Profession: Emma Walton Hamilton is a best-selling author, children's book editor, arts educator and theatre professional..
A: I've been a bit of a late bloomer all my life. My husband and I were both busy pursuing careers in the theatre when we met, and I was 28 by the time we got married. That same year, we decided to relocate and start our own theatre, which in many ways became our first child. There was a good deal of building and settling to do before we felt ready to have a family… and by the time we did, we suddenly discovered it wasn't so easy to get pregnant. It took us two years of trying before my son was conceived, by which time I was 34. We had similar problems the second time, and in fact, after seven years of trying we had pretty much given up - feeling lucky to have our son. As often happens, we were then taken by surprise when we learned I was pregnant with our daughter, Hope… hence, her name.
Q: What do you love about your career? What is most challenging about your work? How long are you doing it? What did you do previously? Where do you see yourself heading? What prompted you to write a book on motherhood, and the particular subject you most recently chose? What is the primary message of the book? Was it based on your upbringing or relationship with your own mother? What is your next book and when is it being published?
A: I feel incredibly blessed to do what I do - first of all, because I enjoy it so much, and secondly because at this stage in my life it offers me so much flexibility. These days, I mostly work from my home office, and can make my own hours, which means I'm able to be there for my kids in important ways and at important times. Things like dropping them off and picking them up from school, helping with homework, taking them to play dates and appointments and generally being available for them when they need me.
My biggest challenge is finding enough hours in the day to do everything I want (or need) to do. I wear a lot of professional 'hats', and though they are all synergistic with each other (in that they all pretty much have to do with kids and/or the arts), they each demand their own share of time, energy and focus. And because I work at home, and juggle so many tasks, there are a lot of distractions. Multi-tasking is my middle name!
Before I was a Mom, I was an actress and then moved into directing and producing. After my son was born, I became passionately interested in kids and education - especially arts education. I created performance and educational programs for kids at our theatre, and taught acting and playwriting. I also began to write children's books with my mother (when my son was a year old) and started working as a children's book editor, initially for The Julie Andrews Collection, the publishing program we created together, and later on a freelance basis as well. I think that having kids, and being fortunate enough to work in these creative mediums, have both led to a new passion for advocacy on behalf of kids and the arts -- and I now do a lot of writing, public speaking, blogging etc. on the subject. My latest book, "Raising Bookworms: Getting Kids Reading for Pleasure and Empowerment" was inspired by the question I get asked most often on book tours and at speaking engagements - "how do I get my kid to turn off the (name your electronic device) and pick up a book?" This is probably the primary direction I will be heading towards in the years ahead.
The message of "Raising Bookworms" is simple - if you want your kids to engage in more of something (i.e. reading), connect it with pleasure. We have to combat the many ways in which reading becomes relegated to "chore" for our kids - by being connected with pressure, struggle, responsibility, homework, boredom etc. - and work in what I like to call "stealth mode" to restore the connection between reading and joy.
The next book that my mother and I are publishing will be Julie Andrews' Collection of Poems, Songs and Lullabies - illustrated by the wonderful James McMullan, and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. It features over a hundred of our favorite poems and song lyrics, as well as a few we've penned ourselves over the years. It's due out this fall, and will be packaged with a CD of select readings from the book.
A: The keyword for my experience of motherhood has been "surrender!" Virtually every pre-conceived notion I had before I had kids has come up for review - and been busted. For example, before my kids were born I poo-poo'd co-sleeping, championed daycare and thought I'd get rid of all our TV's. Needless to say, every one of my long-cherished beliefs has gone by the wayside! I've learned that children are not products upon which to imprint our own opinions, but rather individuals who have been entrusted to our care - and our job is to learn who those individuals are, what they need to best express themselves, and how to support them in every way possible toward that end. This has made me much more inclined to listen or look for the intention or imperative behind every creative impulse in life - and to look for ways to support that, rather than imposing my own ideas onto it.
Motherhood has also taught me so much about priorities. You think you know what it means to love someone - and then you have children. You think you're bothered by this or that, and it all pales in comparison to your children's well-being. It's truly humbling - and a profound gift.
Finally, for me, having kids has revolutionized my work. I didn't think much about children before I had them. Then, as if a door opened inside me, everything became about kids. Every kid I met was someone else's Sam or Hope, and my work became all about nurturing them to the fullest extent that I could.
Q: What is a typical day for you like, managing both work and home life? Do you do any work from home? If so, how do you find that? How much time do you spend daily writing? Have you worked more or less since you became a mom? Do you travel a lot, and do you take your family? Will you be going a on a book tour? What do your children think of your work?
A: A typical day begins with getting up a half hour or so before my kids (if I'm lucky). I take a few moments to have a cup of tea, answer emails, assess the day ahead, and plan accordingly. I then make breakfasts, pack lunches and drive my daughter to school (my husband drives my son to school, which is a different campus). If I'm lucky, when I get home from drop-off I might have time for a 45-minute walk with my husband. This is a wonderful opportunity for us to touch base as spouses and parents, as well as business partners. While we walk, we connect on any number of items that may need our mutual attention, and also take time to breathe, get our heart rates up and enjoy the scenery! The next couple of hours are generally my best writing time. I might log onto iChat and work online with my Mom, or I might work on my own projects, but generally 10 - 12:30 I'm in my home office working, and these are my best working hours since they are the least interrupted.
I head out to collect my daughter from Pre-K at 1 PM. Depending on the day, I might also bring a friend of hers home for a playdate, bring her to a friend's house, supervise a physical or occupational therapy session (Hope was premature and has low-grade cerebral palsy… she's cognitively fine but needs therapies for her legs) or just bring her home. During the afternoon, I try to continue to work, but balance that with attending to Hope's needs - getting her a snack (or two, or three!) or setting her up with something to play with or draw or do, overseeing her playdate or her PT/OT session. At this point, any work I get done is on my downstairs laptop, as opposed to my upstairs home office. (Luckily they communicate with each other!) Some days, I have to go out to meetings, and I'm grateful to have a network of support to make that possible… starting with my husband, whose schedule is also somewhat flexible, and including a few terrific babysitters and some good friends with kids the same age. Because of this erratic schedule, it's kind of impossible to say how much time I spend a day writing - but I'd guess it's anywhere from 2 to 4 hours a day on average.
Once we hit the dinner hour, I'm done. I'm lucky in that my husband is our family cook, but I do the clean-up and generally supervise homework, bath-time and bedtime. By the time we reach the latter, I'm ready to crash myself - and generally fall asleep when my kids do!
With respect to travel, the kids are always a factor. They pretty much always come with me/us, on vacation and also if we ever make trips for professional purposes. We've been fortunate enough to take them to the UK, Switzerland, Canada, Bermuda, and all over the US.
Q: How do you think being a later in life mom has affected your experiences as a parent (share both good and not so good)? Has anything about being a mom surprised you? What did you or do you most try to teach your children? What influence has your own mom had in your life and in your parenting?
A: Although I often wish I had the energy of being a younger mother, I'm actually grateful to be an older Mom. I've sowed all my wild oats, and I've no regrets about putting my kids first at this stage of my life. I'm also grateful for the little bit of added wisdom that a few extra years has brought to my husband's and my parenting abilities.
One of the things that has surprised me most about being a Mom is how much it opened my heart to other kids besides my own. Before I had kids I didn't pay much attention to children - now, they're the center of my world. I refocused my professional life (as well as my personal life!) to revolve around kids, and can't think of anything more important in our world then the welfare of our children.
My main priority in terms of teaching my kids is to encourage them to live with integrity. I want them to be happy in themselves and with their world, and I want them to be kind and true to themselves and others. These are very much an extension of my own Mom's values. We try to focus on how fortunate we are, and do what we can to be kind and generous to others.
Q: Where do you or did you turn for support as a mom? Your mom? Do you have a support network and community? Others in the arts or publishing field? How important do you think it is to connect with mom peers? Do you find social networking sites of value? Do you consider yourself a role model for other later moms or aspiring later moms?
A: My Mom has been a huge source of support to me in my own motherhood, as has my step-Mom, Gen, with whom I'm also very close. My daughter was born two months premature, and my Mom was by my side the whole time and helped with driving me to back and forth to the hospital during Hope's early weeks in the NICU. I feel really lucky to have two great Moms who are so supportive. The problem is neither of them lives nearby, so only get to see them when they're visiting (or we're visiting them). I also have a number of girlfriends who are Moms, and have turned to them often in times of need (especially those whose kids are just a tad older than mine.) And I've read about a thousand parenting books of all kinds! I love the Gesell series on child development - they have a book for every age, and those have been a great source of comfort and guidance whenever one of the kids hit a developmental bump, so to speak.
I have also turned to online groups from time to time - mostly when we were trying to get pregnant, and again when I was dealing with placenta previa and a high-risk pregnancy. I got a tremendous amount of support and important information from those other moms at those times. I think the Mom-blog/social networking thing is a wonderful tool, and helps us to create a modern-version of the kind of support network that women used to provide for each other in bygone times.
A: I think being an older Mom is terrific (once you get past the fact that all the other Moms in your kids class are younger than you and have a good deal more energy!) The added wisdom and perspective that the later years provide really do make a difference, and I think kids are the better for it. That said, one of the most important pieces of advice I can share is often the toughest to follow: make your own health and well-being a priority. It's easy, as Moms, to put everyone else's needs before our own. But if we do that without ever attending to our own needs our health and energy begins to suffer - and then our kids suffer by extension. That old adage of "put the oxygen mask on your own face before you put it on your kids" is really true… and the older we get, the more important it becomes.
Q: When you became a mom, did your mother share any particular sentiments or advice that really resonated?
A: The best advice I got from my Mom, which has proved to be so true and valuable, was "Enjoy every moment… because it FLIES." She told me that just when you think you cannot cope with a particular problem - whether it's colic, sleep issues, temper tantrums etc. - for one more moment, it will change. Development marches on, and before we know it, they've grown. That has proved true time and again, and my main priority in life is to enjoy my kids as much as possible for who they are RIGHT NOW, and treasure every moment.


