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Metropolis Contriver Brant Toderian get on a panel in San Francisco this hebdomad, along with other American metropolis contrivers - covered here
- as they prosecuted in a trifle mea culpa.

`` Because of the failure of the planning profession in the yesteryear, we 've gotten quiet, we 've gotten a bit overly mild, '' told Brant Toderian, Vancouver 's planning manager. `` We function at the volition of politicians, and are ofttimes unwilling to utter truth to power aloud and persuasively and publicly. I believe that Holds rattlingly been an shriving of our leading duties in the profession. ''

In Vancouver, planning managers make not function at the volition of the mayor, and are nominated through a option commission procedure and okay by the metropolis council. As a upshot, told Toderian, the treatment about planning is much more vigorous and productive.

`` In the absence of that willingness to hold those rather tough, tense conversations, sometimes the best replies, the best options, are ne'er sham the table, '' he told. `` If Planning 's not placing those options and issues negotiable, so it Holds our error that politicians are n't doing better conclusions. ''

`` While the managers maked n't miss for bold visions, some keen the planning field 's regression on avoiding unwanted issues. I 'd need to tell, especially in California, unfortunately, the field holds developed into revolve about preclude bad things from passing alternatively of doing good things occur, ' told Measure Anderson, San Diego 's planning caput. ''

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`` The one-year publication of the secondary-school conference tables is recognise with equal steps of cynicism, wonder, smugness and anxiousness. This hebdomad 's endeavor at producing percents that purportedly mensurate educational quality is no different. It holds been recognise critically by those who doubt that directing 100 per cent of educatees to a high-points university class is necessarily an indicant of a school 's ability to produce well-rounded persons... '' more

[ Kate Holmquist, Irish Times
, 28 November ]

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Yesterday we kept Lila and Mary 's birthday with menage and friends. Thankfully, the conditions collaborated so we were able to apply our backyard... otherwise, our midget house might hold been a trifle spot cramped! Thank you suchly to our menages for assisting us ready and beautify for the party, also as to the household and friends who joined us to observe Madonna and Lila.

Steel oneself against the party

I wish our house could e'er be this clean!

I sayed this streamer from etsy.com
... I plan to hold it and utilize it annually!

Homemade cupcakes ( from the box, course! ). Cocoa & cocoa, lemon & pick cheese, vanilla & vanilla. Cupcake toppers from etsy.com

To the left of the hearth, you can see three series of photos... one is Madonna with Big Pink ( months 1-11 ), one is Lila with Big Pink, and one is Lila and Mary together. Any day now (! ) I 'm planning to conjointly an album for each missy with their monthly photos is in. Any day now, I curse.

Madonna, fresh from her sleep, hanging with Aunty Kirby right before the party commenced.

Emily maintains Lila entertained before the other invitees get.

Throughout the party, Lila and Mary jumped playing with playthings, being maintained, or creeping around the house ( the infant gates were positioned offly so they holded a newfound freedom and doed many endeavours to get into the kitchen and out the glass slipping door ). Here 's Lila with their new music table.

Are n't their birthday dresses only cherished?!

Babe Bear

Kevin, Kirsten, and Mary ( essay to creep into the kitchen to draw things off the shelves )

For the first hr and a one-half, people mixed, Ate, and drank. So, we headed bent the terrace to open some nowadayses. Mary and Lila haved so many marvelous gifts... playthings, books, and apparels!

Present clip! You can see Mary eyeing the cumulation of nowadayses. Most likely, she Holds plotting shipways to get ahold of all the tissue and thread.

Lila and Papa

Madonna and Momma

I maked n't realise how much tike love balloons! Several nippers at the party desired to take balloons with them, and Mary passed a good deal of the present gap clip seeking to twist out of my lap and catch this balloon.

Lila and Mary both love tissue! I angle several lumps of colorise tissue out of Mary 's mouth, and here you can see Kevin about to make the same thing to Lila.

The Wheely Bugs from Nan Julie and Granddad Don were a large hit!

Mary takes her bug for a spin

Bar clip! This clip, we gave Lila and Madonna cocoa cupcakes, because they holded already tried white bar on their existent birthday.

Lila locomotes for some ice foremost.

Mary takes a full body bib.

Lila diggings in. Here she Holds applying her bib as a make-do arrangement... seeking to maintain her tray clean?!

Look at that large smattering of bar!

Mary was literally up to her orbs in bar.

Messy Bear!

Messy Roo!

This icon breaks me upwardly... it Holds like Madonna 's telling, `` Hey, Uncle Jacob, allow me aid you. You look to hold gotten a little spot of bar on your cheek. '' Umm... aspect who Holds speaking!

My loves, loving their afters. Like mum, like girls.

After the bar, Metre & Liter were disrobed in their highchairs and transported directly to the tub. It was directly into pyjamas ( cupcake pj's, course! ) then hanging out until bedtime. We could n't allow them play with many of their new playthings yet because we still need to take them out of the packaging, cut tickets forth,etc. Not to worry! My missies are rather contented with the simple things in life... like a H2O bottle.

