically, the CRC value corresponding to a given file shall be defined by the following procedure:
- The n bits to be evaluated are considered to be the coefficients of a mod 2 polynomial M(x) of degree n−1. These n bits are the bits from the file, with the most significant bit being the most significant bit of the first octet of the file and the last bit being the least significant bit of the last octet, padded with zero bits (if necessary) to achieve an integral number of octets, followed by one or more octets representing the length of the file as a binary value, least significant octet first. The smallest number of octets capable of representing this integer shall be used.
- M(x) is multiplied by x32 (that is, shifted left 32 bits) and divided by G(x) using mod 2 division, producing a remainder R(x) of degree ≤ 31.
- The coefficients of R(x) are considered to be a 32-bit sequence.
- The bit sequence is complemented and the result is the CRC.
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For much of the last several decades, the accepted figure for the number of dead was 620,000, making the Civil War the bloodiest conflict in our nation's history. Now, that figure is being questioned. Initially reported in September, the December 2011 issue of the journal Civil War History (not affiliated with this blog) has an article dedicated to this subject. If you have access to a library, I urge you to check it out.
Using census data, some historians now believe that the war actually cost more in dead than we have thought, by almost twenty percent. According to these new studies, the number of dead ranges anywhere from 750,000 to as much as 850,000, which is much more staggering than the 620,000 we have accepted for so long.
This poses the biggest historical question, why is this important? First, it is important because it illustrates the problems of how we accounted for our war dead as a nation. Particularly, the case of African-American dead, as around 180,000 served in the war (I am not getting into a debate about black Confederates on this). Second, it brings a whole new significance to the war in American history in terms of its effect on population. That twenty percent or more died than previously believed means that a higher percentage of the population was killed and otherwise affected by the fighting. It also means that if we place such a figure against our contemporary population figures, the death toll becomes even more stark, as the new figures are almost three percent of the wartime population, which translates to roughly nine million dead in today's figures. Finally, it raises questions as to whether all the dead from the war have been accounted, as while it may not seem important 150 years later, it is important to understanding how the military has handled the dead, both good and bad, from America's conflicts.
Our understanding of death and the war was greatly aided by the publication of Drew Gilpin Faust's marvelous book This Republic of Suffering (2008). Faust examined how death and the carnage of war influenced society and is one of the more groundbreaking studies within recent Civil War historiography. It will be interesting to see how long it takes for such findings to become accepted and how long before textbooks change the figures, but if the methods hold up, this will shape how this war is remembered for years to come.


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The e-mail came from Josh Ivanoff, a Field Operations Manager with GameStop. "Please immediately remove and discard the On Live [sic] coupon from all regular PC versions of Deus Ex: Human Revolution," the memo states. "Our desire is to not have this coupon go to any customers after this announcement." Here's a copy of the letter, with Mr. Ivanoff's contact information removed.
We contacted Ivanoff on his business line and e-mail, and he refused to comment on the memo, instead asking us to take the issue up with public relations. GameStop spokesperson Beth Sharum confirmed the practice, telling Ars that "Square Enix packed the competitor's coupon with our DXHR product without our prior knowledge and we did pull these coupons."
Some customers are reporting that they've bought the game at GameStop and received the coupon, while others are saying the coupon was missing. A comment on Joystiq alleged that the reasoning behind this move was to avoid sending customers to OnLive, as GameStop is making a strong push into the digital market itself.
If true, this is bad news for customers: GameStop employees would have to open every new copy of this game and throw away a free copy of the game that was meant for customers to be in compliance. For now, if you absolutely must buy the game from a GameStop location, either make sure the game is sealed, or check for the coupon before leaving the location.


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MEMPHIS, Tenn. | British Princes William and Harry have been spotted at a downtown Memphis, Tennessee, restaurant.
Local media reported the two arrived Thursday night for a dinner party in a private room of Charles Vergo's Rendezvous.
Tennessee has been abuzz for weeks with speculation on whether William and Harry would travel to Memphis for the weekend wedding of a friend.
A C Wharton Jr., mayor of the Tennessee city famous for Blues music, says Memphis was ready to host the British royals should they attend what he describes as a strictly private affair.
A busy weekend looms in the city with the start of the annual Memphis in May tourism event and The Beale Street Music Festival.


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Review: 'The Lone Ranger' is a runaway train
There's a limit, it turns out, to how much Johnny Depp and a bucket of makeup can accomplish.