Trump also requested that the cover be changed because he thought it made him look fat.
Donald Trump biographer Robert Slater revealed in a 2005 lecture that he removed unflattering details from the book at Trump's request.
Slater, who wrote No Such Thing as Over-Exposure: Inside the Life and Celebrity of Donald Trump, said in the talk at the Library of Congress that Trump asked him to remove a detail about his divorce and to change the cover because Trump thought it made him look fat.
"Now, the real hazard of writing a book about Donald Trump, after you remove the threat of the lawsuit, is when he says to you, 'Bob, if I like this book, I'm going to buy a huge number of them,' said Slater, who died in 2014. "By the way, because we're in whatever company that you're not allowed to use those words, he did not use the word 'huge.' Privately, later I'll tell you what he said."
Slater said his publisher, Pearson, was thrilled with the notion of Trump buying a large amount of books.
"And I took this back to my publisher and I said, 'We have a problem. Donald Trump wants to buy a lot of our books, if he likes it.' The publisher said, 'Oh, that's great. How do we get him to do that?' I said, 'Well, you know, he's not going to buy the books unless he likes the book. And he's not going to know whether he likes the book unless he reads the book. And we're not supposed to do that, are we? Show the book to the subject beforehand.'"
The publisher, Slater said, agreed to show Trump the book in advance of its release.
"And so we showed him the book, and Donald Trump read the book, read every word of it. And he got back to me, and maybe one percent of the book he asked me to change," said Slater. "Very hard to say no to him, once you've said, 'Donald, please read the book.' He asked me to take out an anecdote that he had told me on the plane flying to Chicago about how he had informed his second wife that he was going to divorce her by announcing it first to the New York Post."
"Greatest anecdote anybody has ever told me," continued Slater. "He put the newspaper down in front of her door that said, 'Donald is Divorcing Marla.' That's how she learned about the divorce. He said that episode has to be taken out of the book. I said, 'Why? It's the greatest anecdote's anybody ever told me.' He said, 'Because I still have good relations with her. You know, we had a daughter together. Please take it out of the book.' So I did." But I learned the hard way. You pay a very heavy price when you show him the book."
Slater said Trump showed the book to his friends as well at his wedding, who said he looked fat on the cover.
Slater said the cover was changed at Trump's request and that Trump helped with promotion of the book by getting him booked on the Don Imus Show.
"Now, all of you who know Donald Trump know that the last thing you want to do is to make him look fat. I went to my publisher. It was very, very last minute. We were about to print the book, and I said, 'Look. Donald wants to change the picture.' And again, these are the hazards of writing a book about a person like Trump, and getting his cooperation, and being sucked into his world. And the publisher said, 'it's going to cost me money, but I guess we have to do it.' And we did it. We changed the picture. We changed some of the texts. And then the book came out. And true to his word, Donald Trump helped with the promotion of the book. He actually was the one who got me on the Don Imus program."
The book is sold in Trump Tower today.


The purpose of this paper is to consider two types of property in genetic information in terms of property theory, and valid profit distribution related to genetic information in terms of profit for owners. Two types of property are identity and possessions. While identity is irreplaceable, possessions are replaceable. In considering property of genetic information, I think that this distinction is important. In addition, genetic information has an aspect of common property of mankind. In conclusion, I think that valid profit distribution should be based on the idea of 'sharing of benefit'.


John Lewis, Walter DeVries, conducted by, and Jack Bass, conducted by Oral History Interview with John Lewis, November 20, 1973. Interview A-0073. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007).
Oral History Interview with John Lewis, November 20, 1973. Interview A-0073. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007).
As the chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) from 1963 to 1966, future Georgia Congressman John Lewis was a prominent leader of the civil rights movement. Lewis begins the story of his involvement in the movement in 1957, when he left his family of tenant farmers in rural Pike County, Alabama, to attend the American Baptist Theological Seminary in Nashville, Tennessee. While a seminary student in Nashville, Lewis began to participate in workshops on nonviolence and became an active and leading participant in the sit-in movement of 1960 in Nashville. For Lewis, the sit-in movement was substantial both for changing his personal views on the civil rights movement and for its ability to generate solidarity within the movement. Shortly after his introduction to civil rights activism, Lewis graduated and was ordained. Seeing the civil rights movement as "an extension of the Church," Lewis devoted his energy to the movement full-time thereafter. In 1961, Lewis participated in the Freedom Rides through Mississippi and Alabama, and he offers an extensive overview of their purpose, the violent opposition the Riders faced, and the support they received from civil rights leaders and the White House. After the Freedom Rides, Lewis returned to Nashville, where he headed the Nashville student movement as a graduate student at Fisk University until 1963. That year, Lewis became the chairman of SNCC, a position he held for three years. In vivid detail, Lewis describes the major activities of SNCC during those years, focusing particularly on the Mississippi Freedom Summer of 1964, as well as on the voter registration drives in Selma and the subsequent march to Montgomery in 1965. Throughout the interview, Lewis situates the role of SNCC more broadly within the civil rights movement as a whole, speaking at length about the transition from religious to political leadership within the movement, the growing importance of voter registration and political participation, and the need for solidarity within the African American community, particularly at the local level. Additionally, Lewis offers his thoughts on the role of Martin Luther King Jr. as a leader of the movement, focusing on King's influence both on him personally and on the movement nationally. Lewis concludes the interview with an overview of the tensions that began to develop within SNCC during his chairmanship, leading to his decision to leave the organization following Stokely Carmichael's rise to power and the shift towards the politics of black power in 1966.