Uh-oh! Good thing the cap get on.

Madonna was hogging the H2O bottle...

... so Lila holded busy by jaw on the corner of the table. Nice.

Mary noshes on a isolated thread.

Such a large miss!

Every clip Lila assay to get along, the bug rolled forwards!

Lila gets some assist from Mammy.

Lila played with her new Wheely Bug and her new tunnel this morn. Merriment times!

This forenoon, Mary could n't select what to play with foremost!

I still ca n't believe that my female child hold passed this immense milepost! One twelvemonth of life... what an amazing thing thatis. As I look back over my blog, it astounds me to see how much Madonna and Lila hold modified, turned, and action in one twelvemonth, too as how much Kevin and I hold altered, turned, and executed! Thank you suchly to our friends and house who hold aided us along the mode, also as our loyal readers who incite me to hold entering this journeying. Stay tuned for the escapades of Twelvemonth Two!

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A darling friend of mine casts. He will hold an operation today. I cognize no supplication or blessing for the sick. May these make. Please pray with me, sort unknown, in our Creator Christ ' name, for my friend 's rapid recovery.

Psalm 23

( A Psalm of David )

¹

The Jehovah is my shepherd, I shall not be in neediness.

²

He does me lie in light-green leys,
he takes me beside quiet Waters,

³

he reconstruct my psyche.
He channelizes me in ways of righteousness
for his name 's interest.

⁴

Even though I walk
through the vale of the shadow of expiry, ^a


I will fear no immorality,
for you are with me;
your rod and your staff,
they soothe me.

⁵

You set a table before me
in the presence of my enemies.
You anoint my caput with oil;
my cup overruns.

⁶

Certainly good and love will follow me
all the years of my life,
and I will brood in the house of the Divine
everlastingly.

The Big Bosom

( Sexton )

Large bosom,
wide as a watermelon,
but wise as birth,
there is suchly teemingness
in the people I hold:
Soap, Lois, Joe, Louise,
Joan, Marie, Sunup,
Arlene, Begetter Dunne,
and bushed their short lives
give to me repeatedly,
in the style the sea
poses its many fingers on the shore,
time and again
and they cognize me,
they aid me unravel,
they listen with ears done of conch shells,
they verbalize back with the vino of the best part.
They are my staff.
They soothe me.

They hear how
the arteria of my psyche holds been severed
and psyche is gushing out upon them,
hemorrhaging on them,
messing upward their apparels,
begriming their shoes.
And God is filling me,
though there are times of dubiety
as hollow as the Thou Canon,
still God is filling me.
He is giving me the ideas of dogs,
the spider in its intricate web,
the Sun
altogether its astonishment,
and a slain RAM
that is the glorification,
the secret of great cost,
and my bosom,
which is really large,
I assure it is really big,
a monster of kinds,
takes it all in-
bushed comes the madness of love.

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We waited desperatly for their reaching, now they are here. The new shawls from Blaumaxx ( 100 % cotton ).

The colors are great and they are so soft and snug you dont desire to take them away again. We hold two different color ways: patent and gradient. Make we really should sell them? I desire to maintain them all.

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They get on their mode - a bevy of needles and larn to gyrate kits are headed south to the Smithsonian Folklife Festival.
We were thrilled to be enquire to furnish the festival with manus crafted, done in the America trade tools. For the festival, Tom produced a consecutive needle that is scratched to mark the juncture:

And turned his bosom intent on produce adequate spindles for C of learn to gyrate kits:

Hopefully a new coevals of knitters and spinsters will be revealled in the following two hebdomads as they find the tools of our fiber heritage at the Folklife Festival!

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Yes i cognise, it Holds been some clip since I last indited, but im here again to update you all on life here at Them Years. Since my last station very much holds been moving on here. Building ( electrical, flooring waxing and shelf edifice ) holds eventually been finished inside, so Aimee and I hold been working to unclutter out the retail infinite ahead to get thing secs getting to look like Them Years again. With suchly infinite free know upfront, we embarked into the depths of the stowage ( my most favoritest spot, EVER ) not but to restock the shelves full but besides to fill the 98 special issue packets thatwill be purchasable through the forthcoming yr.

When I 'm not hard at work out inside I 'm usually in the office, typewriting tales for the following issue, scanning negatives or photo-shopping them in the computer. This past hebdomad Aimee is out running for narrations along the south sea-coast and in along the passes, so it Holds but been me and Kelly here, maintaining downwardly garrison. I 've been hard at work, busy typewriting MORE narrations, scanning MORE negatives and other general plants. They 've ( building people ) hold been working outisde this hebdomad excessively, as they finished the disabled accession incline to the edifice.

I 'm keeping in verily relishing my clip here and still believe that this is the best line for me in Goose Embayment. Working with Kelly and Aimee is an astonishing experience for me as they are able to do daily merriment and exciting.

-Zak