In "The Lone Ranger," Gore Verbinski's flamboyant re-imagination of the hokey long-running radio show and '50s cowboy TV series, Depp eagerly attempts to recreate the extravagant magic of his similarly farcical Jack Sparrow of Verbinski's "Pirates of the Caribbean."
With cracked white and black streaks down his face and a dead crow atop his head, Depp's Tonto (whose look makeup artist Joel Harlow took from the Kirby Sattler painting "I Am Crow") appears more witch doctor than warrior. One would think that a so-costumed Depp careening through the Old West with Buster Keaton aplomb would make "The Lone Ranger," at worst, entertaining.
But Verbinski's film, stretching hard to both reinvent an out-of-date brand and breathe new life in the Western with a desperate onslaught of bloated set pieces, is a poor locomotive for Depp's eccentric theatrics. For 2 ½ hours, the Jerry Bruckheimer-produced "Lone Ranger" inflates, subverts and distorts the conventions of the Western until, in an interminable climax, the big-budget spectacle finally, exhaustingly collapses in a scrap heap of train wreckage.
"The Long Ranger" is, alas, a runaway train. A filmmaker of great excess, Verbinski's ricocheting whimsy here runs off the rails. Flashback-heavy plot mechanics, occasionally grim violence (bullets land in bodies with the loudest of thwacks, a heart gets eaten) and surrealistic comedy add up to a confused tone that seems uncertain exactly how to position Depp's Tonto in the movie, to say nothing of Armie Hammer's wayward Lone Ranger.
The film begins with an elderly, leathery Tonto (also Depp, nearly unrecognizable) at a 1933 San Francisco fair where, under a sign labeled "noble savage," the old Native American regales a young, masked Lone Ranger fan (Mason Cook) about his adventures with John Reid (Hammer).
Previously the sidekick, Tonto plays the starring role in the story, narrating a tall tale of his coming together with Reid, a district attorney who arrives in the frontier town of Colby, Texas, with high ideals of justice and a copy of John Locke's "Treatise on Government" under his arm.
The lawman is made a Texas Ranger when the criminal Butch Cavendish (William Fichtner, ashen and sinister) escapes. The pursuit takes on urgency when Cavendish massacres the rest of the Rangers (including Reid's brother, played by James Badge Dale), leaving Reid and Tonto to navigate a familiar mid-19th century Old West — the coming railroad, mining development and Indian warfare — with familiar types like the intrepid tycoon Latham Cole (Tom Wilkinson) and a one-legged madam (Helena Bonham Carter).
Stepping into Clayton Moore's boots, the tall, baritone Hammer never looks at ease. While he exudes the Lone Ranger's earnest wholesomeness, he's understandably an uncertain straight man alongside Depp's slapstick. Having to wear a white Stetson and mask in his first starring role feels like yet another humiliation for the Winklevoss twins Hammer memorably played in "The Social Network."
The most laudable aspect of "The Lone Ranger" is that it attempts to dispel and mock Hollywood's past Native American ills. Depp, who has claimed he has some Cherokee ancestry, delights in upending false images of Indian mysticism, all the while tossing bird seed to the dead crow on his head.
But "The Lone Ranger," which was made with much of the "Pirates" team including screenwriters Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio, along with "Revolutionary Road" adapter Justin Haythe, can only be filed alongside "Cowboys and Aliens" and "Wild, Wild West" as ornate films that are so nervous about the modern appeal of the Western that they ruin it by impulsively overstuffing it. The Coen brothers' "True Grit" and the 2007 remake of "3:10 to Yuma" better understood the genre's inherent terseness.
When Verbinski was last directing and Depp was a cartoon lizard, they crafted a far better Western in "Rango."
"The Lone Ranger," a Walt Disney release, is rated PG-13 for sequences of intense action and violence, and some suggestive material. Running time: 149 minutes. One and a half stars out of four.
Motion Picture Association of America rating definition for PG-13: Parents strongly cautioned. Some material may be inappropriate for children under 13.


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This is Richard and Elizabeth Diwell and their family in the spring of 1900 in Hamilton. The eldest child, Margaret was nineteen and the youngest, Martha was two. Elizabeth, at forty-four, was in the last months of pregnancy and was radiant. Martha's hand rests comfortably on her mother's growing stomach. Edith clutches the arm of father Richard, a successful bricklayer and keen gardener, a member of the Hamilton Horticulture Society. Chrysanthemums were one of his specialities. Within months, this serene family scene was shattered.