A perfect resume is equal to the perfect content. A good content means a good candidate. is it right? It is common that many job seekers exaggerate their experiences and skills that may not need to overstate. Making a good resume is not writing exaggerating content, but an art of writing quality content and organizing information in a standard format that sets your resume apart from the rest of the candidates. Therefore, you should know how to write a resume to make it a job generating machine.
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Excerpts from "The High pH Therapy for Cancer Tests on Mice and Humans"
1. Glucose can still enter the cell, but oxygen cannot. The cell thus becomes anaerobic.
2. In the absence of oxygen, the glucose undergoes fermentation to lactic acid. The cell pH then drops to 7 and finally down to 6.5.
3. In the acid medium the DNA loses its positive and negative radical sequence. In addition, the amino acids entering the cell are changed. As a consequence, the RNA is changed and the cell completely loses its control mechanism. Chromosomal aberrations may occur.
4. In the acid medium the various cell enzymes are completely changed into very toxic compounds. These toxins kill the cells in the main body of the tumor mass. A tumor therefore consists of a thin layer of rapidly growing cells surrounding the dead mass. The acid toxins leak out from the tumor mass and poison the host. They thus give rise to the pains generally associated with cancer.
Mass spectrographic and isotope studies have shown that potassium, rubidium, and especially cesium are most efficiently taken up by cancer cells. This uptake was enhanced by Vitamins A and C as well as salts of zinc and selenium. The quantity of cesium taken up was sufficient to raise the cell to the 8 pH range, where cell mitosis ceases and the life of the cell is short. Tests on mice fed cesium and rubidium showed marked shrinkage in the tumor masses within 2 weeks. In addition, the mice showed none of the side effects of cancer. Tests have been carried out on over 30 humans. In each case the tumor masses disappeared. Also all pains and effects associated with cancer disappeared within 12 to 36 hours. The more chemotherapy and morphine the patient had taken, the longer the withdrawal period. Studies of the food intake in areas where the incidences of cancer are very low showed that it met the requirements for the high pH therapy.
Cesium, rubidium and potassium cations (positively charged ions) are all strong electron receptors which can be attracted into the membrane because of the negative potential gradient which exists across all living membranes. Elements below potassium in the Electromotive Series, like calcium, are only taken up sparingly, if at all, by cancer cells. Therefore potassium, which transports glucose, can readily enter cancer cells, but Calcium, which transports oxygen, cannot. Warburg pointed out this anearobic state of cancer cells in 1925. In the normal cell the glucose, upon entering the cell, reacts with the oxygen in the cell and is burned to carbon dioxide and water with the liberation of heat. This heat in turn is absorbed on the membrane surface and raises it to an energized state which permits it to attach more Ca++ ions. Thus it will be seen that the amount of oxygen entering the cell is determined by oxidation within the cell, primarily that of glucose. This action is responsible for the pH control mechanism of the cell which maintains a value near 7.35.
The ready uptake of cesium and rubidium by the cancer cells lead the writer to the High pH therapy. This consists of feeding the patient close to 6 g of Cesium Chloride or Rubidium Chloride per day . It is sufficient however to give rise to the pH in the cancer cells, bringing them up in a few days to the 8 or above where the life of the cell is short. In addition, the presence of Cesium and Rubidium salts in the body fluids neutralizes the acid toxins leaking out of the tumor mass and renders them nontoxic.
In tests on mice, tumors implanted where significantly smaller at the end of the test in mice fed Rubidium than the controls. In addition, the test animals were showing none of the adverse effects of having cancer. Similar experiments with cesium chloride had similar successful results. Many tests on humans have been carried out by H. Nieper in Hannover, Germany and by H. Sartori in Washington, DC. It has been observed that all pains associated with cancer disappear within 12 to 24 hours. In these tests 2 gram doses of Cesium Chloride were administered three times per day after eating. In most cases 5 to 10 grams of Vitamin C and 100,000 units of Vitamin A, along with 50 to 100 mg of zinc, were also administered. Both Nieper and Sartori were also administering nitrilosides in the form of laetrile. There are good reasons to believe that the laetrile may be more effective than the vitamins in enhancing the pickup of cesium by the cells. In addition to the loss of pains, the physical results are a rapid shrinkage of the tumor masses. The material comprising the tumors is secreted as uric acid in the urine; the uric acid content of the urine increases many fold. About 50% of the patients were pronounced terminal, and were not able to work. Of these, a majority have gone back to work. Two side effects have been observed in some of the patients. These are first nausea, and the second diarrhea. Both depend upon the general condition of the digestive tract.
There are a number of areas where the incidences of cancer are very low. At the 1978 Stockholm Conference on Food and Cancer it was concluded that there is definitely a connection between the two.
The Hopi Indians of Arizona have a very low incidence of cancer: 1 in 1000 as compared to 1 in 4 for the USA as a whole. Analysis of their diet shows that it meets the requirements for the high pH therapy. Hopi food is very high in potassium and exceptionally high in rubidium. Since the soil is volcanic it must also be very rich in cesium.
Some 20 years ago the incidence of cancer among the Pueblo Indians was the same as that for the Hopi Indians, but they have adopted a modern American diet and now have the same cancer rate as the rest of the US. Supermarket foods is essentially lacking rubidium and cesium and low in potassium.
Cancer is virtually unknown among the Hunza of North Pakistan and their diet also meets the requirements of the High pH therapy. They are essentially vegetarians, and are great fruit eaters, eating ordinarily 40 apricots per day; they always eat the kernels, either directly or as a meal. They drink at least 4 liters of mineral spring waters which abound in the area and has been found to be very rich in cesium. Since the soil is volcanic in nature, it must be concluded that it will be rich in Cesium and Rubidium, as well as Potassium.
The Indians of Central America and on the highland of Peru and Equador also have very low incidences of cancer. The soil in these areas is volcanic with fruit in the area very high in rubidium and cesium. Cases have been reliably reported where people with advance inoperable cancer have gone to live with these Indians, and found that all tumor masses disappear within a very few months. Clearly the food there meets the high pH requirements.
Cesium and Rubidium salts, when present in the adjacent fluids, the pH of cancer cells will rise to the point where the life of the cell is short, and that they will also neutralize the acid toxins formed in the tumor mass and render them nontoxic.


Parents who do not have full custody of their children will often apply for visitation rights. Visitation rights are legal rights granted by a court allowing the parent without custody to visit and spend time with their child within certain limits. While judges have the ultimate decision making power about visitation, parents can write and submit their own agreement, which can be accepted by the court if the judge finds it fair and legal. If you and the other parent cannot agree on your own, you will have to go through the legal process in order to have a judge make a decision for you. Follow the directions below to either create your own agreement or go through the court process.
Define the parties to your agreement. The first step in making a visitation agreement is to set out who will have visitation rights. While this will most often be the parent not having custody of the child, there are situations where other individuals may get visitation rights. For example, in Washington State, a person other than a parent can have visitation rights if it is in the best interest of the child. Regardless, provide a detailed description of all parties to the agreement, which should include names, addresses, contact information, and their relationships to the child.
Such a provision may look like this: "I, Jane Doe, am the parent of Kevin Doe and I have full custody of that child. I agree to allow John Doe, the father of Kevin Doe, visitation rights as set forth and agreed upon below. Jane Doe lives at [address] and can be contacted in the following manner [provide contact information]. John Doe lives at [address] and can be contacted in the following manner [provide contact information]."
Include a provision about the child or children at issue. Once you have defined the parties to the agreement, you will want to include a detailed discussion about the child. Such a clause should include information about the child's basic needs, which will include their need for love, support, guidance, and health.
A good example of this type of provision may take the following form: "Kevin Doe is the child of John and Jane Doe. John and Jane Doe are creating this agreement to allow Kevin's father, John, certain visitation rights. Kevin wants and needs the love and support of both parents and therefore John should have certain visitation rights in order to provide certain basic needs. Kevin is currently nine years old as of the date this agreement is executed, and having his father involved in his life is in the child's best interests. Kevin and John have always been close and have had a good relationship. This agreement will help maintain and further the relationship they already have. Kevin is currently in good health and allowing John visitation rights will help maintain and promote this good health."
Detail both physical and legal rights. This section will be the body of your agreement and will set forth all of the rights and obligations of the parent or other person receiving visitation rights. When creating this section, consider the child's age, personality, experiences, and abilities.  You should also try to give the child a regular and consistent schedule that can easily be followed. Use enough detail so that the agreement is easily understandable and enforceable. Also, the agreement should give the child a sense of security and a reliable routine.
Physical custody includes information about where the children live and how they spend their time. When writing this section you should think about where the children should be during the week and on the weekends; where the children should be for holidays and other special occasions; which party will be in charge of what activities (sports, music events, homework); which party is in charge at what times; and how the children will get from one place to the other.
Legal custody includes information about which party to the agreement will make important decisions regarding the child. When you write this section be sure to include information about decisions regarding school, daycare, religion, medical and dental care, emergency care, jobs, and driving.
Go through mediation if necessary. If at any time during the drafting process you and the other party do not agree to certain terms, you may want to consider trying mediation. During mediation, both parties will have the help of an expert (mediator) to try and resolve their differences. The mediator will talk with both parties about their concern, disagreement, resentment, and anger. The mediator will then try and come up with an amicable solution that makes you and the other party happy. If successful, the mediator may even help you draft language into your agreement that reflects the progress you made during your time with that mediator.
Stipulation and Order for Visitation of Children, which will require you to sign a document stating that the court has jurisdiction over the children at issue and that you are agreeing to the terms of the agreement attached to this document.
Get the judge's signature. Once you have filled out the required documentation and attached it to your written agreement, you will go to your local courthouse and have the documents signed by a judge. The judge will look over your agreement and ensure everything included is in the best interest of the child. If the judge approves of your agreement, they will sign it and give it back to you. If the judge denies your agreement, you will have to start over or go to court.
File everything with the clerk of courts. Once the judge has signed your agreement, you will file all of the signed documentation with the clerk of courts at your local courthouse. Once filed, you and the other party to your agreement will get copies and the agreement will then be binding on everyone involved.
Consider hiring an attorney. If you can afford a family law attorney, you should consider hiring one to help you navigate the legal pathway to gaining visitation rights. See this article for directions on how to find a good family law attorney. Even if you cannot afford a full-service attorney, many attorneys provide limited services at a reasonable cost. This means you may be able to hire an attorney to prepare your documents, give you limited legal advice, or potentially even teach you about this area of the law, without having to pay the attorney to take on the entire visitation process.
Fill out the required forms. In order to start the process, you will need to fill out the forms necessary to bring a legal action to ask the court for visitation rights. Each state will have their own forms and own requirements. In general, you will have to fill out a petition or visitation rights, sometimes called a petition for custody and support. In addition, you will have to attach a summons and a response form to your petition.
The petition for visitation rights will ask you about your relationship with the child at issue and will ask you to clarify the types of visitation rights you are seeking. If you are in California, a copy of this petition can be found here.
The attached summons is a document notifying the other party that they have been sued and that they must respond to the lawsuit within a certain period of time or they risk losing some or all of their parental rights. In California, the summons states that the party is being sued and that they have 30 days to file a response. A copy of the California summons can be found here.
In order to allow the other party you are suing to respond, you must attach a blank response form for them to fill out and return. In California, a blank response form can be found here.
File your documents. Once you have filled out your petition for visitation and you have attached a summons and blank response form, you will take those documents to your local courthouse and file them with the clerk of courts. They will enter the case into the court's docket and you will be given a hearing date. Once you complete this process, you have officially started a lawsuit in an attempt to get visitation rights.
Serve the other party. When you serve the other party, you will hire someone (the sheriff or another competent adult) to give a copy of your filed documents to the other party to look over and respond to. To serve the other party, the person you hire must provide the required documents to them, either in person or through the mail. If you are serving someone through the mail, it must be sent by certified mail. This process must be completed within 30 days of filing your documents with the court.
Wait for a response. Once you have had the other party served, they will have a set amount of time with which to respond to your petition. In California, the other party will have 30 days to respond to your petition by filling out the blank response form you provided. The other party can respond in a number of ways, and how they respond will dictate how your lawsuit proceeds.
If the other party does not contest your request for visitation, the court may simply enter its final order without having to go through a hearing.
If the other party is contesting your request for visitation, you will have to go to your hearing and tell the judge why you deserve the visitation rights you are asking for.
Attend your hearing. When you go to your hearing, the judge will make a decision about visitation rights based on the law of the state you are in. In California, the judge must hand out visitation rights according to what is in the "best interests of the child." In making this decision, a judge will look at the child's age and health, the emotional ties between the parent and the child, the ability of the parent to care for the child, any history of family violence, and the child's ties to the community (e.g., schools and friends). If the other party is contesting your fitness as a parent, and is therefore claiming you should not get visitation rights, try using the following evidence to help your argument that visitation rights would be in the best interest of your child.
Provide evidence of your financial stability. This information will show the judge that you can care for the child and take care of their basic needs. Some helpful documents might include bank statements, pay stubs, and investment account information.
Show your ability to provide a safe and secure home for the child. This information will help the judge understand what safeguards you have in place to ensure you are looking out for the best interests of the child. You might provide the judge with pictures of your home, bills for home security payments, and written or verbal testimony of neighbors, friends, and family about the safety of your neighborhood and your home.
Offer evidence of your ability to provide healthcare for the child. Try and have documentation proving you are insured and that your coverage includes your child.
Demonstrate the strength of your relationship with your child. Let the judge know how close you are with your child. Tell the judge about the past and how your relationship was when you had custody of the child. You might even provide the judge with home videos, trophies, and ticket stubs.
Indicate how you will spend time with your child. Give the judge a mock schedule or calendar showing how well you can plan your time with the child. Include possible activities and trips you could go on with your child. Be as detailed as possible as this will let the judge know how much you care and how serious you are taking the matter.
Confirm your intentions to live in one place and provide your child with a stable school environment. An important aspect of gaining visitation rights is your ability to provide your child with a stable home environment. Prove to the judge that you have a good job, that you have no plans to move, and that you will do everything in your power to give your child a steady environment. If you are looking for visitation rights during the week, this will include showing the judge that you live within a reasonable distance of where your child goes to school.
Comply with any of the judge's requests. Before a judge issues their final order, they may ask you to do certain things to prove that having visitation rights is in the best interest of the child. One of the most common requests is for a child custody evaluation. If a judge requires it, there will be an evaluation and analysis, by an expert, who will come to your home and make a determination about your fitness to have visitation rights. The expert's evaluation will then be passed on to the judge for them to analyze.
Visitation According to a Schedule. If your visitation rights have been limited to a schedule, the schedule will lay out what days of the week you can visit, what holidays you will be responsible for, and the time constraints on those visits.
Reasonable Visitation. If you have been awarded reasonable visitation rights, there generally will not be any details as to when each parent will be with the child. Instead, these orders are open-ended and allow the parents to work out the details among themselves.
Supervised Visitation. If the judge has ordered supervised visitation rights, you will only be allowed to see the child while under the supervision of another person. This type of visitation is usually only ordered when the health or safety of the child is at issue.
How do I deal with untrustworthy guardians?
If the matter is serious, such as the guardian leaves the child alone, then you take it to court and there you will probably earn the rights to the child.
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I am installing Knoppix on a 10GB and want to use a 60GB drive to store my files and make backups from some other PCs.
What is the best way to add second hard drive?
What question are you asking is it how would you have linux use the second drive after it is installed or how to partition for use as backup for the other PCs?? A little more information is required.
It really depends on what the other computers are running (and whether you want one big partition).
Windows can't read any kind of Linux partition without 3rd party add ons.
So, fat32 is a good choice for mixed systems (but doesn't understand file permissions) while ext3 would be a good choice for a Linux system (or where the Windows boxen didn't need direct access).
You are right I need to be more clear.
I have Knoppix running on hda with 2 partitions - Linux and Linux swap.
I want to add a 60GB drive to store MP3 files and make backups. What is the best way to format and then mount the new drive so I can see the files from both the knoppix server and my Windows PC. My plan is to use Samba for r/w access to the 60GB drive. I don't think a FAT32 format is necessary, because I haven't needed to use that approach before under my existing setup.
Even if you needed the fat it is a simple process just install the drive and boot. Once you boot to your linux system run either fdisk or cfdisk to set your partitions on the new drive (you may have to re-boot to have changes take effect depends on the IDE controller) Then use mkfs to create your file system (mkfs then tab in console will show available fs creation types) you will most likely want to use either ext3 or reiser to save the long fsck with a drive that size.
If you have not made a mount point for the drive make it with mkdir then mount it and the drive is now available for use. Then edit the /etc/fstab for the entry for the new drive and next time you re-boot the drive will be there. After you have mounted the drive you should be able to access it with samba as you already do with your existing partition.
note: I usually have a partition /music for my mp3's an /extra just to install a new OS for testing and one for /storage or /backup whatever I feel like calling it. You may want to do something like this yourself.
All commands would be as root in a console and assuming you have the drive set to the proper master/slave config needed to install.


Do Inerrantists elevate the Bible to the level of idolatry?
Unfortunately, there are those who criticize the reliability and inspiration of the Bible and along with their criticism accuse those who believe in the inerrancy of Scripture as being virtual idolaters and of venerating the Bible more than the message--more than Jesus. Such an accusation is ridiculous. Upholding that the original documents of the Bible are without error and then defending that position does not mean that we are worshiping the Bible or bowing before it as idolaters. Again, the accusation that we are idolaters is a ludicrous and unfounded attack by those who seek to undermine the authority of God's word.
There are many who worship God and who also have a great reverence and respect for God's written word. There is nothing wrong with upholding and honoring the word of God this way. It doesn't mean that they are worshiping the Bible or being idolatrous.
Lev. 19:3, "Every one of you shall reverence his mother and his father, and you shall keep My sabbaths; I am the Lord your God."
Lev. 19:30, "‘You shall keep My sabbaths and revere My sanctuary; I am the Lord."
Lev. 26:2, "You shall keep My sabbaths and reverence My sanctuary; I am the Lord."
Joshua 4:14, "On that day the Lord exalted Joshua in the sight of all Israel; so that they revered him, just as they had revered Moses all the days of his life."
Neh. 1:11, "O Lord, I beseech Thee, may thine ear be attentive to the prayer of Thy servant and the prayer of Thy servants who delight to revere Thy name, and make Thy servant successful today, and grant him compassion before this man."
If God commands people to show reverence to Sabbaths, to sanctuaries, etc., is God advocating idolatry? Not at all!
Anybody who claims that the Bible is infallible is putting a (printed) Graven Image on a par with God and is on the verge of idolatry.
Why is this an important distinction? Because inerrancy takes the focus off the message of God and puts it upon the text itself, making the text the focus of the believer and not the message. And in this creates a form of idolatry, which you are participating in, as it venerates and exalts the book to be the focus of the believer and not the message.
Basically, idolatry is the worship of idols and/or the excessive admiration and/or devotion to an object or false god. Those who accuse inerrantists of being idolaters are accusing them of worshiping and/or showing excessive devotion and/or admiration to the Bible.
Each person is different, and how different people regard the Bible is up to them. Nevertheless, the word of God should be revered. It should be elevated to a place of honor in every Christian's life. But it does not mean that the Bible is a book put on an altar before which we kneel and then pray to it. Nor does it mean that sacrifices are made to the Bible or that supplications are made to it or any such nonsense. No one prays, "Oh Bible, please help us refute wackos." Instead, the Bible is properly regarded with honor and with reverence since it is God's holy and inerrant Word.
1 Cor. 5:11, "But actually, I wrote to you not to associate with any so-called brother if he should be an immoral person, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or a swindler--not even to eat with such a one."
1 Cor. 6:9, "Or do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals."
Rev. 21:8, "But for the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and immoral persons and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their part will be in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death."
It would seem that those who accuse the inerrantists of idolatry are equating them with immorality, the covetous, drunkards, swindlers, fornicators, adulterers, homosexuals, murderers, sorcerers, and liars; all of whom will enter into the Lake of Fire. This is an outrageous and unwarranted attack.
The errantists undermine the authority and trustworthiness of the Word of God by saying that the very act of God's inspiration, essentially, has mistakes. We must ask, how can God's Word be trusted in the light of such an accusation?
They cast doubt upon the very heart of the truth of God's Word. Who was the first one to do that?