Richard Diwell and Elizabeth Jelly married in June 1877 at Casterton. Richard, born at Portland in 1854 was the son of William and Margaret Diwell and was their first child born on Australian soil after their arrival in 1853 aboard the Duke of Richmond. William too was a bricklayer. Elizabeth was the daughter of George and Jane Jelly and like William was her parents' first born in Australia. They had arrived in 1855 on the Athletae and moved to Casterton where Elizabeth was born in 1856.
Sadness came early in Richard and Elizabeth's marriage with their first born child, Ada Jane, dying within her first year of life. Six more children, Margaret, William, Jane, Ralph, Edith and Ernest were born in Casterton over the next eleven years until 1891. It was in that year that Elizabeth, her mother and sister-in-law, Annabella McIntyre, signed the Victorian Women's Suffrage Petition along with one hundred other Casterton women. It was their contribution to the cause championing for equal voting rights for women.
Later in 1891, the Diwells moved to Hamilton. The following year tragedy would occur again with the passing of five-year-old Ralph. In 1893, Ethel was born and another pregnancy in 1895 saw the birth of Rebecca but she sadly died in 1896 aged ten months. George was born in 1896, Martha in 1898.
Which brings us back to 1900. Despite the losses of the past, life was continuing on for the Diwells. In March, William was voting in favour of the cancellation of that month's Hamilton Horticulture Society flower show due to drought and Elizabeth was pregnant for the 12th time at the age of forty-four.
Midway through October Elizabeth fell ill in and was nursed for the next three weeks until she gave birth to a daughter on 2 November. The baby was weak and died two days later. Elizabeth was also gravely ill and underwent an operation after the birth of the baby. She battled to stay but succumbed to peritonitis ten days later, on 12 November.
Elizabeth's obituary from the Hamilton Spectator on 13 November 1900 read:
"… Another death which has evoked the deepest sympathy of all who knew her took place yesterday when Mrs Diwell, the wife of Mr Richard Diwell, bricklayer of this town, died after a short illness. The deceased was the second daughter of Mr George Jelly of Casterton where she was born, and she came to Hamilton with her husband in 1891.
She was taken ill three weeks ago and on the 2nd instance she was confined, the child living only two days. On Sunday evening she had to undergo an operation as the only hope of saving her life but at 3 o'clock yesterday morning she died of exhaustion, the diagnosis being peritonitis.
She leaves a husband and eight children – three boys and five girls – the eldest of who, a daughter is only nineteen years of age – to mourn their irreparable loss. Mrs Diwell who was only 44 years of age was highly respected by all who knew her and the deepest sympathy is felt with the stricken family in their bereavement. The funeral will take place a 3 o'clock this afternoon"
The headstone in the Hamilton Old Cemetery is a tribute to Elizabeth and demonstrates the devotion Richard and her children had for her. Her headstone read:
"None knew how sad parting was, nor what the farewell cost, but God and his loved angels have gained what we have lost"
Despite having several young children, Richard never remarried. The older girls Margaret and Jane would have taken on mothering duties of their younger siblings. Margaret married in 1905, but Jane did not marry until 1915 at thirty by which time youngest Martha was seventeen. Richard passed away in 1920 and was reunited with Elizabeth.
Life was not altogether easy for the Diwell children, although they always managed a happy disposition. Margaret had seven children, however, three died, two as newborns. Edith, my great-grandmother, suffered through an unhappy marriage and spent much time as a single mother. Jane married twice, both husbands dying, the second after being hit by a taxi. She never had children.
Ethel had four known children, one dying at birth. Martha or Mat as she was known was forty-one when she married and she also had no children. The boys, William, Ernest and George all married and became bricklayers like their father and grandfather before them, but Ernest passed away at just forty-eight.
I was not lucky enough to know any members of this family but my mother fondly remembers and often talks of Grandma (Edith), Auntie Janey, Auntie Mat (Martha) and Uncles Bill and George. The photo above of Grandma and Auntie Mat depicts them just as Mum remembers, always laughing and smiling.
As I look at the Diwell family photo I see Elizabeth as a devoted wife and mother but also a strong woman whose marriage was a partnership of two equals. I can see the woman who was confident enough to sign the Suffrage petition and I see a happy, kind person, traits she passed to her children.
Next time I visit Richard and Elizabeth's grave in Hamilton, I will be sure to take some Chrysanthemums.
©Merron Riddiford 2011


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Esther Cepeda: Trouble with a 'textured' life
In his revealing book "Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010," Charles Murray spends hundreds of pages using statistics to illustrate the rising inequality that is increasingly putting the white working class on the path toward generational poverty.
Murray concludes by suggesting that the "new upper class" -- which increasingly is cloistered in pockets of rich, highly educated super-neighborhoods -- move into the communities of "regular" people.
"Age-old human wisdom has understood that a life well lived requires engagement with those around us," writes Murray, who himself lives in what he describes as an increasingly troubled "blue-collar and agricultural region of Maryland."
He closes: "A civic Great Awakening among the new upper class can arise in part from the renewed understanding that it can be pleasant to lead a glossy life, but it is ultimately more rewarding -- and more fun -- to lead a textured life, and be in the midst of others who are leading textured lives."
Murray's invocation sprung to mind a few weeks ago as I was reading stay-at-home dad Andy Hinds' "Why I Want to Choose the 'Disadvantaged' Local School (and Why I Might Not)" on The New York Times' "Motherlode" blog.
Hinds describes the gut-wrenching choice he has to make about whether to put his "mixed-race, socioeconomically advantaged, English-proficient twin girls" into the good school where his neighbors' kids go or into the troubled school only a five-minute walk from his home. His idealism makes him wonder if he and a group of caring, motivated parents could change a school with 100 percent poverty and a predominantly Hispanic student body. Ultimately, such participation could make a difference for the whole community.
Hinds worries that, "Even in the best case, we can expect some attrition once the distance between our expectations and the reality comes into focus. If I end up being one of the parents who bail on this movement, it might make things awkward with some of my neighbors."
I chuckled when I read that. You see, I'm in the middle of a similar grand experiment. I moved into a newly redeveloped community with failing schools. Several of my new neighbors joined me in the belief that we were going to lift our neighborhood schools up by our very presence and effort. Yet here we are, over a decade on, with schools that are still failing miserably.
But unlike Hinds, I don't have to worry about my neighbors' feelings -- when they realized their children were being left further behind from their peers in nearby school districts with better facilities and more resources, most of them simply moved away.
This summer, our schools are undergoing dramatic restructuring designed to, for the umpteenth time, boost student achievement. Our community is experiencing its annual restructuring, too, as the parents of eighth-graders who can afford to move take that option to avoid having their children attend our troubled high school.
My son began a special summer program last week for incoming freshman who will be taking honors-level courses. It's a small attempt to prepare students who performed well in middle school to collectively lift the performance of their high school class by getting good grades in the very few honors and Advanced Placement courses the school offers.
In a school where 63 percent of the students are low-income, the chronic truancy rate is almost 20 percent, and about 6 percent of the classes are taught by teachers who are not "highly qualified" -- that's optimistic. But I'm grateful for the attempt to give these kids a leg up. Most impoverished schools can't even do that.
Desperate parents are resorting to lying about their home addresses to get their kids into higher-performing schools -- and in some cases getting arrested or jailed for it -- so it's admirable that there are people out there like Hinds who would even consider risking their kids' education for the greater good.
Hinds, however, closes his essay, "Ultimately, I'm not going to let my kids go to a school that fails them."
If only every parent had that choice. To those who can choose decent schools for their children, a word of advice from someone already leading a "textured" life: It's a noble gesture but not at the expense of your kids' education.
Esther Cepeda's email address is firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow her on Twitter, @estherjcepeda.
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So, what's left?
The baseball world waits for tonight, when the winning bidder on Japanese wunderkind Yu Darvish is announced. The Phillies? Well, their waiting is over now that Jimmy Rollins agreed to terms on a new contract.
The first workout for pitchers and catchers in Clearwater, Fla., is still 62 days away. But the Phillies, barring an absolute shocker of a move, have quite a good idea how their roster will look.
Ruben Amaro Jr. has spent $88.4 million this winter on six free agents — Jonathan Papelbon, Jimmy Rollins, Jim Thome, Laynce Nix, Dontrelle Willis and Brian Schneider — and acquired Ty Wigginton through a trade.
Sixteen players have signed guaranteed contracts and four others were tendered contracts under the arbitration process. So, what we're saying is it could be somewhat quiet from now until the middle of February.