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Continuity mistake: During the bathroom scene in this episode, two wall tiles immediately below the shower head keep appearing and disappearing between shots.
Continuity mistake: Towards the end of the episode, Robert comes into the kitchen and shuts the door. As everyone is saying "I love you" the door is closed, then when Robert hugs Ray it is open, then closed again.
Continuity mistake: During Ray and Frank's discussion on saying "I love you" in the bathroom, the grout design on the wall and the towels in the closet behind Frank change back and forth.
Continuity mistake: Debra is sitting up in bed holding a magazine and talking to Ray. She quickly puts the magazine down in her lap as she says something to Ray but then in the next shot, she's holding the magazine up again.
Continuity mistake: In the pilot, Ray and Debra's bedroom has no windows by the bedroom door, and the closet and bed are near it. In episode two, windows appear near the bedroom door, and the closet is on the opposite side of the room.
Continuity mistake: When Frank hits the shower three tiles fall out, seconds later only one is out.
Frank Barone: What's for brunch, Marie?
Frank Barone: Excellent. I shall put on my ham pants.
At the end of the episode when everyone is arguing in the kitchen, the potholders next to the lasagna on the table keep changing position between shots.
Frank dresses up as Frankenstein in this episode for an in-joke alluding to the role he played in 1974's Young Frankenstein.


Everyone makes mistakes. Sometimes a charge gets entered for the wrong amount due to a discount or typing error. Follow the instructions below to correct the charges.
Go to the family page to edit the family's ledger.
1. Click the Ledger icon ($) next to the family in question.
2. View all charges on the family's ledger by clicking View Full Ledger.
3. Find the charge you would like to edit and click the pencil icon to open the details.
If the wrong discount was applied to the charge, it could have happened in one of two ways.
If a Discount Line Item appears in the charge that is distributed across all line items on the charge entry, you can simply click the x next to the line item to remove it (as seen below). Save the charge. Then enter the correct discount.
If a line item was discounted directly (using the discount $ or % field under the line item when entering the charge, rather than the Discount Line Item Type) then the line item will need to be deleted using the red x next to the line item description inside of the new charge window. (Seen Below) Then the line item will need to be recreated before saving the charge again.
If you simply want to add to an existing charge, find the charge on the family ledger, click the pencil icon, and add one or more new line items to the charge at the bottom of the screen. Remember to click +Add Line Item to add each line item to the middle section of the charge window. Then click Save when you are finished to save the full ledger entry.


- A civilian was shot dead by the American forces in Shoala neighborhood west Baghdad around 4,00 pm.
- 4 civilians from one family were wounded when a Katyosh rocket fell on their houses in Karrada neighborhood downtown Baghdad around 4,30 pm.
- 2 civilians were injured in an IED explosion targeted the civilian sin Al Shurta Al Rabi'aa neighborhood south west Baghdad at 4,30 pm.
- A member of Police commandos was killed and two others were injured by a sniper who targeted a commandos' patrol in Um Al Ma'alif neighborhood south Baghdad around 5 pm.
- 15 anonymous bodies were found in Baghdad today. 13 bodies were found in Karkh, the western part of Baghdad in the following neighborhoods (3 bodies in Doura, 2 bodies in Shoala, 2 bodies in hay Al Amil, 2 bodies in Mahmoudiyah, 2 bodies in Hay Al Jihad and 2 bodies in Bayaa.) 2 bodies were found in Risafa, the eastern part of Baghdad, one body was found in Sadr city and another body was found in Shaab neighborhood.
Tikrit - Three gunmen were killed in clashes with the Iraqi police near the western entrance of Samarra city north of Baghdad today early morning. Four Iraqi policemen were injured and Iraqi police confiscated few guns and grenades.
- Iraqi police in Tikrit found tow anonymous bodies in Tal Gseba village on Tikrit- Tooz street east of Tikrit.
- A police officer was killed and three policemen were inured in an IED explosuion targeted their patrol on the main near Al Hujjaj street.
Kirkuk province - A policeman was wounded in an IED explosion near one of the bridges in Al Qadisiyah neighborhood downtown Kirkuk city at 8 am today.
- A gunman was killed and his colleague was injured while they were trying to plant a bomb near the house of an employee in Hawija police directorate.
- A police source in Biji city said that an American soldier was killed by a sniper in Biji city north of Tikrit midday.
Diyala. - A medical source in Baquba city north of Baghdad said that 4 civilians including tow women were injured when clashes broke up between a combined force of the Iraq army & the MNF and insurgents in Al Muíalimeen neighborhood west Baquba today early morning.
- A security source said that 5 members of one family (a family of a security member) were injured when a bomb exploded near their house gate in Al Mustafa neighborhood west Baquba early morning today. The source confirmed that another bomb exploded when a police patrol passed through Al Mustafa neighborhood but not casualties were recorded.
- A security source said that two civilians were injured when insurgents opened their guns fire randomly near Diyala governorate building downtown Diyala city today morning.
- A police source in Miqdadiya town east north Baquba city said that a civilian was killed and two policemen were injured when insurgents opened their guns fire in Al Muíalimeen neighborhood today morning.
- A security source close to the 5th Iraqi army division said that insurgents groups fought each other today to control the eastern entrance of Baquba city. The source confirmed according to eyewitnesses that three insurgents were killed while a civilian was injured during the clashes.
- A source in Diyala police 1st emergency brigade said that a force from the brigade arrested tow suspects and confiscated some weapons while searching some houses in Al Mustafa neighborhood west Baquba.
Basra. - The spokesman of the MNF in the south said that a British soldier was injured in an IED explosion near the educational hospital downtown Basra city south Iraq.
- The spokesman of Basra police said that 4 mortar shells fell on the British consulate downtown Basra city without referring to any casualties.