Of course, every time we insinuate such a period of inactivity, the Phillies surprise. With $135 million already guaranteed to the 2012 payroll and about another $30 million in arbitration, any unexpected move would likely come in a trade.
But there are still some things to be done this winter...
1. Sign Cole Hamels. Amaro said his priority was to take care of his 2012 roster before looking ahead. Now he has some time to consider an extension for Hamels, who will be a free agent after this season. It should be his primary task.
Hamels made $9.5 million in 2011 and is due a significant raise through his fourth and final year of arbitration. He could earn upward of $14 million.
On the open market, he could command an average annual value of $20 million. Hamels turns 28 next week. He's entering the prime of his career with five straight seasons of at least 183 innings pitched. He finished fifth in 2011 Cy Young voting.
There are indications from both sides that a long-term deal can be done this winter. Hamels' agent, John Boggs, has said before he does not prefer his clients to negotiate during the season. He did most of the heavy lifting on an extension for another client, Adrian Gonzalez, during Boston's spring training last year.
Amaro said he had spoken with Boggs earlier this winter to make his stance clear: The Phillies want to re-sign Hamels. There was just other stuff to attend to first.
But now, there is no excuse for not engaging Hamels' party.
2. Who is the fifth outfielder? Any projection of the April bench is difficult because the Phillies have yet to decide how they will fill holes in left field and first base in Ryan Howard's absence. Left field could be a platoon between John Mayberry Jr. or Nix — or it could be Mayberry's job full time. Or perhaps Mayberry mans first base until Howard returns. But Wigginton could play first, too.
So there is a lot of flexibility, but logic suggests there is at least one position player roster spot undecided for the opening day roster sans Howard. The "bench" is Mayberry, Thome, Nix, Wigginton, Schneider and Wilson Valdez. Two of them will have to be in the lineup until Howard returns. That leaves an extra spot, probably for an outfielder. Remember, this is tenuous spot because it could be eliminated upon Howard's eventual return.
That would have been Ben Francisco's spot, but the Phillies dealt him to Toronto. John Bowker remains on the 40-man roster, but there are reports he could be headed for Japan. And he didn't exactly endear himself in September.
If Domonic Brown isn't playing every day, he won't be in the majors. So that eliminates him. Scott Podsednik is a guy to watch in spring training. He's back as a non-roster player after spending a few (mostly injury-riddled) months with triple-A Lehigh Valley in 2011.
Guys like Ryan Spilborghs, Willie Harris, Scott Hairston, Reed Johnson and Mark DeRosa are still free agents. The Phillies have liked Spilborghs and Hairston before. But those players could find more playing time, money and guarantees elsewhere. If one wants to come to Philadelphia on the cheap without a lot of security, then sure.
The Phillies have only invited one non-roster outfielder, Podsednik, to spring training. Expect the next round of invitees to include some more outfielders.
3. Is another veteran bullpen arm required? This question won't really be answered until Jose Contreras begins throwing. That is scheduled to happen sometime in January. If it's earlier in the month and Contreras fails to make progress, that could prompt the Phillies to scour the bargain bin for another trusted reliever.
Then again, the bullpen is teeming with promising young arms. If Papelbon, Contreras, Willis, Antonio Bastardo and Kyle Kendrick are guaranteed spots, that leaves only two open for the group of Mike Stutes, David Herndon, Justin De Fratus, Phillippe Aumont, Michael Schwimer, Joe Savery and Jake Diekman.
Remember, the Phillies invited Brian Sanches to spring training and he could be that veteran backup plan. He has a 2.92 ERA in 181 2/3 major-league innings over the last three years.
4. Where will the old crew land? This doesn't really pertain to the Phillies' plans, but a handful of former players remain free agents with uncertain destinations. Ryan Madson's market has collapsed and the closer could be looking at a one-year deal now. His hope must be for Boston to bypass the luxury tax limit and spend for a closer.
Roy Oswalt is still out there and he'll likely receive at least a two-year deal from someone. His possible destination could be made clearer once the Darvish process ends.
Brad Lidge is looking for a job and Colorado is a logical landing spot because Lidge is from there and still has a house in the area. He'd like to return to Philadelphia, where he's spending the winter for the first time, but there might not be room.
Raul Ibanez probably makes most sense for an American League team that can use him in a LF/DH platoon against righthanders. With some of the top-tier outfielders like Michael Cuddyer, Josh Willingham and Jason Kubel off the market, Ibanez could find suitors.
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