Rolan Vega's Documentary, which I've just reviewed for the Wire, appears to have arrived at a Library Music-inspired syn(thesizer)aesthetic very similar to Ghost Box, but by an independent route. Like Ghost Box, Mordant and Foxx's Tiny Colour Movies, Vega's sound has a relation to film and photography, although with Vega the visual is an entirely virtual component of the audio. The sounds - as fragile and evocative as scratched celluloid - are inspired and informed by images, or by music that once accompanied images. 'Is "Documentary" a collection of works for actual short films and media, or an attempt to pay tribute to the synth epics of media music's past?,' asks the intriguing press release. 'Both', it answers, rightly; and, rather like Mordant's Dead Air, Documentary feels like a tour through a decaying archive that produces strange and beautiful patterns as it disintegrates.
Jeck's Stoke, which I recently - and belatedly - discovered courtesy of Touch's Jon Wozencroft, is another oneiric drift through the archives. Listening to the record - or rather gradually being possessed by it - over the course of the last few weeks has confirmed my initial impression that any serious discussion of sonic hauntology cannot ignore Philip. His sound could be characterized as a dyschronic, disembodied hip hop (a dream hop?) - Jeck 'started using record players in the early eighties after hearing mixers like Walter Gibbons and Larry Levan and Grandmaster Flash' - produced using dansette turntables, FX units and records found in charity shops. (Imagine what you thought middlebrow mediocrities DJs Shadow and Spooky sounded like before you actually heard the records). But Jeck's methodology - he composes his records largely from edits of live performances - makes it equally plausible to describe him as a junk shop counterpart of Teo Macero, the legendary sonic sorcerer who conjured wondrous unlive collages from Miles Davis' studio playing. (It's not at all coincidental that Eno mentioned Macero on the sleeve notes to On Land.) Both the hip hop DJ and the studio remixer are experts in the necromantic art of manipulating sonic unlife: the DJ performs live manipulations of Read Only Memory recordings, whereas the remixer takes a live performance out of the lived duration of so-called real time into the unlive no-time of the studio. Like sonic hauntology in general, Jeck - a steampunk surgeon of sound, a surfer of surface noise - is at the confluence of these two approaches. Stoke is often keeningly plaintive, although there is an impersonal, mechanical quality to the melancholy, almost as if it belongs to the aged machinery and the recovered objects themselves. Philip refers to the sonic sources he uses as 'fragments of memory, triggering associations' but it is crucial that the memories are not necessarily his; the effect is is sometimes like sifting through a box of slides, photographs and postcards from anonymous people, long gone.
The audio-visual dimension of sonic hauntology perhaps arises from an affinity with the inherently dyschronic nature of film (and television insofar as it is pre-recorded). I concluded the remarks I made a long time ago on Teo Macero by comparing him to Kubrick. Kubrick always repudiated without any compunction the live, theatrical aspects of cinema, treating actors as re-(com)posable resources rather than as artists, the integrity of whose performance had to be respected. Kubrick's own films were themselves meditations on life as automatism, on the insistence of hauntological structure beneath the illusion of agency.
I tried to draw this out in my contribution to the Spectral Spaces issue of Perforations, which was the latest of my many visits - and surely not the last - to the Overlook. What is the Overlook - its corridors, as King put it, extending in time as well as space - if not an audio-visualization of dsychronia? (Venice in Roeg's Don't Look Now, which I watched this week for the first time in ages, is of course another dyschronic labyrinth, in which time's out-of-joint fatality is rendered as repetitions of colour and tricks of sound: Roeg took advantage of the way that Venice acted as a 'sound maze', an architectural schizophonizer that separates sounds from their sources, setting up a duplicitous, hyper-doubled sonic space).
Owen's piece in Spectral Spaces explores a special kind of ghost town: 'places which do not exist and were never going to exist', the British New Towns that were planned but not built. Contemplation of the plans 'brings the contemporary reader up against the sheer strangeness of mid-century normality': these monuments to a rejected British Modernism are relics of a popular utopianism that was at its most potent when most quotidian. Owen notes that Ghost Box/ Belbury Poly's re-dreaming of a postwar public space revives the possibility - unthinkable now, what could be more anathema to popist orthodoxy? - of a benign paternalism (I will return to this in my next post).
In postmodernist Britain - where, as as Owen puts it, 'nothing can happen ..., nothing has ever happened' and the '20th century was a bad dream', where you can buy a latte on every corner but half the population dare not leave their houses at night - the remains of modernism are typically treated with contempt and revulsion. This returns us to Owen's old question: what would have happened if the population of modernist Britain's council estates, tower blocks and New Towns had embraced popular modernism instead of yearning for the replicant false-memory sim-paradise of a dissolved organic community? Post-punk was already an ambivalent requiem for the destroyed and despoiled dreams of a modernist Britain; you can hear its broken glass trodden underfoot not only in The Slits'/ Bovell's 'New Town', but also in Hannett/ Joy Division's Manchester. One of Savage's best pieces on JD centres on Bernard Sumner's anguish about his old area being replaced by tower blocks.
'Aesthetic hauntology rarely deals with actual instead of imagined death, but in Joy Division ... it must', writes Ian Mathers in his (un)timely excavation of hauntology and Closer in the Spectral Spaces issue of Perforations. Ian focuses close attention on the preternatural qualities of Curtis' recorded voice - pitched down below his natural range under the tutelage of Hannett - as hauntological trace. 'The voice is both a more and less sure guarantor of presence than the image; if a loved one passes away their pictures may pain us, but how much worse is it to call their number one more time and hear their voice on their answering machine? How much worse to hear that voice on the radio, sounding already gone?' Part of what makes Closer so harrowing is its quality of sounding like recorded message from one who was already dead, a Waldemar-like seance with a corpse that has found a voice. In his lyrics Curtis dwelt on the theme of being-a-prerecording, of living life as if it were a film, of being the only living entity in a world of zombies - a sense interred and distilled in the glacially fatalistic cata-tone of his voice, about which Ian writes so eloquently.
Curtis, Hannett, Gretton, now Wilson - premature death has always shadowed Factory. Morley's Guardian obituary for Wilson read like a reprise of Nothing, his masterpiece, which was as darkly vivid as Words and Music was brightly dull. Wilson might have exploited Curtis' death - casting Morley as mythographer-in-chief - but his motive was not money.
As Momus put it in his tribute, Wilson kept business in its place. He stood on the other side of a cultural economic fault-line, his sensibility formed long before Business Ontology totally colonized the post-Thatcherite unconscious. Making money was a means to a series of ends that were artistically extravagant, culturally flamboyant.
It was to Wilson's credit that he was never ashamed of his background; instead of indulging in tedious guilt trips or pop(ul)ist gestures, he used what resources he had to support the production of popular art works that anyone could buy. Wilson might have been an inveterate show-off, but the audience he courted were working class youth. He might have wanted to beguile and entrance them, to impress them with his learning and his eloquence, but better that - far better that - than pretending to be more stupid than you are, as more or less every educated person is required to do to get on in Old Media today; and, as Owen says, Wilson never thought that 'never assumed that football fans, ex-dock clerks and so forth wouldn't 'get' such far from 'upbeat' ideas or artefacts as Durrutti, Fortunato Depero, the SI.' Irritating, provoking, captivating, Wilson represented a positive paternalism. On which, see the next post: Marxist Supernanny.


I started making wonton wrappers out of laziness; I don’t like to go to the store just for one item when I have all the ingredients to make wonton wrappers.
Often fried wontons can be heavy and greasy, these homemade wonton wrappers are light and very crispy when fried. The wontons are soft and silky when boiled. And best of all, there are no eggs, preservatives or food colors.
The process of making wonton wrappers is the same as making fresh pasta and noodles. It’s a lot of fun seeing the dough turning into a wonton sheet on the pasta bike. And if you have children, it’s worth getting a pasta bike for a fun time together.
I find using pasta bike takes less time and gives wonton wrappers a more consistent texture than rolling the sheet out by hand.
Resting the dough makes it easier to roll it out but, I find that I can roll it out right away with the pasta bike.
Please note that the tapioca flour is for dusting at the end only.
Add 2 ½ cups of all purpose flour, salt and water. Knead the dough until smooth, about 5 minutes in a mixer using the dough hook. The dough should be firm. You may need to add more flour. Add about a tablespoon at a time. Wrap the dough and let it rest while you set up the pasta bike.
You can roll the dough out by hand, but a pasta bike is much easier and you can get away with no resting period for the dough. The below instructions are for a pasta bike method.
Set up the pasta bike and have the extra flour ready. Cut the dough in half, work on one while keep the other wrapped up. Knead the dough with more flour to firm it up. Then, roll out the dough into a long thin piece, using flour generously to keep the dough from sticking. Feed the dough through the pasta bike, using first setting; it’s 1 on my pasta bike. The dough doesn’t look smooth at this point, it’s very wet and maybe raggedy looking. Fold the dough onto itself lengthwise to make clean edges and sprinkle more flour on it. Roll it out again with the pasta bike. Keep the dough from sticking to itself by spreading out the dough that comes out from pasta bike and sprinkle more flour on it.
Move the settings up to get a thinner sheet; it’s 3 on my pasta bike. Repeat the steps: adding more flour and spreading out the dough sheet. Move the pasta bike setting to get a thinner sheet. The last setting is at 8, the one before the last one. By now, the sheet is thin and resembles soft cloth in appearance. Make sure to keep sprinkle flour on the sheet.
Now, the sheet is long and very thin. Cut it into 3.5 x 3.5 squares with a scraper, cookie cutter or scissors. If you need to trim the edges, you should have plenty of room to trim. You can also make a custom size.
When all the wonton wrappers are cut, sprinkle tapioca flour or cornstarch in between the wrappers to keep them from sticking. You can use the wrappers right away or keep them in an airtight bag in the fridge or freezer.


Uncle Wood has 3 wooden planks. He wants to saw each plank into 6 pieces. If each cut takes him 2 minutes, he needs a total of minutes to finish his sawing.
To saw up 1 of the planks, Uncle Wood will need to make 6 - 1 = 5 total cuts. Each one takes 2 minutes, so 1 plank will take a total of 5 × 2 = 10 minutes to cut. There are three planks, so Uncle Wood will need 3 × 10 = 30 minutes to do all of his cutting.


WASHINGTON ? Even lawmakers most loyal to their leaders and political party on occasion buck them with a flash of independence or bipartisanship. That includes some of the six Republicans and six Democrats given the task of finding up to another $1.5 trillion deficit savings over the next decade.
Such moments offer a glimmer of hope that the deficit-reduction supercommittee members, chosen by their party leaders primarily for their party loyalty, can forge a compromise. If there's partisan gridlock, just one lawmaker, perhaps influenced by a past moment of courage, can break the deadlock.
A simple majority of seven would send a budget-cutting plan to the full House and Senate, and avoid an automatic $1.2 trillion in cuts to hundreds of programs.
"It's not a dozen free spirits," said Ross Baker, a political science professor at Rutgers University who once worked as a Senate staff aide.
Baker, however, said he believes the committee might succeed. "If they drop the ball, it would reflect badly on all of them. They would be 12 individual failures. I don't think they want to be associated with a train wreck."
Often, there's a state or district parochial reason when a party stalwart strays from the leadership or party doctrine.
Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., the panel's co-chairwoman, has been ferocious in opposing the Obama administration's attempt to cancel Yucca Mountain in Nevada as a depository for the country's nuclear waste. Her chief Senate rival on that issue is Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, who has worked tirelessly to kill the project but nevertheless named Murray to the deficit-reduction committee.
Keeping the Yucca project alive is a critical issue in Washington state. She said "billions of dollars and countless work hours have been spent" at the Hanford nuclear site in her state — as well as in other states — to treat and package nuclear waste that was destined for Nevada. The issue of closing Yucca is now in the courts.
Republican Rep. Fred Upton, from the high unemployment state of Michigan, broke party ranks several times and voted to extend jobless benefits — even when the spending had not been offset with cuts elsewhere as most Republicans demanded.
After one such vote in 2008 at the depths of the recession, he characterized his break from party orthodoxy as stepping up "on behalf of Michigan's workers to provide a helping hand to those who need it most — laid-off mothers and fathers who are doing all they can to make ends meet."
Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C., the highest-ranking African-American in the House, once took on the NAACP over the group's economic boycott of South Carolina.
The NAACP was angry that the Confederate flag was flying outside the state Capitol but Clyburn refused to go along with the sanctions, pointing out that the flag had been removed from atop the building and from the legislative chambers.
Clyburn said he didn't want to do anything that "threatens the economic security of families" and stood his ground when the NAACP asked blacks not to invite him to positions of honor at dinners and other events.
He told an interviewer, in comments that could well serve the deficit committee, "I don't like the location of the flag, but we don't get all we want all the time."
Freshman Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, has worked with Democrats numerous times on issues he believes are important.
He teamed up this year with Democratic Sen. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire on a bill to boost energy efficiency. Portman had a message that also could serve the new committee.
"With the gridlock and partisanship in Washington, it is reassuring to see our legislation move so quickly to the entire Senate, and on a bipartisan basis," he said.
Portman and the Democratic chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Patrick Leahy of Vermont, co-sponsored legislation to improve programs to help state and local authorities reintegrate prisoners into communities. And in his earlier House career, he worked with Democrat Benjamin Cardin of Maryland, now a senator, on legislation to boost Americans' retirement savings.
As a freshman in 1993, supercommittee member Rep. Xavier Becerra, D-Calif., did the unthinkable. At a time when committee chairmen had unlimited power, Becerra had a shouting match with the gruff House Ways and Means chairman, Dan Rostenkowski.
Becerra and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus were furious over Rostenkowski's plan to delay previously budgeted welfare payments to legal immigrants. Rostenkowski's plan won, and insiders told Becerra he would never get a coveted seat on Ways and Means.
Three years later, Rosentowski pleaded guilty to mail fraud and went to prison, and Becerra gained his Ways and Means seat. He's now the ranking Democrat on the Social Security subcommittee.
In 1985, Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass. crossed party lines to become a co-sponsor of the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings balanced budget act that imposed a binding constraint on federal spending. He supported deficit reduction laws in 1993 and 1997.
He also has worked well with other Republicans: Lindsey Graham of South Carolina on climate change; Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas on a proposal for an infrastructure bank to finance roads and other projects; Richard Lugar of Indiana on the latest arms reduction treaty with Russia; and with fellow Vietnam veteran John McCain of Arizona on POW/MIA issues and, more recently, the NATO mission in Libya.
Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., in 2007 went against some members of his party when he authored a provision that required disclosure of lobbyists' bundled contributions — donations solicited by the lobbyists and then bundled together for campaign organizations. That proposal became law.
Van Hollen authored House-passed legislation with Republicans calling for Reconstruction Opportunity Zones in Afghanistan. He worked across the aisle on legislation to combat childhood cancer and a bill to protect whistleblowers.
Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, the other supercommittee co-chairman, angered Republicans on the Appropriations Committee in 2007 and 2008 when he was chairman of a Republican study committee that demanded more spending cuts.
Hensarling crafted a seven-point strategy for House Republicans that included a constitutional amendment to limit spending and a flat tax on goods and services to replace the federal income tax.
Today, Hensarling doesn't have to take on Republicans over spending. His budget-cutting views are now in the party mainstream.
Rep. Dave Camp, R-Mich., the current chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, went against his leadership in the mid-1990s to help break a logjam that allowed an overhaul of the welfare system to pass.
Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus of Montana has carried the ball for Democrats on major issues like the health care insurance overhaul, but he's also infuriated his party's leaders by working with Republicans. Democrats were angered when Baucus spent months in an unsuccessful attempt to win Republican support for the health care bill.
In 2001, Baucus partnered with Republican Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa to support President George W. Bush's first round of tax cuts.
And last December, he voted for the large tax cut deal negotiated between President Barack Obama and congressional Republicans. Many liberal Democrats opposed it. Baucus was on stage for the signing ceremony; most top Democratic leaders were not.
Baucus also helped Republicans pass Bush's Medicare prescription drug coverage plan, angering Democratic leaders who had been excluded from the bargaining.
Yet, when Reid needed an ally to block Bush's plan to partially privatize Social Security, he chose Baucus as the point man to stop the proposal.


I feel it's never too late to train my biological kids to pick up, although I have always taught them to pick up after themselves since they've been little. They usually do what I say. When my 16-year-old non-custodial son stays with me over the weekend, he always cleans his room before he leaves without my asking.
My stepson is a different matter. He must have always been very sloppy and gets away with it, especially at his mother's house. When he comes to stay with us, he brings his sloppy habits with him and when I or his dad ask him to clean up, he usually does not do it.
His room is a disaster area. (Even his mom commented on the mess!) I am at a loss over what to do! I feel as if there are two different standards for my two children and my stepson.
There are different theories about how to get kids to clean. Some parents offer incentives - money, gifts, special vacation activities - while others threaten with withholding privileges if the cleaning is not done. These are two similar but opposite approaches. (Figure out that one!) Here's the scoop: In both of them, the child performs and the parent reacts. There are books on these different approaches (check out our virtual bookstore and your local real bookstore!) and some of them are excellent.
Then there is an additional approach, which says: As long as this is his own room and it affects nobody else: Close the door! I know this is not simple for someone who likes a neat house, but one day he will need his favorite shirt, or a schoolbook, and he won't find them, or a girlfriend will stop by and he'll be embarrassed. (I don't know if he'd be embarrassed in front of a boy friend!) Or he'll go away to college and nobody will want to room with him.
We do what we can and sometimes we just have to ask ourselves 1) Is our nagging succeeding? And 2) Is it worth the aggravation and the distress it is causing in our relationship? So, to summarize, my suggestions: 1) Try rewards 2) Try withholding privileges (without being nasty about it) and if both of those fail, 3) Lock the door from the outside when he's not around and put the key on the highest shelf you can find so you won't be tempted to aggravate yourself by looking at his room! In your particular case of a step-family, the message you are sending to your other children will be clear: This behavior is not acceptable to us.
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If all protons in all organic molecules had the same resonance frequency in an external magnetic field of a given strength, the information in the previous paragraph would be interesting from a theoretical standpoint, but would not be terribly useful to organic chemists. Fortunately for us, however, resonance frequencies are not uniform for all protons in a molecule. In an external magnetic field of a given strength, protons in different locations in a molecule have different resonance frequencies, because they are in non-identical electronic environments. In methyl acetate, for example, there are two ‘sets’ of protons. The three protons labeled Ha have a different - and easily distinguishable – resonance frequency than the three Hb protons, because the two sets of protons are in non-identical environments: they are, in other words, chemically nonequivalent.
On the other hand, the three Ha protons are all in the same electronic environment, and are chemically equivalent to one another. They have identical resonance frequencies. The same can be said for the three Hb protons.
The ability to recognize chemical equivalancy and nonequivalency among atoms in a molecule will be central to understanding NMR. In each of the molecules below, all protons are chemically equivalent, and therefore will have the same resonance frequency in an NMR experiment.
You might expect that the equitorial and axial hydrogens in cyclohexane would be non-equivalent, and would have different resonance frequencies. In fact, an axial hydrogen is in a different electronic environment than an equitorial hydrogen. Remember, though, that the molecule rotates rapidly between its two chair conformations, meaning that any given hydrogen is rapidly moving back and forth between equitorial and axial positions. It turns out that, except at extremely low temperatures, this rotational motion occurs on a time scale that is much faster than the time scale of an NMR experiment.
In this sense, NMR is like a camera that takes photographs of a rapidly moving object with a slow shutter speed - the result is a blurred image. In NMR terms, this means that all 12 protons in cyclohexane are equivalent.
Each the molecules in the next figure contains two sets of protons, just like our previous example of methyl acetate, and again in each case the resonance frequency of the Ha protons will be different from that of the Hb protons.
Notice how the symmetry of para-xylene results in there being only two different sets of protons.
Most organic molecules have several sets of protons in different chemical environments, and each set, in theory, will have a different resonance frequency in 1H-NMR spectroscopy.
When stereochemistry is taken into account, the issue of equivalence vs nonequivalence in NMR starts to get a little more complicated. It should be fairly intuitive that hydrogens on different sides of asymmetric ring structures and double bonds are in different electronic environments, and thus are non-equivalent and have different resonance frequencies. In the alkene and cyclohexene structures below, for example, Ha is trans to the chlorine substituent, while Hb is cis to chlorine.
However, enantiotopic and homotopic hydrogens are chemically equivalent.
How many different sets of protons do the following molecules contain? (count diastereotopic protons as non-equivalent).


These activity sheets will teach your students the methods used for editing and proofreading.
Let your students know that spell check and grammar check won't catch every mistake (they are particularly bad about catching homonyms). Even writers that use computers can benefit from a real person looking over their work. The following collection of worksheets will introduce your students to proofreading and editing. Activities include correcting all mistakes within a given paragraph, using three common ways of correcting run-on sentences, learning to use proofreading and editing marks correctly, and more.
Please Note: While answer sheets have been provided for each worksheet for instructors, in some cases, student answers may vary slightly.
Errors in a written work distract readers, and can prevent the author's point from coming across. Checking a written work for errors as a final step before publishing it is called proofreading. There are special marks that can be used to indicate that there is an error in a text.
It was a busy morning. first, Eddie work up early, so his mother cooked him breakfast instead of just handing him banana on his way out the door. While she was turning a pancake the baby woke up. Then the cat hissed at the dog, and when the dog was running away, he knocked over the recycling bin.
A run-on sentence is two or more complete sentences that are punctuated as one long sentence. Run on sentences often occur in first drafts, but can be corrected during the editing process.
How many mistakes can you find? Circle all of the mistakes that you find in the passage.
Use the proofreading marks below to correct the assigned text.
Katys father is a doctor. He takes car of sick children helps them to get better. he also gives children shots, and talks to them and their parents about how to stay healthy Katy likes to visit her father at his office, because he he always has a pocket full of Lollipops!
Ted has written a paragraph about how to wash your hands. Read Ted's paragraph. Make corrections so that his paragraph makes sense, and is easy to follow. Make sure Ted�s paragraph has lead, a topic sentence, and a conclusion.
The paragraph below needs to be proofread. Use editing marks to make corrections. Then rewrite the paragraph on the lines below, correcting the errors.
Mrs. Jenkins, the school librarian, wrote a letter to her friend who lives in another state. Her letter contains eight errors. Find them and correct them. Rewrite her letter on the lines below.
It can be hard to see your own work objectively. Sometimes when you read your own work, you see what you meant to write, and not what actually ended up on the page. Peer review is a process by which a piece of writing is checked by others in the same field to make sure that it meets the necessary standards before it is published.
Rewrite each sentence to correct the errors.
Kelly has written an article about how to create a podcast. Before it is published in the school newspaper, it is your job to edit Kelly's work. Circle the errors that you find in Kelly's article.
This is the follow up to the previous worksheet.
Haley has written a short article for her local newspaper. Her article contains a few errors. Circle the errors. Then rewrite the article on the lines below.
Time to be the editor! Use editing marks to make corrections to the article below.
Errors in a written work can be very distracting for readers. Proofreading means to check your work for errors. Only when a text is error-free can your reader can concentrate on what it is you are saying.
Many people think of mosquitos as being just annoying, but they can actually be very dangerous pests. they can carry diseases like West Nile Virus and Zika Mosquitoes are usually found in areas where there is standing water. Some Communities try to control mosquito populations spraying insecticides.
Use proofreading marks to correct the paragraph.
It had been a bad Week. On Monday, Mr. Miller had gotten a flat tire on his way to work He didn't have a spare, and he ended up being three hours late.
On the line below each proofreading mark, write what the mark means. Then use these marks to correct the assigned text.
The house on the corner is sale. It is a rancher. it has three bedrooms and two bathrooms. It also has a hug back yard that is completely fenced it, so it would be a great house for pet owners. My father says that the asking price is fairly low, so I expect that soon we will have new neighbors?
Use the marks provided to proofread the paragraph.
The paragraph below needs to be proofread. Use proofreading marks to make corrections.
Marcia is writing a letter to her friend Joe. But before she can send it, it needs to be proofread. Read Marcia�s letter. Circle the errors.
Use the proofreading marks above to proofread the passage.
Where Sis I Go Wrong?
Circle the error(s) in each sentence.
There was always so much to do! Mrs. harper picked up her five-year-old from kindergarten. She went to the grocery story and ran some other errands. Then she picked up her ten-year old from school and took the girl's straight to their music lessons.
Haley has written a short classified ad for her local newspaper, but the ad contains a few errors. Circle the errors.
Read the passage. Circle the errors. Use the checklist to indicate the kinds of errors you found in the passage.


A) Some married bachelors exist.
B) 95% of married bachelors live in Maryland.
C) There is a window behind the spot where the married bachelor stood.
D) Shane opened the window to the left of the painting of a married bachelor.
E) No married bachelors exist.
F) Necessarily, no married bachelors exist.
G) Do any married bachelors exist?
H) Do 95% of married bachelors live in Maryland?
I) Is there a window behind the spot where the married bachelor stood?
J) Did Shane open the window to the left of the painting of a married bachelor?
K) Is it false that any married bachelors exist?
L) Is it necessarily false that any married bachelors exist?
G, K, and L each seems to have a valid answer, while it's not so clear that H, I, and J are meaningful.
A compound phrase like married bachelors is not a logical contradiction](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contradiction), it is a contradiction-in-terms.
In this case married and bachelors are sub-terms. Combining the sub-terms gives a contradiction-in-terms. By the definition of the sub-terms -- that is to say, going by what it means for something to be a married thing and going by what it means for something to be a bachelor -- one can't have a married bachelor. If the meanings of the sub-terms of a compound term contradict each other then it is fair to say that the compound term is meaningless, one can talk about such things using natural language but one can never actually construct or instantiate such things in the “real world”. Another example would be spherical cubes.
A logical contradiction a "logical incompatibility between two or more propositions". This is the given definition of a logical contradiction. None of the examples you gave are logical contradictions. But if you had given any examples of a logical contradiction we could be assured that they have one and only representation†, that of ⊥ (falsum).
I think it is fair to say that a contradiction-in-terms is semantically meaningless. Let's analyse your assertions A)..F) and your questions G)..L) in light of this.
Assuming we are not talking about fictional scenarios -- I could imagine some kind of Woody Allen surreal comedy playing with these kinds of entities :) -- none of A) through F) could articulate actual states of affairs.
Something like G) Do any married bachelors exist? does make a kind of sense. It could be answered with no. And this hinges on a fine distinction. Not because there happen to be no married bachelors at this point in time and/or in this particular place and/or in a certain way -- that is to say, that there could be but there happen in this instance not to be -- but because there could never be by virtue of the semantic meaninglessness of the compound term.
Something like H) Do 95% of married bachelors live in Maryland? is more nonsensical because we're not merely speaking about existence now but sort of assuming the existence and asking for additional information. Valid response are both no and the question is meaningless. It could be answered like, “The answer is no but not because of anything to do with quirky facts about percentages and Maryland but because it doesn't even make sense to talk about married bachelors so the whole question is a quite meaningless.” I) and J) amount to the same kind of thing as H).
For K) answer is yes for the reasons given for G).
The answer to L) Is it necessarily false that any married bachelors exist? is a simple yes because that necessarily acknowledges the contradiction-in-terms.
In classical logic, particularly in propositional and first-order logic, a proposition φ is a contradiction if and only if φ ⊢ ⊥ . Since for contradictory φ it is true that ⊢ φ → ψ for all ψ (because ⊥ → ψ ), one may prove any proposition from a set of axioms which contains contradictions. This is called the "principle of explosion" or "ex falso quodlibet" ("from falsity, whatever you like").
In a complete logic, a formula is contradictory if and only if it is unsatisfiable.
As far as I understand, a proposition cannot have internal logical contradictions; if a sentence is logically contradictory, then it contains more than one proposition.
"There is a window behind the spot where the married bachelor stood".
the person referred in 1. is married.
So that, given the definitions of "bachelor" and "married" (which in turn probably require propositions of their own), either 2. or 3. above are false (or perhaps both if the person in question is a widower).
It is a (in my opinion, nasty) trend to call sentences that incur in such contradictions "meaningless", but to me it is evident that they have meaning, just a contradictory meaning.
True. There are no married bachelors in Maryland, and no married bachelors outside Maryland. So the total population of married bachelors is zero; 95% of zero is... zero. So 95% (or 50%, or 0.001%, or any other porcentage to your liking) of married bachelors live in Maryland (or Kentucky, or Kenya, or the Kamtchaka peninsula).
False. There is no spot where a married bachelor may have stood (or sat, or laid) because there are no married bachelors. So, no; no windows can be "behind" an inexistent place.
Again false; the painting does not exist, so there can be no window to the left of it for Shane to open.
In a sense - I remember one book which treated contradictions as such, though it was in the context of zeroth-order logic -, contradictions are the opposite of tautologies, i.e. sentences which are always false, regardless of the truth values of the propositions.
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